Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Arizona: Muslim who attempted to bomb Social Security building charged with previous murder

A very interesting post from www.jihadwatch.org  about  a jihad attack in Arizona. This follows this post about the FBI ads on buses in Seattle which were fighting terrorism.This follows this article about American energy independence and preventing money from going to hostile countries such as Iran . For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE!

Arizona: Muslim who attempted to bomb Social Security building charged with previous murder


Apparently a dedicated and persistent jihadist. "Ariz. bomb suspect charged with previous murder," by Brian Skoloff for the Associated Press, July 22 (thanks to Pamela Geller):



An Iraqi man charged with detonating a homemade bomb outside a federal building in Arizona now faces additional charges, including first-degree murder in a killing just days before the bombing, authorities said Monday.

Abdullatif Ali Aldosary is charged with murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and two firearms counts in the Nov. 27, 2012, killing of an employee at the Arizona Grain processing facility in Maricopa, about 35 miles south of Phoenix.



Orlando Requena, 26, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds. He had worked for several years at the facility, where Aldosary also was employed for a time.



Authorities announced last week that Aldosary had been indicted on 18 state felony counts, including 14 attempted first-degree murder charges, arson and use of explosives in the Nov. 30 bombing outside a Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande, about 50 miles south of Phoenix. No one was injured in the blast. Prosecutors said the attempted murder charges stem from 14 employees who were inside the building at the time of the explosion.



Authorities say a search of Aldosary's home turned up documents hidden behind a picture that explained how to build a bomb. Aldosary also sought information on how to create explosive material known as RDX, "considered one of the most powerful of the military high explosives," according to the initial criminal complaint. "RDX is believed to have been used in many bomb plots, including terrorist plots."



FBI Special Agent Douglas Price would not comment on whether the bombing was believed to have been terrorism-related. Authorities would not discuss a motive for the killing of Requena, described by relatives as a friendly man and a father of three sons with no known enemies.



"He was a good man and a good father," said the victim's aunt, Alberta Requena. "We were worried that somebody out there was coming to get us and our family. It's a relief now not having to wonder if this was somebody that we knew."



Authorities declined to discuss whether Requena's killing and the bombing were connected, or if Aldosary worked alone or with others.



"Today is the beginning of the attempt to seek justice for the victims," Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles said at a news conference attended by Maricopa police, the victim's relatives and officials from the FBI.



Aldosary came to the United States legally in 1997 from his home country of Iraq.



In 2008, he pleaded guilty to felony aggravated harassment charges. He was sentenced to two months in jail and three years of probation. But his probation was revoked a year later, and he was ordered to serve a year in prison.



Aldosary had sought help from U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar's office in 2011 in obtaining permanent residency. Gosar has said he contacted Homeland Security, which responded in a letter that Aldosary's case had been put on hold "pursuant to the terrorism-related grounds of inadmissibility" under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act.



Authorities say he was denied a green card in 2008 because he fought with anti-government forces trying to overthrow Saddam Hussein in Basra, Iraq, in 1991.



Gosar's office questioned why the man hadn't been deported.



U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Aldosary's previous arrests on harassment charges and a probation violation weren't considered deportable offenses.





If he had made a movie about Muhammad, however, that probation violation would have landed him an indefinite prison sentence.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

In Brief... World News Review: Chinese Interests in Bahamas

An interesting article from http://www.ucg.org/ about China's strategy in the Atlantic. This follows this post about dark influences in Western culture. For a free magazine subscription or to get the book shown for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

In Brief... World News Review: Chinese Interests in Bahamas



article by Cecil Maranville, John Ross Schroeder, Peter Eddington





Concerns have been raised by Communist Chinese connections so close to American soil.



In 1962 the United States and Russia came dangerously close to nuclear war over the issue of nuclear weapons based in Cuba, just a few miles off the coast of Florida. Today there are concerns expressed over the presence of a Chinese company, Hutchison Whampoa Limited, in Panama, where it has contracted to manage the entrances to the former U.S. possession. The same Chinese company is currently completing construction of the largest container port in the world in Freeport, Bahamas-just 60 miles from Florida.



While this is a far cry from placing nuclear weapons close to United States soil, it has raised concerns that a company with Communist Chinese connections is operating in two strategic geographic points very close to American interests.



Several U.S. military experts say that these activities in both Panama and the Bahamas by Hutchison Whampoa Limited, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate, pose a significant risk to U.S. national security.



