This is a copy of the WST Digest (We Surround Them) that I send out to about 25,000 people a day. It is a listing of various news stories in categories. We will have a webpage up soon. If you like it, please stay tuned for further updates on the webpage. Generally, the top section is reserved for various items of interest such as videos of the day, deep thoughts, or high interest items. Hope you enjoy!
Deep Thoughts:
God’s Note To Those Who Will Abandon Israel In Her Time of Need "For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14
We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions." --George Washington, General Orders, 1776 Hat Tip Mary
Joke of the Day - Don't let your worries get the best of you; Remember, Moses started out as a basket case.
Action
Call and Thank Nelson For His NO Vote on Public Option for Healthcare Reform! send e-mail or see bio Hat Tip Stan!
Lodge Your Concern Over Cap and Trade at Our Energy Voice
USA Today 2nd Amendment Vote
Eagle Forum Action Items for the day
Historic! 1,000,000 'pink slips' to Congress – in less than 4 days! We’ve posted about this grassroots initiative the past couple days. We think it’s a great way to get the message out there. My entire family has signed up to do this. That means over 3,000 pink slips are on their way from South Florida! Of course, you will still need to make calls and send emails and faxes. But what is at stake is well worth $29.95. You also need to immediately contact Sen. Olympia Snowe R-ME. She is the most powerful Senator in Congress right now. Here’s a link. I think a more appropriate animal on her banner would be a RINO. Hat Tip Kathy
LOCAL COVERAGE We want you! We are in need of members who can keep us up-to-date on local political issues and other issues which might be of interest to our readers. Please email such information to Jamiescain@gmail.com. Hat Tip Kathy
Please Help Now! Call Sen. Cornyn's office and tell him NO on Public Option! Moveon.org has an all out push to make calls today to Sen. Cornyn's office to ask that he support a Public Option to the Healthcare bill being debated in the Senate Finance Committee. I called his office and the staff said they are getting far more calls for Public Option than against it. That's the effect of the Moveon.org making their calls.John Cornyn's Washington DC office:Phone 202 224 2934Fax: 202-228-2856
Email: http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm Please pass this info. to all of your contacts--whether they are Cornyn's constituents or not. Hat Tip Mary
Audacity
Glenn Beck on Pledging Allegiance to Obama click the second video down.
The Stealing of Bob Taylor Jeep/Chrysler Dealership
Terre Haute – Woman Arrested for Buying Too Much Cold Prep (2 purchases of one box in a week) Wow. Had a hard time with this one’s placement, Audacity or Socialism in America for categorizing, but audacious won out. Um…Earth to Terre Haute? hello? It’s flu season! This poor elderly woman. Guess now we know what government being “too up in our business” really means.
Crap and TAX
Kerry and Boxer Set To Introduce Climate Bill Hang on to your hat!
A Pile of Crap By Any Other Name… John Kerry was FOR Cap and Trade before he was against it. There’s nothing different here. Democrats are just calling it something different. Hat Tip Kathy
Economy and Finance
Here It Comes – The Dollar’s Death The president of the World Bank said on Monday that America’s days as an unchallenged economic superpower might be numbered and that the dollar was likely to lose its favored position as the euro and the Chinese renminbi assume bigger roles.
The Loss of Three Great Economic and Policy Thinkers of Our Time Sadly we bid them farewell and we wonder who will fill the void that they made, especially Milton Freidman, especially him.
Hitting the Ceiling. The Limits of Taxing the Top 3% Rush had a good segment on yesterday’s show about the stupid Dem tax logic on New York Taxation Policies such as these and more recently these rather than the common sense advice the NY Business Council recommended. He addressed how many large Corporations and individuals like Golisano who is Founder of Paychex or Nancy Bell of Science First are leaving New York (many to Florida I might add) as a consequence of their raising taxes. One of whom spent $13,000 in taxes EVERY DAY, another a corporation that had been a NY Corp for nearly 30 years and Rush, among many others. The State revenues are far down, their concern is high and as a result they have made the increase in taxes “temporary” in nature. Temporary won’t help though because of Three Pesky Facts: First, this is the second “temporary” increase since 2001 and the ability for them to get back to their former revenues are rapidly becoming impossible with the last 2 niggling little facts….CEO payroll caps and the PERMANENT layoff of so many in the banking and investment fields on Wall Street. Many States are eyeing NY nervously to see if they dare raise taxes on their constituents. As this scheme plays out, it will be soon enough that the government finds out you WILL run out of Other People’s Money (OTM). Looks to me like NY could benefit from a little of Reagan’s Common Sense, as could the rest of our Government but to see Krugman’s upside down rant on Bush back in 2001, our chances appear slim to none they will EVER get it. Again, the definition of insanity.
Recession Widens Gap Between Rich and Poor Even Further. So where’s the hope now? (Small businesses hope they’ll get some relief to produce new hiring.) Flashback Hat Tip Kathy
Healthcare
Is Obamacare Destined to Go Postal?
Again With the Violent Warnings Rhetoric. I assure you Mr. Kennedy, you won’t see it coming from the Right – there is a reason we are called “conservatives”! If anything, you are preparing the press so that the Left can issue roundups and “overzealous” police actions such as what were seen at the G20 last week. Don’t think we don’t see right through your words. You’ve obviously taken lessons from Obama and Pelosi on this one and how unfortunate that is for all of America.
Townhall with Rand Paul A long video (75 mins) but a great one. Rand is Ron Paul’s son. He really does a great thing with Healthcare in America. You will enjoy!
Stop With the Misleading Misleaders Already!
Obama Czar Sunstein: Government Must Subsidize Abortion Is there any limit to the nutballs in the Obama administration? We have many tax cheats. We have a Truther. We have race baiters and people who push euthenasia. Plain racists. Climahysterics. Militant envirowackos. And all sorts of other wackos. And we’ve got…Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama's head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), who has advocated a policy under which the government would "presume" someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless, that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken. Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done. Organ donation is great. I hope everyone becomes an organ donor. But pro-choice for abortion and not organ donation?! More like no choice from the womb to the grave. Hat Tip KathyThe Senate Shell Game: Taking Up the Blank Health Reform Bill on the Senate Floor This is OUTRAGEOUS! Every citizen should call their Senator now and tell them they want 72 hours to review the actual legislative language before the bill goes to the floor, and they want a CBO Score based on real legislative language. Hat Tip KathyThe Real Canadian Health Care Field Trip 2009 Canadian professionals are saying--"Don't do what we've done. We will lose our escape valve." Hat Tip Kathy
Immigration
Has Immigration to the US Hit a Tipping Point? Good stuff if we can keep it up!
