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Sunday, March 10, 2013

SHOULD WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN SHARIA LAW?

 THE "BOTTOM LINE" OF THIS BLOG IS ABOUT OUR CHILDREN, ALL OUR CHILDREN, ALL OVER THE WORLD! IF WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN THINGS THAT CONTINUE WARS, CONTINUE HATE, CONTINUE RACISM, BIGOTRY, INSTILL IN THEM ANYTHING WHICH WILL CAUSE PEACE TO BE AN IMPOSSIBILITY, THEN HOW WILL OUR CHILDREN SEE US WHEN THEY GET OLDER AND FACE THE WORLD WE BEQUEATHED THEM, ONE OF INCESSANT WAR AND HATRED FOR ONE ANOTHER?
CALL ME A DREAMER, CALL ME A FOOL, BUT I HAVE MANY GRANDCHILDREN, AND I NEVER WANT TO THINK OF THEM IN A WORLD SO FULL OF HATE!
FOR THE SAKE OF ALL CHILDREN, WE NEED TO STOP AND THINK LONG BEFORE WE TEACH THEM ANYTHING AKIN TO HATE!
THIS IS THE MAIN REASON WHY I WRITE THIS BLOG TODAY.

EXAMPLES OF SHARIA LAW TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM MUSLIM WEBSITES ARE NEAR THE END OF THIS BLOG...MAYBE YOU WILL BE SURPRISED BY MANY OF THEM.

Sharia Law...many Muslims in America have said they came here to escape living under Sharia Law.
Most Westerners find it confusing, frightening, "barbaric" and cruel.
But, more and more we see some Muslims, especially males it seems, pushing for our courts to recognize Sharia Law and enforce it.
America is not a nation of Islam.
Islamic nations with Sharia Law would certainly NOT recognize a foreign law for its residents, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, would they?

And WHY would a woman want her daughter subjected to the several "laws" that apply only to females, rendering a woman about as valuable as cattle?
YES, yes I have read the laws laid down by "Sharia"...and that's just my take on it.
It subjugates women, places them beneath men!
If one adheres to that BY THEIR FAITH, BY CHOICE, then that, of course, is none of my business, but whenever I see ANY human completely dominated by another human, I do shudder!

In 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood vowed to destroy America from within by forcing Sharia Law here. WHY do even the "Brotherhood" see Sharia as something that destroys?

One of the more insidious features of Sharia Law is the fact that it does not allow for accommodation of any religion but Islam. While demanding that all nations institute Sharia Law, those asking for this seem to believe all else should be tossed aside.
HOW is that going to make our children's lives better? How will THAT teach them to live peacefully with their neighbors?
HOW will having ONE "international law that all must accept" bring justice to all who are NOT Muslim?
Do we want our children growing up seeing only ONE group of people as worthy of justice?
What will happen when Muslim children grow up and see no need for honoring other forms of law and justice? Will they be punished for that by those who don't intend to live under Sharia Law?
It seems to be a two-edged sword! It cuts those who don't ascribe to it as well as those who do, especially women and children.
  

I HAVE BEEN INSIDE THE NATIONS OF ISLAM, THOUGH IT WAS LONG AGO,AND SO I REALIZE THAT WHAT MOST AMERICANS SEE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES MAY SEEM A MILDER FORM OF ISLAM, UNTIL RECENTLY, OF WHAT THE "PURISTS' TEACH IN THEIR NATIONS.

WHAT THIS YOUNG FEMALE IN THE ARTICLE BELOW SPOUTED, THESE  RACIST AND INCENDIARY COMMENTS, IS NOT A RARE THING, BUT ACCEPTABLE, EXPECTED, EVEN ENCOURAGED IN NATIONS YOU MAY NEVER VISIT, IN NATIONS THAT KNOW ONLY SHARIA LAW AND THE MINDSET IT CREATES.
BE GLAD YOU AREN'T THERE, BUT HERE, AMERICAN MUSLIMS!
MANY CLERICS FROM OTHER LANDS HAVE VOWED TO "PURGE AMERICA OF INFIDELS WHO CLAIM THEY ARE MUSLIM BUT ARE NOT"!
ISLAMIC NATIONS ARE JUDGING THOSE WHO ARE LIVING HERE IN AMERICA BY THAT VERY SHARIA LAW, ARE THEY NOT?
BUT DO BECOME AWARE THAT SUCH IS COMMON, AND DO ASK WHY!
HOW DID THIS WOMAN, IBRAHIM COME TO HOLD SUCH VIEWS?
WASN'T SHE WAS TAUGHT AS A CHILD?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/03/08/the-tweets-that-cost-samira-ibrahim-her-state-department-award/
SAMIRA IBRAHIM...'UNVEILED'.
HER TWEETS REVEALED, WE SEE HER TRUE THOUGHTS.
THESE WERE SCREEN SHOTS OF HER OWN TWEETS:

<Explosion on a bus carrying Israeli soldiers at the airport in Bulgaria's Burgas on the Black Sea.Iaaaaaaaaameshl Lavalys today sweet Levi News ~ July 18, 2012>

A month later, August 21, 2012, Ibrahim posted a quote she attributes to Adolf Hitler: ”I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it.”

According to the Egyptian blogger @SciencePyramid, Ibrahim also posted — and promptly deleted — a 9/11 anniversary message saying “America should burn.”

One popular blogger compared Ibrahim’s remarks to comments President Mohamed Morsi made in 2010, when he told Egyptians to “nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred for Jews and Zionists.”

<<Samira Ibrahim, the Egyptian woman whose anti-American and antisemitic tweets have forced the State Department to defer granting her the International Woman of Courage Award -- an award Michelle Obama and John Kerry were scheduled to present to her on Friday -- now seems to admit that she was the author of the tweets in question. She previously claimed that her account was hacked:
...Ibrahim herself has spoken, writing in Arabic on her Twitter page. Egyptian democracy activist Mina Rezkalla provides the translation: "I refuse to apologize to the Zionist lobby in America regarding my previous anti-Zionist statements under pressure from American government therefore they withdrew the award.">>

Just to refresh your memories, the "anti-Zionist" tweets in question included a celebration of murder: ""An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news." In another tweet, she described the leaders of Saudi Arabia as "dirtier than the Jews." (This counts as a twofer, I suppose, because it's hard to imagine America's Saudi allies being very happy about this one.) Then there was this tweet, praising the handiwork of al Qaeda: "Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning."

In a thread from January 5, Ibrahim argues "MB failed in the Emirates and it is going to fail in any country as long as there isn't signal from the US to them... the green light to the MB is only in North Africa." She says in her next tweet that "US is controlling the Gulf (Gulf countries) and play for the benefit of Israel .. MB play in North Africa for the benefit of Israel."

In another thread from January 11, Ibrahim is in a Twitter conversation with a man who says that Egypt and Iran should form an alliance to target Israel. Ibrahim says, "the current regime doesn't consider Israel an enemy but rather considers Iran an enemy. You are right, I wish there is a military alliance between Iran and Egypt." She tweets that an alliance with Iran would be a "million times better" than the alliance with the U.S.

And there was more anti-Israeli content as well. On August 5, Ibrahim called for Egypt to expel all Israelis from Egypt immediately ("1-review Camp-David 2- put the defense minister on a trial 3-change the army's leadership 4- expel any person who holds Israeli citizenship from Egypt immediately"). She also tweeted on August 5, "Egyptian media is inciting against Palestine instead of Israel. #whoring."
WASN'T THIS DURING THE DATES SHE CLAIMED SHE WAS HACKED? FUNNY, NO MENTION OF BEING HACKED!

HERE IS A LINK TO HER ACCOUNT, SEE FOR YOURSELVES.
https://twitter.com/SamiraIbrahim4
And simply use a translator, there are many, even a Google one.
WHAT CAN WE EXPECT BUT THIS IF WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN THAT OTHERS HAVE NO RIGHTS?

ALSO TODAY I READ:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Blasphemy-row-Mob-in-Pak-raids-Christian-colony/articleshow/18886751.cms
Mar 10, 2013
<<ISLAMABAD: An angry mob ransacked a Christian-dominated neighbourhood, burnt dozens of houses and forced over 150 families to leave the area following allegations of blasphemy against one of its residents in Lahore on Saturday. The mob attacked alleged blasphemer Savan Masih's house in Lahore's Joseph Colony before targeting over 100 other houses in the locality.
A police officer said their preliminary investigations had revealed that Masih had been falsely accused. "But we were forced to register a case against him to placate the mob,'' said Hafiz Abdul Majid, the officer. Reports said a barber, Shahid Imran, had filed the case against Masih on Friday. He had barged into his house a day earlier along with another person and thrashed his father when he did not find him there.
Provincial law minister Rana Sanaullah said cases have been registered against the arsonists and they will be prosecuted. >>

AGAIN, WEREN'T THEY TAUGHT AS CHILDREN TO DO SUCH THINGS? WHY? WHY WOULD A MOTHER WANT HER CHILD TO HAVE THIS ATTITUDE?

FROM LAST YEAR: <<Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has already started using crucifixions to cleanse the country of political opponents. Now, a ‘graphic’ video out of Yemen shows the crucifixion of man accused of spying for the U.S.>>
AND, YES, THE VIDEO STILL EXISTS, UNFORTUNATELY. I WARN YOU, IT IS GRUESOME AND I WILL NOT POST IT HERE!
THERE IS A WORSE VIDEO OF A MAN IN YEMEN, CRUCIFIED AS A SPY FOR AMERICA. THAT VIDEO WILL HAUNT ME ALL MY DAYS!

WHAT IF AMERICAN LAW REQUIRED CRUCIFIXION OF ALL WHO AGREED WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD? 

THE CAIRO INCIDENT HAS ALSO BEEN VEHEMENTLY DENIED, BUT IN THIS AGE OF INSTANT ACCESS, TOO MANY HAD ALREADY COPIED THE NEWS AND VIDEO!
The English translation of a section of the Sky News report, circled in red in the INITIAL post/video, references that members of the Muslim Brotherhood “crucified” dissidents “naked on trees in front of the presidential palace.”

