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Report: Iran May Send 4,000 Revolutionary Guard Troops To Fight For The Assad Regime In Syria

(This oughta be fun... Don't they look cute.. matching hats, scarfs, little red flag thingys sticking out of their weapons.  Off to see Allah they go... marching two and marching fro... come rain, come snow... They march along together.  Hup! 2.. 3.. 4.. off to meet the slimey gore.)
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Via Ynet:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4392729,00.html

Iran has decided to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion, The Independent reported Sunday.

The British newspaper quoted pro-Iranian sources "which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security" as saying that Tehran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel.

According to the report, Iran reached the decision to send the troops before last week's presidential election.

According to The Independent, Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels has "plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region."

For the first time, the British newspaper said, all of America's 'friends' in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. "Breaking all President Obama's rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East," The Independent said in its report.

[Warph]

(What Could Possibly Go Wrong?  Lessee now... Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, Hezbolleh, Al Qaeda, and now Obama in the mix, could WWIII be far behind?)

Saudi Arabia To Supply Islamist Rebels In Syria With Shoulder-Fired Anti-Aircraft Missiles

The most likely recipient being the salafi jihadist group Ahrar al-Sham, who works closely with al-Nusra Front.

(AFP) - Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles to counter President Bashar al-Assad's air force, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday.

The article, citing a classified report received by the German foreign intelligence service and the German government last week, said Riyadh was looking at sending European-made Mistral-class MANPADS, or man-portable air-defence systems.

Der Spiegel noted the shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles can target low-flying aircraft including helicopters and had given mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan a decisive edge against Soviet troops in the 1980s.

Saudi Arabia is a key supporter of the Syrian rebels and has long advocated providing them with better weaponry.

[Warph]

Eric Holder has been an excellent attorney general

THE LETTER
in support of AG Eric Holder

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/holder-letter.pdf

American Citizens need confidence in their government, from the President to the Congress to the Supreme Court, and down to those who run federal agencies.  If we cannot trust the nation's top cop to do his job and know what is going on around him, to apply justice in a fair and impartial manner devoid of politics, to have integrity, then we have a big problem.  And the DOJ under Holder has been heavily politicized.  Holder shouldn't be allowed to resign, he should be fired. Or impeached.  He darned sure hasn't been an excellent AG, and none of the people who signed the letter saying he has been super mega awesome, all Democrats, can give reasons beyond writing "showed Holder to be a leader with excellent judgment and an unwavering commitment to do the right thing without regard for partisan preferences."  One would think that all these lawyers could provide a bit more evidence of Holder's super mega awesomeness beyond that while attempting to defend Holder.  BTW... Unsurprisingly, the authors of the letter to the editor served under Holder.



Let's consider:

**Holder blowing off and ending the New Black Panthers voter intimidation issue
**All the agencies involved with Fast and Furious, including the DOJ at the top, were run with Holder as the boss, yet he knew nothing, and stonewalled, and is still stonewalling, Congress. Not too mention the hundreds of dead Mexican citizens and 2 US federal agents
**Revealed the identities of 9 CIA interrogators.
**His departments spying on the AP, and he knew nothing
**Spying on James Rosen and people associated with him, forgetting that he signed off on the warrant, and still he knew nothing
**Retaliation against whistleblowers, who he is supposed to protect as the nation's top cop
**Going after Arizona and other states that passed immigration tightening laws (and admitting he never read the massive 10 page Arizona law), while simultaneously ignoring sanctuary cities which blow off federal law
**Failing to apply federal law to Colorado and their legalization of marijuana, a federal Schedule I drug
**Lawsuits against states which violate the 10th amendment
**The aforementioned prosecutorial misconduct in the Ted Stevens case.
**The FBI comes under the DOJ: what took them to get so long to Benghazi?
**As the nation's top cop, being head of the DOJ, his seemingly inability to have any knowledge as to what goes on in the DOJ, which is known as "incompetence".
**And more... much more!

Holder needs to go...PERIOD!...end of story!!

