WSJ: 'The Path Forward for Honduras' by Roberto Micheletti

aux.link.: The Path Forward for Honduras - WSJ.com

"One of America’s most loyal Latin American allies—Honduras—has been in the midst of a constitutional crisis that threatens its democracy. Sadly, key undisputed facts regarding the crisis have often been ignored by America’s leaders, at least during the earliest days of the crisis.

In recent days, the rhetoric from allies of former President Manuel Zelaya has also dominated media reporting in the U.S. The worst distortion is the repetition of the false statement that Mr. Zelaya was removed from office by the military and for being a “reformer.” The truth is that he was removed by a democratically elected civilian government because the independent judicial and legislative branches of our government found that he had violated our laws and constitution.

Let’s review some fundamental facts that cannot be disputed..."

What If Israel Strikes Iran? - WSJ.com

aux.link.: What If Israel Strikes Iran? - WSJ.com

Leon Panetta Sticks-Up For Staff, Speaks Great Common Sense

aux.link.: Panetta to CIA employees: We told Pelosi the truth - Glenn Thrush: Hill Intrigue - POLITICO.com

"Message from the Director: Turning Down the Volume

There is a long tradition in Washington of making political hay out of our business. It predates my service with this great institution, and it will be around long after I’m gone. But the political debates about interrogation reached a new decibel level yesterday when the CIA was accused of misleading Congress. Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values. As the Agency indicated previously in response to Congressional inquiries, our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing “the enhanced techniques that had been employed.” Ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened.

My advice — indeed, my direction — to you is straightforward: ignore the noise and stay focused on your mission. We have too much work to do to be distracted from our job of protecting this country.

We are an Agency of high integrity, professionalism, and dedication. Our task is to tell it like it is — even if that’s not what people always want to hear. Keep it up. Our national security depends on it."

DIRE: Cheney Exclaims That Obama 'Endangers The Nation'

aux.link.: Cheney: Obama endangers the nation - Washington Times

It's not funny because it's true.

Three Reasons Why Obama's BlackBerry Is A National Security THREAT

aux.link.: Three reasons why Obama's BlackBerry is a national security THREAT

GND: Mexico Cartels Don't Buy Assault Weapons from U.S.

aux.link.: Mexico Cartels Don't Buy Assault Weapons from U.S.

Rise Of Sea Levels Is 'The Greatest Lie Ever Told'

aux.link.: Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told' - Telegraph

Behind The Scenes: Welcome Aboard Air Force One

aux.link.: Photographers » Blog Archive » Welcome aboard Air Force One Blogs

Reformed Taliban Mullah Uses iPhone, Encourages High Tech Afghans

aux.link.: FOXNews.com - Mullah Embraces iPhone in Afghan Tech Boom

Mexican Army Swarms Ciudad Juarez To Curb Drug Cartel Violence

aux.link.: Thousands of Mexican soldiers pour into the country's most violent city in crackdown on drug gangs

Stirring The Pot: Spiegel Interviews Holocaust-Denying Bishop

aux.link.: SPIEGEL Interview with Bishop Richard Williamson: 'I Will Not Travel to Auschwitz'

I think this guy, who also thinks the Jewish people are our enemies, has been couped up in South America with poor information sources for too long. He is doing nothing to help the Church and should be excommunicated again as an individual.

Outrage: 1,000 People Missing In Baja California Drug Wars

aux.link.: Families want answers from man who says he dissolved 300 people - Los Angeles Times

Why are investigating and disolving corrupt police, battling drug cartels with national force, and really pushing a 'War On Drugs' not Priority #1 for the Mexican government? There is absolutely no excuse.

Sheriff Baits Fugitives With Holiday Ruse

aux.link.: My Way News - Chicago sheriff baits fugitives with holiday ruse

This is just brilliant. Now, if only more jurisdictions would concentrate on capturing bad guys with fantastic ideas like this and patrolling for real crime instead of just setting up speed traps to catch yours truly - and others who think that 100mph can be a reasonable and prudent velocity in the right conditions - America would be a better place for citizen and driver alike. Kudos, Sheriff.

Obama: Let's Wait For Iran To Nuke Israel First

aux.link.: Report: Obama to Offer Israel 'Nuclear Umbrella' Against Iran - FOXNews.com Transition Tracker

This... is scary as hell. Israelies have good reason to question the true support of the USA starting next year. This, coupled with the tripling of Iranian long-range missiles and thousands of centrifuges coming online outside Tehran, only means one thing clearly to me. Israel has no choice but to bomb Iran before January 20th, 2009. That's little more than one month away. Get on it.

Global Climate Change Propaganda Failing

aux.link.: Efforts to support global climate-change falls: Poll

PARIS - There is both growing public reluctance to make personal sacrifices and a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the major international efforts now underway to battle climate change, according to findings of a poll of 12,000 citizens in 11 countries, including Canada.

