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WASHINGTON — The U.S. is reporting a 16-percent increase in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2007 due to resurgent extremist activity there and in neighboring Pakistan.
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State Department: Terror Attacks Up in Afghanistan as Al Qaeda Gains Strength
Posted in April 30th, 2008
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The Indiana Congressional Candidate the GOP Wishes Would Go Away
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From Fox News:
By Joseph Abrams
On the face of it, Tony Zirkle looks like the perfect candidate for Congress: He attended the Naval Academy, he has a master’s degree from Georgetown, and he went on to be a top prosecutor in Indiana, crusading against Internet pornography.There’s only one problem — or maybe more than one, [...]
Mofaz: Iran could go nuclear in a year
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From the Jerusalem Post:
Iran has taken command of its nuclear technology and could have an atomic bomb in a year, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz was quoted as saying Wednesday, citing Israeli intelligence.
According to Channel 10, Mofaz made the comments during talks with US officials in Washington where he leading an Israeli delegation holding meetings within [...]
Iran-Europe gas deals anger Washington
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From FT.com:
By Daniel Dombey in Washington, Anna Fifield in Tehran and Haig Simonian in Zurich
The US and its allies are worried that the sanctions regime against Tehran is under threat from a possible new wave of European investment in Iran’s strategically important gas sector.
Tehran has already concluded gas deals with Chinese and Malaysian companies – [...]
Grace/Muth/Ralston Commission Comes to Life
Posted in April 30th, 2008
by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton in Nevada Politics, Business, Chuck Muth, Pundits/Writers, Taxes, Politics
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2008
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GRACE/MUTH/RALSTON COMMISSION COMES TO LIFE
Almost three decades after President Ronald Reagan empanelled the Grace Commission to root out waste, fraud and abuse in the federal budget, Gov. Gibbons announced yesterday the creation of a similar commission which both Las Vegas Sun columnist John Ralston [...]
Nevada News & Views - April 30, 2008
Posted in April 30th, 2008
by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton in Nevada Politics, Business, Chuck Muth, Pundits/Writers, Politics, Taxes, Education
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
DINA TAXUS TO THE RESCUE
With the last-minute, mysterious withdrawal of anointed Democrat congressional candidate Robert Daskas in the race against incumbent Republican Rep. Jon Porter, the powers-that-be appear to have settled on anointing state Senate Minority Leader Dina “Tax ’Em Til They Bleed” Titus to replace the previously anointed Daskas.
This is [...]
Paying for College
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From Kiplinger.com:
Take a look at Kiplinger.com’s new ‘Paying for College’ Section which features, among other things, the best ways to borrow money for college, key ways to handling credit wisely and how to compare student loans.
I just went through this and it is a GREAT resource! If you’ve got children who are college age or [...]
Navy Re-establishes 4th Fleet to Promote Future Interoperability
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From the American Forces Press Service:
By Navy Lt. Jennifer Cragg
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2008 – The recent re-establishment of U.S. 4th Fleet will promote increased alignment with the 32 countries and 13 territories in the Caribbean and in Central and South America, a senior Navy official said yesterday.
“The Navy, and probably [...]
Hamas Holocaust perversion: Jews planned Holocaust to kill handicapped Jews
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From Palestinian Media Watch:
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Jewish leaders planned the Holocaust to kill “disabled and handicapped” Jews to avoid having to care for them, according to a Hamas TV educational program. As much of the world prepared to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Hamas TV presented its latest sinister twist on Holocaust [...]
What is Sniper’s Role at Mount Everest?
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next week. More incredibly, the magazine reports, one blogger “saw lots of military staff and one solider carrying a very sophisticated sniper [...]
American Congress for Truth Roundup - 04/30/2008
Posted in April 30th, 2008
UK centre of Islamist terror in Europe: Europol
comment by Jerry Gordon
The U.K. has become the bastion of Islamist terror in the EU according to Europol stats. A report issued by Europol cited a 30 percent increase in terror suspect arrest. A majority of the 207 arrest in Britain were involved in Islamist terrorism. Note this [...]
England’s Call to Repeal Our Declaration of Independence
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From EagleForum.org:
by Phyllis Schlafly
It’s a good thing that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s U.S. visit was upstaged by the dramatic reception Americans gave Pope Benedict XVI. Brown might have been booed if he hadn’t delivered what aides called his “signature” speech within the cloistered walls of Harvard’s Kennedy Center.
Brown’s tedious, hour-long speech impudently demanded that [...]
