tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post653287898089098821..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: I conclude then, that a prince who has his people well armed and disciplined for war should always await a powerful and dangerous enemy at home, and should not go to meet him at a distance. But a prince whose subjects are unarmed, and the country unaccustomed to war, should always keep it as far away from home as possible. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, "The Discourses", Book 2, Ch XIDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45362078611365123122013-08-07T00:58:28.694-04:002013-08-07T00:58:28.694-04:00The United States still holds dominion over Guam.
...The United States still holds dominion over Guam.<br />Home of Naval Base Guam and Andersen Air Force Base. <br />It is more likely to become a state that to be trisected.<br /><br /><br />Either way another proof of past US aggression, resulting in the acquisition of foreign territories to further forward deploy the US military, in his case extending US power projection further into the Western Pacific.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32266675038698182322013-08-06T23:56:05.479-04:002013-08-06T23:56:05.479-04:00New U.S. spying revelations coming from Snowden le...<i><b>New U.S. spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks:</b><br /><br />(Reuters) - Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who published documents leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, plans to make new revelations "within the next 10 days or so" on secret U.S. surveillance of the Internet.<br /><br />"The articles we have published so far are a very small part of the revelations that ought to be published," Greenwald on Tuesday told a Brazilian congressional hearing that is investigating the U.S. internet surveillance in Brazil.<br /><br />"There will certainly be many more revelations on spying by the U.S. government and how they are invading the communications of Brasil and Latin America," he said in Portuguese.<br /><br />The Rio de Janeiro-based columnist for Britain's Guardian newspaper said he has recruited the help of experts to understand some of the 15,000 to 20,000 classified documents from the National Security Agency that Snowden passed him, some of which are "very long and complex and take time to read."<br /><br />Greenwald told Reuters he does not believe the pro-transparency website WikiLeaks had obtained a package of documents from Snowden, and that only he and filmmaker Laura Poitras have complete archives of the leaked material.<br /><br />Greenwald said Snowden, who was in hiding in Hong Kong before flying to Russia in late June, was happy to leave a Moscow airport after being granted temporary asylum, and pleased that he had stirred up a worldwide debate on internet privacy and secret U.S. surveillance programs used to monitor emails.<br /><br />"I speak with him a lot since he left the airport, almost every day. We use very strong encryption to communicate," Greenwald told the Brazilian legislators. "He is very well."<br /><br />"He is very pleased with the debate that is arising in many countries around the world on internet privacy and U.S. spying. It is exactly the debate he wanted to inform," Greenwald said.</i><br /><br />http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-usa-security-snowden-brazil-idUSBRE97600L20130807desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12067195408779754552013-08-06T23:36:33.261-04:002013-08-06T23:36:33.261-04:00Ike, who everyone liked, had more to do with creat...Ike, who everyone liked, had more to do with creating the "problem" the US has with Iran than the rest of the US Presidents, combined.<br /><br />US foreign policy is pretty easy to discern, if one takes the time to look at the events and how they unfold.<br /><br />Start with Egypt, the US had been supporting, training and indoctrinating he Egyptian Army since 1980. Thirty three years of Bright Stars. When the politicos in DC, Ms Clinton as the mouthpiece, thought the Egyptian military supported Mubarak, so did the US. She said a much.<br /><br />The Egyptian military, US Security Partners set the domestic policy, in Egypt. Egyptian politics is not and cannot be dictated from OZ. Simply impossible, we have to utilize our Partners, follow their lead when their internal domestic politics is the issue at hand.<br /><b><br />The Suez Canal remains open, there is peace on the Israeli border and Russian bombers do not stage out of any Egyptian airbase. US policy ha been and continue to succeed in Egypt, our primary goals are being met.<br /></b><br />In Libya, the oil flows and Colonel Q has been disposed, a good thing, indeed. The CIA botched operations there, almost a year ago. It has become the background noise in DC, a zero defects policy is now the standard for all US operations in the Middle East and Africa.<br /><br />In Iraq, we left the quagmire.<br /><br />In Syria there is confusion, as some Senators and Congressmen advocate arming al-Queda because the Israeli like al-Queda more than they like Assad. Other politicos and the US military find that idea both repugnant and revolting. Nothing much happens there, but the US has not had influence in Syria for decades.<br /><br />Afpakistan, well those folks became nuclear capable under the Reagan administration, and were our best ally in the WoT, so said GW Bush even if they were not. That country is a policy muddle, but it has been since Reagan. Obama has been on the streets of Afpakistan, the current CIA director the station chief there, back in the day.<br /><br />And in the political motivations on the part of the administration and the GOP leadership in their bi-partisan support of the NSA, and the current scare is brought into clearer focus.<br /><br />Things are not perfect but the razor cut to the chase, being more correct than not ...desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76268373424254171822013-08-06T21:11:29.758-04:002013-08-06T21:11:29.758-04:00We are nuts --