Under the headline: “Crucified Dissidents In Front of the Presidential Palace,” the report, translated into English, said:

 “Samir Omar – Cairo
“Arabic Sky News
 “Sky News correspondent confirmed that members of the Muslim Brotherhood crucified dissidents to Muhammad Mursi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace. In addition, other demonstrators from the Muslim Brotherhood closed the gates not allowing entry to Media City in the area of Sixth of October as they attacked popular media figures. The demonstrators also yelled slogans denouncing the Farayeen TV station Tawfiq Akasheh and others whom they termed ‘Corrupt Media’ as one attacked the editor of Yaum Sabi’ (Seventh Day) Newspaper Khalid Salah. Eyewitnesses also confirmed that groups from the Muslim Brotherhood arrived in special buses and motor vehicles attacking with signs that say ‘The Media of Corruption.’ These groups then were divided in sections to close the entryways blocking entry and exit from Media City.”>>

On Youtube, the ORIGINAL video of the report had only 157 views several days later, even though it was published, by the MaghrebUnion2012, on Aug. 8.

“Al Dostour, a reputable Egyptian newspaper under the title ‘The Muslim Brotherhood Crucify Dissidents in Front of The Presidential Palace in Egypt,’ showed a photo that was originally taken by al-Watan News of a man the Egyptian security forces saved. The side of his flesh looks as it has been literally eaten away, its a gruesome photo which can be seen with the full article.”
Al-Wai Al-Arabi (Arab Awakening) is another source that took a photo of a naked man covered with a blanket who was rescued from the crucifixion, confirming that the Arabic text says victims were crucified on trees in front of the palace.
Tunisia-Sat also reported on the situation,
The Lawyers Union in Egypt investigated the story and demanded a probe, accusing Morsi of preventing the Republican Guards from intervening to rescue what they termed Muslim Brotherhood gangs on “what seemed as the most despicable attack on civilians.” The report was approved by Shadi Tal’at, president of the Lawyers Union.
Egypt Now also reported it, and Al-Watan News even mentioned the Sky News article being deleted.

THESE CRUCIFIXIONS ARE "OBLIGATORY", THEY MUST BE CARRIED OUT PER SHARIA LAW!
HOW MANY MOTHERS WANT TO SEE THEIR CHILD CRUCIFIED FOR ANY REASON?
<<Crucifixion is a hadd punishment, stipulated in the Quran, Sura 5:33, and therefore an obligatory part of Shariah. It’s been a traditional punishment within Islam since the beginning, even though it’s not exclusively Islamic. The Romans used it too.>>

 REPORTED IN DECEMBER, 2012,  ‘truly shocking’ human rights abuses including crucifixions and the beheading of an alleged sorcerer during its 16 months in control of a southern region of Yemen, a report by Amnesty International claimed today.
The London-based charity has also released a video which appears to show a suspected thief having his hand amputated by the Ansar al-Sharia militia, which seized power of the Abyan governorate in February 2011.
[NO, I WON'T LINK TO THAT DISGUSTING VIDEO HERE, EITHER!]
Amnesty said dozens more civilians were then killed during reckless counter-insurgency operations by the Yemeni government as it sought to win back the territory from the Al Qaeda-affiliated group.
The tragedies would ‘haunt Yemen for decades to come’ unless the perpetrators were caught and the families compensated, the charity said.
Amnesty International Middle East and North Africa Director Philip Luther said: "'Abyan experienced a human rights catastrophe as Ansar al-Sharia and government forces vied for control of the region during 2011 and the first half of 2012.The Yemeni authorities must ensure that a commission of inquiry announced in September covers the truly shocking abuses committed.'"

WHY THIS DIDN'T TAKE HEADLINES IN "MAINSTREAM MEDIA" IS BEYOND ME!
<<Authorities in New Jersey allege a Muslim man beheaded two Coptic Christians, burying their bodies and heads and hands in separate graves near Philadelphia, bringing the horror of the persecution of Christians in Islamic nations to the United States.
According to New York’s WABC-TV, the Muslim was identified as Yusuf Ibrahim, 28. He was taken into custody after the bodies were found.
The report said investigators alleged Ibrahim killed the victims then severed their heads and hands, and buried the remains in the back yard of a home in Buena Vista, N.J.>>
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/headless-bodies-new-jersey-lead-murder-arrest-article-1.1261218

ANOTHER "HADD" PUNISHMENT?

Muhib Ru’yat al-Rahman, a senior writer of a leading jihadi forum called Shumoukh al-Islam, has long "suggested" that Muslims living in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.S. kill Westerners who criticize Islam and display their decapitated heads along roads, according to the Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor, a unit of the Middle East Media Research Center. The writer praised Dutch-Moroccan Muslim Muhammad Bouyeri, who killed Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh in 2004 over the production of “Submission,” a film criticizing Islam’s treatment of women. Dozens of forum members praised the post, expressing their agreement with the writer’s suggestions.

Australia's ABC March 2013, reported: "''In a breakthrough deal,Thai government officials have agreed to start peace talks with a Muslim rebel group in the hope of ending a worsening conflict that has claimed over 5000 lives in the South. The dialogue process was launched in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur between senior Thai security officials and members of the Barisan Revolusi National (BRN) group to bring peace in the southern border provinces. 'It's the first ever agreement signed by Thailand's government with a rebel group in the Muslim-majority south. '"
The agreement was signed on Thursday in Kuala Lumpur, and the next day, March 1, 2013,  "'Two bombings occurred in Muang district of southern Narathiwat province on Friday, just a day after the signing of the consensus agreement by National Security Council secretary-general Paradorn Pattanatabut and BRN liaison office official Hassan Taib in Kuala Lumpur. A 20kg explosive device hidden inside a pickup truck parked on front of Jip Heng shop, a giant retail business operator in Narathiwat, opposite Muang Narathiwat police station, exploded about 12.06pm.'"
According to Deep South Watch, which monitors the southern violence, more than 5,000 people have been killed by Muslim "jihadist attacks" and over 9,000 injured in more than 11,000 incidents, or about 3.5 a day, in the three southernmost provinces and the four districts of Songkhla since the violence erupted afresh in January 2004.

“Nigerian Islamic extremists claim they killed 7 foreign hostages,” from the Associated Press, TODAY, MARCH 9, 2013.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/nigerian-islamic-extremists-claim-they-killed-7-foreign-hostages/2013/03/09/e86bb70c-88bc-11e2-b412-2e8596e7c927_story.html
<<The message, posted to an Islamic extremist website Saturday, said Ansaru members killed the hostages after British warplanes were reported to have been seen in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi by local journalists. However, the reports referenced in the online statement actually referred to the airplanes being seen at the international airport in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

“As a result of this operation, the seven hostages were killed,” the group said in the statement. It said a video of the killings would be posted online. An online image accompanying the posting appeared to show a gunman standing over dead bodies.

In January 2013, Ansaru declared itself a splinter group independent from Boko Haram, the north’s main Islamic terrorist group, analysts say. Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sacrilege,” has launched a guerrilla campaign of bombings and shootings across Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north. Boko Haram is blamed for at least 792 killings last year alone, according to an AP count.>>

BUT LOOK AT ONE OF THE "TEACHERS", AN IMAM, A MUFTI!
"Muslim Imam Claims Women Who Don’t Wear Hijabs are “Asking to be Raped”"
March, 2013, THEN HE ATTEMPTED TO RAPE A WOMAN WHO WAS WALKING HER DOG!
SHARIA LAW ALLOWS THIS AND WOMEN AGREE?

An Islamic mufti in Copenhagen, Shahid Mehdi, has sparked political outcry from the left-wing Unity List and right-wing Danish People’s Party, after stating in a televised interview that women who do not wear headscarves are “asking for rape.”
“Women are not entitled to respect when they walk around without a Hijab. They are to blame for it when they are attacked,” Imam Shahid Mehdi said.
“All the crimes that occur against women is because they are not covered. When they are not covered, you have no respect for them. ”
“She disobeys her master, there are two places in the Qur’an has ordered her to cover themselves (…) Women make a clean society dirty when they walk around without a Hijab. They are not entitled to respect and are not valuable as those who wear a Hijab. ”
Shahid Mehdi made his remarks in the DR2 programme “Talk to Gode,” and reiterated his stance in daily newspaper B.T. The Danish People’s Party and Unity List agree that Mehdi’s remarks could incite Muslim men to rape Danish women by insinuating that women who did not cover their hair were undeserving of basic respect.
As a mufti, a jurist who interprets Islamic law, Shahi Mehdi is in a special position of authority as a Muslim scholar. Mehdi is the Imam of the Islamic Religious Community mosque in Dortheavej in Copenhagen northwest and the Rector of Muslim private school and former leader of the Islamic Cultural Center in Brønshøj.>>

THIS ALSO CAUSED ME GREAT GRIEF:
March 4, 2013
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/04/us-saudi-executions-idUSBRE9230QD20130304
<<Saudi Arabia to behead seven on Tuesday:
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is scheduled to execute seven men on Tuesday for crimes committed when they were juveniles aged under 18, the British-based rights group Amnesty International said.
The seven were sentenced to death in 2009 for an armed robbery in 2006, but Amnesty quoted the men as saying they were tortured into confessions. It said King Abdullah ratified their sentences in February.
"They have since said they were severely beaten, denied food and water, deprived of sleep, forced to remain standing for 24 hours and then forced to sign 'confessions'," said Amnesty.
Capital crimes resulting in the death sentence last year included murder, armed robbery, drug smuggling, sorcery and witchcraft. Saudi Arabia has executed 17 people so far this year, said Amnesty, compared to 82 in 2011 and a similar number last year.>>
The alleged ringleader was to be crucified! Spokesperson Tamara al-Rifai said several of the men were legally children at the time the gang allegedly robbed jewelry stores in 2005. “Saudi Arabia is a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,” says al-Rifai, “which prohibits the death penalty for those under 18.” Saudi Arabia defends its handling of the case, saying Islamic law, or Sharia, is “above all.”

Amnesty International has called for authorities in Saudi Arabia to halt their practice of beheadings, which has escalated to an average of “nearly two people a week.” In 2012 Amnesty International recorded the execution of at least 79 people, of whom 27 were foreign nationals. At least two death sentences have already been carried out this year, both foreign nationals.

NOW I KNOW SOME WILL SCREAM,"WHAT SAUDI ARABIA DOES IS NO ONE ELSE'S DAMNABLE BUSINESS!"
TO THAT, I REPLY, "THEN NEITHER IS IT SAUDI'S BUSINESS IF WE DO THE SAME HERE, RIGHT?"