Shock! Muslim ‘condemns’ Rep. Myrick’s sensible anti-terrorist plan
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From ACT! for America:
As predictable as the sun coming up in the East, a spokesman for an Islamic organization has condemned Congresswoman Sue Myrick’s “Ten Point Plan” to wake up America to the threat of Islamic terrorism.
Just as predictably, the “condemnation” makes no attempt to refute the plan or make a factual case against it. [...]
‘We won’t cut ties with Hizbullah, Iran’
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From ICEJ:
According to Army Radio on Wednesday, a close associate of Syrian President Bashar Assad said that although Damascus and Israel may be considering a peace agreemment, Syria will never sever its ties to Hizbullah and Iran. In an interview broadcast on Tuesday on the Hizbullah channel Al-Manar, Dr. Samir Al-Takithat said “it would be [...]
Hamas claims to have 200,000 suicide bombers
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From ICEJ:
Israel ‘will pay a heavy price’
In a speech at the Islamic University in Gaza City on Tuesday, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar claimed that even though Israel may have 200 nuclear warheads, Hamas has 200,000 suicide bombers ready to detonate themselves in the Jewish State.
If Israel rejects an Egyptian mediated cease-fire with the Palestinians [...]
California gun owners: Beware
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From the Bookworm Room:
Here is a message from the NRA:
Anti-gun hysteria has reached a fever pitch in the Golden State. The California Assembly is considering a bill (Assembly Bill 2062) this session that, if passed, will have dire consequences for California’s law-abiding gun owners.
AB2062 is scheduled to be heard on Wednesday, [...]‘Land-for-peace will put Iran in Golan’
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From ICEJ:
During a meeting in Washington on Monday with US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Israeli cabinet minister Shaul Mofaz warned that ceding the Golan Heights to Syria will mean bringing Iran there as well. “You must have heard recent statements on the process with the Syrians,” Mofaz said in reference to reports of Damascus [...]
Lebanon accuses IAF jets of invading airspace
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From ICEJ:
According to a Lebanese Army statement on Monday, “12 enemy Israeli warplanes” illegally entered Lebanon’s airspace before noon to inspect Beirut and other parts of the country. The flights lasted about an hour, read the statement. Israel has not yet responded to the accusations about the flights. It is common for IAF jets [...]
‘Terror groups plan massive Independence Day attack’
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From ICEJ:
Palestinian terror militias are reportedly joining together to plot a massive attack aimed at spoiling Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations which begin next week. Military Intelligence has picked up on signs that the terror groups are coordinating their efforts to carry out a wide-scale attack and to infiltrate Israel’s border with Gaza, Maj. Gen. Amos [...]
AWFUL - Showing our troops being blown up
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From Move America Forward:
The Democratic National Committee has launched a new attack ad showing our troops in Iraq being blown apart in an IED explosion. ( The ad can be seen online via Newsmax’s website here: http://election.newsmax.com/dnc_100.html )
We at Move America Forward do not endorse political candidates or parties. However, we find [...]
Concentration Camp Doctor Aribert Heim Tops List of Most Wanted Nazis
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From Fox News:
BADEN-BADEN, Germany — Karl Lotter, a prisoner who worked in the hospital at Mauthausen concentration camp, had no trouble remembering the first time he watched SS doctor Aribert Heim kill a man.
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Sphere It“Hostile” Iran Sparks U.S. Attack Plan
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From CBS News:
Pentagon Wary Of Tehran’s Expanding Nuclear Program And Support Of Iraqi Insurgents
(CBS) A second American aircraft carrier steamed into the Persian Gulf on Tuesday as the Pentagon ordered military commanders to develop new options for attacking Iran. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports that the planning is being driven by what [...]
Gates Calls Arrival of Second Carrier in Gulf ‘Reminder’ of U.S. Presence
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From American Forces Press Service:
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
MEXICO CITY, April 30, 2008 – The movement of a second aircraft carrier into the Persian Gulf this week doesn’t signal an escalation of the U.S. naval presence—but could serve as a “reminder” of it to countries in the region, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said [...]
Rice calls Hamas “proxy warriors” for Iran
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From the DEBKAfile:
In a speech April 29 to the American Jewish Committee in Washington, US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said threat was not just bent on destroying Israel, but also seeking a nuclear capability and a destabilizing factor in Lebanon, Iraq and even Afghanistan. US President George W. Bush said earlier that he was [...]
Olmert fends off ministerial revolt against truce with Hamas
Posted in April 30th, 2008
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile reports that prime minister Ehud Olmert was faced with pressing demands at the defense and foreign affairs cabinet session Wednesday, April 30, to explain why Israel is accepting the truce in negotiation with Hamas instead of getting down to the promised military campaign to eradicate its missile capabilities.
