Hello from Bagram, Afghanistan.
Since moving assignments, I have not posted much here. I am now in Afghanistan and, like my tour in Iraq last year, I have noticed a few things.
1. The Western “Mainstream” media lies so much I doubt I could trust the times they give for sunrise and sunset. In 2007 and before, everything was slanted or even made up out of thin air to slam President Bush. Now everything is roses as Obama is going to ride to the rescue. The lies of the left and the media are so vile that the sewage dumping point here smells good in comparison!
2. We have noticed that the tone of the reporting has changed dramatically since the election and the Animal Farm/1984ish antics of the leftist media are so transparent that we can only sit and laugh because crying out at the arrogance, bias, and stupidity is useless. I am still waiting for the media to use a less than flattering pose for the President Elect as they have for the current President all through the last 8 years!!! The only poses I see are so engineered and flattering that even Stalin and “Kim the Ill” in Korea would be jealous. The pure sycophantism and worshipfulness by the media is disgusting beyond measure! The worst part is I know it will only get more so. (Sorry Scott, I do not think the media will ever stop with their blind worship and witch-hunts of critics).
3. So much for “change”. It looks like the Clinton Administration, with all of its disasters, stupidity, and arrogance is back again. Unfortunately, President Bush in his “reaching out” never got rid of the previous administration’s underlings who have been backstabbing him and, well, that makes it easy for Obama.
4. AFN (Armed Forces Network) is what is played in the area on public televisions in the DFACs (Dining Facilities) and common areas. AFN News is a military presentation with soldiers reading the news about DoD and service related issues. It is followed by a mixture of CNN, MSNBC, and FNC. O’Reilly has a program followed by Oberman. I do not understand how then Candidate Obama did not understand this, but I think our programming will “change” soon and FNC will be removed. Why is this important? Because where Service Members can access Satellite TV, FNC wins out as watching CNN and MSNBC makes more than a few want to swear openly towards the television at the stream of lies CNN and MSNBC pushes off as “journalism”. Read the rest of this entry »
I know we have issues with our comments dissapearing after entry. The site’s Spam Filter is…. well, overzealous in some aspects and still lets some spam through. However, even logged on as an admin, some of our comments are caught in the filter. So, we browse the comments flagged as spam and “de-spam” legitimate comments, even those by our propaghanda spewing trolls. The trick is to de-spam the comments before the filter deletes them.
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Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. This article from National Review was written after the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict in 2006.
In light of the resurgence of a militaristic Russia and Putin’s continued quest for power combined with General Pacepa’s descriptions of Soviet, and now Russian actions, this article needs to be read again.
Russian Footprints
What does Moscow have to do with the recent war in Lebanon?
The Kremlin may be the main winner in the Lebanon war. Israel has been attacked with Soviet Kalashnikovs and Katyushas, Russian Fajr-1 and Fajr-3 rockets, Russian AT-5 Spandrel antitank missiles and Kornet antitank rockets. Russia’s outmoded weapons are now all the rage with terrorists everywhere in the world, and the bad guys know exactly where to get them. The weapons cases abandoned by Hezbollah were marked: “Customer: Ministry of Defense of Syria. Supplier: KBP, Tula, Russia.”
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Dennis Prager has a great article titled “If On the Wrong Track, Why Go Left?” In this editorial, he postulates that since 81% of Americans allegedly believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, pundits assume this means that people want a leftist/socialist government but this may not be the case. As one of these 81% he desires the country not to take a hard left turn, nor continue the slow left turn is has been taking, but for America to become conservative.
The polls asking these questions stop at “Is the country headed in the right direction” and rarely ask the obvious follow-up: “where should we be heading?” As the answers might throw off the pollster’s desired outcome, I can see why they stop there.
Here is Prager’s Article in total.
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This research and investigation comes from very frustrated, but dedicated people monitoring the rise of militant Islam (though history shows no other form) in the West. They are well researched, informed, and as expected, the West is ignoring them. In essence, these Islamists are well funded, entrenched, and now politically coddled groups within the United States and Canada. They are also deadly with a long history of attacks against “infidels” of all stripes.
