How many trillions will he waste in the next four years?
woensdag 7 november 2012
dinsdag 6 november 2012
De laatste loodjes van de campagne...
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| Lege stoelen bij Obama's rally in Nationwide Arena (cap. 18.500) in Ohio. Zelfs met hulp van Bruce Springsteen en Jay-Z kreeg Obama de Arena niet vol, anders dan in 2008... |
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| Een enthousiaste menigte van 10.000 in het Verizon Centre in New Hampshire bij de laatste rally van Mitt Romney. Duizenden moesten wegens plaatsgebrek buiten blijven staan... en First Election Day Reports from Citizen Journalists |
zondag 4 november 2012
A Tale of Two Crises
By Mark Steyn
Meanwhile, FEMA rumbles on, the “emergency-management agency” that manages emergencies, very expensively, rather than preventing them. Late on the night Sandy made landfall, I heard on the local news that my state’s governor had asked the president to declare a federal emergency in every New Hampshire county so that federal funds could be “unlocked.” A quarter-million people in the Granite State were out of power. It was reported that, beyond our borders, 8 million people in a dozen states were out of power.
Read more at: National Review Online
In political terms, Hurricane Sandy and the Benghazi-consulate debacle exemplify at home and abroad the fundamental unseriousness of the United States in the Obama era. In the days after Sandy hit, Barack Obama was generally agreed to have performed well. He had himself photographed in the White House Situation Room nodding thoughtfully to bureaucrats (“John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President; David Agnew, Director for Intergovernmental Affairs”) and tweeted it to his 3.2 million followers. He appeared in New Jersey wearing a bomber jacket rather than a suit to demonstrate that when the going gets tough the tough get out a monogrammed Air Force One bomber jacket. He announced that he’d instructed his officials to answer all calls within 15 minutes because in America “we leave nobody behind.” By doing all this, the president “shows” he “cares” — which is true in the sense that in Benghazi he was willing to leave the entire consulate staff behind, and nobody had their calls answered within seven hours, because presumably he didn’t care. So John Brennan, the Counterterrorism guy, and Tony Blinken, the National Security honcho, briefed the president on the stiff breeze, but on September 11, 2012, when a little counterterrorism was called for, nobody bothered calling the Counterterrorism Security Group, the senior U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy.
Read more at: National Review Online
zaterdag 3 november 2012
Exclusive: Security officials on the ground in Libya challenge CIA account
Despite a carefully narrated version of events rolled out late this week by the CIA claiming agents jumped into action as soon as they were notified of calls for help in Benghazi, security officials on the ground say calls for help went out considerably earlier -- and signs of an attack were mounting even before that.
The accounts, from foreign and American security officials in and around Benghazi at the time of the attack, indicate there was in fact a significant lag between when the threat started to show itself and help started to arrive.
According to the CIA, the first calls for assistance came at 9:40 p.m. local time from a senior State Department official at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, to the CIA annex about a mile away.
But according to multiple people on the ground that night, the Blue Mountain Security manager, who was in charge of the local force hired to guard the consulate perimeter, made calls on both two-way radios and cell phones to colleagues in Benghazi warning of problems at least an hour earlier. Those calls allegedly went to local security contractors who say that the CIA annex was also notified much earlier than 9:40 p.m. U.S. military intelligence also told Fox News that armed militia was gathering up to three hours before the attack began.
Read more at: Fox News
The accounts, from foreign and American security officials in and around Benghazi at the time of the attack, indicate there was in fact a significant lag between when the threat started to show itself and help started to arrive.
According to the CIA, the first calls for assistance came at 9:40 p.m. local time from a senior State Department official at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, to the CIA annex about a mile away.
But according to multiple people on the ground that night, the Blue Mountain Security manager, who was in charge of the local force hired to guard the consulate perimeter, made calls on both two-way radios and cell phones to colleagues in Benghazi warning of problems at least an hour earlier. Those calls allegedly went to local security contractors who say that the CIA annex was also notified much earlier than 9:40 p.m. U.S. military intelligence also told Fox News that armed militia was gathering up to three hours before the attack began.
Read more at: Fox News
vrijdag 2 november 2012
Benghazi blunder: Obama unworthy commander-in-chief
Las Vegas Review Journal Endorses Romney and Pens One of the Most Scathing
Denunciations of President Barack Obama EVER:
Editorial:
U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in a well-planned military assault on their diplomatic mission in Benghazi seven weeks ago, the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. So why are details surfacing, piecemeal, only now?
The Obama administration sat by doing nothing for seven hours that night, ignoring calls to dispatch help from our bases in Italy, less than two hours away. It has spent the past seven weeks stretching the story out, engaging in misdirection and deception involving supposed indigenous outrage over an obscure anti-Muslim video, confident that with the aid of a docile press corps this infamous climax to four years of misguided foreign policy can be swept under the rug, at least until after Tuesday's election.
