I just want to stop for a moment and extend a Happy Easter to all those who are Christians out there.
Christianity was a huge gift to the world because, at its very core, the admonition "Treat others as you would be treated" outranks all others.
I am hoping that by next Easter, the trend of Freedom that has seen Afghanistan and Iraq throw off the strangling grip of despotism extends to other nations.
Here, in Colorado, the snow falls. In other parts of the world, even on this day, the blade of the guillotine falls.
Humanity has a lot to learn, but let us not forget that it has learned much already.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Saturday, April 07, 2007
April 7, 2007 - Out of Iraq - East or West?
I have been conversing with brilliant and prolific Iranian dissident Ghazal Omid (http://www.ghazalomid.com , http://www.ghazalomid.com/videos , http://www.livinginhell.com ) for only a very short time, but I have been impressed enough with her tenacity and her intellect, as well as her cogent arguments, to change some preconceptions that I had regarding the wisdom of a US military attack on Iran at the present time.
I am an independent military analyst, having studied military history and military science for over 30 years. I am no great soldier, having only served in the US Army as an M60A1 tanker at Ft Knox in 1982-1983 before leaving the Army after 3.5 months. I was too much of an individualist to settle into the last years of the Carter military (the Reagan reforms had not reached into the training brigades when I signed up for delayed entry while still in high school).
However, my brigade commander at the time, Lt Col Birdingame, spoke to me about the responsibilities of a US citizen to his country, and the requirement of each citizen to find some way to serve his country. I never forgot that, and have never wavered in my support of the US military, and have independently lobbied elected officials to press for funding for troop levels and military hardware advances ever since.
I have intesively studied military strategy and have had, as a personal mission, a conviction to support the military and its causes as a civilian, and understand military studies as thoroughly as a graduate from Staff Colleges. I understand the tactical, operational and strategic levels of military functions, and even though I have no extensive military credentials, I know from which end of the tube the round emits, if you can read me 5x5.
When I first contacted Ghazal, I was thoroughly convinced that a US attack on Iran should most certianly occur, with these objectives:
1. Degredation of anti-air assets through concentrated SEAD attacks;
2. Removal of SSM threat in the Persian Gulf littoral and removal of ASM abilities through air superiority and immediate removal of Iranian naval assets, including denial of small boat launch through minelaying and selective insertion of Special Forces to slips and launch areas;
3. Reduction of Iranian government anti-insurgent assets through attacks on Iranian military and Revolutionaryu Guards assembly areas;
4. Elimination of Iranian nuclear facilities with ground-penetrator small-yield high explosive (250-lb) munitions;
5. Release of Iranian ethnic resistance groups which have been trained, supplied, and supported by US Special Forces working in-country to topple the Iranian government and raise indigenous resistance to support the overthrow of the current regime.
In our conversations, I learned of her stolid conviction that the current regime has over three years before reaching operational status with an atomic fission weapon, that the Iranians' patriotic fervor would galvanize around the government, no matter its brutality, in the face of a US attack, and that legitimate resistance groups in-country, with the proper funding, would be able to remove the current government far before a nuclear weapons program reaped its goals.
What is important now is to put the disparate pieces together and come up with a cogent total picture. US and allied naval forces massing in the Arabian Sea and the Eastern Med, as well as developments in the US, are pointing to one conclusion: The US is preparing for an assault either on Iran, which would be a tragic mistake and could actually set back the Grand Strategy in the Global War on Terror, or we are getting ready to hit Assad's Syria, which would end up isolating Iran and cut off logisitical and command and control to Hezbollah, and avert a Syrian attack on Israel into the Goan Heights in support of Iran, if it is attacked.
I am just a regular guy out here in Colorado who keeps up with military and geopolitical developments, and who has the ability, with a 30-year background in military science and military research, to put the pieces together and can see where the main thrust is heading. I have a sincere desire to see Iran freed with as few innocent lives lost as humanly possible, and with no US military casualties. I fully support the Global War on Terror, because I know what radical Islamic groups can do with conventional weapons, and can also understand what will happen if NBC agents are passed to the wrong hands by the Mullahs and their myrmidons in Teheran.
What I am unable to determine in the current picture is whether the thrust is headed west out of Iraq into Iran, or East into Syria towards the Mediterranean. One goal, into Iran for regime change, can very well fail in the face of Iranian nationalistic patriotism. The other goal, westward into Syria simply for degredation of Syrian military capabilities and elimination of terrorist training areas, is a more reachable goal for now, with redirection of resistance funding in Iran to bring down that government without US military operations.
Joel Pousson
Independent Military Analyst
Castle Rock, CO
I am an independent military analyst, having studied military history and military science for over 30 years. I am no great soldier, having only served in the US Army as an M60A1 tanker at Ft Knox in 1982-1983 before leaving the Army after 3.5 months. I was too much of an individualist to settle into the last years of the Carter military (the Reagan reforms had not reached into the training brigades when I signed up for delayed entry while still in high school).
However, my brigade commander at the time, Lt Col Birdingame, spoke to me about the responsibilities of a US citizen to his country, and the requirement of each citizen to find some way to serve his country. I never forgot that, and have never wavered in my support of the US military, and have independently lobbied elected officials to press for funding for troop levels and military hardware advances ever since.
I have intesively studied military strategy and have had, as a personal mission, a conviction to support the military and its causes as a civilian, and understand military studies as thoroughly as a graduate from Staff Colleges. I understand the tactical, operational and strategic levels of military functions, and even though I have no extensive military credentials, I know from which end of the tube the round emits, if you can read me 5x5.
When I first contacted Ghazal, I was thoroughly convinced that a US attack on Iran should most certianly occur, with these objectives:
1. Degredation of anti-air assets through concentrated SEAD attacks;
2. Removal of SSM threat in the Persian Gulf littoral and removal of ASM abilities through air superiority and immediate removal of Iranian naval assets, including denial of small boat launch through minelaying and selective insertion of Special Forces to slips and launch areas;
3. Reduction of Iranian government anti-insurgent assets through attacks on Iranian military and Revolutionaryu Guards assembly areas;
4. Elimination of Iranian nuclear facilities with ground-penetrator small-yield high explosive (250-lb) munitions;
5. Release of Iranian ethnic resistance groups which have been trained, supplied, and supported by US Special Forces working in-country to topple the Iranian government and raise indigenous resistance to support the overthrow of the current regime.
In our conversations, I learned of her stolid conviction that the current regime has over three years before reaching operational status with an atomic fission weapon, that the Iranians' patriotic fervor would galvanize around the government, no matter its brutality, in the face of a US attack, and that legitimate resistance groups in-country, with the proper funding, would be able to remove the current government far before a nuclear weapons program reaped its goals.
What is important now is to put the disparate pieces together and come up with a cogent total picture. US and allied naval forces massing in the Arabian Sea and the Eastern Med, as well as developments in the US, are pointing to one conclusion: The US is preparing for an assault either on Iran, which would be a tragic mistake and could actually set back the Grand Strategy in the Global War on Terror, or we are getting ready to hit Assad's Syria, which would end up isolating Iran and cut off logisitical and command and control to Hezbollah, and avert a Syrian attack on Israel into the Goan Heights in support of Iran, if it is attacked.