http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/100-mil...We are nuts --<br /><br />http://www.wnd.com/2013/08/100-million-mega-mosque-coming-to-this-state/<br /><br />Not only do we not know much of what we are doing over there, or where our true interests are located, we allow the 'cultural' infiltration of our own country by people whose basic law demands our ways be overthrown.<br /><br />We are unable to think clearly any longer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6127135246970915512013-08-06T20:52:46.571-04:002013-08-06T20:52:46.571-04:00President Barack Obama took his economic road show...<i><br /><br />President Barack Obama took his economic road show to Phoenix on Tuesday, where he highlighted the effect his housing policies could have on furthering the recovery of the housing market in the Arizona city and dozens of other towns like it that were hit hard by last decade’s mortgage crisis.<br /><br />The president called for a series of reforms for both borrowers and lenders, which he said would help boost homeownership and protect the housing market from another crash similar to the one which devastated American financial system and prompted the onset of the 2008 recession.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69004030263710219962013-08-06T20:51:06.525-04:002013-08-06T20:51:06.525-04:00An hour and half or so after this she e-mailed an ...An hour and half or so after this she e-mailed an odd mention of something showing in North Las Vegas.<br /><br />>>>Bob,<br /><br />Came across an odd attraction in North Las Vegas, where I never ever go. Too dangerous, kind of like Detroit over there. Found it in a little three inch by three inch ad in Where. Self billed, no reviews mentioned, as a stand up routine by some guy calls himself "Quirk" who claims to be a comedian, logician, magician, musician (harmonica), metaphysical analyst, 'spirit healer', able to predict your future and read your past from your 'stars', herbal physician and, this is strange, a "SuperSalesPerson". The price is right - $2.50 for admission, Big Mac meals available at cost. Just mention it in passing, do not go to this. Obvious fraud. Now you know all, and I mean all, going on around here.<<<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25163643184381659682013-08-06T20:41:28.993-04:002013-08-06T20:41:28.993-04:00>>>Bob,
I have researched and found no su...>>>Bob,<br />I have researched and found no super headliners in Las Vegas the first week in September/October. I was hoping for someone really special but it's actually OK because they would have been super expensive. <br /> <br />As a result in addition to the recommendations I have already made I would include the following listed below.<br />You will decide which appeal to you and how many shows you wish to see. :)<br /> <br />"Terry Fator" at the Mirage Hotel is an excellent ventriloquist (sounds possibly strange but it's a very fun show)<br /> <br />"Jerry Seinfeld" at Caesar Palace Hotel (Comedian) <br /> <br />"Jersey Boys" at the Paris Hotel (Broadway Musical)<br /> <br />"Million Dollar Quartet" at Harrah's Hotel (Broadway Musical)<br /> <br />Hope this helps and I will mail a Where Magazine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90686431856676662342013-08-06T20:29:44.713-04:002013-08-06T20:29:44.713-04:00Film recommendation via Las Vegas -
>>>J...Film recommendation via Las Vegas -<br /><br />>>>Just saw an excellent foreign film, "The Attack". In Hebrew & Arabic. The acting was amazing. The subject matter extremely disturbing! I just got home and had to take Advil. My brain was spinning. That same feeling of stress and anguish I experienced after "Shindler's<br />List". It takes place in Israel & Palestine. Leaves one feeling hopeless to the situation. I am sure this film will get at a minimum and Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.<<<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6655823559727926072013-08-06T19:35:59.200-04:002013-08-06T19:35:59.200-04:00U.S. embassies in the Middle East have been closed...<i>U.S. embassies in the Middle East have been closed and a travel warning is in effect through the end of August. U.S. intelligence analysts believe the attack would likely involve some type of bomb plot.<br /><br />AQAP specializes in creative bomb-making techniques. In Yemen on Monday, officials announced a list of 25 "most wanted terrorists" the government said was planning to carry out operations in the capital, San'a.<br /><br />Yemeni officials said the list included militants involved in the current plot. Among those on the list was Ibrahim al-Asiri, who U.S. intelligence officials say is the Yemen branch's chief bombmaker.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6421390047703860652013-08-06T18:36:42.588-04:002013-08-06T18:36:42.588-04:00.
http://www.imemc.org/newswire/israeliattacks
S....<br /><br />http://www.imemc.org/newswire/israeliattacks<br /><br />Stories? You want stories? We got stories.<br /><br />This is why the current Kerry peace negotiations are a joke.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75990255448235791022013-08-06T18:19:58.449-04:002013-08-06T18:19:58.449-04:00.
Obama would likely suggest that Israeli authori....<br /><br />Obama would likely suggest that Israeli authorities go into lock down mode and shut the country down for the next month.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88723538851062804232013-08-06T18:15:23.415-04:002013-08-06T18:15:23.415-04:00.