...Warph

[Warph]

June 14th is Flag Day. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened 236 years ago on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

American Flag 1861

In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, a man named George Morris persuaded his city of Hartford, Conn., to undertake a patriotic celebration on behalf of the Union. But the concept didn't catch on, there or elsewhere.

Two decades later, in 1885, a 19-year-old Waubeka schoolteacher named Bernard Cigrand plunked a small flag into an inkwell on his desk and assigned his students to write essays on patriotism. Later he traveled the country to promote respect for the flag, becoming president of the American Flag Day Association.

In 1888, William Kerr, son of a Civil War veteran, founded the American Flag Day Association of Western Pennsylvania, pressing presidents and legislators to make Flag Day official. In his home town of Rennersdale, near Pittsburgh, a historical marker honors Kerr as the "Father of Flag Day."

In 1889, New York City principal George Bolch had his school hold patriotic ceremonies to observe the day. State officials later expanded the program. In 1893, Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, head of the Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania, worked to have public buildings in Philadelphia display flags - an effort that led one federal office to credit Philadelphia as Flag Day's original home.

Still, Flag Day struggled for official respect. It wasn't until 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson issued a wishy-washy proclamation to "suggest and request. . . if possible" that people observe Flag Day. Thirty-three years later, in 1949, President Harry S. Truman signed an act passed by Congress  naming Flag Day as the 14th.

Today Saluting the Flag or even being patriotic seems to some corny or even jingoistic, but when America is challenged we pull together as these Boston Red Sox Fans did the first game after the Marathon Bombing.

Ten Things You May Not Know About the American Flag:

1. The flag predates the Constitution. The flag was authorized by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The motion read, "Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white: that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." The Constitution was written 10 years after that and ratified in 1789.


2. What's the deal with Betsy Ross? Historians are still debating Betsy's role in designing the first flag, but she recounted that she was asked to sew the flag by her fellow churchgoer, George Washington. Ross had also done some seamstress work for Washington. You can read the debates online,  but here's what the historic marker in front of her house says: "Credited with making the first stars and stripes flag, Ross was a successful upholsterer. She produced flags for the government for over 50 years. As a skilled artisan, Ross represents the many women who supported their families during the Revolution and early Republic."


3. What exactly is a vexillologist? A vexillologist is a flag expert. It's a relatively new word, coming into use in 1959. According to the North American Vexillological Association, there are currently no degrees offered on the subject.


4. Who approves design changes in the flag? Congress and the president have ordered design changes in the past to accommodate the addition of new states. President James Monroe and Congress agreed in 1818 that there should be 13 stripes as well as one star for each state in the Union.


5. Who decides the rules for flag etiquette? It's in the federal code as Chapter 1 of Title 4. The law also includes the approved text of the Pledge of Allegiance. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/chapter-1


6. Where outside the United States can you see the flag continuously 24 hours a day? There are five American flags flying on the moon, thanks to the Apollo astronauts. You may not be able to see markings on them, though; they have mostly likely turned white over the years.


7. Which flag had the snake on it? You've probably seen the yellow flag with a coiled rattlesnake and the motto "Don't Tread On Me." This is the Gadsden flag, named after its designer, General Christopher Gadsden. The flag was used in the Revolutionary War. There are other variations of the flag with rattlesnakes and versions of the motto. Benjamin Franklin was one of the originators of the snake as an American political symbol, in a famous 1754 political cartoon.


8. Where was the first flag flown outside the U.S. in a military action? It was first flown over the shores of Tripoli. The Marines were involved in military actions against the Barbary pirates and after they hit the shore, they raised the Stars and Stripes. After the Battle of Derne in 1805, the flag was raised on foreign soil for the first time after a battle.


9. What is Francis Scott Key's flag connection? Key witnessed the American flag flying after a British attack on Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814, while he was a guest on a British ship as he negotiated for the return of American prisoners. His experience inspired him to write a poem, "Defence of Fort McHenry." After it was published, Key matched it up with music from a popular British tune, which eventually became "The Star-Spangled Banner," our national anthem. By the way, if "vexillology" wasn't enough fun, here's another one: the act of adding new lyrics to an existing song is called "contrafactum."


