[NOTE from BZ: this is an incredibly target-rich news-filled day and week; I almost don’t know where to begin. There are numerous topics to address and so little time!]
President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.
President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…
President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.
This is Mr Obama, in essence, telling the Russians that his attempt to re-make this country into another former USSR is in progress. He is telling Medvedev that he shares more in common with the Russians than they would suspect.
The U.S. and its NATO allies are pursuing a missile defense shield, while Russia objects that it would compromise its security.
“Compromise (Russian) security”?
Hello? Is anyone with the slightest hint of logic and rationality who’s interested in the survival of America listening?
As in: that’s the point?
Mr Obama gets it wrong on just about every aspect and issue of American politics, sovereignty and security.
This bit of insight into Mr Obama is completely in keeping with his purposeful attempted dismantling of America.
And truly: is anyone listening?
Will this incident be splayed across morning newspapers all across America tomorrow? Will it be covered 24/7 for at least the next seven days on CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN or even Fox?
I think you have your answer.
Mr Obama thinks the best interests of Russia are the best interests of America. To this president, it seems greater to be an American foe than an American friend. You make this comment, Mr Obama, because you don’t want the American people to know what you are planning.
America, you are so about to be sold out in a manner you could never have even remotely envisioned.
Mr Obama isn’t just the “worst president ever.” He is the most dangerous president in the history of our nation.
And he is actually on the cusp of a second term, make no mistake.
Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.”
“His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller.
The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”
But here comes a more pointed issue that any number of Conservatives, myself included, have made before: The epidemic is truly black on black crime,” Bryant said. “The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.”
Bryant said he wishes civil rights leaders were protesting those problems.
“Why not be angry about the wholesale murder that goes on in the streets of Newark and Chicago?” he asked. “Why isn’t somebody angry about that six-year-old girl who was killed on her steps last weekend in a cross fire when two gang members in Chicago start shooting at each other? Why is there no outrage about that?”
Bryant said he worries that “people like Sharpton and those on the left” will make Martin’s death a campaign issue in the presidential race.
He speculated that they will “turn this evolving tragedy of this young man into fodder to say… if you don’t re-elect Obama then you will have unbridled events or circumstances like this happening in the streets to young men wearing hoodies.” (RELATED: Herman Cain criticizes ‘swirling rhetoric’ after Martin shooting)
He also criticized President Obama for his “nebulous statement” responding to Martin’s death that “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
“What does that mean?” Bryant asked. “What was the purpose in that?”
The purpose of that was evident: pander to blacks and blacks only. Eliminate and obfuscate the facts.
The local media chimes in, in terms of product proffered on the death of an individual:
The mother of Trayvon Martin now — imagine this — wants to CASH IN on the image of her son. I say: of course. Strike whilst the Disgusting and Uninvolved Iron Is Hot, you ignorant bitch.
Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand, you’ve heard and read about the shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida on Sunday, February 26th. Yes, correct; the incident occurred roughly a month ago. I wrote about it here.
Texas Fred posted about the situation here and I responded in a comment:
Let me make this as simple as I can:
In my jurisdiction, in my agency, over 45% of the violent crime is committed by black males between the ages of 15 and 25. Much of this is black-on-black crime, committed by young black males against young black males.
This isn’t theory or guessing or assumption. These are stats that my department and others in the area compile and predominantly do not want getting out into the mainstream public.
My suggestion to young black males? When your crimes trend down markedly, you may find yourselves with longer life spans, having to attend fewer funerals, with greater potential for employment and with more respect.
This isn’t rocket science. Those are facts.
On that vein, ∞ ≠ ø recommended the following video:
Justice Department Statistics About Black On White Race Violence ‘The Race War Of Black Against White’ by Paul Sheehan The Sydney Morning Herald , Australia, 20 May 1995
The longest war America has ever fought is the Dirty War, and it is not over. It has lasted 30 years so far and claimed more than 25 million victims. It has cost almost as many lives as the Vietnam War. It determined the result of last year’s congressional election.
Yet the American news media do not want to talk about the Dirty War, which remains between the lines and unreported. In fact, to even suggest that the war exists is to be discredited. So let’s start suggesting, immediately.
No matter how crime figures are massaged by those who want to acknowledge or dispute the existence of a Dirty War, there is nothing ambiguous about what the official statistics portray: for the past 30 years a large segment of black America has waged a war of violent retribution against white America.
And the problem is getting worse, not better. In the past 20 years, violent crime has increased more than four times faster than the population. Young blacks (under 18) are more violent than previous generations and are 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than young whites.
