Is Anyone Minding the Store at the Federal Reserve? (05:24)
[high quality video]
Rep. Alan Grayson asks the Federal Reserve
Inspector General about the trillions and trillions of dollars lent or
spent by the Federal Reserve in the last eight months and where it went.
The Federal Reserve's Inspector General, Elizabeth Coleman, responds
that the Office of the Inspector General does not know and is not
tracking where this money is or where it went.
Thanks Miriam . . .
Fear of Jihad Led US Voters To Obama
In a
public address
delivered on Al-Aqsa TV by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal,
the Damascus-based terror boss informed Arab viewers that Barack Hussein
Obama came to power in the United States due to Islamic jihad in the
Middle East.
During the June 25th discourse, Mashaal said Obama's
administration, and its interest in achieving détente with the Arab
world, did not come about through American altruism. Rather, witnessing
the combative efforts of Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis and Afghanis led
Americans to vote for Obama in order to "protect their own interests."
Mashaal also praised
Obama for his warming toward Hamas, an organization listed by the U.S.
State Department as a terror organization. "We appreciate the new
language used by Obama with regard to Hamas," Mashaal said. "It is the
first step in the right direction, toward direct dialogue with no
preconditions. We welcome this. Any dealings with Hamas and with the
Palestinian resistance forces must be based on respect for the will of
the Palestinian people and its democratic choice."
Regardless of
the Arab-friendly political climate, Mashaal assured viewers that
violence will continue to be used to achieve Arab goals. "The peoples of
Europe exercised this right against the Nazis, the U.S.A. exercised this
right against British rule, and so did the peoples of Asia and Africa
that had been occupied," Mashaal said. "As for 'peaceful resistance,'
which people are trying to preach to us -- it is suitable for the
struggle for civil rights, but not for the liberation of a homeland."
Mashaal also used the opportunity to address Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu's recently set criteria for formulating a Palestinian state. "First of all, we categorically reject the Israeli position, stated by
Netanyahu, with regard to the Palestinian rights," Mashaal said,
"especially pertaining to the issues of Jerusalem, the refugees' Right
of Return, the settlements, normalization of relations with the Arabs,
his views on a Palestinian state, its territory, and its borders, and
his condition about a demilitarized state."
He issued a warning
to all Arabs not to be "lenient" in accepting Israel as a Jewish State.
The "bare minimum" Hamas will accept, stated Mashaal, is full
sovereignty in all of pre-1967 Israel -- including Jerusalem -- the
destruction of all Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, and the
admission of PA Arabs as citizens into the State of Israel.
Given
Mashaal's statements, there is absolutely no hope for a peaceful
solution to this problem -- and I love Mashaal's "direct dialogue with
no preconditions" -- as he lists a dozen of 'em.
Obama Increases Aid To Muslim States
IsraelNationalNews.com
reports that in the latest in a recent series of
increased American assistance efforts for Arab and Muslim states, Barack
Obama has allocated an additional $150 million to the Hashemite Kingdom
of Jordan. The regimes leading Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, the
United Arab Emirates and even Saudi Arabia have all benefited from
recent American policy shifts.
Jordan's Minister of Planning and
International Cooperation, Suhair Al-Ali, was quoted by The Jordan Times
as explaining that the kingdom receives $363 million annually from the
United States in economic assistance. The allocations signed into law by
Obama this week mean that Jordan will receive a total of $513 million
from the U.S. in 2009. The minister told the Jordanian newspaper that
the additional American aid was the result of ongoing efforts by
Jordan's King Abdullah II, as well as Obama's "recognition of the
important role Jordan plays in the region."
Egypt received $310
million in supplemental appropriations from the U.S. House of
Representatives, currently controlled by Obama's Democratic party. At
the same time, 2009 State Department funding for the promotion of
democratic initiatives in Egypt was cut from $50 million to $20 million. In addition, the U.S. has agreed not to give any of the pro-democracy
funds to organizations that are not approved by the Mubarak regime. In
the year 2007, Egypt received a total of $2.4 billion.
