Palin Has Found Her Niche: Real American Stories

This is Sarah Palin's niche....

Getting Caught in Palin's Crosshairs

There has been a lot of whining on the left about Palin's crosshairs on the map.

I will add to the fact that Palin is taking some political sniper shots when it comes to J.D. Hayworth by campaigning for McCain. And there are those of us who are returning political shots back at her for her ill-conceived endorsement of McCain..

But there is that issue of Democrat Harry Mitchell taking aim at Hayworth with the image of crosshairs of a rifle scope put directly on the image of J.D. Hayworth.



h/t espressopundit

Senator Begich Likes Playing Русская Pулетка With Nukes

While the debate and vote on healthcare reform has taken up much of the Internet bandwidth and airwaves lately, an agreement between Russia and the United States is unfolding and it has to do with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

I like to think of START as a form of Russian Roulette being played by Obama and our elected politicians and the trigger is reducing our nuclear arms while Iran plays the role of the chambered bullet.

And since the treaty will once again come to the U.S. Senate to be ratified, Senator Mark Begich issued a statement on the treaty:

Read more at Red County

The Mark of McCain

The Mark of McCain

If you want to find out why judges are releasing terrorists, ask McCain and Graham.

Good read on the dumb and dumber duo...

The 2012 Presidential Race: Anybody but Obama

The poll numbers and the reason.

A new CNN / Opinion Research Poll out this afternoon of 953 registered voters nationally finds Obama tied at 47% with any Republican candidate.

After the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama will take-it-in-the-shorts and in 2011 it will be Iran on the big screen.

Iran will have its nuclear program in full swing and Turkey via Azerbaijan will have Iran on board for the Nabuuco pipeline and Iran will still be using the Taliban as proxy in Afghanistan and Iran will be friends with who ever is the leader in Afghanistan, because Iran will have its nuclear program.

And because of that, Iran will control the natural gas pipeline that goes across Afghanistan.

What will this all mean? Hillary Clinton as president in 2012.

Health care was never Obama's Waterloo, it will be Iran and Sec. State Hillary Clinton at the AIPAC, gave a speech that was a speech that was geared towards the majority of Americans.

As of yet, there are no Republican candidates that are considered front runners who will be able to go against Clinton and do it successfully.

The GOP had better start to look for a candidate who can...

U.S. Softens Sanction Plan Against Iran

U.S. Softens Sanction Plan Against Iran

VIENNA—The U.S. has backed away from pursuing a number of tough measures against Iran in order to win support from Russia and China for a new United Nations Security Council resolution on sanctions, according to people familiar with the matter.

Among provisions removed from the original draft resolution the U.S. sent to key allies last month were sanctions aimed at choking off Tehran's access to international banking services and capital markets, and closing international airspace and waters to Iran's national air cargo and shipping lines, according to the people.

The Spitting Incident

At 1:26 you will see the one Congressman lean away from a protestor who is cleary shouting at the Congressman. Ahead of the Congressman and just before the incident, a man is seen clearly taking a video of the protestor involved.

So the Congressman needs to prove his point since a member of his entourage was taking a video of the protestor.

The fact that he got sprayed with saliva from the man shouting, clearly shows it was not an act of "spitting" on the Congressman given that the woman police officer was right there, witnessed it and nothing was done.

Take note that the Congressman got another officer to what looks as if he wants him to make an arrest.

Nothing came of that request by the Congressman.

What's This: No Racial Slurs Against Jesse Jackson

As he taunts the crowd from above by trying to grab their signs....

The Case Of the Lying Congressmen

Here is an update on the lying Congressmen.

Claims that the protesters hurled anti-gay and racist epithets at them tore through the blogosphere in the run-up to the vote and were used to decry the protests, but Tea Party supporters are challenging those accounts, saying they didn't hear them, or at least that those responsible were not part of the Tea Party protest.

"Never did I hear any type of racial slur," said William Owens, a black Tea Party activist from Nevada who joined in the D.C. protests Saturday.

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Though the claims of racist epithets against Lewis and other congressmen drew a lot of media attention, witnesses say they never heard such language and YouTube videos have surfaced that show protesters booing and shouting "Kill the Bill" but not shouting the n-word.

