Terrorism and the Exceptional Individual By Scott Stewart | May 17, 2012 There has been a lot of chatter in intelligence and academic circles about al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) bombmaker Ibrahim al-Asiri and his value to AQAP. The disclosure last week of a thwarted AQAP plot to attack U.S. airliners using an improved version of an "underwear bomb" used in the December 2009 attempted attack aboard a commercial airplane and the disclosure of the U.S. government's easing of the rules of engagement for unmanned aerial vehicle strikes in Yemen played into these discussions. People are debating how al-Asiri's death would affect the organization. A similar debate undoubtedly will erupt if AQAP leader Nasir al-Wahayshi is captured or killed. AQAP has claimed that al-Asiri trained others in bombmaking, and the claim makes sense. Furthermore, other AQAP members have received training in constructing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) while training and fighting in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. This means that al-Asiri is not the only person within the group who can construct an IED. However, he has demonstrated creativity and imagination. His devices consistently have been able to circumvent existing security measures, even if they have not always functioned as intended. We believe this ingenuity and imagination make al-Asiri not merely a bombmaker, but an exceptional bombmaker. Read More » Comments? Send them to responses@stratfor.com

GR8 Presentation on ANWR Oil Potential

  Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 11:03:23 AM Subject: From Alaska - ANWR     From Alaska ....        My daughter and son-in-law were in L. A. last week from their home in Anchorage . He is a foreman in the oil fields at ANWR. He has to fly his own plane to get to the job where he spends months at a time in the most God forsaken place this side of Siberia .  He confirmed everything that is in this story, and brought dozens of pictures for proof. Our environmentalist friends have forced gas prices up to an impossible rate, forcing us to buy oil from our enemies, for whatever reason that simply isn't true.  There is enough oil in ANWR to supply the US at our present rate of usage for more than 200 years. The space that ANWR occupies in Alaska is equivalent to a postage stamp in the Mojave Desert .  If you won't mind paying $5.00 a gallon in the very near future try to make sense of the following:  Something you should know: Oil!!  This is the best presentation on ANWR I have seen.  I would like to add a little more information. A new pipeline across  Alaska isn't required since the location for drilling in ANWR is about  160 miles from the North Slope Prudhoe Bay pipeline where it would  be connected. I did not know this.  Second the wildlife love the pipeline since it is heated and provides a  shelter during the worst times during the winter.  Maybe another question should be asked. FIRST do you know what  ANWR is? ANSWER: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.   Now a comparison    And some perspective  NOTE WHERE THE PROPOSED  DEVELOPMENT AREA IS (it's in the "ANWR Coastal Plain")      THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS,  LIBERALS AND "GREENS" SHOW YOU WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR  and they are right these ARE  photographs of ANWR         ISN'T ANWR BEAUTIFUL? WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE  AND DESTROY THIS BEAUTIFUL  PLACE?  WELL THAT'S NOT EXACTLY  THE TRUTH! Do you remember the map?  The map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal  Plain. Do those photographs look like a  coastal plain to you?     WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?  THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE  THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE  WANTING TO DRILL!     THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED  EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY  LOOKS LIKE IN THE WINTER         AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY  LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER       HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA  WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT  DRILLING IS A BARREN WASTELAND.   OH... AND THEY SAY THAT THEY  ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT  ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE?   HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE  "DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING AROUND  PRUDHOE BAY*   DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE CARIBOU  REALLY HATE THAT DRILLING?  HERE'S THAT SAME SPOT DURING  THE WINTER.    HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY  HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR  PRUDHOE BAY *The Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S.  Domestic oil production NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK THAT  THE DEMOCRATS ARE  LYING ABOUT ANWR?   REMEMBER WHEN  AL GORE SAID THAT  THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO  ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES  TO $5.00 A GALLON?   WELL AL GORE AND HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS HAVE ALMOST  REACHED THEIR GOAL!   NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT THE  DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN LYING,  WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO  ABOUT IT?  YOU CAN START BY FORWARDING  THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW  SO THAT THEY WILL KNOW  THE TRUTH.          