Charles Woods, father of former Navy SEAL and Henderson resident Tyrone Woods, 41, says his son died slumped over his machine gun after he and fellow ex-SEAL Glen Doherty - not the two locals who were the only bodyguards Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration would authorize - held off the enemy for seven hours.
The Obama administration was warned. They received an embassy cable June 25 expressing concern over rising Islamic extremism in Benghazi, noting the black flag of al-Qaida "has been spotted several times flying over government buildings and training facilities." The Obama administration removed a well-armed, 16-member security detail from Libya in August, The Wall Street Journal reported last month, replacing it with a couple of locals. Mr. Stevens sent a cable Aug. 2 requesting 11 additional body guards, noting "Host nation security support is lacking and cannot be depended on," reports Peter Ferrara at Forbes.com. But these requests were denied, officials testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier this month.
Based on documents released by the committee, on the day of the attack the Pentagon dispatched a drone with a video camera so everyone in Washington could see what was happening in real time. The drone documented no crowds protesting any video. But around 4 p.m. Washington received an email from the Benghazi mission saying it was under a military-style attack. The White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA were able to watch the live video feed. An email sent later that day reported "Ansar al-Sharia claims responsibility for Benghazi attack."
Not only did the White House do nothing, there are now reports that a counterterrorism team ready to launch a rescue mission was ordered to stand down.
The official explanation for the inadequate security? This administration didn't want to "offend the sensibilities" of the new radical Islamic regime which American and British arms had so recently helped install in Libya.
The official explanation for why Obama administration officials watched the attack unfold for seven hours, refusing repeated requests to send the air support and relief forces that sat less than two hours away in Italy? Silence.
An open discussion of these issues, of course, would lead to difficult questions about the wisdom of underwriting and celebrating the so-called Arab Spring revolts in the first place. While the removal of tyrants can be laudable, the results show a disturbing pattern of merely installing new tyrannies - theocracies of medieval mullahs who immediately start savaging the rights of women (including the basic right to education) and who are openly hostile to American interests.
When Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney promptly criticized the security failures in Benghazi, the White House and its lapdog media jumped all over him for another "gaffe," for speaking out too promptly and too strongly. Prompt and strong action from the White House on Sept. 11 might have saved American lives, as well as America's reputation as a nation not to be messed with. Weakness and dithering and flying to Las Vegas the next day for celebrity fund-raising parties are somehow better?
This administration is an embarrassment on foreign policy and incompetent at best on the economy - though a more careful analysis shows what can only be a perverse and willful attempt to destroy our prosperity. Back in January 2008, Barack Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle that under his cap-and-trade plan, "If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them." He added, "Under my plan ... electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." It was also in 2008 that Mr. Obama's future Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, famously said it would be necessary to "figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe" - $9 a gallon.
Yet the president now claims he's in favor of oil development and pipelines, taking credit for increased oil production on private lands where he's powerless to block it, after he halted the Keystone XL Pipeline and oversaw a 50 percent reduction in oil leases on public lands.
These behaviors go far beyond "spin." They amount to a pack of lies. To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," would be disastrous.
Candidate Obama said if he couldn't fix the economy in four years, his would be a one-term presidency.
Mitt Romney is moral, capable and responsible man. Just this once, it's time to hold Barack Obama to his word. Maybe we can all do something about that, come Tuesday.
Update: CHANGE! See the 28 Large Newspapers That Endorsed Obama Last Election and Are Now Endorsing Romney
The Obama administration sat by doing nothing for seven hours that night, ignoring calls to dispatch help from our bases in Italy, less than two hours away. It has spent the past seven weeks stretching the story out, engaging in misdirection and deception involving supposed indigenous outrage over an obscure anti-Muslim video, confident that with the aid of a docile press corps this infamous climax to four years of misguided foreign policy can be swept under the rug, at least until after Tuesday's election.
Charles Woods, father of former Navy SEAL and Henderson resident Tyrone Woods, 41, says his son died slumped over his machine gun after he and fellow ex-SEAL Glen Doherty - not the two locals who were the only bodyguards Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration would authorize - held off the enemy for seven hours.
The Obama administration was warned. They received an embassy cable June 25 expressing concern over rising Islamic extremism in Benghazi, noting the black flag of al-Qaida "has been spotted several times flying over government buildings and training facilities." The Obama administration removed a well-armed, 16-member security detail from Libya in August, The Wall Street Journal reported last month, replacing it with a couple of locals. Mr. Stevens sent a cable Aug. 2 requesting 11 additional body guards, noting "Host nation security support is lacking and cannot be depended on," reports Peter Ferrara at Forbes.com. But these requests were denied, officials testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier this month.
