Is Obama Pro-Iran? Obama’s NEW Man at The State Department

A Hat tip to: http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

Ed Lasky is reporting that Obama has assigned John Limbert as the senior Iran official at the State Department, replacing Dennis Ross, who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard from publicly since).  Should America be concerned?  Yes.  Limbert is not a neutral arbiter; he serves on the advisory board of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC).

What is the National Iranian American Council?

The Council is widely considered the de facto lobby for the Iranian regime in America.  It opposes sanctions on Iran, soft-pedals any controversial events in Iran, and counsels “patience” regarding Iran’s stance towards its nuclear program.  The NIAC has been at the forefront of  lobbying against continued congressional funding of the Voice of America Persia service, Radio Farad, and grants for Iranian civil society.  To top it off, the NIAC has reportedly received funding from anti-Israel advocate George Soros, who at the very least was an honored guest and speaker at one of its symposiums.  (He called for a more equitable Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and advocated for America to renounce regime-change as a goal).

The NIAC staunchly opposes any military attacks on Iran.  In other words, it all but serves as Iran’s embassy in Washington — though the NIAC vociferously disputes this characterization.  However, there is very little sunlight between the views of the regime and the NIAC.

The NIAC is also headed by the controversial Trita Parsi.  Who is Trita Parsi?

He was born in Iran, but moved to Sweden at the age of four.  He pursued a career in international relations, eventually leading him to found the National Iranian American Council (more on that tie later).

Parsi serves as an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute, a “think-tank” that serves as one of the public-relations agencies for the Muslim world in Washington.  The Middle East Institute is headed by Wyche Fowler, who has a string of what Lasky called “Fowler Howlers” when he wrote about the Middle East Institute years ago.  The Fowler Howlers were statements to the media that were so glowing regarding the Muslim world as to be synonymous with mirages.

The NIAC also has an ambitious plan that it unwittingly disclosed just a few years ago: enhance its power in Washington in order to help steer American foreign policy.

Continue reading here . . .

==========================================

AS AN ASIDE: An article published in the Wall Street Journal in 2006:

In “Guests of the Ayatollah,” Mark Bowden revivifies this crucial episode by parachuting us back to 1979 and enveloping us in the thoughts and experiences of the American hostages — the diplomats, security officers, U.S. Marines and spooks seized and abused by the “Students Following the Line of the Imam,” as they called themselves. The hostages numbered 66 in all; 14 were released before the end of the crisis, which lasted 444 days. Three were held in the more civilized confines of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. (Mr. Bowden does some of his finest writing recounting the increasingly surreal existence of this second small group, who became “guests”-cum-prisoners.)

 

John Limbert, an academically trained, Persian-speaking diplomat — who probably has the softest heart for Iran among the hostages — is in solitary confinement in the city of Isfahan, 200 miles from Tehran, after the failed Desert One rescue mission. (President Carter, after long delay, had sent fuel-tanker planes, gunships and helicopters to recapture the embassy; in a night-vision-goggle debacle set into motion by a sandstorm, a helicopter and a plane collided in the desert; the aborted the mission left the burnt remains to be toyed with by revolutionary clerics.) Mr. Limbert has no idea regarding the whereabouts of his compatriots until an Iranian guard, whom he is tutoring in English, asks him the meaning of the words “raghead,” “bozo,” “mother-” and “c-sucker.” “Limbert laughed,” Mr. Bowden writes. “It warmed his heart. Someplace nearby, his captors were still coping with the United States Marine Corps.”

======================================================

 

My end note here:

Unclenching your fist is one thing; BUT giving Ahmadinejad a “High Five” is quite another.

Did Limbert suffer from “Stockholm syndrome”……does he continue to harbor this today?

 

Obama Stands with Dictators and Muslims

An article from Kyle-Anne Shiver at American Thinker

November 09, 2009

With nearly a year in office, we now know without doubt exactly where our own president stands on vital national security matters.  He has a track record and has shown his true colors over and over again.

In Honduras, he picked the side of the dictator-wannabe without hesitation.  He has used every diplomatic weapon at his disposal to destroy the constitutional democracy in Honduras, even cutting off financial aid and blocking diplomatic visas.  He went the full gamut of meddling there and made no bones about it.

He moved to cancel long-planned missile defense shields for Poland and the Czech Republic, alerting Russia that he is not going to put up a fight to preserve freedom in former Soviet bloc countries.  He even made a point of denying Berliners his presence on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Our president sends clear signals when it comes to wimping out on the friends of liberty.

With our sister state Israel the only functioning democracy in the Middle East and the only non-Islamic country, Barack Obama and our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, have been forceful bullies, demanding up-front, dangerous concessions from Israel, while securing no concessions whatsoever from any of its enemies.  While Israel fights for her very existence, President Obama deigns to chit-chat with the Iranian Hitler-act-alike.  What signal could be clearer?

President Obama doesn’t want to be seen as “meddling” in the affairs of another nation if that nation is Muslim.  Hence his reticence in any verbal support for the protesters in Iran.  Yet he meddles both in public and behind the scenes nonstop against Israel.

