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October 18, 2013 by John DeMayo

Obama's Pentagon to Sell Advanced Weapons Systems to His Islamist Allies

Via FOP:
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/obamas-pentagon-sell-advanced-weapons-systems-islamist-allies/

Last week, when the US government was shut down for lack of money, the Department of Defense informed the US Congress about its plans to deliver 10 billion dollars of US weapons hardware to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In case you have forgotten, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates just happen to be two of the world's top Sunni financiers of global terror.

The US weapons systems slated for delivery include bunker buster bombs, sophisticated Boeing made Standoff Land Attack Extended Range (SLAM-ER) bombs and Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapons (JSOW) cruise missiles. These weapons systems ---for the first time in history---will provide Sunni Islamist monarchies US made F-15's and F-16's with the power to destroy ground targets from as far away as 100 kilometers.

There is no denying that prior to 911, Sunni Islamists (Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE) were long time customers of the US Defense establishment. After Islamist financed Al- Qaeda terrorists attacked America on September 11, 2001, the Bush administration, understandably scaled back its defense department contracts with Saudi Arabia and other countries long suspected of providing financial support to Islamist terror. Since 2010, President Obama's Department of Defense has eagerly pursued---with little opposition from Congress---new historic Middle Eastern arms deals.

If you are wondering why the Republicans and Democrats---who have 30 days to protest this deal---will more than likely acquiesce to Defense Secretary Chuck Hegel's plan, look no further than Boeing and Raytheon.

Since the last election cycle, Boeing donated $3.46 million and Raytheon gifted $3.53 million dollars to the campaign funds and PACS maintained by both Democrat and Republican candidates. In 2012, Boeing spent 15.6 million dollars and Raytheon invested 7.4 million dollars to lobby our elected representatives in Washington D.C.

According to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) ---supposedly founded on a tradition of cooperation between the United States and other sovereign nations with similar values and interests---the weapons shipment to these Gulf States "will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by improving the security of friendly countries that remain forces for stability."

Like most Americans, I am a little confused about US Foreign policy "goals of stability" versus the violent realities the Obama/Clinton foreign policy has shown in the Gulf region. I am also concerned about our only true ally in the Gulf region, Israel.

Washington would like America to believe that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates require these weapons to aid the United States in isolating Iran's unfriendly nuclear ambitions. This is the same Washington drivel that attempted to lead us into another war to support the Saudi backed Al Qaeda affiliated Al Nusrah Front rebels overthrow of Bashir Assad's Syrian regime.

US foreign policy, both the Bush and Obama foreign policy, has done little to discourage Iran's nuclear weapons development program. Now the US Department of Defense is planning to arm Gulf States (known supporters of Islamist terror) in order to provide stability in a region that grows increasingly more unstable because of ISLAMIST TERROR. This is like arming the Zeta cartel to provide stability in Mexico's drug wars that are spilling over into US Border States and beyond.

Does the US Congress intend to support the arming of Gulf state governments responsible for financing past-unprovoked attacks on Americans here and abroad?

Clearly, the boys and girls in Washington know better than to allow this to happen. Then again, with the 2014 election right around the corner and defense contractor money pouring into Washington like illegal immigrants flowing to US entitlement programs, my guess is this Gulf states weapons transfer is already done deal.

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English Taxi Driver Accused of "Breaching Equality Laws"
For Having English Flag Sticker On Her Cab

(Holy SH!T... G-d help us if we get to the point the UK has reached, where their own flag is considered racist and... wait a minute...  it has already happened in Californication.  There have been stories there about homeowner associations that have prevented people flying American flags on their own property.  By the time the Left is through... if they are allowed to keep going... all signs and symbols of Western Culture will have been deemed racist and destroyed.  And the UK isn't anything like it was the 2 years I spent there.  What a freaking shame)

Via Daily Express:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/437673/Council-killjoys-ban-taxi-driver-from-having-St-George-s-Cross-on-cab-for-discrimination

A TAXI taxi driver has been banned from having a St George's Cross sticker in her cab –because it could discriminate against foreigners.

Patriotic Denise Said, 56, has three English flag signs stuck on the doors and boot of her vehicle.

But after one complaint from a rival cab firm she was stunned to receive a letter from the council accusing her of breaching equality laws.