On
another front, in March of this year, it was reported that the Obama
administration planned to dramatically increase funding to the
Palestinian Authority for security training, which is conducted by
Jordanian police under the supervision of U.S. General Keith Dayton. The
U.S. allocated $75 million for the PA police training in 2008, but
reports indicated that the Obama administration was planning to pump up
to $130 million into the program in 2009. In any event, the U.S. has
already pledged $600 million in funds to the Palestinian Authority, with
another $300 million for humanitarian aid to the Hamas regime in Gaza.
Elsewhere in the region, the U.S. is set to help the United Arab
Emirates become the first Arab nation with a developed nuclear power
infrastructure. Obama gave his official support and
authorization for the $41 billion project, allowing private U.S.
companies to compete for construction contracts.
In Pakistan,
Obama proposed $2.8 billion in aid for that nation's
military, alongside civilian aid of $1.5 billion a year for the next
five years. The military aid is ostensibly to allow the Pakistanis to
more effectively fight jihadist and al-Qaeda terrorism emanating from
the Swat Valley and along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
The
Obama administration's assistance to Arab and Muslim states extends
beyond the monetary, however.
According to an article in Joseph
Farah's G2 Bulletin earlier this month, the American government has
petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve sovereign immunity for the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and four Saudi princes in connection with a
civil case seeking compensation for victims of the massive September 11,
2001, al-Qaeda terrorist attacks on the American homeland. The claimants
in the case say that there is sufficient evidence of Saudi involvement
in 9/11 for the court to lift the normally applicable immunity.
Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, told
Newsweek magazine this month that the United States should cut off all
aid to Israel if the Jewish State does not accept the 2002
Saudi-sponsored Arab-Israeli terms of negotiation.
The Obama Doctrine
Obama's True Colors Shine in Honduras
Obama
squirmed and weaseled his words with the Iranian Mullahs and their
puppet-tyrant, Ahmadinejad, not wanting to be seen as meddling in a
tyrannical theocracy, known throughout the world as beneath-contempt
oppressors of every human right under the sun. No, no, no, it just
wouldn't do to publicly lend support to all those moderate,
freedom-loving throngs of Iranians taking to the streets, risking life
and limb for more liberty. Not until the Iranians killed demonstrators
on camera, the pictures went round the world, and criticism of himself
mounted at home, did Obama put his hands on his hips and use
the words, "appalled" and "outraged."
And the words that quickly
came to my own mind as Obama gave this tiny, petulant nod to liberty:
"Wimp in Chief."
This week, the Honduran socialist president,
seeking to eviscerate his country's constitution in a shameless
power-grab, has evoked Obama's true colors, and spread them out like
yellow underwear on a backyard clothesline.
Obama's response to
the Honduran military removing a dictator-wannabe from office (at the
behest, it must be noted, of the Supreme Court and the Honduran
Congress), and escorting him to the border, was sure and fast. He
declared the military action an "illegal coup" faster than you can say
Fidel Castro. And just as quickly the rest of the region's socialist
gang chimed in too. The real Castro brothers. Hugo Chavez. Daniel
Ortega.
Birds of a feather do tend to flock together.
Bullies, of all stripes, don't you know, are really just cowards at
heart -- yellow down to their measly cores -- which is why they must
cling together in gangs and collectives. They haven't the courage or
fortitude for independence. Neither do they support individual liberties
or constitutions that interfere with their quest for power.
Such
is the obvious case with the now-exiled Honduran ex-president, the man
Obama has backed quickly, forthrightly, and with sharp, meddling
to nes. It has come to light, too, that even before the Hondurans moved
to protect their still-fledgling democracy and young constitution, the
Obama Administration made behind-the-scenes, veiled threats in support
of the Chavez-aligned Zelaya.