10. What's the biggest American flag? It's so big you can't fly it, but the "Superflag" conceived of by the late Thomas Demski measures 505 by 225 feet and weighs 3,000 pounds. It takes 600 people to unfurl. Each star is 17 feet high. Bonus fact: The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia has its own giant American flag on display in its Grand Hall Overlook, surrounded by the flags of all the U.S. states and territories and with the iconic Independence Hall in the background. The flag has flown over the capitals of all 50 states and was hung by Muhammad Ali in a special Flag Day ceremony on June 14, 2003, when the museum opened.
http://www.superflag.com/about.html

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Well, isn't that convenient?  At the moment when the Obuma administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war.  Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi, NSA snooping or any of the other political scandals that have popped up in recent weeks.  As if on cue, Obuma made headlines all over the globe on Thursday by claiming that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against the rebels "multiple times", and that the U.S. was now ready to do more to assist the rebels.  That assistance is reportedly going to include "military support" for the rebels and a no-fly zone over at least part of Syria is being discussed.  Without a doubt, these are acts of war, and this conflict is not going to end until Assad has been ousted.  But Assad will not go quietly.  And all it would take is for Assad to fire a couple of missiles at Tel Aviv for a huge regional war to erupt in the Middle East.  And what happens if Russia or China decides to get involved in the conflict in Syria?  Obuma is playing with fire, but he has shown again and again that he is willing to do virtually anything if it will benefit him politically.

...Warph

Is POS Obuma Starting A War With Syria Just To
Distract Us From All The Obuma Scandals 

As far as the Obama administration is concerned, there is no such thing as a coincidence.  The timing of this announcement regarding Syria was not an accident.  If Obama wanted to use chemical weapons as an excuse to go after Syria he could have done it weeks ago, or he could have waited several more months before taking action.  He chose to do it right now for a reason, and hopefully the American people will be able to see right through this.

So exactly what are we going to be doing for the Syrian rebels?  Well, we will definitely be arming them and training them.  And it is probably reasonable to assume that there will be American "advisers" on the ground inside Syria helping to organize the Syrian resistance.  In fact, according to Debka, a large U.S. Marine force has already been deployed to the Jordanian border with Syria.

In addition, according to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. aircraft may be involved in enforcing a no-fly zone inside Syria...[/b]

A U.S. military proposal for arming Syrian rebels also calls for a limited no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced from Jordanian territory to protect Syrian refugees and rebels who would train there, according to U.S. officials.

Asked by the White House to develop options for Syria, military planners have said that creating an area to train and equip rebel forces would require keeping Syrian aircraft well away from the Jordanian border.

To do that, the military envisages creating a no-fly zone stretching up to 25 miles into Syria which would be enforced using aircraft flown from Jordanian bases and flying inside the kingdom, according to U.S. officials.
No matter how you slice it, the United States is now in a state of war with Syria.  The only question is how "involved" we are going to get.

And several prominent Republicans are already rushing forward to applaud Barack Obama on this latest move.  The following comes from a CBS News report...

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who met with the rebels last month and has been a vocal critic of the president's Syria policy said in a joint statement with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.: "We appreciate the President's finding that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on several occasions. We also agree with the President that this fact must affect U.S. policy toward Syria. The President's red line has been crossed. U.S. credibility is on the line. Now is not the time to merely take the next incremental step. Now is the time for more decisive actions."

But you know what?  Many of these Syrian rebels have actually pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The whole point of the "war on terror" was to supposedly fight al-Qaeda, but now the U.S. military is allied with them.

Why in the world would we want to help the people who are supposed to be our greatest global enemy?...