Now, we come to the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, carried out by a man wearing the uniform of our own team, and the president does not want to “draw conclusions.”  What he seems to mean is that he does not want to “draw conclusions” against a Muslim.  We now have clear reports that the red flags surrounding Hasan, the Ft Hood terrorist, were so clear that it would take a complete ninny wearing earplugs and blinders not to see them.

The U.K. Telegraph reported yesterday:

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the gunman who killed 13 at America’s Fort Hood military base, once gave a lecture to other doctors in which he said non-believers should be beheaded and have boiling oil poured down their throats.

He also told colleagues at America’s top military hospital that non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire. The outburst came during an hour-long talk Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gave on the Koran in front of dozens of other doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington DC, where he worked for six years before arriving at Fort Hood in July.

Colleagues had expected a discussion on a medical issue but were instead given an extremist interpretation of the Koran, which Hasan appeared to believe.

It was the latest in a series of “red flags” about his state of mind that have emerged since the massacre at Fort Hood, America’s largest military installation, on Thursday.

Do flags get any redder than this?  Are our valiant military men and women to be subjected to terror from within because our president and his cabinet do not wish to offend the delicate sensibilities of Muslims?

Apparently.  When Barack Obama wrote his book, The Audacity of Hope, he laid out clearly where he would stand in his desire to protect Muslim Americans from any sort of profiling that might make them uncomfortable.
 

Being ever the stalwart protector of delicate Muslim feelings, Barack Obama wrote this on page 261:

“In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging.  They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” (emphasis mine)

To Muslims, President Obama is keeping his promise.  He refuses to “draw conclusions” from the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, carried out by a Muslim American who made no secret of his intentions. 

So, how many Americans will die because of President Obama’s utterly misplaced loyalties?  Are human lives not more important than “feelings” and “sensibilities”?  Was the Ft Hood massacre not an act of war carried out by a traitor to the United States of America?

Is President Obama himself betraying his oath to defend us from enemies foreign and domestic?

So, if a school bus driver made the same kinds of threats, would he be allowed to continue driving innocent American children to their classes so as not to offend the feelings of Muslims?  If a worker in a federal or state office building talks incessantly of jihad and promises to become a fighter of the infidels, do his or her needs to “feel a sense of security and belonging” trump the colleagues’ right to live?  From where I’m sitting, it would seem so — in the morally perverse universe of our president.

The right to self-defense is as fundamentally grounded as any could possibly be.  The right to preemptively secure oneself and others from stated threats is solid.  Yet, when it comes to these matters, our president is only sure that he must protect the enemy.  When it comes to protecting us and our allies, he goes all wobbly at the knees and can’t tell where he stands.  

There isn’t much that makes blood boil faster than seeing brave, upstanding defenders of freedom gunned down by one of their own — especially when the killer should have been removed and probably dishonorably discharged at the very least, long, long, long before he callously took innocent life in the cause of Allah. 

The entire article is posted HERE.

================================================

The Communists within the Communist Party of the United States are following the outcome of Zelaya’s attempt to subvert the Constitution of Honduras.  They are cheering any “punishments” laid out by Obama and Hillary Clinton against Honduras.

 

WHY?

 

Then People’s World, the Communist Party news posted this:

Honduran accord teeters on the brink of disaster

 

Note in the article the name Hilda Solis, the U.S. Labor Secretary as a member of the International monitoring committee.

 

WHY would a Labor Secretary be part of the Honduran elections? Did Obama assign her there to protect the “labor party” or the Democracy of Honduras?

 

Read the full article HERE.

 

==================================================

 

Nidal Hassan participated in the Panel at George Washington University  Presidential Task Force titled:

Thinking Anew—Security Priorities for the Next

Administration

 

PROCEEDINGS REPORT OF THE HSPI PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION TASK FORCE

April 2008-January 2009

May 19, 2009

About the Institute

Founded in 2003, The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) is a nonpartisan “think and do” tank whose mission is to build bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through an interdisciplinary approach. By convening domestic and international policymakers and practitioners at all levels of government, the private and non-profit sectors, and academia, HSPI creates innovative strategies and solutions to current and future threats to the nation.

 

 On page 32 Nadal Hassan was listed as a participant.

http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf

 

To be fair, Hasan applied for and was accepted to attend based on his professional credentials.

 

My question here: WHY did Hasan want to attend?

 

And the Communist’s response to the Ft. Hood Incident?

The terrible mayhem and slaughter last week at Fort Hood Texas shocked us all. All of us feel deeply for the families, the loved ones and the friends of those who were hurt and killed. An ever-growing majority of the American people oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But opposing these wars does not for a moment rob us of our compassion those hurt or killed. Whether in combat, or as “collateral damage,” those who die are not responsible for the war policies that make these wars such a human tragedy.

The horror of Fort Hood also brings flashbacks of the war in Vietnam.

http://www.peoplesworld.org/the-invisible-wounds-of-unjust-wars/

NOT one word about Nidal Hasan’s view of Muslims killing “infidels.”

 

=================================================

 

And NOW Obama wants Americans to “not jump to conclusions” and to practice tolerance?