Nearly all the following figures, which speak for themselves, have not been reported in America:
• According to the latest US Department of Justice survey of crime victims, more than 6.6 million violent crimes (murder, rape, assault and robbery) are committed in the US each year, of which about 20 per cent, or 1.3 million, are inter-racial crimes.
• Most victims of race crime—about 90 per cent—are white, according to the survey “Highlights from 20 Years of Surveying Crime Victims“, published in 1993.
• Almost 1 million white Americans were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by black Americans in 1992, compared with about 132,000 blacks who were murdered, robbed, assaulted or raped by whites, according to the same survey.
• Blacks thus committed 7.5 times more violent inter-racial crimes than whites even though the black population is only one-seventh the size of the white population. When these figures are adjusted on a per capita basis, they reveal an extraordinary disparity: blacks are committing more than 50 times the number of violent racial crimes of whites.
• According to the latest annual report on murder by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, most inter-racial murders involve black assailants and white victims, with blacks murdering whites at 18 times the rate that whites murder blacks.
These breathtaking disparities began to emerge in the mid-1960’s, when there was a sharp increase in black crime against whites, an upsurge which, not coincidentally, corresponds exactly with the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.
Over time, the cumulative effect has been staggering. Justice Department and FBI statistics indicate that between 1964 and 1994 more than 25 million violent inter-racial crimes were committed, overwhelmingly involving black offenders and white victims, and more than 45,000 people were killed in inter-racial murders. By comparisons 58,000 Americans died in Vietnam, and 34,000 were killed in the Korean war.
When non-violent crimes (burglary, larceny, car theft and personal theft) are included, the cumulative totals become prodigious. The Bureau of Justice Statistics says 27 million non-violent crimes were committed in the US in 1992, and the survey found that 31 per cent of the robberies involved black offenders and white victims (while only 2 per cent in the reverse).
When all the crime figures are calculated, it appears that black Americans have committed at least 170 million crimes against white Americans in the past 30 years. It is the great defining disaster of American life and American ideals since World War II.
All these are facts, yet by simply writing this story, by assembling the facts in this way, I would be deemed a racist by the American news media. It prefers to maintain a paternalistic double-standard in its coverage of black America, a lower standard.
Things are not always as they seem. Perhaps, as Leftists suggest, it really is time to open our minds — but to the possibilities that blacks are not always victims, and that guilt runs rampant in the lesser melanin-packed portions of our media and our institutions.
If we want to portray certain classes as victims only, then I have a problem — particularly in light of the fact that certain strata of this nation make their money on the backs of so-called victims and, as long as victims exist, their money streams continue uninterrupted. I specifically cite Poverty and Racial Pimps such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Because a thread doesn’t fit a narrative, perhaps it’s time to expand our horizons as Leftists suggest. Except that, when a narrative refuses to fit a Leftist meme, that narrative becomes racist, sexist, homophobic, discriminatory, and any number of likewise judgmental words.
Ladies and gentlemen, read all you can, digest all you can, consult as many internet and hard copy sources as you can, use your filters, your logic, your proportion, your common sense.
George Zimmerman suffered a broken nose, and had an injury to the back of his head, he was attacked by Trayvon Martin on that evening,” Sonner said. “This was a case of self defense.”
All the facts are not yet in. Because ∞ ≠ øprovided this link which extends greater insight into the overall situation and, as yet unseen, photographs of Trayvon Martin at his more current age, replete with loving tattoos. Trayvon Martin’s MySpace link is here.
It seems that Tray was also on Twitter, but his account seems to have been recently deleted by his family or friends. Wagist writes (and has researched):
His screen name was “@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA, as you can see from the twitpic account screenshot above. He was also a member of a twitter hash group #team4dat.
There seem to be several allusions to violence on Tray’s Twitter account.
His friends posted supportive messages using it as well, about how happy they were that Trayvon whooped Zimmerman’s ass before he died.
@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA IMA MISS YU TILL I DIE DOG I KNOW YU WHOOPED HIS ASS DOE.. CUZ I PRAY GOD HELP ME AND WATCH YU LOVE YOU CUZZ REST ETERNALLY.
Yes, all the facts are not in. But I will continue to present the information that the DEM/MSM refuses to investigate, cover or reveal. You wish to speak and write of prejudice? I submit it’s with GOWPs and the cowardly, pandering bulk of American media.
WikiLeaks has been releasing emails pilfered from Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm. One email thread in particular has been grabbing headlines today, even though it was actually disclosed last week – The Journalhas a story dated March 1st about them. In this exchange, Stratfor’s vice-president for intelligence, Fred Burton, discusses the disposal of Osama bin Laden’s corpse with CEO George Friedman, and suggests he thinks the official account of bin Laden’s burial at sea is false.