Teignbridge Council in Devon said the stickers would leave anyone who is not English at a "disadvantage in their day to day life".

The local authority says it will refuse to renew Denise's license in February unless she ditches the stickers.

But the veteran driver of Newton Abbott, Devon, has vowed to keep flying the flag and says there's nothing offensive about them.

Furious Denise said: "I think it's pathetic. I believe the council is implying that I am racist but nothing could be further from the truth.

"I've had a few foreign people in my cab and I've asked them if they find it offensive and they don't in the slightest. In fact, one told me 'your country has gone mad'.

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Report:

Huge Spike In Number of Western And Caucasus Jihadists Entering Syria To Fight Assad Regime

(Thanks to Obuma's response :
'Flood Syria with US weapons and they'll come.'
Brilliant!)

BERLIN –
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report-Spike-of-Western-Caucasus-jihadists-enter-Syria-329193
France's intelligence service reported a significant spike in the number of jihadists who travelled to Syria to fight against President Bashar Assad's regime, according to a report in the daily Le Monde.

John R. Schindler, a professor of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, analyzed the report on his blog The XX Committee, saying "A detailed new report in the Parisian daily Le Monde, based on sources inside France's foreign intelligence service, paints a dire portrait of the rising number of Westerners going to wage jihad in Syria."

The report on Wednesday stated that jihadists from Western and Caucasus countries vastly increased the number of entry points into to Syria since the summer. It said that the civil war represents a "power of attraction" for radical Islamists.

"Nothing like it has ever been seen before, even for Afghanistan," said a senior French intelligence official.

Schindler, a leading US expert on counterterrorism, wrote based on Le Monde's report, "France is a major source, with the number of French nationals in Syria having doubled just since May, with some 400 in various forms of transit and over 200 actually in Syria as of the beginning of October."

Fresh groups of jihadists are travelling from Chechnya to Syria. Two transit points have been identified in Europe.

Austria's capital, Vienna, has served as a major transit hub for Caucasus jihadists who work their way from the central European country to Turkey and into Syria. According to French intelligence, Chechen Islamists are using Nice, where there is a Chechen community of more than 10,000 in southern France to travel to Turkey and into Syria.

The Jerusalem Post learned of an al-Qaida member affiliated with the ISIS group from Iraq who used the Turkish city of Gaziantep in late September as an entry point into Syria.

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Big Apple Takes No Bite Out Of Obamacare... Yet!

Et Tu Bloombergus?!  From what I understand is the reason that nobody's actually been enrolled in NY yet is because the state hasn't sent the applications in yet, out of concerns that the data is corrupted:

"But the state has repeatedly delayed electronically transmitting those users' data to insurers offering health plans.  The department, which held off in order to verify the accuracy of the information users submitted, said it would transfer the first batch of enrollees' data — which includes thousands of transactions — as early as Friday night.  Meanwhile, insurers were worried that the state website had incorrect information on details of plans that are available.")


Via NY Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-deems-health-glitches-unacceptable-gop-calls-obamacare-doa-article-1.1491281

In New York, one of only 16 states that has its own exchange, not one person had succeeded in using the site to enroll in a plan as of Friday.

Donna Frescatore, director of the New York State of Health marketplace, said Friday that 134,000 people had registered and shopped on the state's online health care site since its Oct. 1 launch, and thousands signed up to enroll in a plan.

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Obama Plans To Share Everything With Verizon

(Share all our medical data plan?  I didn't think Verizon was that stupid.... I don't believe it.  What about the NSA? *Snort* *Snort*)

Via USA Today:
The international telecommunications company Verizon has been tasked with helping the government fix the federal health exchange, USA TODAY has learned.

An informed source in the telecommunications industry said Verizon's Enterprise Solutions division has been asked by the Department of Health and Human Services to improve the performance of the HealthCare.gov site, which is a key component of the Affordable Care Act. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement had not been made official.

HHS office said Sunday the department would reach outside its government contractors to civilian companies that might be able to solve HealthCare.gov's problems more quickly.

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State of Oklahoma to Change Name to Abovetexas, AT

10/22/2013

Dateline Abovetexas City, AT -

With the current controversy surrounding the name of the Washington Redskins, the state of Oklahoma announced today that it will be proactively changing its name to Abovetexas.

