Friday, February 28, 2014

Connecticut is in Full Fascist Repression Mode

 

Connecticut is in Full Fascist Repression Mode

By Onan Coca / 28 February 2014

Liberals often like to speak about the repression exhibited by Republican positions on social issues and the like. But the reality is that the Democrats are the real danger to our freedoms, and it’s about time liberals recognize that. If their politicians are willing to act like the Bill of Rights and the Constitution mean nothing, then how secure can they really be that they won’t attack the rights they care about when they are done with us?

Here’s evidence of what Democrats do to our Rights. The people of Connecticut have elected one of the more liberal governments in the country, and recently their state has decided to go full throttle towards fascism and away from our Constitutional principles.

The people of Connecticut who were late turning in their gun registration paperwork will have to turn in, destroy, sell or leave the state with their firearm – or face the full weight of the law.

CT Gun Grab

Those who fail to do so could face serious criminal penalties. Once people realize they can’t keep the guns and magazines, they’re going to get rid of them, Michael P. Lawlor, the undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, says.

disarmedThis is purely and simply gun confiscation. The people of Connecticut have lost their right to bear arms without the interference of the government.

What has happened to America where her citizens will voluntarily turn over their rights to the government?

Even worse – the news media, who should be fighting to maintain our freedoms, has gone in to full state media mode. Just read what Connecticut’s largest and most important newspaper recently wrote about violators of the new anti-gun law.

Although willful noncompliance with the law is doubtless a major issue, it’s possible that many gun owners are unaware of their obligation to register military-style assault weapons and would do so if given another chance.

But the bottom line is that the state must try to enforce the law. Authorities should use the background check database as a way to find assault weapon purchasers who might not have registered those guns in compliance with the new law.

The very reason people were afraid of gun registration is what the newspaper now supports using to ensure that the laws aren’t being broken. This is why 2nd Amendment supporters make stands against gun registration -- because it gives the state the power to control us if they ever decide they need to … and now the Connecticut media has made that decision for the government. It’s disgusting.

Wake up America. This is the liberal anti-freedom agenda and it is coming for us all.


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U.S. Military Hires Chaplains from Muslim Terror Front

 

 

 

 

New post on Creeping Sharia

 

U.S. Military Hires Chaplains from Muslim Brotherhood Entity

by creeping

As Obama plans to reduce the size of the military, he’s simultaneously increasing imam’s in the military. via U.S. Military Hires Chaplains Endorsed by Brotherhood Entity By Ryan Mauro

The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, is proudly announcing that the U.S. military is again using their chaplains for active-duty service after a 15-year lull.

ISNA has a well-documented extremist history. In 1991, the Muslim Brotherhood listed ISNA as one of its main fronts. Declassified FBI memos said ISNA is a component of the Muslim Brotherhood, who sees its “work in America as a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”

In 2007, the U.S. government labeled ISNA a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity and an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing trial involving the Holy Land Foundation funneling money to Hamas. The label was upheld in 2009 because of “ample” evidence linking ISNA to Hamas. Last year, ISNA’s Canadian affiliate lost its status as a charity because of its accounting discrepancies and links to Pakistani terrorists.

Here’s what’s really “problematic”: The U.S. government says ISNA is a Muslim Brotherhood entity and labeled it an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism trial. That same government is using ISNA to pick military chaplains and is a top outreach partner of the U.S. government.

Read it all at Clarion.

Related:

U.S. military’s Muslim chaplains – trained & ‘vetted’ by Islamists

Air Force Recruits Chaplains From Muslim Brotherhood Front Group

DoD’s Muslim chaplain program – birthed by convicted terrorist

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Police Chief and some officers charged / King City Cal

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By MARTHA MENDOZA
Associated Press

KING CITY, Calif. (AP) - A California farming town was grappling Wednesday with a profound violation of trust after learning the acting police chief and a handful of officers were charged with selling or giving away the impounded cars of poor Hispanic residents and other crimes.

The misgivings had been building for some time. Investigators heard people - many unable to speak English - complain that police were taking their cars and money, and there was nothing they could do about it.

"I'm not at all surprised by the arrests, I'm just surprised there weren't more charges," restaurateur Vivian Villa said Wednesday in Spanish while sizzling a pan of beef in preparation for the lunch rush. "Now maybe some of them are going to feel what we feel when they target us."

Later in the day, Villa held a meeting in her little restaurant where about a dozen community members spoke out against police abuse and corruption.

Latinos account for nearly 90 percent of the community of 13,000 people tucked among fields of tomatoes, strawberries and lettuce along the Salinas River, 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.

