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Last week, President Obama feted Communist China’s Xi Jinping, the man who hopes to lead his country as it emerges as the world’s next superpower. Mr. Xi must have been delighted to see press reports that his host is poised to end America’s claim to such status – at least with respect to the traditional means of measuring it: nuclear weaponry.

According to a story first reported by the Associated Press, Mr. Obama has directed the Defense Department to come up with plans for reducing the U.S. nuclear arsenal by as much as eighty percent. Evidently, he is prepared to take such a step unilaterally in order to encourage by our example other nations to join in his longstanding ambition to “rid the world of nuclear weapons.”

It is unclear whether the topic came up during the various meetings the PRC’s vice president had with his White House and other interlocutors. Even if it did, Xi presumably would not have disclosed a closely held Chinese secret: How many missiles and warheads have been squirreled away in 3,000 miles of hardened tunnels that make up what has been called the “Underground Great Wall of China.”

http://www.romirowsky.com/11208/terrorists-diplomats

Israelis all over the world were recently warned to be on the alert for potential terror attacks, given Iran’s constant attempt to sponsor assaults on its own and through its proxies like Hezbollah on Israeli/Jewish targets worldwide. Prior to the recent attack on the Israeli diplomatic car in New Delhi, Israeli intelligence warned India of an imminent threat to Israeli establishments and individuals, providing them a detailed list of about 50 individuals— all Iranian nationals—believed to be involved in such actions (although Indian officials are working with Israel, the Indian authorities have yet to confirm this).

Consequently, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast, of course, denied these charges, stating that, “The Zionist regime has a high record of criminal actions against humanity and it is the first suspect of any terrorist operation in the world …Tehran condemns terrorism in strongest terms as Iran has been a victim of terrorism.”

http://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2012/02/another-american-prostrates-himself-and.html

In a world where every aberrant act, every self-inflicted malady and every vice is considered an epidemic, we most certainly need to add to the list the act of prostrating oneself and by extension, his country for every single assumed infraction of societal and ideological moray in every minor culture in the world!

As an American, watching senior Officers and Elected Officials continually apologizing for one piece of inanity or another has passed from bothersome to an active insult to the American people! And even if an unhealthy percentage of this population is not insulted by this most despicable of trends; many of us are! These Officers and our elected officials fail to understand they do not represent the many foreign cultures of the world and they certainly are not properly representing us by continuing to prostrate themselves and by extension, us for every little suggestion of insensitivity toward the delicate mental state of the ideologically unhinged.

This latest example was provoked by a gaggle of angry Afghan protestors who were reacting to a story that the Koran or even several copies of the Koran had been disposed of – unceremoniously. If anyone had read the actual account, they would have learned that the copies that were discarded and burned belonged to EPW’s (Enemy Prisoners of War) being held on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. They were confiscated when it was determined that the EPW’s were using the Koran as an illicit messaging system to communicate with one another.

To Be Or Not To Be Is Israel’s Dilemma February 21, 2012 By Nurit Greenger The world is currently busy with speculation, postulation and guessing game as to when Iran will own its atomic bomb and will Israel attack Iran, to prevent the Mullahs’ region from acquiring the nuclear weapons, destined for the destruction of […]

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=1410
The terms “effective sanctions” against Iran on the one hand and global political reality on the other hand constitute an oxymoron playing into the hands of Tehran.

Effective sanctions require the full cooperation of Russia and China, two strategic rivals of the U.S., as demonstrated by their U.N. Security Council double veto of the October 2011 and February 2012 anti-Assad resolutions. They do not fully cooperate with sanctions invoked against Iran, and assist the Tehran regime, as do some European countries. Furthermore, Japan, India and Turkey have subordinated compliance with sanctions on their trade relations with Iran, as have some countries in Latin America and Europe.

Each new sanction against Iran requires several months for effectiveness assessment. Thus, it extends Iran’s time to develop its nuclear capabilities, as well as to acquire critical technologies and systems from North Korea, Pakistan, Russia or China.

http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2863/muslim-parliament-switzerland

A growing immigrant population determined to avoid assimilation.

Leading Islamic groups in Switzerland are seeking to establish a single national representative body that will enable all of the country’s Muslims to “speak with one voice.”

The organizers say their new “parliament” will be called “Umma Schweiz” and be based on the principles of Islamic Sharia law. The headquarters of the organization will be located in Basel with “representatives” in all 26 cantons (or “states”) of Switzerland. The first “test vote” of Umma Schweiz will be held in the fall of 2012; the group will be fully functional in 2013.

