Sunday, September 1, 2013

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Message to Jerusalem: Don’t Rely on American Security

Posted: 01 Sep 2013 07:57 AM PDT

Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker The current Palestinian-Israeli peace talks have brought the question of security arrangements to the fore.  Although it is quite early in the process, suggestions have...

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The Aftermath of the George Zimmerman Case, Parts 1 and 2: The Trial and the Verdict

Posted: 01 Sep 2013 07:54 AM PDT

By Jonathan Cohen The aftermath of the verdict in the George Zimmerman case has been as depressing as the actions and atmosphere during the 17 months preceding the trial.  The misuse of state...

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Is Liberty a Thing of the Past in the United States?

Posted: 01 Sep 2013 07:46 AM PDT

During the late 1960s, I escaped from the socialist dictatorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt. Back then, everything I had read about freedom in America was almost too good to be true. So when I...

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You Might be a White If…

Posted: 01 Sep 2013 07:43 AM PDT

Doug Giles If you think Ice T is a delicious, summer-time drink and not a west coast rapper. If your treble is turned up higher than your bass in your Toyota Prius. If you think booty is goods or...

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Fast-Food Workers’ protests highlight Minimum Wage Economics

Posted: 01 Sep 2013 07:10 AM PDT

American fast-food workers often earn about $7.25 an hour to make the $3 chicken sandwiches and 99-cent tacos that generate billions of dollars in profit each year for McDonald’s and other...

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Kerry: US has evidence sarin gas was used in Syria

Posted: 01 Sep 2013 07:04 AM PDT

Secretary of State John Kerry asserted Sunday that the United States now has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria and said “the case gets stronger by the day” for a military attack. A day...

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Putin sees chance to turn tables on Obama at G20

Posted: 01 Sep 2013 07:01 AM PDT

Less than three months after Vladimir Putin was cast as a pariah over Syria at the last big meeting of world leaders, the Russian president has glimpsed a chance to turn the tables on Barack Obama....

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Government Spending Is Ruining Families

Posted: 31 Aug 2013 05:24 PM PDT

Janice Shaw Crouse The economic picture in the United States gets worse with each passing day of the Obama administration, and families are especially hard-hit.  While the damage is already...

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Big Brother’s reach extends far beyond Facebook’s facial recognition announcement

Posted: 31 Aug 2013 05:21 PM PDT

Joe from MassPrivateI Facebook is considering incorporating most of its 1 billion-plus members’ profile photos into its growing facial recognition database, expanding the scope of the social...

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Lawmakers begin to grapple with Syria question

Posted: 31 Aug 2013 05:16 PM PDT

Members of Congress, abruptly handed exactly the war powers many had demanded, grappled Saturday with whether to sign off on President Barack Obama’s plan to punish Syria for an alleged...

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Uncovered Muslim Brotherhood Documents Could Put Obama In Prison – Video

Posted: 31 Aug 2013 05:12 PM PDT

by Kris Zane In early 2012, Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi pranced around Egypt proclaiming “Jihad is our path,” and thought there was nothing better than to die...

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Disinformation Atrocity: Indications of Syria’s Chemical Attack Staged by Rebels

Posted: 31 Aug 2013 05:08 PM PDT

by James Simpson The Last Word on Syria Well known Middle East expert Ken Timmerman has brought forth damning information about the intelligence being used to justify an attack on Syria. According to...

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Putin sees chance to turn tables on Obama at G20

Analysis: Putin sees chance to turn tables on Obama at G20 
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Guns Save Lives

[Video] Georgia Liquor Store Owner Shoots 1 of 2 Armed Robbers

Posted: 31 Aug 2013 12:30 PM PDT

Helena, a small town in Georgia with a population of ~2,800, was the scene of a defensive gun use last Monday. According to 13WMAZ, around 4pm, 2 armed men entered the Helena Package Store. At least one of the men was armed. The store owner drew a handgun and opened fire. One of the would […]

[Video] Gun Control Rally is Overwhelmed by Pro Gun Supporters Who Take Over Podium