International
Iran: Tests Missiles on Eve of Talks with fighting words threatening any nation that they will be served a crushing blow should they intervene and frankly it is too late for that anyway as the Qom Installation is beside a Revolutionary Guard encampment. The multiple missile launches dubbed the “Great Prophet IV” were successful in spite of how clever our president thinks he is. Who knows, maybe Sarkozy can put him in his place.
Honduras: Michelletti Bows To Pressure. I can’t say I blame him, but at the same time, he needs to keep doing what’s right in protecting the Constitution. Let’s hope he does.
Afghanistan: Welfare and the Will To Win considering yesterday I told you that Obama has not spoken to his General in Afghanistan except once in over 70 days, it is not so surprising that our dear leader has a problem deciding what to do. In an interesting side note, some say the Taliban is using money American Taxpayers are giving them to defeat our own men. My question? When is enough, enough for this president? So we criticize Bush for not listening to his fighting General’s (of which he should have been criticized for doing), but those very same people applaud Obama who is creating the next Vietnam? An unwinnable war? Not for lack of strong, brave and brilliant men to fight it I might add, but perhaps because our president is too busy pandering to Islamists, too indecisive, too afraid of the political consequences, too pantywaist to not allow our men to do the jobs they have been trained to do, or to give them the support that the General said he needed! Unconscionable, Inexcusable and Unforgivable Mr. president.
The EU: Socialism’s Slow Collapse Question. If it is failing here. If the people are moving right. If Socialism is no better….Why are we moving in that direction? And to see exactly how pervasive socialism can become, check this story out from the UK, government digging through their garbage! Maybe Tammany Hall Lives Again? And Kathy Says This…. Take heart! Some American conservatives demonize Obama’s fiscal stimulus and health care overhaul as a dangerous turn toward European-style Socialism — but it is Europe’s right, not left, that is setting its political agenda. Related - What the German elections teach us
China: Is Getting a Lot of Attention From America Lately…Flags near the White House, in San Francisco, Now Lighting of the Empire State Building to Commemorate Red China’s 60th Anniversary
09/30 - 10/01 Red/Yellow/Red 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China Guess that’s what we get for selling our country to them. And what a celebration it will be too, parades, parties, prettily decorated squares, cannons, choruses, gun confiscations, unveiling of new missiles!!! Such a nice day. Hat Tip Ann Marie
America? Obama Thinks So couldn’t have said it better.
Local
Principled Conservative Rubio Will Likely Beat Wayward Crist You may have read this in The News Press yesterday. But I know a lot of you gave up on The News Press so thought it was worth including here. If you like Marco Rubio, make a donation! We need to round up that RINO Crist. Hat Tip Kathy
Candidate Tracking System for Florida Hat Tip Mary how cool is that?!
On Obama
Reality bites Obama's 'West Wing' You’re no Martin Sheen, Barry! Hat Tip Kathy!Obama's Olympic Bid Stagecraft Personally, I think he’s doing it for Michie. Cripes, all she’s had to do since inauguration day was plant a garden! This was her baby, in collusion with Valerie Jarrett, so Barry to the rescue! Course, just like Health Care, he doesn’t care what the Chicago residents – divided about equally for and against – think. And he’s got a lot of chits out there in Chicago! Hat Tip Kathy!
The Left Loonies Take On New Meaning
BIG NEWS! and OH BOY! Check out the New EEOC Czar! Gotta love the site I found it on as well. No news dare carry it! FROM LIBERTY COUNCIL Not only is Feldblum a former legal counsel for the ACLU and the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign, she is a CO-AUTHOR of the ENDA bill (second from the last under On the Hill) that she could soon be enforcing! And what is Feldblum's agenda? Incredibly, Feldblum says that when there is a conflict between religious freedom and homosexual rights, "...society should come down on the side of protecting identity liberty of LGBT people" (LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered). Feldblum stated: "Thus, for all my sympathy for the evangelical Christian couple who wish to run a bed and breakfast from which they can exclude unmarried straight couples and all gay couples, this is a point where I believe an inevitable choice between liberties must come into play. In making that choice, I believe society should come down on the side of protecting identity liberty of LGBT people." The nomination of Chai Feldblum makes the ENDA battle in Congress even more critical. If she is confirmed and ENDA is passed, we should brace ourselves for the most radical, anti-faith interpretation of this bill that is even possible.
On The Hill
I encourage everyone to examine these bills and write your Senators and Congress
Senate DEFEATS Rockefeller’s Public Option Proposal!!!!!!! One Down, one to go (so far) and that is Schumer’s Celebrate, Celebrate, Dance to the Music!!!!!
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 – Vote Passed (77-21, 1 Not Voting) The Senate approved this $32.1 billion bill funding the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency and related programs for the next fiscal year. Sen. Bill Nelson voted YES......send e-mail or see bio Sen. George LeMieux voted NO......send e-mail or see bio
Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2009 - Vote Passed (331-83, 18 Not Voting) The House passed this bill that would extend by 13 weeks unemployment benefits in states with a jobless rate over 8.5%. Rep. Connie Mack IV voted NO......send e-mail or see bio
Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010 - Vote Passed (217-190, 25 Not Voting) The House approved this $4.66 billion bill that funds the legislative branch for Fiscal Year 2010. The bill also includes a continuing resolution to fund government operations after the current fiscal year ends on September 30, as this is the only one of the 12 annual appropriations bills to have been completed. Rep. Connie Mack IV voted NO......send e-mail or see bio (I thought we just passed a 3.6 Trillion dollar bill in the spring for these dudes?)
Upcoming Votes Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2010 - H.R.3326 The Senate is scheduled to work on this $636 billion bill funding the Department of Defense for the next fiscal year.