Kay Fischer, a protester from North Carolina, said she was watching the black lawmakers walk by and, like Owens, heard nothing of the sort.

Asked about such claims, Emanuel spokeswoman Mary Petrovic noted that the online videos of the incident are under a minute — and so don't show the entire encounter. She and stood by her boss' account.

"He heard slurs," she said.

There's another oddity about that incident. Cleaver's office initially claimed that a protester was arrested after spitting on him, but that the congressman decided not to press charges.

However, U.S. Capitol Police said the protester was never arrested. He was only detained and put in handcuffs, then released.

Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, spokeswoman for the Capitol Police, told FoxNews.com the individual was released because Cleaver couldn't identify him.

"There were no elements of a crime, and the individual wasn't able to be positively identified," she said. "(Cleaver) was unable to positively identify."

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Most importantly, Fischer said Frank was the first to start using salty language.

She said she and a half-dozen other protesters were waiting outside a committee room in the Longworth House Office Building on Saturday for about 45 minutes when Frank finally emerged. He was mobbed by reporters, she said, and the protesters started shouting things like, "Kill the bill." Then she said Frank snapped at them.

"He looked at me and said, 'F--- you,'" she said.

Shortly after that, she said, a tall man with brown hair, who hadn't been chanting with the other protesters at all, walked up and said "fag" to Frank.

This has started to sprout some conspiracy theories.

Fischer said the protesters immediately admonished him and told him not to say things like that.

"I have gay friends. ... There were a bunch of people moaning like, 'Oh God,'" she said.

But she said the guy "disappeared" quickly and that was the end of it.

Fischer said she has no idea where he came from, and alleged he was a plant, though she couldn't prove it.

"I think it was staged," she said.

Frank's office was unable to provide clarity.

The Evolution of Al Gore and the Homo Democratus

The NPR asks Did Climate Change Drive Human Evolution?

Of course it did. Look at the idiot Al Gore. He evolved into his stupidity on climate change.

Evolution and Climate Change who would of thought that. Look at what climate change did to the polar bears over thousands of years.

Kill the Bill: No Racial Slurs

h/t freeper

I got a chuckle out of the comments on freerepublic on playing it backwards...


Another angle..



h/t doug ross on second video..

And behold our Alaska resident potty mouth Mrs. Devon takes the racial slur story typing down...

Obama's War: An I Told You So Moment

Here is an I told you so moment...

TALIBAN commanders have revealed that hundreds of insurgents have been trained in Iran to kill Nato forces in Afghanistan.

The commanders said they had learnt to mount complex ambushes and lay improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which have been responsible for most of the deaths of British troops in Helmand province.

The accounts of two commanders, in interviews with The Sunday Times, are the first descriptions of training of the Taliban in Iran.

According to the commanders, Iranian officials paid them to attend three-month courses during the winter.

Many had said the health care issue would be Obama's waterloo, it never was, it is with Iran....

Related threads:


Obama's Waterloo: A Nuclear Iran

A nuclear Iran will continue to use both the Sunnis and Shiites to influence the region.

The McChrsytal Doctrine: Paving the Road to Hell in Afghanistan

The focus is misplaced on Afghanistan when it should be placed on stopping Iran.

When you look at the rhetoric and how nations are dealing with Iran, a similar pattern is setting up on how Germany was handled.

If we adopt McChrystal's plan in Afghanistan, Iran will grow in power to where they have full nuclear capabilities.

If you look at the polls, the American people know instinctively, Iran is the threat that needs to be dealt with. Because if Iran falls, then so do the Taliban and the Al Qaeda.

Election 2010: Arizona Republican Primary for Senate

Election 2010: Arizona Republican Primary for Senate

Longtime incumbent John McCain now leads conservative challenger J.D. Hayworth by just seven points in Arizona’s hotly contested Republican Senate Primary race.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Arizona GOP Primary voters shows McCain ahead 48% to 41%. Three percent (3%) favor another candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.

Following the announcement that Sarah Palin would campaign for his reelection, McCain opened up a 53% to 31% lead over Hayworth in January. The two men were in a near tie in November.

But now Hayworth, a former congressman turned popular local talk radio host, is a formal candidate, and anti-immigration activist Chris Simcox has quit the race and endorsed him. For McCain, the new numbers also show him dropping again below 50%, and incumbents who poll less than 50% at this stage of a campaign are considered potentially vulnerable

And the kids at C4P have put their two cents in...