Officials for Hutchison Whampoa have heatedly denied any links with the Red Chinese government, but several established connections suggest that the Chinese government has a keen interest in the company's activities.



One port facility that has captured the interest of the Chinese government is Hutchison Whampoa's sprawling port facility in the tourist destination of Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.



According to the company's Web site, the port is located at one of the most strategic spots in the world because "Freeport is the closest offshore port to the east coast of the United States, at the cross-roads of routes between Europe and the Americas and through the Panama Canal."



Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (Republican-Mississippi) and former U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger have expressed concerns about Hutchison's influence over the Panama Canal.



Lott has described the Hong Kong firm as "an arm of the People's Liberation Army."



Hutchison Whampoa's chairman, Li Ka-Shing, is also a board member of CITIC-the China International Trust and Investment Corporation. U.S. intelligence sources have described the firm as a front for China's governmental State Council.



Congressman Dana Rohrbacher (Republican-California) has stated that CITIC has been used as a front company by China's military to acquire technology for weapons development. A recently declassified report by the United States Southern Command's Joint Intelligence Center, prepared in October 1999, said that "Hutchison Whampoa's owner, Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing, has extensive business ties in Beijing and has compelling financial reasons to maintain a good relationship with China's leadership."



The military intelligence report also warns that "Hutchison containerized shipping facilities in the Panama Canal, as well as the Bahamas, could provide a conduit for illegal shipments of technology or prohibited items from the West to the PRC, or facilitate the movement of arms and other prohibited items into the Americas."



Retired Admiral Thomas Moorer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former commander in chief of the Pacific and Atlantic Fleet said this of the Chinese efforts: "Of course the Chinese military sees the benefit of having a base, a future base, so close to the United States. What China is trying to do is get a kind of maritime position worldwide, and they need a home base, so to speak, in every ocean." (Newsmax.com)

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CALL House Hearing for Illegal Alien Children should FOCUS ON AMERICAN CHILDREN‏

A very interesting post from http://californiascrusader.com/ about the U.S. Children who will loose their employment and schooling opportiunites due to the DREAM Act or KIDS act. This follows this post about a student trying to learn who asked for the common language, English, to be spoken in assignments. This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

We The People California's Crusader http://californiascrusader.com/  




The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow, Tuesday, July 23, 2013 via the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.



Subject: Addressing the Immigration Status of Illegal Immigrants Brought to the United States as Children







Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R) VA is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee and Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy (R) SC is the chairman of the Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security.



CALL & TELL GOODLATTE AND GOWDY TO FOCUS ON AMERICAN CHILDREN



CALL Congressman Goodlatte and Congressman Gowdy - tell them to only stage hearings on the topic to secure the border and enforce the law.



Tell them to focus legislation on AMERICAN CHILDREN - not illegal aliens.



MILLIONS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN are suffering because their parents are unemployed. MILLIONS of American teens can't find a job. There are more than 23 million American citizens seeking employment.



One in 45 children experience homelessness in America each year. http://www.familyhomelessness.org/children.php?p=ts





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JAMIEL SHAW

Last month, Jamiel Shaw, Sr. - the father of Jamiel Shaw, Jr., murdered by illegal alien gang banger Pedro Espinoza - was a Judiciary Committee Hearing witness when the SAFE Act was the topic.



On his Sunday radio show, Jamiel Shaw, Sr., said to talk about the "children brought to USA by no fault of their own, who then commit murder."

Partial lists of Americans killed by illegal aliens:

http://www.fncic-voiacm.org/victims.php

http://www.ojjpac.org/memorial.asp


Below are a few of the AMERICAN CHILDREN KILLED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS - talk about these children when you call Congressman Goodlatte and Congressman Gowdy - demand that the Judiciary Committee focus hearings on American children KILLED by illegal aliens - not on granting legal status to illegal aliens.

From left to right: Jamiel Shaw, Jr., Serenity Reedy, Ruben Morfin, Anna Bronson, Cheryl Green, Buddy Rowe, Darness Brown, Stephanie Valle, Blake Cohorn, Clarisse Grime, Josie Blhum, Infant Dimitri Smith, Martin Kudlis



CALL Congressman Bob Goodlatte, House Judiciary Chairman

(202) 225-5431 or call the 24 hour toll free switchboard 1(866)220-0044. If it is after business hours, leave a voice mail message.

http://goodlatte.house.gov/



CALL Congressman Trey Gowdy, House Judiciary Chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security

(202) 225-6030 or call the 24 hour toll free switchboard 1(866)220-0044. If it is after business hours, leave a voice mail message.

http://gowdy.house.gov/





CALL THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

202-225-3951







Also call your congress member. Find your congress member here:

http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/



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http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/hear_07232013.html

Hearing Information







Subject: Addressing the Immigration Status of Illegal Immigrants Brought to the United States as Children



Tuesday 7/23/2013 - 2:00 p.m.