Based on documents released by the committee, on the day of the attack the Pentagon dispatched a drone with a video camera so everyone in Washington could see what was happening in real time. The drone documented no crowds protesting any video. But around 4 p.m. Washington received an email from the Benghazi mission saying it was under a military-style attack. The White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA were able to watch the live video feed. An email sent later that day reported "Ansar al-Sharia claims responsibility for Benghazi attack."
Not only did the White House do nothing, there are now reports that a counterterrorism team ready to launch a rescue mission was ordered to stand down.
The official explanation for the inadequate security? This administration didn't want to "offend the sensibilities" of the new radical Islamic regime which American and British arms had so recently helped install in Libya.
The official explanation for why Obama administration officials watched the attack unfold for seven hours, refusing repeated requests to send the air support and relief forces that sat less than two hours away in Italy? Silence.
An open discussion of these issues, of course, would lead to difficult questions about the wisdom of underwriting and celebrating the so-called Arab Spring revolts in the first place. While the removal of tyrants can be laudable, the results show a disturbing pattern of merely installing new tyrannies - theocracies of medieval mullahs who immediately start savaging the rights of women (including the basic right to education) and who are openly hostile to American interests.
When Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney promptly criticized the security failures in Benghazi, the White House and its lapdog media jumped all over him for another "gaffe," for speaking out too promptly and too strongly. Prompt and strong action from the White House on Sept. 11 might have saved American lives, as well as America's reputation as a nation not to be messed with. Weakness and dithering and flying to Las Vegas the next day for celebrity fund-raising parties are somehow better?
This administration is an embarrassment on foreign policy and incompetent at best on the economy - though a more careful analysis shows what can only be a perverse and willful attempt to destroy our prosperity. Back in January 2008, Barack Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle that under his cap-and-trade plan, "If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them." He added, "Under my plan ... electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." It was also in 2008 that Mr. Obama's future Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, famously said it would be necessary to "figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe" - $9 a gallon.
Yet the president now claims he's in favor of oil development and pipelines, taking credit for increased oil production on private lands where he's powerless to block it, after he halted the Keystone XL Pipeline and oversaw a 50 percent reduction in oil leases on public lands.
These behaviors go far beyond "spin." They amount to a pack of lies. To return to office a narcissistic amateur who seeks to ride this nation's economy and international esteem to oblivion, like Slim Pickens riding the nuclear bomb to its target at the end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," would be disastrous.
Candidate Obama said if he couldn't fix the economy in four years, his would be a one-term presidency.
Mitt Romney is moral, capable and responsible man. Just this once, it's time to hold Barack Obama to his word. Maybe we can all do something about that, come Tuesday.
Las Vegas Review-JournalUpdate: CHANGE! See the 28 Large Newspapers That Endorsed Obama Last Election and Are Now Endorsing Romney
Sources: Key task force not convened during Benghazi consulate attack
By Sharyl Attkisson
"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon."
Information shared with CBS News from top counterterrorism sources in the government and military reveal keen frustration over the U.S. response on Sept. 11, the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
Read more at: CBS News
CBS News has learned that during the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Mission in Benghazi, the Obama Administration did not convene its top interagency counterterrorism resource: the Counterterrorism Security Group, (CSG).
"The CSG is the one group that's supposed to know what resources every agency has. They know of multiple options and have the ability to coordinate counterterrorism assets across all the agencies," a high-ranking government official told CBS News. "They were not allowed to do their job. They were not called upon."
Information shared with CBS News from top counterterrorism sources in the government and military reveal keen frustration over the U.S. response on Sept. 11, the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed in a coordinated attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya.
Read more at: CBS News
donderdag 1 november 2012
Benghazi Reveals Obama-Islamist Alliance
By James Lewis
The nature of the Benghazi disaster is now clear. Ambassador Stevens was engaged in smuggling sizable quantities of Libyan arms from the destroyed Gaddafi regime to the Syrian rebels, to help overthrow the Assad regime in Syria. Smuggling arms to the so-called "Free Syrian Army" is itself a huge gamble, but Obama has been a gambler with human lives over the last four years, as shown by the tens of thousands of Arabs who have died in the so-called Arab Spring -- which has brought nothing but disaster to the Arab world.
For the last four years, the Obama policy has been to offer aid and comfort violent Islamic radicals in the delusional belief that their loyalty can be bought. We therefore betrayed Hosni Mubarak, our 30-year ally in Egypt, so that the Muslim Brotherhood led by Muhammed Morsi could take over. Obama indeed demanded publicly that Mubarak resign, for reasons that never made any sense at all. Egypt went into a political and economic tailspin, and the Muslim Brotherhood were elected. The Muslim radicals have now purged the only other viable political force, the army and police, to protect their monopoly on power. We have colluded in that betrayal.