-Scott Rasmussen has bad news for John McCain but notes that McCain has good news on the horizon: "Palin will attend a McCain rally in Tucson later this month."

There was a good reason why I yanked them from this site. Their comments show why.

Oil Production in Alaska: High Sticking

Latvia government collapses amid economic crisis

Latvia government collapses amid economic crisis

The People's Party, the largest group in a five-party coalition, walked out amid disputes over how to cope with the country's severe problems.

Unemployment has now hit 20 per cent and the economy contracted by 18 per cent last year.

The People's Party quit after its action plan failed to get the backing of Valdis Dombrovskis, the Latvian prime minister, who labelled it "populist".

Mr Dombrovskis warned the People's Party's departure could cause yet further economic instability.

"Any contradictions in the government are immediately reflected in the financial markets, and they directly affect the fiscal stability our country... a policy that is truly responsible for the country cannot be self-centred," he said.

But he said remained confident that an emergency IMF bail-out worth £6.7bn would remain unaffected by the political instability.

Very bad news for the Baltics...

It is amazing what has happened to Latvia in the past few years...

Alaska's Coffee Party: Light on the Coffee, Heavy on the Cream (Whitener)

This is too easy.

For all of the fuss the progressives in Alaska made about Tea Partiers not having enough people of "color" at the events; well here is a snap of the first get-together of Alaska's Coffee Party...



Now the standing joke about the progressives in Alaska is; they like their Lattes...

I can see why... Paging Shannyn Moore, I see white people.....



And to you Alaskan progressive bloggers and your supporters, don't leave an asinine remark like you did last time.

3:31 AM
Anonymous said...
Are you aware that the organizer of this event is black?

The people of Alaska know better....

This is How You "Get it Done"

Rig count reflects oil boom in North Dakota

North Dakota topped the century mark in the number of active oil rigs this week for the first time since February 1982.

There were 102 active rigs as of Wednesday. The state is still below the all-time high of 146 rigs that came in October 1981, said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council. Ness said the numbers are a positive for the future of the North Dakota oil industry.

Ness said improvements in technology have allowed rigs to be more productive and efficient with the advent of horizontal drilling. “That’s the real story,” he said. Ness said that one of today’s rigs is able to do the same amount of drilling as eight older rigs in about one-third of the time.

McCain get's Low Marks Among Tea Partiers

According to Politico he does.

In a survey of more than three dozen grass-roots tea party leaders from 29 states, the party’s 2008 presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, was the Republican most cited as a disappointment. Asked which three national Republicans they were most unhappy with, McCain was named by 18 respondents

China Counters US Report on its Human Rights Record

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China has offered its own critique of the United States in response to Washington's annual review of Beijing's human rights record.

China's State Council issued a report Friday blaming the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. for triggering the global economic recession.

The report also accused the United States of restricting the rights of its citizens in a number of areas, including racial equality, personal security, and political and economic advancement.

This type of rhetoric from China does not seem to lend the belief that China is worried about being isolated if China does not support sanctions against Iran.

McCain Rally Greeted by Protesters

After Elections, Iran Remains A Major Player In Iraq

After Elections, Iran Remains A Major Player In Iraq

On March 7, millions of Iraqis "made their mark" and participated in the country's second, generally fair and democratic post-Saddam Hussein parliamentary elections -- an event that is exemplary for Iraq's Arab and Iranian neighbors. Among the good news was that election coalitions this time around were far more ethnically and confessionally mixed than they were during the 2005 polls.

The question is whether and how Iraq's fragile, young democracy and national unity can take hold and grow strong enough to resist internal pressure and external interference.

In addition to the Ba'athist and Al-Qaeda insurgencies that continue attempts to derail the democratic process, Iran's increasing influence among many Iraqi factions threatens ultimately to disrupt the further development of representative and moderate governance.

It will take time until all votes are counted and more time until a new government is in place. But it is widely expected that Iraq's two strongest election alliances, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law and Ammar al-Hakim's Iraqi National Alliance (INA), will probably receive the biggest shares of the vote. These alliances are Iran-friendly or pro-Iranian, respectively.