These were internal and confidential emails, sent between the officers of a private firm. They’re big news today because a hacker group stole them, and handed them over to WikiLeaks. There probably isn’t much point in tut-tutting everyone about eagerly taking part in this forcible violation of privacy, but it’s interesting to observe that many of those feasting upon Stratfor’s data today would, on any other day, profess themselves deeply concerned about violations of their digital privacy. Why is anyone who frets about the Patriot Act more comfortable with privacy that exists only until a group of hackers – appointed by no one and accountable to no one – decides to violate it?
Friedman said Stratfor would not validate any of the leaked correspondence, because “having had our property stolen, we will not be victimized twice by submitting to questions about them.”
Now that global media organizations are writing about the bin Laden exchange, there’s no way to un-spill the milk. If Stratfor sticks to its guns and refuses to confirm the validity of the leaked data, we’re left to consider the conversation on its merits, and wonder if the participants – who are well-connected private analysts, not government officials – actually had access to information concealed from the rest of the world.
In the leaked email exchange, intelligence VP Burton expressed a bit of skepticism toward the official story of bin Laden’s aquatic corpse disposal. A few hours after the raid on the old monster’s compound, Burton said “Reportedly, we took the body with us. Thank goodness.”
25 minutes later, he sent an email declaring “Body bound for Dover, DE on CIA plane. Than [sic] onward to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Bethesda.”
An hour later, Burton once again says he “doubts” bin Laden’s body was dumped at sea, because “we would want to photograph, DNA, fingerprint, etc.” the remains. He discusses the similarity of the bin Laden situation and the death of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann with company CEO George Friedman, who is the son of Holocaust survivors, and a student of military history. Friedman points out that “Eichmann was seen alive for many months on trial before being sentenced to death and executed,” although his body was then cremated to avoid creating a shrine for Nazi die-hards. He thought this was very different than “suddenly burying [bin Laden] at sea without any chance to view him, which I doubt happened.”
Burton agrees with this analysis, and says “the US Govt needs to make body pics available like the MX’s do, with OBL’s pants pulled down, to shout down the lunatics like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.” I can’t speak for Jones and Beck, but I would like to assure the Administration and the U.S. military that I really don’t need to see that photo.
Question: do you believe that OBL was in fact killed and removed from his compound and, additionally, that he was “buried at sea” or transported to another location?
With regard to the Trayvon Martin incident, all is not as the media and our president portrays. One of the clearest articles yet written is here, and it is upon the information dispensed here that I shall predicate my post.
First, it is abominable that our president weighs in without all the facts. However, it is in keeping with his instant judgment regarding, for example, the black “educator” vs the white cop. The dedicated, respected and highly-decorated white cop is wrong; the Leftist black professor is right. Plain and simple. Obaka later backed down.
That said, new facts are emerging from the Martin/Zimmerman incident. Facts not covered by the DEM/MSM. Again, I submit: PURPOSELY. Some of them include:
George Zimmerman was not “white.” Zimmerman has been, historically, a Teutonic name. These days, one cannot draw conclusive evidence from a name. I have been told this by any number of Leftist elements.
In fact, having looked closely at the photograph the DEM/MSM displays of Zimmerman, it is obvious to any clear-thinking individual that Zimmerman is Mexican or Hispanic. This is routinely ignored in the media, where he has been written as “white.” If Mr Zimmerman is “white,” then I am Chinese. And I am not Chinese. From Examiner.com:
Literally thousands of articles contain at least one false statement in the first couple of lines. They usually read “George ZImmerman, a white man,” or “shoot by a white man.” Zimmerman is described by family as a multiracial Hispanic. His appearance is clearly that of a Latino/Mestizo individual. However, the media wants him to be white because that better fits the political narrative they are trying to artificially create. Many news articles have also claimed the neighborhood is “mostly white.” This is also a lie. The neighborhood is only 49% white. It is over half non-white.
Almost all news items are written solely from the point of view of the grieving family. The media also fills their articles with outdated baby-faced pictures of Trayvon. Very few include that he was a towering 6’2” football player. Is the media really reporting the news, or is this classic agitation/propaganda to advance a political agenda?
More details provided by the Sanford Police include:
The witness reports that George Zimmerman was on the ground and Trayvon is on top of him punching him.
The witness says that George Zimmerman was screaming and yelling for help.
Police arrive and find Zimmerman bleeding on his face and the back of his head. He also has had grass stains on his back. All this confirms the story told by Zimmerman and the witness.
Police play the 911 tape for Trayvon Martin’s father, who tells police that the voice screaming is not the voice of his son.