A Syrian rebel group's pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda's replacement for Osama bin Laden suggests that the terrorist group's influence is not waning and that it may take a greater role in the Western-backed fight to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The pledge of allegiance by Syrian Jabhat al Nusra Front chief Abou Mohamad al-Joulani to al-Qaeda leader Sheik Ayman al-Zawahri was coupled with an announcement by the al-Qaeda affiliate in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq, that it would work with al Nusra as well.

Lebanese Sheik Omar Bakri, a Salafist who says states must be governed by Muslim religious law, says al-Qaeda has assisted al Nusra for some time.

"They provided them early on with technical, military and financial support , especially when it came to setting up networks of foreign jihadis who were brought into Syria," Bakri says. "There will certainly be greater coordination between the two groups."
This group of jihadists has been responsible for car and suicide bombings all over Syria, and they are the ones that have been doing the heaviest fighting on the front lines...

When the group Jabhat al Nusra first claimed responsibility for car and suicide bombings in Damascus that killed dozens last January, many of Syria's revolutionaries claimed that the organization was a creation of the Syrian government, designed to discredit those who opposed the regime of President Bashar Assad and to hide the regime's own brutal tactics.

Nearly a year later, however, Jabhat al Nusra, which U.S. officials believe has links to al Qaida, has become essential to the frontline operations of the rebels fighting to topple Assad.

Not only does the group still conduct suicide bombings that have killed hundreds, but they've proved to be critical to the rebels' military advance. In battle after battle across the country, Nusra and similar groups do the heaviest frontline fighting. Groups who call themselves the Free Syrian Army and report to military councils led by defected Syrian army officers move into the captured territory afterward.

The prominence of Nusra in the rebel cause worries U.S. and other Western officials, who say its operations rely on the same people and tactics that fueled al Qaida in Iraq – an assertion that is borne out by interviews with Nusra members in Syria.

These are no "freedom fighters".  In fact, if these guys take over they will be much worse than Assad.  These "rebels" recently massacred an entire village of Christians, and just two days ago they slaughtered a 14-year-old boy for supposedly insulting Mohammed...

The rebels, according to ABC News' reconstruction of the Syrian groups' reports, appear to have whipped Qatta. When they brought him back to where they'd taken him, his head was wrapped by a shirt.

The rebels waited for a crowd to gather; Qatta's parents were among them. Speaking in classical Arabic, they announced that Qatta had committed blasphemy and that anyone else who dared insult the Prophet Mohammed would share his fate. Then, the shirt still wrapped around the boy's head, the rebels shot him in the mouth and neck.

Is this really who the U.S. government wants to be allies with?

Are we that stupid?

And guess what?  According to the Los Angeles Times, the Obama administration is considering plans to bring all of the poor "refugees" that are allied with these "rebels" to the United States...

Two years into a civil war that shows no signs of ending, the Obama administration is considering resettling refugees who have fled Syria, part of an international effort that could bring thousands of Syrians to American cities and towns.

A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families.

But now we are committed to this conflict thanks to (Mr. Clown)Obama.

There will be no backing down until Assad is gone.

Of course this could create a huge regional war in the Middle East or even eventually lead to World War III, but Obama doesn't seem to care.

For now, (that POS)Obama is saving his own skin, and that is the most important thing to him.

[Warph]

NSA Scandal...  NSA Scandal...  NSA Scandal...  NSA Scandal...

by Mr. Gloom & Mr. Doom

Establishment politicians from both major political parties are rushing to defend the NSA and condemn whistleblower Edward Snowden.  They are attempting to portray Edward Snowden as a "traitor" and the spooks over at the NSA that are snooping on all of us as "heroes".  In fact, many of the exact same politicians that once railed against government spying during the Bush years are now staunchly defending it now that Obama is in the White House.  But it isn't just Democrats that are acting shamefully.  Large numbers of Republican politicians that love to give speeches about "freedom" and "liberty" are attempting to eviscerate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  The government is not supposed to invade our privacy and investigate us unless there is probable cause to do so.  Apparently many of our politicians misunderstood when they read the novel 1984 by George Orwell.  It wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual.

