Post by Paddy by Grace on Sept 11, 2010 14:10:52 GMT -7
ISRAEL LIVES SEPT 11, 2010 3RD OF TISHREI, 5771 ON THIS DAY OF REMEMBERANCE OF 911
WHAT DO ALL THESE ATTACKS HAVE IN COMMON:
- the Catholics in the Philippines (routine slaughter & beheadings)
- the Christians in Indonesia (routine slaughter & beheadings)
- Australian tourists in Bali (blown up twice)
- the Buddhists in Thailand (routine slaughter & beheadings)
- the Hindus & Sikhs in India (hundreds of years battling the Islamic Jihad)
- the Jews in Mumbai (slaughtered)
- the Zoroastrians & Baha'i in Iran (virtually exterminated)
- Islamic converts to Christianity in Afghanistan (death fatwa)
- ancient Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan (blown up)
- the Chaldean Christians in Iraq (routine persecution, slaughter & church burnings)
- the Jews in Israel (routine attacks against civilians, threat of 2nd genocide)
- the Jews in Yemen (nearly exterminated)
- S. Korean & German tourists in Yemen (blown up)
- the Coptic Christians in Egypt (routine persecution, slaughter & church attacks)
- the Christians & animists in Sudan (genocide)
- the Christians in Kenya (constant Jihadist threat from Obama's homies)
- the Christians in Nigeria (routine Jihadist attacks)
- U.S. embassies in Tanzania & Kenya (blown up)
- School children in Beslan Russia (savagely slaughtered and terrorized by Jihadists)
- the athiests in Europe (the prime target)
- the native French in Paris (torched car terrorism)
- Jews in Paris (read the grisly story of Ilan Halimi, a Jewish shop clerk who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in 2006)
- the native Swedes in Malmo (Islamic rape brigades)
- the native Dutch in Amsterdam (routinely terrorized)
- Dutch politicians (Geert Wilders & Ayyan Hirsi Ali ? death fatwa)
- Dutch cinematographers (Theo vanGogh savagely murdered by an Islamist in broad daylight)
- Dutch cartoonists (Kurt Westergaard ? death fatwa)
- Dutch newspaper editors (Flemming Rose, Jyllands-Posten's culture editor ? death fatwa)
- Train commuters in Spain (blown up)
- Tube commuters in London (blown up)
- Airports in Scotland (blown up)
- Jews in Argentina (blown up)
- Jews in Caracas (blown up)
- Twin Tower office workers in N.Y. (blown up twice)
- Defense workers in the Pentagon (blown up by airliner jihadists)
- Army/Navy military recruiters in Little Rock (gunned down by an Islamist)
- Soldiers in Ft. Hood Texas (gunned down by an Islamist)
- Pedestrians at the U. of N. Carolina (run down with an SUV by Islamist)
- Journalists like Daniel Pearl (savagely decapitated by Islamists)
- Nick Berg, Kim Sung-il, Piotr Stanczyk, Jack Hensley, Eugene Armstrong, Paul Johnson (savagely decapitated by Islamists)
- Jewish centers in Seattle (slaughtered by Islamist Jihadist)
- Jewish centers in Toronto (slaughtered by Islamist Jihadist)
- Infidel Delta Airlines passengers (underwear bomber)
- Times Square pedestrians (SUV bomber)
- Soccer fans in Uganda (Blown up while watching the world cup)
- philanthropic Christian medical doctors in Afghanistan (savagely slaughtered by Islamists simply because they were Christians)EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES HAVE DISCOVERED WEAPONS CACHES IN 11 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE SINAI PENINSULA, AN EGYPTIAN SOURCE REVEALED TUESDAY. Egypt has bolstered security along the border in order to keep weapons and explosives from being smuggled into the Gaza Strip. Officers patrolling the border between the Gaza Strip and Sinai found anti-aircraft missiles, a quarter ton of TNT, and other weaponry hidden in villages and cemeteries near Rafah, the source said. The increased patrols, which began Monday, also succeeded in uncovering two large tunnels used for smuggling cars from Egypt into Gaza near Rafah. Egypt says it will continue the patrols over the next few days. So far, no arrests have been made.
What has not been found? Where is REAL Egyptian surveillance?
NEWS ITEMS
1>Nine years later, we have elected as our leaders sympathizers and appeasers who are using the Iraqi and Afghan battle theaters as pawns in an ideological political game; who call the war against aggressive, radical and violent Islam an "overseas contingency plan"; and who do practically everything in their power to undercut the West's most valuable ally in the Middle East - Israel - short of attacking her themselves
The subject of the attacks of September 11, 2001, seems to validate the notion that the American public has an attention span issue. How else can we explain the "tolerance" argument being foisted upon the citizenry by proponents of the Islamic Center and mosque slated for construction just 500 feet from the epicenter of Ground Zero? How else can we explain the abundance of Wahabbist literature in Saudi funded mosques all over the United States? And how else can we explain the fact that a grotesquely overwhelming number of violent acts are committed, daily, in the name of Islam?
As with every other religious text, there are contradictions in the Quran. But, unlike other religions, the Quran mandates reconciliation for these contradictions. It is explained in the Quran that if two passages contradict each other the passage written later supersedes the one written earlier. Given that the "peaceful" and "tolerant" passages of the Quran were written in the early years and the violent conquest and supremacist oriented passages in the later years, the violent tenets of Islam - per the Quran - abrogate the peaceful tenets. Why haven't we taken the time to understand this absolute fact about this ideology? Why haven't the so-called "moderate Muslims" shared this fact with other cultures? Why do we allow appeasers and sympathizers to Islam mislead us on what the Quran actually mandates?