Read more at: American Thinker
The nature of the Benghazi disaster is now clear. Ambassador Stevens was engaged in smuggling sizable quantities of Libyan arms from the destroyed Gaddafi regime to the Syrian rebels, to help overthrow the Assad regime in Syria. Smuggling arms to the so-called "Free Syrian Army" is itself a huge gamble, but Obama has been a gambler with human lives over the last four years, as shown by the tens of thousands of Arabs who have died in the so-called Arab Spring -- which has brought nothing but disaster to the Arab world.
For the last four years, the Obama policy has been to offer aid and comfort violent Islamic radicals in the delusional belief that their loyalty can be bought. We therefore betrayed Hosni Mubarak, our 30-year ally in Egypt, so that the Muslim Brotherhood led by Muhammed Morsi could take over. Obama indeed demanded publicly that Mubarak resign, for reasons that never made any sense at all. Egypt went into a political and economic tailspin, and the Muslim Brotherhood were elected. The Muslim radicals have now purged the only other viable political force, the army and police, to protect their monopoly on power. We have colluded in that betrayal.
Read more at: American Thinker
Spreektekst Geert Wilders bij het debat over het verslag van de informateurs
| Voorzitter (Vz), Dallas komt terug op de televisie. Citroen brengt de deux-chevaux opnieuw op de markt. En ook de Nederlandse politiek gaat terug in de tijd. We gaan terug naar de jaren negentig en we doen alsof Pim Fortuyn een boze droom is geweest die we weer snel willen vergeten. We gaan terug met dit retro-kabinet terug in de tijd. Terug naar de tijd van Paars. De puinhopen van paars zijn voorbij en na Paars 1 en Paars 2 komt Paars 3 er nu aan. En zelfs de sociale partners komen onder het stof vandaan en juichen bij de terugkeer van….. het poldermodel. Alles wordt weer net als vroeger – hoopt Paars. Vz, Er is geen twijfel mogelijk. Rutte 2 is één grote aanval op de middenklasse. Dit kabinet heeft dringend geld nodig voor haar Griekse hobby en waar kun je dat geld beter halen dan bij de ruggengraat van werkend Nederland, de mensen die elke dag vroeg op staan, in de file staan, de mensen die dit land aan de gang houden, die hopen op een klein beetje meer geld in hun portemonnee, iets meer tijd om door te brengen met hun gezin. Oftewel, de Nederlandse middenklasse. Vz, ik moet het ze nageven: creatief zijn ze wel. Zet een paar mannen aan het werk in een bijzaaltje van de Tweede Kamer en geef ze als opdracht: pers Henk en Ingrid zo veel mogelijk uit. En dit is waar ze mee komen. Een onwaarschijnlijke hoeveelheid nieuwe belastingen, nieuwe lastenverhogingen, nieuwe maatregelen – allemaal bedoeld om de middenklasse nog verder te treiteren. Het eerste briljante idee van die mannen in dat kamertje is de handhaving van al het sloopwerk van Kunduz. Dat betekent verhoging van de BTW, de loonbelasting, de verzekeringsbelasting, de kolenbelasting, de frisdrankenbelasting, de leidingwaterbelasting, de alcoholaccijnzen, de tabaksaccijnzen, de energiebelasting, en last but not least een enorme verhoging van het eigen risico in de zorg. Dat allemaal onder het VVD-motto: ‘werkend Nederland verdient belastingverlaging’. Niemand die de VVD nu nog vertrouwt. Maar dit was alleen nog maar het begin. Het voorprogramma. De hoofdact kregen we maandag. En kijk eens aan: ze hebben nog een hele nieuwe serie nieuwe maatregelen verzonnen in hun frontale aanval op de middenklasse. Want dat is het: Als ik het regeerakkoord in één woord mag definiëren: een frontale aanval op de middenklasse. We krijgen de huurbelasting. Huren gaan structureel met tien procent omhoog, rekent het CPB uit. De hypotheekrenteaftrek wordt beperkt. Ook voor bestaande gevallen, ondanks de beloften van de VVD. Het kabinet voert de grootste nivelleringsoperatie ooit door. De hypotheekrenteaftrek, zorgpremie, het eigen risico, de huurstijging. De heer Rutte schiet totaal door en steekt Den Uyl naar de kroon. Dit is een kabinet waar de bijstandstrekkers de vingers bij aflikken. De zorg wordt met een inkomensafhankelijke premie bijna helemaal gratis voor de bijstandstrekkers, terwijl het peperduur wordt voor heel veel hardwerkende Nederlanders. Dat is onacceptabel! Wat ook onbegrijpelijk is, is dat dit kabinet meteen buigt voor Brussel en de Hedwigepolder onder water zet; opnieuw een teken van onderdanigheid aan de EU. We zullen er ons met hand en tand tegen verzetten. Er komt een