From the New English Review
Jamaat ul-Fuqra
“The best positioned group to help al-Qaeda launch an attack in the US.”
by Jerry Gordon
Wall Street Journalist Danny Pearl was on his way to a meeting with Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JF) founder, Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani in Lahore, Pakistan on January 22, 2002. He was on the hunt for al Qaeda connections when he was abducted and slaughtered by Islamic Extremist and British citizen, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.
Were there any connections between the shadowy Sheik Gilani and the murder of Pearl? Pakistani authorities had Gilani jailed and later put under house arrest. Given the turmoil in that country, we may never know the extent of his involvement.
What we do know is that since the founding of JF, or the “community of the impoverished,” by Gilani in 1980, a network of 45 paramilitary training camps in the US and Canada have been created. The group here in the US has committed attacks and robberies, acquired contraband arms, engaged in counterfeit activities, and proselytized effectively among Afro-American prison inmates. JF members participated in the 1993 terror bombing of the World Trade Center.
JF seeks to “purify Islam” through violence.
What is of great concern is that federal and state law enforcement authorities have investigated and monitored JF and its front group Muslims of the Americas (MoA) and delisted the group as a terrorist organization. Nor has the IRS taken away MoA’s charitable tax exempt status.
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Yes, the title is true. Palestinian Islamic terrorists attacked the fuel transfer point in Israel where European Union funded fuel enters Gaza for their own power plant. In other words, the Palestinians shot themselves in the foot yet again. The islamofascists killed two Israeli civilians in the attack.
Israel cut off said fuel unless the security situation improves. We can expect the usual headline soon along the lines of “Israel Unilaterally Cuts Off Gaza’s Fuel Supply. International Community Condemns Israel for ‘Unwarranted Action’”. The media and ‘international community’ will of course forget about this attack after a few days and blame Israel as usual. Same stuff, different day.
From The Khaleej Times
NAHAL OZ, Israel – Palestinian militants on Wednesday attacked an Israeli-controlled border crossing where European Union-funded fuel is piped into the Gaza Strip, killing at least two Israelis, the Israeli army said.
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From the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (The UK’s formal name).
Jet plot suspects recorded martyr videos
LONDON – In chilling videos shown to a jury Friday, men accused of plotting to bring down jetliners over the Atlantic called for revenge for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and praised Osama bin Laden. Read the rest of this entry »
French are protesting FOR freedom and AGAINST dictators!!
I doubt many of these groups would ever risk life and limb for Tibetian Liberation, but they are making a statement. It is a start… A small start. If it is effective is another issue.
Officials put out Olympic torch 3 times
PARIS – Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch three times Monday as protests against China’s human rights record turned a relay through Paris into a chaotic series of stops and starts.
Despite massive security, at least two activists got within almost an arm’s length of the flame before they were grabbed by police. Officers tackled many protesters and carried off some of them. A protester threw water at the torch but failed to extinguish it and was also taken away.
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From The Star-Ledger
The sixth man in the foiled “Ft Dix Six” jihad attack is sentenced for letting his cohorts (all illegal immigrants) use his firearms for training and possible employment in their attack on the installation. As usual, it is left to the reader to discover that he is an avid fan of Al Qeada’s version of Islam.
A South Jersey man swept up in the alleged plot to attack Fort Dix was sentenced yesterday to 20 months in prison on weapons charges.
Agron Abdullahu of Buena Vista Township was the only one of the six men arrested last year not charged with conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers.
Instead, he admitted letting three of the suspects who were illegal immigrants use his guns at a Pennsylvania firing range.
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If you do not know about the Global Incident Map website, I urge you to see it, then book mark it.
We start with an unsettling discovery in Colombia
Colombia seizes uranium from leftist guerrillas
BOGOTA, March 26 (Reuters) – Colombia said it grabbed at least 30 kilograms (66 pounds) of uranium from the country’s biggest left-wing rebel group on Wednesday, the first time radioactive material has been linked to the bloody four-decade-old guerrilla war.
The material was found in a rural area long considered a guerrilla stronghold just south of the capital city Bogota. It is being examined by state experts, said a Defense Ministry statement.