Whether the two alliances form a coalition together (the less probable option) or partner with one of the other two major alliances, the Kurds and the secularist, Sunni-led Al-Iraqiyah bloc, neighboring Iran will continue to enjoy considerable influence in Iraq and be in a position to increase its influence further after the U.S. troop withdrawal is completed at the end of next year.

Iran's Rising Influence

Maliki's alliance comprises dozens of political parties and popular figures, including his own Shi'ite Al-Dawah party, as well as Sunnis, Kurds, and Turkomans. During his premiership, Maliki maintained good relations with Tehran and Iranian leaders, notably Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the run-up to the elections, Tehran repeatedly attempted to convince Maliki to join the INA and form a broad, primarily Shi'ite alliance.

Obama's Waterloo: A Nuclear Iran

The news keeps getting worse.

First, we should have pulled out of Afghanistan and months ago, bombed Iran's nuclear facilities.

As pointed out previously, there are some in the Pentagon who advocate bombing Iran.

But with McChrystal's plan, American troops and NATO troops will be in harms way from a possible retaliation from Iran with chemical weapons if we did attack Iran.

Now we see the Iranians in their defensive posturing with putting chemical warheads on their missiles.

As stated on this website, a nuclear Iran will control Afghanistan.

The focus is misplaced on Afghanistan when it should be placed on stopping Iran.

When you look at the rhetoric and how nations are dealing with Iran, a similar pattern is setting up on how Germany was handled.

If we adopt McChrystal's plan in Afghanistan, Iran will grow in power to where they have full nuclear capabilities.

If you look at the polls, the American people know instinctively, Iran is the threat that needs to be dealt with. Because if Iran falls, then so do the Taliban and the Al Qaeda.

The war we are fighting in Afghanistan is a waste of time with Iran having its nuclear capabilities.

Well get this picture ingrained in your mind.

Iran's president is expected to discuss the problems facing Afghanistan with Kabul officials during a Monday visit to the war-torn country.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will meet with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai during his one-day visit to Kabul, Mehr News agency reported.

Finding solutions to the challenges facing Afghanistan and trade talks are expected to be high on the meeting's agenda.

Iran believes instability and insecurity in Afghanistan has its roots in the presence of foreign troops and has repeatedly called for the complete withdrawal of US-led forces from the country.

There are over a million Afghan refugees in Iran and Iran will make sure it has the upper-hand in the region.

So the American lives lost in Afganistan will be wasted.

Moreover, the idea that we can use strong sanctions against Iran to stop Iran's progress in its nuclear program is foolish.

Both China and Russia will not participate.

With Russia, back in the Bush area of the late 90's there were agreements that Russia would coax Iran to co-opt the radical Islamists in the Northern Caucasus and control them.

Iran has used Russia's offering as a ruse so Iran could gain control of the Northern Caucasus by proxy. And now you see an increase in violence being committed by the Islamists in the Caucasus.

And with Putin's retreat and the 2014 olympics being held in Sochi and Sochi borders the Northern Caucasus, any attempt to take a hard stand against Iran will increase the risk of terrorism being used during the olympics.

Then you have China who has invested billions of dollars in Iran's refineries and because of this, China will not side with strong sanctions.

Iran knows China and Russia will not side with the strong sanctions and has stated so.

Iran says world powers will fail to reach a consensus on imposing new sanctions against Iran over the country's nuclear program.

"Since the principle of sanctions lacks the legal and logical basis regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran's basic right to peaceful nuclear activities; and since this policy is pursued under the political pressure of certain countries, it is natural that such a consensus [on sanctions] will not materialize," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Sunday.

Washington is persuading members of the P5+1 group — the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, which are the veto-wielding members of the UN Security Council, and Germany — to approve a new round of sanctions against Iran.

China and Russia have repeatedly opposed new punitive measures against Iran with Beijing repeatedly calling for more dialogue with Tehran to resolve the issue.

Meanwhile as Iran marches on with its nuclear program, Iran is using its influence in the Iraqi election.

NCRI’s report says that the cells have received a fatwa from the Qods Forces saying to target those connected to Iyad Allawi, a pro-American secular Shiite, and Saleh al-Mutlaq, a prominent Sunni allied to Allawi. The cells consist of 4-5 people and each commander supervises 20 teams.