2141 Rayburn House Office Building



Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security



By Direction of the Chairman









Monday, July 22, 2013

Editorial: Reaction to Zimmerman Verdict & OTHER NEWS!!

Editorial

George Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury that only had six people on it, so the rest of us didn't see all of their evidence. Nevertheless, there was massive reaction to the verdict by some who seriously want to remake the U.S. into something different than what it is.

Last week also saw the surrender by the GOP on the historic Senate filibuster, as well as the continued removal of the FBI's terror ads, and ...

A woman was suspended from a college for wanting instruction in English, the common language of the U.S.! This story is getting very little press coverage, of course, but it does have the potential to have a very dangerous outocme! Stay tuned!!!

Wendy Davis and the Failed Reinvention of the Pro-Abortion Movement

An interesting story from www.lifenews.com about Wendy Davis as the spokesperson of the Pro-Abortion Movement. This follows this post about a Down's Syndrome baby saved from abortion. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can also get two very interesting books HERE.

Wendy Davis and the Failed Reinvention of the Pro-Abortion Movement


I’m a native Pennsylvanian who was working in the pro-life movement in that state when the news first broke of the atrocities that had taken place at Kermit Gosnell’s Women’s Medical Center abortion clinic in West Philadelphia.



The details of the case sounded like something out of a horror movie. Yet it took the national media almost two years to cover it. Thanks to the persistence of pro-life advocates, the story finally made it into the living rooms of at least some of the American people in April 2013. America was horrified and disgusted. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/19/wendy-davis-and-the-failed-reinvention-of-the-pro-abortion-movement/



Wknd Box Office: The Conjuring, RIPD, Girl Most Likely, Red 2

Here is an interesting article from http://www.debbieschlussel.com/ reviewing some of the movies that came out over the past weekend. This follows this post about some of the movies from last week and THIS POST about some movies that have been released over the past few years that you might have missed! This all follows this post about guidelines to chosing good movies to watch yourself!

Wknd Box Office: The Conjuring, RIPD, Girl Most Likely, Red 2


By Debbie Schlussel



We are past the midway point of the summer, the season when Hollywood is supposed to dazzle us with big blockbuster hits. And, so far, all I’ve seen is underwhelming. And, this weekend, we’re frustratingly served up more of it. None of the new movies in theaters today is particularly good. I’ll start with the relative “best” first, though I doubt I’d pay ten bucks to see any of these, and other than “The Conjuring,” I’d probably quit watching by the middle of these movies if I Netflixed them. (I did not see “Turbo.”)


* “The Conjuring“: This horror/thriller is somewhat scary and suspenseful. It’s also “based on a true story” and focuses somewhat on the real-life couple who are connected to the Catholic Church, perform exorcisms, and were involved in investigating the Amityville Horror home.



Ed and Lorraine Warren (in this movie, they are played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) exist in real life. Ed is the only non-priest and non-Vatican official recognized by the Church to do exorcisms. This movie explores his and Mrs. Warren’s 1971 investigation into a farmhouse that is possessed by Demons. Ron Livingston plays a trucker and father of five daughters. He and his wife (Lili Taylor) move into the dumpy, dirty, old farmhouse and, soon, strange things happen. Their dog won’t go inside, and something very disturbing happens to the dog. Then things are moved, clocks operate weirdly, people go missing and/or possessed, and so on. The Warrens are brought in to get rid of the horror and explore the home’s tragic past.




This was definitely entertaining, and while it is a pretty formulaic horror thriller, there were moments of surprise and suspense throughout. It wasn’t the greatest scary movie I’ve seen, but it wasn’t the worst. It wasn’t bad. My favorite thing about this movie is the accurate period costumes, haircuts, accoutrements, and cars. The movie got those spot on, and that shines through in its dull, dark sepia tones. There’s nothing objectionable about this movie. And, all things considered, I liked it better than this weekend’s other choices.



Since I respect religion and resent Hollywood’s frequent attacks on it (other than Islam, which is never attacked and is in fact promoted and gushed over), I liked how this movie showed religious Catholics and people of faith in a positive light. They helped save this family from evil. You’ll rarely see that coming out of Tinseltown.