AMERICA HAS THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN-BORN MUSLIMS HERE WITH SAUDI ANCESTRY, SO IF WE TREATED THEM AS SAUDI ARABIA DOES, BEHEADING AS WE PLEASE, THEN WHAT?
IF AMERICA BEGAN TO PUNISH BY SHARIA LAW, HOW WOULD THAT BE SEEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

IF AN AMERICAN MUSLIM TEENAGER REPORTED SHE HAD BEEN RAPED IN AMERICA, AND AMERICA RESPONDED BY STONING HER TO DEATH AS HAPPENED IN SOMALIA IN 2008, HOW GREAT AN OUTCRY WOULD THERE BE?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/02/somalia-gender
AND
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081214/Somali-girl-pleaded-mercy-Islamists-stoned-death-raped.html

WOULD AN "HONOR KILLING" BE ALLOWED HERE? LIKE THE ONE IN 2007, THAT CNN SHOWED VIDEO OF UNDER THE YOUTUBE TITLE "Honor Killing - Iraqi Girl Stoned" ? [NO, NO LINK, GO FIND IT YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO SEE SUCH A THING.]

A film portraying the real-life stoning of an Iranian woman opened in London in 2010, despite protests from the Iranian government. 'The Stoning Of Soraya M' is painful to watch, grievous to consider.

MY QUESTION IS, IF THIS IS 'MERELY' SHARIA LAW, IF THIS PUNISHMENT IS ALLOWED AND COMMON, WHY WAS IRAN INCENSED OVER IT BEING SHOWN TO THE WORLD? {AGAIN, NO LINK}

SO, SOMEONE WITH GREAT KNOWLEDGE/WISDOM, PLEASE EDUCATE ME!
IS IT PERFECTLY FINE IF, WHEN CAUGHT COMMITTING CRIMES IN AMERICA, THE GUILTY FROM SAUDI ARABIA, EGYPT, YEMEN, ETC, WHO ARE MUSLIM CAN BE CRUCIFIED, BEHEADED, HAVE LIMBS CUT OFF, OR BE STONED TO DEATH ON AMERICAN SOIL?
ARE SUCH PUNISHMENTS PREFERRED BY ISLAM?

Unless MUSLIM PARENTS IN AMERICA decry the violent teachings of Islam to their children, there will continue to be more and more Siraj Wahhaj type Islamic leaders in America. The ultimate result may well be MARTYRDOM FOR THEIR OWN AMERICAN-BORN CHILDREN.
WHY DO I SAY THAT?
BECAUSE SUCH IS BEING TAUGHT RIGHT NOW, TODAY, IN MOSQUES ACROSS AMERICA!
SHARIA LAW IS BEING PUSHED HARD HERE, SO WATCH YOUR CHILDREN, PLEASE!
IT'S BEGUN IN AMERICA AS WELL...

[PLEASE NOTE, ALTHOUGH EVERYTHING BELOW HERE CAN BE FOUND IN PERHAPS THOUSANDS OF PLACES ON THE INTERNET, ONE MAN HAS DONE MOST TO BRING THESE THINGS TO LIGHT, AND I DON'T MIND ONE BIT POINTING YOU TO HIS WEBSITE:"Family Security Matters" AT http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11242/pub_detail.asp#ixzz2N6KI0c8G
THIS  MAN IS "'DAVE GAUBATZ, who spent 20 years as an active duty USAF (Special Agent/OSI), 3.5 years as a civilian 1811 Federal Agent, trained by the U.S. State Department in Arabic, and was the first U.S. Federal Agent to enter Iraq in 2003. He is also a counterterrorism/ counterintelligence officer. Gaubatz currently owns "Wahhabi CT Publications" and conducts CT Research on behalf of high profile non-profit organizations.

The JIHADIST materials coming into America from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan specifically, has been found easily in dozens of mosques across America, but most shocking may be these three:
    Dar al Hijrah, Falls Church, VA
    Al Farooq, Nashville, TN
    At Taqwa, Brooklyn, NY
Such materials, by Halaco bookstores' OWN admissions, are being sent to Islamic schools across America. Much of the material deals with Sharia and Jihad. One of the DVD’s and books most easily obtained at Dar Al Hijrah was by an Islamic scholar Ahmad Sakr. Sakr travels the U.S. visiting Islamic schools and educates them in Sharia law. One of his videos can be watched on the internet, [but NO LINK FROM ME!] in which he tells the young children our government is evil and not to follow the laws of our country and that Americas government leaders will all go to hell. There were manuals in these mosque's bookstores informing the readers how to destroy America and how to kill anyone who oppresses Islam. They are told how to obtain weapons.
IN CASE YOU'VE FORGOTTEN, Anwar al-Awlaki was an imam at the Dar al Hijrah Mosque from January 2001 until 2002. Three of the 9/11 hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Hani Hanjour, attended some of Awlaki’s sermons at this mosque.

The next mosque, Al Farooq, in Nashville, TN, is even more disturbing.
What most Americans do not realize is that child marriages are occurring throughout our country and specifically in Nashville, TN. Even after one young 7 year old Muslim girl at Al Farooq talked to researchers about being beaten IN HER OWN WORDS! (MP3 file, http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/audioLib/20120117_hitting.mp3) by her Islamic leaders and being married (MP3 file, http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/audioLib/20120117_Husband.mp3) to a Muslim man. This was quickly reported to the Nashville authorities but almost from the beginning they were reluctant to intercede because this was a religious institution and more importantly to them it was Islamic. Senior law enforcement authorities of the Nashville police department informed the researchers that they were afraid of being sued by Islamic organizations such as CAIR if they got involved and it would be a political nightmare to get anything done at the mosque. The group visiting the mosque next contacted Islamic organizations to help this innocent Muslim child and they also balked. This reinforces that Islamic law (Sharia) is alive and very active inside America and includes child marriages.

The next mosque, Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, NY, is led by an Islamic scholar who is not only a major fundraiser for CAIR but travels throughout the U.S. teaching his violent ideology of Islam. He has been called "the most dangerous man in America", Imam Siraj Wahhaj. For those who have never visited the Islamic district of Brooklyn it would come as a surprise to many that the area around At Taqwa is similar to the Wahhabi land of Saudi Arabia. HUNDREDS of his Friday (Juma) mosque lectures have come to the attention of those concerned with his spread of jihadist teaching. 
In this speech (OF WHICH THERE IS AN MP3) he tells his followers that around the world Muslims will wake up and say,

“I don’t want to follow the way of the colonial masters any more. I want the Sharia. I want Islam. We want to be ruled by Islam. And all we have to do is go back to that golden generation.”

He routinely called America an evil country and is a strong leader in developing Sharia law inside our country. His violent lectures are available to the adult and child Muslims throughout America.

"Those who struggle for Allah, it doesn't matter what kind of weapons, I'm telling you it doesn't matter! You don't need nuclear weapons or even guns! If you have faith in Allah and a knife!! If Allah wants you to win, you will win! Because Allah is the only one who fights. And when his hand is over your hand. whoever is at war against my friends, I declare war on them."
 From a video by Sirah Wahhaj called "The Afghanistan Jihad," Toronto, Canada, of a sermon from Sept. 28, 1991.

“If we go to war, brothers and sisters – and one day we will, believe me – that’s why you’re commanded [to fight in] jihad. When Allah demands us to fight, we’re not stopping and nobody’s stopping us.
 Sermon by Siraj Wahhaj entitled “Stand Up to Justice,” delivered on May 8, 1992 and distributed as a video.

There are numerous such Islamic centers in NC, FL, VA, NY, and CA.

The message is clear says another "manual": “Islam is a religion of Jihad, in peace and in war. Jihad is one of the noblest principles of Islam.” The manual where this message is found is titled, “A Guide for The Young Muslim.” The manual further describes Jihad as being physical fighting against their enemies and oppressors. It is admired to be a “martyr.” This book was found in northern VA, BESIDE A CAIR BROCHURE. CAIR (The Muslim Brotherhood) strongly informs its followers to not assist our law enforcement agencies and to not conduct slander and backbiting against Islamic leaders. Within Sharia law there are severe penalties for undermining the efforts of the ‘Islamic Ummah’ (Nation) and their specific target of a worldwide Ummah under Sharia law.

“Martyrdom means transfusion of blood into a society, especially a society from anemia. It is the martyr who infuses fresh blood into the veins of the society.” The manual in which this teaching was contained was also found in Virginia (again alongside a CAIR brochure). It is titled “The Martyr” and was originally printed in Houston, TX.

The word "suicide" is never used - the act is forbidden in Islam. Instead the act is described as "a sacred explosion."

A Hamas leaflet, widely distributed in the West Bank states: "We do not have tanks or rockets. But we have something superior - our Islamic human bombs. In place of a nuclear arsenal, we are proud of our arsenal of believers."

AMERICAN MUSLIMS WHO MAY BE COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF SUCH "MANUALS" NEED TO KNOW THAT SUCH THINGS EXIST IN THE MOSQUE/SCHOOLS THEIR CHILDREN ATTEND!

ARE WE TO TEACH ALL OUR CHILDREN AS SAUDI ARABIA, PAKISTAN, ET AL, FROM WHICH THESE MANUALS FLOW, TEACH THEIRS!
GOD FORBID!
WHY IS IT LIKE THIS? WHY?

AND WHAT ABOUT MUSLIMS CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF THEFT, MURDER, RAPE, WHATEVER, BY AMERICAN TROOPS INSIDE MUSLIM NATIONS, OR BY ANY NON-MUSLIM COUNTRY'S LAW ENFORCEMENT WHERE SHARIA IS NOT FOLLOWED, WHERE ISLAM IS A MINOR RELIGION? WHAT SHOULD WE DO WITH THOSE CRIMINALS? CRUCIFY THEM PUBLICLY? CUT OFF A BODY PART AND LET THEM GO? IF WE DID TO THEM WHAT SHARIA DEMANDS, WOULD THERE BE WORLD WAR 3?

