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January 2013

MY SAY: GOOD FOR SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-S.C.) KEEPS THE BENGHAZI SCANDAL PERCOLATING

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sen-graham-delay-cia-chief-benghazi-attack-info-released-article-1.1235897

THIS IS THE SCANDAL THAT GOT BURIED IN THE NEWS BY THE TWO SANDYS—-THE HURRICANE AND THE TRAGEDY IN NEWTOWN, CT…..RSK
Senator Lindsey Graham: Stall John Brennan’s CIA director nomination until administration releases more September 11 Benghazi attack information
‘The stonewalling on Benghazi by the Obama administration must come to an end,’ the GOP senator says. Meanwhile, State Hillary Clinton will testify before a Senate panel about the attack on the U.S. consulate Jan 22.

NEWS AND BUZZ 24/7

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Poll: McAuliffe up by 5 in Va. governors race

THIS IS REALLY TOO BAD…..CUCCINELLI WAS THE FIRST US STATE LEGSILATOR TO MOUNT A SERIOUS CHALLENGE TO OBAMACARE AND McAULIFFE IS ONE OF BILL CLINTON’S SLEAZY “ENFORCERS AND FIXERS”….RSK
Politico
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
News
Democrat Terry McAuliffe leads GOP Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli by 5 percentage points, according to a Virginia gubernatorial election poll out Tuesday. Read more…

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Ros-Lehtinen made head of Middle East panel

GOOD NEWS…SHE IS TERRIFIC!!! RSK
The Hill
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
News
The term-limited chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., has been named to the coveted top spot on the panel’s new Middle East and North Africa subcommittee, giving her a key platform to pursue her pro-Israel views. Read more…

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Current TV staff rips Gore for Al Jazeera sale
New York Post
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
News
Ominously missing was the creator of Current TV, Al Gore, although his partner, Joel Hyatt, stood proudly with the Al Jazeera honchos. The displeasure with Gore among the staff was thick enough to cut with a scimitar. Read

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Texas flush with cash from energy production

TEXAS HAS THE BEST GOVERNOR IN THE U.S. RICK PERRY WHO CAN’T DEBATE BUT SURE CAN GOVERN WITH TEN YEAR RESULTS….RSK
Bloomberg
Monday, January 7, 2013
News
Legislators in Texas, the biggest energy producer among U.S. states, will begin deliberating its next two-year budget with a surplus forecast today to match an $8.8 billion record set in 2007. Read more…

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A NEW COLD WAR: MOORTHY MUTHUSWAMY

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/moorthy-muthuswamy/a-new-cold-war/print/ In 1988, when I was a physics graduate student doing research at Brookhaven National laboratory, I befriended a young Israeli physicist. He was a typical young Israeli researcher – bright, friendly and secular. Besides physics, we prominently discussed one other issue, the propensity for violence in Muslim communities and their relative backwardness. In my […]

RYAN MAURO: THE FORMIDABLE ISLAMIST MINORITY IN AMERICA

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/the-formidable-islamist-minority-in-america/ A summary of polls about the ideological makeup of the Muslim-American community shows that the majority is moderate, but there is a formidable minority influenced by Islamist doctrine. A significant number are refusing to give answers or are still figuring out where they stand on issues like terrorism and Sharia Law. The number one […]

DANIEL GREENFIELD: OBAMA BOWS AND KILLS THE POST 9/11 RESTRICTIONS ON SAUDI VISITORS….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obama-kills-post-911-restrictions-on-saudi-visitors/print/

HE DID NOT BOW TO THE KING BUT OBAMA’S PREDECESSOR PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH WAS EQUALLY OBSEQUIOUS TO THE SAUDIS….HE ALLOWED DOZENS TO LEAVE IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF 9/11 AND WITHIN MONTHS OF 9/11 INVITED THE KING TO HIS RANCH IN TEXAS AND HELPED PROMOTE (THIS IS BEYOND OUTRAGEOUS),,,THE SAUDI PEACE PLAN FOR THE ISRAEL/ARAB CONFLICT….RSK

Shortly after the Center for Immigration Studies put out a report warning that the Student and Exchange Visitor Program was widely unregulated and abused, the Obama Administration has decided to dispose of the last restrictions instituted after 9/11 to prevent a repeat of the revolving door Saudi visa system.

The United States, a decade after Al Qaida strikes in New York and Washington, has opened its doors to Saudi nationals.

Diplomats said the administration of President Barack Obama has removed most restrictions on the entry of Saudis to the United States. They said the percentage of visa approvals for Saudis has reached unprecedented levels.

“The United States aims to raise the number of visas that it issues annually, particularly to Saudi nationals, who represent an important group,” Joseph Hood, U.S. consul-general in the Saudi city of Dhahran, said.

He said Saudi businessmen and students have been allowed to enter the United States in record numbers, with a 60 percent increase since 2010.

Hood said. “In addition, Saudi Arabia also sends a large number of students to the United States, and the number of Saudi students in the United States rivals those from India.”

The CIS report meanwhile notes that of the “Top Five M-1 Approved Schools” , three are flight schools.