 

Trying to be “Politically Correct” and now with Obama signing the “Hate Crimes Bill”, is America going to be muted from stating what they see and hear?

 

Did Obama’s speech in Egypt enable the Ft. Hood incident? 

 

 Where DOES Obama stand?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Floodlights On; Is This the Next National Scandal?

From Walking the Edge of Immorality blog:

A piece by Rey Lopez-Calderon

In full disclosure; from the author’s bio:

For over 15 years, Rey López-Calderón has worked for the betterment of communities in Los Angeles, Orange County (CA), and Metropolitan Chicago. In addition to his work in community organizing with affiliates of both the Industrial Areas Foundation and the Gamaliel Foundation, López-Calderón founded the first chapter of MEChA in Illinois, has been a union organizer with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), a volunteer organizer for the United Farmworkers (UFW), a founding board member of Latino Union of Chicago, a board member of the Alliance of Latinos and Jews, and has worked on several political campaigns both in Chicago and California.

Now the blog: (Excerpted)

To be sure, there are thousands of law-abiding, ethical, and effective organizations out there doing great work for little pay or recognition (the majority). In fact, despite the ineptitude of the workers in the sting videos and the above complaints, on balance ACORN does great work.   But there are others who are a heartbeat away from being the next national scandal. One such organization is the Gamaliel Foundation. You may have come across the organization thanks to the YouTube video of them supposedly praying to President Obama. I apologize in advance to my former colleagues who decided to stick it out in order to make the foundation a better place. The idea of an international, faith-based organization that brings together people of all colors and creeds is certainly a noble cause. But the organization’s philosophy was flawed from day one. I worked for Gamaliel in the late 1990s up until 2001. This was about 8 years after Barack worked for them.

My former mentors, Greg Galluzzo and his wife Mary Gonzalez, took over the Gamaliel Foundation after breaking with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), the organization founded by Saul Alinsky. Gamaliel’s leadership system was built on notes obtained from the IAF. They eventually modified the system, but to my knowledge they have never credited the IAF even for the initial iteration of the so-called Gamaliel model.

I have never seen such a strange and warped culture anywhere. Staff were pitted against each other by Galluzzo and Gonzalez. Galluzzo told me that he wanted organizers to be tough bastards who could build power like the Conquistadors. His idea was not even Machiavellian (no virtù needed at all). He felt that organizers should fight fire with fire. In fact, Galluzzo used to give a cultish advanced training seminar titled “Walking the Edge of Immorality” where he repeatedly stated “the ends justifies the means” and nonchalantly told us that to have an impact on society we had to be willing to “lie, cheat, and steal for the greater good.” His concept of doing the good was completely Platonic — we could be shady to get power but once we had enough power, knowing the Good would be enough for us to make the right decisions. Too bad Galluzzo, a former Jesuit seminarian, skipped the course on Aristotle where he would have learned that character is a function of habit — i.e. doing shady things makes you shady whether or not you grasp the Good. The final straw for me was when Galluzzo sent out a weekly report with a reflection that we organizers needed to promote a noble myth to our churches that our work was about justice, God, and peace even though we really knew it was about power.

I left Gamaliel disillusioned and disgusted by what seemed to me to be pure evil.

Read entire blog HERE.

 

THEN ADD THIS:

Gamaliel and the Barack Obama Connection
by Gregory A. Galluzzo

President elect Barack Obama has throughout his political career made repeated references to his time as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago. It is important that we all understand the connection between Barack and Gamaliel. In l980 Mary Gonzales and I created the United Neighborhood Organization of Chicago.

In l982 we decided that we needed some expertise from someone who had done faith based community organizing. A person who had worked as such an organizer in Illinois and in Pennsylvania approached me about joining our organizing team. His name was Jerry Kellman. Jerry helped Mary and myself become better organizers. While he was working for us, he connected with a group called the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) operating on the South Side in the South Suburbs of Chicago, and in Indiana. CCRC had been formed in response to the massive shut down of major industry and the resulting job loss and all of the concomitant social tragedies.

Jerry and I reached an understanding that we would support his work in the South Suburbs so that he could become director of his own project. It was Jerry Kellman who put an ad in the New York Times about an organizing position in the Chicago area. Barack responded; Jerry interviewed him and offered him a position. Barack accepted. Almost at this very time, Jerry propositioned an old friend of his to return to Chicago from Texas and work with him in this new organizing venture. His friend was Mike Kruglik. Mike and Jerry were the first mentors of Barack in organizing.

CCRC, which spanned communities in Northwest Indiana, the South Suburbs and parts of the City of Chicago proved to be unwieldy. Jerry and I decided to split it into three parts. Barack would work to found a new independent project in the South side of Chicago, Mike Kruglik would be the director of the South Suburban Action Conference and Jerry Kellman would develop organizing in Northwest Indiana. At that point Jerry asked me to become Barack’s consultant.

And at this time we were just creating the Gamaliel Foundation. I met with Barack on a regular basis as he incorporated the Developing Communities Project, as he moved the organization into action and as he developed the leadership structure for the organization. He would write beautiful and brilliant weekly reports about his work and the people he was engaging.