WHAT KIND OF OUTCRY, WHAT SORT OF RETRIBUTION MIGHT WE EXPECT IF WE CRUCIFIED OR BEHEADED ONE MUSLIM HERE IN AMERICA, OR IN GREAT BRITAIN, OR IN GERMANY? WHAT IF WE JUST BEGAN DEPORTING ALL MUSLIMS BACK TO THE NATIONS OF ISLAM? WHAT IF WE DENIED THE WOMEN OF ISLAM THE RIGHT TO WEAR A HIJAB IN AMERICA?

IF SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN, ET AL, CAN PASS A DEATH SENTENCE ON "FOREIGN NATIONALS", DOESN'T IT STAND TO REASON THAT THEY SHOULD EXPECT THE SAME THING FROM ALL OTHER NATIONS WHEN THEIR CITIZENS ARE CAUGHT COMMITTING CRIMES ABROAD?
IF NOT, WHY NOT? IF IT IS "LEGAL" FOR THE NATIONS OF ISLAM TO EXECUTE CITIZENS FROM OTHER NATIONS, DOESN'T THAT ALLOW OTHER NATIONS TO OFFER THE VERY SAME "JUSTICE" FOR  MUSLIMS CAUGHT COMMITTING CRIMES? IF NOT, WHY NOT?

SINCE, OBVIOUSLY, THESE CRUCIFIXIONS, BEHEADINGS, STONINGS, DISMEMBERMENTS, ETC, ARE PART OF THE LAWS OF ISLAM, SHARIA LAW, SURELY THAT LAW SHOULD APPLY ALL OVER THE GLOBE, RIGHT?
IF NOT, WHY NOT?

WHY WAS IT "EXPECTED" THAT THE FILM BY SOME GUY IN CALIFORNIA THAT SUPPOSEDLY SET OFF RIOTS ALL OVER THE MIDDLE EAST LAST SEPTEMBER WOULD INCITE MUSLIMS TO RIOT, BUT FILMS LIKE THE ONES AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE SHOULD NOT SO MUCH AS CAUSE A JEWISH OR CHRISTIAN OR AMERICAN OR NON-MUSLIM PERSON TO BLINK?

ISN'T THIS A DOUBLE-STANDARD? ISN'T THIS A BIT INSANE FOR ONE GROUP TO BE OFFENDED BY A CERTAIN TYPE OF FILM, YET PRODUCE ALMOST IDENTICAL TYPE FILMS ON A DAILY BASIS, BUT REFUSE TO CONSIDER HOW THEIR FILMS MIGHT ALSO "INCITE RIOT" OUTSIDE THE NATIONS OF ISLAM?

ARE ONLY MUSLIMS ALLOWED TO BE OFFENDED WHEN THEIR RELIGION IS ATTACKED, OR WHEN THEY SPEW HATRED ALL OVER THE INTERNET, INDEED ALL OVER THE WORLD?
ARE WE ALL TO FOLLOW THE LEAD OF ISLAM?
ARE WE ALL TO TEACH OUR CHILDREN THAT THIS IS RIGHT?
NO, NO, NO!

I DON'T UNDERSTAND TELEVISION BEING USED BY MUSLIMS ANYWAY, NOR THEM USING TALKING 'ANIMALS' LIKE A BIG MOUSE, A RABBIT, A BEAR, A BEE, WHEN THE QUR'AN FORBIDS SUCH!

THIS IS JUST ONE OF OVER A DOZEN ISLAMIC WEBSITES I READ TO BE SURE OF TV BEING AN EVIL THING: http://www.missionislam.com/family/ill_effects_of_television.htm
<<TV is an institution, which is widely used to exhibit the female body. Islam has banned all forms of immorality and immodesty, but TV exhibits immodesty and immorality in their crudest forms by depicting the actual sex acts and, above all, it audaciously and shamelessly passes these off as "educational". Television as a prime agent of immorality is very well known…We can consider music as an integral part of television programs. No TV show is complete without music. Islam has forbidden music in no unmistaken terms.[ refer to: The Islamic Ruling of Music and Singing, by Abu Bilal Mustafah al-Kanadi.]  For the purposes of the present subject it will suffice to state that Islam categorically forbids all types of music. Music in Islam is regarded as a Kabirah (great) sin. With regard to music our Prophet (saws) said:

"There will be men from among my Ummah who will consume alcohol, giving it another name (so as to deceive themselves and others). Singing girls and musical instruments will be playing to them. Allah, Ta'ala will cause the earth to swallow them. Allah will transform them into apes and swine." [bn Maajah, al-Bayhaqee 10/221, no. 20989. Al-Albaanee declared it to be authentic in Silsilat Saheehah 1/136-139, no. 90.]
Television, therefore, is without any doubt a powerful agent and a stepping-stone for fornication…
The female voice, according to Islam, is also included in the category of Satar, ie. it has to be 'concealed' and not 'revealed'. Since the female voice is an entity not to be displayed or advertised, it is not permissible for males to listen to women singing or even reciting the Qur'an… "And do not speak in alluring tones so that he in whose heart there is a disease (of lust) desires."
[Qur'an al-Ahzab 33:32]

"Every sport or amusement that a Muslim occupies himself with is Baatil (baseless, null and not permissible) – except three [the three types being] his practicing with your bow (and arrow); his training horse and his playing with his family."10 "Whosoever plays with chess and backgammon is like one who has dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine." [Muslim 4/1222, no.5612]

AND THIS SITE CLEARLY SHOWS THAT ANIMALS 'IMAGES' MUST NOT BE KEPT AS TOYS, NOR EVEN PHOTOS!
http://islamqa.info/en/ref/20325
<<QUESTION:We know from Hadith that the Angels do not enter into a house where pictures/photographs of living things (humans or animals )are displased [SIC].
What is the ruling for keeping the photographs of family relatives and pictures appearing in magazines/news papers etc. and toys like dolls and sruptures [SIC]of animals.

ANSWER: With regard to image-making by means of machines, i.e. cameras, there is a difference of opinion among the later scholars on this matter. Some of them forbid it and some of them allow it.
In order to be on the safe side, it is better to avoid that, because it is one of the doubtful areas. And whoever is careful with regard to doubtful matters will protect his religious commitment and his honour.
[IMAGES] that are hung up for the sake of memory, such as hanging up pictures of one's friends. This is also haraam, because of the hadeeth narrated in Saheeh al-Bukhaari from Abu Talhah (may Allaah be pleased with him), who said: “I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: ‘The angels do not enter any house in which there is a dog or an image.’” Narrated by Muslim, no. 2104).>>
[In the case of children’s toys, which are NOT regarded as haraam or makrooh? OBVIOUSLY THOSE WITHOUT EYES, LIPS, OR NOSES, SO HOW ARE THE ANIMALS IN THE FOLLOWING VIDEOS ALLOWED? CAN ANYONE TELL ME?]
<<But what are the toys which are exempted? We know that the toys of the past did not have eyes and lips and noses as they do nowadays. I think it is better to avoid these toys and limit oneself to those the kind of toys that were known previously.  See Fataawa al-‘Aqeedah by Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, p. 66, 663, 679>>

What is the ruling on animated cartoons that are shown to children? Do they come under the heading of images that are forbidden in Islam?
http://islamqa.info/en/ref/71170/CARTOONS
<<It is well known that Islam has forbidden image-making, drawing and sculpting every animate being that Allaah has created; there are stern warnings issued to those who do that.

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The most severely punished of the people on the Day of Resurrection will be the image-makers.” Narrated by al-Bukhaari (5950) and Muslim (2109).

They present beliefs and ideas that are contrary to Islam, as some movies include mixing and display of charms (tabarruj) that are haraam. Some cartoons, such as Tom & Jerry, give distorted ideas about the Hereafter, Paradise and Hell, and the Reckoning. Some cartoons include distortions of the stories of the Prophets and Messengers, and some poke fun at Islam and Muslims, whilst others (such as Pokemon) include the beliefs of eastern and idolatrous religions. And there are many other examples. Even if a film does not outwardly go against Islam, it still carries notions of western culture that are alien to our society and religion.
See: Wasaa’il al-I’laam wa’l-Atfaal: Wajhat nazar Islamiyyah by Abu’l-Hasan Saadiq and the article entitled Athar al-Rusoom al-Mutaharrikah ‘ala al-Atfaal by Nizaar Muhammad ‘Uthmaan.>>

IF THE QUR'AN FORBIDS SUCH THINGS, WHY THE VIDEOS POSTED BELOW?

I NEED ANSWERS!
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANSWERS TO THESE VERY VALID QUESTIONS?
WHY DO, HOW CAN, MUSLIMS BE OFFENDED BUT NEVER SEE THAT THEY ALSO OFFEND?

WELL, I AM HIGHLY OFFENDED BY VIDEOS PIPED TO CHILDREN THAT USE AN AMERICAN DISNEY CHARACTER AND A BUNNY TO SELL MARTYRDOM TO INNOCENT CHILDREN!
I AM COMPLETELY OFFENDED THAT SOME EGYPTIAN FEMALE CAME TO AMERICA UNDER FALSE PRETENSES, ACCEPTED THE PRAISE OF OUR BLIND STATE DEPARTMENT AND THEN ADMITTED HER TRUE FEELINGS...THAT SHE DID INDEED HOPE AMERICA BURNS, AND HOPES THAT ALL JEWISH PEOPLE ARE ERADICATED OFF THE EARTH. [YES, I MEAN  Samira Ibrahim!] 

I AM BEYOND OFFENDED BY THE SIGHT OF A YOUNG TEENAGE BOY STRAPPED INTO A VEST FILLED WITH EXPLOSIVES, A BOY WHO OBVIOUSLY DID NOT WANT TO BE A "MARTYR"!

I AM OFFENDED THAT TWO YOUNG CHILDREN WERE SHOWN THEIR MOTHER BLOWING HERSELF UP AND WERE PROMPTED TO SEE THAT AS A WONDERFUL THING!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XELcNMhkKCo


I AM OFFENDED!
SHOULDN'T ALL PARENTS BE OFFENDED?
OR.....
 SHOULD WE ALL TEACH CHILDREN TO BLOW SOMETHING OR SOMEONE UP FOR THE SAKE OF OUR RELIGIONS?
SHOULD WE ALL DECLARE A "JIHAD" ON THOSE WHO OFFEND US?
NO, NO, NO!

