!! UPDATE !! 04/23/14

Benghazi attack could have been prevented if US hadn't 'switched sides in the War on Terror' and allowed $500 MILLION of weapons to reach al-Qaeda militants, reveals damning report

The Citizens Commission on Benghazi, a self-selected group of former top military officers, CIA insiders and think-tankers, declared Tuesday in Washington that a seven-month review of the deadly 2012 terrorist attack has determined that it could have been prevented – if the U.S. hadn't been helping to arm al-Qaeda militias throughout Libya a year earlier.

'The United States switched sides in the war on terror with what we did in Libya, knowingly facilitating the provision of weapons to known al-Qaeda militias and figures,' Clare Lopez, a member of the commission and a former CIA officer, told MailOnline.

She blamed the Obama administration for failing to stop half of a $1 billion United Arab Emirates arms shipment from reaching al-Qaeda-linked militants.

'Remember, these weapons that came into Benghazi were permitted to enter by our armed forces who were blockading the approaches from air and sea,' Lopez claimed. 'They were permitted to come in. ... [They] knew these weapons were coming in, and that was allowed..

'The intelligence community was part of that, the Department of State was part of that, and certainly that means that the top leadership of the United States, our national security leadership, and potentially Congress – if they were briefed on this – also knew about this.'

Original Post: 02/26/11

Many have speculated as to how exactly the Middle East is all of a sudden full of protesting and riots seemingly out of nowhere. I wonder to myself; how much of this is random, and how much of this was really set off by the rioting in Tunisia.

This article brings to light issues that so far have been ignored.

CAIRO (AP) - Al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen urged Muslims to revolt against Arab rulers and establish governments based on Islamic law, according to an audio tape posted Saturday on militant websites.

The appeal came at a time of growing political unrest in the Arab world. Popular uprisings have deposed the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt, and anti-government protests are gaining momentum in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain.

In the 10-minute recording, Al-Rubeish criticized Saudi Arabia for providing a haven for deposed Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

He also said toppling longtime rulers is not enough and that new governments must be established based on Islamic religious law, or Shariah.

It seems strange to me that this is a little reported story. I don't know how much involvement Al-Qaida has in all of this but it seems right up their alley.

I know that most people think that Moammar Gadaffi is insane, but he may not be too far off on all of this.

Moammar Gadaffi blamed al-Qaeda on Thursday for an insurrection that has wrenched control of much of eastern Libya as he addressed his divided nation for the second time this week to galvanize support for his crumbling regime.

Speaking on state television, the embattled Gadaffi insisted the uprising against his 41-year rule was not a people's revolt as in neighbouring Egypt and Tunisia, but fueled by Osama bin Laden's network.

I don't think that Al-Qaida is the entire reason for uprising in Libya, but I wouldn't doubt that they more involvement than we know of at this time. There has to be some level of organization behind the protests. When you have a crowd of thousands holding printed signs (some in English) in a country where the majority of people can't read, something is up. The media seems to be scared to consider this possibility.

If all of these uprisings are a result of a want for freedom; why are they all happening now? Why didn't they happen earlier? It all seems a little too coincidental if you ask me.

Consider; what if the fundamentalist Muslims are tired of secular "strong-man" leaders. It could be a replay of what happened in Iran.

I'm sure that if you asked someone from Iran who was around during the time of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 they would tell you that they didn't know what they were getting into. I'm afraid that the same thing is happening all over the middle east. The stage is being set for the "Radical" Muslims to come to power.

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Single Payer Actuality

I have for a long time stated that Obamacare is nothing but the entryway to Socialized Medicine in America. Harry Reid has said the same.

Reid said he thinks the country has to “work our way past” insurance-based health care during a Friday night appearance on Vegas PBS’ program “Nevada Week in Review.”

“What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever,” Reid said.

When then asked by panelist Steve Sebelius whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, Reid said: “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”

Now take a peek at this!

