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Karen Huges is gone, good riddance

“Gaffe Machine” Karen Hughes Leaving State Department, says John E. Carey of Peace and Freedom II. I agree.

An American gaffe machine gets set to go home. Good riddance. No amount of costuming on this Halloween can convince us that Mrs. Hughes made a valuable contribution to U.S. foreign policy.

We are not big fans of the U.S. State Department these days so the announcement that Karen Hughes will leave and return to Texas didn’t break any hearts here.

Mrs. Hughes was give her cushy Foggy Bottom job by her pal George W. Bush. When she came to State — amid much publicity and hoopla — the world was informed that Mrs. Hughes would take charge of “winning over the world’s hearts and minds.”

Mrs. Hughes was supposed to restore respect for America and highlight the importance of America’s lustrous democracy.

Mrs. Hughes didn’t exactly impress anyone in the world outside of her buddy at the White House.

Officially, Mrs. Hughes is Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.

On her fist major trip as America’s “Goodwill Ambassador,” Mrs. Hughes proved that she was a gaffe machine with little knowledge of the Arab world.

John Brown wrote in The Second Coming of Karen Hughes on August 9, 2007 in the Huffington Post: “her infamous ‘listening tour’ to the Middle East in the fall of 2005 — was ridiculed by both the US and international media as an illustration of her ignorance (she disclosed, to an Egyptian opposition leader, that our Constitution cites “one nation under God”) and lack of cultural sensitivity (she offended some Saudi women by reproaching them for not having the right to drive). After that disastrous overseas venture, she seemed to keep a lower profile, and by 2006 was practically off the media radar screen, especially during the Second Lebanese War. When she did engage in rare (for her official position) public events (many directed to American audiences to show them how good we US citizens were because of our compassionate-conservative aid to less fortunate foreigners) she was not infrequently criticized, including by the right-wing media, which accused her of being too accommodating to Muslim organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).”

Today, the Fox News Channel is extolling Mrs. Hughes’ many accomplishments and achievements. They even allowed Mrs. Hughes to go on screen to brag about, well, herself.

Charm machine turned into a gaffe machine right in front of the world.

But polls show no improvement in the world’s view of the U.S. since Hughes took over. A Pew Research Center survey earlier said the unpopular Iraq war is a persistent drag on the U.S. image and has helped push favorable opinion of the United States in Muslim Indonesia, for instance, from 75 percent in 2000 to 30 percent last year.

“The great irony of this administration is that its opponents credit it with being masterful at spin,” wrote Mr. Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post on September 3, 2006. (continue reading)

Invisible Tanks

Army tests James Bond style tank that is 'invisible', from The Daily Mail:

New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.

Now you see it: How the tank might look with background images beamed onto the side

The result is that anyone looking in the direction of the vehicle only sees what is beyond it and not the tank itself.

A soldier, who was at the trials, said: "This technology is incredible. If I hadn't been present I wouldn't have believed it. I looked across the fields and just saw grass and trees - but in reality I was staring down the barrel of a tank gun." (more)

Invisible weapons, bring it on!

Other reading not related:
U.S. diplomats vent over forced Iraq duty, Texas Freds
So close yet so far away . . ., Common Sense America

The Mississippi river isn’t the only thing that divides Missouri and Illinois. Democrat Governor Rod Blagovich’s state of Illinois is being sued by the Justice Department for siding with illegal aliens.
The name that cannot be uttered: Muslim, Planck's Constant

"Hillary's Going to Wellesley Tommorrow. Where Does She Stand on the Veiling of Muslim Students at Wellesley?"

"Hillary's Going to Wellesley Tommorrow. Where Does She Stand on the Veiling of Muslim Students at Wellesley?", by Phyllis Chesler

On May 31st, 1969, Hillary Rodham delivered the Commencement address at Wellesley. I have just read her speech and in my view, it says very little about a great deal. You just can’t pin her down—not then, not now. She tries to include everyone, offend no one, and she does so in an even-tempered, non-passionate way. She says:

“Part of the problem with empathy with professed goals is that empathy doesn’t do us anything. We’ve had lots of empathy; we’ve had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have used politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”

And she closes by quoting a long (and rather harmless) poem written by Nancy Scheibner, which ends this way:

“Earth could be fair. And you and I must be free
Not to save the world in a glorious crusade
Not to kill ourselves with a nameless gnawing pain
But to practice with all the skill of our being
The art of making possible.”

