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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/stark_evidence_of_us_british_naval_decline.html

Is it actually possible that, as you read this, the United States Navy has only one supercarrier battle group at sea? Read on – and be amazed.

Look no farther than these two news items, both from today’s Sunday Times of London, to see the effect of two decades of shrinkage in the size of the United States Navy and the retreat of the Royal Navy from the high seas:

For the first time in two centuries, British businessmen and others have formed a private navy to protect shipping off the pirate-ridden coast of Somali on the Horn of Africa. A millionaire businessman has formed a company called Typhoon to furnish escort and protection, including troops, along the shipping lanes which world navies have proved inadequate to police. The first convoy of ships is projected for March or April.

The re-emergence of what used to called “privateers” (Sir Francis Drake is the most famous example from history) is the latest sign of outsourcing or abandonment of traditional military functions by Western nations whose militaries have contracted to pinpoint-size in the wake of the growth of the modern welfare state. Private security and private armies — again, once known to history as “mercenaries,” are another aspect of this trend.

Meanwhile, news came that the Russian Navy has deployed ships, marines, combat vehicles and equipment just off the coast of Syria. Five landing ships are accompanied by military vessels.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/what_to_do_about_a_coup.html

How does a secretary of state decide whether and when to put the United States on record regarding what appears to be a coup — the decision of a sitting ruler to remain in place in contravention of the terms of the country’s constitution?

The Venezuelan Constitution is clear.

The oath of office has to be administered on 10 January before the National Assembly. If the president-elect “cannot be sworn in before the National Assembly [suggesting that the Assembly cannot meet, not that the President doesn’t show up], he shall take the oath of office before the Supreme Tribunal of Justice.” Article 231
If the president is temporarily unavailable, the executive vice president can serve as president for up to 90 days, extendable by the National Assembly for another 90. “If the temporarily unavailability continues for more than 90 consecutive days, the National Assembly shall have the power to decide … whether the unavailability to serve should be considered permanent.” Article 234
“Permanent physical or mental disability [must be] certified by a medical board designated by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice with the approval of the National Assembly[.]” Article 233
“When an elected President becomes permanently unavailable to serve prior to his inauguration, a new election … shall be held within 30 consecutive days,” during which time the president of the National Assembly will serve as president. Article 233

Nevertheless, Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro simply announced this past weekend that ailing and absent President Hugo Chávez can start his new term without being sworn in at all.

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“They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train/And though it’s smoky and crowded they’re too civilized to complain.”

“Bongo, Bongo, Bongo”, Danny Kaye

The difference between the civilized man and the savage is that the civilized man follows the rules and the savage does not. A civilized man is quite capable of killing one, a hundred or even a million, so long as he is first outfitted with a uniform and a set of regulations telling him when and where to kill. A savage kills as he lives, without the need for rules and regulations. The civilized man is bound by interdependent social compacts that control his survival. The savage does not depend on a social compact for his survival. He depends on himself. Even when his survival derives from the same system as that of the civilized man, he feels no sense of obligation toward that system. He exploits it, the way that he would exploit a honeycomb in the forest or kill the last mammoth without worrying what will happen when it is gone.

The modern civilized man with his giant and tiny screens full of information that tell him not only who won and who lost, and make him laugh and cry, but also update him on the latest social mores so that he can maintain his civilized status by staying in step with the march of progress, has learned to live by the rules. More than that he has learned to believe in the rules. The rules feed him and move him up the ladder where he will be able to buy more giant and tiny screens to stay in step with civilization.

The savage advances much more slowly up the ladder, even when he lives next door to the civilized man, but this is of little concern to him. The civilized man is concerned with advancement while the savage is concerned with sensation. The civilized man wants to better himself. The savage only wants to be himself. For the civilized man there is only the past and the future, but no present, but for the savage there is hardly any past and no future… only the eternal carpe diem moment of the present.

The civilized man builds trains, roads, telegraph poles, skyscrapers, fiber optic lines, satellites and organizations to link together and control his civilization. Faster communications and transportation make it possible to link together larger areas, economically and politically. Civilization expands and grows denser at its centers and increasing amounts of resources are diverted from the tasks of progress to the chores of administering impossibly large territories.

http://freebeacon.com/ted-cruz-opposes-hagel-nomination/ Ted Cruz Opposes Hagel Nomination Cruz says Hagel Nomination Makes War with Iran ‘More Likely’Newly installed Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said the potential nomination of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel would make war with Iran “more likely.”   Hagel, who is expected to be nominated by President Barack Obama Monday as the nation’s […]

Obama’s Dark Designs on America — on The Finch Gang
by Frontpagemag.com
What the President has in store for the country he hates — and leads — in his second term.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/the-shattered-republican-spine-on-the-glazov-gang/