I am just a regular guy out here in Colorado who keeps up with military and geopolitical developments, and who has the ability, with a 30-year background in military science and military research, to put the pieces together and can see where the main thrust is heading. I have a sincere desire to see Iran freed with as few innocent lives lost as humanly possible, and with no US military casualties. I fully support the Global War on Terror, because I know what radical Islamic groups can do with conventional weapons, and can also understand what will happen if NBC agents are passed to the wrong hands by the Mullahs and their myrmidons in Teheran.
What I am unable to determine in the current picture is whether the thrust is headed west out of Iraq into Iran, or East into Syria towards the Mediterranean. One goal, into Iran for regime change, can very well fail in the face of Iranian nationalistic patriotism. The other goal, westward into Syria simply for degredation of Syrian military capabilities and elimination of terrorist training areas, is a more reachable goal for now, with redirection of resistance funding in Iran to bring down that government without US military operations.
Joel Pousson
Independent Military Analyst
Castle Rock, CO
Friday, April 06, 2007
Friday, April 6, 2007
"Good Friday"
This week, the UEFA soccer championships have continued. Yes, I am an American who is a HUGE soccer fan.
Soccer is a tremendously fast-paced game, played by men (and women, in their leagues) at the pinnacle of athletic conditioning, and a sport that exhibits sportsmanship, cunning, and quick decisions made in split seconds by eleven team members functioning as an organic unit. It is, truly, "the Beautiful Game."
That is, however, on the field. In the stands, the conditions can be far different.
Soccer hooliganism is a pervasive infection spreading through soccer fandom. Fans need to stand up and bring it to a screeching halt.
This week, yes, yet again, two tremendously embarrassing events for soccer fans worldwide marred the important work on the field, and shifted the focus up into the bleachers, instead of on the field, where the focus belongs.
At the game in Rome between Manchester United and AS Roma, two of the top teams in the world, you'd think the fans had been culled from the most base prisons of both Italy and England. Roma fans and Man U fans tied it up, and the Roman police waded in with batons and riot gear, wailing away and cracking heads.
One visual irony was that, above the Roma fans, a massive banner swayed back and forth at the end of a thirty-foot pole, emblazoned with "SPQR", abbreviations for "The Senate and People of Rome." The whole scene up there above the field was like a two-thousand year throwback to the days of the gladiatorial games and the horse races of the Circus Maximus when centurions, on orders of Roman emperors, waded into Roman crowds, hacking left and right with their gladii iberii (shortswords) and slamming down the rioters with their scuta (shields) to restore some semblance of order.
Yesterday, in the UEFA quarterfinal match between Sevilla, Spain, and the English Premiere League team Tottenham Hotspurs, the situation was similar, although the Spanish police were slightly more reticent to use brute force. Tottenham and Sevilla were on the pitch, the Hotspur goalie drew a foul against a Sevilla striker, and a penalty kick was awarded. In the stands, the fans went ballistic, they went at each other, hammer and tong, out for blood, and they got it.
In Italy, earlier in the season, in the incredibly talented league Calcio Serie A, at a game between Palermo and Catania, fans threw so many flaming, smoking flares onto the pitch that the game had to be stalled over half an hour so the players down on the field could breathe. In the stands, if I remember correctly, a few fans slipped this surly mortal coil and assumed immortality at the hands of their fellow soccer lovers.
What in the heck is wrong with people?
It is a game, folks! What is happening on the pitch is not life and death, so why turn buying a ticket to a soccer game a lottery ticket to the great beyond?
In our world, we have plenty of things that can kill us instead of being in the middle of riots in the bleachers catalyzed by someone's mindless fanaticism over a basic, simple, and beautiful game.
Here is a dose of reality for my fellow soccer fans: The game on the pitch is going to have its ups and downs. Your team is going to do great, AND your team is going to do horribly. Your team is going to win, AND your team is going to lose. And, yes, your team is going to benefit from stupid referee decisions, AND your team is going to get shafted by the same stupid decisions.
And you in the stands, it is YOUR responsibility to keep your head on your shoulders, not elsewhere, if you get my drift. It is your responsibility, as a ticket holder, to not only watch the field, but those around you as well. If you see some drunken and/or belligerent total freak who is giving all the signs of getting so worked up he will rip a seat out of the stands and hurl it, go and tell a policeman.
Ask yourself: Did that hooligan pay for your ticket? Nope. Is that hooligan going to give you money back for ruining your game? Nope. And is that hooligan going to pay the penalty for besmirching The Beautiful Game? Nope.
We ALL pay the price for soccer hooliganism, and for battles in the lists between fans. And when you travel to support your beloved team, you are a representative, an ambassador, of that team, of your city, of your nation. And, yes, you are there as a representative of all the other fans, like me, who are not lucky enough to make it to the stands for that important UEFA quarterfinal match. Act like it.
We are all soccer fans, my friends, and we are all tarred with the same brush when a few unbalanced loons ruin the reputation of fans of what is the most enjoyable fan sport in the world.
Joel Pousson
American Soccer Fan
"Good Friday"
This week, the UEFA soccer championships have continued. Yes, I am an American who is a HUGE soccer fan.
Soccer is a tremendously fast-paced game, played by men (and women, in their leagues) at the pinnacle of athletic conditioning, and a sport that exhibits sportsmanship, cunning, and quick decisions made in split seconds by eleven team members functioning as an organic unit. It is, truly, "the Beautiful Game."
That is, however, on the field. In the stands, the conditions can be far different.
Soccer hooliganism is a pervasive infection spreading through soccer fandom. Fans need to stand up and bring it to a screeching halt.
This week, yes, yet again, two tremendously embarrassing events for soccer fans worldwide marred the important work on the field, and shifted the focus up into the bleachers, instead of on the field, where the focus belongs.
At the game in Rome between Manchester United and AS Roma, two of the top teams in the world, you'd think the fans had been culled from the most base prisons of both Italy and England. Roma fans and Man U fans tied it up, and the Roman police waded in with batons and riot gear, wailing away and cracking heads.
One visual irony was that, above the Roma fans, a massive banner swayed back and forth at the end of a thirty-foot pole, emblazoned with "SPQR", abbreviations for "The Senate and People of Rome." The whole scene up there above the field was like a two-thousand year throwback to the days of the gladiatorial games and the horse races of the Circus Maximus when centurions, on orders of Roman emperors, waded into Roman crowds, hacking left and right with their gladii iberii (shortswords) and slamming down the rioters with their scuta (shields) to restore some semblance of order.
Yesterday, in the UEFA quarterfinal match between Sevilla, Spain, and the English Premiere League team Tottenham Hotspurs, the situation was similar, although the Spanish police were slightly more reticent to use brute force. Tottenham and Sevilla were on the pitch, the Hotspur goalie drew a foul against a Sevilla striker, and a penalty kick was awarded. In the stands, the fans went ballistic, they went at each other, hammer and tong, out for blood, and they got it.
In Italy, earlier in the season, in the incredibly talented league Calcio Serie A, at a game between Palermo and Catania, fans threw so many flaming, smoking flares onto the pitch that the game had to be stalled over half an hour so the players down on the field could breathe. In the stands, if I remember correctly, a few fans slipped this surly mortal coil and assumed immortality at the hands of their fellow soccer lovers.
What in the heck is wrong with people?
It is a game, folks! What is happening on the pitch is not life and death, so why turn buying a ticket to a soccer game a lottery ticket to the great beyond?