The group’s website also reports that a senior European Union official that leads relations with Iraq confirms receiving many reports of fraud (early voting began yesterday) in support of the pro-Iranian bloc and Iranian currency is being found to bribe voters. He also confirmed reports of threats and assassinations of supporters of Allawi’s bloc.

We should consider the source for the first report, but to be fair, we must keep in mind that NCRI has been removed from the European Union’s list of terrorist groups after a lengthy court battle.

Ryan Mauro is the founder of WorldThreats.com and a regular contributor to FrontPage Magazine.

A nuclear Iran will continue to use both the Sunnis and Shiites to influence the region.

In a recent story the Iranians are manipulating a story about a Sunni who was supposedly bribed the U.S..

(Reuters) - The leader of a Sunni Muslim rebel group has "confessed" that the United States promised to provide him with financial and military aid if he agreed to work with them, Iranian state television reported on Friday.

Abdolmalek Rigi was arrested on Tuesday in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said he was at a U.S. military base before being taken into custody by the Islamic state.

The Pentagon on Thursday rejected as "propaganda" Iran's claims that Washington had links to Rigi's rebel group Jundollah and denied his presence at an American base.

In footage broadcast on Iranian television, Rigi said an American agent had promised "finances, military aid, arms and ammunitions as well as a military base in Afghanistan close to the Iranian borders" if he cooperated.

Predominantly Shi'ite Iran has linked Jundollah (God's soldiers) to the Sunni Islamist al Qaeda network and accuses Pakistan, Britain and the United States of backing the rebel group to destabilize the country, a charge the countries deny

Now given the Sunnis make up a large portion of Al Qaeda, it has been found that Iran has supported the Sunni members of Al Qaeda.

Despite the widely held belief that Shia Iran won’t cooperate with Sunni extremist groups because of theological differences, they have found common cause -- a hatred for America. But their relationship is more complex than hatred.

The Sunni extremists also cooperate because Tehran supports them with weapons, training, funding and refuge. The extremists want Iran’s help to overthrow religiously corrupt Islamic states replacing them with a caliphate, an Islamic government.

The Islamic Republic of Iran partners with Sunni extremist groups to help preserve its national security, to undermine Western influence and to usher in the Shiite Mahdi, the messiah. These outcomes apparently happen when extremist groups in cooperation with Iranian agents create instability in countries like Iraq and Afghanistan that keeps the U.S. tied down and provides leverage to counter U.S. pressure to end Iran’s atomic programs.

Consider Iran’s paradoxical relationship with two of the leading Sunni extremist groups, al Qaeda and the Taliban, and then the theological nature of the regime’s motivation.

(emphasis added)

In the end, it's about a nuclear Iran....

Huckabee versus Palin in the South

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While the SLRC is coming up and Palin may be a big draw, the poll numbers in the South favor Huckabee at this time...

These conferences like the SLRC and CPAC are not representative of the general voting population. They are representative of a very specific organizational effort that does not represent the individual voter.

It's been assumed the South will be a source of strength for Sarah Palin if she decides to make a 2012 Presidential bid, but our early polling isn't backing up that assumption.

In Georgia we find Mike Huckabee as the leader with 38% to 28% for Mitt Romney and 25% for Palin. Palin has also finished behind Huckabee in recent polls of North Carolina and Alabama, and she's in third behind both Huckabee and Romney in Texas.

Huckabee won Georgia in 2008 with 34%, so this early 38% standing suggests he's picked up a little bit of support since then. Romney got 30% last time so his support is basically unchanged since last time.

Huckabee has the lead with both moderates and conservatives. Interestingly Romney outruns Palin with both groups as well, including a 28-24 advantage over her with conservatives. As has been the case in other states Palin is not getting any boost from female voters- her 24% level of support from them is pretty much the same as her 25% with men.

If Palin is going to do well in any of the biggest, most delegate rich states her best chances would seem to be in the South. But for now her poll numbers there aren't that great.

Ahmadinejad is Angling for a Job with the Obama Administration

Iran's Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a 'big lie'

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a "big lie" used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror, state media reported.

Ahmadinejad's comments, made during an address to Intelligence Ministry staff, come amid escalating tensions between the West and Tehran over its disputed nuclear program. They show that Iran has no intention of toning itself down even with tighter sanctions looming because of its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.