kinderpardon. De naam is misleidend. Het zijn de ouders, die ondanks afgewezen asielaanvragen toch met hun kinderen in Nederland bleven, die beloond worden ondanks hun leugens met een verblijfsvergunning. Dit is gewoon het zoveelste generaal pardon van het zoveelste slappe kabinet. Deze pardonregeling zorgt er voor dat geen enkele afgewezen vreemdeling meer naar het land van herkomst terugkeert. Waarom zou je dat doen? Neem een kind, laat het hier opgroeien, ga in de illegaliteit en je kan een verblijfsvergunning krijgen. Leuk voor de zieligheidsindustrie en de islamknuffelaars, maar de Nederlandse burger mag het gaan betalen. ‘Bruggen slaan’ luidt het motto. Dat snap ik en ik weet wel wie er via die bruggen zich hier in Nederland komen melden voor een uitkering. De schade voor een Nederlands gezin is groot. Een gezin met twee werkende ouders en drie kinderen op school wordt zwaar getroffen door Rutte2. De studiefinanciering weg, de schoolboeken niet meer gratis, OV-jaarkaart weg, BTW omhoog, accijnzen omhoog, de hypotheekrente er aan, verzekeringen fors duurder, aftrek pensioenpremie beperkt, kinderbijslag versoberd, kinderopvang duurder, langer wachten op de AOW, partnertoeslag weg. En als je de pech hebt om als hardwerkende Nederlander werkloos te worden, dan krijg je een WW van slechts een jaar, daarna een jaar gekoppeld aan het minimum loon – daarna mag je in de bijstand en je huis verkopen. Er wordt 5 miljard bezuinigd op zieken en bejaarden. Verblijf in het verzorgingshuis wordt voor belangrijke groepen geschrapt, o.a. voor onder meer dementerenden die veel hulp nodig hebben bij de dagelijkse verzorging zoals wassen, aankleden, in en uit bed gaan, toiletgang. Dit is een beschaafde samenleving onwaardig. 90% van het budget van de huishoudelijke hulp wordt geschrapt! De dagbesteding geschrapt! Het recht op zorg geschrapt! 60.000 minder handen aan het bed! Vz, het werd de Partij voor de Vrijheid ingewreven dat wij zouden zijn weggelopen uit het Catshuis. We hebben het de hele verkiezingscampagne moeten horen. Vandaag moeten we vaststellen dat het niet de PVV was die vertrok. De complete VVD is weggelopen. Weg van alle stoere praatjes van voor de verkiezingen. Weg van alle garanties over de hypotheekrente-aftrek. Weg van alle vrome geluiden over de middenklasse. Weg van alle peperdure billboards die riepen‘werkend Nederland verdient belastingverlaging’.Weg van alle eurosceptische geluiden. Weg van de harde geluiden over de massa-immigratie. Weg van alle liberale principes. Rennen. Rennen, dat is wat ze doen bij de VVD. In de armen van de socialisten, de geur van pluche in de neusgaten, richting de linkse lente, naar het land van EU-heilstaat, naar de eeuwige jachtvelden van de gelijke kansen en gelijke inkomens. Iedereen hetzelfde, zegt de VVD nu, iedereen hetzelfde inkomen, iedereen gelijk. De overwinning van het socialisme is compleet. Het lijkt alsof Marx gewonnen heeft. De middenklasse wordt gesloopt. En daar zitten ze, de VVD, die daarvoor verantwoordelijk is. Vz, Mark Rutte herinnerde zich ooit in een debat Joop den Uyl. Die stond met dat priemende vingertje en zei:“dat tweede kabinet Den Uyl dat komt er toch.”Vz, Joop den Uyl, hij leeft niet meer maar hij zou tevreden zijn. Spreiding van inkomen is in goede handen bij Mark Rutte. Vz, dit is niet het tweede kabinet Rutte. Dit is het tweede kabinet Den Uyl. Vz, mag ik tenslotte nog even reclame maken voor een website. Het is er een van de VVD, dus ik preek heus niet voor eigen parochie. Ik roep iedereen op – hier in de zaal en ook de mensen die thuis kijken – naar die website te gaan. Het is redjehypotheek.nl en is nog steeds in de lucht. Er staat tot de dag van vandaag met koeienletters op: Bij wie is de hypotheekrente-aftrek veilig? Het antwoord luidt: bij de VVD. Dat blijkt een grote leugen te zijn. Vz, dit is een kabinet van de verkeerde keuzes, een kabinet zonder ambities. Het kan anders. Dat bewees ons verkiezingsprogramma. Dat leverde groei op, banen, minder werklozen, een begrotingstekort in 2017 dat lager is dan dat van het nieuwe kabinet, en koopkrachtplaatjes die er –behalve voor uitkeringsgerechtigden – veel beter uitzien dan de vijf jaar krimp en ellende die dit aankomende kabinet presenteert. Het is een destructief kabinet met heel veel verkeerde plannen. En al die plannen zullen wij met 15 mannen en vrouwen met veel verve, kracht en passie bestrijden. |
woensdag 31 oktober 2012
Omdat ieder ander recht heeft op waar jij zo hard voor hebt gewerkt...