In our world, we have plenty of things that can kill us instead of being in the middle of riots in the bleachers catalyzed by someone's mindless fanaticism over a basic, simple, and beautiful game.
Here is a dose of reality for my fellow soccer fans: The game on the pitch is going to have its ups and downs. Your team is going to do great, AND your team is going to do horribly. Your team is going to win, AND your team is going to lose. And, yes, your team is going to benefit from stupid referee decisions, AND your team is going to get shafted by the same stupid decisions.
And you in the stands, it is YOUR responsibility to keep your head on your shoulders, not elsewhere, if you get my drift. It is your responsibility, as a ticket holder, to not only watch the field, but those around you as well. If you see some drunken and/or belligerent total freak who is giving all the signs of getting so worked up he will rip a seat out of the stands and hurl it, go and tell a policeman.
Ask yourself: Did that hooligan pay for your ticket? Nope. Is that hooligan going to give you money back for ruining your game? Nope. And is that hooligan going to pay the penalty for besmirching The Beautiful Game? Nope.
We ALL pay the price for soccer hooliganism, and for battles in the lists between fans. And when you travel to support your beloved team, you are a representative, an ambassador, of that team, of your city, of your nation. And, yes, you are there as a representative of all the other fans, like me, who are not lucky enough to make it to the stands for that important UEFA quarterfinal match. Act like it.
We are all soccer fans, my friends, and we are all tarred with the same brush when a few unbalanced loons ruin the reputation of fans of what is the most enjoyable fan sport in the world.
Joel Pousson
American Soccer Fan
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Nancy Pelosi Forgets Olmert's Words
April 5, 2007
Nancy Pelosi told Bashar Assad that Israel was ready to enter into peace talks, and when asked, PM Olmert of Israel stated quite clearly that he told Madame Pelosi no such thing.
Bropous has rooted out the reason that Nancy "Damascus" Pelosi thought Olmert gave her the go-ahead. Old Nancy "Damascus" Pelosi was busted red-handed hitting a little Syrian sensemilla before her meeting with Bashar "Short Eyes" Assad.
Nancy "Damascus" Pelosi's Rainbow Tour (little allusion to "Evita" there) to the Mid East is a perfect example of a person who is in way over their heads, intellectually. Nancy is a pretty singularly moronic person, but of course, it is her mindless, base constituents who inflicted this political STD upon the nation.
Nancy flew right from PM Olmert's office into Damascus airport, where planeloads of Hizbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters waved at her plane from airliner windows and laughed as they were getting ready to head to Teheran for terrorist training, at the very same airport where their brothers-in-terror were landing and heading out to prepare a mass wave of terror attacks if Iran is attacked.
Nancy got there, with her pea-brain all atwitter over her heady celebrity status, and stuck her foot right in her wrinkle-lined mouth. She completely lost in translation the things that Assad was telling her, swallowed his bait and ran with it, clicking to a news conference in her stiletto heels, and declared "peace in our time".
Assad, after closing the door when she left, laughed his ass off with his inner circle and returned to logistics works in support of Hizbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, and their preparations to attack Israel in the Golan Heights.
Nancy then flew to Saudi Arabia, sat in an empty seat before an empty legislature hall, and asked, "So when do I meet the femaile Saudi elected officials? I thought we could, well, you know, girl talk."
Saudi women could not be reached for comment. Their husbands refused to allow them to leave the house to talk to this moronic freak.
Women are every bit as capable as men to serve as elected officials. However, an idiot is an idiot, no matter what their sex. Nancy "Damascus" Pelosi is a dangerous enabler of terrorism, no matter where she goes, no matter upon which dictator's rear end she leaves lipstick traces.
Nancy, shut the hell up and just stay home. You are killing US military men and women with the mixed signals you sent to Syria. You've done enough damage, just go back for another Botox treatment or another facelift. You're looking really, really old.
Joel Pousson
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
NEW INFORMATION ON IRAN
New Information on Iran
In my recent discussions with a brilliant Iranian dissident, Ghazal Omid (http://www.livinginhell.com/ http://www.ghazalomid.com/), I have come to change some of my prior opinions on Islam, Iran, and the wisdom in a US attack on Iran.
I am now thoroughly convinced that an attack on Iran right now is the last thing the Bush Administration should do.
Iranians are like Israelis; they are not their religion first, they are Iranians first, Muslims second. There is a great love of their nation in most Iranians, and although they hate the government of the Mullahs, they would hate an attack on their country even more.
University students in Iran, as a price for their continued approval to extend their educations, have been required to sign up as brigades of suicide bombers. Innocent children are being shipped to take up positions next to the very strategic locations the Mullahs know are on the targeting list. Secret police have stepped up their campaigns of blood and rape, snatching people up left and right, killing them in custody, and using them as silent reminders of what happens when you speak up.
Additionally, the Mullahs and their puppets in Damascus have been burning up jet fuel like crazy shipping Hizbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters into Teheran for training, then back to Damascus airport for dispersal (with logistic and command support supplied by senior Syrian military commanders), across the Middle East and points elsewhere, to prepare for massive terror attacks to be unleashed when the US attacks Iran.
Iranian resistance groups, and their connections in the West, have been turned by Iranian Revolutionary Guards agents. People who came to the West on Iranian passports, or even traveling on diplomatic credentials but allowed by the Mullahs to travel with their entire families, have been snatched up and their words taken as gospel by people in our own government who are entrusted with winnowing the truth from the lies, and are supposed to be working for Iranian freedom.
Inside Iran, credible sources are reporting that the Iranian nuclear program is at a bare minimum three years away from producing a warhead, and yet US intelligence is being fed disinformation that the Mullahs are right on the verge of producing a 150 megaton nuclear warhead, by les agents provocateurs who are sent by Teheran to trigger a premature war.
Why? Well, the Mullahs are running scared. Over 70% of the current population of Iran is under 30 years of age, and 55% percent of those people are women. The Iranian people are fed up with the rape rooms, the torture chambers, the games that the Mullahs are playing even with the remains of the prisoners they have raped and beaten to death, using custody of the bodies as legal yo-yos to taunt grieving families and ensure that survivors do not tell their neighbors, and the world, what happened to their daughters and sons at the tender mercies of the left hands of the Mullahs.
Right now, the Mullahs can't even get more than 200 paid protestors to show up to throw rocks and firecrackers at the British Embassy, and now have to resort to official stories in their media that the UK is prepping its pilots to conduct kamikaze attacks on Iranian schools and hospitals. All this is in a desperate effort to stave off the inevitable, and that is, a popular uprising inside Iran.
The Mullahs are anything but dumb, and they have infiltrated legitimate resistance efforts in the West with their own agents to redirect US funds meant to support anti-government and moderate government elements, sending the money instead right into the back pockets of Ahmedinajad's secret club, or to Rafsanjani's multi-million dollar office building projects in Dubai. Money that is supposed to be buying printing presses and protest placards inside Iran to rile the people up to protest instead is spent on expensive rugs and other smarmy, sycophantic bribes meant to open the doors for feathering personal nests, of US politicians and expatriot Iranians alike.