It is hard to know how to answer, not knowing i....<br /><br />It is hard to know how to answer, not knowing if <i>Occam</i> had the sarcasm button on or off.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77723688939184065992013-08-06T18:09:31.282-04:002013-08-06T18:09:31.282-04:00.
If you do happen to take Ash's advice, reme....<br /><br />If you do happen to take Ash's advice, remember to glue that note to your stomach upside down so that you can read it; otherwise, you will have to wait until your daughter comes around so that she can read it to you.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88843734910015808182013-08-06T18:09:17.587-04:002013-08-06T18:09:17.587-04:0038 Israelis wounded by Arab terror in July
Monday,...38 Israelis wounded by Arab terror in July<br />Monday, August 05, 2013 | Israel Today Staff <br /><br />The Israeli army an internal security agency Shin Bet have published their monthly security review for July, and it would appear that Palestinian Arab terrorism is again on the rise.<br /><br />In just one month, no fewer than 38 Israeli Jews were injured in acts of Palestinian terrorism.<br /><br />Among the victims is a small child who suffered a head injury when Arab stone throwers operating in Jerusalem's Old City attacked a Jewish family. Another eight-year-old Jewish boy was similarly wounded by stone throwers, and yet another baby was hurt when Palestinians hurled rocks at an Israeli passenger bus.<br /><br />Three Israeli Border Police officers were wounded when a bomb exploded in the Jerusalem suburb of Abu Dis, and an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man suffered serious injuries when an Arab stabbed him in the capital.<br /><br />There were even more attacks that did not result in physical injuries. For instance, there were at least 55 fire bomb attacks against Jewish motorists in Judea and Samaria in July.<br /><br />Israeli forces also managed to prevent numerous terrorist attacks before they could be carried out. In Hebron, Border Police officers apprehended a knife-wielding Arab before he could stab his intended target, and another man was arrested transporting bomb-building materials in his car.<br /><br />Even more numerous were Arab acts of vandalism against Jewish property and institutions around the country. In particular, young Arabs attempted to demolish the mezuzah - the prayer container attached to Jewish doors - at the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, the biblical site where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebekkah and Leah are buried.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10643274644279171502013-08-06T18:05:57.265-04:002013-08-06T18:05:57.265-04:00.
Peace with Iran without regime change has nearl....<br /><br />Peace with Iran without regime change has nearly the impossibility of an Israeli/PA peace accord.<br /><br />Regime change continues to represent the end-game for Obama and the other neocons, Dem and GOP, in OZ.<br /><br />No matter what excuse they start out with (WMDs, 'humanitarian' reasons, etc.), we quickly shift to the real reason for their actions, regime change.<br /><br />Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, ad infinatum (or at least until we run out of countries to fuck over).<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7208643092723032412013-08-06T17:59:08.875-04:002013-08-06T17:59:08.875-04:00I don’t know about that. The Carter administration...I don’t know about that. The Carter administration helped create the problem we have with Iran. The first Bush administration went to war with Iraq after sending signals they had no problem with Iraq's annexation of Kuwait. Bill Clinton treated the first World Trade Center bombing as a criminal act and bombed Iraq whenever the heat reached a critical point in his various sex scandals. Bush II stepped up to the plate and dealt with Al Qaida after 9/11. Bush II also tried to finish his dad's unfinished business in Iraq. At this point we have no easy outs to the problems in the Middle East. Our leaders have helped create most of the problems.<br /><br />We allowed Boston, one of our greatest cities to be closed because of 2 Muslim thugs. Now we have closed our embassies all over the Muslim world and turned them into fortresses. The more I think of this, the more I question why the media is not doing its job again. What is going on??<br /><br />Our leaders and the media who does their bidding. We have no grand strategy! What is American policy? its pathetic. What is the purpose of American foreign policy?<br /><br />Have drones ended up hurting us more than war? Are we creating more terrorists than stopping them? I wish the media would educate and properly analyze what our strategy is, but the media is too biased . The government works for the people, not vice versa and the media is supposed to inform not indoctrinate!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47431710522571500732013-08-06T17:57:56.763-04:002013-08-06T17:57:56.763-04:00.
From the trifurcated mind of our modern-day Cae....<br /><br />From the trifurcated mind of our modern-day Caesar (or Red Queen if you like),<br /><br />Cut off its head!<br /><br />Cut off its head!<br /><br />oh yeah, and<br /><br />Cut off its legs, too.<br /><br />Like Caesar dividing ancient Gaul, the Wizard of ID has yet to find a country he doesn't want to divide trilaterally, Iraq, Syria, now Afghanistan. What's next Guam?<br /><br />.<br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-22328527234942134792013-08-06T17:54:55.359-04:002013-08-06T17:54:55.359-04:00Yes.