Thus, it is possible that Hillary is not being micro-managed by a team of hired hands and focus groups so much as she has hired a team to reflect her own character and political strategy.

She is a Nice Girl. (Yes, I know, she has done some awful things in order to “stand by her man” and hang onto power but this is precisely what Nice Girls are supposed to do).

By definition, being a Nice Girl means trying to, or at least appearing to try to please everyone and offend no one; but above all, it means keeping your true opinions hidden. All direct expressions of one’s own point of view or of one’s own naked, raw, ambition or passion must be repressed, hidden. Sometimes even from oneself.

But folks: This is 1969 that we’re talking about. Our country spent this decade marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam. President John F. Kennedy, Civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Malcolm X had all been assasinated. Feminism had been on the move since the mid-60s as well. Max Yasgur’s farm in Woodstock, New York was about to receive 450,000 young people who wanted to revel in “sex, drugs, and rock and roll.” (continue reading)

Other reading:
Video: Fred Phelps Freaks Out at Rick Sanchez Over Losing Snyder Suit, and
Nickelodeon Brainwashing Your Children, and
Albert Snyder, Father of Slain Marine, Wins Lawsuit Against Westboro Baptist Church, at Stop the ACLU
Happy Halloween: Westboro Church Loses, 123beta

Word of the day -- Slaves

Going through my email in-box this morning, I have numerous tips on slavery as it relates to Western nations. We toss the word around -- slaves to fashion, slaves to the boob-tube, etc. But someone who is really treated as a slave, especially a helpless child, knows the true meaning of the word.

Slave: 1. a person who is the property of and wholly subject to another; a bond servant.
2.a person entirely under the domination of some influence or person

From The Blotter, "New Wave of Video Beheadings Aimed at 'American Slaves'"

New propaganda videos show al Qaeda-connected terrorists carrying out the beheadings of captured Pakistani soldiers, labeled "slaves to America."

One edited video, obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com, shows several teenage boys carrying out the decapitation of a Pakistani soldier with crude knives and then holding the severed, bleeding head with its military beret still in place.

In a brief speech to the camera before the execution, the speaker says the soldier must die because he is a "slave to America."

Sex Slaves, U.S. Slaves, It's in the Koran, from Atlas Shrugs

Imagine having your daughter kidnapped to serve later as a sex slave for some dirty old jihadi. hat tip nav

"There is a long history of girls being kidnapped from Europe and ending up in Morocco" Dhimmiwatch

"Marry women of your choice, Two or three or four; but if ye fear that ye shall not be able to deal justly (with them), then only one, or (a captive) that your right hands possess..." (Qur'an 4:3).

From Dhimmi Watch:

For background, see this site.

"Madeleine: New hope for McCanns as kidnapped American girl 'is found safe in Morocco,'" from the Daily Mail (thanks to Doc Washburn):

Private investigators searching for Madeleine McCann found a blonde girl who had been kidnapped by a Moroccan family, it was claimed yesterday.

From Planck's Constant, Islam and Slavery - Good together

A tip of the turban Hat Tip to Dymphna at Gates of Vienna for pointing us to this Power Point Presentation on the Early Native Americans Muslims. One of her readers says this presentation was given at an Islamic school in New Jersey.

The presentation conveniently ignores the fact that Islam institutionalized slavery:

Answering-Islam.org,
SLAVERY IN ISLAM

ATHEISM AIDS THE JIHADIST CONQUEST OF THE WEST, Freedom Fighter's Journal

The future of the secular west might be encapsulated in this excerpt from a comment from Daily Kos, A Simple Way to End the War on Terror. The commentator refers to the Osama bin Laden video clip where the terrorist recommends that all westerners become Muslims.

Other reading:

Al Qaeda declares Cyber Jihad on the West, DEBKAfil

On Sunday, Nov. 11, al Qaeda’s electronic experts will start attacking Western, Jewish, Israeli, Muslim apostate and Shiite Web sites. On Day One, they will test their skills against 15 targeted sites expand the operation from day to day thereafter until hundreds of thousands of Islamist hackers are in action against untold numbers of anti-Muslim sites. [snip]

In effect, say DEBKAfile’s counter-terror experts, al Qaeda is retaliating against Western intelligence agencies’ tactics, which detect new terrorist sites and zap them as soon as they appear.