Now the American people need to pick up the ball and start demanding answers, because without a doubt we are going to see establishment politicians from both major political parties try to shut this scandal down.  Establishment Democrats and establishment Republicans both love the Big Brother surveillance grid that the U.S. government has constructed, and they are both making it abundantly clear that they will defend the NSA to the very end.  The following are 22 nauseating quotes from hypocritical establishment politicians that show exactly how they feel about the NSA spying scandal...

#1 POS Barack Obama: "I think it's important to understand that you can't have 100 percent security and then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We're going to have to make some choices as a society."
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/challenging-obama-knows-best-transparency-nsa-92624_Page3.html

#2 POS Barack Obama in 2007: "This Administration also puts forward a false choice between the liberties we cherish and the security we demand... That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens. No more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are. And it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorists... We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary."
http://www.storyleak.com/obama-2007-speech-no-more-spying-on-citizens/


#3 Speaker Of The House (Clueless)) John Boehner on what he thinks about NSA leaker Edward Snowden: "He's a traitor."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/11/boehner-snowden-is-a-traitor/


#4 U.S. Senator (Cornball) Lindsey Graham: "I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/10/criminal-charges-snowden-extradite-passport-revoke/2408915/


#5 U.S. Senator (Idiot) Al Franken: "I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people."
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sen-al-franken-well-aware-of-surveillance-defends-nsa-not-about-spying-on-the-american-people/


#6 Senate Majority Leader (Dirty) Harry Reid: "For senators to complain that they didn't know this was happening, we had many, many meetings that have been both classified and unclassified that members have been invited to"
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/nsa-disclosures-put-awkward-light-on-official-statements.html?hp&_r=0


#7 U.S. Senator (Wimpy)Mitch McConnell: "Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/nsa-disclosures-put-awkward-light-on-official-statements.html?hp&_r=1&


#8 U.S. Representative Peter King on why he believes that reporters should be prosecuted for revealing NSA secrets: "There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/12/politics/nsa-leak/index.html?hpt=hp_t2


#9 Director of National Intelligence James Clapper making a joke during an awards ceremony last Friday night: "Some of you expressed surprise that I showed up—so many emails to read!"
http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2013/06/banqueters-and-spying-news-bombshell/64598/?oref=river


#10 Director Of National Intelligence James Clapper about why he lied about NSA spying in front of Congress: "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/james-clappers-least-untruthful-statement-to-the-senate/2013/06/11/e50677a8-d2d8-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_blog.html


#11 National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden: "The president has full faith in director Clapper and his leadership of the intelligence community"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/james-clapper-intelligence-chief-criticism?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20aux-1%20top-stories-1:Bento%20box%208%20col:Position1:sublinks


#12 White House press secretary Jay Carney: "...Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/james-clapper-intelligence-chief-criticism?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20aux-1%20top-stories-1:Bento%20box%208%20col:Position1:sublinks


#13 Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate intelligence committee: "There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/james-clapper-intelligence-chief-criticism?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20aux-1%20top-stories-1:Bento%20box%208%20col:Position1:sublinks


#14 Gus Hunt, the chief technology officer at the CIA: "We fundamentally try to collect everything and hang onto it forever."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/prism-leak-inside-the-controversial-us-data-surveillance-program-a-904761-2.html

#15 Barack Obama: "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/challenging-obama-knows-best-transparency-nsa-92624_Page3.html

#16 Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency: "We do not see a tradeoff between security and liberty."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/12/alexander-nsa-cyber-snowden/2415217/


#17 An exchange between NSA director Keith Alexander and U.S. Representative Hank Johnson in March 2012...

JOHNSON: Does the NSA routinely intercept American citizens' emails?

ALEXANDER: No.

JOHNSON: Does the NSA intercept Americans' cell phone conversations?

ALEXANDER: No.

JOHNSON: Google searches?

ALEXANDER: No.

JOHNSON: Text messages?

ALEXANDER: No.

JOHNSON: Amazon.com orders?

ALEXANDER: No.

JOHNSON: Bank records?