BUT I AM VERY OFFENDED!
 SHOULD WE ALL TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO CRUCIFY ANYONE, BEHEAD ANYONE, CUT OFF ANYONE'S HAND THAT HAS SPOKEN OUT AGAINST OUR VERY EXISTENCE, WHO SAYS ANYONE ELSE IS AN 'INFIDEL', A 'DEVIL'?
NO, NO, NO!

SHOULD I? SHOULD WE ALL FOLLOW SUCH EXAMPLES?
SHOULD I OR YOU OR ANYONE DO THESE THINGS BECAUSE THESE THINGS ARE DONE ALL OVER THE WORLD BY THE NATIONS OF ISLAM, BY MUSLIMS HERE IN AMERICA?
NO, NO, NO!
I WILL NOT!
NO ONE CAN MAKE ME!
THESE THINGS ARE WRONG!
ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE CANNOT BE CORRECT!
THESE THINGS ARE WRONG!

IF EVEN ONE HUMAN HAS A RIGHT TO LIFE AND BELIEF, THEN ALL DO!
ALL HAVE THE SAME RIGHT!

THIS IS WHAT OUR CHILDREN MUST LEARN!
LET ME ALSO STATE THAT ANYONE, ANY RELIGION, ANY RACE, ANY CULTURE THAT USES MURDER, OR HATE THAT LEADS TO MURDER, OR SPEWS SUCH HATRED TO INCITE OTHERS TO MURDER CAN HARDLY SCREAM AND PLEAD FOR MERCY WHEN THE SAME IS DONE TO THEM!
AS WE DO, SO SHOULD IT BE DONE TO US, YES?
IF NOT, WHY NOT?
WE MUST LEAVE A BETTER WORLD FOR OUR CHILDREN!
IF WE DO NOT, LET THEIR BE NO MERCY FOR US!
WE OWE OUR CHILDREN A BETTER WORLD!




                                 Muslim Cleric, "MICKEY MOUSE", A "BUNNY" Teaches Children


THE VIDEOS WITH CARTOON-LIKE ANIMALS ARE PIPED TO PALESTINIAN CHILDREN.
THIS IS THEIR 'ENTERTAINMENT". DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS? DO YOU?

               

                        THE RESULT OF THE CALL TO MARTYRDOM AMONG CHILDREN?
The boy in this video is Hussam Bilal Abdo. HE WAS 14 WHEN HE DID THIS.
He was, according to his own family, unpopular in class and wanted to be popular so the best way is to become a "martyr" hero. An older friend of his had direct connection with the bomb makers so he agreed to take him to them and they offered him 100 Israeli Shekels (about 24 US Dollars at the time of the event) for doing the deed.
HE CHANGED HIS MIND... BUT HE WAS SENT TO JAIL.
I DON'T WANT THIS FOR ANY CHILD....DO YOU?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPU4UN03t7E





Saturday, March 9, 2013

U.S. DEFAULT, CALAMITY FOR AMERICA?

OUR "KING OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE", BEN BERNANKE, SAID IT BACK IN MARCH, 2011, AND WHAT HE FEARED HAS COME UPON US! IT IS GLARINGLY EVIDENT, DESPITE THE FINANCIAL WIZARDS SWEARING IT'S NOT POSSIBLE ALL OVER THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA, DESPITE EVERYONE BELIEVING SOMEONE IN WASHINGTON WILL PULL OFF A "MIRACLE", CONGRESS IS NOT GOING TO FIX THIS MESS, AND OBAMA'S TEAM KNOW THAT THEY CAN'T FIX IT EITHER!

IT'S SIMPLY GONE TOO FAR, TOO QUICKLY...IF THE PAST 16 YEARS CAN BE SEEN AS "QUICKLY".
THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS NEED TO FACE THE FACT THAT THEIR STRATEGY TO SAVE THEIR SUPER-RICH PALS, THAT UPPER 2%, THAT BUNCH THAT FUNDS THEIR CAMPAIGNS, THAT ACTUALLY BUYS THEIR VOTES ON SUCH AS THIS, IS GOING TO BRING THE 98% DOWN, IS GOING TO BREAK AMERICA'S BACK, AND IS GOING TO SET THE REST OF THE WORLD ON ITS EAR BECAUSE OF AMERICA'S ECONOMIC RUINATION!
THE DEMOCRATS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT SPENDING, AT THIS POINT IN TIME, IS SUICIDE, AND STOP TRYING TO SPEND US OUT OF THE SEWER WE'RE IN.

SOME "EXPERTS' AGREE...NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE CUT SPENDING AND/OR RAISE TAXES, AMERICAN ECONOMY IS TOO FAR GONE TO RESUSCITATE AND DEFAULT IS INEVITABLE, BUT THE "NAYSAYERS" TO DEFAULT JUST KEEP SWEARING THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
WELL, IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE, AND HISTORY HAS A WAY OF REPEATING ITSELF!


U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress could create financial and economic “chaos” if lawmakers bind together raising the short-term debt limit to fund the federal government with fundamental fiscal restructuring.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/03/01/bernanke-warns-on-debt-limit-chaos/

<<The Fed chief said he’s worried about lawmakers using the need to raise the debt ceiling as a legislative vehicle to enact budget restructuring, as many Republicans are have urged.
A handful of Republican senators, knowing the Fed chief’s concern about debt and deficit levels, tried to leverage that worry into support for a GOP proposal to tie the issues together. But Bernanke returned with a salvo of warnings against linking the two issues.
Major budget restructuring, particularly targeting entitlements such as healthcare, poses a monumental political hurdle. Bernanke said tying the two issues together would raise the risk that the U.S. wouldn’t subsequently be able to raise the debt level and therefore default on its debt. That, he said, would cause a financial crisis and “real chaos.”
“It would be extremely dangerous and likely recovery-ending event,” Bernanke later added.
“For a very long time afterwards, the U.S. would have to pay higher interest rates in the market and that would make our deficit problems even more intractable,” he said.
First, the Fed chief said a new financial crisis would be created as firms that rely on receiving interest and principle from the government are unable to make their own payments. “That would probably cascade through the financial markets,” he said.
Then, there would be a “massive loss of confidence” in U.S. Treasury securities, the deepest, most liquid market in the world.
Bernanke said even if the U.S. failed to meet its debt payment deadline for 20 minutes and the government avoided the most serious harmful impacts, the interest rates the U.S. pays on its debt would still likely rise with the perception of higher riskiness and uncertainty associated with funding the government.
“Broadly speaking…it would be a very, very bad outcome for the U.S. economy,” he said.
Bernanke said tying the two issues together would raise the risk that the U.S. wouldn’t subsequently be able to raise the debt level and therefore default on its debt. That, he said, would cause a financial crisis and “real chaos.”
“It would be extremely dangerous and likely recovery-ending event,” Bernanke later added.
“For a very long time afterwards, the U.S. would have to pay higher interest rates in the market and that would make our deficit problems even more intractable,” he said.
First, the Fed chief said a new financial crisis would be created as firms that rely on receiving interest and principle from the government are unable to make their own payments. “That would probably cascade through the financial markets,” he said.
Then, there would be a “massive loss of confidence” in U.S. Treasury securities, the deepest, most liquid market in the world.>>

THAT WAS THEN, THIS IS NOW!
The U.S. Treasury has the power take extraordinary measures to FORESTALL A DEFAULT BUT NOBODY CAN "FORESTALL" FOREVER!
By definition, a default is the point at which the government fails to meet principal or interest payments on the national debt. The Treasury CAN under-invest in certain government funds, suspend the sales of nonmarketable debt, and trim or delay auctions of securities. Congressional delay in raising the debt ceiling forced Treasury to begin taking some of these measures in May 2011 and again in January 2013.
If Congress does NOT act to CONTINUOUSLY raise the debt limit despite such emergency measures, federal spending would have to plummet or taxes would have to rise significantly (or a combination thereof). However, even Tim Geithner has warned in the past that because the government's obligations are so great, "immediate cuts in spending or tax increases cannot make the necessary cash available."

If Treasury is unable to issue new debt or take further actions to bridge the deficit, the government would be forced to default on some of its financial commitments, limiting or delaying payments to creditors, beneficiaries, vendors, and other entities. Among other things, these payments could include military salaries, Social Security and Medicare payments, and unemployment benefits.


PAST SECRETARY OF TREASURY, TIMOTHY GEITHNER, SENT A LETTER TO CONGRESS BACK IN APRIL, 2011, STRONGLY WORDED, WARNING OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DEFAULT:
http://www.treasury.gov/connect/blog/Pages/letter-to-congress.aspx
<<If the debt limit is not increased by May 16, the Treasury Department has authority to take certain extraordinary measures, described in detail in the appendix, to temporarily postpone the date that the United States would otherwise default on its obligations. These actions, which have been employed during previous debt limit impasses, would be exhausted after approximately eight weeks, meaning no headroom to borrow within the limit would be available after about July 8, 2011. At that point the Treasury would have no remaining borrowing authority, and the available cash balances would be inadequate for us to operate with a sufficient margin to meet our commitments securely.
If Congress failed to increase the debt limit, a broad range of government payments would have to be stopped, limited or delayed, including military salaries and retirement benefits, Social Security and Medicare payments, interest on the debt, unemployment benefits and tax refunds. This would cause severe hardship to American families and raise questions about our ability to defend our national security interests. In addition, defaulting on legal obligations of the United States would lead to sharply higher interest rates and borrowing costs, declining home values and reduced retirement savings for Americans. Default would cause a financial crisis potentially more severe than the crisis from which we are only now starting to recover.
For these reasons, default by the United States is unthinkable. This is not a new or partisan judgment; it is a conclusion that has been shared by every Secretary of the Treasury, regardless of political party, in the modern era.
Treasury has been asked whether it would be possible for the Treasury to sell financial assets as a way to avoid or delay congressional action to raise the debt limit. This is not a viable option. To attempt a “fire sale” of financial assets in an effort to buy time for Congress to act would be damaging to financial markets and the economy and would undermine confidence in the United States.
Selling the Nation’s gold, for example, would undercut confidence in the United States both here and abroad. A rush to sell other financial assets, such as the remaining financial investments from the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act programs, would impose losses on American taxpayers and risk damaging the value of similar assets held by private investors without generating sufficient revenue to make an appreciable difference in when the debt limit must be raised. Likewise, for both legal and practical reasons, it is not feasible to sell the government’s portfolio of student loans.
Nor is it possible to avoid raising the debt limit by cutting spending or raising taxes.