"New Plan To Defend U.S. Power Grid From Cyber Terror Attack", Christian Science Monitor

Radical Imam Exposed By Ohio Bloggers, Local MSM Left Puzzled, at Right Wing Rebel

Voters in Berkley to Vote on Nativity, Indiana Court Upholds Constitution Against ACLU Attack Stop the ACLU
American Conspiracy: Why Does the World Hate Us? - Is The Hate Planned or Earned?, Above Top Secret
Hall0weeN @ Angel’s..heh, Woman Honor Thyself
Halloween Blood Lust, 123Beta
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Halloween Headline Horrors

Don’t Tell Anyone, But Rumor Has It That The LA Times Is Sitting On A Sex Scandal Involving A “Leading Candidate”, Right Voices (and Hot Air, and Ace of Spades, and Slate, and Memeorandum)

Who could it be? Is it true?

The sex scandal must be a Democrat candidate, or the LA Times would have it plastered all over the front page.

Po–rn Victimless?..How ConvenienT, Woman Honor Thyself

So much for the claim—often made by po-rn advocates—that po-rn-ography is a victimless crime. This week is White Ribbon against Po–rn-ography Week—a good time to remind ourselves of how destructive po-rn is.

Happy Halloween

More tricks than treats, I'm afraid, Atlas Shrugs

Kucinich questions Bush's mental health. hat tip Edward Cropper

Pirate Attacks are Increasing Worldwide, Blue Star Chronicles

Pirate attacks have increased by 14% in the first nine months of 2007. The waters off the coasts of Somalia and Nigeria have gotten more and more dangerous.

Just Wrong, BlackFive

The next time someone tells you the American "regime" is immoral or dishonest and needs to be overthrown, ask them why this regime shouldn't go first.

Video: Hillary Clinton Flopping All Over Issue of Illegals at Debate, Assorted Babble

You tell me, is Hillary Clinton for illegal aliens having driver's licenses or not? Tonight at the Democratic debate in PA hosted by MSNBC, Hillary slipped up and had a 'what she believes but then - what do people want to hear' moment.

Click for what Carnegie-Mellon University declared is the second-most informative blog in the universe: DON SURBER.

Another Hillary Clinton Scandal - “Pardons for Votes” Claimed by Judicial Watch, Webloggin

Last night during the Democrat Presidential debate Hillary Clinton punted when asked whether or not she would allow the National Archives to release the docs of her communications during her tenure as first lady saying “They are releasing things as they do their process” followed by the claim that it is “not her decision to make“. This is both true and false, typical Clinton politics.

Media Cheerleaders for Despair, Wolf Pangloss (also the Conflict Map of the Counterjihad)

In a 4GW like the Counterjihad the world is fighting against Al Qaeda and the other Caliphate gangs, the media are the the means of attack. We cannot afford to have a media with no regard for the obligations of good citizenship. They will amplify the enemy’s message and muffle our own. And yet that is what we have. How did it get this bad?

Eat some candy corn and have a great Halloween.

Happy Halloween - The Wicked Witch and Her Winged Monkey

The Wicked Witch and her Winged Monkey:

Free Independent Counterterrorist Training at Right Truth

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. When it comes to protecting yourself, your family, who can you depend on? Who is the real first responder when the bad guy shows up at YOUR door? It's YOU. " It's a whole new world of personal survival." As our country moves forward after September 11, 2001, and as we make concessions by continuing to have open borders, special privileges for Muslims above all others, it becomes even more important for each of us to know how to protect ourselves.

I know that some of you will cry fowl at the idea of Independent Counterterrorist Training. I say to you, better safe than sorry -- better prepared for the wolf at the door than to be a lamb for the slaughter. This service is being provided for you FREE OF CHARGE at Right Truth blog, but is written and supplied by R. J. Godlewski.

Survival is a black and white issue

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Still, there are many others who don t hide shamefully behind the body armor of innocent women and children. Who stand proud in defense of democracy and freedom. Who hold that all people are created equal in the
eyes of God. It is we who shall win; who shall prevail over the radical Islamists who seek to pervert international justice and destroy the peace and tranquility of the world s honorable peoples.