Posted: 31 Aug 2013 07:32 AM PDT

You know, we keep hearing about how 90% of the country supports expanded background checks, and a majority support new gun control. However, whenever it comes to actually taking action, those alleged supporters are nowhere to be found. Often, participants at anti-gun rallies are outnumbered by organizers and the media. A rally in support of […]


Protect And Defend The Constitution


 
By: William P. Frasca
 
 
 
 
Our President Barack Hussein Obama, “The Chosen One” has created a welfare Country with increasing poverty, while our currency is progressively becoming worthless. He has destroyed the American Dream with enhanced entitlements, high unemployment, high inflation and increase financial tax burdens.  Don’t believe the unemployment and inflation statistics, its much higher. Individuals experiencing hardships going from full time to part time employment considerably decreasing their income aren’t in the equation, because they have jobs while gas and food prices aren’t equated into the inflation formula.
 
Mr. Obama doesn’t feel he should honor and respect the Constitution of theUnited States. He placed another executive order on gun control without any approval from the people or Congress. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen! He constantly uses his executive order powers to by-passes Congress, and the Constitution at will, enacting them one after another, showing his disregard and respect of our separate but equal braches of government. He does what he wants to do with no consequences or answerability. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen!
 
We accept a substandard quality of life, begging for pittance and handouts from our federal bureaucrats. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen! We didn’t want “Obamacare” in which it was rammed down our throats. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen! The I.R.S. has literally stepped on our faces, with no apology, remorse, compassion or punishments. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen? The N.S.A. has violated our rights as Americans against the Constitution. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen! Congressional subpoenas are being ignored, federal employees taking the fifth, refusing to answer pertinent questions for their action hiding from guilt and lying. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen. Lies concerning the brutal murders at our Embassy in Benghazi. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen! Guns illegally sold to the Cartel, by and sanctioned by our government, this deadly program was identified as “Fast and Furious” relating to the death of a U.S. Border Patrol Agent. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen! We accept illegal acts and executive orders of gun control violating our right as Americans “To Bear Arms” Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen! The Constitution is constantly being by-passed and disrespected. Our rights are maliciously being violated. Yet “We the People” allowed this to happen!
 
Now he’s thinking of bombing Syria, “who knows” to save his own face because of an imaginary red line he established crossed by the Syrian government on chemical weapons. The Syrians have been killing Syrians in the past; we did nothing, now it’s necessary? Our enemies are killing our enemies, who care, sit back and enjoy the show. The only despicable act in all this is the killing of innocent children.
 
Thomas Jefferson once said “When the people fear the government, that's tyranny; when the government fears the person, that’s freedom.”  How intelligent was our forefathers. Today’s leadership is the complete opposite. We either blame this on the air or the water creating our elected and appointed Officials into mindless. Sub-standard, self serving, power hungry boobs and imbeciles, but we know it much more than that? It a combination of greed, corruption, and power, the triangle of unchained unmerciful destruction! This has annihilated and devastated Great Empires and Societies in the past, wiping out everything in its path, including freedom and liberty. The only antidote to this destructive course is a government that “Fears its People”.
 
The last and final obstacle in our government’s path of total dominance is “Gun Control”. Once the government records and confiscates all our personal weaponry, then they will have nothing to fear. Disarm the populous and they have a free road to complete dominance. This is the only thing a tyrant fears, an uprising. Gun control protects the government from its people; it doesn’t protect the people from their government. If all guns are controlled or eliminated from the hands of the people, then who or what will protect us from our own government? I am not advocating a revolution or any violence, in any way, shape or form, but the second amendment of the Constitution does guarantee our “Right to Bear Arms”.
 
The biggest problem we are facing as a free people and nation is our complacency. We are allowing our Government too much power over our lives. We have created a renegade unanswerable bureaucracy of self serving demigods that does what they want following no rules, laws, regulations or consequences. We have presently a balance of power with our House of Representatives under Republican control. Yet they have proven to be inept cowards, lost in the woods of clueless wonder. They can best be described as the cowardly lion of the Wizard of OZ; “all show” “no courage or action”. Except not even the wizard has enough magic to “grow them a pair”!
 
