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Muslim Terrorists May Be Trying To Sink the Dollar

If you are surprised, you shouldn't be.

(IsraelNN.com) Mujahideen Muslim terrorists may be behind the sinking American dollar as part of a campaign to cripple the American economy, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported. The media watch group, which specializes in tracking Arabic language websites, said that postings on websites the past two years reflect a move toward waging an economic war against the United States.

Mujahideen terrorist groups that operate in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries "have come to the conclusion that it is financial, rather than military, losses that will prompt the U.S. to change its policies in the Middle East and elsewhere," according to MEMRI.

An article recently posted in Sada Al-Jihad (Echo of Jihad) magazine and posted on several Muslim websites, discusses the September 11, 2001 attacks on the U.S. as having influenced the decline in the dollar. It also cited the cost of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan as draining the American economy.

Another recent posting stated, "The dollar can expect two additional blows that will break its back... [namely] the announcement of the return of the [religious rule of the] Caliphate..." and the reinstatement of the gold standard in international monetary trade. It urged Mujahideen "to get rid of American dollars" before an "imminent" terrorist attack that "will put an end to the so-called United States of America and destroy its economy completely."

MEMRI concluded, "Given that it is highly atypical for Al-Qaeda to give prior warning of its attacks, the message is probably an attempt to pressure Muslims to sell dollars, in order to generate pessimism in the dollar market and thus accelerate the drop in its value."

Did you read that 1991 Muslim Brotherhood Memorandum "for the General Strategic goal... in North America" that I recommended to you yesterday? It's apparently just a follow-up document; the goal itself was set in 1987: "Enablement of Islam in North America

... meaning: establishing an effective and stable Islamic Movement led by the Muslim Brotherhood which... presents Islam as a civilization alternative and supports the global Islamic State wherever it is."

Will the pampered, narcisisstic and uniformed among us happily accept Islam when it's presented as a stabilizing force to bring "peace and prosperity" back to our (Gd forbid) broken and chaotic society? It worked for the Taliban in Afghanistan, if you'll remember:

"After the Taliban threw out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and took control of the capital, they brought relative peace, returned electricity to the shattered city and began their campaign to impose their harsh version of Islamic law." (Associated Press, July 12, 1997)

This is not going to be pretty, boys and girls. And if you think that Islamofascists can't take down our economy in the process of taking over our entire continent, then you be a fool. Remember, these are people who have no qualms about beheading other people; in fact they relish it.

I'm thinking there should be some sort of resistance.... before it's too late. But where to begin? If you're in the Colorado House District 6 in Denver, the answer's easy. For the rest of us, I have no idea.

the Katif binding & leaders who bypass the public

Nadav Sharagai at Haaretz:

The disengagement from Gush Katif is seared into the evacuated settlers' collective memory as a deportation, and as such - as blatantly immoral.

Many of the evacuees still feel they had been attacked, like the Altalena's passengers. That their brethren, their own flesh and blood, had fired on them. The poets among them write about "the Katif binding" - evoking Abraham's binding of Isaac before attempting to slay him. Others compare themselves to Joseph, whose brothers threw him into the pit. In his poetry book "Lament for Katif," Yaniv Cohen cites the Book of Lamentations: "Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is none to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her."

Many of the evacuees, even if not all, would feel differently about the trauma and injustice they suffered three years ago had the public approved the disengagement in a national referendum, as Likud members did in a vote.

A reminder: Before the evacuation, most Gush Katif settlers and their rabbis undertook to accept the result of a referendum, whatever it was, as long as such a vote was held. If this had been done they would have found it easier to accept the outcome, despite their disappointment and anger.

On the eve of the disengagement, West Bank settler leaders and Religious-Zionist rabbis spoke about the importance of accepting the results of a referendum - if one was conducted.

But no referendum was held. The uprooted settlers' consciousness was imprinted with the feeling that they would "neither forgive nor forget." This pushed aside the possibility of accepting their fate, or in modern language, this is what the public wanted and this is what it got.