ONE-AND-A-HALF REAGANS


* “R.I.P.D.“: This movie had an interesting premise, but it’s just awful in execution. And incredibly stupid, to boot. Just a mess. Ryan Reynolds is a Boston cop who is partnered with the corrupt Kevin Bacon. They took gold from drug dealers they busted, when they should have booked it into evidence. When Reynolds tells Bacon he has second thoughts about that, Bacon kills Reynolds in another bust.



Upon death, Reynolds gets sent to the R.I.P.D.–the Rest In Peace Department–a mid-way point for somewhat corrupt cops killed in the line of duty who are given an offer of working 100 years to track down “Dead-os” in the modern day world. Yes, the writers of this movie were soooo damned creative that “Dead-os” is the only name they could come up with for weird demon-like criminals seeking to create a tunnel back from R.I.P.D. jail to modern-day earth to create havoc.



Reynolds is partnered up with Jeff Bridges, who is a Civil War-era marshal, and they are sent back to Boston to investigate and find Dead-os and discover that Bacon is involved with them. On earth, no one sees them as the two former cops, and instead, they look like an old Chinese man and a supermodel (Marisa Miller). Their boss at RIPD is Mary-Louise Parker. Oh, and by the way, they save the world. I didn’t care.



The movie isn’t funny, and, yet, it’s supposed to be a comedy. I thought the sci-fi/after-life/law-enforcement combination might make for a good movie. Boy, was I wrong. For a movie that’s only 1.5 hours long, it was a total bore. And the plot was just silly, as was its execution. It’s as if this were written by a sophomoric teen. It looks like a lot of money was spent on special effects for this movie. And for what? Why? I’m amazed they screened this for us. It’s that bad. There’s nothing politically objectionable here. It’s just that the movie’s incredibly dumb and pointless (other than the point to fill Ryan Reynolds’ and Jeff Bridges’ bank accounts and get you to subsidize their mansions–no thanks).



Just awful.



TWO MARXES

* “Girl Most Likely“: The first thing you need to know about this Kristen Wiig “comedy” is that it’s not funny. I laughed like five times at the most. And that was forced laughter. It’s not nearly as funny as her other stuff. Not even close. Mostly, it’s painful. And it has the usual Hollywood memes of class warfare (“rich people are BAD!”) and fathers as creeps who abandon their kids (“men are SCUMBAGS! Yay, slutty feminists!”). Um, no thanks.



In this mildly entertaining, extremely forgettable movie, Wiig plays an aspiring playwright who was once “the next big thing” in the New York theater scene. She won a fellowship to write a play, but instead spent the money shopping with friends and became a big failure. She fakes a suicide attempt to get her boyfriend to propose, and is instead abandoned by the rich crowd of friends who used her talents to advance themselves.



Wiig gets sent to the custody of her estranged, tacky, low-class, working-class mother, Annette Bening, who lives on the Jersey Shore and has a much younger, weird, secret agent boyfriend, who goes by the name “George Bousche” (Matt Dillon). Hmmm . . . when will a movie have a secret agent character who goes by the name “Barack Okaka?” Probably never.



Wiig hates being back in Jersey and hates having to stay with her tacky mother, crazy brother (who has an obsession with crabs–the animal, not the STD), her mother’s tenant (who has taken over Wiig’s childhood bedroom), and the questionable, alleged CIA agent. She develops a romance with the tenant, a Yale grad who works in an Atlantic City casino as a Backstreet Boys impersonator. Wearing her old ’80s clothes that are left at the house, Wiig tries to get her life back, and soon discovers that her father–whom her mother had said was dead–is alive. He’s written several books and is an expert on “the myth of Thanksgiving”–tripe that Hollywood believes in, too (that Thanksgiving is a myth, that America is bad, etc.) When she goes to meet her father, he’s stereotypically Jewish-looking (and played by Jewish and stereotypically Jewish-looking nebbish actor Bob Balaban), incredibly rich, incredibly snobby and class-ist, and a complete scumbag, and she realizes that her tacky mother is the good parent. OY.



The movie is formulaic and predictable. And incredibly pointless.



TWO MARXES PLUS TWO OBAMAS


* “RED 2“: “: I liked the first RED (read my review), but this was just a mess, with a cockamamie, confusing plot. And incredibly silly. Yes, it’s full of action and spy moves, but is that really believable when the actors are all senior citizens (or close enough to it)? Nope.