When Barack decided to go to Harvard Law School, he approached John McKnight, a professor at Northwestern and a Gamaliel Board member for a letter of recommendation. When Barack was leaving he made sure that Gamaliel was the formal consultant to the organization that he had created and to the staff that he had hired.

Barack has acknowledged publicly that he had been the director of a Gamaliel affiliate. He has supported Gamaliel throughout the years by conducting training both at the National Leadership Training events and at the African American Leadership Commission. He has also attended our public meetings.

We are honored and blessed by the connection between Barack and Gamaliel.
 

http://www.gamaliel.org/Obama%20Gamalie%20lConnection.htm

 

 

 

 

THEN ADD THIS:

http://www.gamaliel.org/AALC/2007/AALC07programFinal8.5×11.pdf

 

Look at WHO’s picture is on Page 1: Reverend Jeremiah Wright

 

“UNITING FOR

POWER” 

 

 

GAMALIEL

 

AFRICAN AMERICAN

 

LEADERSHIP COMMISSION

 

 

JUNE CONFERENCE

 

 

 

JUNE 21-22, 2007

 

 

 

GAMALIEL FOUNDATION

 

 

 

 

The Gamaliel Foundation provides its affiliate organizations with the tools to train and develop leaders and staff for community organizing.

 

 

 

We work together on regional and national issues and strategies to advance social justice.

 

 

=================================

 

SEIU

 

ACORN

 

Gamaliel

 

All connected to Barack Obama.

 

WHERE ARE THE MSM’s?

 

 

Stimulus Funds for Green Energy Projects Going Offshore along with Other U.S. Manufacturing. GE and Jeffrey Immelt Profiting.

Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE is making money off the $787 Billion Stimuls Package.

Jeffrey Immelt is on Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board AND is also a member of the Federal Reserve of New York.

**Make sure you check relationship maps at end of this posting!**

Read this first:    An article posted on Canada Free Press

Stimulus Funds for Green Energy Projects Going Offshore along with Other U.S. Manufacturing

By Institute for Energy Research  

Friday, November 6, 2009

The Obama Administration sold its $787 billion stimulus plan on the basis of improving the economy through investing in green energy and by doing so, increasing employment in the United States. But what is actually happening, particularly with wind and solar projects, is that the majority of the manufactured components are being built offshore in either Asia or Europe, resulting in foreign countries capturing a good deal of our stimulus funds and finding a lucrative haven for their products in the United States.

Green Stimulus Money Going Overseas

Since September 1, 84 percent of the $1.05 billion in clean energy grants has gone to foreign wind companies. Foreign countries benefiting from stimulus funds for wind technology are Spain (57%), Germany (12.6%), Japan (9.5%), and Portugal (5%).[1] Companies began applying for grants at the end of July and awards were announced by the two joint administrators of the program, the Energy and Treasury Departments, beginning on Sept. 1. In the first round of the grants, 77% went to foreign wind developers, followed by 84% in the second round. Of the 11 wind farms that received grants, 695 of the 982 installed turbines were manufactured by a foreign company.[ii]

Further, there are few restrictions on how the grants can be used. According to the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, over $800 million were provided to wind farms that were already producing electricity. As required by law, all 11 wind farms started operating after January 1, 2009, but before the grants were awarded.[iii]

Turbine Manufacturing Dominated by Foreign Competitors

The U.S. currently has the most installed wind capacity in the world, but it is not a leader in the manufacture of turbines. The Investigative Reporting Workshop found that 67 percent of the wind turbines installed in the U.S. are built by other countries.[iv] According to U.S. customs data for 2008, and the U.S. Trade Commission, the U.S. imported $2.5 billion worth of wind turbines last year—up from $365 million in 2003.

In the future, wind turbines and/or their component parts may be coming from China where lower labor costs have allowed Chinese-made products to dominate many manufactured goods in the U.S. GE, a major U.S. wind turbine producer, already owns three facilities in China that produce turbine components. GE is also planning a factory in Vietnam that will employ 500 local workers and export 10,000 tons of components to GE Energy assembly plants around the world.[v]

China is already beginning to develop its own strong hold for wind power in the U.S. A joint venture between China’s Shenyang Power Group, the U.S. Renewable Energy Group, and Cielo Wind Power LP to develop a 600 megawatt wind farm on 36,000 acres in West Texas, costing $1.5 billion, was announced on October 29, 2009.[vi] A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd., a provider of distributed generation systems in China and a fast-growing manufacturer of wind turbines, will supply the turbines. A-Power Energy entered the wind power industry last year.[vii] Delivery of wind turbines for the West Texas wind farm is scheduled for March 2010.[viii]

