So let me get this straight. Our taxpayer dollars and others from Western countries that are used to fight terrorism are also used to fund 90% of Obama says so. Right? Wrong.
Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.All of us, every single man, woman, and child on the face of the Earth were born with the same unalienable rights; to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And, if the governments of the world can't get that through their thick skulls, then, regime change will be necessary.
So let me get this straight. Our taxpayer dollars and others from Western countries that are used to fight terrorism are also used to fund 90% of Obama says so. Right? Wrong.
Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.Iran-backed Hamas leadership turns on its own prime minister
GAZA CITY World Tribune-- For the first time, a split within the Hamas leadership threatens to turn bloody."Haniyeh has been approached quietly and told to step down," a Hamas source said. "He has refused and was backed by the leadership in Damascus."Hamas sources said Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has come under threats by his rivals within the movement, according to Palestinian media reports.
The sources said several Hamas leaders aligned with Iran are plotting to kill Haniyeh and blame the Palestinian Authority or Israel.
The sources said Haniyeh's chief rivals were former PA Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar and former Interior Minister Said Siyam.
They said Zahar and Siyam have been directly financed by Iran, which has demanded a more aggressive Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip.
What does that mean? 10,000 rockets in to Israel instead of 5,000? Not enough suicide attempts?
A Hamas leader was quoted by PalPress as reporting an intensification of the dispute between Haniyeh and his rivals. The leader said Hamas military chief Ahmed Jaabari has joined Siyam and Zahar in pressing for Haniyeh to resign.
The main argument between Haniyeh and his rivals focused on how to deal with the PA and Egypt. The leader said Haniyeh, regarded as responsible to Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Masha'al, has maintained contact with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Ahhhhhh......Iran wants entire Palestinian structure as the means to achieve their fantasy.
In late 2007, the sources said, loyalists of Haniyeh and Zahar clashed in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City and Dir El Balah. The two sides later issued reconciliation statements.
In February 2008, Siyam told a news conference in Gaza City that the Hamas regime had arrested several Palestinians recruited to assassinate Haniyeh. Siyam blamed the PA for the plot.
"The news conference was a signal to Haniyeh that his days are numbered and he could be eliminated at any time," the Hamas source said. "Since then, he has gone underground."
The source said Zahar wants to replace Haniyeh as Hamas prime minister and eliminate any moderate wing in the Islamic movement. He said Zahar was part of a plot to kill Haniyeh and blame the PA and Fatah.
Okay, now that's truly comedic concept.
"After the assassination we will accuse Fatah of the killing, which will result in a strong blow against the movement in the Gaza Strip," the Hamas leader told PalPress. "At that point, we will activate Hamas power in the West Bank and launch a campaign against Abbas and sabotage the West Bank leadership."
And there are people in the USA, Europe, and IN ISRAEL, under the delusion that Israel surrendering some settlements will aid the cause of peace in the middle east. The utter truth is that there IS no peace process in the middle east unless you are referring to Islamic Peace. There is no settlement, process, negotiation, or promise any jew can make to achieve peace unless it is to leave, or die, or pay the tax.
Arabs and other muslims, as can be observed, only dispute which path to elimination of the jews is the best one, and as we can see, sunnis of all dimensions, and shia get along fine in this endeavor, and anywhere the west is identified as the oppostion..
Iran is on a roll from all appearances. Teheran is riding the wave of international distaste for the U.S. presence in Iraq by exploiting Shi'ite connections there and in the Gulf states while continuing to develop its nuclear arsenal despite polite global disapproval and U.S. sanctions.![]()
But all is not well in Teheran, especially for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The messianic leader has become alienated from most of Iran's elite and has been publicly at odds with his ministers and senior officials.
There is no longer any doubt that Ahmadinejad is losing clout, particularly with the financial and clerical elites. But Ahmadinejad still controls the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Basij, which could mobilize millions of young Iranians.
Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence sources have been tracking the rise of Iranian politician Ali Larijani, a former nuclear negotiator and outspoken critic of Ahmadinezhad,
Larijani won the first round of parliamentary elections March 14 and on May 28 was elected speaker.
From that powerful post, Larijani will be in position to directly challenge Ahmadinezhad's policies and position.
Larijani lost to Ahmadinezhad in the 2005 presidential election and was forced out by Ahmadinezhad last fall as secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and Iran's chief nuclear negotiator after publicly expressing frustration with Ahmadinezhad's provocative diplomacy.
Larijani has criticized "immature statements and uncalculated decisions by some executive officials," and asserted that the Majles has a responsibility to "rectify the (government's) mistakes," according to the Isargaran website on Feb. 8.
He also said that his resignation as a SNSC secretary was due to "differing viewpoints" with Ahmadinezhad on the nuclear issue. Larijani has differed from Ahmadinezhad's aggressive foreign policy strategies and was quoted in an interview last month as saying Tehran must "leave negotiations open and avoid adventurism."