Already, in the first four [...]
Efforts to End Cinco De Mayo Festivities Continue
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Efforts to convince Americans to celebrate CINCO DE MUSTARD — instead of Cinco De Mayo — continue despite a government public relations counter-effort that surfaced today in the form of a news release issued by the U.S. Census Bureau:
Cinco de Mayo celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in [...]
Nevada News & Views - April 29, 2008
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
THE GULF OF RONKIN INCIDENT
History buffs will recall that a questionable 1964 incident in the Gulf of Tonkin was used by then-President Lyndon Johnson to go to war with North Vietnam. Many surmise that Johnson was looking for an excuse, any excuse, to launch more aggressive military action and used [...]
Score one for the Muslim Brotherhood
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From American Congress for Truth:
By CLARE M. LOPEZ (Middle East Times)
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/04/28/score_one_for_the_muslim_brotherhood/9562/
SPECIAL REPORT: The Bush administration has decided that calling the enemy by his name is too risky, too politically incorrect, or oddly, somehow too laudatory.
And so, henceforth federal agencies of the United States government are to refrain from identifying the Islamic jihad with words that [...]
Fort Bragg Soldiers Living in Deplorable Conditions
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Bob McCarty Writes:
Believe it or not, I learned about some ought-to-be-condemned facilities in which Army soldiers are living at Fort Bragg by reading a post at the ON DEADLINE blog at USA TODAY:
Edward Frawley posted this video on YouTube after seeing the conditions his son was living in at Fort Bragg following a 15-month [...]
Nevada News & Views - April 28, 2008
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Citizen Outreach:
By: Chuck Muth
RON PAUL’S BLIND BANK ROBBERS
Many of the Ron Paul supporters at the Nevada GOP convention in Reno this weekend were like blind bank robbers: You know someone is going to get shot; you just don’t know who…and it’s just as likely they’ll shoot one of their own.
That’s exactly the situation we’re [...]
Blogs4Borders Video Blogburst 042808
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Blogs4Borders:
Our weekly vlog/poscast in illegal immigration and border security. In this weeks edition…
As our invaders warm up for next weeks amnesty march we thought we’d take a look at one of the darkest costs of modern immigration: slavery!
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Palestinians call for revenge for ‘Zionist massacre’
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From ICEJ:
Gaza explosion a set-back to ceasefire efforts
An IDF operation targeting a terror cell in northern Gaza on Monday apparently set off a mass of explosives they were carrying, killing seven Palestinians, among them a mother and her four children, and setting back chances that Hamas will agree to a truce.
According to an initial IDF [...]
Outrage: DNC Ad Shows U.S. Soldiers Being Blown Up
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From NewsMax:
By: Jim Meyers
The Democratic National Committee has sparked outrage among veterans and others across the internet by running an anti-John McCain ad that shows U.S. soldiers being blown up.
After the new ad’s voice-over castigated McCain for suggesting that the United States may stay in Iraq for “maybe 100” years, the footage becomes shocking.
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[...]Undercover Reporter in United Kingdom
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From ACT! for America:
Over a year ago, a United Kingdom television station dispatched a reporter to go undercover into mosques in the UK.
In a series of blockbuster video reports that have been posted on YouTube, viewers get to see for themselves what Brigitte Gabriel and others have been warning about for years.
In just the first [...]
War with Iran
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From FrontPage magazine.com:
By Dan Rabkin
Former mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has said that “the use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power.” Giuliani is absolutely right, but why are we sitting by as these frightful alternatives [...]
Homicide Bombing Kills 15 in Afghanistan
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Fox News:
KABUL, Afghanistan — A homicide attack Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan killed 15 people and wounded 25 others, a NATO spokesman said.
There were NATO troops in the area of the attack in Khogyani district of Nangahar province but there were no alliance casualties, Maj. Martin O’Donnell said.
The militants opened up with small arms [...]
Marines Launch Major Operation in Afghanistan’s Taliban Territory
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Fox News:
OUTSIDE GARMSER, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines exchanged gunfire with militants Tuesday after pouring into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan in the first major American operation in the region in years.
Several hundred Marines, many of them veterans of the conflict in Iraq, pushed into the town of Garmser in pre-dawn light in [...]
Sadr City Militants Ambush U.S. Patrol, Killing More Than 30
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Fox News:
BAGHDAD — More than two dozen people were killed when Shiite militants ambushed a U.S. patrol in Baghdad’s embattled Sadr City district, bringing the death toll in the area on Tuesday to more than 30, a U.S. military spokesman and Iraqi officials said.