Alaska's Moose and Caribou Population 1, Ashley Judd and the Enviro Wackos 0

To all of you hunters and organic food gatherers (subsistence users) out there, the Alaska Board of Game has ensured that the empty spot on your plate next to the mashed potatoes will be filled with moose or caribou meat.

According to the Anchorage Daily News, yesterday, the Alaska Board and Game ruled 4 to 3 to eliminate the anti-wolf hunting/trapping "buffer zone" that extended beyond the Denali National Park borders.

Read more at Red County

Color me Purple: Brown and McCain

If I didn't know better by looking at all of the purple shirts, I'd say it was a staged event...

Who Is Peter Hambro?

He is the guy that is looking at buying parts of the bank Parex, which is located in Riga Latvia.

Hambro is chairman of the third-largest Russian gold mining company, Petropavlovsk, and is a scion of a famous British banking dynasty.

The statement did not specify how much money had been offered for the assets, and Latvian government sources were remaining tight- lipped about any possible deal.

The Latvian state, which bailed out Parex, holds around three quarters of shares in the bank and is anxious to recoup as much cash as possible. Investment bank Nomura has been hired to draw up plans for Parex's possible break-up and sale.

Ministers are due to discuss Nomura's recommendations on March 9.

Part of Hambro's team is Mikhail Shelkov who was with Valdimir Putin when they met with the Venezuelan Oil and Energy Minister...

cached information below...

Mikhail Shelkov, deputy chairman of Peter Hambro Mining's board of directors (left), before Vladimir Putin's meeting with the Venezuelan Oil and Energy Minister.
Location:Russia, Moscow
Date of event:01.02.2010
Author: Alexsey Druginyn, STF
Source:RIA Novosti
Original:Digital
Incoming date:01.02.2010

As previously warned, Russia is making its move on the Baltics and is focused on Latvia because of its financial importance. And they are doing it through proxy.

Moreover, tied in with Hambro, is Russia's play on gold since Hambro owns the third largest gold mine in Russia.

Peter Hambro, chairman of Peter Hambro Mining (and former gold trader), was in attendance and highlighted the significance of the massive buying of call options in the June and December 2009 Comex gold contracts. Last week's Thunder Road News discussed Adrian Douglas' analysis of this situation and noted that his sources are telling him the buyers are the two banks closest to the U.S. government. Hambro believes that this option buying might reflect the closing out of carry trades.

Who were the two banks that were closest to the U.S. Government? Moreover, you have this on manipulation of the gold markets.

GATA's 2005 conference in Dawson City was attended by one of Russian President Vladamir Putin's advisers. Subsequently, Putin was photographed holding a gold bar and quoted as saying he supported the Russian central bank's plan to double its gold reserves.

John Embry, chief investment strategist of Sprott Asset Management in Toronto, described his 46-year "personal journey" in the investment world, for more than 30 years of which he has been closely associated with the gold market. He described how in other markets, good analysis could reach logical conclusions about the direction of market prices. In the late 1990s he observed how "the exact antithesis existed in the gold market." This opened his eyes to what was really happening.

Embry believes that the failure of so many people to acknowledge the manipulation of gold resulted from their being unable to believe that governments would conspire against their own citizens. What a touchingly naive notion!

Besides getting the GATA message over to a larger audience, the meeting was also a fund raiser. Additional funds will be used to further GATA's legal efforts to obtain more information on the manipulation in the gold market and bring it to a halt. Such actions might include:

-- Freedom-of-information lawsuits against the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury.

-- Legal action against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

-- And action against the U.S. Mint, which is assigned to mint as many gold and silver coins as are demanded by the public but has violated this requirement in recent years.

So who is Peter Hambro and why the interest in the bank Parex? Could it be that it holds huge Russian assets that were bailed out by Latvia and is an easy buy since pressure is mounting on Latvia?

Parex was founded in 1992 and spent years as a high-flying bank with an ability to attract sizable deposits from rich Russians as well as local clients.

However the credit crunch brought it to the edge of collapse in 2007, which in turn dragged the Latvian state to the verge of bankruptcy when Parex was nationalized in 2008.