NINA SHEA: THE SAUDI’S P.R. ROAD SHOW

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/337212/saudis-pr-roads-show-nina-shea Even before the “Arab spring” revolts — indeed, ever since the 9/11 attacks on American soil by mostly Saudi terrorists — the Saudi royal family has assiduously waged a public-relations campaign to improve its image by sponsoring major cultural initiatives in the West. In 2012 alone, these included the opening of the King Abdullah […]

CLAUDIA ROSETT: GOOGLE BAMBOOZLED

http://pjmedia.com/claudiarosett/google-bamboozled-by-north-korea/

As if there isn’t enough trouble in the world, the executive chairman of Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, has taken it into his head to visit North Korea. Schmidt is touring the world’s leading totalitarian state as a member of a private group led by a former U.S. congressman, cabinet secretary, United Nations ambassador and New Mexico governor rolled into one, Bill Richardson — whose previous trips to North Korea have served mainly to dignify the Pyongyang regime.

Richardson’s current roadshow, with Google’s Schmidt in tow, seems to have generated some excitement at North Korea’s state propaganda organ, the Korean Central News Agency, or KCNA. KCNA has revamped its web site, including a new gmail contact address (though the address apparently doesn’t work) and more colorful variations on the same old propaganda, including a special section on North Korea’s recent ballistic missile test “Successful Satellite Launch.” The site also features such classics as an account of the launch in Ecuador of the works of third-generation dictator Kim Jong Un, glorifying the revolutionary accomplishments of his late father, tyrant Kim Jong Il, and his grandfather, the Stalin-installed founder of the North Korean state, Kim Il Sung. On this same retooled KCNA web site, the private visit led by Richardson is heralded as “Delegation of Google Corp. of U.S. Arrives.”

BENGHAZIGATE: THE COVER-UP THAT CONTINUES BILL SCHANEFELT

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/benghazigate_the_cover-up_continues.html From the start, almost everything that we were originally and “officially” told by the Obama Administration about the Benghazigate “event” was false (i.e., a lie) or misleading or inadequate. And now that the sole suspect held in the attack has been released, the cover-up is gaining momentum. The report produced by State’s Accountability Review […]

PAMELA GELLER: UPROAR IN GEORGIA OVER US AMBASSADOR’S PRO-PALESTINIAN MANEUVERING

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/uproar_in_georgia_over_us_ambassadors_pro-palestinian_maneuvering.html

The Republic of Georgia is in an uproar. Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has issued a statement about the explosive revelations I broke in an American Thinker in December: that the U.S. ambassador to Georgia, Richard Norland, whispered in his ear to vote in favor of the U.N. resolution declaring a “Palestinian” state, which is diametrically opposed to official U.S. policy.

But why should anyone be surprised? People actually seem taken aback by the nomination of the virulently Jew-hating Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense, when actually everything in Obama’s foreign policy points to this very tendency. If Obama had appointed John Bolton, or anyone else pro-Israel, that would have been a shock. But the kapos are wringing their hands over Hagel? Really? Obama’s anti-Israel stance has been fiercely consistent, as I exposed in my 2009 true-life political thriller, The Post-American Presidency.

The revelations about Ivanishvili and Norland that I reported were based on statements made by Gabriel M. Mirilashvili, a noted Georgian businessman and owner of a corporation. Just before the November 29 United Nations vote granting non-member-state observer status to “Palestine,” Mirilashvili, who is the vice president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, as well as head of the World Congress of Georgian Jews, had a meeting with Ivanishvili. Mirilashvili stated that when he had urged Ivanishvili to oppose the Palestinian statehood resolution, Ivanishvili told him that Norland had recommended that Georgia vote in favor of the resolution.

Cables: State Dept. Disregarded Warnings About Muslim Brotherhood Threat by John Rossomondo….

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/01/08/Opposition-Leader-Obama-Administration-Downplayed-Brotherhood-Warnings
The Obama administration chose to listen to voices suggesting that Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was moderate rather than those who warned it would resort to violence if it came to power, cables obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism show.

The cables make four things clear about the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in the Egyptian revolution and how the Obama administration failed to address it:

The White House ignored the warnings, then was silent in the wake of intimidation and violence by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Despite broken promises, the White House refuses to cut funds to Morsi’s government.
Religious minorities and women are marginalized by the new constitution, while being threatened by government leaders.
Resentment from pro-democracy groups is growing as White House inaction leads to the rise of an Islamic state.

A look at recent headlines involving Egypt’s new Islamist-dominated government makes clear the radical, threatening path its leaders are charting, and that those who urged caution in dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood were prophetic. Criticism of President Mohamed Morsi in the media and among opposition groups leads to criminal investigations. Even a comedian is being targeted.

The Muslim Brotherhood, to which Morsi remains closely tied, routinely threatens Israel and issues anti-Semitic statements.

Meanwhile, Islamists rammed through a new constitution which sparked international concern for women’s and minority rights. Some analysts say the Brotherhood’s actions have pushed Egypt closer to civil war.

WH Ignored Warnings, Silent in Wake of Intimidation and Violence by Muslim Brotherhood

The reaction from Washington has been muted at best.

The Obama administration repeatedly ignored and downplayed advance warnings that the Muslim Brotherhood would resort to violent and undemocratic tactics if it came to power, Egyptian opposition leader Michael Meunier tells the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).