Now in its twilight, the Olmert government hopes to bind its successors to dangerous, far-reaching concessions - dividing Jerusalem, giving up the Golan Heights and evacuating tens of thousands of Jews from their homes in the West Bank.

A day after a new government comes into office, our negotiation partners will pull out the papers currently being drafted in the dark, far from the public eye, and demand to continue from exactly the same place.

We must make it clear to them, but mainly to ourselves, that the Gush Katif events cannot be repeated without going to the public with a focused referendum, not with a general election. The questions of whether the Syrians will dip their feet in the Kinneret, or whether Jerusalem will be divided and 90,000 people uprooted from their homes, are essential and crucial. They cannot be determined by leaders who bypass the public.

Sarkozy sent wreath to Arafat's tomb

JPost

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed an agreement on Tuesday to establish an industrial zone in the Bethlehem area to boost the Palestinian economy.

The agreement was signed during Sarkozy's visit to Bethlehem, where he met with Abbas and other PA leaders.

Abbas thanked Sarkozy for agreeing to fund the $21 million project, which is expected to provide thousands of jobs.

The industrial zone will be built on a 530-dunam plot, PA officials said, expressing hope that the work would begin in the next few weeks....

Abbas, speaking at a press conference in the city, hailed the French president as a "true and brave" friend. He added that the Palestinians were relying on the EU for financial aid.

"Earlier," this "true and brave" friend of the poorpalestinians had

dispatched his interior minister, Michele Alliot-Marie, to Ramallah to lay a wreath of flowers at the tomb of former PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

How sickening. And of course there's not even a whisper of outrage anywhere that France would do such a thing. Oh but Sarkozy did "condemn" the antisemitic attack perpetrated in his capital city as he was leaving for Israel. I guess Jews are used to not expecting much from France, and most don't even know about the wreath.

What the heck, it's just flowers; and unfortunately we have bigger problems to worry about.

TEHRAN, June 26 (RIA Novosti) - Under no circumstances will Iran give up its peaceful nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday.

The Many Faces of Identity Politics

Joshua Sharf notes "there's a reason identity politics is a terrible idea" and links to the Denver Post:

Colorado's delegation to the Democratic National Convention has one man too many and must make changes to replace him with a woman, the national party revealed Wednesday.

The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee found the Centennial State — and eight others — out of compliance with the national party's requirement that delegates represent an equitable number of minorities, genders and other communities among delegations and standing committees.

Sharf sez:

So why not by, say, income distribution? (Can't find enough poor people.) Or religion? (Don't want Muslims on the same stage as Obama.) Or educational level? (Yes, professor.)

The possibilities are mindless. Really.

BtB notes with some amusement that the Dems' identity ratio rules must not apply to their "Super" Delegates, since close to HALF of those are {gasp} White Males!

I laugh, but it's really not funny. Was the Holocaust not "identity politics" on steroids?

Nazi laws and regulations initially defined "Mischlinge"/"half-castes" as children having two, or one, "volljüdischen"/"completely Jewish" grandparent(s).
"Mischlinge"/"half-castes" with two "volljüdischen"/"completely Jewish" grandparents were later always referred to as "Mischlinge 1. Grades"/"half-castes grade 1" or "Halbjuden"/"half Jewish".
"Mischlinge"/"half-castes" with one "volljüdischen"/"completely Jewish" grandparent were later referred to as "Mischlinge 2. Grades"/"half-castes grade 2" or "Vierteljuden"/"quarter Jewish".
"Jüdische Mischlinge"/"Jewish half-castes" were also referred to as "mischblütig"/"of mixed blood".
The terms "Mischlinge 1. and 2. Grades"/"half-castes grades 1 and 2" were used relatively late in the laws and regulations.