Because of the magnitude of past commitments by Congress, immediate cuts in spending or tax increases cannot make the necessary cash available. And, reductions in future spending commitments cannot supply the short-term cash needed. In order to avoid an increase in the debt limit, Congress would need to eliminate annual deficits immediately.>>

AND WHAT HAPPENED? CONGRESSIONAL 'CIVIL WAR', THAT'S WHAT!
IT'S THE "I HATE OBAMA" GANG VERSUS THE "I HATE THE HATERS OF OBAMA" GANG, AND EVERYBODY LOSES!


I HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT IF THE ELITE 2% ALL SENT PERSONAL LETTERS TO OLD JOHN BOEHNER SAYING "IN THE NAME OF GOD, PLEASE RAISE OUR TAXES!" HE'D EITHER BURN THEM IN A RAGE, OR OPEN HIS VEINS AND SIT IN A HOT TUB!

YOU CAN "CUT THE HATE WITH A KNIFE", IT'S SO THICK UP ON CAPITOL HILL, ONE "WING" AGAINST THE OTHER "WING", ONE "PARTY" AGAINST THE OTHER "PARTY", AND THE "HAVES" AGAINST THE "HAVE NOTS"....IT'S BRUTAL WAR!
AND WE LOSE, ALL OF US WILL LOSE. EVEN THE MEGA-RICH, WHOM THE REPUBLICANS HAVE LONG TRIED TO SHIELD FROM LOSS, WILL LOSE! MAYBE THEY DON'T REALIZE THAT?

SPEAKING OF LOATHING, I DO LOATHE THE ABOMINABLE "COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS", AND YOU WOULD TOO IF YOU HAD LOOKED LONG AND HARD AT THAT HEINOUS 'ORGANIZATION", BUT EVEN THEY WARNED THIS WAS COMING DOWN THE PIKE IN AN "UPDATE" OF JANUARY, 2013.
http://www.cfr.org/international-finance/us-debt-ceiling-costs-consequences/p24751#p9
<<A shutdown takes place when Congress fails to appropriate funds for the current fiscal year, as last occurred in October 1995. In such a case, a specific set of procedures is enacted. A large portion of the federal government—work deemed "non-essential"—is suspended indefinitely and workers are furloughed without pay until funding is reestablished. A shutdown does not impede the government's ability to pay interest or principal on its debt as long as Treasury has appropriate headroom under the ceiling. In other words, a shutdown does not precipitate a federal default.
On the other hand, if Congress fails to raise the debt limit, the government can no longer borrow funds, but federal operations may continue for the period that Treasury is able to use existing revenue or secure additional resources through special measures. Therefore, most employees will continue to be paid, at least in the short term. However, Treasury's continuing inability to borrow further capital would eventually lead to a default, assuming radical revenue increases or spending decreases are not instituted.
Most experts agree that the potential negative consequences of a debt-limit debacle are much greater and far-reaching than that of a shutdown—particularly given the risk of a government default that would jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States.>>

CAN IT BE SAID MORE PLAINLY THAN THAT? THIS IS WHERE WE ARE!

WE ARE IN A SHUTDOWN NOW! MANY WON'T CALL IT THAT, BUT JUST READ THE NEWS ...PICK ONE! WE ARE COUNTING DOWN TO DEFAULT!

A new official report predicts that US government will default on its debt before March 2013, prompting new pressures on ways to raise the country’s federal debt ceiling.
January 07, 2013, WASHINGTON POST

According to an analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center, the US government will not be able to pay its bills sometime between February 15 and March 1 of this year, half a month sooner than expected, The Washington Post reports on Tuesday.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-01-07/business/36207635_1_debt-limit-bipartisan-policy-center-default

<<The government, the report adds, already reached the USD16.4 trillion legal debt limit on December 31, 2012, “but the Treasury Department is able to undertake a number of accounting schemes to delay when the government runs into funding problems.”
“Our numbers show that we have less time to solve this problem than many realize,” Senior Director of Economic Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center Steve Bell said in a statement. “It will be difficult for Treasury to get beyond the March 1 date in our judgment.”

The report further warns that if the US Congress does not left the debt ceiling by the due deadline, Obama administration officials have said that the country will probably default on its payments. >>
Back in 1979, Congress waited, and waited, and waited to lift the debt ceiling, because Congress never likes taking responsibility for the tax and spending decisions it's already made.
By a "quirk", America DEFAULTED "briefly". The government eventually paid back everyone what it owed with interest, but that didn't erase this "accidental" default from the market's memory. Short-term interest rates shot up 0.6 percentage points after the Treasury missed its payments
But it would be much, much closer to FINANCIAL Armageddon if we did this today.

BLAME A THING CALLED "SHADOW BANKING"!
What's shadow banking? The past few decades, there's been a shift in the financial system towards things that, economically-speaking, look like a bank, act like a bank, but technically are NOT banks. Institutions like hedge funds, structured investment vehicles, and money-market funds all borrow short and lend long, just like a bank, but do so outside the web of regulations that control, and safeguard, regular, old banks. In other words, they trade FDIC insurance and access to the Fed window for complete financial freedom. 
They are the shadow banking system, and they didn't really exist back in 1979.
And they, along with conventional banks that have gotten into the game, using Treasury bonds as a kind of money. They use Treasuries as collateral for cash in repurchase agreements (repos) to fund their daily trading, with those same Treasuries often getting "rehypothetecated" -- that is, reposted as collateral by whoever first got it as collateral in a dizzying chain of financial connections. It's almost impossible to predict what would happen to these "collateral chains" if there was any kind of default on Treasuries, but it would almost certainly be CHAOS, and BEYOND DEFAULT!

This story has three possible endings.
(1)Either Congress CONTINUOUSLY lifts the debt ceiling, and we all POSTPONE default, at least until the upcoming battle over the continuing "resolutions"; or
(2) Congress doesn't, and we only get a massive dose of austerity; or (3) Congress doesn't, we get a massive dose of austerity, and THEN we default, with interest rates shooting up and the financial system melting down. This shouldn't be a difficult choice for Congress, for anyone with two viable brain cells, should it? But we're going into the 5th year of Boehner vs Obama, and Boehner seems determined to not just dive off that "fiscal cliff", but grab Obama on the way over the edge, and the rest of us as well...
In fact the whole "Financial Mafia", including our Wall Street smoochers up on the HILL, are likely preparing for the default while keeping the rest of us lulled into slumber to "prevent financial panic"...which is to say, SAVE THEIR PROFITS AS MUCH AS THEY CAN WHILE THE REST OF THE WORLD WAITS FOR THE BROADSIDE!

DEFAULT IS INEVITABLE...IT WILL NOT BE PRETTY!







Friday, March 8, 2013

DRONES ACROSS AMERICA : RISE OF THE 'CYBORGS'?

WE CAN TELL OURSELVES IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN AMERICA, THAT OUR GOVERNMENT WOULD NEVER USE DRONES AGAINST "WE, THE PEOPLE", BUT WE'D BE STUPID TO ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT!

DRONES HAVE ALREADY BEEN USED TO ARREST CITIZENS, AFTER THEY WERE SPIED ON FROM ABOVE! YOU MAY SEE THIS AS A GOOD THING...UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU OR A FAMILY MEMBER, MAYBE.

HOW DRONES ARE BEING USED RIGHT NOW IN AMERICA IS SHOWN NEAR THE END OF THIS BLOG, BUT DO READ THE HISTORY, LEARN SOMETHING NEW!

WE'VE BEEN DEVELOPING DRONES SINCE 1916!
DRONES HAVE BEEN USED TO KILL SINCE VIETNAM!

IS THE MILITARY UNDER OBAMA THE FIRST TO USE DRONES?
NO, NOT BY A LONG SHOT!
BUT WE ARE USING THEM A LOT MORE OFTEN NOW! 

HAVE DRONES BEEN USED TO 'SPY ON AMERICANS' BEFORE 2009?
ABSOLUTELY!
SORRY, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, OBAMA'S TEAM HAS YET TO COME UP WITH ANYTHING NEW, WITH ANYTHING THAT OTHER PRESIDENTS HAVEN'T USED LONG BEFORE HE OCCUPIED THE OVAL OFFICE!

HERE'S THE ARTICLE THAT 'SET ME OFF' TODAY...READ CAREFULLY!

March 6, 2013
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/politics/obama-drones-cia/index.html
<<Attorney General Eric Holder is not entirely ruling out a scenario under which a drone strike would be ordered against Americans on U.S. soil, but says it has never been done previously and he could only see it being considered in an extraordinary circumstance.

In a letter to Rand Paul dated on Monday, Holder said it was possible, "I suppose," to imagine an "extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate" under U.S. law for the president to authorize the military to "use lethal force" within the United States.

[READ THE ACTUAL LETTER HERE: http://www.paul.senate.gov/files/documents/BrennanHolderResponse.pdf ]

However, Holder said the question was "entirely hypothetical" and "unlikely to occur."
The Obama administration has said targeting Americans overseas with drones is only permitted when the U.S. government determines a suspect to be an imminent threat to the United States and when capture would not be feasible. Additionally, all applicable laws must apply.>>

LIKE HELL THEY DO! 
NO LAW APPLIES!
REAL-TIME "RAW" VIDEOS ALL OVER THE INTERNET SHOWS THAT REALLY WELL, YES?
NO, NO LAW APPLIES!


2001, IT BEGINS IN EARNEST!
Armed Predators were first used in late 2001 from bases in Pakistan and Uzbekistan, mostly aimed at assassinating high profile individuals (you know, those "terrorist leaders" etc.) inside Afghanistan.
Since then, there have been many reported cases of such attacks taking place in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

In 2005 ALONE, tactical- and theater-level unmanned aircraft had flown over 100,000 flight hours in support of 'Operation Enduring Freedom' and 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', in which they are organized under 'Task Force Liberty' in Afghanistan and 'Task Force ODIN' in Iraq. (WHERE DO THEY GET THOSE HOKIE NAMES?)

A Predator based in a "neighboring Arab country" (GUESS WHO?)  was used to kill suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen on November 3, 2002. This marked the first use of an armed Predator as an attack aircraft outside of a 'theater of war' such as Afghanistan.