Investigative Reporting Workshop

Solar Cells Manufactured Overseas

Not only are wind turbines mostly manufactured in countries overseas, but so are photovoltaic (PV) cells. Florida Power & Light (FPL) started operating its 25 megawatt photovoltaic solar plant in southwest Florida in conjunction with a visit to the plant by President Obama on October 27. [ix] The DeSoto plant in southwest Florida is the first of a total of 110 megawatts of solar capacity that FPL will install at 3 different sites by the end of 2010. Although Obama praised FPL’s work in the solar arena, he did not tell the American public that the components of the DeSoto plant are from foreign countries. While the PV cells were provided by a firm from California, they were made in the Phillipines. The steel PV frame holding the cells was produced in Canada, and the electrical parts and boxes were made in Germany, where solar power has been given heavy subsidies by the German Government. While German manufacturers have been producing PV technology for their country’s solar expansion, they are now concerned that China will take over their market due to costs that are 30% lower.[x]

Conclusion

The Obama Administration has told the American public that it will produce jobs and stimulate the U.S. economy through green energy technology. He has also touted that stimulus funds will be used for goods made in America. Yet, the the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University finds that this is not the case. And, more examination of green energy development in the U.S., shows Asian and European countries well established here in providing the component parts for green energy technology.

See entire article HERE.

 

“Overseas firms collecting most green energy money”, October 29, 2009, http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/wind-energy-funds-going-overseas/  

[ii] Ibid.

[iii] Ibid.

[iv] Ibid

[v] “Vietnam’s first turbine component plant underway”, May 13, 2009, http://www.vietnewsonline.vn/News/Business/Companies-Finance/6072/Vietnams-first-turbine-component-plant-underway.htm

[vi] http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS200008+29-Oct-2009+BW20091029

[vii] “Lone Star, Meet Red Star: China’s $1.5 Billion Wind-Power Deal in Texas”, October 30, 2009, http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/10/30/lone-star-meet-red-starchina%e2%80%99s-15-billiob-wind-power-deal-in-texas/

[viii] http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS195122+29-Oct-2009+PRN20091029

[ix] http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/10/26/highest-cost-generating-plant-comes-on-line-in-florida-to-obama-fanfare/

[x] “Solar-Power Incentives in Germany Draw Fire,” Vanessa Fuhrmans, Wall Street Journal, September 28, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125383541153239329.html

============================================================

 

Now a map of Jeffrey Immelt’s (GE) connections:

 

 

 

 

Jeffrey Immelt's Relationship Map

 

Jobs “Saved” or “Created” for WHICH country?

Relationship Map for U.S. Climate Action Partnership

U.S. Climate Action Partnership Map

 Note names in above map!

SPONSOR of blueprint for Climate Change Bill

Chrysler LLC: Received bailout $$ United Auto Workers Co-owner after 2009 bankruptcy

Exelon Corporation: Tied to Commonwealth Edison Company. Thomas Ayers (Bill Ayers father) was board member.  Also tied to ASK Public Strategies and David Axelrod (Obama’s strategist)

Florida Power and Light Group Inc.

General Electric Company: Jeffrey Immelt CEO/NBC owned as well as Universal NBC

General Motors Corporation :  U.S. now owns partneship in

World Resources Institute:  AL GORE is a director. So is David Gergan.

 

=================================================

How is that “Hope” and “Change” working for you America?

 

SEIU Thugs California Style! SEIU Whistleblower Beaten At Union Meeting!

From CBS 13 in California:

An article exposing the thuggocracy of the SEIU Union.

State Worker Beat Up At SEIU Meeting

November 6, 2009

Sacramento, California: A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose [allegedl corruption within the union.

Bloody Brawl: SEIU Member Beaten by Union members

Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax Board. Last night he walked into a union hall in Sacramento for an SEIU local 1000 meeting.

“We had every right to be here, very simple; it wasn’t anything private or anything exclusive,” said Hamidi.

But Hamidi says the union members did not want him there.

“Three, four people jumped at me, wrestled with me, then did all that,” said Hamidi. “I was covered in blood and then over to the emergency room.”

Photos of Hamidi in the hospital show him bloodied from the brawl. So why did this happen? Besides being a state worker, Hamidi says he’s an unpaid reporter for a cable access show and a vocal critic of the SEIU. He calls the state workers’ union corrupt.

“This is a union hall that is leased and is being furnished and equipped and everything with our money,” said Hamidi.

Hamidi says he came to the hall to expose how he says SEIU union leaders are spending tens of thousands of dollars on a political race, he claims, they have no right to do. After he and a photographer walked in to the meeting, it didn’t take long for Hamidi to be right out the door and on his way to the hospital.

We called SEIU union leaders to get their side of the story, but they refused to comment.

Entire article HERE.

End note:

Remember Obama meets with the president of SEIU every week in the White House (LA Times).

The SEIU “Purple Shirts” attacked a man for simply selling Gadsden Flags at a Town Hall meeting.

 

 

Will the SEIU “Purple Shirts” become the “Brown Shirts” of Obama’s  when the  Cloward- Piven [Marxist] strategy goals are reached?

 

After all Andy Stern, the SEIU President boasts he has 2 MILLION members!

 

 

Democratic consultant says he got a warning from White House after appearing on Fox News

From the Los Angeles Times:

An article titled:

‘We better not see you on again,’ the strategist says he was told by a White House official. Obama aides have taken an aggressive stance against the network and may be seeking to isolate it.