A gust of fresh air, at last!Yes.<br /><br />A gust of fresh air, at last!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18842726462698147942013-08-06T17:52:33.211-04:002013-08-06T17:52:33.211-04:00Political prisoner speaking out -
http://dailycal...Political prisoner speaking out -<br /><br />http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/05/imprisoned-innocence-of-muslims-producer-nakoula-nakoula-i-want-the-world-to-see-the-truth/<br /><br />Out of jail, fatwas on his head from all around, our blamed for Benghazi film make Nakoula-Nakoula is showing no fear.<br /><br />Any moslem 'cleric' in the United States that issues a 'fatwa' against anyone should immediately be arrested without bail and charged with attempted murder, incitement to violence, and half a dozen other crimes I haven't the skill to describe, such as issuing personal threats, denial of Constituion rights, on an on, religious intolerance, etc etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-32949118222526826192013-08-06T17:52:24.740-04:002013-08-06T17:52:24.740-04:00There were highly specific communications that wer...There were highly specific communications that were intercepted from Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to AQAP’s chief in Yemen, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, ordering a major attack against US and/or Western interests. The evidence suggested that those who would carry out the attacks were in Yemen, presumably preparing for the attack, at the time the communications were intercepted. <br /><br />The reason for the widespread Embassy closures and other precautions taken was that the specific target or targets were not identified. It is thus prudent to take such precautions when the information on the planning of the attack is specific but the target is not. This, by the way, demonstrates the value of NSA’s communications intercept programs, particularly as applied abroad.<br /><br />Second, the drone strikes in Yemen obviously have been working, as we know some major AQAP leaders and operatives have been taken out as a result. That there remain in Yemen some AQAP leaders and operatives capable of mounting planned attacks against the US and its interests demonstrates the need to continue the drone strikes against them as the opportunity arises. Terrorism will never be completely eradicated, but Al-Qaeda and AQAP have been degraded. That they are still operationally capable of planning attacks simply demonstrates the need for our continued counter-terrorism programs.<br />Occam's Razornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-592553607519171032013-08-06T17:46:27.708-04:002013-08-06T17:46:27.708-04:00Here is what we are doing in Yemen:
(CNN) -- A pa...<b>Here is what we are doing in Yemen:</b><br /><br /><i>(CNN) -- A pair of suspected U.S. drone strikes killed four al Qaeda militants in Yemen as the United States maintained a heightened security alert in the country and urged all Americans to leave immediately.<br /><br />Security sources told CNN about the strikes but didn't offer additional details. A Yemeni official said four drone strikes have been carried out in the past 10 days.<br /><br />None of those killed on Tuesday were among the 25 names on the country’s most-wanted list, security officials said.<br /><br />It is unclear whether the strikes were related to the added security alert in the country after U.S. officials intercepted a message from al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to operatives in Yemen telling them to "do something." The message was sent to Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terror group's Yemeni affiliate. U.S. intelligence believes al-Wuhayshi has recently been appointed the overall terror organization’s No. 2 leader.</i><br /><br />Now can anyone please explain to me how these ingrates would even dream of attacking any of our “interests”? There are now reports of US drones hovering over their capitol. <br /><br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6317207964844430112013-08-06T17:46:03.598-04:002013-08-06T17:46:03.598-04:00.
Remember, according to a splashy AP piece back ....<br /><br /><i>Remember, according to a splashy AP piece back in May, the White House had held off on killing or capturing the Benghazi suspects because they didn’t have enough evidence yet to bring them to trial.</i><br /><br />Charging?<br /><br />Trial?<br /><br />Since when does Obama need 'evidence' to take someone out much less 'charge' them?<br /><br />And notice that even the charges are SECRET. Curiouser and curiouser.<br /><br />Well, now that the 'charges' have finally come out, we can at least be grateful that they weren't filed against the survivors.<br /><br />. Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61619940639382133062013-08-06T17:20:07.839-04:002013-08-06T17:20:07.839-04:00Breaking: First criminal charges filed over Bengha...Breaking: First criminal charges filed over Benghazi attack<br />POSTED AT 4:41 PM ON AUGUST 6, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT<br /><br />http://hotair.com/archives/2013/08/06/breaking-first-criminal-charges-filed-over-benghazi-attack/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38756938140498346242013-08-06T16:52:41.951-04:002013-08-06T16:52:41.951-04:00Ashlikinssie, dearie, I know my username and passw...Ashlikinssie, dearie, I know my username and password full well. I have them written down right here on my deskie, in my little notie bookie. It don't work. That is the problem. It was workie, and, now, it no workie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-51525390785116911582013-08-06T16:33:19.347-04:002013-08-06T16:33:19.347-04:00boobie,
Your "transmissions" confirm th...boobie,<br /><br />Your "transmissions" confirm the boobie moniker. Simply WRITE DOWN on a piece of paper your username and password and GLUE IT to your belly button.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.com