OBAMA’S BENGHAZI LIES ARE FINALLY BEING REVEALED
There was a large crack Sunday night (10/27) in the wall of silence the "mainstream" media have erected around the events in Benghazi on the night of 9/11/2012. CBS broadcast on its "60 Minutes" program a segment which featured an interview with one of the eyewitnesses to the attack on our consulate the Obama administration has been trying to hide from Congressional investigators. He is "Morgan Jones." That's a pseudonym for a former British soldier turned security consultant, who was hired to train the Libyans the State Department chose to guard the consulate, in lieu of U.S. Marines, who customarily guard our diplomatic installations. Additional testimony by other witnesses was equally devastating. An Army Special Forces officer based at our embassy in Tripoli, LtCol. Andy Wood, told CBS correspondent Lara Logan that for months before the attack, he reported to the State Department and up his chain of command in the Defense department that al Qaida was planning to attack the consulate.
WHY DOES OBAMA WANT THE WHOLE WORLD TO OBEY THE IRS?
The Obama administration has performed the unique trick of alienating the majority of our most important allies, while at the same time causing America to be viewed as a patsy by its enemies. The situation is bound to get worse now that the administration has taken the position that most financial institutions outside the United States are conspiring to help Americans and others avoid U.S. taxes and, thus, is attempting to require all of these foreign financial institutions to report to -- and, in effect, become agents of -- the Internal Revenue Service. Believe it or not, the United States is now threatening to criminally indict nonresident foreign bank executives for not complying with U.S. tax law, even in cases when the banks were not operating in this country or violating their own nation's tax laws. Foreign financial executives have already been warned by some of their own governments not to travel to the United States. A global revolt is brewing against the United States for being an international financial bully. The consequences of this revolt are likely to be extremely damaging and long-lasting to the nation.
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/25/13
Democrats are learning the hard way what the expression "Pyrrhic victory" means. Dr. John, a health care professional who blogs at Flopping Aces, explains why: "Obama won the shutdown battle and his prize was the country discovering just how incompetent he is. The great irony of this is that had Obama given the GOP the delay they sought they could have hidden their galactic incompetence." * * * * In the last week, millions of "low information" voters received letters from their insurance companies informing them that because of Obamacare, their health insurance policy has been cancelled, or their premium has doubled. Many more will receive such letters soon. For a creature of media mythology like Barack Obama, nothing could be more dangerous than to permit reality to slap millions of "lofos" in the face. It'll be hard for the news media to piece its shattered shield back together. More likely, damage will cascade: * * * * His mendacious - and hilarious -- refusal to acknowledge Obamacare's problems during his press conference/infomercial Monday hasn't helped Zero's credibility. It wasn't just conservatives who noticed the resemblance to the Sham Wow! guy: * * * * Now that Democrats know what's in Obamacare, it scares the hell out of them, says the Chicago Tribune. Panic over Obamacare "is splitting the caucus wide open," writes liberal Jonathan Chait in the New Yorker. Fueling panic among Democrats are stories I bet you never thought you'd see in the "mainstream" media. * * * * Four pending lawsuits could kill Obamacare subsidies in most of the country. * * * * Journalists have forgotten about Benghazi, but Americans haven't. By a margin of 60-28, respondents to a Fox News poll say the Obama administration is trying to cover up what happened there on 9/11/2012. That's a big increase from a year ago. "60 Minutes" will broadcast an interview Sunday (10/27) with one of the witnesses to the attack the administration has been trying to hide.
AFTER THE OBAMA HICCUP, THE 21ST CENTURY IS AMERICA’S
Anyone here old enough to remember the 1929 crash on Wall Street and the 1933 US exit from the Gold Standard under Franklin Roosevelt? If so, you'll recall the pervading sense that America had already peaked, its capitalist model overtaken by history. The Soviets were ascendant and soon would overtake us. After defeat in Vietnam and the Carter Malaise, it was the Japanese who would triumph. This time it is supposed to be China and the emerging powers - armed with $9 trillion of combined reserves - who will humble America, pulling the plug on the dollar and the US Treasury market, and ending the era of "exorbitant privilege." As for China and the chorus of voices from BRICS-land venting indignation at the US over the debt, it is largely humbug. Taken in the stride of 20th century history, the latest bleatings about America's demise seem more than a little overdone. Obama will be judged a hiccup of American history, for here is the great salient economic fact of our times.