US laws that were passed to cut off the flow of cash to terror groups are every day flaunted and sidestepped, and the river of dollars flowing from the West to Teheran, thence through tributaries to Damascus, Beirut, Gaza, Riyadh, and other points Wahabbist, funds the very weapons that every day kill Americans, moderate Muslims and other voices of freedom throughout the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. Iranian banks send interest they charge unwitting terror funding streams right into the coffers of the Revolutionary Guards, and they do legally and openly, and nothing whatsoever is done to stop them.
To add insult to injury, there are people living in freedom, who should be doing everything they can do to free their countrymen back in Iran, instead spending their time purchasing huge mansions and fancy cars on money made from trading with the Iranian government. People to whom the Iranians kept in the enslavement of the Islamic Republic look for help to throw off their shackles actually sell the very fetters of enslavement to the Mullahs and the Revolutionary Guards. This is tantamount to wealthy Jewish people selling barbed wire, poison gas and guard dogs to the monsters in Berlin in 1944.
Even voices who should be speaking out for freedom of all people, not just isolated allegiances to individual nations, fight and scrap amongst themselves like junk yard dogs over a bone for personal enrichment, instead of working in concert to form effective coalitions to fight as a unified front to combat the Mullahs and their secret police.
And behind it all, cowering behind walls of lies and distortions, the Mullahs get fat, the Revolutionary Guards crank out battalion after battalion of terrorists they shuffle out through Damascus, while the West sits complacent, infrequently stirred to offense by political maneuvers like Iranian kidnapping of British Marines in Iraqi waters, half-heartedly complaining why these barbarous beasts had not been put down decades ago and grousing for a war to end such acts of piracy, and quickly turn back to the hypnotic Svengali, weeping over Anna Nicole's funeral or Angelina Jolie's newest adopted trophy, ignoring actual tragedies and butchery on a mass scale that could be stopped in its tracks with just a few million dollars to legitimate Iranian resistance groups.
And we, in the West, are saving the world from WHAT, exactly?
Joel Pousson
April 3, 2007
In my recent discussions with a brilliant Iranian dissident, Ghazal Omid (http://www.livinginhell.com/ http://www.ghazalomid.com/), I have come to change some of my prior opinions on Islam, Iran, and the wisdom in a US attack on Iran.
I am now thoroughly convinced that an attack on Iran right now is the last thing the Bush Administration should do.
Iranians are like Israelis; they are not their religion first, they are Iranians first, Muslims second. There is a great love of their nation in most Iranians, and although they hate the government of the Mullahs, they would hate an attack on their country even more.
University students in Iran, as a price for their continued approval to extend their educations, have been required to sign up as brigades of suicide bombers. Innocent children are being shipped to take up positions next to the very strategic locations the Mullahs know are on the targeting list. Secret police have stepped up their campaigns of blood and rape, snatching people up left and right, killing them in custody, and using them as silent reminders of what happens when you speak up.
Additionally, the Mullahs and their puppets in Damascus have been burning up jet fuel like crazy shipping Hizbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters into Teheran for training, then back to Damascus airport for dispersal (with logistic and command support supplied by senior Syrian military commanders), across the Middle East and points elsewhere, to prepare for massive terror attacks to be unleashed when the US attacks Iran.
Iranian resistance groups, and their connections in the West, have been turned by Iranian Revolutionary Guards agents. People who came to the West on Iranian passports, or even traveling on diplomatic credentials but allowed by the Mullahs to travel with their entire families, have been snatched up and their words taken as gospel by people in our own government who are entrusted with winnowing the truth from the lies, and are supposed to be working for Iranian freedom.
Inside Iran, credible sources are reporting that the Iranian nuclear program is at a bare minimum three years away from producing a warhead, and yet US intelligence is being fed disinformation that the Mullahs are right on the verge of producing a 150 megaton nuclear warhead, by les agents provocateurs who are sent by Teheran to trigger a premature war.
Why? Well, the Mullahs are running scared. Over 70% of the current population of Iran is under 30 years of age, and 55% percent of those people are women. The Iranian people are fed up with the rape rooms, the torture chambers, the games that the Mullahs are playing even with the remains of the prisoners they have raped and beaten to death, using custody of the bodies as legal yo-yos to taunt grieving families and ensure that survivors do not tell their neighbors, and the world, what happened to their daughters and sons at the tender mercies of the left hands of the Mullahs.
Right now, the Mullahs can't even get more than 200 paid protestors to show up to throw rocks and firecrackers at the British Embassy, and now have to resort to official stories in their media that the UK is prepping its pilots to conduct kamikaze attacks on Iranian schools and hospitals. All this is in a desperate effort to stave off the inevitable, and that is, a popular uprising inside Iran.
The Mullahs are anything but dumb, and they have infiltrated legitimate resistance efforts in the West with their own agents to redirect US funds meant to support anti-government and moderate government elements, sending the money instead right into the back pockets of Ahmedinajad's secret club, or to Rafsanjani's multi-million dollar office building projects in Dubai. Money that is supposed to be buying printing presses and protest placards inside Iran to rile the people up to protest instead is spent on expensive rugs and other smarmy, sycophantic bribes meant to open the doors for feathering personal nests, of US politicians and expatriot Iranians alike.
US laws that were passed to cut off the flow of cash to terror groups are every day flaunted and sidestepped, and the river of dollars flowing from the West to Teheran, thence through tributaries to Damascus, Beirut, Gaza, Riyadh, and other points Wahabbist, funds the very weapons that every day kill Americans, moderate Muslims and other voices of freedom throughout the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas. Iranian banks send interest they charge unwitting terror funding streams right into the coffers of the Revolutionary Guards, and they do legally and openly, and nothing whatsoever is done to stop them.
To add insult to injury, there are people living in freedom, who should be doing everything they can do to free their countrymen back in Iran, instead spending their time purchasing huge mansions and fancy cars on money made from trading with the Iranian government. People to whom the Iranians kept in the enslavement of the Islamic Republic look for help to throw off their shackles actually sell the very fetters of enslavement to the Mullahs and the Revolutionary Guards. This is tantamount to wealthy Jewish people selling barbed wire, poison gas and guard dogs to the monsters in Berlin in 1944.
Even voices who should be speaking out for freedom of all people, not just isolated allegiances to individual nations, fight and scrap amongst themselves like junk yard dogs over a bone for personal enrichment, instead of working in concert to form effective coalitions to fight as a unified front to combat the Mullahs and their secret police.
And behind it all, cowering behind walls of lies and distortions, the Mullahs get fat, the Revolutionary Guards crank out battalion after battalion of terrorists they shuffle out through Damascus, while the West sits complacent, infrequently stirred to offense by political maneuvers like Iranian kidnapping of British Marines in Iraqi waters, half-heartedly complaining why these barbarous beasts had not been put down decades ago and grousing for a war to end such acts of piracy, and quickly turn back to the hypnotic Svengali, weeping over Anna Nicole's funeral or Angelina Jolie's newest adopted trophy, ignoring actual tragedies and butchery on a mass scale that could be stopped in its tracks with just a few million dollars to legitimate Iranian resistance groups.
And we, in the West, are saving the world from WHAT, exactly?
Joel Pousson
April 3, 2007
Monday, March 05, 2007
VLAD IS AT IT AGAIN
Vlad the Inhaler orders yet another hit.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2027173,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
From the article:
"A senior Russian journalist who embarrassed the country's powerful military establishment with a series of damaging stories has been found dead outside his flat in mysterious circumstances.