In the Quran, Al taqiyya is defined, literally as, "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger - whether now or later in time - to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury." Why is the free world so quick to seek negotiation with Islamists? Sadly, in a confrontation of cultures, such as this is - ideological, violent, totalitarian, deceptive and oppressive - moving on leaves our society and the culture of the Western World open to conquest. We "move on," we forget, at our own peril2>After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants - the top brass of the entire U.N. system - spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world's agenda.
Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:
-- how to restore "climate change" as a top global priority after the fiasco of last year's Copenhagen summit;
-- how to continue to try to make global redistribution of wealth the real basis of that climate agenda, and widen the discussion further to encompass the idea of "global public goods";
-- how to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries;
-- how to capitalize on the global tide of migrants from poor nations to rich ones, to encompass a new "international migration governance framework";
-- how to make "clever" use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls "civil society," meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas.
As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which - according to the position papers, anyway - continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of "global governance."
1>SEPTEMBER 11, 2001-NINE YEARS ON
Salvato - Ruthfully Yours, September 10th,http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=5830
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Frank Salvato is the managing editor for The New Media Journal. He serves at the Executive Director of the Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiativeThe subject of the attacks of September 11, 2001, seems to validate the notion that the American public has an attention span issue. How else can we explain the "tolerance" argument being foisted upon the citizenry by proponents of the Islamic Center and mosque slated for construction just 500 feet from the epicenter of Ground Zero? How else can we explain the abundance of Wahabbist literature in Saudi funded mosques all over the United States? And how else can we explain the fact that a grotesquely overwhelming number of violent acts are committed, daily, in the name of Islam.
Can anyone possibly believe these issues would have been embraced with apathy and conciliation on September 12, 2001; just one day after Americans watched their countrymen leaping from jet-fuel infused infernos only to partially disintegrate as they impacted with the ground below?
Can anyone imagine any family member of anyone killed by the bloodthirsty and barbaric Islamist ideologues on that fateful day rationalizing the construction of an Islamic center and mosque on what is literally the graveyard for 2,977 souls; souls dispatched in the name of Allah and Muhammad?
And what of the encroachment of Sharia into the Western culture, into the American culture? Would anyone who still remembered how they felt when they saw the first tower of the World Trade Center collapse be inclined to debate whether Muslim communities should be permitted to establish Sharia councils to mitigate issues within their communities here in America; councils that operate outside the constitutionally constrained legal system? Does anyone in their right mind believe that the barbaric Islamic traditions of honor?
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, Americans from all political corners joined hands, minds and hearts in a firm determination to finally say that the scourge of radical Islamist violence needed to be confronted; needed to be vanquished; needed to be erased from the face of the Earth. On September 12, 2001, each and every American knew that to walk away from this battle - a battle foisted upon us not by our own choosing but by fundamentalist and violent Islamists - was to invite an even more catastrophic event to our shores, one that, perhaps and God forbid, could test the strength of the American will in the face of a massive bio-chemical or even nuclear attack.
Yet today, nine years later, we have elected as our leaders sympathizers and appeasers who are using the Iraqi and Afghan battle theaters as pawns in an ideological political game; who call the war against aggressive, radical and violent Islam an "overseas contingency plan"; and who do practically everything in their power to undercut the West's most valuable ally in the Middle East - Israel - short of attacking her themselves.
Today, nine years after Muslim radicals, in an aggressive and offensive act of terrorism, dispatched 2, 977 human beings from the Earth, cries from beyond the grave beg for us to protect those still living from a similar fate; cries that ride on every wind that navigates the urban canyons of Manhattan, every ring of the Pentagon and through the fields of Shanksville.
But, increasingly, the American public cannot hear the cries. We are listening to agenda-driven news outlets that spotlight our elected leaders telling us we are to blame, that America is bad. We are commanded by the Progressive-Liberals to listen to CAIR and the "bridge-builder" Feisal Abdul Rauf explain to us that we are at fault, that our government made Osama bin Laden and the murderous cretins of September 11, 2001, who flew planes into buildings screaming, "Allahu Akbar!" We are too busy arguing politics to hear the pleas from beyond that warn us all - each and every one of us - to take this confrontation seriously. We are too busy.
A cursory examination of the Islamic culture (of which, admittedly, I am not a fan) reveals that the warriors and war designers of the Islamic world view confrontation and conquest in the measurement of centuries not decades or years. By contrast, the United States of America (only 234 years old, give or take the formative years prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence) and more importantly, the American culture, has been trained by the ideologically opportunistic to employ a sitcom attention span to all of the issues it faces; everything must be reconciled in thirty minutes, minus commercial breaks, titles and credits. Where Muslims of conquest are planning for a global Islamic Caliphate ruled by Sharia law, Americans are planning for the weekend.
And, still the lost souls of September 11, 2001, continue to scream, to implore, to plead to anyone who will listen.While we should be asking why the Islamic culture facilitates an overwhelming number of terrorist acts around the world, doing so in the name of Allah, Muhammad and Islam, many in the West - mostly Progressives, Liberals and one-worlders - insist that Islam is a "religion of peace." Why? The facts do not lead to that conclusion. Truth be told, the facts lead to the exact opposite.