By Peter Nicholas

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

November 6, 2009

Reporting from Washington – At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama administration.

Political consultants are a staple of cable television talk shows, analyzing current events based on their own experiences working on campaigns or in government.

One Democratic strategist said that shortly after an appearance on Fox, he got a phone call from a White House official telling him not to be a guest on the show again. The call had an intimidating tone, he said. [Emphasis added]

The message was, ” ‘We better not see you on again,’ ” said the strategist, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to run afoul of the White House. An implicit suggestion, he said, was that “clients might stop using you if you continue.” [Emphasis added]

In urging Democratic consultants to spurn Fox, White House officials might be trying to isolate the network and make it appear more partisan.

A boycott by Democratic strategists could also help drive the White House narrative that Fox is a fundamentally different creature than the other TV news networks. For their part, White House officials appear on Fox News — but sporadically and with “eyes wide open,” as one aide put it.

David Plouffe, the president’s campaign manager and author of a new campaign book, “The Audacity to Win,” was scheduled to appear on Fox’s “On the Record” with Greta Van Susteren Thursday night as he promotes his book. His appearance, preempted by the breaking news of the shootings at Ft. Hood, Texas, has been rescheduled for Monday.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Thursday night that she had checked with colleagues who “deal with TV issues” and they had not told people to avoid Fox. On the contrary, they had urged people to appear on the network, Dunn wrote in an e-mail.

But Patrick Caddell, a Fox News contributor and a former pollster for President Carter, said he has spoken to Democratic consultants who have been told by the White House to avoid appearances on Fox. He declined to give their names.

Caddell said he had not gotten that message himself from the White House. “They know better than to tell me anything like that,” he said.

Caddell added: “I have heard that they’ve done that to others in not-too-subtle ways. I find it appalling. When the White House gets in the business of suppressing dissent and comment, particularly from its own party, it hurts itself.” [Emphasis added]

The White House has taken an aggressive stance toward Fox. When President Obama appeared on five separate talk shows one Sunday in September, he avoided Fox.

“It would be foolish for us to just treat it like it’s CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS,” said a White House aide. “That doesn’t make any sense. That would be like saying we’re going to do [interviews] with the newsmagazines and we’re going to do Time, Newsweek and the [conservative] National Review.”

The aide spoke on condition of anonymity in order to talk more openly about the White House’s thinking.

Read the full article HERE.

 

=============================================

Saul Alinsky’s RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” 

 

 

 

Is America Being “Nudged” Toward LENINISM?

The more we learn of Obama Czars and the powers given to them ONLY by Obama; Is America heading into Leninism?

LENINISM

Leninism is the theory and practice of the dictatorship of the proletariat, led by a revolutionary vanguard party. Theoretically, Leninism comprises the political and socialist economic theories of Vladimir Lenin, developed from Marxism and his own interpretations of Marxist theory to fit the agrarian Russian Empire of that time, with Leninist theory turning Marx on his head by placing politics over economics.  Leninism was the basis for establishing the ideology of Soviet socialism — in its Russian application, as the USSR.

After the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established in 1922, its governing philosophy, Leninism, became the predominant branch of Marxism. In Russia, the theoretical descendants of Leninism are Stalinism and Trotskyism; at his death in 1924, Lenin’s revolutionary comrades, Josef Stalin and Leon Trotsky, were the leaders of the strongest ideological factions that emerged to assume command of the Communist Party in the USSR.

The Communist Manifesto (1848) established that a communist revolution would occur only under specific conditions — including the pre-condition of an economically-exhausted industrialized nation. Because Imperial Russia did not possess most of the requisite pre-revolutionary conditions (i.e. nationalism, irredentism, class warfare), Lenin adapted Marx’s urban revolution to Russia’s agricultural conditions, sparking the “revolutionary nationalism of the poor”.

The pamphlet What is to be Done? (1902), proposed that the (urban) proletariat can successfully achieve revolutionary consciousness only under the leadership of a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries — who can achieve aims only with internal democratic centralism in the party; tactical and ideological policy decisions are agreed via democracy, and every member must support and promote the agreed party policy.

To wit, capitalism can be overthrown only with revolution — because attempts to reform capitalism from within (Fabianism) and from without (democratic socialism) will fail because of its inherent contradictions. The purpose of a Leninist revolutionary vanguard party is the forceful deposition of the incumbent government; assume power (as agent of the proletariat) and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat government. Moreover, as the government, the vanguard party must educate the proletariat — to dispel the societal false consciousness of religion and nationalism that are culturally instilled by the bourgeoisie in facilitating exploitation. The dictatorship of the proletariat is governed with a de-centralized direct democracy practised via soviets (councils) where the workers exercise political power (cf. soviet democracy); the fifth chapter of State & Revolution, describes it:

“. . . the dictatorship of the proletariat — i.e. the organisation of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of crushing the oppressors. . . . An immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the rich: . . . and suppression by force, i.e. exclusion from democracy, for the exploiters and oppressors of the people — this is the change which democracy undergoes during the transition from capitalism to communism.”