RE: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/December12/AsylumFraudChargesPR.php
Hi Gang:

Nearly every discussion about immigration these days involve the failures to secure the southern border of the United States and the need to make the E-Verify program mandatory. Most recently the discussions about immigration are most likely to focus on the administration’s ongoing assault on the effective enforcement of the immigration laws from within the interior of the United States and the need to provide “pathways to citizenship” for unknown millions- likely tens of millions of illegal aliens, even though there is no way of knowing who most of these foreign nationals are nor is their any easy way of determining the veracity of any claims that aliens who evaded the inspections process will make in their applications for amnesty. This is also a key problem where the ongoing massive deferred action program that the administration has implemented for illegal alien “DREAMERS.”

Time and again I have provided testimony before various Congressional hearings about the utter lack of integrity to the various immigration benefit programs that provide aliens with lawful status and even United States citizenship. This was also a major factor in the testimony I provided to the 9/11 Commission.

Today I was surfing the internet to see what is going on in the wacky world of immigration and came upon a new release that was issued by the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York on December 18, 2012- just a couple of weeks ago. There have been no reports of this story on news programs that would rather run stories about muggings or examples of celebrities running amok!

Here is the title of the news release:
“Twenty-Six Individuals, Including Six Lawyers, Charged In Manhattan Federal Court With Participating In Immigration Fraud Schemes Involving Hundreds Of Fraudulent Asylum Applications”
Here is the sub-title that appeared in this extensive news release:
“Applications Containing Fabricated Claims of Persecution Were Allegedly Submitted By at Least 10 New York City Law Firms”
Do you think if the law firms were involved in tax evasion or some other area of criminality that the story would not have made headlines? Where immigration is concerned the narrative is more important than the truth! As a result- this major story will likely not be discussed on television or radio programs or written about in newspapers! Since you are not likely to see this press release anywhere else, I have attached it, in its entirety, below.

Before we delve into the particulars of this story I want you to know a bit about my own background so that you will, hopefully, better appreciate my perspectives.

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/01/03/insoluble-syria/ Let’s cut through all the pious pronouncements about the horrible Assad regime in Syria. We err when we apply majoritarian democratic criteria to tribal societies. There is a reason that Syria has labored under brutal minority regimes for half a century, since the Ba’ath Party coup of 1963 led by the Christian Michel Aflaq, […]

http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/

2013.01.04 (Garissa, Kenya) – Two refugees bleed to death after al-Shabaab cadres toss a grenade into their camp.
2013.01.03 (Baghdad, Iraq) – Sunnis target a minibus carrying Shia pilgrims, managing to kill just four.
2013.01.03 (Swabi, Pakistan) – A prayer leader is assassinated by sectarian rivals.
2013.01.03 (Nawa-i-Barakzayi, Afghanistan) – A cleric is gunned down in his own mosque by religious hardliners.
2013.01.03 (Musayyib, Iraq) – Twenty-eight Shiite pilgrims are blown apart by a Shahid suicide car bomber.
2013.01.03 (Song, Nigeria) – Four people are burned to death by Religion of Peace radicals, including a child.

http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/al-awlaki-purchased-airline-tickets-for-911-terrorists-then-dined-at-the-pentagon/print/

THIS APPALLING “OUTREACH TO MUSLIMS” STARTED LONG BEFORE OBAMA EVEN DREAMED OF THE PRESIDENCY…. ONLY MONTHS AFTER 9/11 PRESIDENT BUSH INVITED THE SAUDI KING…FUNDER AND ENABLER OF TERRORISM AND ENFORCER OF CRUEL SHARIA LAWS TO HIS RANCH IN TEXAS AND THEN PROMOTED THE THUG’S “PEACE PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST”…..RSK

Which raises some questions about why he was allowed to roam free that long.

The FBI suspected within days of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that the American Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki had purchased tickets for some of the hijackers for air travel in advance of the attacks, according to newly released documents reviewed exclusively by Fox News.

The purpose of these flights remains unclear, but the 9/11 Commission report later noted that the hijackers had used flights in the lead-up to the attacks to test security and surveillance.

The heavily redacted records – obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of information Act request – show the FBI holding evidence tying the American-born cleric to the hijackers just 16 days after the attack that killed nearly 3,000 Americans.

This gets stranger when you consider what Anwar Al-Awlaki was up to during that time.

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ There was a time when the United States government ran on hooch. Hard up for cash, taxes on whiskey and beer funded the Civil War. With 40 percent of government revenues coming from liquor taxes, alcohol made the dramatic post-war expansion of government possible so that by the 20th Century, the Federal government would […]