Upcoming Votes Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010 - H.R.3183 The House is expected to vote on the conference report of this $34 billion bill funding the Department of Energy, Army Corps of Engineers and related agencies and programs.
Sexual Orientation Bill on its Way Again HR Groups are not happy about it at all!
Baucus Bill: What it Could Cost You
Politics
What's working for Mr. Obama and the Democrats? A political party with principles and ideas that resonate with voters doesn't need to ignore the people, nor does it need to resort to parliamentary chicanery to win a result. It speaks tellingly of the weakness, not the strength, of modern liberals that they're willing to end-run the popular will. But we’re here to stop them! Hat Tip Kathy!
POLLS
Good Work Libs... 66% of Country Angry With Dem Policies-- 36% Very Angry Anger’s not a bad thing! As long as it is properly channeled. Hat Tip Kathy!
Students in America
Another School Indoctrination Video? 'Change Has Come ... Change Has Come' Hat Tip Kathy The video link doesn’t work in the blog, so here it is
More on the Story of Sand Hill – Atlas gives a great idea. Opting out of the educational system and starting our own schools.
Swine Flu and Other Weird Stuff
Mandatory Swine Flu Shots Split Medical Community
Hardin Montana Gets New Police Force?
US Northeast Expected to Have Coldest Winter in a Decade Damn that Global Warming anyway! Just won’t cooperate for the Cap and Trade vote, will ya.
Veterans and Soldiers
DESPICABLE! Obama Orders WWII Vets CUT OFF From Pensions!
Mandatory Vaccines Start Next Week
VOICES IN AMERICA
We’re sorry we did not find out about the Independence Caucus’s webinar, held today, in time to let you know about it. However, click here to watch a great video. Hat Tip Kathy
Your Say
What’s It All About, Barfy? By Kathy
Mr. President,
The day after your inauguration, you made it clear you had “won.” But somehow it hasn’t yet set in that you are The President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief. Or at least your performance thus far would indicate this to be the case. During the campaign, you dismissed Iran as a “tiny country that poses no threat.” “Iran, they spend 1/100th of what we spend on the military. If Iran ever tried to pose a serious threat to us, they wouldn't stand a chance,” you said. Now you flitter off to Copenhagen with Michie and Valerie and Oprah. Guess you just have to take credit for everything, or maybe you know your trip is unprecedented, as no sitting U.S. president has ever made a personal pitch at the IOC vote, so you’ll go down in the history books. And clearly, your Chicago connections had a part in your decision.
Don’t you realize the United States of America is about to implode and the international scene explode? Iran could set off World War III!
For Heaven’s sake, you’ve talked to David Letterman more than you have your commander in Afghanistan! I’d ask you to think about this one inconvenient fact: Americans are even angrier now than they were when GW was president. But, that’s a good thing! As is the fact that your approval rating is tanking big time! Sooner or later you’ll have to learn to lead. But the damage being done in the meantime may be irreversible.
Mmm, mmm, mmm – Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm, mmm, mmm – Barack Hussein Obama. Mmm, mmm, mmm – you are a joke Obama.
Unfortunately, it’s no laughing matter.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
IOU’s at the Center of Obama’s Capitulation to Russia?
In an afternoon report from Reuters on September 17, 2009, we see the headline Obama helps strengthen General Electric-Putin Ties. This article effectively suggests that our President sold America out for IOU’s to GE and Wall Street thugs for campaign promises. Might that also be for future election coffer fattening purposes as well? Purposes that serve only him and perhaps a select few governmentally symbiotic corporations and news outlets who want the deal of a lifetime. And I quote:
I can’t believe what I am reading. I don’t want to believe what I am reading, but there it is. Right there in black and white on the front page of the Washington Examiner. I am sick. Not only are the American Taxpayers on the hook for IOU’s to the Unions, but apparently our liberty, freedom and safety are on the block too. This audacious man (The “Won” who poses to be the President of the United States with ACORN laden votes and deal sealing election returns) will actually risk our safety by scrapping our “peaceful” means of protection (that I might add I am loathe to figure out - if Russia is our “friend” as they claim to be - they would be upset about in the first place) for freaking IOU's!
Before I continue any further on the theme though, let’s digest that last parenthesized thought for just a second. If I understand Russia's "concern" here, had we continued with the Missile Shield Program, Russia would continue to be upset… Why is that? It’s not like we are aiming missiles at them, we are simply shielding those that might come our way from Iran or N. Korea. Right? Doesn't it make you wonder why that would "concern" a country… unless of course they thought perhaps there may come a day where they, too, would feel the need to threaten to pop a few over the border themselves….
But nooooo. It’s about giving his buddies at GE, at TPG and at Morgan Stanley a leg up in the region. More union IOU’s, a posh seat for MSNBC at the table (by association to GE), as well as a few more investment banker favors - as if he isn’t holding the American Taxpayer hostage to the likes of union and Wall Street thugs enough already?
So now we find out that it’s all about the money…. Really? Our safety and our Sovereignty are sold to the highest bidder? Are "We the People" a tradable commodity for the padding of special interest and election coffers? Our country is no longer concerned about its own, let alone the people Russia could care less about while they turn off their heating fuel, causing them freeze to death in the worst winter on record.
This, my friends, is what we get with “Change” and “Hope”. Did we really just exchange 222 years (on Constitution Day no less) of our freedom and sovereignty for IOU's? Did we just waste 30 years of hard work by this and other nations, who collectively worked and bled hard to specifically end the horrors of the Cold War? Did we really just sell out the struggle that these ex-satellite countries have undergone to gain a little of their own rightful sovereignty from the great beast Russia, just as they were beginning to work? We, the great defender of democracy that we are? All for money? All for more profits and a fatter reelection account?
Can this be treason for no other reason than the man makes a deal with the wolf in sheep's clothing without concession one from said wolf? I don’t see how it couldn’t! People! WE NEED TO WAKE TF UP! We have to put an end to this madness!
I am telling you now…this is not an accident that ‘The Won’ did this on Constitution day and on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion into Poland!! This was not an accident at all. This act on this day was not any more an accident than bobbing for quarters before the King of Saudi Arabia was an accident.