[ WHY CAN'T WE JUST CALL THESE INVASIONS? THEY ARE INVASIONS, NOT WARS!
ONLY CONGRESS CAN OKAY A WAR!
THESE ARE MILITARY INVASIONS, PURE AND SIMPLE! FAKE WARS!
REAL WARS ARE DECLARED BY CONGRESS, AND ARE CONSTITUTIONAL!
WHEN HITLER WENT INTO POLAND, EVERYBODY CALLED THAT AN INVASION...SAME THING HERE!]

WELL, SO IT BEGAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST... OUR NEW "VIETNAM".

A BRIEF HISTORY OF AMERICAN DRONES, 1916-2013
The earliest attempt at a powered unmanned aerial vehicle was A. M. Low's "Aerial Target" of 1916 [SEE: Taylor, A. J. P. Jane's Book of Remotely Piloted Vehicles] But the amazing genius Nikola Tesla had written about entire fleets of unmanned COMBAT vehicles back in 1915.
[ SEE: Dempsey, Martin E. Eyes of the Army – U.S. Army Roadmap for Unmanned Aircraft Systems 2010–2035 Size: 9MB United States Army, 9 April 2010]. 

A number of remote-controlled airplane advances followed, including the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane, during and after World War I, including the first scale RPV (Remote Piloted Vehicle), developed by the film star and model airplane enthusiast Reginald Denny in 1935.

More were made in the technology rush during World War II; these were used both to train antiaircraft gunners and to fly attack missions.

Nazi Germany also produced and used various UAV aircraft during the course of WWII. Jet engines were applied after World War II, in such types as the Teledyne Ryan Firebee I of 1951, while companies like Beechcraft also got in the game with their Model 1001 for the United States Navy in 1955.

The birth of MODERN U.S. UAVs (called RPVs at the time) began in 1959 when United States Air Force (USAF) officers, concerned about losing pilots over hostile territory, began planning for the use of unmanned flights.

Within days of the American U2 spy plane being shot down over Russia in 1960, a highly classified UAV program was launched under the code name of "Red Wagon".

The August 2 and August 4, 1964, clash in the Tonkin Gulf between naval units of the U.S. and North Vietnamese Navy initiated America's highly classified UAVs into their FIRST COMBAT MISSIONS of the Vietnam War.

On February 26, 1973, during testimony before the United States House Committee on Appropriations, the U.S. military officially confirmed that they had been utilizing UAVs in Southeast Asia (Vietnam), admitted the USAF 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing had flown approximately 3,435 UAV missions during the war.

In the words of USAF General George S. Brown, Commander, Air Force Systems Command in 1972, "The only reason we need (UAVs) is that we don't want to needlessly expend the man in the cockpit."

With the maturing and miniaturization of applicable technologies in the 1980s and 1990s, interest in UAVs grew within the higher echelons of the U.S. military.

In the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Defense gave a contract to U.S. corporation AAI Corporation of Maryland along with Israeli company Mazlat.
The U.S. Navy bought the AAI Pioneer UAV that was jointly developed by American AAI Corporation and Israeli Mazlat, and this type of drone WAS used in the 1991 Gulf War. AND ARE  STILL IN USE TODAY!

As of 2008, the Air Force employed 5,331 drones, which is twice the number of manned planes (Singer, 2009b).
Out of these, the Predators were the most 'commendable' among the military. Unlike other UAVs, the Predator was armed with Hellfire missiles so that it can terminate the target that it locates (Carafano & Gudgel, 2007).
Their overall success is apparent because from June 2005 to June 2006 alone, Predators carried out 2,073 missions, and participated in 242 separate raids (Singer, 2009a).

ANOTHER UAV, the Global Hawk operates virtually autonomously (Singer, 2009b). The user merely hits the button for ‘take off’ and for ‘land’, while the UAV gets directions via GPS and reports back with a live feed.

Global Hawks have the capability to fly from San Francisco, and map out the entire state of Maine, before having to return (Singer, 2009b).

In addition, some UAVs have become so small that they can be launched from one’s hand and maneuvered through the street (Singer, 2009a).
These UAVs, known as Ravens, are especially useful in urban areas AND WERE USED IN IRAQ to discover insurgents and potential ambushes (Carafano & Gudgel, 2007).

The U.S. Air Force has recently begun referring at least to larger UAVs as UAS or 'unmanned aircraft systems' (like Predator, Reaper, and Global Hawk) and more recently is calling them 'Remotely Piloted Aircraft' (RPA), to highlight the fact that these systems are always controlled by a human operator at some location.

THIS NEXT STATEMENT SHOULD CHILL ANYONE TO THE BONE!

<<Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing to the point where the aircraft are easily capable of taking off, landing, and flying themselves. 
Then they simply have to be instructed as to their mission.

The military distinguishes between "man in the loop"[piloted] and "man on the loop" [supervised] systems, with "fully autonomous"[issued orders] growing organically from the second into a third category.

A.I. systems have been capable of making decisions and planning sequences of actions for decades;>> 

YES, FOR DECADES!

In February 2013, it was reported that drones were used by at least 50 countries, several of which made their own - for example Iran, Israel and China.

BUSINESS IS SURE PICKING UP! 
WAR IS MONEY... FOR A FAVORED FEW...
"KA-CHING!"


BUT INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE DYING FROM THE BUSINESS OF DRONE WARFARE! "MISTAKES" HAPPEN EVERY DAY!  

In July 2009, Brookings Institution released a report stating that in the United States-led drone attacks in Pakistan, ten civilians died for every militant killed.

S. Azmat Hassan, a former ambassador of Pakistan, said in July 2009 that American UAV attacks were turning Pakistani opinion against the United States, and that 35 or 40 such attacks only killed 8 or 9 top al-Qaeda operatives.

CIA officials became concerned in 2008 that targets in Pakistan were being tipped off to pending U.S. drone strikes by Pakistani intelligence, when the U.S. requested Pakistani permission prior to launching drone attacks.

The Bush administration therefore decided in August 2008 to abandon the practice of obtaining Pakistani government permission before launching missiles from drones, and in the next six months the CIA carried out at least 38 Predator strikes in northwest Pakistan, compared with 10 in 2006 and 2007 combined.

THINGS IN PAKISTAN ONLY GOT WORSE!

Pakistani authorities released statistics indicating that between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2009, U.S. Predator and Reaper drone strikes have killed over 700 innocent civilians. 

The website PakistanBodyCount.Org (by Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani, a Fulbright Scholar at the Florida Institute of Technology) shows 1065 civilian deaths between June 2004 to January 30, 2010 and tallying 103 drone strikes carried out by the United States.

After more than 30 drone strikes hit civilian homes in Afghanistan in 2012, President Hamid Karzai demanded that such attacks end.

In 2012, the USAF trained more drone pilots than ordinary jet fighter pilots for the first time since drones came into use.

There is a list of Unmanned aerial vehicles developed and operated in various countries around the world, listed with primary mission(s) and year of first flight.
SEE THE LIST HERE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicles


BUT WILL THEY BE USED TO ARREST U.S. CITIZENS?
THAT'S ALREADY HAPPENED!


A motion to dismiss charges based on the use of a Predator drone was denied Wednesday (August 2, 2012).

A North Dakota court has preliminarily upheld the first-ever use of an unmanned drone to assist in the arrest of an American citizen.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/02/court-upholds-domestic-drone-use-in-arrest-of-american-citizen

But that was just the start! 

Local police say they have used two unarmed Predators based at Grand Forks Air Force Base to fly at least two dozen surveillance flights since June. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have used Predators for other domestic investigations, officials said.

MONTANA, FOREST SERVICE USES TWO DRONES TO FIND MARIJUANA
BACK ON APRIL 4, 2008!
Sure, sure, I know, those evil pot-growers OUGHT to be busted, yes?
BUT WHO'S NEXT?
 HOME ORGANIC GARDENERS?
(SEE MY RANT ON THE U.N.'s CODEX ALIMENTARIUS! IT WILL LIKELY HAPPEN!)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=20080404&id=fw9SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ijQNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6878,3231560

NEW JERSEY GOT A TRIAL RUN OF A BIGGER MODEL
Army Tests Spy Blimp Over NJ, Aug 10, 2012
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Army-Spy-Blimp-New-Jersey-Hindenburg-Test-165571076.html

Manufacturer Northrop Grumman says the 302-foot long airship is designed to be a high altitude observation platform.
The Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle spent more than 90 minutes around Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Ocean County on Tuesday.  

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
July 14, 2012
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/who-is-flying-drones-over-america/

The Texas Department of Public Safety, based in Austin, has its own unique drone, called the WASP, to “support critical law enforcement operations in South Texas.” (MAYBE FOR NOW...)

And the United States Department of Agriculture deploys a drone – named the Bat — to pick up “thermal infrared data” on experimental field sites in Georgia and Alabama. SOUNDS PROMISING, EH?

The Obama administration earlier this year approved commercial use of drones, opening up airspace to businesses of all kinds, from those that seek aerial photographs to sell real estate to those that are keen to monitor oil spills. 
The new drones law will also make it easier for law enforcement to obtain licenses to deploy drones of their own – and inevitably raise issues for civil liberties and the limits of surveillance?

WASHINGTON D.C., NATURALLY!
4/30/2012
http://www.wtop.com/41/2846813/Chief-Drones-certainly-coming-to-skies-over-Beltway

The use of drones in the D.C. area became public information last week, after the Federal Aviation Administration released a list of agencies currently or previously permitted to use the unmanned aerial vehicles. It included many federal departments, such as Agriculture, Homeland Security and Energy as well as local organizations such as Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Tech.

 The "Fulmar UAV" developed by Aerovision is almost strictly for civilian applications.

Drones are increasingly used for domestic police work in Canada and the United States, and US police forces, including Seattle and Miami, have applied for drone permits by March 2013.

HOW MANY DRONES OVER AMERICA? HOW ABOUT 30,000!
June 16, 2012
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/06/dron-j18.html

Thousands of military drones to be deployed over US mainland
<<Picture thousands of drone aircraft buzzing around the United States – peering from the sky at breaches in border security, wildfires about to become major conflagrations, patches of marijuana grown illegally deep within national forests, or environmental scofflaws polluting the land, air, and water.