Since September 11, 2001, there have been approximately 16,000 acts of Islamist terrorism. That breaks down to approximately 4.8 acts of violence, 4.8 acts of Islamist terrorism, each and every day. Does this qualify Islam to claim the moniker "religion of peace?"
As with every other religious text, there are contradictions in the Quran. But, unlike other religions, the Quran mandates reconciliation for these contradictions. It is explained in the Quran that if two passages contradict each other the passage written later supersedes the one written earlier. Given that the "peaceful" and "tolerant" passages of the Quran were written in the early years and the violent conquest and supremacist oriented passages in the later years, the violent tenets of Islam - per the Quran - abrogate the peaceful tenets. Why haven't we taken the time to understand this absolute fact about this ideology? Why haven't the so-called "moderate Muslims" shared this fact with other cultures? Why do we allow appeasers and sympathizers to Islam mislead us on what the Quran actually mandates?
And what of the Wahabbist tenet of al taqiyya? Al taqiyya is defined, literally as, "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger - whether now or later in time - to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury."
In essence, al taqiyya can be generally defined as the legitimization of deception. Yet Progressives, liberals and one-worlders insist on the peaceful purity of Islam, as they seek to negotiate, to extend an "unclenched fist," to Islamists like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's Bashar al-Assad; to enter into peace talks with the Taliban and Mullah Omar. Would we be so quick to accept the "sincerity" of fundamentalist and radical Islamists were we not ignorant of the deception employed through al taqiyya?
What else don't we understand about Islam? About jihadists? About the Quran? Why are Progressives, Liberals and one-worlders entered into such a dysfunctional relationship with Islam? Why are they playing the roles of "useful idiots" to Islam's thirst for conquest?
If we do anything to honor the 2,977 souls lost on September 11, 2001, we should weigh heavily on the facts surrounding Islam, its history, its philosophy, its ideology and the intentions of those who follow the Quranic edicts of Muhammad blindly. If we do nothing else to appease the restless souls of those slaughtered by the Islamists of 9/11 we must quest for the truth so that we might act to secure our future.
We, Americans, have forgotten the pain of the fire that burned us on September 11, 2001. We have allowed the pain to subside, the scar to heal; we have done our best to "move on." Sadly, in a confrontation of cultures, such as this is - ideological, violent, totalitarian, deceptive and oppressive - moving on leaves our society and the culture of the Western World open to conquest. We "move on," we forget, at our own peril.
God bless the lost souls of September 11, 2001, comfort their families and friends and give us the strength to survive, as individuals and as a nation.
2>MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG'S) AFTER A YEAR OF SETBACKS, U.N. LOOKS TO TAKE CHARGE OF WORLD'S AGENDA
FOXNEWS Sept 9, 2010
George Russell is executive editor of Fox NewsUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with Rwandan President Paul Kagame , in Kigali, Rwanda, Wednesday, Sept 8, 2010. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Rwanda Tuesday to discuss the country's threat to withdraw its U.N. peacekeepers from Sudan if the United Nations publishes a report accusing Rwanda's army of possible genocide in the 1990's. The joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur is commanded by a Rwandan, Lt. Gen. Patrick Nyamvumba, and the country has over 3,200 troops and 86 police in the nearly 22,000-strong force. U.N. officials and diplomats have said a Rwandan pullout from Darfur would be a major blow at a time of increasing violence and fresh efforts to end the seven-year conflict.
After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants - the top brass of the entire U.N. system - spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world's agenda.
Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:
-- how to restore "climate change" as a top global priority after the fiasco of last year's Copenhagen summit;
-- how to continue to try to make global redistribution of wealth the real basis of that climate agenda, and widen the discussion further to encompass the idea of "global public goods";
-- how to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries;
-- how to capitalize on the global tide of migrants from poor nations to rich ones, to encompass a new "international migration governance framework";
-- how to make "clever" use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls "civil society," meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas.
As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which - according to the position papers, anyway - continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of "global governance."
Not coincidentally, the conclave of bureaucrats also saw in "global governance" a greater role for themselves.
As a position paper intended for their first group session put it, in the customary glutinous prose of the organization's internal documents: "the U.N. should be able to take the lead in setting the global agenda, engage effectively with other multinational and regional organizations as well as civil society and non-state stakeholders, and transform itself into a tool to help implement the globally agreed objectives."
And for that to happen, the paper continues, "it will be necessary to deeply reflect on the substance of sovereignty, and accept that changes in our perceptions are a good indication of the direction we are going."
Hammering away at perceptions that nation-states cannot adequately meet global challenges, but the U.N. can, is a major theme of the position papers, which were assembled by a variety of U.N. think tanks, task forces and institutions, including the United Nations Development Program, and the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
CLICK HERE FOR THE POSITION PAPERS
National sovereignty - meaning the refusal of major powers like India, China and the United States to go along with sweeping global agendas - was specifically indicted for the failure of the much ballyhooed Copenhagen summit on climate change. "National sovereignty remains supreme," as one position paper noted.
Nonetheless, the U.N. leaders intend to keep trying to change that, especially when it comes to the climate agenda. "The next 40 years will prove pivotal," one paper argues, while laying out the basis of a renewed U.N. climate campaign, the "50-50-50 Challenge."
That refers to a projection that by 2050, the world's population will reach an estimated 9 billion (50 percent higher than today), at the same time that the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - producer of the scandal-tainted 2007 Global Assessment of global warming - is calling for a 50 percent reduction in world green house gas emissions.