We must legally and peacefully express our concerns to the President and his administration to be accountable to “We the People” and hold their feet to the fire. This includes the Senate and the House of Representatives. We must take nothing for granted, because our quality of life and our liberties are rapidly diminishing. We must get involved, and become the advocates of American freedom, never relinquishing our God given inalienable rights and of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Well aware this is a difficult task because we have been for so long manipulated and maneuvered by forced compliance and a government deaf dumb and blind to the wishes of the people. We must never give up!
 
The Constitution must be defended and obeyed! Individual States must take back their               sovereignty, not beholding or subservient to the Federal government. States rights must be preserved. The States created this uncontrollable federal bureaucracy; it’s now time to legally diminish its powers of this inflated abomination of dominance.
 
Our elected official must yield to the will of the people. They and we are forgetting they are not royalty or monarchs. They are elected by the people and the people are their employers. They could and must be fired, at will, if they disobey. We have lost our way because we are going against all that is sacred, selling our souls, following like sheep to slaughter, fearful of our government, sadly relinquishing our liberties, while they disobey and step on the people and the Constitution.
 
This must change, for the good of all!! This must change for the survival of our Great Nation! We must at all cost peacefully protect a government, founded by our forefathers created Of, By, and For the People! Our free Republic must be saved!
 
So help us God!
 
William P. Frasca
Copyright 2013
 





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Wikileak Memo: Obama Refused DEA Permission to Assassinate Chapo

Posted: 31 Aug 2013 02:51 PM PDT

BorderlandBeat.Com Posted on Forum by Siskiyou Kid
 
Stratfor Memos Leaked By WikiLeaks Show US DEA Was Refused White House Permission To Kill Drug Kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera

By David Iaconangelo, 

If one high-ranking employee with the global intelligence firm Stratfor is to be believed, not only did the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) once know the whereabouts of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán - the Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin and fugitive from justice in Mexico - but the agency even asked the White House to go into Mexico to kill him.  
 
Among the 5 million "Stratfor memos" published by WikiLeaks in 2012 are several messages from Fred Burton, vice president of intelligence and top expert on Mexican drug cartels for Stratfor, describing classified interactions from 2007 to 2011 between Mexican and US intelligence and even President Barack Obama's response to the 2010 DEA query.  Guzmán, one of the most powerful of Mexico's cartel capos, was sentenced to over 20 years in prison in 1993 on drug trafficking charges but escaped by bribing a prison guard.  He remains a fugitive from justice. 

The first of the messages from Burton came on November 2, 2007.  "If the DEA can specifically locate the Sinaloa boss El Chapo, he will be assassinated," Burton wrote.  "A decision memo has been authorized to take him out, as a national security threat."  WhoWhatWhy, an investigative journalism website, writes that the "decision memo" could refer to a decision within the DEA pending approval from the National Security Council, or a memo indicating the Bush administration - still in office at that time - could have approved the plan. 

Whatever the case was, a DEA operation was never carried out.  But Burton later says, in a February 2010 email, that the DEA "had a window of opportunity to render El Chapo" but the White House "would not let them do it", quipping, "God forbid we upset our lovely MX neighbors".  In a July 2010 email, he expounds a bit on what happened, writing, "DEA Special Ops submitted a finding to go into MX to whack El Chapo. Obviously, the decision came back as no. Never made it past the deputies committee." 

The intelligence VP ends the email striking a pose of nonchalance toward the Obama administration's apparent rejection of the DEA request in that message.  "As Gomer Pyle would say, 'Surprise, surprise'" he writes.  That attitude might be explained by the last of the memos on El Chapo, coming in April 2011, when Burton says, "Obama won't approve a finding for covert action inside MX based on 'moral ground'", adding that then-Mexican President Felipe Calderón "has told a few that violence has reached a point that he would turn a blind eye to unilateral CIA or DEA actions, if they wanted to go down that path, as long as he has 'plausible deniability.'" 