Farm mechanics Francisco Mendez and Alfonso Perez, stopping at a taco stand before heading into work, both described being stopped frequently by police for having tinted windows or broken tail lights.

"It seems like they just want a reason to pull you over," Mendez said.

Tuesday's arrests, which also included a former police chief, came after a six-month probe of the police department launched in September when a visiting investigator - there to check out a homicide - heard from numerous sources that the community didn't trust its police department.

By this week, authorities said they had enough evidence to arrest a total of six people linked to the department for a variety of crimes ranging from bribery to making criminal threats. They were all quickly released on bail.

"Ordinary citizens, again and again, told us they didn't trust the police," said acting chief assistant Monterey County District Attorney Terry Spitz. "There are more investigations underway."

Tow shop owner Brian Miller; his brother, acting police chief Bruce Miller; and Sgt. Bobby Carillo were scheduled to be arraigned Monday on bribery charges after authorities said vehicles impounded from Hispanic immigrants were funneled to the tow yard then sold or given away.

Prosecutors said an undetermined number of vehicles were sold or given away for free when the owners couldn't pay fees to reclaim them. Two people at Miller's Towing in King City refused comment.

Former Chief Dominic David Baldiviez and Mario Alonso Mottu Sr. were set to be arraigned March 6 for embezzlement of a city-owned Crown Victoria. Officer Jaime Andrade, accused of possession of an assault weapon and illegal storage of a firearm, and officer Mark Allen Baker, accused of making criminal threats, are also slated for a March 6 arraignment.

Bruce Miller said the charges were baseless, and his family had received death threats since prosecutors disclosed details of the case. Messages for Baldiviez and Brian Miller were not immediately returned. A man who answered the phone at a listing for Baker hung up when asked about the case.

Attorney Michael Schwartz of Ontario, Calif., representing Carillo and Andrade, said it's important to hold off judgment until the evidence comes out.

City Manager Michael Powers said all but Mottu had been placed on paid leave during the investigation prior to their arrests, and that he hopes to announce a new, interim police chief on Thursday.

Fixing King City's sense of well-being is a bigger challenge.

"Obviously no one should be targeted because of race, but recent immigrants are at something of a disadvantage," Powers said. "They already fear the police. It makes them easy prey."

Powers said a community meeting would be held in two weeks to try to resolve concerns of angry citizens and those worried about the depleted police force, where 10 of the 17 sworn positions were held by Latinos.

State Sen. Bill Monning, whose district includes King City, said he was "incensed and outraged," and thanked the FBI and local authorities for their ongoing pressure.

"While I hope this is an isolated incident, I fear it is not," he said. "There continues to be situations throughout the state where the immigrant workforce is subjugated to tyranny of those abusing their authority."

County Supervisor Simon Salinas said it's going to take community oriented policing to get the town to trust authorities again.

"It's certainly going to be a black eye for King City," Salinas said.

Complaints of misconduct have been raised during the past few years in this historic, agricultural city where John Steinbeck's father settled in 1890s and met his wife. With wide streets, historic buildings and old oaks, parts of the city haven't changed much since Steinbeck wrote of King City in parts of Mice and Men and To a God Unknown.

But some said they are now afraid in the city.

"I'm not sure who is taking care of the town," said San Lorenzo Liquors store owner Myukng Hong who reopened Wednesday after closing early the night before after learning of the arrests.

At Leyva's Tow Yard, which police often bypassed with impounded cars, George Oliveros said many people in the community were aware of the investigation for months.

"In King City, a lot of people really try to stay away from the police," he said. "Cops aren't really helping the people, they focus on helping themselves."

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Associated Press writers Sudhin Thanawala, Paul Elias, Garance Burke and Channing Joseph in San Francisco also contributed to this story.

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Ukraine's New Government Faces Myriad Crises - Stratfor

 

 




Ukraine's New Government Faces Myriad Crises

February 28, 2014 | 1945 GMT

Summary

YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP/Getty Images

People stand on an armored vehicle in front of the Ukrainian Parliament at a rally in Kiev on Feb. 27.

Ukraine has a new functional government, but the various challenges facing the country present an immediate threat to its survival. Ukraine's parliament voted in a new government Feb. 27, approving an entirely new Cabinet with former opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk as prime minister. The new government fills the power vacuum left after former President Viktor Yanukovich was forced out of office and gives Ukraine a chance to address some extremely pressing issues plaguing the country. The new government probably will be unable to overcome the various crises spanning Ukraine's economic, security and political realms, and the new government likely will be short-lived in its current form. 