"The body of Ivan Safronov, the 51-year-old defence correspondent for Russia's progressive Kommersant newspaper, was discovered on Friday. He apparently fell from a fifth-floor window.
"Although prosecutors say they suspect Mr Safranov committed suicide, colleagues of the dead journalist today insisted that he had no reason to kill himself. He is also the latest in a long line of Russian journalists to have died in unexplained circumstances, they added."
The blood trail from the Kremlin increases on a daily basis.
Makes me wonder. I'm just some bozo shooting off my mouth against a man whose reach spans continents. The US government wouldn't lift a butt cheek if I were to join the list of victims.
The writing is on the wall, that whomever gains public attention on this issue is eliminated, and the elected officials of the US and other Western nations are pussies who will write off any further assassinations as just "local crime".
Some days, it simply does not pay to play the role of Cassandra.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2027173,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
From the article:
"A senior Russian journalist who embarrassed the country's powerful military establishment with a series of damaging stories has been found dead outside his flat in mysterious circumstances.
"The body of Ivan Safronov, the 51-year-old defence correspondent for Russia's progressive Kommersant newspaper, was discovered on Friday. He apparently fell from a fifth-floor window.
"Although prosecutors say they suspect Mr Safranov committed suicide, colleagues of the dead journalist today insisted that he had no reason to kill himself. He is also the latest in a long line of Russian journalists to have died in unexplained circumstances, they added."
The blood trail from the Kremlin increases on a daily basis.
Makes me wonder. I'm just some bozo shooting off my mouth against a man whose reach spans continents. The US government wouldn't lift a butt cheek if I were to join the list of victims.
The writing is on the wall, that whomever gains public attention on this issue is eliminated, and the elected officials of the US and other Western nations are pussies who will write off any further assassinations as just "local crime".
Some days, it simply does not pay to play the role of Cassandra.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Paul Joyal's Blood All Over Putin's Hands
Vladimir, STOP!!!!
On Thursday, March 1, 2007, an attempted assassination ordered directly by Vladimir Putin occurred on US soil.
Paul Joyal, expert on Russian issues, was shot by KGB operatives as he exited his car in Adelphi, Maryland, outside Washington, DC. Joyal was ordered to be killed by Vladimir Putin, ex-KGB officer, and now head of the Russian Republic.
The order for this man's death was payback for Joyal's interview on NBC's "Dateline" program regarding another Putin-ordered hit, that on Alexyandr Litveninko. Litveninko was murdered for daring to point fingers at the river of blood still flowing from the depths of the Kremlin. Joyal stated that Litveninko was murdered to send a message to others who would dare to expose Putin and his KGB as willing to murder those who dissent.
The despicable, brutal KGB never folded after the fall of the CCCP; all it did was fade into the shadows and wait until a friendly handler regained control of the new Russia. Vlad the Inhaler was exactly the fellow the KGB and NKVD veterans were waiting for. A former officer of the Organs, Putin never put behind him the base philosophy of Lenin and Stalin. Time after time, his critics have been silenced, and those who ran the Lubjanka Prison are now spread across the planet, ready to execute those who dare to expose Putin as the butchering murderer he was trained to be.
Many in the West had great hopes for Rus as the CCCP assumed room temperature in 1991-1992, but the great failing of the Second Russian Revolution was in the refusal to try and punish those who had been complicit in the enslavement of the Russian people. So many KGB and Chekists escaped justice, just by assuming ordinary lives. The Russians kept on with their ages-old desire: Trade personal freedom for security. Just like Ivan the Terrible, Katerine, Pyotr the Great, the oligarchs in the Soviet inner circle murder or imprison those who make the slightest hiccup against the tyrant.
This latest assassination is just the latest in a long train of murders and attempted murders by the KGB. Time after time during the Cold War, the KGB reached into the West and killed those it viewed as threats to its support of the enslavement of millions. Ion Michel Pacepa, former Romanian intelligence chief, has documented scores of political hits, including that of US President John F Kennedy, at the behest of the Foreign Service Bureau's predecessor. And time and again, gutless milquetoast Westerners refused to put the pieces together, or even when faced with incontravertible implication of the KGB in assassinations, refused to publicly state that the Soviets had reached into their home soil to eliminate voices of opposition.
And today, the KGB/FSV continues its bloody history by eliminating voices of reform, not only within the borders of Rus but in country after country across the world.
Rus had an incredible chance to cement relations with the United States and with the West after the fall of the Soviets, and yet slipped into a lawless period, fomented by KGB adherents, in which crime lords (often run by individuals with KGB credentials) ran rough-shod over the people and worked to make the new "freedom" so untenable as to call for the return to the bad old days of Soviet authority.
Vlad the Inhaler is a return to the days of Soviet enslavement of Rus. And now, even in America, those who speak against him are targets for his ordered assassinations. And, as ever, the voices in the West who know what he is up to are pushed back in the crowd, and painted as conspiracy theorists, even as the death toll from Putin's own hand grows and grows.
Gentle readers, worry not: Joyal's attempted assassination will also be swept under the rug. Local officials, who could very well be under the pay of the KGB/FSB, have already dismissed the shooting as "local crime", although no move had been made to relieve Mr Joyal of his wallet or vehicle. We are to assume once again that a person who has spoken out against Vladimir Putin's bloody campaign of assassinations has come across some home-grown bandit following national exposure of their allegations against the Kremlin.
Vladimir Putin is not a man to be trusted, and once again, a shadow is falling over Eurasia, that of a brutal tyrant who is dead-set on restoring the "glory days" of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He has funded Islamofascist terrorists operating against US forces in the Middle East, and is now shipping advanced weapons to Syria, Iran, and Communist China in an effort to undermine US foreign policy. He cares not one whit about the fortunes of his own people; he has a fixation on the United States and is doing everything he can to tear at the sole party he blames for the fall of the original CCCP. One can predict that he will order more voices silenced, and he is relying on fear and intimiation to remove those who would speak out against him.
NEVER trust a man who refuses to look you in the eye. President George W Bush did his best to win over this KGB operatchik, even lied about what he saw as Vlad the Inhaler's soul. Rest assured that George W Bush saw exactly what this man is inside: A cold, brutal, murdering man who would not hesitate for a second to order the deaths of those he sees as threats, not just to his person, but to his attempted resurrection of the corpse of the CCCP.
The Cold War, after a halftime hiatus, has begun yet again. With several red cards and yellows on the remainder of the players on his side of the field, Vlad the Inhaler eyes the goal at the US end of the field. He does not want to score a goal, gentle reader. He wants to own both goals, and will even knife the other team to achieve his goal.
Vladimir, STOP IT! Open your eyes, look at the situation REALISTICALLY. Soviet Communism collapsed because it is a governmental system untenable with the human spirit. Your own people were slaves to the oligarchs, they starved or waited years for basic consumer goods while the Soviet Military Machine grew and grew. You have the opportunity to realign the players on the field, and prepare to deal with a far greater, even existential threat, to Rus. Forget not the days of the Golden Horde and the Khans, Vladimir. The far greater threat to your nation, to your people, lies in the lands to the east, the Khans of the Chin.
The United States remains ready and willing to be equal partners with Rus, but we are also not blind. The placement of anti-ballistic radars and interceptors in Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Caucasus are not there just to deal with the machinations of the Iranians. They will be neutralized this summer. The far greater threat is your KGB underlings and a resurgent USSR. Bank not on your bully-boys, Vlad.