ALEXANDER: No.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/nsa-chief-lied-to-congress-on-domestic-surveillance/


#18 Deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino: "The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks"
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm


#19 U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss: "This is nothing new.  It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years."
http://www.dailytech.com/Rep+Ron+Paul+Calls+NSA+Spying+a+Victory+for+Terrorists+Some+Senators+Say+Its+Fine/article31710c.htm


#20 Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton on NSA leaker Edward Snowden: "Let me ask, who died and made him king? Who gave him the authority to endanger 300 million Americans? That's not the way it works, and if he thinks he can get away with that, he's got another think coming."
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/bolton-snowden-nsa-leaks/2013/06/11/id/509318?promo_code=F492-1&utm_source=Test_Newsmax_Feed&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1


#21 Senior spokesman for the NSA Don Weber: "Given the nature of the work we do, it would be irresponsible to comment on actual or alleged operational issues; therefore, we have no information to provide"
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm


#22 The White House website: "My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment



Right now, the NSA is building a data collection center out in Utah that is so massive that it is hard to describe with words.  It is going to cost 40 million dollars a year just to provide the energy needed to run it.  This data center will contain "the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches" in addition to "parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases" and anything else that the NSA decides to collect...
Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world's communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital "pocket litter." It is, in some measure, the realization of the "total information awareness" program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans' privacy.

The goal is to know as much about everyone on the planet as possible.  And the NSA does not keep this information to itself.  As an article in USA Today recently reported, the NSA shares the data that it collects with other government agencies "as a matter of practice"...
As a matter of practice, the NSA regularly shares its information — known as "product" in intelligence circles — with other intelligence groups.

So when the NSA collects information about you, there is a very good chance that the FBI, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security and the IRS will have access to it as well.

But the U.S. government is not the only one collecting data on American citizens.

Guess who else has been collecting massive amounts of data on the American people?

Barack Hussein Obama.

According to those that have seen it, the "Obama database" is unlike anything that any politician has ever put together before.  According to  CNSNews.com, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters says that this database "will have information about everything on every individual" ...http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/waters-obama-campaign-database-has-information-about-everything-every-individual# ...
"The president has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life," she added. "That's going to be very, very powerful."

Martin asked if Waters if she was referring to "Organizing for America."

"That's right, that's right," Waters said. "And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it's never been done before."

Waters said the database would also serve future Democratic candidates seeking the presidency.

Perhaps this helps to explain why so many big donors got slapped with IRS audits immediately after they wrote big checks to the Romney campaign.

We are being told to "trust" Barack Obama and the massive government surveillance grid that is being constructed all around us, but there has been example after example of government power being grossly abused in recent years.

A lot of Americans say that they do not care if the government is watching them because they do not have anything to hide, but is there anyone out there that would really not mind the government watching them and listening to them 24 hours a day?

For example, it has been documented that NSA workers eavesdropped on conversations between U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and their loved ones back home.  Some of these conversations involved very intimate talk between husbands and wives.  The following is from a 2008 ABC News story...
Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of "cuts" that were available on each operator's computer.

"Hey, check this out," Faulk says he would be told, "there's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, 'Wow, this was crazy'," Faulk told ABC News.

Faulk said he joined in to listen, and talk about it during breaks in Back Hall's "smoke pit," but ended up feeling badly about his actions


(Is this really what we want the future of America to look like?  Do we really want the government to watch us and listen to us during our most intimate moments?)

[Warph]

No wonder Slick Willy is turned off...

Here's Hillary without her pants-suit:











Actually:

[Warph]

(When is this CLOWN going to shut up?  Media Ignores Obama's Catholic School Gaffe in Ireland...  http://shar.es/xhpmw  via @BreitbartNews)

Our Muslim Pres. Barack Obama offended Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland when he said Catholic schools are 'divisive'

"Pres. Barack Obama offended Catholics in Belfast, Northern Ireland when he said Catholic schools are 'divisive'"

While visiting the United Kingdom earlier this week, our Feckless Commander in Chief has shaken things up by offending Catholics. During his G8 summit speech in Belfast, he called for an end to Catholic education and schools because he believes them to be "divisive." He compared Catholic and Protestant schools to a racist segregation system.