Analysis

One of the most pressing problems for the country is its acute financial crisis, which has brought it very close to default. Yatsenyuk has said that the new government will do everything it can to avoid a default and, to that end, would look to the West for immediate financial assistance. A delegation from the International Monetary Fund is scheduled to arrive in Kiev next week, and some form of emergency financial assistance or a stabilization package from the international lender is probably forthcoming. 

Image: Ukraine

This likely will prevent a Ukrainian default in the short term, but the country's broader financial troubles will remain. Ukraine's coffers are quickly emptying, and its currency, the hryvnia, is reaching historic lows against the dollar. The suspension of a $15 billion loan from Russia, combined with a possible reversal of the natural gas discount that Moscow offered in December 2013, will make greater financial assistance necessary for Kiev. However, a larger bailout from the West would come with conditions -- namely, painful reforms that will be very difficult for the new government to carry out. Indeed, Yatsenyuk said that unpopular decisions must be taken in regard to cutting subsidies, tariffs and social programs and that passing such measures could prove "suicidal" to the government, but nevertheless they must be carried out. 

Security Worsens in Crimea

Another pressing problem facing the new government is the security situation in the country, which remains extremely volatile. On the same day as the government's appointment, pro-Russian activists occupied the regional parliament building in Simferopol, the capital of the autonomous republic of Crimea. Crimea has long been the most Russian-oriented region of Ukraine, serving as the base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet and populated by a majority of ethnic Russians. Employing the same tactics that the anti-government EuroMaidan movement used in Kiev, several hundred armed protesters seized the building and set up barricades around the premises, over which they hoisted Russian flags. While the Ukrainian government and several Western countries condemned the move, it is unlikely they are in a position -- legally or tactically -- to do much about it.

In the meantime, Russia has been making military moves in and around the Crimean peninsula. Russia is currently holding large-scale military drills in its Western Military District, which borders part of Ukraine, and Moscow has put its fighter jets in the region on alert. Russia has also reinforced its security positions on the peninsula, and reports surfaced Feb. 27 that Russian armored personnel carriers were en route to Simferopol before returning to Russia's military base in Sevastopol. Subsequently, gunmen reportedly surrounded and took Crimea's two main airports in Sevastopol and Simferopol on Feb. 28. Ukrainian officials have said that such moves are in violation of the leasing agreement Russia has with Ukraine on its military presence in Crimea and is technically an invasion of Ukraine. These moves, combined with the reported issuance of Russian passports across Crimea, are a clear message from Russia that it could choose to take over Crimea militarily -- something that is also likely beyond the Ukrainian government's control.  

Kiev's Limitations and Strengths

In addition to the immediate economic and security problems facing the new government, there is the issue of the make-up of the government itself. The current government was assembled in an interim capacity to serve the country until presidential elections are held May 25 and parliamentary elections take place later in the year, likely in the third quarter. Three of the parliament's parties -- the Party of Regions (both current members and former members who have declared themselves independent), the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and the Communists -- are not represented, so the Cabinet is not representative of the parliament itself. In addition, the parliamentary mechanisms used to assemble this government were done without the proper legal steps. Therefore, the government does not have a strong mandate, given that it was not directly elected and that certain powers -- the least of which is Russia -- consider it to be illegitimate.

However, despite its many challenges, the government does have certain advantages. Because it is serving in an interim capacity, the government could have more leeway in passing some unpopular reforms that a more formal government would be unable to pass, especially given the immediate financial crisis facing the country. Furthermore, despite the growth of separatist rumblings in Crimea, this so far has not spread to other Russian-leaning regions in eastern Ukraine, though a rally scheduled for March 1 in Dnipropetrovsk will be key to watch for separatist sentiment.

It is notable that most parliament members from Yanukovich's Party of Regions have chosen to distance themselves from the deposed president and in fact voted overwhelmingly for the new government. It remains in their (and their oligarch backers') political and business interests to keep the country together, and the new government has so far made it clear that it will not go after most of the former ruling party, save Yanukovich and his inner circle, in exchange for their support. The Party of Regions also knows that, due to the fragility of this government, it could make a political comeback later this year as a result of the unpopular reforms needed in the more immediate term. But until that time, there will be extreme pressure on this new interim government, both internally and from Russia. 



 
 
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Who's my siblings' 'keeper'?

February 28, 2014

Who's my siblings' 'keeper'?

Ethel C. Fenig

John Hinderacker of Powerline blog clearly, and in a wonderfully politically incorrect post, blasts away the political correctness of President Barack Obama's (D) latest sexist, racist My Brother's Keeper initiative, exposing its real flaws in a way few other media people would.   

If you keep reading, however, you see that Obama doesn’t really mean “minority men,” or, as he also put it, “boys and young men of color.”