In accordance with Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the "Verordnung (VO) zum Reichsbürgergesetz"/ "Reich Citizenship Act" of 14.11.1935 "jüdische Mischlinge"/"Jewish half-castes" were defined as decendants of one or two of the "Rasse"/"race" of "volljüdischen"/"completely Jewish" grandparent(s), provided they were defined as Jews by Section 5 Paragraph 2 of the same regulation.
Following this regulation only "jüdische Mischlinge"/"Jewish half-castes" with two "volljüdischen"/"completely Jewish" grandparent(s) were defined as Jews. These were later referred to as "Geltungsjude"/"Jews by definition".

The conditions under which such a "jüdischer Mischling"/"Jewish half-caste" was defined as a Jew were:
(a) He/she was a member of the Jewish religious community at the time of the enactment of the "Reichsbürgergesetzes"/"Reich Citizenship Act" of 15.05.1935, or joined later.
(b) He/she was married to a "Jew" at the time of the enactment of the "Reichsbürgergesetz" /"Reich Citizenship Act" of 15.05.1935, or was later so married.
(c) He/she was a child of at least one Jewish parent at the time of the enactment of the "Blutschutzgesetz"/"Blood Protection Act" of 15.09.1935.
(d) He/she was a child of an extra-marital relationship with a "Jew" and born after 31.07.1936.

The regulations (c) and (d) applied explicitly to Section 5, Paragraph 1 of the first regulation of the "Reichsbürgergesetzes"/"Reich Citizenship Act" of 15.05.1935. Following this individuals were defined as Jews when they had three of the "Rasse"/"race" of "volljüdischen" /"completely Jewish" grandparents.

Grandparents were defined "volljüdisch"/"completely Jewish" when they had been members of the Jewish religious community (Section 2, Paragraph 2, Clause 2). In accordance with Section 2, Paragraph 1 of the "Berufsbeamtengesetz"/the Act applying to civil servants with tenure of 7.04.1933 a "Mischlinge 2. Grades"/"half-castes grade 2" was defined as "nicht-arisch"/"non-Aryan" i.e. a Jew. It was sufficient that one parent or one grandparent was "nicht-arisch"/"non-Aryan".

Now before you even begin to think that I'm going out of bounds, juxtaposing Democrats with Nazis, I want you to watch how the Identity Police from Dhimmedia went to work on Sen. George Allen at a September 2006 debate. [VIDEO]

Shortly afterwards, Dana Milbank - writing in the Washington Post - accused Senator Allen of "heckling" the correspondent (Peggy Fox from WUSA-TV) rather than the other way around.

And in case you're wondering, Dhimmedia won that debate and more: George Allen lost.

Now back to Joshua Sharf, who of course is not responsible in any way, shape or form for the direction(s) of my thoughts since reading his blog post. If you are a Republican in Colorado House District 6, you should vote for him in the Colorado primary -- and not just because he's a blogger, either.

He happens to be battling an opponent who is all about hating Israel and playing up her victimization as a poorpalestinian. Sounds pretty leftist, I know, but she's running as a... Republican?

What's up with that?

John Perazzo thinks that Sharf's opponent - whose name is Rima Barakat (and at times, Sinclair ) - is a radical Muslim tool:

Barakat-Sinclair’s case is vitally important because it offers a vivid illustration of how a Muslim radical can effectively wage bloodless jihad against the West by infiltrating the government and gaining a platform from which to infect the entire body politic. Her strategy is wholly consistent with the plans that were laid out in a secret 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum on “the General Strategic Goal…in North America.”

Explaining that the Brotherhood’s mission was to establish “an effective and...stable Islamic Movement” on the continent, this document outlines a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” for achieving that objective. It states that Muslims “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands...so that...God’s religion [Islam] is made victorious over all other religions.’”

Rima Barakat-Sinclair is the living embodiment of that strategy.

What do you think? Colorado citizens need this lady to represent them?

Postscript: I just printed out that Muslim Brotherhood memorandum (an English translation follows the Arabic) -- and from the looks of what I've read so far, you should read it too.