Results of the poll were released this week in advance of the start of a major international conference in Poland where delegates are considering steps toward a new international climate-change treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

There already are reports emerging that some countries, such as coal-dependent Poland, are pushing for special treatment to avoid making major commitments to slash carbon emissions during a global economic downturn. Less than half of those surveyed, or 47 per cent, said they were prepared to make personal lifestyle changes to reduce carbon emissions, down from 58 per cent last year.

Only 37 per cent said they were willing to spend "extra time" on the effort, an eight-point drop. And only one in five respondents - or 20 per cent - said they'd spend extra money to reduce climate change. That's down from 28 per cent a year ago.

Brooke Hogan Smarter Than Paris, Most Citizens

aux.link.: FOXNews.com - Brooke Hogan Takes Dig at Paris Hilton

" In a posting this week, Brooke wrote that most people only vote because "it’s cool" and (like herself) have no real idea what’s going on in and around the White House.

And John McCain wasn’t the only one to take a dig at Paris Hilton; Hogan shared her thoughts on the party princess’s attempts to encourage voters.

"Only 54 percent of eligible american voters cast their ballots!!!!!! Half of them are only voting cause its 'cool' to vote for so and so...they aren't even up to date on information," Brooke wrote. "I'M personally not up to date on the facts, so I don't wanna make a stupid choice for our country. I WANT to vote but only when I know exactly whats going on. More ppl should think like that. Paris Hilton said 'yaaaay go vote cause its cool and hott!!!!' ...SHE WASN'T EVEN REGISTERED." "

Appeasement: Bush's Speech Of The Year In Israel

aux.link: Obama says Bush falsely accuses him of appeasement

Excellence- well done, Mr. President. These are some of the defining words that will mark your legacy.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused President Bush on Thursday of launching a "false political attack" with a comment about appeasing terrorists and radicals. The Illinois senator interpreted the remark as a slam against him but the White House denied that Bush's words were in any way directed at Obama, who has said as president he would be willing to personally meet with Iran's leaders and those of other regimes the United States has deemed rogue.

In a speech to Israel's Knesset, Bush said: "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. "We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: 'Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is—the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Also see this follow-up article from The Wall Street Journal.

Are We Secure? China's Counterfeit Cisco Routers

aux.link: World Tribune — FBI: China may use counterfeit Cisco routers to penetrate U.S. networks

'Expelled' Asks The Root Of All Science Inquiries

aux.link: Ben Stein is EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed

Principally, where the hell did the cellular infrastructure of life come from? How did DNA come to be? Some Darwinists will tell you from molecules bonding and mutating on the backs of crystals, or perhaps it was all just seeded here from alien lifeforms who decided to drop-by millions of years ago. But it definitely was NOT a god. Ok, failing that, there's a better chance in a trillion-trillion that this all happened to come together one magical day and work well enough to produce you reading this... WTF?

'Expelled' exposes Darwinists for the close-minded elitest loons they are, and shows that Intelligent Design isn't mutually exclusive from 'Big Science'. They coexist and both have something to bring to the table. If you think this is a film for the Religious Right, you're only kidding yourself and missing the point you have been all the while. Ben Stein is brilliant in this piece, and has pulled off one of the most important documentaries of our time. You must see it.

US Intel Agencies Using Google Appliances

aux.link: CIA enlists Google's help for spy work - Times Online

Recon: The Nightmare World Of North Korea

aux.link: Strict rules for visitors - The Sun

Interesting read- I love 'behind enemy lines' North Korean recon stories like this with footage.

Muslims Now Outnumber Catholics Worldwide

aux.link: Muslims more numerous than Catholics: Vatican Reuters

Although if you consider non-Catholic Christians, Muslims are outnumbered by 33% to 19%. So I suppose we still need the archaeic and hard-headed Vatican-protesting 'faithful' to count amongst our ranks. I just wish evangelicals would give up and come back to the only Church that Jesus Christ Himself founded. It's not like the Vatican is still corrupt, lost in its way of leadership, and cleansing the land of protestants as it once did for a brief period of time hundreds of years ago in the dark ages. Even Martin Luther would probably think his movement is getting old by now.

The question evangelicals have to answer in this day and age is, "who founded your church?" Is that guy's legacy worth following more than Christ's? C'mon. This isn't the 1500s any more. This article should make a final call to stand together and convert back to the one true Christian faith already.

Facts Against Man-Made Warming Surface More

aux.link: Climate facts to warm to The Australian

An ABC Radio debate host in this article thinks these facts coming to light more, about temperatures cooling in the last decade (going plateau and negative since 1998) despite rising natural and man-made CO2 emissions, is "extraordinary". Indeed...