According to the paper prepared by Secretary General Ban's own climate change team, however, the newly rebranded challenge still depends on the same economic remedy proposed for Copenhagen: a drastic redistribution of global wealth, "nothing less than a fundamental transformation of the global economy."
Rolling just about every U.N. mantra into one, the paper declares that "nothing is more crucial to preventing run-away climate change than lifting billions out of poverty, protecting our planet and fostering long-term peace and prosperity for all."
And to do that, the paper suggests, equally dramatic shifts in political power may be needed. "Is the global governance structure, still dominated by national sovereignty, capable of responding with the coherence and speed needed?" it asks. "Or do we need to push the 'reset' button and rethink global governance to meet the 50-50-50 Challenge?"
Yet even as the U.N. bosses talk of delivering billions from poverty, their main aim, the papers argue should be much, much larger: to limit and redirect the aspirations for a better life of rising middle classes around the world.
As the opening session paper puts it: "The real challenge comes from the exponential growth of the global consumerist society driven by ever higher aspirations of the upper and middle layers in rich countries as well as the expanding demand of emerging middle-class in developing countries. Our true ambition should be therefore creating incentives for the profound transformation of attitudes and consumption styles."
The answer to that "real challenge," as well as many others addressed in the position papers, is that the U.N. and its proliferating array of funds, programs, institutes, and initiatives, should push themselves forward as the great synthesizer of solutions to global problems: "connecting the dots," as the climate change paper puts it, across a "range of issues," including "climate, water, food, energy, and health."
"At the practical level, through the U.N. system we have all kinds of expertise and capacities, even if not adequate resources, to actually do something," the paper notes.
How to get more of those resources is another major theme of many of the papers. As one of the documents focusing on food security notes, "development assistance funding is less readily available and the donors are ever more focused on demonstrable results." One suggestion: tap global philanthropies, as well as link together "a broad range of public sector, business and civil society partners."
The U.N. bosses also need to make sure that the institution sits at top tables where the world's financial decisions are made. It is "urgent to secure U.N. participation" at regular meetings of the G-20 finance ministers and their deputies," according to one of the papers, a group that the U.N. Secretariat, based in New York City and Geneva, does not interact with very much.
That observation ties into another Alpbach theme: pushing global financial regulation even further.
"The much paraded reform of financial governance institutions has not gone far enough," the position paper for the U.N. leadership's keynote session asserts, and the voting power of emerging players and developing world, in general, which demand a greater say on these matters, remains inadequate."
The answer? "An enhanced political will is clearly needed to avoid return to status quo, to push forward regulatory mechanisms, and improve financial governance."
Along with planting a new flag in the field of international financial regulation, the U.N. chiefs also contemplated the further growth of the U.N. as the world's policeman. As another paper notes, U.N. peacekeeping operations "will soon have almost 17,000 United Nations police officers serving on four continents" - little more than two years after establishing what one papers calls the institutions "Standing Police Capacity."
The peacekeepers are now also building a "standing justice and corrections element" to go with the semi-permanent police force - a permanent strike force to establish courts and prisons in nations where peacekeepers are stationed.
In essence, as another paper observes, the U.N. peacekeeping effort is transforming into a new kind of supervisory organism in which not only conflicts but also national institutions and cultures must be regulated for longer and longer periods of time.
"Even where a semblance of stability is achieved," the paper by Ban's peace-building support office argues, the achievement of peace may involve more than "adopting a constitution or holding elections." It adds that "more fundamental change may be needed in a country's institutions and political culture as well as in public perceptions and attitudes."
(At the same time, as another paper makes clear, "some" U.N. peacekeepers come from countries "where the armed forces and police are seriously implicated in human rights violations," including sexual crimes. While such actions "cannot be tolerated," the paper makes clear the U.N. has no clear answers on how to police its own behavior.)
The answer to many if not most of the problems outlined in the U.N. papers is, as the opening session paper puts it: "multilateralism is instrumental to the success of our response to global challenges."
But not any old multilateralism. The other major theme of the position papers is that the world organization, a haphazard array of at least 37 major funds, programs, and institutions, and a proliferating number of regulatory and other authorities, should be knitting itself into a much more close-knit global system, with greater control over its own finances, along with a stronger role in setting the international agenda.
How successful Ban and his chieftains will be at pushing that agenda may soon be seen, as the secretary general hosts the lead-off event of the fall diplomatic season, a two-day summit starting September 20 on the so-called Millennium Development Goals.
That refers to the U.N.-sponsored compact among nations to halve the number of the world's poorest people, achieve global primary schooling, reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and enhance the standing of women, among other goals, by 2015.
The position papers from Ban's conclave make clear that Ban and his team are deeply concerned that momentum toward the MDGs, as they are known, is faltering, although one paper notes that "with the right policies, adequate investment and reliable international support, the MDGs remain achievable."
In that sense, the secretive session in Alpbach was not only a planning session, but also the equivalent of a half-time locker room huddle.
What is at stake, the papers make clear, is not only the alleged betterment of the world, but the U.N.'s soaring ambitions for itself - no matter what roadblocks national sovereignty may throw in its way.