(snip) 

Chinese-Americans make more money, on the average, than white Americans, the “income gap” between Jews and Gentiles is wider than that between whites and blacks, and I believe Iranian-Americans have recently surpassed Jews as the highest income group of all. The issue here is not being a “minority.” On the contrary, if one sincerely wanted to help young African-Americans, an obvious starting point would be to ask why other Americans “of color” have done so much better.  

Oooooh, he dares point out other minorities also overcame--or just ignored--blatant discrimination and/or also learned English and have succeeded spectacularly.  Why? 

There is no mystery here. African-American men are disproportionately imprisoned because they commit an extraordinary number of crimes. They are disproportionately raised in poverty because their fathers usually don’t marry their mothers. Also, drugs. That is really all there is to it.

Obama’s theology is no better than his policy analysis. As many have noted, he himself has a brother–not a figurative “brother,” but an actual brother, the son of his father–living in poverty in Africa. But Obama, a wealthy man, has never done anything to help his own brother.

(snip) 

The moral of the story of Cain and Abel is not that people “should look out for each other,” but rather, that they should not commit murder.

(snip) 

But God’s problem with Cain was not that he failed to “keep” Abel, but rather, that he killed him. 

Agreeing with Reagan's oft stated contention that government is not the solution but government is the problem, Hinderacker concludes

The federal government is not, in my view, anyone’s “keeper.” But it has contributed to the devastation of African-Americans in many ways: by profligate welfare policies, which more than anything else have destroyed African-American families; by enforcing affirmative action, which has created the belief that advancement can be divorced from accomplishment; by suppressing school choice; by endlessly yammering about “discrimination,” long after any significant discrimination ceased to exist, which perhaps more than anything else has poisoned the ability of African-Americans to make the sort of progress that other groups, like Japanese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans, Jews, Iranian-Americans and others have made.

(snip)

Just as Cain should have simply left Abel alone, the federal government should stop worsening the condition of African-Americans through misguided policies.

Hooray!  Obamacare anyone?

John Hinderacker of Powerline blog clearly, and in a wonderfully politically incorrect post, blasts away the political correctness of President Barack Obama's (D) latest sexist, racist My Brother's Keeper initiative, exposing its real flaws in a way few other media people would.   

If you keep reading, however, you see that Obama doesn’t really mean “minority men,” or, as he also put it, “boys and young men of color.”

(snip) 

Chinese-Americans make more money, on the average, than white Americans, the “income gap” between Jews and Gentiles is wider than that between whites and blacks, and I believe Iranian-Americans have recently surpassed Jews as the highest income group of all. The issue here is not being a “minority.” On the contrary, if one sincerely wanted to help young African-Americans, an obvious starting point would be to ask why other Americans “of color” have done so much better.  

Oooooh, he dares point out other minorities also overcame--or just ignored--blatant discrimination and/or also learned English and have succeeded spectacularly.  Why? 

There is no mystery here. African-American men are disproportionately imprisoned because they commit an extraordinary number of crimes. They are disproportionately raised in poverty because their fathers usually don’t marry their mothers. Also, drugs. That is really all there is to it.

Obama’s theology is no better than his policy analysis. As many have noted, he himself has a brother–not a figurative “brother,” but an actual brother, the son of his father–living in poverty in Africa. But Obama, a wealthy man, has never done anything to help his own brother.

(snip) 

The moral of the story of Cain and Abel is not that people “should look out for each other,” but rather, that they should not commit murder.

(snip) 

But God’s problem with Cain was not that he failed to “keep” Abel, but rather, that he killed him. 

Agreeing with Reagan's oft stated contention that government is not the solution but government is the problem, Hinderacker concludes

The federal government is not, in my view, anyone’s “keeper.” But it has contributed to the devastation of African-Americans in many ways: by profligate welfare policies, which more than anything else have destroyed African-American families; by enforcing affirmative action, which has created the belief that advancement can be divorced from accomplishment; by suppressing school choice; by endlessly yammering about “discrimination,” long after any significant discrimination ceased to exist, which perhaps more than anything else has poisoned the ability of African-Americans to make the sort of progress that other groups, like Japanese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, Korean-Americans, Jews, Iranian-Americans and others have made.

(snip)

Just as Cain should have simply left Abel alone, the federal government should stop worsening the condition of African-Americans through misguided policies.

Hooray!  Obamacare anyone?


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Is Hassan Rohani a Moderate or a Ruthless Murderer?

February 28, 2014

Is Hassan Rohani a Moderate or a Ruthless Murderer?