Close cooperation between US and Mexican intelligence agencies has been a politically sensitive one in Mexico.  Under the Calderón administration, the agencies were known to have collaborated to an unprecedented degree - though perhaps not to the extent that the Stratfor memos suggest.  But the administration of current president Enrique Peña Nieto, who came into office in December 2012, has tried to wedge out old space.  And the opposition on the Mexican leftdenounces such collaboration as an incursion on Mexican sovereignty, a claim which Obama dismissed in a May trip to Mexico as "a distortion". 

Burton also details ways in which the DEA might have gone about killing the Mexican drug lord. "One of the scenarios discussed to kill El Chapo or other Zeta HVT's [high-value targets] was a 1000 yard head shot by a U.S. shooter, to plant the seed of paranoia in the minds of the narcos as to who pulled the trigger. 

"CIA 'Ground Branch' assets and/or DEA SO [Special Operations] have stated they have the ability and intelligence to pull it off without getting caught."
 
WIKILEAKS:
 
Re: INSIGHT - Mexico/Guatemala - cartel activity
Released on 2013-02-13 00:00 GMT

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Very good report.

DEA also believes El Chapo is in the same area, so that could be
"circular information".

DEA had a window of opportunity to render El Chapo but the WH would not
let them do it. God forbid we upset our lovely MX neighbors.

I've never seen the wife of the Guat Prez alleged links to the Zetas. I
can verify that if desired?

Reva Bhalla wrote:

> PUBLICATION: Background/analysis
> ATTRIBUTION: STRATFOR source
> SOURCE DESCRIPTION: MX defense/intel source
> SOURCE RELIABILITY: B
> ITEM CREDIBILITY: 3
> SUGGESTED DISTRIBUTION: secure
> SOURCE HANDLER: Reva..........continues on next page

> We believe el Chapo is currently hiding out in Petén, Guatemala near the
> Mexican border. Starting in about 2006, los Zetas and Sinaloa smashed
> the existing Guatemalan cartels in the north and took over. From
> 2004-2006 the Guatemalan military was reduced from 25,000-15,000. This
> was part of the peace accords. A lot of these guys who lost their
> positions in the military went into police, a lot went into organized
> crime and a lot went to Mexico. From there you could see the influx of
> the cartels. 

> I can tell you that the Mexican army has presented very detailed plans
> to Calderon on plans for a major offensive against the cartels,
> identifying exactly which nodes they have to hit, artillery positions,
> etc. it was all mapped out. Calderon is strongly against it though. He
> doesn't want to give the army that power, doesn't want to deal with the
> backlash, and the biggest question is, who then controls the trade if
> you take out these guys? the demand for drugs doesn't just go away.

> The cartels, particularly los Zetas, are operating with the help of
> Sandra Torres de Colom - wife of Guatemalan pres who really calls the
> shots. There's a lot of suspicion that she is a former guerrilla (URNG)
> and has installed her relatives and other guerrillas in the government
> and intelligence apparatus. She doesn't have support of the military,
> who as you say is taking the side of the landowners who oppose her. She
> would like to become president but there is a clause in the constitution
> that prohibits any 'relative' of the president from running. She could
> work around this by a) changing the constitution b) claiming she's not a
> blood relative so therefore she is eligible or c) maybe even divorce the
> guy.

> The Mexican army is attempting to gain better control over its air space
> through radars and other systems to interdict the flow of drugs via air.
> While it's easier for the cartels to simply take the product straight to
> the US, it's risky. So, it's easier for them to buy one way tickets up
> the supply chain, from Colombia to Venezuela to Guatemala and then from
> there take it over by land into MX and across the border it goes into
> the US. MX wants Guatemala to also improve its control over its airspace
> to help patch up coverage over this border but Colom continues delaying
> any deals to obtain these systems. (went over the specs of what
> Guatemala has, essentially not enough). Of course there is a lot of
> corruption involved but in one of these deals the Brazilians were
> providing them credit and everything to make it go through. Still
> nothing happens. (he is implying that Colom doesn't want to enhance
> security along the border)

 

Source:Latin Times

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