Democracy in Egypt: Terror in the Sinai

Posted on April 5, 2012 by DRenegade

Grad rocket being inspected in Eilat

The Arab Spring revolution gave Egypt Democracy and support from the Obama administration.  The Muslim Brotherhood has been at the White House this week to discuss their upcoming rule after elections:

White House officials held talks with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington this week, as the Islamist group threw itself into the fray in Egypt’s presidential election.

The meeting on Tuesday with low-level National Security Council staff was part of a series of US efforts to broaden engagement with new and emerging political parties following Egypt’s revolution last year, a US official said.

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“We believe that it is in the interest of the United States to engage with all parties that are committed to democratic principles, especially nonviolence,” said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor.

 

Although Egypt is denying this report, a Grad rocket launched from the Sinai has hit the Israelli city of Eilat:

Rocket fired from Egypt hits Israeli city of Eilat

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Corzined Marvell Muppets Sue Vampire Squid

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DRenegade

If you don’t understand the title of this article, you need to get your recommended daily dose of Zerohedge.com. Corzined has now become an adjective to describe a brokerage firm’s betrayal of their client’s trust. Marvell is the name of the plaintiffs in this case. Muppets refers to how Goldman Sachs describe their clients. And yes Vampire Squid is also a Goldman Sach’s reference. If you have any stock left in this market, please refer to this video:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qro7oBzUBos

But Goldman Sachs is not the only firm Corzine-ing Americans. What about J.P. Morgan:

Jamie Dimon: Lobbying is good, Washington is bad

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Unreasonable Search and Seize Is Longer Guaranteed by the 4th Amendment

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DRenegade

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The 4th Amendment of the Constitution

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Supreme Court has issued a ruling allowing a jailer to perform bodily strip searches on anyone brought into a holding cell. Period. Irregardless of the charge. Once again the media is silent along with our presidential hopefuls concerning another successful attack on the rights of the people. This ruling, in conjunction with the expanded powers of the government to arrest anyone based on a suspicion of being a terrorist (otherwise known as a patriot who still believes in the Constitution), should wrap up any opposition to what was left of the law.

At some point, we have to make a judgment based on natural laws guaranteed to us by our Creator and act on the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence. Since we still are under the impression that we live in a Republic based on the rule of law, we tend to hope that change will be temporary and our freedom restored. I would like to propose that a line in the sand be drawn based on what conditions will be imposed that will not be acceptable. Such as the NDAA (part of the Intolerable Acts), this legislation, 450 million rounds of hollow point 40 caliber ammunition for the Department of Homeland Security or any one of the latest executive orders by the president. If we draw the line in the sand based on our own personal convictions, any American patriot would have to declare “I WILL NOT COMPLY“.

David DeGerolamo

Supreme Court Undercuts 4th Amendment Protections-Again

In yet another 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court, the conservatives sitting on the Roberts Court have cut deeply into our protection from unreasonable search and seizure guaranteed to Americans by the 4th Amendment to the Constitution.

As a result of today’s ruling [April 2, 2012], jailers can now perform bodily strip searches on anyone brought in to a holding cell, no matter how minor the alleged infraction. And when I say ‘minor’, I’m not talking about people arrested and held for violent or even misdemeanor drug related crimes.

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The Supreme Militia

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DRenegade

From Starving the Monkeys:

As I write this, it is in the evening of 3 April, 2012, and we are facing a potential Constitutional crisis of epic proportions. The President, who happens to be a Constitutional law professor (scholar, lecturer, whatever), has made the assertion that it would be “unprecedented” for an unelected court (The Supremes) to strike down as unconstitutional a law passed by a majority of the elected Congress. We’re all familiar with the superficial Constitutional issues, which is that courts do exactly this all the time. Because that is exactly their most important role. And, that it wouldn’t matter one bit whether Congress passed the law unanimously; they could still strike it down. OK. We all have that.

What is more ominous is the potential crisis which would erupt if a President, riding the swell of righteous Constitutional indignation, or worse, ginned-up populist support, decided to enforce that law anyway (whatever it is doesn’t matter). This isn’t all that far-fetched, given how ludicrous the precipitating statement itself is.

OK, then what?

The Supreme Court can’t enforce its judgments. Only the Executive can do that. But what if that Executive, of any administration, goes rogue and decides to simply ignore the ruling?

In the article Constitutional Quizzery, we discussed the concept that, constitutionally, the President owns your militia. So that’s out.

In the article When to Shoot The Colonels, we discussed the fact that high-ranking military officials are political appointees, so the chance of them actually taking action against a sitting President is about nil.