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Iran's new parliament speaker Ali Larijani, right, speaks with Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari during the opening session of Iran's new parliament, in Tehran on May 27. Reuters/Raheb Homavandi
In February, he expressed concerns about Iran's economy, criticizing what he said were "serious flaws in the country's economic planning," which need to be "resolved by experts."
As a fully trusted aide to Khamenei, Larijani, has long been given carte blanche to protect Iran's nuclear program.
However, Iran has simultaneously been examining the feasibility of creating a separate missile command that would be under the direct control of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps which is loyal to Ahmadinezhad.
"An independent command might be created in IRGC in order to fortify the structure and activities of the missile section," IRGC commander Gen. Mohammed Ali Jafari said.
IRGC, with a separate army, navy and air force, has been deemed the leading military force in Iran.
In 2007, IRGC conducted the largest command and control missile exercise in Iranian history. IRGC fired hundreds of missiles within hours in a demonstration of sustained fire.
Jafari, appointed IRGC commander in September 2007, has sought to expand the force's military and technological capabilities. The general has been the architect of Iran's asymmetrical warfare doctrine, meant to confront much larger militaries, such as those of the United States.]
Larijani is projected using his new position to challenge Ahmadinejad's bid for a second term of office in elections next year.
Ahmadinejad and the IRGC champion an ideological -- even apocalyptic -- vision for Iran's near-term strategy while Larijani, with the elite mullahs' backing, favor a more pragmatic course to achieving regional hegemony.
Will it take a civil war for Iran to decide its course of action? Stay tuned as both sides duke it out while anticipating the November election results stateside.
Urgent Attention
Another free thinker is to be executed in Iran in the coming daysIt is with great regret that I inform all freedom loving people of the world that the Mullahs' terrorist regime is about to execute one of Iran's finest thinkers, a true patriot, scholar and historian.
Dr. Foroud Fouladvand is a dedicated monarchist, a Ferdousi expert as well as expert on the history of Iran and Islam.
A confirmed report sent to the office of Dr. Fouladvand in London from inside Iran suggests that Dr. Fouladvand and two of his compatriots are going to be executed on Saturday, May 31, 2008 or possibly even sooner.
The two men to be executed alongside Dr. Fouladvand are Mr. Nazem Schmidtt, an Iranian/American citizen, aka Simorgh, and Mr. Alexander Valizadeh, an Iranian/ German citizen, aka Koroush Lor.
Dr. Fouladvand, a British citizen, was known throughout the Iranian community for his open criticism of Islam and the Mullah's tyranny.
Dr. Fouladvand, who is an expert on Islam, openly challenged the Qur'an in his daily television broadcasts for listeners both inside and outside Iran. His Television discussions were offensive to the Mullahs. On March 10, 2006, in a preplanned action, about 65 of his supporters refused to leave a Lufthansa plane in protest of the European Union's policy of appeasement of the Mullahs' regime.
Dr. Fouladvand was led to believe by an agent of the Mullahs' regime posing as a monarchist activist from within Iran that there were many Iranian patriots inside Iran who believed in him, and that a meeting with them would be fruitful in organizing and uniting people inside Iran to oppose the Mullahs. On October 13, 2006, Dr. Fouladvand and a number of his friends, including the above-named men, left London for the Turkish/Iranian border. The last news of Dr. Fouladvand's whereabouts was on January
17, 2007, when he was expected to meet the supposedly Iranian activists in the Kurdish province of Hakkary in Iraq, which is close to the Iranian border.In January 2007, the agents of the Mullahs' secret police arrested and smuggled these three men into Iran, where they were imprisoned and were subjected to torture.
Please contact anyone you can. Alert government officials, the press, the Amnesty International and the human rights organizations in your country of residence.
More on Dr. Fouladvand HERE
How about it, Clive Stafford Smith, care to act in defiance of theocratic, genocidal, and racist governments, proud of those very characteristics, or are you only after the likes of the 'horror masters' of glazed chicken and rice pilaf, like John Ashcroft?
Are you people serious, or is this all just the double standard of the self loathing moral cowards?
Wafa Sultan: When I examined the Koran, the hadith, and the Islamic books under a microscope, I came to the absolute conviction that it is impossible – impossible! – for any human being to read the biography of Muhammad and believe in it, and yet emerge a psychologically and mentally healthy person.
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Do you remember the way that [the Prophet Muhammad] killed ‘Asmaa bint Marwan? His followers tore her body apart limb from limb, while she was breastfeeding her child. When they returned to him shouting “Allah Akbar,” he said: “No two goats will lock horns over her.” As you know, goals lock horns over the most inconsequential thing. For Muhammad, however, the killing of a woman while breastfeeding was too trivial a reason for goats “to lock horns over.” Is this a prophet of God?