By Manda Zand Ervin

The meetings, talks and negotiations with the new “moderate” Iranian president is continuing in Europe. President Obama and Secretary Kerry are insisting that the new moderate president of Iran will abide by the rules set by the Western powers of 5+1.  They are say he can be trusted to fight the hard-liners among the Islamic clerics in Iran and create conditions for better relations.

However, according to his background, history, and political attitude during the last 30 years, President Rohani is everything but moderate. A woman puts forward this argument from inside Iran:   

Unfortunately, it seems that Americans want to support Rouhani, and so the title of “moderate” is bestowed on him. In fact, he is far from being a new figure. We know him quite well, and his record shows that he is far from being a “moderate” who wants to make friends with America.

President Hassan Rohani has always been an anti-American hard-liner and extremely active in the Iranian hierarchy. He has been a leader in both final decision-making organizations, the Expediency Council since 1991, and the Assembly of Experts since 1999.

From 1989 to 2005, Rouhani was the Secretary General of the National Security Council of the Islamic regime. In fact, he is one of the founding members of the dreaded security and intelligence services, a brutal paramilitary force, established to crush all oppositions.

The campaign of 1991-1992 to assassinate over a hundred opposition leaders across Europe, including former Prime Minister Shapoor Bakhtiar, was carried out during his reign. The 1998, massacres of about 80 intellectuals,  known as the “chain murders,” during the presidency of the former “moderate” President Khatami took place under Mr. Rouhani’s charge of the National Security and intelligence Services.

He has been the secretary-general of the High Council on National Security who orchestrated the crushing of student revolts in 1999, killing, imprisoning, and torturing thousands of students, and ruthlessly suppressed the labor movement to establish independent trade union in 2001.

Given his very clear stance against the protesters during the 2009 post-fraudulent election uprising and the mass arrests, imprisonments, tortures and killings that ensued, it is a bitter pill for the citizens of Iran for the American government to give him the title of “moderate”.

Let us remind America that the “moderate” President Rohani’s vice president is one of the hostage takers of the American diplomats in 1979-80 and his minister of Defense is another hostage holder.

In a recent speech, Rohani demanded that agents of the national security intelligent services to be more aggressive with the people that he calls the enemies of the Islamic revolution.  During his seven months as president, there has been an execution spree around the country. Over 600 people, 28 of them women, have been executed.

They have rounded up and arrested scores of people. In addition, the so-called moderate President Rohani has ordered the arrests of a large number of activists of the independent trade unions. He has revoked the licenses of more than 20 publications and has arrested 14 magazine editors.

The hard-line stance of President Rohani has caused the United Nation’s special envoy Christophe  Haynes to warn Iran, saying; “It is deeply concerning that the government proceeds with executions for crimes that do not meet the threshold of the ‘most serious crimes’ as required by international law and when serious concerns remain about due-process rights,”.

On February 12, 2014, the UN Spokespersons for the High Commissioner on Human Rights Ravina Shamdasani and Navi Pillay reported; “…An escalation in executions, including of political prisoners and individuals belonging to ethnic minority groups, was notable in the second half of 2013. At least 500 people are known to have been executed in 2013, including 57 in public. According to some sources, the figure may be as high as 625… We are especially concerned about the reported execution in secret of Mr Hadi Rashedi and Mr Hashem Sha’bani Amouri. Their executions were reportedly carried out last month (January). The two men, were reportedly sentenced to death on ill-defined charges of… “enmity against God, corruption on earth and acts against national security”. They were allegedly denied access to a lawyer and their families for the first nine months of their detention, and reportedly subject to torture to force confessions…. We regret that the new Government has not changed its approach to the death penalty, and continue to impose capital punishment for a wide range of offences. We urge the Government to immediately halt executions and to institute a moratorium.”

As his background makes it quite clear, President Rohani is quite the opposite of a moderate, he is an extreme hard-line fundamentalist and radical Islamist. It is amazing that the U.S. and some European governments have decided to falsely present him as a moderate and a person who can act as a  stabilizing factor. This of course, is nothing but the continuation of a naïve foreign policy of Obama/Kerry duo and an economic and political coup for the other 4+1.

The meetings, talks and negotiations with the new “moderate” Iranian president is continuing in Europe. President Obama and Secretary Kerry are insisting that the new moderate president of Iran will abide by the rules set by the Western powers of 5+1.  They are say he can be trusted to fight the hard-liners among the Islamic clerics in Iran and create conditions for better relations.

However, according to his background, history, and political attitude during the last 30 years, President Rohani is everything but moderate. A woman puts forward this argument from inside Iran:   

Unfortunately, it seems that Americans want to support Rouhani, and so the title of “moderate” is bestowed on him. In fact, he is far from being a new figure. We know him quite well, and his record shows that he is far from being a “moderate” who wants to make friends with America.