Jihad Geography and the falsification of history

Andre Oboler at JCPA:

• Virtual Israel, as represented by Google Earth, is littered with orange dots, many of which claim to represent "Palestinian localities evacuated and destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war." Thus, Israel is depicted as a state born out of colonial conquest rather than the return of a people from exile. Each dot links to the "Palestine Remembered" site, where further information advancing this narrative can be obtained.
• Many of the claims staked out in Google Earth present misinformation, and sites known to be ruins in 1946 are claimed to be villages destroyed in 1948. Arab villages which still exist today are listed as sites of destruction.

  The Google Earth initiative is not only creating a virtual Palestine, it is creating a falsification of history.

• The concept of "replacement geography" replaces the historical connection of one people to the land with a connection between another people and the land. The inclusion of virtual Palestine, superimposed on Israel in the core layer of Google Earth, is an example of replacement geography advanced by technology.



• Those wishing to explore Israel in Google Earth are immediately taken to a politically motivated narrative unrelated to their quest. Google should remove the narrative and treat Israel as it treats every other country on the globe. The core layer of Google Earth should be ideology free and not serve as a platform for indoctrination or a campaign to wipe Israel off the virtual map.

Not a new issue apparently. Here's how Google responded to complaints from Kiryat Yam:

While we recognize that some may find the user generated content objectionable, we are careful to balance the integrity of an open forum with the legal requirements of local governments. It looks as though this particular user-contributed annotation does not breach our Terms and Conditions nor is it in any way illegal.

The Google Earth community layer is a place where people can tag their knowledge or opinions of a location. Their comments are clearly indicated with the 'I' icon and this layer can easily be switched on and off.

We believe the majority of people use the community positively to share their expertise and experiences. In most cases, our users increase the utility of the product and provide a more meaningful and robust experience for each other with their contributions to the Google Earth community.

You don't know Kiryat Yam?

Diplomatic? or just Diplo-babble? The matter of Auschwitz defensible borders.

Barack Obama's Code Words

Barack Obama apparently has trouble with diplomatic code words. Former Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, Barack Obama's Middle East advisor, told the Israel Policy Forum that Obama did not realize that "undivided" was a diplomatic "code word" meaning "undivided", when the candidate delivered his prepared speech at AIPAC, in which he declared -- in a paragraph beginning with the words "Let me be clear" -- that Jerusalem "must remain undivided."

Obama supposedly thought it could mean "divided" -- but with no checkpoints or barbed wire between the divisions. A day later, Obama's clear AIPAC statement was "clarified" by an unnamed advisor.

At the Israel Policy Forum, Kurtzer "said it was unfortunate that so much time was being spent dwelling on one word of a 30-minute speech." But even more unfortunately, we now need to consider two other words Obama used in his speech, and ask whether he understood those "code words" as well.

In his AIPAC speech, Obama said that "any agreement with the Palestinian people" must provide Israel with "secure, recognized and defensible borders" ...

The question is whether Obama understood the diplomatic meaning of "defensible borders."

I want you to read it all and then go watch, as someone drives across Israel... in 15 minutes.

The most important thing to remember, I think, is Abba Eban's warning (in Der Spiegel, November 5, 1969):

The June map is for us equivalent to insecurity and danger. I do not exaggerate when I say that it has for us something of a memory of Auschwitz. We shudder when we think of what would have awaited us in the circumstances of June 1967, if we had been defeated; with Syrians on the mountain and we in the valley, with the Jordanian army in sight of the sea, with the Egyptians — who hold our throat in their hands — in Gaza. This is a situation which will never be repeated in history.

Looking for meaning in meaningless slogans?

Todah rabah to Devorah for sending this along:

Dick Morris:

Obama can talk about the Rev. Wright and flag lapel pins and his wife’s love of America all day long. But what he resists is a specific discussion of his own plans for our country. Obama would rather address his religious views and his optimism about America and his embrace of diversity than talk about his plans to raise taxes, let gasoline prices soar and socialize healthcare....