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It makes me very sad that Al-Jazeera TV allows an insane and terroristic creature like Al-Qaradhawi to use it as a medium for the spreading of his poisons, his terroristic fatwas, and his babbling. The words he used against me incited many young Muslims – who have been brainwashed and blindfolded, and who have been programmed to hate – to rain curses and threats upon me, right after the show in which he discussed my appearance on Al-Jazeera.
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When Islam considers women to be deficient in reason, and I refute this assertion – in that case Islam attacks me, and I am merely attacking back. When Islam calls to kill whoever does not believe in it, and I refute this, in that case Islam attacks me, and I am merely attacking back. I do not attack Islam. I criticize it, but unfortunately, we, the victims of Islamic upbringing, view any criticism as an attack.
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I always focus on the language – the language of Islam. The language of Islam is a negative, dead language, replete with violence, anger, hatred, and racism. Man is the product of language, the outcome of the negative and positive language to which he is exposed in this lifetime. If his life is dominated by negative language, he will emerge as a negative, reckless, and non-productive person, who rejects everything. On the other hand, if positive language dominates his life, he will emerge as a positive, happy, and productive person. This is why the negative language of Islam has failed. It has failed to produce people with a spontaneous and positive outlook. It has produced negative people. If we take a look at Islamic societies, we see what that negative man did.
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I do not view Islam as a religion – according to my notion of religion. Islam is a political doctrine, which imposes itself by force. Any doctrine whatsoever that calls to kill those who do not believe in it is not a religion. It is a totalitarian doctrine that imposes itself by force. When I read, for example, the verse: “The adulterer and the adulteress – flog each of them with a hundred stripes, and do not let compassion for them move you” - I do not discern any spirituality in this verse. Whena certain faith manages to can strip its believers of their last grain of compassion, it strips them of their spirituality as well.
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Jesus Christ is the symbol of peace. He did not carry a sword, chop off heads, or accuse anybody of heresy. The problem in Islam is that if we were to act similarly to the Christians of the Middle Ages, and we were to model our lives after the life, actions, and words of Muhammad, we would find ourselves in an even bigger mess than the one we are in, and we would end up like Osama Bin Laden and his ilk. Read about the life of Muhammad. What do you find there? Nothing but his raids and his wives, in addition to his hadiths, some of which make you shudder. I shudder when I hear the hadith: “A woman’s paradise is under her husband’s foot.”
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The Islamic teachings have become dreadful in the skulls of the Muslims. I see no alternative but to open up these skulls, and to clean the life-threatening cancerous cells in these brains.
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When the Syrian people swarmed the Danish embassy and burned it down, it burned my heart too. Why? The Syrian people is dying of hunger. The Syrians, despite their [ancient] civilization, chase after their daily bread. Why don’t they swarm the palace of their president, who has 40 billion dollars in European bank accounts, and burn down the palace, along with its occupant? They swarmed the Danish embassy, giving the West the wrong image of the moral and civilized Syrian people. Therefore, I describe their conduct as barbaric and backward.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a religious conflict. I support the Palestinian cause. I support the Palestinian children. I lose sleep over the suffering of Palestinian women. I cannot even step on an ant, so how could I possibly be against them? This is inconceivable. This is a political conflict, and they should ask their leaders about what they have done to resolve the problem. But the problem is rooted in religion. A week or two ago, I read a short story in an Islamic book, according to which Muhammad was walking with some of his followers when they heard a commotion. They asked him: “What is this, Messenger of Allah?” He said: “These are the Jews being tormented in the grave.” Regardless of the conflicts Muhammad had with the Jews back then, this statement indicates that the graves of their ancestors were in Saudi Arabia, correct?
Interviewer: Yes.
Wafa Sultan: They are people of this region, as is evident from the Islamic books and the Koran itself.
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The problem with the Muslims is that they do not distinguish between their prophet and their own noses. When you criticize Muhammad, his actions, and his life, it is as if you chopped off their noses.
Afghan insurgents 'on brink of defeat'
By Thomas Harding in Lashkar GahLast Updated: 10:31PM BST 01/06/2008Missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned drones have "decapitated" the Taliban and brought the war in Afghanistan to a "tipping point", the commander of British forces has said.
The new "precise, surgical" tactics have killed scores of insurgent leaders and made it extremely difficult for Pakistan-based Taliban leaders to prosecute the campaign, according to Brig Mark Carleton-Smith.
In the past two years an estimated 7,000 Taliban have been killed, the majority in southern and eastern Afghanistan. But it is the "very effective targeted decapitation operations" that have removed "several echelons of commanders".
This in turn has left the insurgents on the brink of defeat, the head of Task Force Helmand said.
So please explain WHY George Bush has retreated philosophically from those policies which obliterated the Afghan safe haven of the mass murderers, and overturned the Taliban, then destroyed one of the most heinous dictatorships on the planet, and allowed a totally different page of history a chance in Iraq AND in Afghanistan, where history stopped in 850 AD?