An emergency bail-out by the government and subsequent injections of cash have seen more than 1 billion dollars spent on propping up what was the largest home-grown financial institution in the Baltic states.

Latvia turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other international lenders, including the European Union and World Bank, for a 7.5-billion-euro bail-out in the wake of the crisis at Parex.

Prominent local businessman Nils Melngailis was appointed to reshape Parex and has managed to restore some stability by renegotiating the repayment terms of a large syndicated loan and attracting the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as an investor.

What a scam is being placed on the country of Latvia...

Obama's Waterloo: Who Will Blink?

Blink - It's more like shutting ones eyes to what Iran is doing...

Do not strike" is what the Americans are telling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Let's first try sanctions on Iran."

"Do not strike" is what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is saying to Netanyahu. "If you go crazy and go to war, it will be the end of the Zionist regime."

Netanyahu managed to convince the world that Israel is on the verge of a preemptive war to try to foil Iran's nuclear program. His speeches on a second Holocaust and Amalek, the acceleration of military preparations, the exercises on the Home Front, the distribution of gas masks and even the stockpiling of dollars by the Bank of Israel all suggest that Israel is preparing to strike Iran, as it did when it attacked the nuclear plants in Iraq and Syria.

Meanwhile as I said months ago, Americans intinctively know that force will have to be used against Iran.

The McChrsytal Doctrine: Paving the Road to Hell in Afghanistan

The focus is misplaced on Afghanistan when it should be placed on stopping Iran.

When you look at the rhetoric and how nations are dealing with Iran, a similar pattern is setting up on how Germany was handled.

If we adopt McChrystal's plan in Afghanistan, Iran will grow in power to where they have full nuclear capabilities.

If you look at the polls, the American people know instinctively, Iran is the threat that needs to be dealt with. Because if Iran falls, then so do the Taliban and the Al Qaeda.

This is an issue that I stood firmly on and it was one that Palin should have taken when interviewed by O'Reilly.

In a newly released Fox poll, over 60% of Americans feel sanctions will not work...

A Fox News poll released Tuesday finds that 60 percent of voters think force will be required to stop Iran, while 25 percent think diplomacy and sanctions alone will work.

Barbara Walters has Some Advice for Levi: Get a Job

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This will get the crazy left Alaskan bloggers whining...

Romney Polling Well

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-For the first time he came the closest to Barack Obama in our monthly 2012 survey, trailing by 2 points compared to 3 for Mike Huckabee and 7 for Sarah Palin.

-His favorability among Republicans nationally went from 51% in December to 57% in February while Palin's (73% to 72%) and Huckabee's (57% to 56%) more or less stayed the same.

-Our analysis last week of swing voters nationally found that Romney might be the Republican who can best appeal to folks in the middle. His favorability with them was a net +15, compared to +10 for Huckabee and -30 for Palin.

-In our state by state 2012 Republican polling last week we found Romney up in New Mexico and Texas. He's also doing better than expected in the south- he was in third place but at a solid 25% in North Carolina two weeks ago and our Georgia polling later this week will show him in second.

It's debatable how much of this stuff two years before the first primaries and caucuses really matters, but Romney certainly seems to have the momentum among the leading GOP contenders at least for now.

It will be interesting to see if Mitch Daniels gets support to make a strong run even though he has hinted he won't.

Bad Poll Numbers for Palin

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A majority of Alaskans want the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee to stay involved in politics, though there's some disagreement as to how, the Dittman Research Group's Alaska Poll found. Of the 53% who think Palin has a political future, 17% said they want her to run for president. Another 36% said she should not run for president, but help other candidates. (Palin will be doing just that March 26and 27, when she's scheduled to campaign in Arizona for the re-election of Sen. John McCain, her Republican presidential running mate.)

On the other end of the spectrum, 43% of Alaskans responding to the poll said they think Palin should "stay out of politics."

These numbers are not good for Palin...She's screwing up with her endorsements and there is too much saturation with her in the public eye.

People are getting tired of seeing Sarah...

I see White People: Is That Shannyn Moore at a Tea Party Event?

If I didn't know better you would think Shannyn Moore was hanging out with Tea Party people...

They are all white...



Not to worry, it's just a fundraiser for her....

Here are two Tea Party members below among many..




Black Americans For Real Change Raleigh Tea Party

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