Consider his proposals:

• In effect, he would legislate a 60 percent tax bracket for upper-income Americans, killing all initiative and innovation. He’d raise the top bracket to 40 percent. He’d apply FICA taxes to all income, not just that under $100,000 as at present. So add 40 percent plus FICA’s 12.5 percent plus Medicare’s 2 percent plus state and local taxes averaging, after deduction, at 5-6 percent, and you have a 60 percent bracket.

• He would double the capital gains tax, saddling the 50 percent of Americans who own stock with dramatically higher taxes.

• He’d double the dividend tax, hitting elderly coupon-clippers now retired and depending on fixed incomes.

• He wants to cover 12 million illegal immigrants with federally subsidized health insurance, dramatically driving up costs and forcing federal rationing of healthcare. As in the U.K. and Canada, you will not be permitted certain medical procedures if the bureaucrats decide you are not worth it.

• He proposes requiring Homeland Security operatives to notify terror suspects that they are under investigation within seven days of starting the investigation

• He says that unless they can establish that there is “probable cause to believe that a certain individual is linked to a specific terrorist group,” Homeland Security cannot seize his documents and search his business. The current standard is only that the search be “relevant” to a terror investigation.

Ann Coulter:

.... Democrats couldn't care less about high gas prices. The consistent policy of the Democratic Party, going back at least to Jimmy Carter, has been to jack up gas prices so we can all start pedaling around on tricycles.

Environmentalists are constantly clamoring for higher gas taxes as the cure-all to their insane global warming theory. Clinton proposed a 26-cent tax on gas. John Kerry said it should be 50 cents. Gore endorsed the Malthusian proposal of Paul and Anne Ehrlich in "The Population Explosion" that gas taxes be raised gradually to match prices in Europe and Japan.

The result is consumers now pay about 46 cents per gallon in gasoline taxes

Note: Updated figures average 49.4 cents tax per gallon on average. (West Virginia especially sucks at 50.6 cents.)

click on photo for slightly larger image

Now back to Coulter:

That's not including taxes paid directly to the government by the oil companies and passed onto consumers. As the inestimable economist John Lott has pointed out,

in the past 25 years oil companies have paid more than three times in taxes what they have made in profits.

[....]

In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, "We can't drill our way out of this crisis."

What does that mean? This is like telling a starving man, "You can't eat your way out of being hungry!"

"You can't water your way out of drought!"

"You can't sleep your way out of tiredness!"

"You can't drink yourself out of dehydration!"

Seriously, what does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil?

WND magnetic bumper sticker
(still) cheaper than a gallon of gas, when you buy 5 or more

Why is it magnetic? So you can put it in your glove box if you're driving through San Francisco or Boulder. See the old BtB post,

When a Leftie sees a bumper sticker he doesn't like

Paris prosecutor detains and releases five "youths"

Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin confirmed the anti-Semitic character of the aggression. Anti-Semitic insults – like “dirty Jew” - were shouted during the aggression, he said. (EJP)

PARIS (EJP) -- Five youths detained after a Jewish teenager was beaten into a coma by a gang in Paris have been released without charge, AFP reported Wednesday quoting judicial officials.

The minors, aged 14 to 17, were held for questioning as witnesses following Saturday's attack in the multi-ethnic 19th district of the capital.

The Paris prosecutor Jean-Claude Marin said Tuesday the 17-year-old victim, Rudy Haddad, was beaten by a gang after street brawls between Jewish teenagers and youths of north African and sub-Saharan descent.

Funny, this is starting to sound like just another "tit for tat"
"cycle of violence."

I suppose most people have no trouble believing that unarmed Jewish teenagers would engage in "brawls" on Shabbes - with north African and sub-Saharan black African youths carrying metal bars.

Rudy Haddad (Haddas?) 17 years old.

The boy was so badly beaten by a gang wielding metal bars that he went into a coma from which he only emerged on Monday. According an informed source, he is slowly recovering but remains “very traumatized” and is encountering memory problems.

The prosecutor has confirmed the anti-Semitic character of the aggression and said anti-Semitic insults – like "dirty Jew" - were shouted during the aggression.