Is he impressed by all the foreign editorials?
What?
It's as if Grant had stopped after Cold Harbor and Spotsylvania because the casualties caused him ill regard.

I learned over the weekend why the Republicans who have seen the tape of Michelle Obama ranting about "whitey" describe it as "STUNNING." I have not seen it but I have heard from five separate sources who have spoken directly with people who have seen the tape. It features Michelle Obama and Louis Farrakhan. They are sitting on a panel at Jeremiah Wright's Church when Michelle makes her intemperate remarks. Whoops!! When that image comes out it will enter the politcal ads hall of fame. It will be right up there with the little girl plucking daisy petals in the famous 1964 ad LBJ used against Barry Goldwater.
Barack may have quit his church but his religious problems are not over. Barack Obama has a Nation of Islam problem that will receive more attention in the coming days. Before Barack came on the scene, THE MAN in his political district was Louis Farrakhan. No one could take Alice Palmer's seat without Farrakhan's blessing. No one. I do not fault Barack Obama for seeking out the blessing of Farrakhan, but the story of what was done behind the scenes to get rid of Barack's predecessor--Alice Palmer--has not been told. A knowledgeable source tells me that Tony Rezko played a direct role in this feat. And Rezko has been tight with Farrakhan.
It also should come as no surprise that Barack hired two members of the Nation of Islam to work on his staff--Jennifer Mason and Cynthia K. Miller. (And no, I am not merely recycling info initially reported by Debbie Schlussel. I have two independent Chicago sources for this info.) If Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger had kept their yaps buttoned none of this would mean much. But the fact that both men have been--until scrubbed from the website in recent weeks--listed as spiritual advisors to Barack Obama and also are very close to Louis Farrakhan, forces the question about Barack's faith and beliefs.
In probing those matters we begin to understand that the Nation of Islam has been a critical component of Barack Obama's base of support. And, I am told, Louis Farrakhan has been careful to use Tony Rezko as the intermediary in his relationship with Barack. This is not guilt by association, this is guilt because of actual relationship. Farrakhan, Wright, and Pfleger are each on tape in various settings spewing the most vile racists garbage in the guise of preaching. Barack Obama, up to this point, has tried to pretend he had no idea that these men had these thoughts or said these things.
NONSENSE!! He knew and he knows. And the gig will be up when the Michelle tape hits the airwaves. One source described how this tape was acquired. Let's just say that one of the republican candidates who is no longer in the race, but had a dandy oppo research capability, uncovered this gem. If Republican poohbahs have their way the tape will remain on ice until October. But when it comes out, Barack will be permanently branded with the Nation of Islam. That's not a winning platform in November. And Barack's bundlers understand this threat. I also have learned some major financial backers are asking the Barack team about the tape and are being stonewalled. It is a wild card in the political campaign that has not yet played out.

“We can’t say ‘One nation under God’ in school, so I definitely don’t think (the
presentation) was the right choice,” she said. “I’m not a prejudiced person …
but Muslims, from what I know of the faith, don’t want to be incorporated with
Americans. Look at what’s going on in the world right now, with the war and with
9/11.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims
would uproot "satanic powers" and repeated his controversial belief that Israel
will soon disappear, the Mehr news agency reported.
"I must announce that the Zionist
regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder,
invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the
geographical scene," he said.
"Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United
States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power
and wealth has started."
Since taking the presidency in August 2005, Ahmadinejad has
repeatedly provoked international outrage by predicting Israel is doomed to
disappear.
"I tell you that with the unity and awareness of all the Islamic
countries all the satanic powers will soon be destroyed," he said to a group of
foreign visitors ahead of the 19th anniversary of the death of revolutionary
leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Ahmadinejad also again expressed his apocalyptic vision that
tyranny in the world be abolished by the return to earth of the Mahdi, the 12th
imam of Shiite Islam, alongside great religious figures including Jesus
Christ.
"With the appearance of the promised saviour... and his companions
such as Jesus Christ, tyranny will be soon be eradicated in the world."
Ahmadinejad has always been a devotee of the Mahdi, who Shiites
believe disappeared more than a thousand years ago and who will return one day
to usher in a new era of peace and harmony.
His emphasis on the Mahdi has been a cause of controversy inside
Iran with critics saying he would be better solving bread-and-butter domestic
problems rather than talking about Iran's divine responsibility.
It would come to no surprise that Take a patriotic teenage motorist, who probably is a soccer fan and wants to show his support for his country, and has the misfortune of being stopped by a dhimmi official – a policeman – on routine patrol.
Its seems the youth was more of a threat to the community’s peace and safety than the local thugs that roam the area - at least to the policemen.
Read the rest at The Gathering Storm.