On Thursday, March 1, 2007, an attempted assassination ordered directly by Vladimir Putin occurred on US soil.
Paul Joyal, expert on Russian issues, was shot by KGB operatives as he exited his car in Adelphi, Maryland, outside Washington, DC. Joyal was ordered to be killed by Vladimir Putin, ex-KGB officer, and now head of the Russian Republic.
The order for this man's death was payback for Joyal's interview on NBC's "Dateline" program regarding another Putin-ordered hit, that on Alexyandr Litveninko. Litveninko was murdered for daring to point fingers at the river of blood still flowing from the depths of the Kremlin. Joyal stated that Litveninko was murdered to send a message to others who would dare to expose Putin and his KGB as willing to murder those who dissent.
The despicable, brutal KGB never folded after the fall of the CCCP; all it did was fade into the shadows and wait until a friendly handler regained control of the new Russia. Vlad the Inhaler was exactly the fellow the KGB and NKVD veterans were waiting for. A former officer of the Organs, Putin never put behind him the base philosophy of Lenin and Stalin. Time after time, his critics have been silenced, and those who ran the Lubjanka Prison are now spread across the planet, ready to execute those who dare to expose Putin as the butchering murderer he was trained to be.
Many in the West had great hopes for Rus as the CCCP assumed room temperature in 1991-1992, but the great failing of the Second Russian Revolution was in the refusal to try and punish those who had been complicit in the enslavement of the Russian people. So many KGB and Chekists escaped justice, just by assuming ordinary lives. The Russians kept on with their ages-old desire: Trade personal freedom for security. Just like Ivan the Terrible, Katerine, Pyotr the Great, the oligarchs in the Soviet inner circle murder or imprison those who make the slightest hiccup against the tyrant.
This latest assassination is just the latest in a long train of murders and attempted murders by the KGB. Time after time during the Cold War, the KGB reached into the West and killed those it viewed as threats to its support of the enslavement of millions. Ion Michel Pacepa, former Romanian intelligence chief, has documented scores of political hits, including that of US President John F Kennedy, at the behest of the Foreign Service Bureau's predecessor. And time and again, gutless milquetoast Westerners refused to put the pieces together, or even when faced with incontravertible implication of the KGB in assassinations, refused to publicly state that the Soviets had reached into their home soil to eliminate voices of opposition.
And today, the KGB/FSV continues its bloody history by eliminating voices of reform, not only within the borders of Rus but in country after country across the world.
Rus had an incredible chance to cement relations with the United States and with the West after the fall of the Soviets, and yet slipped into a lawless period, fomented by KGB adherents, in which crime lords (often run by individuals with KGB credentials) ran rough-shod over the people and worked to make the new "freedom" so untenable as to call for the return to the bad old days of Soviet authority.
Vlad the Inhaler is a return to the days of Soviet enslavement of Rus. And now, even in America, those who speak against him are targets for his ordered assassinations. And, as ever, the voices in the West who know what he is up to are pushed back in the crowd, and painted as conspiracy theorists, even as the death toll from Putin's own hand grows and grows.
Gentle readers, worry not: Joyal's attempted assassination will also be swept under the rug. Local officials, who could very well be under the pay of the KGB/FSB, have already dismissed the shooting as "local crime", although no move had been made to relieve Mr Joyal of his wallet or vehicle. We are to assume once again that a person who has spoken out against Vladimir Putin's bloody campaign of assassinations has come across some home-grown bandit following national exposure of their allegations against the Kremlin.
Vladimir Putin is not a man to be trusted, and once again, a shadow is falling over Eurasia, that of a brutal tyrant who is dead-set on restoring the "glory days" of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He has funded Islamofascist terrorists operating against US forces in the Middle East, and is now shipping advanced weapons to Syria, Iran, and Communist China in an effort to undermine US foreign policy. He cares not one whit about the fortunes of his own people; he has a fixation on the United States and is doing everything he can to tear at the sole party he blames for the fall of the original CCCP. One can predict that he will order more voices silenced, and he is relying on fear and intimiation to remove those who would speak out against him.
NEVER trust a man who refuses to look you in the eye. President George W Bush did his best to win over this KGB operatchik, even lied about what he saw as Vlad the Inhaler's soul. Rest assured that George W Bush saw exactly what this man is inside: A cold, brutal, murdering man who would not hesitate for a second to order the deaths of those he sees as threats, not just to his person, but to his attempted resurrection of the corpse of the CCCP.
The Cold War, after a halftime hiatus, has begun yet again. With several red cards and yellows on the remainder of the players on his side of the field, Vlad the Inhaler eyes the goal at the US end of the field. He does not want to score a goal, gentle reader. He wants to own both goals, and will even knife the other team to achieve his goal.
Vladimir, STOP IT! Open your eyes, look at the situation REALISTICALLY. Soviet Communism collapsed because it is a governmental system untenable with the human spirit. Your own people were slaves to the oligarchs, they starved or waited years for basic consumer goods while the Soviet Military Machine grew and grew. You have the opportunity to realign the players on the field, and prepare to deal with a far greater, even existential threat, to Rus. Forget not the days of the Golden Horde and the Khans, Vladimir. The far greater threat to your nation, to your people, lies in the lands to the east, the Khans of the Chin.
The United States remains ready and willing to be equal partners with Rus, but we are also not blind. The placement of anti-ballistic radars and interceptors in Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Caucasus are not there just to deal with the machinations of the Iranians. They will be neutralized this summer. The far greater threat is your KGB underlings and a resurgent USSR. Bank not on your bully-boys, Vlad.
Friday, March 02, 2007
MARCH 2, 2007 - TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY
On this day in 1836, delegates meeting at Washington, Texas (near present-day Houston) declared the independent Republic of Texas, separating itself from the Mexican government.
Mexico had responded to growing unrest in Texas by sending General Antonio de Santa Anna into Texas with 6,000 troops at his command. After a seige that started on February 23 of that year, on March 6 Santa Anna's troops stormed the old Franciscan Alamo mission at San Antonio, held by a tiny force of dedicated fighters, 188 strong. It cost Santa Anna over 1,600 troops in the seige and storming of the Alamo, and such heroes as William Travis, Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie laid down their lives to buy time for Sam Houston to raise additional forces from east Texas and western Louisiana.
After the massacre at the Alamo (in which only 30 women and children escaped), Santa Anna headed east, for the important Sabine River crossings and for the northern shores of Galveston Bay. Texan settlement after Texan settlement was put to the torch, Santa Anna driving survivors in front of his advancing army. By April 23, his troops had reached the San Jacinto River, where Sam Houston's troops were ready to stand or fall in defense of East Texas.
On a small spit of land jutting into the bayous and swamps near the mouth of the San Jacinto River is the often-overlooked battlefield of the Battle of San Jacinto. In the shadow of the rusting hulk of the battleship USS Texas moored nearby, the monument of the battle rises above the live oaks and marshes in proud remembrance of the victory of the newly independent Republic of Texas over the armies of Generalissimo Santa Anna.