No friends, this was a message. Loud and Clear. This is significant in and of its own right, and I firmly believe history will prove that statement true. Nothing this man does is without symbolism and this is the biggest symbolic move he could provide the world. That is exactly what he did. He delivered the message while putting the final big screws to the coffin of our Constitution - on Constitution Day - in front of the whole freaking world.
Well, I just guess that makes Sept 17, 2009 another day that will go down in infamy, doesn’t it?
Putin tipped the celebratory glass of frozen Vodka this morning as he got exactly what he wanted and he had to make no concessions to get exactly what he wanted (still wondering why he wanted it) while Obama sold out democracy in one fell swoop - all for a past and a future election and mo’ power with the devils that be.
Oh how Winston Churchill is rolling over in his grave right now! The poor heroic corpse must feel like a top! The entirety of Churchill’s last years were trying (unsuccessfully) to convince Eisenhower and others of the grave danger of this behemoth we once (and soon will again) called the Soviet Bloc.
Now here we are 30 years after the biggest victory in recent history, just handing it right back to them. We are dumping on the freedom-seeking Slav nations in such a devastating way - and we do so without passing go. We are headed straight back to the cold war as soon as Russia can threaten and undermine the fledging sovereign countries of Ukraine, Georgia and a few other key States. Do not doubt that this is where we are headed or - God Almighty forbid - worse.
It is a documented fact that Russia is in bed with Iran. They are making a lot of squeaky noises, overtures and sometimes outright war gestures to their former States. Germany, Israel and other key allies completely believe that Iran is in fact building nuclear weapons, but our White House is so loaded down with Bo's ho’s who wouldn’t disagree with “the Won” even if they were threatened within an inch of their lives, that even if they did disagree, they wouldn't admit the disagreement. Bought, sold and guaranteed a select spot in the Post-American world, they will do whatever he or his minions request.
No one questioned why The Won was able to raise all that money, which devil he had sold his soul to then…but gosh, I guess we know now don’t we? That would be Brezhnev, Soros, Rockefeller, Kissinger, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon, the Union Lords, Wall Street, and who else can we list here….God knows we can’t list them all – there simply isn’t enough room!
Say farewell to your Sovereignty, America. Your final bill just came due and payable. You are now officially a banana republic replete with bought elections and the selling of the people’s wages for whatever deal guarantees that "The Won" who is in power, stays in power. Watch your bank account for that is the only thing between you and complete serfdom.
If Pelosi wants to cry about violence…why in the hell doesn’t she cry about this?
"Shortly after the pullback on the shield programme was announced, Russia's government said Prime Minister Vladimir Putin would meet several U.S. executives on Friday from firms including General Electric, Morgan Stanley as well as TPG, one of the world's largest private equity firms."
I can’t believe what I am reading. I don’t want to believe what I am reading, but there it is. Right there in black and white on the front page of the Washington Examiner. I am sick. Not only are the American Taxpayers on the hook for IOU’s to the Unions, but apparently our liberty, freedom and safety are on the block too. This audacious man (The “Won” who poses to be the President of the United States with ACORN laden votes and deal sealing election returns) will actually risk our safety by scrapping our “peaceful” means of protection (that I might add I am loathe to figure out - if Russia is our “friend” as they claim to be - they would be upset about in the first place) for freaking IOU's!
Before I continue any further on the theme though, let’s digest that last parenthesized thought for just a second. If I understand Russia's "concern" here, had we continued with the Missile Shield Program, Russia would continue to be upset… Why is that? It’s not like we are aiming missiles at them, we are simply shielding those that might come our way from Iran or N. Korea. Right? Doesn't it make you wonder why that would "concern" a country… unless of course they thought perhaps there may come a day where they, too, would feel the need to threaten to pop a few over the border themselves….
But nooooo. It’s about giving his buddies at GE, at TPG and at Morgan Stanley a leg up in the region. More union IOU’s, a posh seat for MSNBC at the table (by association to GE), as well as a few more investment banker favors - as if he isn’t holding the American Taxpayer hostage to the likes of union and Wall Street thugs enough already?
So now we find out that it’s all about the money…. Really? Our safety and our Sovereignty are sold to the highest bidder? Are "We the People" a tradable commodity for the padding of special interest and election coffers? Our country is no longer concerned about its own, let alone the people Russia could care less about while they turn off their heating fuel, causing them freeze to death in the worst winter on record.
This, my friends, is what we get with “Change” and “Hope”. Did we really just exchange 222 years (on Constitution Day no less) of our freedom and sovereignty for IOU's? Did we just waste 30 years of hard work by this and other nations, who collectively worked and bled hard to specifically end the horrors of the Cold War? Did we really just sell out the struggle that these ex-satellite countries have undergone to gain a little of their own rightful sovereignty from the great beast Russia, just as they were beginning to work? We, the great defender of democracy that we are? All for money? All for more profits and a fatter reelection account?
Can this be treason for no other reason than the man makes a deal with the wolf in sheep's clothing without concession one from said wolf? I don’t see how it couldn’t! People! WE NEED TO WAKE TF UP! We have to put an end to this madness!
I am telling you now…this is not an accident that ‘The Won’ did this on Constitution day and on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion into Poland!! This was not an accident at all. This act on this day was not any more an accident than bobbing for quarters before the King of Saudi Arabia was an accident.
No friends, this was a message. Loud and Clear. This is significant in and of its own right, and I firmly believe history will prove that statement true. Nothing this man does is without symbolism and this is the biggest symbolic move he could provide the world. That is exactly what he did. He delivered the message while putting the final big screws to the coffin of our Constitution - on Constitution Day - in front of the whole freaking world.
Well, I just guess that makes Sept 17, 2009 another day that will go down in infamy, doesn’t it?
Putin tipped the celebratory glass of frozen Vodka this morning as he got exactly what he wanted and he had to make no concessions to get exactly what he wanted (still wondering why he wanted it) while Obama sold out democracy in one fell swoop - all for a past and a future election and mo’ power with the devils that be.