Ummah, an Arabic word that means “nation,” refers to the entire Muslim community throughout the world. In recent years, Muslims have stepped up efforts to unify the globally fragmented ummah in an effort to revive an Islamic Caliphate or empire. Many Muslim scholars view the political unification of the ummah as a prerequisite to the consolidation of global Muslim power and the subsequent establishment of an Islamic world order.

http://dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2034/Looking-at-the-Axis-of-Unreason.aspx http://www.statesman.com/news/statesman-investigates/catastrophic-amputations-rise-in-afghanistan-wars-final-years-2184917.html?viewAsSinglePage=true CATASTROPHIC AMPUTATIONS RISE IN AFGHANISTAN’S FINAL WAR YEARS Military looks for ways to protect troops from IEDs By Jeremy Schwartz  Six months after the blast in the mountains of southern Afghanistan, Pfc. Matthew Leyva rolls into the rehabilitation center at the Center for the Intrepid in a mechanized wheelchair. His left arm is […]

http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/obama-to-law-enforcement-stop-linking-muslims-to-terrorism#ixzz1mxF3xY8M

In yet another curtsy to the politically correct orthodoxy, President Barack Obama’s White House plans to tinker with federal police curriculums for counterterrorism training classes, according to a Beltway public-interest organization.

The first bit of “revamping” is the removal of all material that groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations , or CAIR, find offensive or containing a “negative” image of Muslims.

It’s a government-wide call to end Islamophobia, according to a blog by a Washington, DC-based watchdog group that investigates, exposes and prosecutes government corruption.

A few months after the Obama White House ordered an investigation of government counterterrorism training, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has destroyed instructional material that characterizes Muslims as prone to violence or terrorism, according to the Judicial Watch blog.
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So far 700 pages of documents from about 300 presentations given to agents since the 2001 terrorist attacks have been purged, according to a new report published this week. The White House order came after the same publication reported in late November that the FBI, Department of Justice (DOJ) and Pentagon taught employees that mainstream Muslims embrace violence and compared the Islamic religion to the death star.

Are Our Museums Substituting Political Correctness For Inspiration? By Gerald Walpin*

GERALD WALPIN IS THE FORMER INSPECTOR GENERAL APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT BUSH. HE WAS FIRED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WITHOUT CAUSE–WHEN HE GOT CLOSE TO DISCLOSING A POSSIBLE SCANDAL THAT LED RIGHT UP TO THE STEPS OF THE WHITE HOUSE. …..RSK

The Code Of Ethics, adopted by the American Association Of Museums, directs museums “to foster an informed appreciation of the rich … world we have inherited.” For that purpose, the Ethics Code directs, programs should “respect … traditions,” and “encourage people” by providing “inspiration,” and thereby “promote the public good,” not any museum management’s personal agenda.

My wife and I are supporters of several of New York’s excellent museums. I am saddened, however, by recent changes in two museums, that replace tradition and inspiration with someone’s view of what is politically correct. One change does not promote public good, but debases traditions, and torpedoes inspiration from our country’s major hero. The other creates a false impression of the positive role of a political hero of some.

The New York Historical Society deserves plaudits for its exhibits and speakers, and its total building renovation. Unfortunately, the new sculpture montage at the entrance highlights deficiencies, rather than positive aspects, of our country.

The bust of George Washington is central – as it should be, given his role in our country’s creation and his New York inauguration as the first President. But the description that accompanies it hardly creates inspiration. Instead, it starts by merely calling him “a symbol of liberty.” He was no simple “symbol.” He unselfishly left his luxury life to serve for years as General, leading patriots in muddy and snowy fields to a victory that gave us the freedom that we enjoy today, despite knowing that, if unsuccessful, he faced execution or years in prison. Then, for eight years, he well led this country from its birth. None of that is even mentioned there.

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Is the Obama Administration more concerned that Iran may get a nuclear weapon, or that Israel may use military force to prevent Iran from doing so? The answer is the latter, judging from comments on Sunday by Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey.
Appearing on CNN, General Dempsey sent precisely the wrong message if the main U.S. strategic goal is convincing Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions. He said the U.S. is urging Israel not to attack Iran—because Iran hasn’t decided to build a bomb, because an Israeli attack probably wouldn’t set back Iran by more than a couple of years, and because it would invite retaliation and be “destabilizing” throughout the Middle East.
“That’s the question with which we all wrestle. And the reason we think that it’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” the General said, referring to a possible Iranian response to an attack. “That’s been our counsel to our allies, the Israelis. And we also know or believe we know that the Iranian regime has not decided that they will embark on the capability—or the effort to weaponize their nuclear capability.”
In a single sound bite, General Dempsey managed to tell the Iranians they can breathe easier because Israel’s main ally is opposed to an attack on Iran, such attack isn’t likely to work in any case, and the U.S. fears Iran’s retaliation. It’s as if General Dempsey wanted to ratify Iran’s rhetoric that the regime is a fearsome global military threat.