By some government estimates, as many as 30,000 drones could be part of intelligence gathering and law enforcement here in the US within the next 10 years.
Operated by agencies down to the local level, this would be in addition to the 110 current and planned drone activity sites run by the military services in 39 states, reported this week by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a non-government research project.>>

Some people thought they saw a UFO along the Capitol Beltway in Washington around the middle of June, 2012, but it was a disc-shaped X-47B UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air System) being hauled from Edwards Air Force Base in California to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland for testing.

NO CURRENT DRONE FLIGHTS IN AMERICA? 

THAT'S JUST NOT TRUE!
http://sheriff.mesacounty.us/template.aspx?id=10164

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Program
By the fall of 2010, we had modified our COA agreement with the FAA to allow us to fly our UAV system anywhere in Mesa County, Colorado, during daytime hours.

This greatly extended our testing ability, as well as allowed us to use these systems operationally, and we were able to assist the Colorado State Patrol with fatality crashes (aerial photos), the Grand Junction Fire Department with the White Hall fire (hot spot sensing and aerial photos), suspect apprehension and more.

In January 2012, we tested a fixed wing UAV product--the Falcon UAV.
This product was the result of a partnership with a Colorado company, Falcon UAV, who ultimately only charged us for the materials to make the system.
The Falcon has a much longer flight time (1hr) and we see potential in using it for search and rescue missions, wildland fire monitoring and broad area suspect searches.

To date our program has flown more than 35 missions with a combined 160 flight hours. 
We are beginning to implement UAS into day to day operations. 

It appears, at this time, that this new technology will work with law enforcement similar to a K-9 unit in that we are training current staff to operate these systems and allow them to carry the equipment in the back of their patrol car, not requiring the addition of new staff.  Each pilot then shares the patrol car, UAV included."

Mesa County Sheriff's Unmanned Operations Team/AP
 In February, the Federal Aviation Administration granted approval to Mesa County, Colo., to utilize the Draganflyer X6, a small drone model that comes equipped with wireless cameras and a variety of sensors, for law enforcement purposes.

The Draganflyer X6 has already been used by police officers in Canada to gather evidence and survey crime scenes. Another model, the Qube, developed by military drone supplier AeroVironment Inc., was developed specifically for law enforcement assistance.

THE LIES JUST KEEP COMING!
“Air Force Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations, exercise and training missions will not conduct non-consensual surveillance on specifically identified US persons, unless expressly approved by the Secretary of Defense, consistent with US law and regulations,” according to an instruction on oversight of Air Force intelligence.

At the same time, the instruction states, “Collected imagery may incidentally include US persons or private property without consent.”

LIKE I SAID, THERE IS NO LAW FOR DRONE USE!
http://www.csmonitor.com/Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Drones-America-s-unmanned-Predators#366799

WHERE ARE THESE 'DRONE BASES' LOCATED?
[map drone bases   http://www.wsws.org/en/media/photos/legacy/2012jun/j18-dron-base-480.png ]

SOME DRONES ARE JUST SO 'CUTE', SO SMALL! (SO DEADLY?)
A pocket-size drone dubbed the Nano Hummingbird for the way it flaps its tiny robotic wings has been developed for the Pentagon as a mini-spy plane capable of manoeuvring on the battlefield and in urban areas.

AeroVironment's Nano Hummingbird - Outdoor Indoor Flight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96WePgcg37I&feature=youtu.be

And they have swell names, too, some!
 Like the Black Hornet Nano unmanned air vehicle.

A few pics here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/csm-photo-galleries-images/in-pictures-images/2012/02/drones-update/04-add-0209/11701522-3-eng-US/04-add-0209_full_900x600.jpg

The Norwegian manufacturer of the Black Hornet, Prox Dynamics, bills it as the world’s smallest military-grade spy drone, with a weight of 16 grams and a length of 4 inches. Propelled by two helicopter blades, the Black Hornet carries little more than a steerable camera that records still and video imagery.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/black-hornet-nano/

A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
Jan 31, 2012
Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics.
http://youtu.be/YQIMGV5vtd4


The ShadowHawk: This drone can hover silently at 700 feet and even communicate with air traffic control.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/23/article-2119225-124C5AE3000005DC-454_634x405.jpg

A 'neat' little drone, that quadcopter – a machine with four rotors – called the 'Qube' made by AeroVironment, a company that already supplies over three-quarters of the U.S military’s drones.

The firm said: ‘Small enough to fit easily in the trunk of a car, the Qube system can be unpacked, assembled and ready for flight in less than five minutes, giving the operator a rapidly deployable eye in the sky at a fraction of the cost of manned aircraft.’
Qube can hover for 40 minutes and is equipped with dual colour and thermal video cameras.
http://kccheckpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/PoliceDrone.jpg

What’s more, the air vehicle can transmit live video directly to the operator to assist with threat assessments.

Vanguard Defense Industries also makes a police drone, which it boasts can hover at 700 feet without being heard.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2119225/Helicopter-drones-deployed-U-S-police-forces-time-wont-long-paparazzi-use-too.html#ixzz2MuI9UNgy

BUT WHERE ELSE ARE THEY KEEPING DRONES?
WE MAY NEVER KNOW!


February 14, 2013
http://12160.info/forum/topics/the-u-s-drone-census-how-many-drones-are-being-deployed-and-where

The Drone Census, a partnership between MuckRock and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), aims to answer these questions.

Together, MuckRock and EFF are building a comprehensive database of all drones authorized to fly in domestic airspace.
As of January 14, MuckRock has filed public records requests to 275 federal, state and local government agencies across the country.

[The full list is available here, based on their submissions to FOIA, MOST OF WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN REPLIED TO: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/user-DroneWatch/]

SOME STATES ARE BUILDING THEIR OWN BREEDS OF DRONES.
http://angel-strike.com/rcmbio/RCM/DroneProject.html

The Traffic Surveillance Drone project has received initial funding from the Georgia Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration's Priority Technology Program. Aspects of this ducted fan drone are currently under development within the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Advanced Vehicle Development and Integration Laboratory.
Nice pics of the Dragon Stalker drone there, too.

NEED SMALLER?
Palm-Sized Nano-Copter Is the Afghanistan War’s Latest Spy Drone

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/black-hornet-nano/

ISN'T THIS ALL A BIT TOO MUCH LIKE A VIDEO GAME, OR A SCI-FI MOVIE?
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/drones/12659/

Desensitizing war for everyone else?
 “The drone war is documented, downloaded, accessible for everyone,” Singer said in an interview with Der Spiegel last year. “You can see the videos on YouTube. It’s turning war for some into a form of entertainment. The soldiers call that ‘war porn.’ We can see more but experience less.”

Another concern is that the desensitization of war, along with the cost effectiveness of drones, will lead to more war in the future. At the Washington Post, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite writes:

 <<Drones will not reduce conflict. 
Their very ease of use will tempt nations, our own very much included, to engage in automated conflict.

The problem with automated conflict, however, is that it doesn’t stay automated. People die in drone wars, just like they died from the automation of arrows when the crossbow was invented.
War machinery has a terrible capacity to tempt us to think it’s something else.>>

At the New York Times, Scott Shane describes the conundrum brought about the U.S.’s precedent of drone use:

    <<If China, for instance, sends killer drones into Kazakhstan to hunt minority Uighur Muslims it accuses of plotting terrorism, what will the United States say? 

What if India uses remotely controlled craft to hit terrorism suspects in Kashmir, or Russia sends drones after militants in the Caucasus? American officials who protest will likely find their own example thrown back at them.>>

EXACTLY! 
IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING! 
SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF SOME NUT-JOB FROM A NATION THE USA HAS HIT WITH DRONES HITS US, ON OUR OWN SOIL? 
WELL, WE WON'T BE HAPPY CAMPERS, I GUARANTEE YOU!

IT STILL BOTHERS ME THAT WE MAY NEVER KNOW HOW MANY ARE 'OUT THERE', NOR WHERE!


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/04/24/where-are-the-63-drone-sites-approved-by-the-faa-in-the-u-s/
The Calgary Herald reports the FOIA request made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation showed more than 50 non-military agencies have asked for approval to launch drones.

The Daily Mail reported the FOIA revealed 63 active drone sites within the U.S — some of which may be surprising:
   
Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.
   
But, astonishingly, 19 universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles.

    It is thought that many of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone technology.

    There are also 21 mainstream manufactures, such as General Atomics, who are registered to use drones domestically.
[MAP: http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/drone-locations-620x392.jpg]

The Daily Mail explains red flags show active sites and blue show those locations where licenses have expired since 2006.

Of those with permission to fly drones domestically, the FAA has granted 42 public entities Certificates of Authorizations (COAs).

Sixteen of COAs were reported to have expired and four were not approved.

 Private drone manufacturers, which are given Special Airworthiness Certificates (SAC), include 21 active locations and 17 inactive.

Here’s what the EFF says is left unanswered for now:
    For example, the COA list does not include any information on which model of drone or how many drones each entity flies.
In a meeting with the FAA , the agency confirmed that there were about 300 active COAs and that the agency has issued about 700-750 authorizations since the program began in 2006.

As there are only about 60 entities on the COA list, this means that many of the entities, if not all of them, have multiple COAs (for example, an FAA representative [Thursday] said that University of Colorado may have had as many as 100 different COAs over the last six years).
The list also does not explain why certain COA applications were “disapproved” and when other authorizations expired.>>

SEE WHAT I MEAN?
GIVE THE POWER-HUNGRY A LITTLE POWER, AND THEIR CRAVINGS TRIPLE, THEN TRIPLE AGAIN...IT'S UNENDING!

AND IT'S NOT JUST DRONES OVERHEAD WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT.
DARPA HAS SOME REAL DOOZIES ON THE GROUND FOR THE MILITARY/LAW ENFORCEMENT, TOO! (SEE BELOW)

MAYBE YOU DON'T SEE WHAT I MEAN...SO SEE IF YOU CAN HANG IN THERE AND WATCH A 25 MINUTE VIDEO... OR DON'T. I DON'T WANT TO CUT INTO YOUR MOVIE NIGHT, OR MAKE YOU MISS YOUR FAV TV SHOW....I KNOW HOW IMPORTANT THOSE ARE....NOT REALLY.

Attack of the Drones - USA
http://youtu.be/msHJLwYWX30


                                                   Attack of the Drones - USA






                                                     DRONE BASES, AMERICA

COMING SOON TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD...HEADS UP, AMERICA!