"Many people don't realize that "Oklahoma" is actually Choctaw for "Land of the Red People," stated official Native American representative Juan Pendejo, a white Hispanic person of Native American heritage, who is, incidentally, a cousin of United States Senator Elizabeth Warren.

Mr. Pendejo elaborated, "It's time that we as Americans, regardless of our particular hyphenations, stop insulting people of other races, creeds, and religions - except, of course, for Judaism and Christianity, which, hey, we all know suck."

The state of Texas did not return our calls, but rumor has it that their initial response was that "Nothing is above Texas."

[...]

Don't forget Utah, named after the Utes. They are highly offended by a state being named after them.

Incidentally, the University of Utah went through the same thing as WSU a few years ago. A friend of mine had his dad, from the Ute tribe, sitting on the council that was looking to change the U of U's mascot because it might be offensive to Native Americans.

His response to the council was this:
"I'm sick of white people telling me what offends me."

The mascot is still the Ute.

[...]

And what about Indiana:

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HHS Chief 'Creepy' Sebelius Falsely Claims "Extremely High"
Website Traffic Responsible For Obamacare Failure

(Lies, lies, and more lies)

Via CNN:

She noted how Tuesday, a team of high-tech experts from within the government and from Silicon Valley, and led by Jeff Zients — a former CEO and acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, who will oversee the process for the next few months — are coming in to address the issues.

Why weren't they brought in before the website launched October 1?

"We have hoped that they had their 'A-Team' on the table," Sebelius said in response. As to now, "We want new eyes and ears. We want to make sure that we get all the questions on the table, that we get all the answers and accelerator the fix as quickly as possible."

The secretary attributed some of the problems to "extremely high" volume, claiming nearly 20 million people have come to the Obamacare website in the first three weeks after its launched. Yet only a fraction of those have signed up for new health care policies.

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Three Scum Buckets Caught On Tape Desecrating
American Flag On A Veteran's Porch

(I can't write how I feel about this.  Just watch the video)

Via CBS:
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/10/22/veteran-wants-flag-vandals-to-take-responsibility-for-crime/

Plano veteran Larry Lorance always has a flag flying at his home. And he's fed up with having to replace it.

Lorance's front door flag was destroyed for the third time early Friday morning. He says his verbal response to the attack isn't fit for publication; but, he thought 'my gosh, they did it again.'

"A lot of men and women gave their lives for this flag," he said sternly, adding that, "as an American, and as a veteran, I was offended by that."

After the second flag was destroyed, Lorance installed a surveillance system and sure enough the culprits were captured on video. And he says the incident went beyond damage—he was appalled at the disrespect.  http://www.fireengines.net/flag/

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Dem Rep. Henry 'Pig Snout' Waxman...

....Blames Private Sector For Obumacare Rollout Disaster

'Pig Snout' is one deranged individual

Via Free Beacon:
http://freebeacon.com/waxman-claims-private-sector-responsible-for-obamacare-glitches/

KIRSTEN WELKER: Congressman, just very quickly, yes or no, should Secretary Sebelius keep her job?
HENRY WAXMAN: Absolutely. There's no reason for her not to continue on as secretary. She's done a terrific job. I have a great deal of confidence in her. She doesn't know about all technicalities. That was contracted out to the private sector, the private sector with all the money they got couldn't get it. If anybody's head should roll, it should be the contractors who didn't live up to their contractual responsibilities.

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WH Official Fired For Tweeting Nasty Things About Valerie Jarrett And Others

Via The Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/22/white-house-official-fired-for-tweeting-under-fake-name1.html

A White House national security official was fired last week after being caught as the mystery Tweeter who has been tormenting the foreign policy community with insulting comments and revealing internal Obama administration information for over two years.

Jofi Joseph, a director in the non-proliferation section of the National Security Staff at the White House, has been surreptitiously tweeting under the moniker @natsecwonk, a Twitter feed famous inside Washington policy circles since it began in February, 2011 until it was shut down last week.

Two administration officials confirmed that the mystery tweeter was Joseph, who has also worked at the State Department and on Capitol Hill for Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Joe Biden. Until recently, he was part of the administration's team working on negotiations with Iran.