Your study guide will be the
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In the introduction to Milestones, by Syed Qutb Shaheed, he says "Even the Western world realizes that Western Civilization is unable to present any healthy values for the guidance of mankind." This is what the bad guys think, but they are so wrong. Americans are guided by their belief in God who values of every human being; freedom of speech, thought, and deed as long as it doesn't harm another. We respect women and children. We support freedom of religion, but do not force religion on anyone. We want peace around the world among all people.

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To facilitate the incorporation of the civilian population into the war effort against international terrorists, the International Nuclear Emergency Response Team (INERT), R.J. Godlewski, Right Truth Blog, and affiliated parties are developing a volunteer training program to educate interested individuals in the fields of counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and counter-guerrilla warfare operations.

Each monthly module will consist of a brief narrative by R.J. Godlewski, appropriate federal military/civilian training manual/reports to review, and review questions to stimulate debate. There are no fees associated with these programs and no grades/certificates will be issued. This is strictly a volunteer program for educational purposes. (continue reading)

Unit Two will be "Conditioning yourself mentally and physically."

Please let me know what you think about this program.

Check the sidebar to the right for a continuous link to the training program.

"The Saudi Lobby" Still Awaits Its Publisher

My Book, "The Saudi Lobby" Still Awaits Its Publisher, Phyllis Chesler:

The lead article today in ArtsandLettersDaily is taken from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The article, written by Evan R. Goldstein, is tltled “Waltheimer on the Hot Seat,” and presents Stephen M. Walt and Charles Mearsheimer as martyrs of truth, lone critics, and near-pariahs for having dared write about the allegedly enormous influence of the Israel Lobby.

The professors have received a truly outsize advance, their book has appeared on various bestseller lists, they draw huge bookstore crowds all over America, and they are booked to speak in Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, and at the London School of Economics, the University of London, and the House of Lords. They have had to endure praise from David Duke, mugs and tee-shirts in their honor, and enormous critical attention, some positive and some negative. However, Professor Tony Judt, (who himself has valorously gone on record giving up his “right of return” to the Jewish state), is quoted here as saying that Mearsheimer “looked a bit shell shocked.”

Judt explains: “In this country, 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, it’s still very painful for someone who is not Jewish to be accused again and again of being anti-Semitic.”

Poor, misunderstood babies.

This is an excerpt of the full article. For the full text, click HERE.

Other reading:
Green Laser Illuminates UA Cockpit, National Terror Alert Response Center
Evacuation After Suspicious Device Discovered - Mannequin Head With Wires, Bismark Tribune
GOP is right to mend health care stance, Politico
New Plan To Defend U.S. Power Grid From Cyber Terror Attack, National Terror Alert Response Center
U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan On Full Alert As Terror Plot Broken Up, UPI
Honduras Finds Radioactive Material In Container, Reuters
ACLU - Authorities Create “Climate of fear” by Upholding the Law, Stop the ACLU
Pakistan suicide attack kills 7 near Musharraf’s HQ, Peace and Freedom II

The Hawks and The Doves

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Iran is still "at least a few years away'' from being able to build a nuclear bomb, and "there is still time for sanctions to work." Senator John McCain of Arizona "singled out Europe for criticism, saying "Major European financial institutions are giving lines of credit to the Iranians.'' The Hawks and Doves can't agree on what needs to be done to stop Iran, so Iran continues on their path. America and Israel are left to act independently.

And fearless are the idiots -- Among the hawks and doves

American sanctions are having an impact on Iran financially, but is it enough? The Bush administration seems to be firm that Iran will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons, that we will act to prevent that from happening. Israel has proven that they will also step up when a nuclear threat faces them -- example, Syria.

The debate has come to "will we STOP Iran, or will we debate what to do AFTER Iran goes nuclear and actually ACTS on their promised intentions."

Here in Washington D.C., debate about Iran is dominant. Unlike the debate that preceded the invasion of Iraq, this one features a much greater emphasis on what happens after striking as many as 20 Iranian nuclear sites. Ergo, lessons have been learned.

The hawkish argument is pretty simple: If you delay Iran's production of an indigenous weapon for decades, you will not only protect Israel from a future horror, but you will also send a categorical message to other proliferators that there will be consequences for defying the United States. It is an argument about the future.