Dr. Kenneth L. Davis, CEO and president of Mount Sinai Health System, the largest health care provider in the state of New York, said that starting next year, Mt. Sinai will begin offering its own Medicare Advantage plan. It will look for other opportunities to bring premium payments directly into the hospital system, rather than filtering them through insurance companies.

Davis said he expects organizations similar to his to move in the same direction. “Inevitably the large systems are going to move to take part of the premium dollar,” he said.

For both non-profit systems like Mt. Sinai and for-profit systems, he said, retaining more and more of the health care premiums paid by consumers is essential to providing a full spectrum of care. He said that his system’s St. Luke’s Hospital in New York runs a psychiatric program that loses $14 million per year.

It’s “not sustainable,” he said, so the system needs to cross-subsidize the money-losing services that it nonetheless must continue to provide, with income from more profitable services, such as orthopedic surgery.

It's not profitable by design. Removing the insurance end of the deal has been essential to Obamacare since the beginning. The end result is Socialized Medicine/Single Payer... That means that the government will be calling all of the shots between you and your doctor.

Obamacare/The Affordable Care Act has been a fraud since the beginning. I just wonder why so many people are willfully ignorant.

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"Google subsidiary to run nearby federal airfield"

The name of the company is "Planetary Ventures LLC". The thing that's creepy about it is that they Planetary Ventures LLC has been registered with the state of California for 7 years, but there is absolutely no information on the net about them.

A Google search doesn't return any information except related to the federal air field.

Corporation Wiki doesn't really have much info on this company either.

Planetary Ventures, LLC filed as a Foreign in the State of California on Friday, May 11, 2007 and is approximately seven years old, according to public records filed with California Secretary of State. The filing is currently active as of the last data refresh which occured on Sunday, January 26, 2014. A corporate filing is called a foreign filing when an existing corporate entity files in a state other than the state they originally filed in. This does not necessarily mean that they are from outside the United States.

Key People:

David Radcliffe served as the Member

The registered agent for the company is Corporation Service Company. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.

Planetary Ventures, LLC also lists another corporation as a key member of the company. Gev Real Estate, Inc. serves as Member.

De Holding Company serves as Member.

Mr. David Radcliffe serves as the Vice President of Real Estate and Workplace Services for Google Inc.

This means that Google created a company and did nothing with it for approximately seven years? I somehow doubt that there was a "competitive bid" for property management.

"NASA's partnership with the private sector will allow the agency to restore this treasure for more efficient use," said Dan Tangherlini, administrator of the General Services Administration.

The decision to entrust Moffett's fate to Google comes just two months after NASA's inspector general issued a report that raised questions about whether the company's three most powerful executives had been given a sweetheart deal while flying their personal jets and helicopters from the airfield.

The audit found out that seven jets and two helicopters owned by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt had received improper discounts on fuel that saved the three billionaires up to $5.3 million on flights dating back to 2009. The Google executives own the aircraft through a company called H211, which has been paying $1.4 million annually since 2007 to lease hangar space at Moffett.

Although H211 and Planetary Ventures are separate entities, a frequent Google critic said the U.S. government is rewarding "unethical and wrongful behavior" by awarding the Moffett management contract to the company. "This is like giving the keys to your car to the guy who has been siphoning gas from your tank," said John Simpson, privacy project director for Consumer Watchdog.

Google beat out one other competitor for the Moffett contract, which went up for bidding last May. Ames Research Center spokeswoman Jessica Culler declined to identify the other bidder.

Google execs have been using the airfield; now they're buying Howard Hughes style. I wonder how many of these front companies Google is behind? Google is buying their way into government at an alarming rate.

This can't end well. Nobody buys their way into a power structure --to not wield that power. - Jeff Michaels

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The Pope is starting to sound like a socialist dictator each time me confronts the issue of poverty.

There are parts of this that sound strangely like a speech from Hugo Chavez.

Lent is the solemn period leading up to Holy Week and Easter, when the faithful recall Christ's death and resurrection. It's a time when Christians often fast, and Francis urged the faithful to deny themselves certain things this Lent "to help and enrich others by our own poverty."