WHAT DO ALL THESE ATTACKS HAVE IN COMMON:
- the Catholics in the Philippines (routine slaughter & beheadings)
- the Christians in Indonesia (routine slaughter & beheadings)
- Australian tourists in Bali (blown up twice)
- the Buddhists in Thailand (routine slaughter & beheadings)
- the Hindus & Sikhs in India (hundreds of years battling the Islamic Jihad)
- the Jews in Mumbai (slaughtered)
- the Zoroastrians & Baha'i in Iran (virtually exterminated)
- Islamic converts to Christianity in Afghanistan (death fatwa)
- ancient Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan (blown up)
- the Chaldean Christians in Iraq (routine persecution, slaughter & church burnings)
- the Jews in Israel (routine attacks against civilians, threat of 2nd genocide)
- the Jews in Yemen (nearly exterminated)
- S. Korean & German tourists in Yemen (blown up)
- the Coptic Christians in Egypt (routine persecution, slaughter & church attacks)
- the Christians & animists in Sudan (genocide)
- the Christians in Kenya (constant Jihadist threat from Obama's homies)
- the Christians in Nigeria (routine Jihadist attacks)
- U.S. embassies in Tanzania & Kenya (blown up)
- School children in Beslan Russia (savagely slaughtered and terrorized by Jihadists)
- the athiests in Europe (the prime target)
- the native French in Paris (torched car terrorism)
- Jews in Paris (read the grisly story of Ilan Halimi, a Jewish shop clerk who was kidnapped, tortured and killed in 2006)
- the native Swedes in Malmo (Islamic rape brigades)
- the native Dutch in Amsterdam (routinely terrorized)
- Dutch politicians (Geert Wilders & Ayyan Hirsi Ali ? death fatwa)
- Dutch cinematographers (Theo vanGogh savagely murdered by an Islamist in broad daylight)
- Dutch cartoonists (Kurt Westergaard ? death fatwa)
- Dutch newspaper editors (Flemming Rose, Jyllands-Posten's culture editor ? death fatwa)
- Train commuters in Spain (blown up)
- Tube commuters in London (blown up)
- Airports in Scotland (blown up)
- Jews in Argentina (blown up)
- Jews in Caracas (blown up)
- Twin Tower office workers in N.Y. (blown up twice)
- Defense workers in the Pentagon (blown up by airliner jihadists)
- Army/Navy military recruiters in Little Rock (gunned down by an Islamist)
- Soldiers in Ft. Hood Texas (gunned down by an Islamist)
- Pedestrians at the U. of N. Carolina (run down with an SUV by Islamist)
- Journalists like Daniel Pearl (savagely decapitated by Islamists)
- Nick Berg, Kim Sung-il, Piotr Stanczyk, Jack Hensley, Eugene Armstrong, Paul Johnson (savagely decapitated by Islamists)
- Jewish centers in Seattle (slaughtered by Islamist Jihadist)
- Jewish centers in Toronto (slaughtered by Islamist Jihadist)
- Infidel Delta Airlines passengers (underwear bomber)
- Times Square pedestrians (SUV bomber)
- Soccer fans in Uganda (Blown up while watching the world cup)
- philanthropic Christian medical doctors in Afghanistan (savagely slaughtered by Islamists simply because they were Christians)EGYPTIAN SECURITY FORCES HAVE DISCOVERED WEAPONS CACHES IN 11 DIFFERENT LOCATIONS IN THE SINAI PENINSULA, AN EGYPTIAN SOURCE REVEALED TUESDAY. Egypt has bolstered security along the border in order to keep weapons and explosives from being smuggled into the Gaza Strip. Officers patrolling the border between the Gaza Strip and Sinai found anti-aircraft missiles, a quarter ton of TNT, and other weaponry hidden in villages and cemeteries near Rafah, the source said. The increased patrols, which began Monday, also succeeded in uncovering two large tunnels used for smuggling cars from Egypt into Gaza near Rafah. Egypt says it will continue the patrols over the next few days. So far, no arrests have been made.
What has not been found? Where is REAL Egyptian surveillance?
NEWS ITEMS
1>Nine years later, we have elected as our leaders sympathizers and appeasers who are using the Iraqi and Afghan battle theaters as pawns in an ideological political game; who call the war against aggressive, radical and violent Islam an "overseas contingency plan"; and who do practically everything in their power to undercut the West's most valuable ally in the Middle East - Israel - short of attacking her themselves
The subject of the attacks of September 11, 2001, seems to validate the notion that the American public has an attention span issue. How else can we explain the "tolerance" argument being foisted upon the citizenry by proponents of the Islamic Center and mosque slated for construction just 500 feet from the epicenter of Ground Zero? How else can we explain the abundance of Wahabbist literature in Saudi funded mosques all over the United States? And how else can we explain the fact that a grotesquely overwhelming number of violent acts are committed, daily, in the name of Islam?
As with every other religious text, there are contradictions in the Quran. But, unlike other religions, the Quran mandates reconciliation for these contradictions. It is explained in the Quran that if two passages contradict each other the passage written later supersedes the one written earlier. Given that the "peaceful" and "tolerant" passages of the Quran were written in the early years and the violent conquest and supremacist oriented passages in the later years, the violent tenets of Islam - per the Quran - abrogate the peaceful tenets. Why haven't we taken the time to understand this absolute fact about this ideology? Why haven't the so-called "moderate Muslims" shared this fact with other cultures? Why do we allow appeasers and sympathizers to Islam mislead us on what the Quran actually mandates?