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Iran ducks away from nuclear talks. Moscow: Mid East at boiling point

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DRenegade
Iranian spokesmen are maneuvering for a postponement of the nuclear negotiations with world powers set to take place April 13-14 in Istanbul,DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report. It is feared in Washington and Jerusalem that Tehran is working toward two goals: To have the venue removed from Istanbul and to buy a couple more months before the diplomatic crunch, considering that the US and Israel are treating the April talks as the last chance for diplomacy to reverse Iran’s drive for a nuclear weapon. A postponement would therefore delay any military option that Israel or possibly America would choose to exercise.

The Iranians want the site moved to Moscow, Vienna or Geneva, a change opposed by Washington because it would consume several more months before the talks got started. Tehran is also signaling through Moscow that it is not prepared for the diplomatic dialogue to take place under military threat or economic sanctions.

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ONE YEAR LATER, AND I STILL HAVEN’T BEEN KILLED

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeyrp-V3Jvc

Come on, islam. It’s been a whole YEAR as of tonight and not a single one of you has made even the slightest attempt to kill me. I gave you my home address. I burned your satanic political/pedophilic manifesto and verbally tinkled all over mohamed, the fake pagan moon deity and everyone stupid and/or evil enough to fall for the biggest con in human history. Did I mention that I gave you my HOME ADDRESS? Yeah, I’m still here. Still waiting for you boys to take this “next level”, as the young folks say.

And . . . nothing. Just a couple of death threats from a couple of musloids with family trees that look like the yellow line on I-70 in Western Kansas. Long and straight, that is.

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Are We Now Pavlov’s Dogs?

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DRenegade

The Fed’s Con Appears To Be Working But The Curtain Is Rising On The Third Act

In today’s conomic news, the mainstream media focused on the disappointment surrounding the FOMC Minutes, the massaged and sanitized fairy tale about what the participants said at last month’s FOMC confab. The market was shocked! SHOCKED! that most of the members saw no need for additional QE, unless things got worse. I had concluded that a couple of months ago based on the fact that every time QE speculation arose, not only did stocks rally, but so did energy and other commodity prices. The commodity vigilantes, I thought, would tie the Fed’s hands. That and the fact that the conomic data was coming in relatively perky, at least in terms of the headline data, made it highly unlikely that the Fed would do any more money printing.

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Desperation

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DRenegade

I cannot imagine the level of desperation that this man felt. I can imagine the anger he felt directed at his government and its usurpation.

David DeGerolamo

Man Commits Suicide In Broad Daylight On Athens’ Syntagma Square To Protest “Occupation Government”

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GRNC Alert: Guerilla tactics for gun rights warriors

Posted on April 4, 2012 by DRenegade

GRNC’s annual legislative tactics seminar, taught by GRNC president Paul Valone, will teach you how to better defend your rights. Far beyond the typical “write-your-congressman” approach, the updated and expanded seminar will feature hardball tactics for making politicians and corporations accede to your demands. Learn why citizen groups often fail, and why the political process is not “broken.” As one sage put it: “The legislative process works just fine. It just doesn’t work the way you think it does.”

Following the seminar, GRNC will conduct its meeting of the board of directors, after which attendees are invited to join us for drinks and dinner.

Date:     Saturday, April 14, 2012

Location:     Rights Watch International office, 2016 Cameron St., Suite 217, Raleigh, NC 27605.

Agenda:

  • Registration: 8:30 AM
  • Legislative Tactics Seminar: 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM
  • Board of Directors Meeting: 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM
  • GRNC dinner get-together: 6:00 PM until?

Registration:     Contact GRNC president Paul Valone atPresident@GRNC.org. Fee is $50, waived for active or new GRNC volunteers. Demonstrated history of supporting gun rights may be requested.

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Is Hillary Clinton Worse than Madelaine Albright When Dealing with North Korea? Can You Say EMP?

Posted on April 3, 2012 by DRenegade

Under the US-North Korean agreement in March, 2012, the United States would give 240,000 metric tons of food to North Korea in exchange for freezing their nuclear and missile tests. How long did this agreement last? About as long as it took for the North Korean regime to stop laughing at the Obama regime’s incompetence after the Madelaine Albright debacle. And yet both Clinton and Biden had the audacity to criticize Romney’s lack of foreign relation experience this week:

In separate interviews, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sought to cast Romney as stuck in the days of the Cold War and unaware of the strategic interests that the United States and Russia share on Iran, Afghanistan and the world’s oil supply.

With the announcement today that North Korea will shortly unveil a missile capable of striking the continental US from North Korea, the scenario of an EMP attack on our country just exploded: literally. The Department of Homeland Security is granting “unlawful presence waivers” to illegal aliens in the United States as their strategy to secure the nation. Will DHS use the newly ordered 450 million rounds of hollow point 40 caliber to shoot  missiles out of the sky? The founding fathers were adamant against a large standing military and advocated strong state militias to secure our freedom from tyranny. But we now have a large standing military charged with protecting the country and Constitution. We have to wonder what their next step will be to protect our security from what could be total annihilation as outlined in “One Second After”.

There is a big difference between fear-mongering and reality. Reality is now upon us.