THE BOTTOM LINE ON THE OBAMACARE ROLLOUT
SACRILEGE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, Kiribati. I might as well warn you right up front. You are really, really not going to like this. You are going to get seriously steamed. Tarawa is sacred history in the annals of the United States Marines. The Battle of Tarawa was one of the most brutal and lethal in the Corps' history. After losing Guadalcanal to the Marines in 1942, the Japanese were determined not to lose Tarawa, with its vitally strategic position in the Central Pacific. They spent a year building up an incredibly well-fortified array of defenses on Betio to control the entrance to the lagoon and thus the entire atoll. The Japanese commander, Rear Admiral Keiji Shibazaki, was so confidant of his preparations and men his message to Tokyo was, "It would take one million men one hundred years" to conquer Tarawa. It took the US Marines 76 hours. But at a horrible cost. On Tarawa, the Marines demonstrated epic bravery and heroism - guts and glory beyond normal imagination. 1,113 Marines died, 2,290 wounded. It is no mystery whatever that Tarawa is a sacred memory for all Marines - and to trash and besmirch it would be sacrilegious. Yet that is exactly and precisely what has happened, and in the most disgusting manner thinkable.
FINALLY! BUSINESS FIGHTS BACK AGAINST CORRUPT ECO-FASCISM
Here's some good news from America. A Big Oil company - Chevron - is taking legal action against a group of environmentalists for fraud and extortion: aka greenmail. The sums involved are eyewatering: $19 billion (billion with a B). Phelim McAleer has the details. It's fitting that Phelim McAleer should be reporting this story because, of course, he visited similar territory in his documentary FrackNation. Like Crude, Josh Fox's anti-fracking movie Gasland was feted at Sundance and lauded by the usual Hollywood suspects. The polite explanation for what's going on here is "noble cause corruption." You'll lie, you'll fiddle with the data, you'll bully, you'll smear, you'll abandon the scientific method -- not because you're a bad person (or so you persuade yourself) but because you're a person so good that you're even prepared to sacrifice even your personal integrity for the higher cause of saving the world from The Greatest Threat It Has Ever Known. Finally -- finally! -- business has begun fighting back. And Chevron's case is really good.
DON’T SIGN, DON’T PAY THE FINE
Recently, there have been many attempts to get a handle on why there is so much public discontent. I think all the reasoning can be boiled down to one idea: Americans feel powerless. Millions of us look at Washington, D.C. and see one thing and one thing only, namely a ruling class that is completely out of touch with ordinary Americans and their concerns. Fortunately that same ruling class, in their unbridled hubris, has made a critical error. They've presented the public with an extraordinary opportunity to give the federal government one of the grander smack downs that any public could give any out-of-control government. And all the American public has to do to give Washington that smack down is.....nothing. Right now, the Obama administration is in the process of rolling out the so-called Affordable Healthcare Act that requires millions of Americans to buy health insurance, or pay a fine. I think it's time the American public gave Congress and the Obama administration a taste of their own medicine, so to speak. Thus I am presenting a simple slogan, that embodies the very same kind of large-scale civil disobedience that progressives cherished during the Vietnam War. To wit: Don't sign, don't pay the fine.
HANGING TOGETHER OR SEPARATELY
The rift in the GOP today isn't about policy or principle. Ostensibly, it's about tactics. Mostly it's about culture. Tea Party insurgents in Flyover Country regard more "moderate" Republicans -- the GOP leadership in Congress especially -- as Establishment "squishes" too comfortable with the status quo, too timid to take on the powers that be. To Establishment "squishes," Tea Party insurgents are chest-thumping Yahoos who haven't a clue. Losing -- which, with the partial exception of the 2010 midterms, Republicans have been doing since 2006 -- intensifies factional disputes. Since Ronald Reagan, every GOP nominee for president has come from (what these days passes for) the party's moderate wing. They've done poorly.
THE OBLIGATION TO DISOBEY
In a number of cases, officials of the Obama administration appear to have given unlawful orders during the shutdown, such as to put up barricades to prevent people from going to nonfederal attractions such as Mount Vernon, and keeping open nonessential activities like federally owned golf courses that serve the "well-connected." The Uniform Code of Military Justice Section 892, Article 92 makes it clear that military personnel have an obligation and a duty to obey only lawful orders and, indeed, have an obligation to disobey unlawful orders, including orders by the president that do not comply with the code. The moral and legal obligation of the military is to the U.S. Constitution and not to those who would issue unlawful orders, especially if those orders are in direct violation of the Constitution and the code. Civilian employees also have an equal obligation to disobey unlawful orders. The illegitimate orders that government workers followed during the shutdown might seem like minor infractions, but those who committed them should think about where they would draw the line.