Continue reading HERE:

=======================================================

Quotes from Lenin’s What Is To Be Done:

“Working-class consciousness cannot be genuine political consciousness unless the workers are trained to respond to all cases of tyranny, oppression, violence, and abuse, no matter what class is affected — unless they are trained, moreover, to respond from a Social-Democratic point of view and no other.”

“In order to become a Social-Democrat, the worker must have a clear picture in his mind of the economic nature and the social and political features of the landlord and the priest, the high state official and the peasant, the student and the vagabond; he must know their strong and weak points; he must grasp the meaning of all the catchwords and sophisms by which each class and each stratum camouflages its selfish strivings and its real “inner workings”; he must understand what interests are reflected by certain institutions and certain laws and how they are reflected. But this “clear picture” cannot be obtained from any book. It can be obtained only from living examples and from exposures that follow close upon what is going on about us at a given moment; upon what is being discussed, in whispers perhaps, by each one in his own way; upon what finds expression in such and such events, in such and such statistics, in such and such court sentences, etc., etc. These comprehensive political exposures are an essential and fundamental condition for training the masses in revolutionary activity.”

“As for calling the masses to action, that will come of itself as soon as energetic political agitation, live and striking exposures come into play.  Calls for action, not in the general, but in the concrete, sense of the term can be made only at the place of action; only those who themselves go into action, and do so immediately, can sound such calls. Our business as Social-Democratic publicists is to deepen, expand, and intensify political exposures and political agitation.”

“We must “go among all classes of the population” as theoreticians, as proagandists, as agitators, and as organisers.”

Lenin’s What Is To Be Done can be found HERE.

===============================================

Do ANY of these WORDS sound familiar America?

Think

SEIU

Organizing for America

HCAN

Progressives for Obama

Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism

Democracy Alliance

Learn and Serve.org

Communist Party of the United States

Congressional Progressive Caucus

Democratic Socialists of America

 

And so on and so on…..

 

WHY was Rep. Alan Grayson promoted so quickly among the ranks of the Congressional Progressive Cacus (currently Vice Chair) when he has only been in the House of Representatives since January 2009?

Caucus Member List

Friday February 20, 2009 <<NOTE DATE!

Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Hon. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)

 

Link

 

WHO does he know?

WHO sent him?

 

A Convenient Lie? A Profiteering Lie? Al Gore Admits CO2 Does Not Cause Majority Of Global Warming

An article titled Al Gore Admits CO2 Does Not Cause Majority Of Global Warming

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com

November 5, 2009

In a new development that is potentially devastating to the agenda to introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade system, Al Gore admits that the majority of global warming that occurred until 2001 was not primarily caused by CO2.

Before we get too excited, Gore is not backing away from his support for the theory of man-made climate change, but his concession that carbon dioxide only accounted for 40% of warming according to new studies could seriously harm efforts to tax CO2, that evil, life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants absorb.

“Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions,” reports BB News.

Yesterday we reported on how Gore was set to become the first “carbon billionaire” on the back of vast profits from companies invested in the “green revolution” that the former vice-president has a hefty stake in.

We also highlighted how the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has direct ties to both Al Gore and Maurice Strong, two figures intimately involved with a long standing movement to use the theory of man made global warming as a mechanism for profit and social engineering. Gore’s investment company, Generation Investment Management, which sells carbon offset opportunities, is the largest shareholder of CCX.

Gore stands to make windfall profits from his stake in carbon trading systems that would be used to manage the cap and trade system currently being readied for passage in the Senate, but his admission that CO2 is far less of a threat than global warming alarmists have been claiming could be a terminal blow for such a proposal.

As Andrew Bolt writes in today’s Australian Herald Sun, his flip-flopping “Suggests not only that was Gore wrong to claim the science was “settled”, but that the hugely expensive schemes to “stop” warming by slashing carbon dioxide emissions will be less than half as effective as claimed.”

“Over the years I have been among those who focused most of all on CO2, and I think that’s still justified,” Gore told Newsweek . “But a comprehensive plan to solve the climate crisis has to widen the focus to encompass strategies for all” of the greenhouse culprits identified in the Nasa study.”

Gore now blames soot and methane for the majority of global warming, leaving the door open for a tax on livestock, a tax on meat, a tax on milk, and on and on until he changes his mind again and blames another culprit so that too can be taxed.[Emphasis added]

In another indictment of Gore’s accuracy in warning about climate change, he has now virtually abandoned scientific “facts” in favor of characterizing his Inconvenient Truth presentation in the context of a religious sermon.

“Simply laying out the facts won’t work,” admits Gore.

Continue reading HERE.

=======================================================

End note:

So Al Gore, admits CO2 does not cause the majority of Global warming;  he is now claims other “factors” are contributing to Climate Change!

Where is the MSM coverage of this issue?  Oh yeah, they have been proselytizing about Health Care.  The smudge pot focal points are being thrown out in record numbers; America keeps fixating only ONE thing while several things are being planned, manipulated and secreted from American citizens.

Sen. Barbara Boxer is “excited” about her Climate Change bill…..

Pelosi is excited about the House Healthcare bill……

Now, since unemployment has gone past 10%…..now they are talking about a SECOND STIMULUS BILL!