David DeGerolamo

North Korea ‘preparing to unveil missile capable of striking continental US’

North Korea is preparing to unveil a new long-range missile that is capable of striking targets in the continental US.

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Sarah Palin Defends Her Experience with NBC’s Lauer

Posted on April 3, 2012 by DRenegade

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DzPhH8tyYk

From YouTube:

As part of her much hyped appearance on The TODAY Show, Matt Lauer does his level best to question Palin’s experience prior to running for VP in 2008.

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Just in Time to Sway the Election

Posted on April 3, 2012 by DRenegade

The Department of Homeland Security is granting “unlawful presence waivers” to illegal aliens in the United States. Does anyone know what the DHS is actually doing to secure our country? Does anyone know why they need 450 million rounds of 40 caliber hollow point bullets? The real question we should be asking ourselves if we feel safer with the DHS or before this department was established. And then we have to ask “Safer from Whom”.

David DeGerolamo

DHS To Grant Illegal Aliens “Unlawful Presence Waivers”

In its quest to implement stealth amnesty, the Obama Administration is working behind the scenes to halt the deportation of certain illegal immigrants by granting them “unlawful presence waivers.”

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March Automobile Sales: Who Should We Believe?

Posted on April 3, 2012 by DRenegade

Here are two different articles based on the same story: March automobile sales. You can decide who is telling the truth.

David DeGerolamo

Strong car sales signal automakers’ comeback

The Big Three U.S. automakers all reported strong March sales, as buyers flocked to dealerships in numbers not seen in years to buy everything from fuel-efficient small cars to large pickups.

When other automakers report March sales later Tuesday, it is expected to cap the best quarter for auto sales in the United States since early 2008, before the combination of a gas price spike and the meltdown in financial markets devastated sales and nearly led to the end of the U.S. auto industry.

More…

But then reality sets in as Zerohedge.com posts what is really happening:

The Latest Parabolic Chart – GM Channel Stuffing

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Van Jones Steals “Cheap Patriotism” From NCRenegade

Posted on April 3, 2012 by DRenegade

Van Jones is publishing a new book where he outlines his version of “cheap patriotism”:

Of course, it will not be easy to stop the dream killers. Tax policy that burdens working families and gives the biggest breaks to the super-rich has helped to keep more and more of our national wealth locked in the private safes of the top 1 percent. This alarming economic polarization, combined with the constant flow of good-paying jobs overseas, threatens to end our status as a middleclass nation. Too many of our big banks and largest corporations are behaving in a manner that is both irresponsible and unpatriotic. Their conduct makes it that much worse for the many patriotic and responsible businesses—especially small businesses—that follow the rules and provide good jobs to their employees.

Additionally, many well-intentioned people have been recruited into a powerful crusade—the Tea Party movement—that promises the American people economic relief by slashing taxes and taking a wrecking ball to America’s government. The impact of the Tea Party’s reckless policies would be to financially decimate our government, further dismantle America’s middle class, and strengthen the chokehold that the top 1 percent has on the economy. Nonetheless, the Tea Partiers effectively seized the public narrative in 2009 and congressional power in 2010, quelling the wave of hope generated by the 2008 election. They have succeeded at painting their agenda “red, white, and blue.” If we are to have an economy that works for the remaining 99 percent, this kind of “cheap patriotism” must be sidelined in favor of a “deep patriotism”—one that honors the accomplishments of our parents and grandparents. After all, they used the tools of both free enterprise and democratic government to build a society that sets the global standard.

I wonder where this avowed Communist read this term?

Cheap Grace and Cheap Patriotism

November 6, 2011

Dietrich Bonhoeffer sacrificed his life to show his obedience to God. He is also known for giving the world the concept of “cheap grace“:

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Helen Thomas recognized for “all of her actions supporting Palestine in the West”

Posted on April 3, 2012 by DRenegade

PLO bestows journalism award on Helen Thomas

Longtime White House reporter Helen Thomas received a prize in journalism from a representative of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Thomas, 91, who was forced into retirement two years ago after making controversial remarks about Jews and Israel, was recognized for her journalism career and commitment to the Palestinian cause. Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, presented Thomas with the award on behalf of Abbas, who is also head of the PLO.

According to the Washington PLO office’s statement, Thomas was recognized for “all of her actions supporting Palestine in the West.” Ambassadors, journalists, human rights activists and American Arab leaders were among those who attended the ceremony at the home of Maen Rashid Ereikat, president of the Commission General of the PLO in Washington.

Considered the dean of the White House press corps, Thomas became embroiled in controversy when she said in a 2010 interview with the blog RabbiLive.com that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine. Go home, Poland, Germany and America and everywhere else.”

She was slammed by both sides of the political spectrum. Later that year Thomas, who was a correspondent since the presidency of John F. Kennedy, stood by her original comments and accused Jewish lobbyists and politicians of distorting her remarks.

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