I have walked that hallowed ground, from the Texican lines, over the small rise in the ground at the center of the battlefield, over to the Mexican lines where the army of Mexico was asleep when the Texicans moved over the "ridge". It was this timy rise in the ground that allowed the Texas advancing lines to reach the Mesican positions without sentries alerting the Mexicans, who were in full-blown siesta. Before the Mexicans could react, the Texans were in their midst, firing and bayonetting and sabering the professional force back into the marshes at the rear of the Mexican position.
As the Texans waded into the marshes to slaughter the Mexicans, the retreating soldiers were screaming, "Me no Goliad!" and "Me no Alamo!" in an attempt to avoid the revenge the Texans were wreaking for the massacres that Santa Anna's forces had committed in their march to San Jacinto.
Santa Anna himself tried to slink away, and there are conflicting stories how he was identified. One says he was put with a group of remainign Mexicans and the Texans noted the bowing, scraping deference that the Mexicans were paying to him. Another is that Santa Anna had stripped the uniform from a regualr trooper, but was stripped of the uniform by the Texans, and his fancy underwear gave him away.
Either way, he was brought to Sam Houston, who was lying under a live oak after being wounded in the battle. Instead of being executed, Santa Anna was released to Mexico after agreeing to Texan Independence.
After being rebuffed in its desire to join the fledgling United States in 1837, Texas was admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845, adding fuel to the fire that had been brewing in the US on the issue of slavery, culminating in the internecine US Civil War that raged from 1861 to 1865.
Its unique position in the US, the only state with the written agreement to secede and which maintains its own militia (The Texas Guard), reflects the independent spirit of Texas, a state that is regarded jeaously by many other states. It is a proud nation within a nation, but Texans are Americans first and Texans second, as it should be.
The waves of illegal immigration that beseige this nation from within its own borders seek to make moot the sacrifices of Texans in garnering their own independence from Mexico, and it is sad to see another great Texan, George W Bush, ignoring what the illegal Mexican onslaught is doing to his home state. One can only hope that the spirit of Texan Independence will make itself known again from Orange to El Paso, from Brownsville to Amarillo, and that the tide of illegal immigration will be turned back and the second Mexican Invasion of Texas will result in a stronger, more unifed Texas.
bropous
Mexico had responded to growing unrest in Texas by sending General Antonio de Santa Anna into Texas with 6,000 troops at his command. After a seige that started on February 23 of that year, on March 6 Santa Anna's troops stormed the old Franciscan Alamo mission at San Antonio, held by a tiny force of dedicated fighters, 188 strong. It cost Santa Anna over 1,600 troops in the seige and storming of the Alamo, and such heroes as William Travis, Davey Crockett and Jim Bowie laid down their lives to buy time for Sam Houston to raise additional forces from east Texas and western Louisiana.
After the massacre at the Alamo (in which only 30 women and children escaped), Santa Anna headed east, for the important Sabine River crossings and for the northern shores of Galveston Bay. Texan settlement after Texan settlement was put to the torch, Santa Anna driving survivors in front of his advancing army. By April 23, his troops had reached the San Jacinto River, where Sam Houston's troops were ready to stand or fall in defense of East Texas.
On a small spit of land jutting into the bayous and swamps near the mouth of the San Jacinto River is the often-overlooked battlefield of the Battle of San Jacinto. In the shadow of the rusting hulk of the battleship USS Texas moored nearby, the monument of the battle rises above the live oaks and marshes in proud remembrance of the victory of the newly independent Republic of Texas over the armies of Generalissimo Santa Anna.
I have walked that hallowed ground, from the Texican lines, over the small rise in the ground at the center of the battlefield, over to the Mexican lines where the army of Mexico was asleep when the Texicans moved over the "ridge". It was this timy rise in the ground that allowed the Texas advancing lines to reach the Mesican positions without sentries alerting the Mexicans, who were in full-blown siesta. Before the Mexicans could react, the Texans were in their midst, firing and bayonetting and sabering the professional force back into the marshes at the rear of the Mexican position.
As the Texans waded into the marshes to slaughter the Mexicans, the retreating soldiers were screaming, "Me no Goliad!" and "Me no Alamo!" in an attempt to avoid the revenge the Texans were wreaking for the massacres that Santa Anna's forces had committed in their march to San Jacinto.
Santa Anna himself tried to slink away, and there are conflicting stories how he was identified. One says he was put with a group of remainign Mexicans and the Texans noted the bowing, scraping deference that the Mexicans were paying to him. Another is that Santa Anna had stripped the uniform from a regualr trooper, but was stripped of the uniform by the Texans, and his fancy underwear gave him away.
Either way, he was brought to Sam Houston, who was lying under a live oak after being wounded in the battle. Instead of being executed, Santa Anna was released to Mexico after agreeing to Texan Independence.
After being rebuffed in its desire to join the fledgling United States in 1837, Texas was admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845, adding fuel to the fire that had been brewing in the US on the issue of slavery, culminating in the internecine US Civil War that raged from 1861 to 1865.
Its unique position in the US, the only state with the written agreement to secede and which maintains its own militia (The Texas Guard), reflects the independent spirit of Texas, a state that is regarded jeaously by many other states. It is a proud nation within a nation, but Texans are Americans first and Texans second, as it should be.
The waves of illegal immigration that beseige this nation from within its own borders seek to make moot the sacrifices of Texans in garnering their own independence from Mexico, and it is sad to see another great Texan, George W Bush, ignoring what the illegal Mexican onslaught is doing to his home state. One can only hope that the spirit of Texan Independence will make itself known again from Orange to El Paso, from Brownsville to Amarillo, and that the tide of illegal immigration will be turned back and the second Mexican Invasion of Texas will result in a stronger, more unifed Texas.
bropous
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice - is often the means of their regeneration." ~~ John Stuart Mill
Monday, February 26, 2007
February 26, 2007
Greetings, Casual Readers:
I've started the blog anew with the migration over to Google. At times I may use this blog to reflect current events, posting a news story and then giving my feedback. Believe me, I have feedback aplenty on just about every issue.
Today is February 26, 2007. On this day in 493AD, Roman troops surrendered Ravenna (at times Imperial capitol) to the Ostrogoths, and in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from his prison island Elba to begin the 100 Days campaign. Other significant events in our history on this date are:
1832 - Czar Nichols I abolished the autonomous Duchy of Warsaw. Once again, the Poles are "unmade" as a nation, only to spring forth again and again. You have to admire the courage of the Polish people, even after being sold out by the West in 1945, after their freedom in 1991 they have stood up on the world stage as an indepedent and strong nation, determined never again to be dissolved by powers from east or west (Russia or Germany/France). Now the Poles and the Czechs have decided to allow the placement of ABM radars in their countries, and Russia is squealing like a stuck pig; how DARE the US try to protect the Poles from Russian missiles? The ostensible reason for this placement is to protect Europe from the threat of Iranian missiles, but even after the fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran later on this year, those ABM tracking systems (and the concurrent extension of the US strategic defense umbrella) will remain in Eastern Europe. Russia sees this clearly, but if it is wanting to integrage peacefully with the remainder of Europe, why is it so necessary to guarantee the massacre of your intended partners?
1848 - Marx & Engels' "Communist Manifesto" is published (a black day in our history). Folks argue that these bozos were not responsible for the millions of brutal murders carried out in the name of "Communism", and that pure Communism is a laudable goal towards which the Communist nations of the 20th and 21st Century were struggling. However twisted by Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev, Mao, Cho-en Lai, or Hu Jintao, the basic philosophy is still there: Take Industrial Revolution England, strip out any modicum of personal initiative, and you have Communism. Marx led a very depressing life, but the negative effect of his writings is yet to be fully seen.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln establishes the greenback by signing the National Currency Act. Interesting.