Tja, beste VVD-stemmers, jullie moesten toch zo nodig strategisch stemmen om die vreselijke Wilders buiten de macht te houden?
Waar had Geert ook alweer voor gewaarschuwd? Iets van: "Een stem op de VVD is een stem op de PvdA", toch? Kijk eens aan, hij had alwéér gelijk.
En, hoe voelen jullie je nu? Beetje belazerd, zeker? Tja, jullie hadden het kunnen weten. Denk aan de vorige verkiezingen, en die malle windmolens die volgens Rutte alleen op subsidie draaiden. Die uitspraak belette hem niet om er vervolgens ondanks de tegenstand onder de bevolking het grootste windmolenpark van Nederland door te drukken. O ja, nog zo'n verkiezingsbelofte van ons lachebekje: geen cént meer naar Griekenland. Nou, we weten allemaal hoeveel miljarden centen er vervolgens op de Griekse bankrekeningen zijn gestort, en bovendien al zijn klaargelegd voor de volgende storting(en). Eens een windvaan, altijd een windvaan.
Bezuinigen betekent voor ALLE gevestigde partijen helaas niets anders dan de bevolking verder uitzuigen ten bate van hun eigen politieke hobby's en doelstellingen. In eigen vlees snijden is iets wat ten koste van alles vermeden moet worden. In plaats daarvan mag het Nederlandse volk weer eens de broekriem aanhalen en worden we gedwongen lijdzaam toe te staan dat onze bevolking zienderogen verarmt, terwijl de politieke elite doorgaat ons belastinggeld met emmers tegelijk over de balk te gooien. Naar de Grieken, naar de EUSSR, naar het ESM, naar Kunduz, naar de JSF, naar de "kwetsbare gezinnen" in de Schilderswijk, naar meer immigranten, naar maatregelen tegen een natuurlijk fenomeen als klimaatverandering, naar pensioenen voor terroristen in Gaza en ga zo maar door. En wij maar inleveren.
Om hier iets tegen te doen was het noodzakelijk om weer baas in eigen land te worden. Weg met de EU, weg met de euro. Er was maar een partij die dat in haar programma had staan. Maar ja, Wilders, hè, daar stemt een fatsoenlijk mens niet op...
Nou, dit is dus het resultaat. Veel plezier met weer een pimpelpaarse regering. We zullen zien wie er beter aan toe is als deze regering het veld ruimt: ons land, onze burgers, of al die personen en instanties die blijkbaar meer recht op ons belastinggeld hebben dan wij zelf.
Hieronder een bumpersticker uit de verkiezingen in de VS, waar ze hun eigen nivelleerder ("I think spreading the wealth is good for everybody") uit het Witte Huis proberen te schoppen.
Zoals het er nu uitziet hebben kiezers in de VS meer kans om met hun stem iets te bereiken dan kiezers in Nederland.
Update:
Hypotheekrenteaftrek staat bij ons als een huis
Al delete de VVD de pagina nog zo snel, GeenStijl redt hem wel:
hetinternetvergeetniks.nl
Al delete de VVD de pagina nog zo snel, GeenStijl redt hem wel:
hetinternetvergeetniks.nl
dinsdag 30 oktober 2012
In Their Own Words: Obama's Effect on Military Families
By Elise Cooper
President Obama seems to have a disregard for those defending America. Recently, on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, he commented on the death of three Americans and Ambassador Chris Stevens: "... it's not optimal." The mother of Sean Smith, a Foreign Service officer and one of the three killed, reportedly responded to the president: "My son is not very optimal. He is also very dead. It was a disrespectful thing to say[.]"
That is how many families feel about the president's attitude toward those who have died serving their country. Billy and Karen Vaughn spoke with American Thinker about their deceased Navy SEAL Team Six son, Aaron, and their views on this administration's rules of engagement policies.
Aaron Vaughn was one of thirty U.S. service members, including 22 members of SEAL Team Six, killed when the helicopter they were traveling in was downed on August 5, 2011, in Afghanistan. This was the largest loss of life in the history of naval special warfare. At the time of his death, Aaron left behind a two-year-old son, a two-month-old daughter, his wife, and his parents. He became a SEAL in 2004 and joined SEAL Team Six in 2010. He was one of the few SEALs to get his name on the "First Time Every Time Wall," an honor for those SEALs who passed every test on their first try.