"If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting. A great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN, most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed. Let us hope it is a prolonged and chastening experience.

With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along.

The poorest Indians and Chinese will be left in peace to work their way towards prosperity, without being badgered about the size of their carbon footprint, a concept that for most of us will soon be one with Nineveh and Tyre, clean forgotten in six months."

More more more more more more more.

US Olympic Tourists Warned About Monitoring

aux.link: US Olympic tourists warned about monitoring in hotels

"Americans traveling to China for the Olympic Games in August can expect their hotel rooms there to be monitored, the State Department warned on its website. "All visitors should be aware that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public or private locations," according to the State Department site. "All hotel rooms and offices are considered to be subject to on-site or remote technical monitoring at all times. Hotel rooms, residences and offices may be accessed at any time without the occupant's consent or knowledge," it said. It added that many hotels and apartment buildings may be poorly built, lack emergency exits, fire extinguishers, carbon monoxide monitors and basic security like locks, alarms, and personnel."

Good point- don't expect any rights to security, privacy or otherwise while travelling in China. It's not our jurisdiction, and of no concern to them how you feel. One has to wonder how well this is going to go over with American tourists once they realize this. Personally, along with our eyes on the Tibeten chaos, I'm hoping for a full-on boycott to the point of cancellation so the free global community can give its vote of no confidence to the idiots at the IOC who chose Beijing for 2008. Sorry, athletes- nothing personal.

Horses Make A Comeback: Illegal Alien Herding

aux.link: U.S. turns to horses to secure borders

Giddyup.

"Once they have apprehended a group, agents often have to lead detainees for a mile or more to reach ranch roads where they can hand them over to colleagues with a vehicle. It is there that the horses' stock management skills come into their own, agents say.

'It's what we call cow sense. It's a herding instinct,' Schad told Reuters, as she trailed a group of 18 Mexican migrants out of the desert on her horse, Freckles.

'They gather people up ... and if they run, they have the ability and desire to chase them down,' she added."

Packet Sniffing Coming To An IP Pipe Near You

aux.link: AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter

Now that I'm out of college with a job (in telecommunications dealing with AT&T every day, no less) and a nice income where I don't have the desire to pirate any longer, I fully support this measure. I see no harm or foul in filtering out the blatantly illegal content online like copywritten movies that were just released 3 hours ago. Keep in mind that cops in these United States will come close your pirated DVD stand up on the streets of NYC, but the protests still occur in Berkeley and red light district enterprises everywhere continue to stay open in specifically zoned areas. They're not proposing China here, folks.

Truman-Era FBI Boss Wanted U.S. Traitors Jailed

How awesome would this be to reinstate? Too bad the plan would be impossible today. In the midst of his socialist state's financial emergency, the Governator is already prepared to release some 22,000+ criminals from California prisons already from overcrowding (cue rimshot, but a link for good measure).

Although... maybe the groups could simply trade places since we probably have that many traitors wandering free. Especially during this time of war and grave national security concerns with poorly-enforced borders. Good citizens with firearms could weed out any of the lawfully-freed escapees that act up, and the leftist commies would be jailed. Sounds like a win-win.

There, I said it.

Report: Former FBI Director Hoover Planned to Arrest 12,000 Americans Suspected of Disloyalty

U.S. Moving Forward With Iranian Airstrike

More rumors, perhaps from better sources, about U.S. intents about confronting Iran militarily, and how some UN Security Council members are willing to stand down and allow it.

U.S. Officials Begin Crafting Iran Bombing Plan

Secret US air force team to perfect plan for Iran strike (9.23.07 update)

Aussies Bomb North Korean Drug Ship

Credit LiveLeak.com: After being caught trying to smuggle drugs into Australia, the Pong Su was sunk by two 2000-pound (900 kg) laser-guided bombs dropped from an RAAF F-111 aircraft. The deliberate destruction of the freighter was said to deliver a strong message to international drug smuggling rings that the Australian Federal Government would take all measures necessary to stop illegal drug importation.

Chicken In Every Pot, Microchip In Every Arm

Sure this may not be a very conservative thing to start backing, but this is the 21st century. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags in everyone over the age of 18 ought to be mandatory, right when you get your booster shot before going to college as an adult. Think of the advantages; wouldn't you like to know if you take a walk in the park with your daughter that a sex offender is deciding to also take a stroll closeby? RFID alerts can come in handy via SMS on your mobile phone at-hand, especially for criminals who are blacklisted in a system monitoring their wherabouts. F*** their civil rights- they lost those when they knocked up that 12-year old last year.

Go ahead- tell me this is not one of the best ways to not just fight crime, but prevent terrorism. What have you got to hide?

Microchip Implants Raise Privacy Concern

Blogs From Iran

I stayed up way too late combing these interesting online journals. If you've got time to kill, you should do the same. What you read may surprise you.