The statement did not say where the uranium came from or what it could be used for.
“This appears to have been part of a black market operation that the guerrillas were trying to use to make money,” said Pablo Casas, an analyst at Bogota think-tank Security & Democracy.
“This is new for Colombia and could bring the FARC into the major leagues of black market terrorist transactions,” Casas said.
Information about the uranium was found earlier this month in computer files left behind by top guerrilla leader Raul Reyes, who was killed in a Colombian bomb strike carried out in Ecuador. The March 1 raid sparked an ongoing diplomatic dispute with the neighboring country.
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The latest broadcast purportedly from Bin Laden (it was voice only) appeared in the last few days on websites sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
There are several interesting aspects to this text.
Sources for Journalistic outtakes of “tape”.
CNN
FNC (since we do allow Fox to be used on this website despite calls from certain “open minded progressives” to censor them)
Notice that both sources say about the same thing.
So I found the actual text of the message without having to go to the islamofascist website.
Transcript of actual text:
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Both of these articles are from Australia. The first article states “Aggressive policing turns Muslims to terrorism”
A study from the Global Terrorism Research Centre at Monash University suggests that Australia’s approach to stopping terrorism might actually be encouraging it.
Waleed Aly from the centre says the aggressive police approach is alienating young Muslim men, who may be more likely to turn to radical groups as a result.
He says a community-based approach may be more effective than a hardline approach.
“The problem is that as we repeat that [hardline] approach, what we actually end up doing is exacerbating the problem,” he told tonight’s Four Corners program.
“We set in motion drivers that move us towards greater radicalisation.”
He says currently the police are too willing to use aggressive tactics.
“[Police] feel ‘the more aggressive we can be, the harder we can be, the better’,” he said.
“That is, that it’s better to err on the side of being aggressive than to err on the side of being soft.”
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Focus for the first section of this update is on Russia.
From ITAR-TASS: Bomb blast kills 2 people, injures 15 in South Ossetia
VLADIKAVKAZ, February 28 (Itar-Tass) — A terrorist act killed two people and injured another 15 at about 15.30 Moscow time on Thursday in Kokhat, South Ossetia, chief of the South Ossetian press and information committee Irina Gagloyeva cited these preliminary reports to Itar-Tass by phone from Tskhinvali.
“The blast went off at a police post, where South Ossetian policemen were on duty. The bomb was planted in the TV set left by some people passing through the police post allegedly to Georgia’s Eredvi,” Gagloyeva said. Casualties sustained among civilians and policemen on duty, she said.
Kokhat is situated 35-40 kilometers from Tskhinvali in the hard-to-reach highland area. Injured people receive only the first medical aid so far, republican operatives have not arrived at the blast site yet.
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From the Desk of Achmed the Dead Terrorist…..
From the The Associated Press via The International Herald Tribune
A grenade exploded during a town fiesta in the southern Philippines, killing a would-be bomber and wounding four people, police said Thursday.
The police chief in General Santos city, Senior Superintendent Robert Po, said the grenade held by the bomber went off before he managed to penetrate crowds celebrating the city’s foundation anniversary late Wednesday.
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These retired and still active senior officer’s views are pretty much mine also. I will just post the article and let these people’s words speak for themselves.
US Military Commanders Bemoan Lack of Concern About Terror Threat
While Islamic fundamentalist terrorists are seeking to destroy the Western way of life, Americans are more concerned about the life of movie stars and going out for a hamburger than issues crucial to their freedom, several senior retired American military officers said here.
“We know far more in the United States about what Britney Spears is doing than we know about the issues,” said retired U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Norman Saunders.
Speaking to a small group of reporters on the sidelines of the fifth annual Jerusalem Conference, Saunders said that the U.S. faces a “very serious challenge from the fanatical Muslim population that would seek to do away with the way of life of the Western World as we know it.”
“We listen to our presidential candidates – [in] what is probably a very critical election for our country if not the world -talk constantly about change without any definition of what that represents. What would they change? How would they confront the threats? Are there new ideas that they would bring forward?” Saunders asked.
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