There ya go, folks. The accused is denied the right to evidence necessary for his defense or to call witnesses who have knowledge of that evidence, because what he finds might embarrass Barack Obama.

This seems destined to appeal before it even begins.


Army Col. Denise R. Lind today ruled in a hearing regarding the evidence to be allowed in the scheduled October court-martial of Lakin that he will be denied access to any of Obama's records as well as any testimony from those who may have access to the records.

She said opening up such evidence could be an "embarrassment" to the president, and it's up to Congress to call for impeachment of a sitting president.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=198465

Imam Rauf appears to be quite the narcissist in this expose by Atlas Shrugs. He claims he's at the center of a "strategic initiative" using world leaders to advance his goals...

Building on the revelations exposed in the new audio posted at Atlas Monday morning, now comes new exclusive audio of the very connected, very influential stealth Imam radical Rauf.

9/11 was a watershed, was a major milestone, and a major catalytic force in, in catalyzing the attention towards the issue of Islam, it’s presence in the West, and it brought into much greater prominence our work and the importance of our work. Imam Rauf

- No we’ve created a different concept a different model, Mark. I’m the head coach of this strategic initiative, and the President of the United States, or the President of Malaysia, or the President of England, is like a player you want to bring in for particular plays. Imam Rauf


My blood ran cold listening to this latest audio of Imam Rauf. It is the stealth jihad, open warfare in the information battlespace, in action on a global scale. Chilling. Civilizational jihad, stealth.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/a...ia_puppet.html

Not satisfied with apologizing for America all over the globe, Obama is using the Federal fight against Arizona's initiative to control crime by illegal aliens as an example of how he is standing up for Human Rights in the US of A:

Apparently Barack Obama is not content to make a federal case out of his immigration feud with Arizona; he just made it an international one.

The president’s first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council contains a rich vein of offensive material. So far, one aspect has not been reported: our petty president used the situation to bash Arizona’s immigration law — and possibly transfer jurisdiction over the law from Arizona to the UN. Throughout the report, which sounds like an Obama campaign speech, the president discusses “the original flaw” of the U.S. Constitution, America’s tolerance for slavery, and his version of our long and despicable history of discriminating against and oppressing minorities, women, homosexuals, and the handicapped.

http://www.aipnews.com/talk/forums/t...osts=1&start=1

Abdur-Rahman Muhammad is a Washington, D.C.-based writer who was once the Imam of a mosque where he taught radical Muslim ideology. He has since renounced those views and works to combat Islamic extremism in the American Muslim community. He is a senior writer for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and his work has appeared in numerous publications such as the Washington Afro American, the Philadelphia New Observer, and others. His work can be read at his popular blog A Singular Voice. He holds a BA degree in Philosophy from Howard University.

Abdur-Rahman Muhammad writes an excellent article about Imam Rauf and how the leftist MSM has failed to to their homework and identify him as the radical he is, preferring to scream "racism" and make this into a case of "religious freedom":

The imam heading up this $100 million project, Faisal Abdul Rauf, enjoys the full support of the sympathizing left-leaning media, and together they have attempted to frame this fight as a First Amendment issue. They’ve worked to cast the opponents of the project — including the 9/11 families — as bigots bent on denying “peaceful Muslims” the “right” to build a facility on their own property. All of this is sheer nonsense, because as many commentators already noted this week, the right to build the mosque was never in question — only the appropriateness of putting it near Ground Zero. It is simply not possible, and indeed quite dishonest, to characterize 70 percent of the population as bigots and “Islamophobes,” despite what the media would have us believe.

As an American Muslim, I can say with confidence that most folks have no desire to trample our First Amendment rights, and have said so repeatedly. It is not even entirely clear to me that, were the Muslim developers of the mosque genuinely moderate, it would be so bitterly opposed. But then again, they probably would never have proposed such a thing in the first place.

But how can anyone believe that Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf and his followers are moderates when they very deliberately refuse to condemn Hamas, a sworn enemy of this country and a major center of terror in the world? When asked directly to repudiate the group, all he could say was: “I am not a politician.”

This is typical of the double-speak and evasive tactics employed by the prominent Muslim groups in America, an unmistakable red flag that something is wrong here.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/from-an...inglepage=true

Michael Berry, KTRH in Houston:


http://ktrh.com/pages/michaelberry.html

http://examiner.com/weather-in-alban...out-power-grid

NASA: Massive solar storm in 2012 could wipe out power grid

* August 21st, 2010 11:49 pm

NASA is warning this week that a solar storm currently underway on the surface of the sun is projected to hit earth in 2012. But unlike the coronal mass ejection that provided views of the aurora borealis at lower latitudes than normal earlier this month, this solar storm could be so powerful it may wipe out the power grid on the entire planet.