Iran blog resource Jerusalem Post

NY Daily News Claims WWIII Has Begun

And honestly, Michael Goodwin really isn't too far from the truth. I agree with most of what he says here. Brief, but interesting article.

It's WWIII, and U.S. is out of ideas

Iraqi WMDs Found, Dems To Eat Crow

Not just one or five, but hundreds of WMDs have in fact been found since 2003 according to a document declassified Wednesday. But because of "mindless resistance" from left-wing critics, the matter was simply not discussed for fear of never-ending debate. The Bush Administration, in a very modest performance, decided that fact was fact for the record, classified their findings, and made a PR focus on installing a stable Iraqi government instead. That's a pretty balsy and confident move! They've got huge findings in the bag but aren't bragging about it. It's just there if people want to know.

[On my mark, cue Nanci Pelosi bitch smacks]

Granted, the WMDs found do not show a weapons program of proliferation throughout the 1990s as most of them pre-date the first Gulf War - those have yet to be found - but the now unclassified findings do show several key things of equal importance regardless. A sampling:

1) Saddam lied about destroying all chemical weapons. [whu-pish!]
2) United Nations weapon inspections do not work, further discrediting the UN's capacity for real change. [whu-pish!]
3) Democrats who actually fell for Saddam's promise and based much of their campaigns and rallies around a "Where's WMD?" concept must now eat crow and figure out how to mend the deepening divides that seperate them. [whu-pish!]
4) The WMDs found were nonetheless equally lethal as they were not found in secure areas, and could have easily been procured by insurgents to use against coalition forces or sold on the black market to other terrorists states, such as Palestine to attack Israelis. [whu-pish!]

It will be interesting to see what the left-wing sympathizers say about this in the coming days. But so far for some reason, more than 12 hours later after the press release when the Internet has been abuzz all day with the news, CNN.com is mum into the wee hours of the next morning with not a single word about the findings. Just the typical military doom and gloom bias with a side of terroist videos to scare its viewership. How frickin' surprising.

DECLASSIFIED Iraq WMD memo PDF white paper
FOXNews.com - Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq

Eureka! Kicking Ass And Taking Names

The dems are reeling from all this great news... whatever will they do?! It's stuff like this (and even more of it we all hope) that will boost poll numbers and keep the GOP in power this year.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's national security adviser said Thursday a "huge treasure" of documents and computer records was seized after the raid on terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's hideout, giving the Iraqi government the upper hand in its fight against al-Qaida in Iraq.

National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie also said he believed the security situation in the country would improve enough to allow a large number of U.S.-led forces to leave Iraq by the end of this year, and a majority to depart by the end of next year. "And maybe the last soldier will leave Iraq by mid-2008," he said.

Al-Rubaie said a laptop, flashdrive and other documents were found in the debris after the airstrike that killed the al-Qaida in Iraq leader last week outside Baqouba, and more information has been uncovered in raids of other insurgent hideouts since then. He called it a "huge treasure ... a huge amount of information."

When asked how he could be sure the information was authentic, al-Rubaie said "there is nothing more authentic than finding a thumbdrive in his pocket."

"We believe that this is the beginning of the end of al-Qaida in Iraq," al-Rubaie said, adding that the documents showed al-Qaida is in "pretty bad shape," politically and in terms of training, weapons and media.

Iraq Announces Info From Al-Zarqawi Raid
Post-al-Zarqawi Raids Kill 104 Insurgents
***Text of al-Zarqawi Safe-House Document***

Press Report From Bush's Secret Iraq Trip

Lengthy, but very cool behind-the-scenes account of how the Bush entourage makes a secret visit to Iraq in broad daylight for a few hours to check up on things. Limited time availability via DRUDGE.

DRUDGE REPORT - POOL REPORT: BUSH IN IRAQ

This Is Perfect!

Iranian nazi leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be planning a special apperance in Germany, of all places. If Iran's team succeeds in the World Cup, he could be staying in Berlin for a few nights. Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking to take advantage of this unique opportunity?

"Munich II- Revenge For Slumbering Apologists"



US Jewish group urges tough German stance on Ahmadinejad's World Cup plans

If You Got It, Flaunt It

Israel has apparently shoved back in regards to the threats from Iran. It's about time they start flexing some muscle to the media of the degree that the U.S. has the tendency to do. Israel quietly has the nuclear capability to not only wipe Iran off the map as they proclaimed today, but probably most of Europe and Russia as well if they had to.

Why the rest of the Middle East doesn't respect this is beyond me. It's pretty simple really. When it comes down to conflict in that region, don't f*** with Israel. There isn't another country in the world that has more intelligence and warcraft backing from the United States of America than they do.

Jerusalem Post 'Iran can also be wiped off the map'