Oh how Winston Churchill is rolling over in his grave right now! The poor heroic corpse must feel like a top! The entirety of Churchill’s last years were trying (unsuccessfully) to convince Eisenhower and others of the grave danger of this behemoth we once (and soon will again) called the Soviet Bloc.
Now here we are 30 years after the biggest victory in recent history, just handing it right back to them. We are dumping on the freedom-seeking Slav nations in such a devastating way - and we do so without passing go. We are headed straight back to the cold war as soon as Russia can threaten and undermine the fledging sovereign countries of Ukraine, Georgia and a few other key States. Do not doubt that this is where we are headed or - God Almighty forbid - worse.
It is a documented fact that Russia is in bed with Iran. They are making a lot of squeaky noises, overtures and sometimes outright war gestures to their former States. Germany, Israel and other key allies completely believe that Iran is in fact building nuclear weapons, but our White House is so loaded down with Bo's ho’s who wouldn’t disagree with “the Won” even if they were threatened within an inch of their lives, that even if they did disagree, they wouldn't admit the disagreement. Bought, sold and guaranteed a select spot in the Post-American world, they will do whatever he or his minions request.
No one questioned why The Won was able to raise all that money, which devil he had sold his soul to then…but gosh, I guess we know now don’t we? That would be Brezhnev, Soros, Rockefeller, Kissinger, the UN chief Ban Ki-moon, the Union Lords, Wall Street, and who else can we list here….God knows we can’t list them all – there simply isn’t enough room!
Say farewell to your Sovereignty, America. Your final bill just came due and payable. You are now officially a banana republic replete with bought elections and the selling of the people’s wages for whatever deal guarantees that "The Won" who is in power, stays in power. Watch your bank account for that is the only thing between you and complete serfdom.
If Pelosi wants to cry about violence…why in the hell doesn’t she cry about this?
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Is The Cold War Heating Up?
By Jamie Cain
Today President Obama announced that the planned Missile Shield Program in Czech Republic and Poland Have Been Scrapped. I am going to try to explain why it is so very important that we have these missile shields in place as quickly as possible and show how very dangerous shutting down the Missile Shield Program is to America and the EU. With this move on President Obama’s part, it is a given that the efforts of President Reagan, culminating to the end of the Cold War are about to be undone and we must be aware of that fact.
Let’s start with an article from January of this year, over a Natural Gas crisis between Russia and the Ukraine.
As the story goes, Russia supplies 20% of Europe’s heating fuel through a series of pipes that run through the Ukraine, which (as of 2004) is now an independent State. Qualify this story with the larger fact that Russia wants Ukraine back, along with Georgia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and numerous other States that used to belong to the USSR (most of whom now control certain key natural resources or infrastructure that used to belong to the Kremlin) and the little fact that the Kremlin never was truly happy sharing the power with anyone, let alone those who were once subservient to them. That is one big huge ego slap to the Kremlin and they do not like it, not one little bit.
In the midst of a freezing winter, Russia stopped supplying Ukraine with gas that Ukraine was beholden to send through its pipelines to supply 15 EU countries with a fifth of its required gas for heating. It appeared on the surface that Russia said, “Um no. I’m not selling you the gas anymore, Ukraine, to deliver to all these fine people. In fact, I am going to hold it hostage while people freeze until you agree to my deal. My deal (step one of the taking of the Ukraine) is that I want you to pay FULL market price while I pay discount prices to deliver it through you”.
Well heck, delivery is simply the turning of a valve, albeit the right valve, which Ukraine contends Russia didn’t do as witnessed here. It’s a complex pipeline dedicated to delivering Natural Gas, one that requires regular maintenance which costs money and the proper flow lines that require monitoring, which also costs a lot of money.
The issue to this “reduced delivery price” that Russia forced down Ukraine’s throat, is that Ukraine IS the delivery system, they have pipes to upkeep and Russia doesn’t want to pay those prices while belligerently demanding that Ukraine pay full price for the gas Russia sells them. It’s enough to break the bank for Ukraine, even if the agreement is just for this year until Russia will pay market prices. Any businessperson can do the math on this one. Ukraine could be forced to let those pipes go without maintenance or efficient monitoring to be able to afford the costs of the gas, which could create a multitude of future delivery problems. But no one seems to notice that little problem, let alone intervene in them on behalf of the Ukraine.
None-the-less during the coldest winter in a long time, Ukraine was forced to agree to buy Russia’s gas at $450 per 1000 cubic meters through the entire winter. This is a deal that only offered some relief in price after winter was over, when most countries utilizing the gas would have no more need of the gas.
How untypical is it that a middleman would pay full price for anything that it is responsible for delivering? In the home heating business, one only has a certain amount of months to recoup the cost of doing business, let alone make a profit, and Russia has effectively cut any ability to turn a profit off at the knees even supposing that Ukraine can manage to maintain a breakeven to their customers. There is simply nowhere to go in price once the middleman pays the vendor full price for their product. Not to mention that 2010 will be a whole new deal - once again - that Ukraine will have to get through without freezing out a large part of several ex-Soviet and other EU nations as well.
As it stands now, fifteen countries in the EU were sent scrambling for alternative fuel, while Ukraine had no choice but to sign the hostage agreement (as I am sure they had agreements they were bound to with their customers, in addition to facing the human suffering element and the anger pouring in from their customers).
Meanwhile Russia sat back willing to freeze millions of people in order to further weaken the geopolitical landscape just so they could further their purposes.
Might I remind you this all happened on the heels of the little to do over Georgia’s Oil Reserves where Russia sent several thousand troops into Georgia to prove their point there. Same point, same reason, these were once their resources and they are no longer, a point which Russia seems all too happy to make again and again. The war over Oil with Georgia was a very dangerous game indeed, that so easily could have disintegrated into WWIII given just the right set of circumstances and to which we came closer to seeing happen, than most of us can even fathom.