Read more at: American Thinker
President Obama seems to have a disregard for those defending America. Recently, on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show, he commented on the death of three Americans and Ambassador Chris Stevens: "... it's not optimal." The mother of Sean Smith, a Foreign Service officer and one of the three killed, reportedly responded to the president: "My son is not very optimal. He is also very dead. It was a disrespectful thing to say[.]"
That is how many families feel about the president's attitude toward those who have died serving their country. Billy and Karen Vaughn spoke with American Thinker about their deceased Navy SEAL Team Six son, Aaron, and their views on this administration's rules of engagement policies.
Aaron Vaughn was one of thirty U.S. service members, including 22 members of SEAL Team Six, killed when the helicopter they were traveling in was downed on August 5, 2011, in Afghanistan. This was the largest loss of life in the history of naval special warfare. At the time of his death, Aaron left behind a two-year-old son, a two-month-old daughter, his wife, and his parents. He became a SEAL in 2004 and joined SEAL Team Six in 2010. He was one of the few SEALs to get his name on the "First Time Every Time Wall," an honor for those SEALs who passed every test on their first try.
Read more at: American Thinker
maandag 29 oktober 2012
Why Our Forces Were Told to ‘Stand Down’ in Benghazi
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To understand what went wrong in the Benghazi mission, it’s important to begin by looking at what was so unique about it.
When the Islamist mobs began their September 11 rampage, they found embassies with high walls, heavy security and police protection. Even in Tunis and Cairo, where the Arab Spring Islamist regimes have been accused of collaborating with their fellow Salafists, there were credible military and police forces capable of preventing the kind of full scale assault that took place in Benghazi.
The mission in Benghazi, however, was an American diplomatic facility with few defenses in a city where the police were virtually helpless against the Islamist militias and where the national government had announced that it would allow the Salafists to destroy Sufi tombs rather than intervene.
On September 1, I wrote that the real implication of these remarks was that the Libyan government had given the Islamists a free hand and would take no action no matter what they did. And bloodshed was sure to follow. Ten days later it did.
Read more at: Frontpage Magazine
To understand what went wrong in the Benghazi mission, it’s important to begin by looking at what was so unique about it.
When the Islamist mobs began their September 11 rampage, they found embassies with high walls, heavy security and police protection. Even in Tunis and Cairo, where the Arab Spring Islamist regimes have been accused of collaborating with their fellow Salafists, there were credible military and police forces capable of preventing the kind of full scale assault that took place in Benghazi.
The mission in Benghazi, however, was an American diplomatic facility with few defenses in a city where the police were virtually helpless against the Islamist militias and where the national government had announced that it would allow the Salafists to destroy Sufi tombs rather than intervene.
On September 1, I wrote that the real implication of these remarks was that the Libyan government had given the Islamists a free hand and would take no action no matter what they did. And bloodshed was sure to follow. Ten days later it did.
Read more at: Frontpage Magazine
zaterdag 27 oktober 2012
BREAKING: CIA Requested Help During Benghazi Battle, Were Denied Three Times (Updated)
by Bryan Preston
Fox’s Jennifer Griffin deserves a Pulitzer for the work she is doing to uncover what really happened during and after the assault at Benghazi. In her latest blockbuster, she reports on how American personnel were left without aid during the battle.
Who gave those stand-down orders? Was the CIA director, Gen. David Petraeus, aware of them? Did he approve them? Who specifically took any part on this decision?
Read more at: PJ Media
Fox’s Jennifer Griffin deserves a Pulitzer for the work she is doing to uncover what really happened during and after the assault at Benghazi. In her latest blockbuster, she reports on how American personnel were left without aid during the battle.
Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that three urgent requests from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack nearly seven hours later were denied by officials in the CIA chain of command — who also told the CIA operators to “stand down” rather than help the ambassador’s team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
Former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were part of a small team who were at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. Consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When they heard the shots fired, they radioed to inform their higher-ups to tell them what they were hearing. They were told to “stand down,” according to sources familiar with the exchange. An hour later, they called again to headquarters and were again told to “stand down.”
Who gave those stand-down orders? Was the CIA director, Gen. David Petraeus, aware of them? Did he approve them? Who specifically took any part on this decision?
Read more at: PJ Media
Did Obama Watch While They Fought for their Lives?
They fought for their lives for seven hours. 9/11/ 2012. Benghazi. The White House watched. No help was sent and they died.
Four Americans died in the jihadi attack on our consulate in Benghazi. Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, two retired SEALS who were working as civilian security specialists in Benghazi, learned that Ambassador Stevens and nine other people at the consulate were under attack and rushed to their defense. The fourth man was Sean Smith, father of three, an Air Force veteran, working for the State Department in Libya.
TheWhite House, the Pentagon, the State Department, and our military monitored the battle in real time starting with the first phone calls directly from Benghazi.