Obama is trying to push through treaties that can threatening the sovereignty of the United States.

BTW: The wind/solar projects that Obama lauds will be OUTSOURCED to other countries.  How is that “Hope” and “Change” working for YOU?

 

In this economic downturn, a great majority of Americans have tightened their belts and quit spending…….

And Congress?  They voted themselves a PAY RAISE while stopping COLA for Social Security. They also LOVE and WILL KEEP their Rolls Royce healthcare insurance while cramming this Healthcare bill down our throats.  If they idolize this healthcare so much, WHY don’t they drop their coverage and join the “masses”?

Is it time for torches and pitchforks?

You Better Be Careful What You Wish For: The Return of the Inflation Tax

Forget the fact we, the taxpayer already pay for Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP, and illegal immigrants’ health care.  Forget the fact we, the taxpayer already pay for the increase in medical costs not subsidized by the Federal Government for healthcare.

Want the Democratic version of Healthcare?  Pelosi’s answer: No Problem!  WHAT she doesn’t tell you is this:

Thomas Lifson writes an article WE the taxpayer should read and understand:

The return of the inflation tax

November 7, 2009

Buried in the Pelosi Healthcare bill is a very dangerous tax feature: repeal of indexing of progressive tax rates for inflation. Via the Wall Street Journal:

“Buried in Nancy Pelosi’s health-care bill is a provision that will partially repeal tax indexing for inflation, meaning that as their earnings rise over a lifetime these youngsters can look forward to paying higher rates even if their income gains aren’t real.

 

[....]

 

“In order to raise enough money to make their plan look like it won’t add to the deficit, House Democrats have deliberately not indexed two main tax features of their plan: the $500,000 threshold for the 5.4-percentage-point income tax surcharge; and the payroll level at which small businesses must pay a new 8% tax penalty for not offering health insurance.”

 

The Pelosi tax surcharge applies to capital gains and dividends.

 

Given the risk of hyperinflation due to the reckless printing of money to fund Obama’s record deficits, a huge and unexpected tax increase faces Americans who will suddenly fuind themselves called “rich” even as their incomes buy less and less.

 

=====================================================

 

End note:

 

Inflation is coming; how else are We the taxpayer are going to pay off this massive debt incurred by our current Administration?

 

The YOUTH of this country will have to pay higher and higher taxes to pay for the debt.  Those currently in college or have recently graduated will face paying more and more in taxes and have LESS in their monthly “operating costs” (monthly budgets).

 

Consumer costs will skyrocket as the debt becomes “due.”

Milk will go up.

Gasoline will go up.

Electricity bills will go up.

Bread will go up.

And so on and so on……..

 

As they say “It all rolls downhill.”

 

Any costs to businesses will be paid for by the consumer.

 

Will we see lines like those in Russia for toilet paper, coffee, etc.?

 

The lies the Democrats say of: “This won’t cost the taxpayer one penny.”?  …..Priceless.

Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity (Ft. Hood Incident)

 

 

Beckwith at The Obama File  offers this piece about Obama’s insensitivity following notification of the Ft. Hood Incident. http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaLatest.htm

“Don’t expect this blunder to receive wide coverage.  It’s not something he can blame George Bush for.”~~the obamafile

================================

Robert George says Obama didn’t wait long after Tuesday’s devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed.  The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that Obama would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance.  At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to Obama.  The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light Obama making introductory remarks.  At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian affairs, he thanked various staffers and offered a “shout-out” to “Dr. Joe Medicine Crow — that Congressional Medal of Honor winner.”  Three minutes in, Obama spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms.[Emphasis added]  Who is advising him?

Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned.  An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter.  Obama should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in.  That’s the least that should occur.

Indeed, an argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the Indian event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before.  That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.

Did Obama’s team not realize what sort of image they were presenting to the country at this moment?  The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on — and the initial words coming out of his mouth was jolting, if not disturbing.

It must have been disappointing for many politically aware Democrats, still reeling from the election two days before.  The New Jersey gubernatorial vote had already demonstrated that Obama and his political team couldn’t produce a winning outcome in a state very friendly to Democrats (and where he won by 15 points one year ago).  And now this?  Congressional Democrats must wonder if a White House that has burdened them with a too-heavy policy agenda over the last year has a strong enough political operation to help push that agenda through.

If Obama’s communications apparatus can’t inform — and protect — their boss during tense moments when the country needs to see a focused and compassionate leader, it has disastrous consequences for his party and supporters.

All of Obama’s men (and women) fell down on the job Thursday.  And Democrats across the country have real reason to panic.

==============================================

Obama’s TV appearance was actually worse than the above description.

He was cold, and read his statement as though he were describing how the White House budget is prepared — it was a shocking display of detachment — but as a person that loathes all things military, not surprising.

By the way, Joe Medicine Crow is not a recipient of the Medal of Honor.  He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom — and from Obama.

Obama is so clueless he doesn’t know the difference between the nation’s highest award that recognizes “conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his [or her] life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States,” and an award made for “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.”

 

http://www.theobamafile.com