Of course, as was to be expected,
the OAS has given its full backing to the now-exiled socialist. The OAS
has, for years now, been on a leftist tack and clearly do not want one
of their own kind stopped in his tracks. Especially not now, when
leaders -- even Obama -- have paved the way for Castro's
readmission and Chavez is on a tear in Venezuela.
For even more
evidence that the international socialist collective is still alive and
well, I turned to the Communist Party USA, to check out their response
to the Honduran situation. And, there it is in ignoble glory. The
Communist Party USA is in agreement with Obama and even has
some of the same demands of the Honduran people:
• Demands that
president Zelaya and other members of his government be returned to
power immediately, and that the troops return to their barracks.
• Recognizes that the Obama administration has repudiated the coup, and
insists that President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton hold firm to
this position, refusing diplomatic recognition and any military aid to
Honduras until President Zelaya is restored to power.
• Calls upon
unions and other people's organizations in the United States to actively
support our brothers and sisters in Honduras in resisting this brutal
military coup d'etat.
Obama
walked into the Oval Office with a veritable halo over his head.
In the eyes of his backers, he could say or do no wrong because he had
evidently descended directly from heaven to return celestial order to
our fallen world. Oprah declared his tongue to be "dipped in the
unvarnished truth." Newsweek editor Evan Thomas averred that Obama
"stands above the country and above the world as a sort of a God."
But when it comes to health care reform, with every passing day,
Obama seems less God and more demagogue, uttering not transcendental
truths, but bald-faced lies. Here are the top five lies that His
Awesomeness has told -- the first two for no reason other than to get
elected and the next three to sell socialized medicine to a wary nation.
• Lie
One: No one will be compelled to buy coverage.
• Lie Two: No new taxes on employer benefits.
• Lie Three:
Government can control rising health care costs better than the private
sector.
• Lie
Four: A public plan won't be a Trojan horse for a single-payer monopoly.
• Lie Five:
Patients don't have to fear rationing.
And it came to pass in the Age of Insanity that the
people of the land called America, having lost their morals, their work
initiative, and their will to defend their liberties, chose as their
Supreme Leader that person known as "The One."
He emerged from the vapors with a message that had no meaning; but
He hypnotized the people telling them, "I am sent to save you.
My
lack of experience, my questionable ethics, my monstrous ego, and my
association with evil doers are of no consequence.
For I shall
save you with Hope and Change. Go, therefore, and proclaim throughout
the land that he who preceded me is evil, that he has defiled the
nation, and that all he has built must be destroyed."
And the
people rejoiced, for even though they knew not what "The One" would do,
he had promised that he would bring change, and they proclaimed "Yes We
Can".
And "The One" said "We live in the greatest country in the
world. Help me change everything about it!"
And the people said,
"Hallelujah!! Change is good!"
Then He said, "We are going to tax
the rich fat-cats," -- And the people said "Sock it to them!" " -- and
"Redistribute their wealth."
And then He said, "Redistribution
of wealth is good for everybody"
A popular Tennessee Congresswoman, Marsha Blackburn (R), has become
the first woman and the first Tennessean to
add her name to the list of
co-sponsors for Representative Bill Posey’s (R-FL) proposed amendment
(HR-1503).
The bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of
1971, and would require candidates for President of the United States to
provide among other things, "…a copy of the candidate’s birth
certificate…."
The bill’s list of co-sponsors continues to grow
with Blackburn as its latest member. The seven Representatives already
supporting the bill are:
• Rep. Bill Posey (R-Florida) (sponsor)
• Rep. John R. Carter (R-Texas) • Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) •
Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) • Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Virgina) •
Rep. John Campbell (R-California) • Rep. Marsha Blackburn
(R-Tennessee)
Posey’s bill is controversial because there are
those on both sides of the political spectrum who oppose the idea that a
candidate for President or Vice-President should have to submit a copy
of his or her birth certificate for inspection.
The reasoning
behind this opposition remains unclear.