The story: the semi-retired secret agents–Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, and Helen Mirren–are brought back together, when the CIA and the Pentagon have put a hit out on Willis. Why? They never really explain, except that it has something to do with an operation he once worked on in which rogue nuclear weapons found their way into Russia. The agents work to free the designer of the nukes, Anthony Hopkins, because they believe it will help them, but soon, they see that he’s crazy like a fox and wants his nukes set off in the world, which will obviously kill a lot of people. So their mission–while Willis is evading being killed by a hitman/former CIA agent hired by the U.S. government–is to stop the nukes from being set off on earth.



Lots of chases, lots of action, lots of stupidity, and a giant waste of time, even if there is some mild entertainment to it. Adding Catherine Zeta-Jones to the mix doesn’t add much to the movie, other than more silliness and stupidity. Mary-Louise Parker also stars. Who cares?



ONE MARX



Friday, July 19, 2013

Senate Republicans Cave: Filibuster ‘Compromise’ Keeps NLRB Firmly Under Union Control UPDATED!

Here is an interesting article from www.RedState.com about the Senate filbuster surrender. This follows this post about Geroge Zimmerman as a White Hispanic. the meantime, you can read an interesting take on society's problems HERE and the interesting book being shown HERE.

Senate Republicans Cave: Filibuster ‘Compromise’ Keeps NLRB Firmly Under Union Control


Union bosses to pick[ed] Obama's labor board replacements

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)

Well, the fix is in–and, frankly, it looks as though Senate Republicans have caved in on everything–and have little to show for it.



In their effort to “save” the filibuster, according to Politico, Senators John McCain (RINO-AZ) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brokered a deal that gives Democrats nearly everything* they wanted.



In sum, here’s how it shakes out: Harry Reid gets to keep the threat of using the nuclear option at some later point. In exchange, the GOP gets to keep the pretense of having the ability to filibuster in return for caving in on five out of seven of Obama’s controversial appointments:



■Richard Cordray gets to head the Consumer Financial Protection Board–that’s a done deal as of this morning

■Thomas Perez will become Secretary of Labor

■Gina McCarthy will head the EPA

■Union attorney and current NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce gets to keep his job

■* Obama’s constitutionally-challenged NLRB members, Operating Engineers union attorney Richard Griffin and ex-Kennedy lawyer Sharon Block will get dumped but…

…Here’s the kicker, according to the New York Times:



But organized labor would be allowed to recommend their replacement nominees, who would be confirmed before the end of the month.



So, Republicans avoided the nuclear option by ‘compromising’ and giving Barack Obama almost everyone he wanted. And, for those he wanted but did not get, union bosses get to pick their replacement nominees.



As Dave Weigel at Slate.com observes:



By giving Democrats nearly everything they asked for, Republicans avoided a change to the filibuster.



Notwithstanding the fact that he and his fellow union bosses get to pick the Griffin’s and Block’s replacements, CWA union boss Larry Cohen–whose union spent hundreds of thousands of its members’ dues to kill the filibuster–still isn’t happy though:



“There is not one intellectual argument, either about Block and Griffin, why those nominations shouldn’t go forward. It’s just [Republicans] want their pound of flesh from working people in this country, and this is where they’re going to get it because they were able to convince four or five Democrats to go with them,” he said.



“Those Democrats will know we know who they are, and we know, as a progressive coalition in this country, you will not split up the fight, and we will continue to work together … to fix the Senate,” Cohen added.



In other words, Cohen isn’t happy getting nearly the whole loaf, he wants the heel and the crumbs as well.



The reality is, for the Republicans to cave in to nearly every one of Barack Obama’s nominees–save the two unconstitutional NLRB appointments–in order to save the filibuster, it won’t mean anything in the long run.



Union bosses will still control the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor, and they got their CFCB pick put in place as well; radical environmentalists still get the EPA; and, as importantly, Harry Reid and his Democrats cohorts can still threaten to use the nuclear option whenever Republicans threaten to get out of line.



That’s some compromise.



Update…

It seems that before the ink was dry on the GOP caving in, Barack Obama had selected his NLRB replacement nominees. According to Politico, they are AFL-CIO associate general counsel Nancy Schiffer and Kent Hirozawa, chief counsel to NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce



As part of the deal to avoid the so-called nuclear option, Republicans agreed not to block the replacement nominees for Richard Griffin and Sharon Block, which were picked Tuesday in consultation with AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka.



This begs the question: Do Senate Republicans feel a little duped yet…just a little?

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“Truth isn’t mean. It’s truth.”

Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)



“In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”

Ayn Rand