In the Quran, Al taqiyya is defined, literally as, "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger - whether now or later in time - to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury." Why is the free world so quick to seek negotiation with Islamists? Sadly, in a confrontation of cultures, such as this is - ideological, violent, totalitarian, deceptive and oppressive - moving on leaves our society and the culture of the Western World open to conquest. We "move on," we forget, at our own peril2>After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants - the top brass of the entire U.N. system - spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world's agenda.
Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:
-- how to restore "climate change" as a top global priority after the fiasco of last year's Copenhagen summit;
-- how to continue to try to make global redistribution of wealth the real basis of that climate agenda, and widen the discussion further to encompass the idea of "global public goods";
-- how to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries;
-- how to capitalize on the global tide of migrants from poor nations to rich ones, to encompass a new "international migration governance framework";
-- how to make "clever" use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls "civil society," meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas.
As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which - according to the position papers, anyway - continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of "global governance."
1>SEPTEMBER 11, 2001-NINE YEARS ON
Salvato - Ruthfully Yours, September 10th,http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/?p=5830
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Frank Salvato is the managing editor for The New Media Journal. He serves at the Executive Director of the Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan, 501(C)(3) research and education initiativeThe subject of the attacks of September 11, 2001, seems to validate the notion that the American public has an attention span issue. How else can we explain the "tolerance" argument being foisted upon the citizenry by proponents of the Islamic Center and mosque slated for construction just 500 feet from the epicenter of Ground Zero? How else can we explain the abundance of Wahabbist literature in Saudi funded mosques all over the United States? And how else can we explain the fact that a grotesquely overwhelming number of violent acts are committed, daily, in the name of Islam.
Can anyone possibly believe these issues would have been embraced with apathy and conciliation on September 12, 2001; just one day after Americans watched their countrymen leaping from jet-fuel infused infernos only to partially disintegrate as they impacted with the ground below?
Can anyone imagine any family member of anyone killed by the bloodthirsty and barbaric Islamist ideologues on that fateful day rationalizing the construction of an Islamic center and mosque on what is literally the graveyard for 2,977 souls; souls dispatched in the name of Allah and Muhammad?
And what of the encroachment of Sharia into the Western culture, into the American culture? Would anyone who still remembered how they felt when they saw the first tower of the World Trade Center collapse be inclined to debate whether Muslim communities should be permitted to establish Sharia councils to mitigate issues within their communities here in America; councils that operate outside the constitutionally constrained legal system? Does anyone in their right mind believe that the barbaric Islamic traditions of honor?
In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, Americans from all political corners joined hands, minds and hearts in a firm determination to finally say that the scourge of radical Islamist violence needed to be confronted; needed to be vanquished; needed to be erased from the face of the Earth. On September 12, 2001, each and every American knew that to walk away from this battle - a battle foisted upon us not by our own choosing but by fundamentalist and violent Islamists - was to invite an even more catastrophic event to our shores, one that, perhaps and God forbid, could test the strength of the American will in the face of a massive bio-chemical or even nuclear attack.
Yet today, nine years later, we have elected as our leaders sympathizers and appeasers who are using the Iraqi and Afghan battle theaters as pawns in an ideological political game; who call the war against aggressive, radical and violent Islam an "overseas contingency plan"; and who do practically everything in their power to undercut the West's most valuable ally in the Middle East - Israel - short of attacking her themselves.
Today, nine years after Muslim radicals, in an aggressive and offensive act of terrorism, dispatched 2, 977 human beings from the Earth, cries from beyond the grave beg for us to protect those still living from a similar fate; cries that ride on every wind that navigates the urban canyons of Manhattan, every ring of the Pentagon and through the fields of Shanksville.
But, increasingly, the American public cannot hear the cries. We are listening to agenda-driven news outlets that spotlight our elected leaders telling us we are to blame, that America is bad. We are commanded by the Progressive-Liberals to listen to CAIR and the "bridge-builder" Feisal Abdul Rauf explain to us that we are at fault, that our government made Osama bin Laden and the murderous cretins of September 11, 2001, who flew planes into buildings screaming, "Allahu Akbar!" We are too busy arguing politics to hear the pleas from beyond that warn us all - each and every one of us - to take this confrontation seriously. We are too busy.
A cursory examination of the Islamic culture (of which, admittedly, I am not a fan) reveals that the warriors and war designers of the Islamic world view confrontation and conquest in the measurement of centuries not decades or years. By contrast, the United States of America (only 234 years old, give or take the formative years prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence) and more importantly, the American culture, has been trained by the ideologically opportunistic to employ a sitcom attention span to all of the issues it faces; everything must be reconciled in thirty minutes, minus commercial breaks, titles and credits. Where Muslims of conquest are planning for a global Islamic Caliphate ruled by Sharia law, Americans are planning for the weekend.
And, still the lost souls of September 11, 2001, continue to scream, to implore, to plead to anyone who will listen.While we should be asking why the Islamic culture facilitates an overwhelming number of terrorist acts around the world, doing so in the name of Allah, Muhammad and Islam, many in the West - mostly Progressives, Liberals and one-worlders - insist that Islam is a "religion of peace." Why? The facts do not lead to that conclusion. Truth be told, the facts lead to the exact opposite.
Since September 11, 2001, there have been approximately 16,000 acts of Islamist terrorism. That breaks down to approximately 4.8 acts of violence, 4.8 acts of Islamist terrorism, each and every day. Does this qualify Islam to claim the moniker "religion of peace?"