Ah, but wait! Maybe that wasn’t what Russia said to the Ukraine…according to Moscow, the Ukraine was stealing natural gas, withholding it and not sending it out to get a better deal from their last accord as of Jan 10, 2006 (which was to last 5 years to 2011 as witnessed here). According to Russia, they were just collecting debt. So why, in 2009 was this deal no longer valid? Why, when Ukraine could buy gas at $95 per 1000 cubic meter would they want a new deal now with 2 years to go on such a sweet deal? Good question. The Ukraine didn’t. Russia breached and Russia lied about the reason why. Russia says it was two-fold; Ukraine wasn’t paying their bill (at $95 when they could turn around and sell it for $450? I seriously doubt they weren’t paying their bills) and Russia wanted higher prices. Somehow, that story just doesn’t hold water for a new country wanting to succeed outside the grip of the Motherland. Sorry Russia, but most businesses can’t stay afloat without paying their bills and Ukraine knew it would be not only its business, but it would mean State suicide to breach a contract that sweet only 3 years in, while energy prices were going through the roof.
It had to be that Russia didn’t like the deal anymore simply because Ukraine was making better than 300% profit on their gas during the 2008/09 winter season. On the heels of the Georgia War, an accord that was to last 5 years didn’t because Russia breached the contract. Russia simply cut off the gas. They just turned that little valve and said, “Let’s talk”. Millions without gas to heat their homes? 20% of the buying countries, of the population of 15 countries now literally in danger of freezing to death and Russia says “Let’s talk”? That’s one heck of a bully pulpit, isn’t it.
Millions of people nearly froze to death. The EU had to scramble to get electric heaters rushed out, spend a fortune doing so. Ukraine was risking all sorts of lawsuits, not to mention trade and supplier agreement breeches all because Russia didn’t want to miss that huge energy spike, didn’t want Ukraine turning that kind of profit because it might have strengthened their position as an independent State.
No matter how you turn it, that is exactly what Medvedev and Putin decided to do, and it is why they decided to do it. Russia is the same as it always was and America should “reset” nothing because Russia still places power over people and their State welfare over the human element. That is the great thing about holding most of the cards, they can do whatever they want, make it look like the other guy’s fault (Georgia being another point in case, Iran a third) and they can get away with it because no one can audit the truth in Russia, there are simply way too many layers.
Yushchenko (Ukraine’s President) seems to think that it is all about Russia destabilizing Ukraine (and other regions dependent on them, most of which were formerly known as the Soviet Bloc). I tend to agree as I look at all the arguments, along with the fact that Russia was selling at a loss based on the former accord and the Ukraine was reselling at a significant profit, making their weak new little State just that much stronger. So they reach an unstable deal, whose time is nearly up, and which makes the EU quite nervous. Then suddenly we see this article stating that they are entering a new crisis. Russia is speaking those fighting words again…Russia’s pushing it again and a new crisis is about to begin…um…let’s see, just a few weeks before winter sets in? Gee Wilikers, isn’t that just grand timing?
Let’s understand this. Russia is flexing its big communist muscles and Russia wants to turn back to the good old days where they were a superpower and they owned all the land, infrastructure, and power. Simply put, they want to recreate the Soviet Union.
This means they will be quite happy about the reports of Obama stopping the shield system plans. The Ukraine government and the EU know this. That is why, whether the people of Ukraine understand the truth or not, Ukraine is standing strong (as strong as an independent country of only 5 years can stand, that is) against a giant machine.
Russia is taking a low key approach hoping the people who aren’t too keen on the recently separated State will revolt, and they are busy doing just what they do as communists, quietly feeding the opposition funds and encouragement to revolt to destabilize Ukraine further; kind of like an ACORN on steroids with ALL the money at its disposal.
The Ukraine State is in turn, understandably taking a more aggressive role towards Russia’s military encroachment and is actually stopping and searching weapons transfers and placing limits, as weak as they may be, on Russia’s coming and goings.
Russia is blustering that it is our fault they can’t join the WTO, meanwhile they are increasing their aggressions against Georgia again and they are damn close to finishing their own new air defense system.
Do we have any idea how far back this will set us? This will set us all the way back to the cold war or worse, especially in light of Russia’s friendship with Iran. In his inexperience, our President is squandering our sovereignty, seemingly by order of the UN, Soros, and the like. For what? Why are we cancelling that Shield System?
For us, however (you know, the ones who supposedly believe in democracy and the capitalist system), the removal of our shields and the carte blanche ticket to power we are handing Russia in our misguided effort to “reset” relations, Ukraine and Georgia might be the only hopes we have left to stop a new Cold War and/or energy war. They are our friends. Russia will only be as long as it suits her to regain her superpower status, and by then we will be too weakened from internal strife and debt to do a damn thing about it. They know it, we know it and the rest of the world knows it.
What I want to know is, “What are We the People going do about it”? Can we have a grown up in the White House? Please? The old Soviet Union wants their power back and it looks as though we are party to laying it all in their laps with this move. It will be a very interesting few years indeed.
Today President Obama announced that the planned Missile Shield Program in Czech Republic and Poland Have Been Scrapped. I am going to try to explain why it is so very important that we have these missile shields in place as quickly as possible and show how very dangerous shutting down the Missile Shield Program is to America and the EU. With this move on President Obama’s part, it is a given that the efforts of President Reagan, culminating to the end of the Cold War are about to be undone and we must be aware of that fact.
Let’s start with an article from January of this year, over a Natural Gas crisis between Russia and the Ukraine.
As the story goes, Russia supplies 20% of Europe’s heating fuel through a series of pipes that run through the Ukraine, which (as of 2004) is now an independent State. Qualify this story with the larger fact that Russia wants Ukraine back, along with Georgia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and numerous other States that used to belong to the USSR (most of whom now control certain key natural resources or infrastructure that used to belong to the Kremlin) and the little fact that the Kremlin never was truly happy sharing the power with anyone, let alone those who were once subservient to them. That is one big huge ego slap to the Kremlin and they do not like it, not one little bit.
In the midst of a freezing winter, Russia stopped supplying Ukraine with gas that Ukraine was beholden to send through its pipelines to supply 15 EU countries with a fifth of its required gas for heating. It appeared on the surface that Russia said, “Um no. I’m not selling you the gas anymore, Ukraine, to deliver to all these fine people. In fact, I am going to hold it hostage while people freeze until you agree to my deal. My deal (step one of the taking of the Ukraine) is that I want you to pay FULL market price while I pay discount prices to deliver it through you”.