A probe for "murder attempt aggravated by its anti-Semitic character” has been launched against the perpetrators, a group of six or seven youths of black African origin, who remain at large.

You remember Ilan Halimi, whose barbarous murder Caroline Glick said

... should awaken all Jews to the significant truth of our times: Today, every Jew in the world is on the front lines of war.

As was the case 70 years ago, every Jew today is a target for our enemies, who shout from every soapbox and prove at every opportunity that their goal is the annihilation of the Jewish people. From 1933-1945, the enemy was Nazi Germany. Today, the enemy is political Islam. Its call for jihad aimed at annihilating the Jews and dominating the world is answered by millions of people throughout the world.

Among the lessons of the Holocaust, there is one that is almost never mentioned. That lesson is that it is possible, and indeed fairly easy to exterminate the Jews. The fact that the Holocaust happened proves that it is absolutely possible for the Jewish people to be wiped off the map - just as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamas leader Khaled Mashal promise.

But did you ever hear of Mathieu Roumi ? I hadn't, until today.

Bush promised Israel? Will deal with Iran before leaving office

Carl in Jerusalem:

CBS News reported Tuesday night from the Pentagon on the eve of Admiral Michael Mullen's trip to Israel that the Bush administration has made a commitment to Israel that it will deal with Iran before leaving office. According to CBS News correspondent David Martin, Israel is getting nervous that the administration won't fulfill the commitment, which would explain the drill over the Mediterranean earlier this month. Israel was telling the United States, "if you don't do it, we will."

But historian and CBS analyst Michael Oren says that Israel does not have the capability of removing the Iranian threat entirely, while the United States does.

See also this DEBKA Exclusive: Is one-year extension of Mossad director's tenure an omen for Iran?

By extending the Mossad director, Meir Dagan’s tenure for another year until the end of 2009, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has put in place a vital constituent for a possible eleventh-hour unilateral strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities.

In his six years on the job, the 61-year old external intelligence has proved his covert mettle in a variety of counter-terror operations, graduating most recently to a highly successful intelligence coup leading up to the demolition of Syria’s North Korean plutonium reactor in al Kebir last September.

.... The operation against Syria’s plutonium reactor last year was one of the most complex operations ever performed by the Mossad. For the Israeli raiders to put the facility out of commission and lift out the evidence of a working nuclear collaboration between Syria, Iran and North Korea, they needed from the Mossad precise data on the facility’s inner and outer defenses. It had to include the air defense systems in place across Syria, the whereabouts of the materials and equipment the Israeli team was assigned to appropriate from the site and transfer to the United States, and the nature and numbers of the Syrian, Iranian and North Korean personnel present.

It was not until April 2008, seven months later, that the US Central Intelligence Agency released news of the operation in Washington, providing graphics attesting to the depth of Mossad’s penetration of the of the most secret and well-protected facility in Syria.

Examination of those visuals attested to one or more agents having been planted solidly enough in the Syrian nuclear project to have photographed the different stages of the reactor’s construction and the North Korean equipment installed there – a feat which drew the respect of Dagan’s undercover colleagues in the West.

Liars, cheaters, thieves and murderers ... cont'd

The 40 countries that came up with $242 million yesterday at that donor conference "in support of Palestinian Civil Security and Rule of Law" should listen up:

The Palestinian Authority has in recent days released at least three Hamas prisoners ... despite the Palestinian Authority's promise to Israel.

The rival factions had agreed that Hamas would free Fatah prisoners in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of its own detainees in West Bank. The militants were imprisoned in the Authority on suspicion of attempting to attack within Israel and the West Bank.

These Hamasniks are not to be confused with the ones released by the Palestinian Authority in October and November 2007, February 2002 or August 2001 (the Dolphinarium terrorists).

Note too that whatever monies the PA receives from donor nations may ultimately have to be paid to the American victims of palestinian Arab muslim terrorist attacks. This is important:

See the New York Sun: Palestinian Authority May Defend Itself in N.Y. Courts (via Israel Matzav, with thanks to Carl for not quitting).