A small military force from Tripoli was dispatched and was able to rescue some personnel hiding in other buildings. Ambassador Stevens remained missing, as did these three men. The fire-fight raged on.The shocking news of October 22 was that a drone ordered in from Tripoli sent back images of the attack in real time. The battle was sent on streaming video direct to the Situation Room in the White House. Within two hours, emails from Benghazi reported that Al Qaeda in Libya was claiming responsibility.
President Obama, our Commander-in-Chief, had military options available to try and save our men. He could have had the drone armed with Hellfire missiles. He could have scrambled fighter jets from Sicily to drive off the attackers. He could have dropped in Special Forces. He had seven hours to take action.
He did nothing. Doherty and Woods died in the last hour of the attack.
Read more at: American Thinker
Update: Video: Obama ducks questions on why help wasn’t sent to Benghazi
donderdag 25 oktober 2012
Seals left to die in Benghazi...
They were on the roof of that building with that machine-gun for seven hours thinking somebody was coming to rescue them... and nobody came.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1922724182001/did-white-house-lie-about-libya-attack/
The next day the leader of the free world flew to Las Vegas for a political fund-raiser.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1922724182001/did-white-house-lie-about-libya-attack/
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The next day the leader of the free world flew to Las Vegas for a political fund-raiser.
woensdag 24 oktober 2012
The real reason behind Benghazigate
Was Obama gun-walking arms to jihadists?
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
President Obama’s once seemingly unstoppable march toward re-election hit what he might call “bumps in the road” in Benghazi, Libya, late on Sept. 11, 2012. It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and -executed, military-style attack on a diplomatic facility there as the political equivalent of a devastating improvised explosive device on the myth of the unassailability of the Obama record as commander in chief.
Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting — notably by Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Clare Lopez at RadicalIslam.org — and information developed by congressional investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known as Benghazigate.
Read more at: The Washington Times
By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.
President Obama’s once seemingly unstoppable march toward re-election hit what he might call “bumps in the road” in Benghazi, Libya, late on Sept. 11, 2012. It might be more accurate to describe the effect of the well-planned and -executed, military-style attack on a diplomatic facility there as the political equivalent of a devastating improvised explosive device on the myth of the unassailability of the Obama record as commander in chief.
Thanks to intrepid investigative reporting — notably by Bret Baier and Catherine Herridge at Fox News, Aaron Klein at WND.com and Clare Lopez at RadicalIslam.org — and information developed by congressional investigators, the mystery is beginning to unravel with regard to what happened that night and the reason for the subsequent, clumsy official cover-up now known as Benghazigate.
Read more at: The Washington Times
zaterdag 20 oktober 2012
Back in the EUSSR
De Europese Unie, die onlangs de Nobelprijs voor de Vrede heeft gewonnen, heeft zichzelf net in de kaart laten kijken en heeft onbewust haar ware aard verraden. De Unie, die de macht concentreert in de handen van een ongekozen bureaucratie, terwijl ze intussen voor de vorm een parlement kiest, heeft een reclameposter die de ware aard van het beest laat zien.
Daniel Hannan van de Telegraph in het VK ontdekte de belediging:
Hij schrijft:
Kijk eens goed naar deze reclameposter. Valt u iets op? Naast de symbolen voor het christendom, judaïsme, jaïnisme enzovoort staat een van de meest verdorven emblemen die de mens ooit heeft bedacht: de hamer en sikkel.
Drie generaties lang betekende het symbool van de sovjetrevolutie armoede, slavernij, foltering en de dood. Het sierde de petten van de cheka's die 's nachts kwamen. Het werd getoond aan het begin en het einde van de propagandafilms die de hongersnoden verborgen hielden. Het kondigde de volksgerechten aan waar de slachtoffers van zuiveringsacties en schijnprocessen werden veroordeeld. Het wapperde boven de heropvoedingskampen en de goelags. Voor honderden miljoenen Europeanen was het een symbool van de vreemde bezetting. Hongarije, Litouwen en Moldova hebben het gebruik ervan verboden, en diverse vroegere communistische landen willen dat er op dezelfde manier mee wordt omgegaan als met de insignia van de nazi's.
Je moet je afvragen waarom de swastika op de poster ontbreekt. Die staat symbool voor een Europese ideologische innovatie die absoluut te vergelijken is met de hamer en de sikkel. Let op dat de hamer en sikkel bovenop de ster staat. Mocht u denken dat dat toeval is, hou dan eens op uzelf voor de gek te houden.
Communisten in Europa en elders, de Verenigde Staten niet uitgesloten, hebben zich niet officieel overgegeven toen de Sovjetunie en de Oost-Europese communistische landen hun geloof opgaven. Ze zijn gewoon doorgegaan met zich overal ter wereld in de politieke, culturele, educatieve en communicatie-infrastructuren in te graven.
Bron: American Thinker
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