The clashes broke out at 9:30 a.m. after U.S. [...]
Cigarette Smugglers Funnel Money to Terror Groups, Report Finds
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Fox News:
By Catherine Herridge
WASHINGTON — Cigarette smuggling is generating millions of dollars every year that can be reaching terrorist groups, including Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda, according to law enforcement sources. In a single case, $100,000 was sent to Hezbollah.
A 15-page report congressional report, obtained by FOX News, includes intelligence from law enforcement [...]
Truckers protest high gasoline prices
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From WTOPnews.com:
By BRETT ZONGKERAssociated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Dave Gares, an independent truck driver since 1974 who hauls mostly soft drinks these days, never dreamed he’d be paying more than $4 per gallon for diesel.
It takes 220 gallons to fill up his tractor-trailer rig, which gets a little over six miles per gallon on the [...]
Opec says oil could hit $200
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From FT.com:
By Carola Hoyos in London
Opec’s president on Monday warned oil prices could hit $200 a barrel and there would be little the cartel could do to help.
The comments made by Chakib Khelil, Algeria’s energy minister, came as oil prices hit a historic peak close to $120 a barrel, putting further pressure on global economies.
His [...]
US envoy slams Iran’s alleged destabilizing role in Iraq
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From Iran Focus:
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The US ambassador to the UN on Monday slammed the alleged destabilizing role of Iran and Syria in Iraq and urged them to stop the flow of weapons and foreign fighters into their war-scarred neighbor.
US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told a Security Council meeting that recent clashes between Iraqi government [...]
Analysis: CIA chief confirms Syrian reactor could produce fuel for 1-2 weapons – not bombs
Posted in April 29th, 2008
From the DEBKAfile:
DEBKAfile’s military sources note that the CIA director Michael Hayden said: “In the course of a year after they got full up they would have produced enough plutonium for one or two weapons.” Speaking to reporters after a speech at Georgetown University, Hayden did not say “bombs” – but “weapons.”
This would appear to [...]
Al-Qaeda Would Obliterate a City, Ex-MI6 Chief Says
Posted in April 28th, 2008
From Global Security Newswire:
Al-Qaeda would destroy an entire city if it acquired the means to do so, the former chief of the British intelligence service MI6 warned in defending a proposal to extend the period of time authorities in the United Kingdom can detain terror suspects without filing charges, the London Mail on Sunday reported [...]
Republicans Lash Out at North Korea
Posted in April 28th, 2008
From Global Security Newswire:
U.S. Republican lawmakers could pose an obstacle to the North Korean denuclearization deal following the release of intelligence showing the Stalinist state aided construction of a Syrian nuclear reactor, the Washington Post reported Saturday (see GSN, April 25 ).
The White House had hoped to move the agreement forward by releasing the information [...]
Syria Denies Nuclear Reactor; IAEA to Investigate
Posted in April 28th, 2008
From Global Security Newswire:
Top Syrian officials have denied U.S. assertions that the Middle Eastern nation had nearly completed a nuclear reactor before Israel destroyed the facility last year (see GSN, April 25).
In congressional briefings last week, U.S. intelligence officials presented evidence of what they said was a Syrian effort to build a plutonium production reactor [...]
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Posted in April 28th, 2008
Radio Free Europe says it’s under cyber attack
Posted in April 28th, 2008
From BREITBART.com:
By KAREL JANICEK
Associated Press Writer
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) – Several Web sites of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have been attacked, the broadcaster said Monday, suggesting the Belarus government could be responsible.
In the form of a denial-of-service attack that floods servers with fake traffic so legitimate visitors cannot get through, the assault began [...]
Rice Rationing Spreads as Far as Israel
Posted in April 28th, 2008
From The New York Sun:
By JOSH GERSTEIN
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Rationing of rice by retail stores has spread as far as Israel since The New York Sun reported on the phenomenon in Northern California last week.
The Blue Square and Supersol supermarket chains have begun limiting purchases of rice, Israeli newspapers said yesterday. Supersol is restricting [...]
Weeping schoolgirls wish happy birthday Saddam
Posted in April 28th, 2008
From Reuters:
By Yasser Faisal
AWJA, Iraq (Reuters) – Hundreds of Iraqi schoolchildren were brought to the modest mausoleum of Saddam Hussein on Monday to celebrate the birthday of the executed dictator in the village where he was born.
Saddam, who was hanged in late 2006 for crimes against humanity, is hated in much of Iraq. But in [...]
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