President Hassan Rohani has always been an anti-American hard-liner and extremely active in the Iranian hierarchy. He has been a leader in both final decision-making organizations, the Expediency Council since 1991, and the Assembly of Experts since 1999.

From 1989 to 2005, Rouhani was the Secretary General of the National Security Council of the Islamic regime. In fact, he is one of the founding members of the dreaded security and intelligence services, a brutal paramilitary force, established to crush all oppositions.

The campaign of 1991-1992 to assassinate over a hundred opposition leaders across Europe, including former Prime Minister Shapoor Bakhtiar, was carried out during his reign. The 1998, massacres of about 80 intellectuals,  known as the “chain murders,” during the presidency of the former “moderate” President Khatami took place under Mr. Rouhani’s charge of the National Security and intelligence Services.

He has been the secretary-general of the High Council on National Security who orchestrated the crushing of student revolts in 1999, killing, imprisoning, and torturing thousands of students, and ruthlessly suppressed the labor movement to establish independent trade union in 2001.

Given his very clear stance against the protesters during the 2009 post-fraudulent election uprising and the mass arrests, imprisonments, tortures and killings that ensued, it is a bitter pill for the citizens of Iran for the American government to give him the title of “moderate”.

Let us remind America that the “moderate” President Rohani’s vice president is one of the hostage takers of the American diplomats in 1979-80 and his minister of Defense is another hostage holder.

In a recent speech, Rohani demanded that agents of the national security intelligent services to be more aggressive with the people that he calls the enemies of the Islamic revolution.  During his seven months as president, there has been an execution spree around the country. Over 600 people, 28 of them women, have been executed.

They have rounded up and arrested scores of people. In addition, the so-called moderate President Rohani has ordered the arrests of a large number of activists of the independent trade unions. He has revoked the licenses of more than 20 publications and has arrested 14 magazine editors.

The hard-line stance of President Rohani has caused the United Nation’s special envoy Christophe  Haynes to warn Iran, saying; “It is deeply concerning that the government proceeds with executions for crimes that do not meet the threshold of the ‘most serious crimes’ as required by international law and when serious concerns remain about due-process rights,”.

On February 12, 2014, the UN Spokespersons for the High Commissioner on Human Rights Ravina Shamdasani and Navi Pillay reported; “…An escalation in executions, including of political prisoners and individuals belonging to ethnic minority groups, was notable in the second half of 2013. At least 500 people are known to have been executed in 2013, including 57 in public. According to some sources, the figure may be as high as 625… We are especially concerned about the reported execution in secret of Mr Hadi Rashedi and Mr Hashem Sha’bani Amouri. Their executions were reportedly carried out last month (January). The two men, were reportedly sentenced to death on ill-defined charges of… “enmity against God, corruption on earth and acts against national security”. They were allegedly denied access to a lawyer and their families for the first nine months of their detention, and reportedly subject to torture to force confessions…. We regret that the new Government has not changed its approach to the death penalty, and continue to impose capital punishment for a wide range of offences. We urge the Government to immediately halt executions and to institute a moratorium.”

As his background makes it quite clear, President Rohani is quite the opposite of a moderate, he is an extreme hard-line fundamentalist and radical Islamist. It is amazing that the U.S. and some European governments have decided to falsely present him as a moderate and a person who can act as a  stabilizing factor. This of course, is nothing but the continuation of a naïve foreign policy of Obama/Kerry duo and an economic and political coup for the other 4+1.


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The History of the World in Three Flags

February 28, 2014

The History of the World in Three Flags

By Robert Klein Engler

 

You may learn much about a nation, its past and future, by looking at its flag. Beyond that, flags not only tell us about nations, but they also tell us something about the significance of Western Civilization and what that civilization means to mankind.

 

The ideals of individuality and freedom valued by the ancient Greeks, and the belief in one God who created the universe that comes to us from ancient Israel, are two pillars of Western Civilization. These pillars have held up nations over the course of history. Today, one nation that represents these values in its flag is the United States of America.

 

Nevertheless, there are other visions at work in the world that stand against Western values. The two most significant threats today to Western Civilization are a vision of a bloody and polytheistic past, and an atheistic and materialistic future. These visions are symbolized in the flags of Mexico and the People’s Republic of China.

The flag of the People’s Republic of China is a red field with five golden stars. The flag was adopted in 1949. The red represents the communist revolution. The five stars and their relationship represent the unity of the social classes (not individuals) of the Chinese people: the Workers, Peasants, Petty Bourgeoisie, and National Bourgeoisie. These social classes are united under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (the largest star).