As with every other religious text, there are contradictions in the Quran. But, unlike other religions, the Quran mandates reconciliation for these contradictions. It is explained in the Quran that if two passages contradict each other the passage written later supersedes the one written earlier. Given that the "peaceful" and "tolerant" passages of the Quran were written in the early years and the violent conquest and supremacist oriented passages in the later years, the violent tenets of Islam - per the Quran - abrogate the peaceful tenets. Why haven't we taken the time to understand this absolute fact about this ideology? Why haven't the so-called "moderate Muslims" shared this fact with other cultures? Why do we allow appeasers and sympathizers to Islam mislead us on what the Quran actually mandates?
And what of the Wahabbist tenet of al taqiyya? Al taqiyya is defined, literally as, "Concealing or disguising one's beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of eminent danger - whether now or later in time - to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury."
In essence, al taqiyya can be generally defined as the legitimization of deception. Yet Progressives, liberals and one-worlders insist on the peaceful purity of Islam, as they seek to negotiate, to extend an "unclenched fist," to Islamists like Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syria's Bashar al-Assad; to enter into peace talks with the Taliban and Mullah Omar. Would we be so quick to accept the "sincerity" of fundamentalist and radical Islamists were we not ignorant of the deception employed through al taqiyya?
What else don't we understand about Islam? About jihadists? About the Quran? Why are Progressives, Liberals and one-worlders entered into such a dysfunctional relationship with Islam? Why are they playing the roles of "useful idiots" to Islam's thirst for conquest?
If we do anything to honor the 2,977 souls lost on September 11, 2001, we should weigh heavily on the facts surrounding Islam, its history, its philosophy, its ideology and the intentions of those who follow the Quranic edicts of Muhammad blindly. If we do nothing else to appease the restless souls of those slaughtered by the Islamists of 9/11 we must quest for the truth so that we might act to secure our future.
We, Americans, have forgotten the pain of the fire that burned us on September 11, 2001. We have allowed the pain to subside, the scar to heal; we have done our best to "move on." Sadly, in a confrontation of cultures, such as this is - ideological, violent, totalitarian, deceptive and oppressive - moving on leaves our society and the culture of the Western World open to conquest. We "move on," we forget, at our own peril.
God bless the lost souls of September 11, 2001, comfort their families and friends and give us the strength to survive, as individuals and as a nation.
2>MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDG'S) AFTER A YEAR OF SETBACKS, U.N. LOOKS TO TAKE CHARGE OF WORLD'S AGENDA
FOXNEWS Sept 9, 2010
George Russell is executive editor of Fox NewsUnited Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, with Rwandan President Paul Kagame , in Kigali, Rwanda, Wednesday, Sept 8, 2010. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Rwanda Tuesday to discuss the country's threat to withdraw its U.N. peacekeepers from Sudan if the United Nations publishes a report accusing Rwanda's army of possible genocide in the 1990's. The joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur is commanded by a Rwandan, Lt. Gen. Patrick Nyamvumba, and the country has over 3,200 troops and 86 police in the nearly 22,000-strong force. U.N. officials and diplomats have said a Rwandan pullout from Darfur would be a major blow at a time of increasing violence and fresh efforts to end the seven-year conflict.
After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants - the top brass of the entire U.N. system - spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world's agenda.
Details concerning the two-day, closed-door sessions in the comfortable village of Alpbach were closely guarded. Nonetheless, position papers for the meeting obtained by Fox News indicate that the topics included:
-- how to restore "climate change" as a top global priority after the fiasco of last year's Copenhagen summit;
-- how to continue to try to make global redistribution of wealth the real basis of that climate agenda, and widen the discussion further to encompass the idea of "global public goods";
-- how to keep growing U.N. peacekeeping efforts into missions involved in the police, courts, legal systems and other aspects of strife-torn countries;
-- how to capitalize on the global tide of migrants from poor nations to rich ones, to encompass a new "international migration governance framework";
-- how to make "clever" use of new technologies to deepen direct ties with what the U.N. calls "civil society," meaning novel ways to bypass its member nation states and deal directly with constituencies that support U.N. agendas.
As one underlying theme of the sessions, the top U.N. bosses seemed to be grappling often with how to cope with the pesky issue of national sovereignty, which - according to the position papers, anyway - continued to thwart many of their most ambitious schemes, especially when it comes to many different kinds of "global governance."
Not coincidentally, the conclave of bureaucrats also saw in "global governance" a greater role for themselves.
As a position paper intended for their first group session put it, in the customary glutinous prose of the organization's internal documents: "the U.N. should be able to take the lead in setting the global agenda, engage effectively with other multinational and regional organizations as well as civil society and non-state stakeholders, and transform itself into a tool to help implement the globally agreed objectives."
And for that to happen, the paper continues, "it will be necessary to deeply reflect on the substance of sovereignty, and accept that changes in our perceptions are a good indication of the direction we are going."
Hammering away at perceptions that nation-states cannot adequately meet global challenges, but the U.N. can, is a major theme of the position papers, which were assembled by a variety of U.N. think tanks, task forces and institutions, including the United Nations Development Program, and the U.N.'s Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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National sovereignty - meaning the refusal of major powers like India, China and the United States to go along with sweeping global agendas - was specifically indicted for the failure of the much ballyhooed Copenhagen summit on climate change. "National sovereignty remains supreme," as one position paper noted.
Nonetheless, the U.N. leaders intend to keep trying to change that, especially when it comes to the climate agenda. "The next 40 years will prove pivotal," one paper argues, while laying out the basis of a renewed U.N. climate campaign, the "50-50-50 Challenge."