The dovish argument is about the day after. It is an argument over what happens immediately, and how catastrophic the consequences will be in the months after a unilateral aerial assault. With the Iranian street aflame, will Iran send its conventional forces across the Iraq border to engage the U.S. forces in formal warfare, even as they are fully engaged in fighting the insurgency? Will Iraq succeed in disrupting tanker traffic through the Straits of Hormuz, pushing world oil prices to $150 a barrel? Will Iran endeavor to engage Israel directly rather than through its surrogate Hezbollah? (NorthStarWriters)

The dovish argument is unacceptable to me. How much is that nuclear bomb in the window?, Survive A Nuke Attack -- Thinking About the Unthinkable: How to Survive a Nuclear Bomb:

I scratch my head over the mainstream press when they debate whether Iran will get the bomb in two years or five years or 10 years. They’ve missed the big story: Nuclear bombs are available on the black market today!

The former Russian Security Council secretary, Alexander Lebed, said in an interview on 60 Minutes on September 9, 1997, that more than 100 suitcase nukes are missing from the breakup of the Soviet Union. [snip]

“The danger posed by unsecured nuclear material is not just a Russian problem. Enough civilian plutonium for many nuclear weapons exists in Germany, Belgium, Japan, and Switzerland, and some 20 tons of civilian highly enriched uranium exists at 345 operational and shut down civilian research facilities in 58 countries, sometimes in quantities large enough to make a bomb.” (more)

Looking at what is going on around the world is not enough, we must look at what is happening in our own country. Decisions we make daily can, and are, making us less safe, less secure, in my humble opinion. "Islam In The Heartland", Ari Kaufman, via Pat Dollard

It then may come as little surprise then, that the city of Plainfield, just west of Indianapolis, is home to the Islamic Center of North America, which, according to their mission, “has served the Muslims of this continent for well over forty years.”

The entire continent. And it’s based in “The Heartland.” As is Dearborn.

What’s next? Accommodating Islam—-and Islam only—-at the local airport? [snip]

The ICLU is nowhere to be found on the religious aspect of the airport sinks matter. Last seen, they and their legal director, Ken Falk, were assisting The American Atheists in removing any semblance of religion from small towns in Indiana and suing the state over the “In God We Trust” license plates issued by the Indiana BMV earlier this year. These innocuous matters apparently make the litigation agenda, not sectarian sinks in a major airport.

Preventive action is a must. Being prepared for the unthinkable is equally important. However, if we PREVENT the action from happening, we won't have to worry about the UNTHINKABLE.

Other reading:
An Open Letter To Young Would Be Martyrs..., 123Beta
Mos–ques have Terrorists?..Who Knew!, Woman Honor Thyself
Vets for Freedom reaching out to spread good news, Rosemary's Thoughts
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Egypt going nuclear with U.S. support

In September 2006, Egypt announced their plans to build three nuclear power plants by 2020, the first to be operational within 10 years. As I stated here, 'According to contested reports, Egypt has been in negotiations with Russia since April 2005 over a contract to build the El-Dabaa plant.' In 2006 we were not sure what Washington's view of this development would be. Today "The United States said it would offer its co-operation in the project."

Egypt unveils nuclear plants plan President Hosni Mubarak has said Egypt is to build a number of nuclear power stations to generate electricity.

Mr Mubarak said he had decided to go ahead with the programme because energy security was such an important factor in Egypt's development.

Egyptian officials announced plans last year to revive civilian nuclear activities but at the time they spoke of building a single power station.

The United States said it would offer its co-operation in the project.

US officials insisted there were no comparison between peaceful use of nuclear technology by Egypt and Iran's controversial nuclear programme.

US officials insisted there were no comparison between peaceful use of nuclear technology by Egypt and Iran's controversial nuclear programme. (BBC)

According to the IAEA, "Half of the 30 nuclear reactors being built are in developing countries."

IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei said there are currently 439 nuclear power reactors in 30 countries, which supply 15 per cent of the world's electricity. He said there has been a "sharp rise" of demand for civilian nuclear power energy by developing countries, ending the monopoly by industrialised countries over nuclear energy. [snip]

The IAEA is studying requests by 77 countries which are exploring nuclear energy as a potential option, he said. They include Algeria, Belarus, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Nigeria, Thailand, Vietnam and Yemen.

Countries that already have nuclear reactors want to add new ones, including Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Finland, France, India, Japan, South Korea, Pakistan, South Africa, Russia, the United States. (Bangkok Post)

That's a lot of nuclear activity.