Yes, he did.

And the American liberal mainstream media (aka "The Obama News-Speak Press") is being darned quiet about this.

One wonders: Would Barack Obama have made the same insensitive proclamation and claims about Muslim schools and mosques being "divisive" or creating fear if he had been addressing an Islamic group, if his anti-Muslim speech had followed that of a respected imam? Does his negative views about Catholic education in the UK extend to the millions of children attending parochial schools in the United States?

And will any of the big news sources harshly criticize or chastise Obama, as they undoubtedly would have if a Republican president had made the same anti-Catholic statements? Will they even mention it?

So many questions... but seriously, we already know the answers.

These anti-Catholic remarks were made by our president who says he faithfully attended Rev. Jeremiah "G*d Damn America" Wright's church for 20 years. Some are calling this a "gaffe," a "mistake."

No, it isn't. A gaffe is when VP Joe Biden merrily asks Missouri state senator Chuck Graham, sitting in a wheelchair, to stand up and take a bow. Or when First Lady Michelle Obama refers to herself as a "busy single mother." Or when Pres. Obama claims he's been to 57 states, or pronounces "corps man" as "corpse man," or in 2010 signs his name in the official Westminster Abbey guest book but screws up and writes the year as 2008.

Those are gaffes and silly blunders.

What Obama said in Belfast was NO accident, was no gaffe.

From BizPacReview, Obama offends Catholics in the UK, says religious schools are divisive:

The Catholic media is up in arms over comments President Obama made during a speech while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit. Obama made what is described as "an alarming call for an end to Catholic education," in spite of the fact that it is considered "a critical component of the Church."

In front of an audience of about 2,000 young people, including many Catholics, Obama claimed that Catholic education divides people and blocks peace, according to the Scottish Catholic Observer."If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can't see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation," Obama said.

Catholic World News noted:

Ironically, President Obama made his comments just as Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told a crowd in Scotland that religious education upholds the dignity of the human person. Archbishop Müller said that Catholic schools should promote "all that is good in the philosophies of societies and human culture."

[Warph]

Rapper Lil Wayne Tramples All Over American Flag during New Orleans Music Video Shoot, Slammed with Criticism, Now Claims It Was Just an "Accident"

Little Shit's Tweet:
Lil Wayne WEEZY F        ✔ @LilTunechi 
I didn't step on the flag on purpose! It's a scene in a video where the flag drops behind me and after it drop it's just there as I perform 4:18 AM - 18 Jun 2013



(Little "Pissant" Wayne says it was an accident, huh? 

Sorry, you little black piece of shit!  More people would buy that excuse/lie if, after you stepped on and walked across the flag once, perhaps even twice, you then avoided it.

But you didn't, dude.  You're clearly looking straight down at the flag as you continue to trample on it during your anti-America song.  If the flag wasn't supposed to be there on the ground and under your feet, isn't that what "Cut! Take 2″ is all about, numb nuts.


Why don't you try that here):

[Warph]

TWICE AS MANY Turn Out at DC Tea Party Rally Than Go See Obama in Berlin
The Tea Party Patriots held their Audit The IRS Rally today on the West Lawn of the US Capitol. Speakers included: Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Jenny Beth Martin, Rep. Steve King, Rep. Dave Camp, Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Jim Jordan, Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Dana Loesch, Jim Hoft, Niger Innis, etc. and several Tea Party Leaders.

The Tea Party Patriots estimated bwtween 10,000 and 15,000 supporters turned out for the rally.



Meanwhile, in Berlin today, the pool reporter said only 4,500 turned out
for Barack Obama's speech.
In 2008 Barack Obama drew 200,000 to his rally there:

Guests await the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obuma in
front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin June 19, 2013.

(Even in Europe, Obuma's losing his sheen)