Well heck, delivery is simply the turning of a valve, albeit the right valve, which Ukraine contends Russia didn’t do as witnessed here. It’s a complex pipeline dedicated to delivering Natural Gas, one that requires regular maintenance which costs money and the proper flow lines that require monitoring, which also costs a lot of money.
The issue to this “reduced delivery price” that Russia forced down Ukraine’s throat, is that Ukraine IS the delivery system, they have pipes to upkeep and Russia doesn’t want to pay those prices while belligerently demanding that Ukraine pay full price for the gas Russia sells them. It’s enough to break the bank for Ukraine, even if the agreement is just for this year until Russia will pay market prices. Any businessperson can do the math on this one. Ukraine could be forced to let those pipes go without maintenance or efficient monitoring to be able to afford the costs of the gas, which could create a multitude of future delivery problems. But no one seems to notice that little problem, let alone intervene in them on behalf of the Ukraine.
None-the-less during the coldest winter in a long time, Ukraine was forced to agree to buy Russia’s gas at $450 per 1000 cubic meters through the entire winter. This is a deal that only offered some relief in price after winter was over, when most countries utilizing the gas would have no more need of the gas.
How untypical is it that a middleman would pay full price for anything that it is responsible for delivering? In the home heating business, one only has a certain amount of months to recoup the cost of doing business, let alone make a profit, and Russia has effectively cut any ability to turn a profit off at the knees even supposing that Ukraine can manage to maintain a breakeven to their customers. There is simply nowhere to go in price once the middleman pays the vendor full price for their product. Not to mention that 2010 will be a whole new deal - once again - that Ukraine will have to get through without freezing out a large part of several ex-Soviet and other EU nations as well.
As it stands now, fifteen countries in the EU were sent scrambling for alternative fuel, while Ukraine had no choice but to sign the hostage agreement (as I am sure they had agreements they were bound to with their customers, in addition to facing the human suffering element and the anger pouring in from their customers).
Meanwhile Russia sat back willing to freeze millions of people in order to further weaken the geopolitical landscape just so they could further their purposes.
Might I remind you this all happened on the heels of the little to do over Georgia’s Oil Reserves where Russia sent several thousand troops into Georgia to prove their point there. Same point, same reason, these were once their resources and they are no longer, a point which Russia seems all too happy to make again and again. The war over Oil with Georgia was a very dangerous game indeed, that so easily could have disintegrated into WWIII given just the right set of circumstances and to which we came closer to seeing happen, than most of us can even fathom.
Ah, but wait! Maybe that wasn’t what Russia said to the Ukraine…according to Moscow, the Ukraine was stealing natural gas, withholding it and not sending it out to get a better deal from their last accord as of Jan 10, 2006 (which was to last 5 years to 2011 as witnessed here). According to Russia, they were just collecting debt. So why, in 2009 was this deal no longer valid? Why, when Ukraine could buy gas at $95 per 1000 cubic meter would they want a new deal now with 2 years to go on such a sweet deal? Good question. The Ukraine didn’t. Russia breached and Russia lied about the reason why. Russia says it was two-fold; Ukraine wasn’t paying their bill (at $95 when they could turn around and sell it for $450? I seriously doubt they weren’t paying their bills) and Russia wanted higher prices. Somehow, that story just doesn’t hold water for a new country wanting to succeed outside the grip of the Motherland. Sorry Russia, but most businesses can’t stay afloat without paying their bills and Ukraine knew it would be not only its business, but it would mean State suicide to breach a contract that sweet only 3 years in, while energy prices were going through the roof.
It had to be that Russia didn’t like the deal anymore simply because Ukraine was making better than 300% profit on their gas during the 2008/09 winter season. On the heels of the Georgia War, an accord that was to last 5 years didn’t because Russia breached the contract. Russia simply cut off the gas. They just turned that little valve and said, “Let’s talk”. Millions without gas to heat their homes? 20% of the buying countries, of the population of 15 countries now literally in danger of freezing to death and Russia says “Let’s talk”? That’s one heck of a bully pulpit, isn’t it.
Millions of people nearly froze to death. The EU had to scramble to get electric heaters rushed out, spend a fortune doing so. Ukraine was risking all sorts of lawsuits, not to mention trade and supplier agreement breeches all because Russia didn’t want to miss that huge energy spike, didn’t want Ukraine turning that kind of profit because it might have strengthened their position as an independent State.
No matter how you turn it, that is exactly what Medvedev and Putin decided to do, and it is why they decided to do it. Russia is the same as it always was and America should “reset” nothing because Russia still places power over people and their State welfare over the human element. That is the great thing about holding most of the cards, they can do whatever they want, make it look like the other guy’s fault (Georgia being another point in case, Iran a third) and they can get away with it because no one can audit the truth in Russia, there are simply way too many layers.
Yushchenko (Ukraine’s President) seems to think that it is all about Russia destabilizing Ukraine (and other regions dependent on them, most of which were formerly known as the Soviet Bloc). I tend to agree as I look at all the arguments, along with the fact that Russia was selling at a loss based on the former accord and the Ukraine was reselling at a significant profit, making their weak new little State just that much stronger. So they reach an unstable deal, whose time is nearly up, and which makes the EU quite nervous. Then suddenly we see this article stating that they are entering a new crisis. Russia is speaking those fighting words again…Russia’s pushing it again and a new crisis is about to begin…um…let’s see, just a few weeks before winter sets in? Gee Wilikers, isn’t that just grand timing?
Let’s understand this. Russia is flexing its big communist muscles and Russia wants to turn back to the good old days where they were a superpower and they owned all the land, infrastructure, and power. Simply put, they want to recreate the Soviet Union.
This means they will be quite happy about the reports of Obama stopping the shield system plans. The Ukraine government and the EU know this. That is why, whether the people of Ukraine understand the truth or not, Ukraine is standing strong (as strong as an independent country of only 5 years can stand, that is) against a giant machine.