The flag of the People’s Republic of China embodies the ideals of Marxism, a failed ideology created in the West from the worn out fabric of anti-Semitism, and then exported to the East. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China everyone becomes a slave to the state.

A metaphor that describes the People’s Republic of China comes to us from science fiction. The film and TV series "Star Trek" introduced viewers to an alien race of cybernetic organisms called the Borg.

The Borg traveled through the universe in a cube shaped vessel absorbing and assimilating whatever civilizations they found into their hive mind. It is not a great leap to go from the Borg to Communist China, and the Chinese vision of the future: We are China. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

The flag of the People’s Republic of China

If the Chinese flag represents a human future where individuality is submerged in a one party state, the Mexican flag represents a racial past of barbaric cruelty, where the cult of death dominates.

Bandera de Los Estados Unidos de Mexico

Adopted in its present form in 1968, the central emblem on the flag is the Aztec pictogram for Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). The symbol of an eagle holding a snake in its talons while perched on a prickly pear cactus recalls the legend that inspired the Aztecs to settle on what was originally an island in the middle of a lake.

The anthropologist Marvin Harris maintains that the Aztec empire was the world's only state-sponsored cannibal kingdom. Some anthropologists disagree with Harris’s classification, but few deny the fact the Aztec gods ate human hearts and the Aztec people ate human beings, a theme explored in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green.

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Aztecs built an empire in central Mexico by using oppressive military power. They ruled with cruelty and imposed gruesome myths on the people they conquered.

It is estimated that the population of central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest was about 25 million, with 250,000 people sacrificed yearly at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. That’s an average of about 40 people a day, or about 2 an hour.

The eagle and serpent on the Mexican flag are not neutral symbols like the Canadian maple leaf.  They are reminders of a bloody past and the possibility of a bloody future. Beyond that, the symbols on the Mexican flag, like the symbolism of the Chinese flag, represent cultural values at odds with Western Civilization.

The Flag of the United States of America

The flag of the United States of America has a basic shape of stars on a blue union with red and white horizontal stripes that represent the 13 British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776. The flag of the United States, sometimes called the Stars and Stripes, has changed over the years as more stars were added to the blue union to represent new states.

Robert G. Heft designed the present U.S. flag with 50 stars in 1958. He was 17 years old at the time. Heft designed the flag as a high school class project while living with his grandparents in Ohio.

The flag of the United States of America is a symbol that points beyond the colors, the stars and the stripes. That beyond is not often apparent to those who live outside the circle of Western Civilization. Nevertheless, for many Americans that beyond is something felt, if not always put into words.

Although continuing efforts have been made, even today, to deny or submerge the classical Greek, Christian, and Judaic foundations of the United States of America, these efforts have always met with resistance. When you consider the flag of the United States of America and the pledge that attends it, “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” the flag’s association with the ancient ideals of Western Civilization become apparent.

Cultures do not change much over time. Herodotus would see in China today the same slave mentality he saw as the Persian generals beat their soldiers into battle against the free Greeks. Likewise, Cortez would see in the Mexican drug cartels the same worship of death he saw in the flayed and dismembered bodies that tumbled down the bloodsoaked steps of the Aztec temples at Tenochtitlan.

From Voltaire to Marx, from Montezuma to Stalin, from Pol Pot to our present-day progressives and beyond, many have tried to dismiss the aspirations embodied in the flags of Western Civilization. Yet, flags are often like poems; they go beyond reason to human emotions where they are long lasting, to the dismay of the cultural relativizers who live among us like crystal ghosts.

Flags lift up the particulars of a nation and show us something universal. Flags remind us that for Western Civilization, the natural state of man is to be free from a barbaric past that worships death (Mexico) and a collective future that obliterates individuality (China).

How long the flag of the United States of America will continue to fly remains to be seen. The flag may be already at half-mast. Western Civilization seems to be in retreat. The future will belong to the Borg and the Soylent Green Corporation.

For now, some men and nations, even some Americans, are confounded by the liberty and justice for all seen in the rippling Stars and Stripes. They know that for the time being the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob stands behind that banner and they hate it.

You may learn much about a nation, its past and future, by looking at its flag. Beyond that, flags not only tell us about nations, but they also tell us something about the significance of Western Civilization and what that civilization means to mankind.

The ideals of individuality and freedom valued by the ancient Greeks, and the belief in one God who created the universe that comes to us from ancient Israel, are two pillars of Western Civilization. These pillars have held up nations over the course of history. Today, one nation that represents these values in its flag is the United States of America.