BREAKING: NLRB "Ambush Election" Rule Blocked

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia just ruled that the NLRB lacked a valid 3-member quorum to adopt its "ambush election" rulemaking in December 2011. You can read the decision here: http://lrionline.com/?p=13350 Since Member Brian Hayes refused to participate in the actual vote on the rule, the Court ruled that this prevented the Board from achieving a valid quorum. While the new NLRB can re-vote the rule (although whether this Board constitutes a valid quorum is also under question in separate litigation), the District Court denies the Board's authority to operate under the new rules. Check out the post above for more analysis on what the decision means for employers. As always, we will keep you posted on developments. Phillip Wilson Labor Relations Institute 7850 South Elm Place - Suite E Broken Arrow, OK 74011 US

Congressional Dems Introduce Amendment To Make Self Defense Illegal   Better Buy All Of Your Ammo Soon! Congressional Dems Introduce Amendment To Make Self Defense Illegal Source: frontporchpolitics

Who Killed Bin Laden? Here's a Marine's Answer!   Who killed Bin Laden? Here's a Marine's answer. America is not at war, the US Military is at war; America is at the mall." Let's be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden. An American sailor, who Obama, just a few weeks before, was debating on whether or not to PAY, did! In fact, if you remember a little less than two years ago, his administration actually charged and attempted to court-martial three Navy Seals from Seal Team Six, when a terrorist suspect they captured, complained they had punched him during the take-down and bloodied his nose. Obama's administration further commented how brutal they were. The left were calling them Nazi's and Baby Killers. Now all of a sudden, the very brave men they vilified are now heroes when they make his administration look good in the eyes of the public. Obama just happened to be the one in office when the CIA finally found the And our sailors took him out. Essentially, Obama only gave an answer, Yes or No, to him being taken out. This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!! Ed Schreiber Col. US MC (Ret.) "Semper Fi" OBAMA'S OWN WORDS TRAP HIM: 2008: "Navy Seal Team 6 is Cheney's private assassination team." 2011: "I put together Seal Team 6 to take out Bin Laden." 2008: "Bin Laden is innocent until proven guilty, and must be captured alive and given a fair trial." 2011: "I authorized Seal Team 6 to kill Bin Laden." 2008: " Guantanamo is entirely unnecessary, and the detainees should not be interrogated." 2011: "Vital intelligence was obtained from Guantanamo detainees that led to our locating Bin Laden." I HOPE THIS GETS SENT AROUND TO PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THE TRUTH! Remind the people who vote, time to throw out the trash is nearly here. Those who have had freedom and lost it will never see it again!"

Think She IS Pissed, but oooh so accurate...   throw them all out. The tea party is being demonized because both the "D"s and "R"s are afraid enough people will figure out that the "tea party" is actually any responsible, productive American voter tired of the same old BS and is demanding a change.   Read and heed   Don’t forget Barney Franks et all………tk     Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming , Co-Chair of the Deficit Commission, calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.     Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!   "Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight.. 1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS. 2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63). 3 My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.. 4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN. 5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills. 6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt. To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" on your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU. 1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career? 2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers? 3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance? 4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies? It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the"greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcases who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes. That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it. And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch. If you like the way things are in America delete this. If you agree with what a fellow Montana citizen Patty Myers says, PASS IT ON!!!!

DID YOU KNOW? As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view ... It is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments! . DID YOU KNOW? As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments engraved on each lower portion of each door. DID YOU KNOW? As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see the wall, right above where the Supreme Court Judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments! DID YOU KNOW? There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington , D.C. DID YOU KNOW? James Madison, the fourth president, known as 'The Father of Our Constitution' made the Following statement: 'We have staked the whole of all our political Institutions upon the capacity of mankind for Self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God.' DID YOU KNOW? Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayers since 1777. DID YOU KNOW? Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established Orthodox churches in the colonies. DID YOU KNOW? Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of Interpreting the law would begin making law an oligarchy the rule of few over many. How then, have we gotten to the point that everything we have done for 220 years in this Country is now suddenly wrong and Unconstitutional? Let's put it around the world and let the world see and remember that this great country was Built on The Holy Bible and belief in GOD!