Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category

Abu Dhabi is now funding Hollywood to make pro propaganda movies about Muslims. Another creep down the road of anti-Americanism by Hollywood apologists. Too bad these people are too self absorbed and clueless to realize these Islamists would ban most of their lifestyles.

Political Correctness, Ft. Hood, and Hollywood

Also unlike us, they have no problem asserting their values in the war’s crucial cultural front, either, a theater of operations where we are weakest. A burgeoning Arab film industry, for example, in partnership with Hollywood, is set to make unapologetic and positive cinematic portrayals of Islam as important an export as oil. Abu Dhabi is investing $1 billion in movie productions over the next few years. Crash and In the Valley of Elah screenwriter Paul Haggis recently taught a screenwriting master class in Dubai to fifty promising and “socially and politically astute” writers. A Qatari media company is pairing with Lord of the Rings producer Barrie Osborne on a $150 million biopic of the Muslim prophet Mohammed – “a profound genius,” says Osborne, ”who founded a religion whose name in Islam signifies peace and reconciliation. This is what our film will aspire to do.”

snip…The PC multiculturalist agenda, which Hollywood has often taken the lead in pushing, is a cancer that kills people and corrodes countries. It is the insidious source of all our misplaced “Why do they hate us?” agonizing. Not only is it undermining us in this clash of civilization versus barbarism, but it could prove to be the single most critical factor that will result in America’s defeat.

The people of the Left are so full of themselves they have no clue how this will affect them too.

Hollywood, Islam, AntiAmericanism

This story is being reported in the UK Independent which Ralph Bristol mentioned on his radio show this morning.

The demise of the dollar

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading

By Robert Fisk
Tuesday, 6 October 2009

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

The plans, confirmed to The Independent by both Gulf Arab and Chinese banking sources in Hong Kong, may help to explain the sudden rise in gold prices, but it also augurs an extraordinary transition from dollar markets within nine years.

Read the rest of the story.

Oil, trading oil in dollars,

This is an amazing display, I can’t believe it wasn’t all over the news. But then, they must protect the ego of their Messiah.

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This editorial almost makes one believe there is a bit of sanity amidst the Iraqi people. Unfortunately this is but one lone voice in the wilderness.

Iraqi Columnist: Thank You, America

Thank You America – And Damn You, You Bastards
By Jabr Al Jabouri
Al-Bayyna Al-Jadida [Baghdad]
July 1, 2009

America chose to save us from the most evil party, and the most despicable President in the universe [Saddam]. Meanwhile, the Arab powers stood firmly against the American project. They used all means to thwart them, but Allah’s will had another say in this matter. America turned the Ba’athists into the world’s laughing stock by showing them fleeing in their underwear on live television. Meanwhile, the Arab powers turned those cowards into national heroes on their satellite channels.

Read the rest of the editorial, it’s an interesting take you won’t read elsewhere.

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Obama’s claims in his Cairo speech about Muslim contributions to the world are greatly exaggerated and in fact are downright lies.

From Frank J Tipler (Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University):

In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, President Barack Obama claimed: “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar University — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing.�

Obama is not much of a “student of history� if he believes this. Almost every advance he attributes to the Muslims was due to someone else.

What’s even more interesting is how any change in science has to be attributed to Allah according to the Koran.

The reason Muslims never developed fundamental physics is because the leading Muslim theologians declared the idea of fixed physical laws to be heretical. The Qur’an (verse 6:64) states: “The Jews have said, ‘God’s hand is fettered.’ Fettered are their hands, and they are cursed for what they have said. Nay, but His hands are outspread; He expends how He will.� The standard Muslim interpretation of this passage has been that there cannot be unchanging physical laws because Allah may change the laws at any moment. In 1982, the Institute for Policy Studies in Islamabad, Pakistan, criticized a chemistry textbook by saying: “There is latent poison present in the subheading Energy Causes Changes because it gives the impression that energy is the true cause rather than Allah. Similarly it is unIslamic to teach that mixing hydrogen and oxygen automatically produces water. The Islamic way is this: when atoms of hydrogen approach atoms of oxygen, then by the Will of Allah water is produced.� The implication is clear: next week, Allah may change his mind about water being a compound of hydrogen and oxygen. With this sort of worldview, how could one possibly be a scientist?

Kind of answers the question of why Muslim countries stagnate, course the totalitarian rulers subjugating their citizens may also contribute to their backwardness [snicker]

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While this information provided by Dave Gaubatz (civilian Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003) regarding the current Democrats who were fully informed on methods used to obtain intelligence, the startling information is about the torture of our Troops.

Front Page: The Torture of American Soldiers

Gaubatz: It would be easier to name the ones who were not concerned. In early 2003, Americans fighting in Iraq felt we had the support of all politicians, regardless of political affiliation. We had inquires from politicians of all levels about the intelligence we were collecting. These politicians had constituents who wanted answers on the war and I believe deserved answers. Our teams wrote hundreds of intelligence reports and we briefed many through other electronic means. One such person at the time was then Senator Joe Biden (now VP Biden). I still have my war notes taken from the field, and his name was written in my book on 7 June 2003.

Biden was aware of intelligence we were obtaining from the field, and never did anyone question our methods of obtaining the intelligence. We were professionals and collected intelligence using the best method one could when surrounded by enemies sometimes 6 to our 2.

While the Democrat leftards are whining about water boarding they ignore the fact that these Islamic terrorist animals who are not protected by the Geneva Convention and who would never follow any rules of engagement determined by the Geneva Convention were committing real torture on our Troops.