That refers to a projection that by 2050, the world's population will reach an estimated 9 billion (50 percent higher than today), at the same time that the U.N.-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - producer of the scandal-tainted 2007 Global Assessment of global warming - is calling for a 50 percent reduction in world green house gas emissions.
According to the paper prepared by Secretary General Ban's own climate change team, however, the newly rebranded challenge still depends on the same economic remedy proposed for Copenhagen: a drastic redistribution of global wealth, "nothing less than a fundamental transformation of the global economy."
Rolling just about every U.N. mantra into one, the paper declares that "nothing is more crucial to preventing run-away climate change than lifting billions out of poverty, protecting our planet and fostering long-term peace and prosperity for all."
And to do that, the paper suggests, equally dramatic shifts in political power may be needed. "Is the global governance structure, still dominated by national sovereignty, capable of responding with the coherence and speed needed?" it asks. "Or do we need to push the 'reset' button and rethink global governance to meet the 50-50-50 Challenge?"
Yet even as the U.N. bosses talk of delivering billions from poverty, their main aim, the papers argue should be much, much larger: to limit and redirect the aspirations for a better life of rising middle classes around the world.
As the opening session paper puts it: "The real challenge comes from the exponential growth of the global consumerist society driven by ever higher aspirations of the upper and middle layers in rich countries as well as the expanding demand of emerging middle-class in developing countries. Our true ambition should be therefore creating incentives for the profound transformation of attitudes and consumption styles."
The answer to that "real challenge," as well as many others addressed in the position papers, is that the U.N. and its proliferating array of funds, programs, institutes, and initiatives, should push themselves forward as the great synthesizer of solutions to global problems: "connecting the dots," as the climate change paper puts it, across a "range of issues," including "climate, water, food, energy, and health."
"At the practical level, through the U.N. system we have all kinds of expertise and capacities, even if not adequate resources, to actually do something," the paper notes.
How to get more of those resources is another major theme of many of the papers. As one of the documents focusing on food security notes, "development assistance funding is less readily available and the donors are ever more focused on demonstrable results." One suggestion: tap global philanthropies, as well as link together "a broad range of public sector, business and civil society partners."
The U.N. bosses also need to make sure that the institution sits at top tables where the world's financial decisions are made. It is "urgent to secure U.N. participation" at regular meetings of the G-20 finance ministers and their deputies," according to one of the papers, a group that the U.N. Secretariat, based in New York City and Geneva, does not interact with very much.
That observation ties into another Alpbach theme: pushing global financial regulation even further.
"The much paraded reform of financial governance institutions has not gone far enough," the position paper for the U.N. leadership's keynote session asserts, and the voting power of emerging players and developing world, in general, which demand a greater say on these matters, remains inadequate."
The answer? "An enhanced political will is clearly needed to avoid return to status quo, to push forward regulatory mechanisms, and improve financial governance."
Along with planting a new flag in the field of international financial regulation, the U.N. chiefs also contemplated the further growth of the U.N. as the world's policeman. As another paper notes, U.N. peacekeeping operations "will soon have almost 17,000 United Nations police officers serving on four continents" - little more than two years after establishing what one papers calls the institutions "Standing Police Capacity."
The peacekeepers are now also building a "standing justice and corrections element" to go with the semi-permanent police force - a permanent strike force to establish courts and prisons in nations where peacekeepers are stationed.
In essence, as another paper observes, the U.N. peacekeeping effort is transforming into a new kind of supervisory organism in which not only conflicts but also national institutions and cultures must be regulated for longer and longer periods of time.
"Even where a semblance of stability is achieved," the paper by Ban's peace-building support office argues, the achievement of peace may involve more than "adopting a constitution or holding elections." It adds that "more fundamental change may be needed in a country's institutions and political culture as well as in public perceptions and attitudes."
(At the same time, as another paper makes clear, "some" U.N. peacekeepers come from countries "where the armed forces and police are seriously implicated in human rights violations," including sexual crimes. While such actions "cannot be tolerated," the paper makes clear the U.N. has no clear answers on how to police its own behavior.)
The answer to many if not most of the problems outlined in the U.N. papers is, as the opening session paper puts it: "multilateralism is instrumental to the success of our response to global challenges."
But not any old multilateralism. The other major theme of the position papers is that the world organization, a haphazard array of at least 37 major funds, programs, and institutions, and a proliferating number of regulatory and other authorities, should be knitting itself into a much more close-knit global system, with greater control over its own finances, along with a stronger role in setting the international agenda.
How successful Ban and his chieftains will be at pushing that agenda may soon be seen, as the secretary general hosts the lead-off event of the fall diplomatic season, a two-day summit starting September 20 on the so-called Millennium Development Goals.
That refers to the U.N.-sponsored compact among nations to halve the number of the world's poorest people, achieve global primary schooling, reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and enhance the standing of women, among other goals, by 2015.
The position papers from Ban's conclave make clear that Ban and his team are deeply concerned that momentum toward the MDGs, as they are known, is faltering, although one paper notes that "with the right policies, adequate investment and reliable international support, the MDGs remain achievable."
In that sense, the secretive session in Alpbach was not only a planning session, but also the equivalent of a half-time locker room huddle.
What is at stake, the papers make clear, is not only the alleged betterment of the world, but the U.N.'s soaring ambitions for itself - no matter what roadblocks national sovereignty may throw in its way.