Russia is taking a low key approach hoping the people who aren’t too keen on the recently separated State will revolt, and they are busy doing just what they do as communists, quietly feeding the opposition funds and encouragement to revolt to destabilize Ukraine further; kind of like an ACORN on steroids with ALL the money at its disposal.
The Ukraine State is in turn, understandably taking a more aggressive role towards Russia’s military encroachment and is actually stopping and searching weapons transfers and placing limits, as weak as they may be, on Russia’s coming and goings.
Russia is blustering that it is our fault they can’t join the WTO, meanwhile they are increasing their aggressions against Georgia again and they are damn close to finishing their own new air defense system.
Do we have any idea how far back this will set us? This will set us all the way back to the cold war or worse, especially in light of Russia’s friendship with Iran. In his inexperience, our President is squandering our sovereignty, seemingly by order of the UN, Soros, and the like. For what? Why are we cancelling that Shield System?
For us, however (you know, the ones who supposedly believe in democracy and the capitalist system), the removal of our shields and the carte blanche ticket to power we are handing Russia in our misguided effort to “reset” relations, Ukraine and Georgia might be the only hopes we have left to stop a new Cold War and/or energy war. They are our friends. Russia will only be as long as it suits her to regain her superpower status, and by then we will be too weakened from internal strife and debt to do a damn thing about it. They know it, we know it and the rest of the world knows it.
What I want to know is, “What are We the People going do about it”? Can we have a grown up in the White House? Please? The old Soviet Union wants their power back and it looks as though we are party to laying it all in their laps with this move. It will be a very interesting few years indeed.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Dear Mr. Olbermann
Dear Mr. Olbermann:
You are so right about Glenn Beck. What a freak! How could he actually expose Van Jones as nothing more than Obama’s brilliant pick for Green Jobs leader? I mean even though the guy may have said and obviously believes some very strong ideas and ways that might seem a little out there, like that America flew planes into her own building and white people purposefully poison young black children, but why would crazy ideas affect his job performance or make him lean a little bit prejudiced against all those asshole republicans, anyway?
Beck on the other hand – he just pretends – it’s all show, you are so right to go after him in such an obvious smear campaign! He couldn’t actually believe in strong ways himself about this country and its leaders and he must be silenced at all costs! He’s just a showman, a comedian – who could ever believe him about anything? You know, I heard that he is a recovering alcoholic and that he bashed Bush just as bad as he bashed Obama, but he isn’t our friend against any corrupt government because we like the leaders we elect and we have to just refuse to see the writing on the wall.
After all, there is You. You are a serious newsman and you are taking your training as a sportscaster to prove how right Obama is, ignoring the facts that just don’t fit or what you didn’t see with your own eyes, just like the referee’s you used to cover. You paid your dues, right? So what’s wrong with that? Sportcaster is so obviously way above comedian and hey, we all gotta get our start somewhere and work our way up so we can pad the welfare rolls for all our hard work, right? We don’t want the TRUTH about someone in such a high level position who is not accountable to anyone but our beloved leader, we just want to live in Candyland and have the Candyman give us everything he can, right? Even if it means stealing your earnings so I can send my kids to college for free. That’s okay with you, right? If that means we turn our heads away from dissenting ex-wino’s and start an all out smear campaign, calling on all dirt on the dailykos like you did. Hell, we can differentiate between a one-sided sportcaster and equal play comedian. We can all go on a witch hunt and smear campaign to punish someone who dares reveal negative information about another of our dear leaders nefarious picks, for that is what we do, separate, belittle, ridicule and destroy, right?! You are darn straight! We can’t let the truth really get out about all the president’s men because we have "an agenda" and only so many crisis' to fuel them! Gee, who else said that. Wasn’t that Nixon?
So you go, sportsman turned serious newscaster! We’ll help you slay the big bad comedian who is kicking the pants off your ratings. Yes we can!
Oh, and sportcaster? It's oligarchy, not oligarhy! And that would be what YOU advocate! Idiot!!
You are so right about Glenn Beck. What a freak! How could he actually expose Van Jones as nothing more than Obama’s brilliant pick for Green Jobs leader? I mean even though the guy may have said and obviously believes some very strong ideas and ways that might seem a little out there, like that America flew planes into her own building and white people purposefully poison young black children, but why would crazy ideas affect his job performance or make him lean a little bit prejudiced against all those asshole republicans, anyway?
Beck on the other hand – he just pretends – it’s all show, you are so right to go after him in such an obvious smear campaign! He couldn’t actually believe in strong ways himself about this country and its leaders and he must be silenced at all costs! He’s just a showman, a comedian – who could ever believe him about anything? You know, I heard that he is a recovering alcoholic and that he bashed Bush just as bad as he bashed Obama, but he isn’t our friend against any corrupt government because we like the leaders we elect and we have to just refuse to see the writing on the wall.
After all, there is You. You are a serious newsman and you are taking your training as a sportscaster to prove how right Obama is, ignoring the facts that just don’t fit or what you didn’t see with your own eyes, just like the referee’s you used to cover. You paid your dues, right? So what’s wrong with that? Sportcaster is so obviously way above comedian and hey, we all gotta get our start somewhere and work our way up so we can pad the welfare rolls for all our hard work, right? We don’t want the TRUTH about someone in such a high level position who is not accountable to anyone but our beloved leader, we just want to live in Candyland and have the Candyman give us everything he can, right? Even if it means stealing your earnings so I can send my kids to college for free. That’s okay with you, right? If that means we turn our heads away from dissenting ex-wino’s and start an all out smear campaign, calling on all dirt on the dailykos like you did. Hell, we can differentiate between a one-sided sportcaster and equal play comedian. We can all go on a witch hunt and smear campaign to punish someone who dares reveal negative information about another of our dear leaders nefarious picks, for that is what we do, separate, belittle, ridicule and destroy, right?! You are darn straight! We can’t let the truth really get out about all the president’s men because we have "an agenda" and only so many crisis' to fuel them! Gee, who else said that. Wasn’t that Nixon?
So you go, sportsman turned serious newscaster! We’ll help you slay the big bad comedian who is kicking the pants off your ratings. Yes we can!
Oh, and sportcaster? It's oligarchy, not oligarhy! And that would be what YOU advocate! Idiot!!
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