7. Jessica Lynch’s hospital bed was located near a window overlooking a soccer field near the grounds of the hospital. She had been forced to watch as some of her team members were tortured, beheaded and buried.

8. One agent and I had interviewed the Saddam Hospital staff and determined the location of the dead Americans who had been killed during the 507th ambush.

9. The Director took us to a position on the soccer field and said the 507th members had been buried in front of the soccer goal posts, so the children would run over their graves while playing soccer. This was to dishonor our ‘troops’.

Almost any politician knew and was informed about methods used and yet none objected. If Leaky Leahy and Biden want to bring sunshine to the torture issue then let them Gaubatz is ready to expose their hypocrisy.

Gaubatz: I have never written or said anything I can’t substantiate under oath when required to do so. Will VP Biden, Pelosi or others do the same under oath? I believe it is time the American public demand they begin answering our questions; with their right hand raised, using a Bible, not the Quran. Thank you.

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Oh yes, there’s mega funding for the Palestinians (he’s got to repay his campaign debts) and North Korea who just launched a missile, but don’t worry Obama’s got everything under control.

From Yid – Obama’s “Supplemental” Military Request Includes Undercover Money to Palestinians and North Koreans

Today the Obama administration unveiled what it promised would be the last “emergency,” “supplemental” spending bill to cover the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The total of $83.4 billion is supposed to pay for the two wars for the rest of the fiscal year. The President is using the emergency request as an excuse to slip money to North Korea and the Palestinians. Included within that $83.4 Billion is over $800 million for the West Bank and Gaza and $95 Million for North Korea and another $45 Million for Zimbabwe.

Go read all the gory details.

Obama, Supplemental war spending, North Korea, Palestinians, Zimbabwe

As if there isn’t enough bad news happening around the world, it looks like things are going to get even more complicated. Imagine Islamic radicals with the Nuke!

From Dr. Richard Benkin (who is in India at this time):

The military has given the government the sort of ultimatum that says it’s time to start clearing out its desk and looking for asylum in one of those havens for deposed and corrupt rulers. And in fact, it is clear that only a military takeover will prevent an Al Qaeda takeover of nuclear Pakistan. Meanwhile, politicians are squabbling, calling each other traitors, and threatening to action against one another instead of acting against their common enemy.

People expect the military to take power in Pakistan around March 16. Unfortunately, that will only delay the Islamist victory there, especially with senior elements in the military and in Pakistani intelligence already sympathetic to that end. This could pose a serious if not grave threat to the United States and our allies. But do we have any indication that our government is acting; or even has a plan?

Is anybody in the Obama White House paying attention? What kind of additional danger does this place US and Coalition troops in Afghanistan?

Update March 16th – looks like the Obami White House is finally talking about this extreme situation:
From Flopping Aces – “What we’ve been seeing in recent weeks is truly apocalyptic warnings from the analysts, which suggest that that is now a live possibility. The Pakistani government seems unable to control its own military or intelligence people. The tribal areas are already a failed state and a safe haven for terrorists.

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The executive order doesn’t say Hamas but it may as well say that since those are the people Obama would consider to be refugees. Did I neglect to say that we (the American taxpayer) will also be paying to bring these ‘refugees’ to the US? I’m sure they all will be thrilled with the newly passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act since they’ll all be sucking off the government trough while planning where the next suicide bomber should be placed.

[Federal Register: February 4, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 22)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 6115]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr04fe09-106]

Presidential Documents

[[Page 6115]]

Presidential Determination No. 2009-15 of January 27,
2009

Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs
Related To Gaza

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States, including section
2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of
1962 (the “Act”), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601), I
hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the
Act, that it is important to the national interest to
furnish assistance under the Act in an amount not to
exceed $20.3 million from the United States Emergency
Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund for the purpose
of meeting unexpected and urgent refugee and migration
needs, including by contributions to international,
governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and
payment of administrative expenses of Bureau of
Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department
of State, related to humanitarian needs of Palestinian
refugees and conflict victims in Gaza.

You are authorized and directed to publish this
memorandum in the Federal Register.

(Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, January 27, 2009

[FR Doc. E9-2488
Filed 2-3-09; 8:45 am]

Billing code 4710-10-P

We all know this is his payback for all those contributions from Hamas during his campaign. What ever you do Obama, just keep them out of Tennessee, send them either to Chicago, DC, LA, Seattle, Philly, Detroit – keep them in a blue zone city and blue state. At least if there’s a bomb going off it reduces the number Leftards for taxpayers to support!

See – Obama’s Bundler Donation Fraud – He’s got Palestinian supporters

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Al-Arabiya’s interview with the Obami wasn’t really anything that surprised me. After all, we knew Obami doesn’t believe in American exceptionalism. He also I believe sees himself more as a President of the World vs the United States. Narcissistic and arrogant, of course, but that’s Obami. His wife confirmed this view of the United States when she declared that for the first time in my adult life I’m proud of my country.

He starts off the interview with this:

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think the most important thing is for the United States to get engaged right away. And George Mitchell is somebody of enormous stature. He is one of the few people who have international experience brokering peace deals.

And so what I told him is start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating — in the past on some of these issues — and we don’t always know all the factors that are involved. So let’s listen.

His delusions of grandeur continue with his plans to bring peace to the Middle East through discourse. Good luck with all those suicide bombers and he better pray they don’t migrate to the open borders of the United States.

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