Nevertheless, there are other visions at work in the world that stand against Western values. The two most significant threats today to Western Civilization are a vision of a bloody and polytheistic past, and an atheistic and materialistic future. These visions are symbolized in the flags of Mexico and the People’s Republic of China.

The flag of the People’s Republic of China is a red field with five golden stars. The flag was adopted in 1949. The red represents the communist revolution. The five stars and their relationship represent the unity of the social classes (not individuals) of the Chinese people: the Workers, Peasants, Petty Bourgeoisie, and National Bourgeoisie. These social classes are united under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (the largest star).

The flag of the People’s Republic of China embodies the ideals of Marxism, a failed ideology created in the West from the worn out fabric of anti-Semitism, and then exported to the East. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China everyone becomes a slave to the state.

A metaphor that describes the People’s Republic of China comes to us from science fiction. The film and TV series "Star Trek" introduced viewers to an alien race of cybernetic organisms called the Borg.

The Borg traveled through the universe in a cube shaped vessel absorbing and assimilating whatever civilizations they found into their hive mind. It is not a great leap to go from the Borg to Communist China, and the Chinese vision of the future: We are China. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

The flag of the People’s Republic of China

If the Chinese flag represents a human future where individuality is submerged in a one party state, the Mexican flag represents a racial past of barbaric cruelty, where the cult of death dominates.

Bandera de Los Estados Unidos de Mexico

Adopted in its present form in 1968, the central emblem on the flag is the Aztec pictogram for Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City). The symbol of an eagle holding a snake in its talons while perched on a prickly pear cactus recalls the legend that inspired the Aztecs to settle on what was originally an island in the middle of a lake.

The anthropologist Marvin Harris maintains that the Aztec empire was the world's only state-sponsored cannibal kingdom. Some anthropologists disagree with Harris’s classification, but few deny the fact the Aztec gods ate human hearts and the Aztec people ate human beings, a theme explored in the 1973 science fiction film Soylent Green.

Before the arrival of the Spaniards, the Aztecs built an empire in central Mexico by using oppressive military power. They ruled with cruelty and imposed gruesome myths on the people they conquered.

It is estimated that the population of central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest was about 25 million, with 250,000 people sacrificed yearly at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. That’s an average of about 40 people a day, or about 2 an hour.

The eagle and serpent on the Mexican flag are not neutral symbols like the Canadian maple leaf.  They are reminders of a bloody past and the possibility of a bloody future. Beyond that, the symbols on the Mexican flag, like the symbolism of the Chinese flag, represent cultural values at odds with Western Civilization.

The Flag of the United States of America

The flag of the United States of America has a basic shape of stars on a blue union with red and white horizontal stripes that represent the 13 British colonies that declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1776. The flag of the United States, sometimes called the Stars and Stripes, has changed over the years as more stars were added to the blue union to represent new states.

Robert G. Heft designed the present U.S. flag with 50 stars in 1958. He was 17 years old at the time. Heft designed the flag as a high school class project while living with his grandparents in Ohio.

The flag of the United States of America is a symbol that points beyond the colors, the stars and the stripes. That beyond is not often apparent to those who live outside the circle of Western Civilization. Nevertheless, for many Americans that beyond is something felt, if not always put into words.

Although continuing efforts have been made, even today, to deny or submerge the classical Greek, Christian, and Judaic foundations of the United States of America, these efforts have always met with resistance. When you consider the flag of the United States of America and the pledge that attends it, “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all,” the flag’s association with the ancient ideals of Western Civilization become apparent.

Cultures do not change much over time. Herodotus would see in China today the same slave mentality he saw as the Persian generals beat their soldiers into battle against the free Greeks. Likewise, Cortez would see in the Mexican drug cartels the same worship of death he saw in the flayed and dismembered bodies that tumbled down the bloodsoaked steps of the Aztec temples at Tenochtitlan.

From Voltaire to Marx, from Montezuma to Stalin, from Pol Pot to our present-day progressives and beyond, many have tried to dismiss the aspirations embodied in the flags of Western Civilization. Yet, flags are often like poems; they go beyond reason to human emotions where they are long lasting, to the dismay of the cultural relativizers who live among us like crystal ghosts.

Flags lift up the particulars of a nation and show us something universal. Flags remind us that for Western Civilization, the natural state of man is to be free from a barbaric past that worships death (Mexico) and a collective future that obliterates individuality (China).

How long the flag of the United States of America will continue to fly remains to be seen. The flag may be already at half-mast. Western Civilization seems to be in retreat. The future will belong to the Borg and the Soylent Green Corporation.

For now, some men and nations, even some Americans, are confounded by the liberty and justice for all seen in the rippling Stars and Stripes. They know that for the time being the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob stands behind that banner and they hate it.


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