"When power, luxury and money become idols, they take priority over the need for a fair distribution of wealth," he said in the short message. "Our consciences thus need to be converted to justice, equality, simplicity and sharing."

He said it's not enough to just make charitable offerings. "Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt," he wrote.

"How much pain is caused in families because one of their members - often a young person - is in thrall to alcohol, drugs, gambling and pornography!" he lamented.

Sometimes "unjust social conditions" like unemployment lead to this type of destitution by depriving people of the dignity of work and access to education and health care, he said.

"In such cases, moral destitution can be considered impending suicide."

His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, however, espoused the exact same concerns, writing an entire encyclical in 2009 in which he denounced the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown and called for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good.

I take what what the pope is saying as very misguided. The Bible speaks of people giving of their own will. Nowhere in the Bible does it speak of, or make reference to government intervention on behalf of the poor. The Bible does not support Central Planning, or "a new world financial order," as mentioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

This is very strange and seems more like something a dictator would say.

Now a brief message from Hugo Chavez at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit.

Then President Chavez brought the house down.

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.

But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ - “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.” He won a standing ovation.

Should people do more to help each other? Of course they should. Should helping others be mandated and directed and controlled by government? NO!

People forget that when any government tries to act as a charity that government will determine how "wealth is redistributed." Wouldn't it make sense for a government, consisting of those in power, to distribute wealth based on maintaining that power?

The Pope said, "When power, luxury and money become idols, they take priority over the need for a fair distribution of wealth," he said in the short message. "Our consciences thus need to be converted to justice, equality, simplicity and sharing." Do most politicians have "justice, equality, simplicity and sharing" as their guiding principles? Think about that for a moment.

When governments redistribute wealth it is not based on peoples' neediness, it is based on the best interests of those who control the redistribution of wealth. When neediness is not the driving force behind charity, it's not charity anymore, it's tyranny.

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce president yesterday announced that 2014 is going to be the year of immigration reform. Keep in mind that The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a lobbying group.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Immigration

CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 8:00pm
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Immigration Summit

Washington, D.C.

Good morning everyone, and thank you for coming.

We are here today to address one of the compelling challenges of our time—ensuring that our great country can compete and win in the global race for talent … that we can secure the lives and livelihoods of all Americans … and that we can reaffirm our proud and honorable legacy as an open and welcoming society.

Immigration reform has been a top priority of the Chamber’s for years—and it is a deeply personal priority of mine.

We can take great encouragement in the fact that this time, so many groups and individuals from across society and across the political spectrum have joined forces to build support for reform.

But, we must take nothing for granted. Immigration is a difficult issue. It encompasses a complex bundle of impacts, interests, and emotions. We must respect all points of view in this important debate—even those that differ from our own. At the same time, we should have little patience for those who decide to prey on fear and misunderstanding—or those who put their own short-term political interests above the national interest.

This is proof that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is not looking for reform, they are looking for cheap labor. There is nothing more to this. A valid argument cannot be made that immigrant workers protect the wages of American workers. If business interests are wanting immigration reform, it can't be because businesses want more overhead. This is a very simple issue.

The Tea Party is the target of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce now. The statement, "...we should have little patience for those who decide to prey on fear and misunderstanding—or those who put their own short-term political interests above the national interest." means that anyone who is against Chamber of Commerce backed immigration legislation for any reason is a target. This kind of language is designed to put everyone who wants to debate proposed immigration policy on the defensive.

The danger in more open boarders is obvious. The Democrat leadership in Washington are bad for the economy and the future of this country --as exemplified by the current economic situation. A large immigrant voting base for Democrats is the end goal here.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is willing to aid the Democrat party as long as they can get the cheap labor the businesses they represent want. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is truly representing their constituency --not The American People's interests.

As I stated earlier the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a lobbying group, they just happen to be lobbying against the will and best interest of The American People.

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