1924 - The Munich trial of Adolf Hitler begins for his role in the "Beer Hall Putsch". And today, the judge in the Scooter Libby railroad trail has dismissed a juror. Hitler spent time in jail, and while he was in the pokey, he wrote "Mein Kampf", a rambling, disjointed diatribe on his own twisted view of the Weimar Republic, the loss of World War One, and how horrible certain untermeschen were in the scheme of a Greater Germany. In the Libby trial, the ones who should actually be in the dock for treason, i.e., Joseph Wilson and his hot wife Valerie Plame (ph please oh please a Penthouse spread in the future!), continue their own "Putsch" against the Bush Administration and its foreign policy, aided and abetted by a lying, hypocritical media industry.
1925 - Islamic extremists declare Jihad against the Turkish Republic. Sorry, Kemal, that "Ataturk" crap ain't gonna work on the Islamofascists. Fortunately, this jihad failed, as the current attempt at jihad by Islamofascists worldwide is failing.
1935 - Germany announces the existence of the Luftwaffe under Herman Göring. Interesting.
1936 - Hitler decrees production of the Volkswagen. And last night, "Little Miss Sunshine", in which a Volkswagen bus was a central theme, was up for Best Picture.
1990 - The beginning of the removal of 73,000 Soviet troops from Warsaw Pact member Czechoslovakia. The Czech Republic also sees the handwriting on the wall: Accept the US ballistic missile defense umbrella, and your independence is guaranteed in perpetuity.
1993 - The first Islamofascist bombing of the New York World Trade Center. Seven Americans die, Bill Clinton ignores it and Islamofascist terrorists gain confidence of launching an even larger operation in 2001. This was the test run for the 9/11 attacks, and the Democrat Commander-in-Chief not only ignored the ramifications of this attack, he continued the stripping of the US military of qualified personnel, and his despicable little weasels Sandy Berger and Jamie Gorelick continue their ineptitude and do their best to keep Intelligence services from getting to the perpetrators.
2001 - The Taliban destroy the Great Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan (a true cultural atrocity). This was a hideous act, but it is part and parcel of the Islamofascist mindset: Eradicate all existence of opposing thought. These huge works of art were blown from the mountainside into which they had been carved in the 6th Century, before Islam even existed. You know, there are some very good people who are Muslim, but it certainly seems that the majority of the Islamic world is bent on erasing the progress the rest of the world has seen as a result of historical advances that occurred before their religion existed.
I do not respect any religion that teaches that women are second-class citizens to be enslaved and even mutilated to keep them in thrall. More on this later. All in all, it is an interesting day in our history.
I've started the blog anew with the migration over to Google. At times I may use this blog to reflect current events, posting a news story and then giving my feedback. Believe me, I have feedback aplenty on just about every issue.
Today is February 26, 2007. On this day in 493AD, Roman troops surrendered Ravenna (at times Imperial capitol) to the Ostrogoths, and in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from his prison island Elba to begin the 100 Days campaign. Other significant events in our history on this date are:
1832 - Czar Nichols I abolished the autonomous Duchy of Warsaw. Once again, the Poles are "unmade" as a nation, only to spring forth again and again. You have to admire the courage of the Polish people, even after being sold out by the West in 1945, after their freedom in 1991 they have stood up on the world stage as an indepedent and strong nation, determined never again to be dissolved by powers from east or west (Russia or Germany/France). Now the Poles and the Czechs have decided to allow the placement of ABM radars in their countries, and Russia is squealing like a stuck pig; how DARE the US try to protect the Poles from Russian missiles? The ostensible reason for this placement is to protect Europe from the threat of Iranian missiles, but even after the fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran later on this year, those ABM tracking systems (and the concurrent extension of the US strategic defense umbrella) will remain in Eastern Europe. Russia sees this clearly, but if it is wanting to integrage peacefully with the remainder of Europe, why is it so necessary to guarantee the massacre of your intended partners?
1848 - Marx & Engels' "Communist Manifesto" is published (a black day in our history). Folks argue that these bozos were not responsible for the millions of brutal murders carried out in the name of "Communism", and that pure Communism is a laudable goal towards which the Communist nations of the 20th and 21st Century were struggling. However twisted by Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev, Mao, Cho-en Lai, or Hu Jintao, the basic philosophy is still there: Take Industrial Revolution England, strip out any modicum of personal initiative, and you have Communism. Marx led a very depressing life, but the negative effect of his writings is yet to be fully seen.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln establishes the greenback by signing the National Currency Act. Interesting.
1924 - The Munich trial of Adolf Hitler begins for his role in the "Beer Hall Putsch". And today, the judge in the Scooter Libby railroad trail has dismissed a juror. Hitler spent time in jail, and while he was in the pokey, he wrote "Mein Kampf", a rambling, disjointed diatribe on his own twisted view of the Weimar Republic, the loss of World War One, and how horrible certain untermeschen were in the scheme of a Greater Germany. In the Libby trial, the ones who should actually be in the dock for treason, i.e., Joseph Wilson and his hot wife Valerie Plame (ph please oh please a Penthouse spread in the future!), continue their own "Putsch" against the Bush Administration and its foreign policy, aided and abetted by a lying, hypocritical media industry.
1925 - Islamic extremists declare Jihad against the Turkish Republic. Sorry, Kemal, that "Ataturk" crap ain't gonna work on the Islamofascists. Fortunately, this jihad failed, as the current attempt at jihad by Islamofascists worldwide is failing.
1935 - Germany announces the existence of the Luftwaffe under Herman Göring. Interesting.
1936 - Hitler decrees production of the Volkswagen. And last night, "Little Miss Sunshine", in which a Volkswagen bus was a central theme, was up for Best Picture.
1990 - The beginning of the removal of 73,000 Soviet troops from Warsaw Pact member Czechoslovakia. The Czech Republic also sees the handwriting on the wall: Accept the US ballistic missile defense umbrella, and your independence is guaranteed in perpetuity.
1993 - The first Islamofascist bombing of the New York World Trade Center. Seven Americans die, Bill Clinton ignores it and Islamofascist terrorists gain confidence of launching an even larger operation in 2001. This was the test run for the 9/11 attacks, and the Democrat Commander-in-Chief not only ignored the ramifications of this attack, he continued the stripping of the US military of qualified personnel, and his despicable little weasels Sandy Berger and Jamie Gorelick continue their ineptitude and do their best to keep Intelligence services from getting to the perpetrators.
2001 - The Taliban destroy the Great Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan (a true cultural atrocity). This was a hideous act, but it is part and parcel of the Islamofascist mindset: Eradicate all existence of opposing thought. These huge works of art were blown from the mountainside into which they had been carved in the 6th Century, before Islam even existed. You know, there are some very good people who are Muslim, but it certainly seems that the majority of the Islamic world is bent on erasing the progress the rest of the world has seen as a result of historical advances that occurred before their religion existed.
I do not respect any religion that teaches that women are second-class citizens to be enslaved and even mutilated to keep them in thrall. More on this later. All in all, it is an interesting day in our history.
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