NASA says that other geomagnetic storms occurred back in 1859 and 1921, wiping out telegraph wires completely. The storm in 2012 is expected to be even more severe, possibly leaving humans without transportation, communication, or power. This could have a profound effect on the world economy and hold us hostage in a power-less electrical gridlock.

Could this be the 2012 phenomenon that marks the so-called end of the world or other similar catastrophe?

Tracking Hydrocarbon Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon
August 19, 2010
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...urcetype=HWCIT


Richard Camilli,1,* Christopher M. Reddy,2 Dana R. Yoerger,1 Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy,2 Michael V. Jakuba,3 James C. Kinsey,1 Cameron P. McIntyre,2 Sean P. Sylva,2 James V. Maloney4

The Deepwater Horizon blowout is the largest offshore oil spill in history. We present results from a subsurface hydrocarbon survey using an autonomous underwater vehicle and a ship-cabled sampler. Our findings indicate the presence of a continuous plume over 35 km in length - 2 kms wide and 200 meters thick, at approximately 1100 m depth that persisted for months without substantial biodegradation. Samples collected from within the plume reveal monoaromatic petroleum hydrocarbon concentrations in excess of 50 µg L–1. These data indicate that monoaromatic input to this plume was at least 5500 kg day–1, which is more than double the total source rate of all natural seeps of the monoaromatic petroleum hydrocarbons in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Dissolved oxygen concentrations suggest that microbial respiration rates within the plume were not appreciably more than 1 µM O2 day–1.

1 Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
2 Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
3 Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
4 Monitor Instruments Company LLC, Cheswick, PA 15024, USA.






From the Science Podcast: an interview with Rich Camilli and Chris Reddy on their team's track of a large, continuous subsurface hydrocarbon plume in the Gulf of Mexico. (20 August 2010 Science Podcast)

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MEXICAN POLICE TO PATROL NY?

By Jeffrey Smith

NEW YORK, New York — In a series of events which has caused wide notice and a storm of protests, the government of Mexico, through its consulate in New York in the United Nations, has announced it will begin patrolling the New York City borough of Staten Island to “safeguard” its nationals there.

The actions of Mexico come after a series of incidents the Mexican government terms “bias attacks.”

Ironically, these so-called “hate crimes” have been perpetrated by blacks and Asians, indicative of rising tensions between various ethnic groups in the U.S. The Catholic Examiner and NBC New York both reported the Mexican government’s intention to mount surveillance, patrol and police in and around the Staten Island community of Port Richmond, which in recent years has seen a large influx of Mexican illegal immigrants.

Since the Examiner’s coverage, however, councilor officials, city hall and the local press have begun to carefully de-emphasize any possible role of Mexican law enforcement or military in efforts to secure the neighborhood.

Mexican officials have set up a neighborhood office and a local phone hot line for their nationals to report “bias incidents”—regardless as to whether they are in the United States legally.

New York City police had been monitoring the situation and investigating the reported assaults as local crimes. The actions of the Mexican government have caused Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to order what many observers say is the most concentrated police mobilization since the World Trade Center disaster.

The main street of Port Richmond was swiftly transformed into what the New York Times described as a war zone like atmosphere with over 120 newly assigned officers, high-intensity night lighting, two huge “sky tower” police observation posts, frequent helicopter overflights and 20 police cars to watch the center of the relatively small neighborhood. Several long-term residents described it as a constant hornet’s nest of activity.

Both published reports and residents say that reports of fights between Mexicans and other groups began years ago, in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Many charge the present round of incidents started in 2003 with one loss of life in 2006, which might not even be connected to the present series of events.

At a major community gathering held at the historic St. Phillips Baptist Church, speakers addressed the current situation in the neighborhood and the borough, while Mexican councilor officials looked on.

But while the Richmond anti-violence organization and assorted left-leaning journalists who attended may have been expecting a mea culpa from local residents, what they got instead was a blast of community push-back. Speaker after speaker from the black community told of horrendous conditions the largely illegal immigrants had brought to their community. Speakers described the pattern in communities affected by an influx of illegals.

Community residents, many of whom are black first-time homeowners, told of constant disputes, alcohol and drug sales, late night disruptions, trespassing and public urination.

Others in the audience, who declined to testify, spoke of men wearing clothes bearing symbols of La Raza, Aztlan and other militant pro-Mexican groups.

They also spoke of repeated attempts to summon the state liquor authority’s enforcement agency to deal with the surging illegal liquor sales in the area, with little in the way of a response .

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http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...olice_234.html

Christine Brim did a little investigative journalism, digging deep into the Cordoba website, where she uncovered "hidden" pages that show:

Follow this link, she has a full explanation and timeline, including Rauf's meetings with a key figure in the Muslim Brotherhood whom she believes will be the mastermind behind the Shariah Index Project from Qatar, with Rauf as the American figurehead. Brim saved the original pages in pdf format because, don't you know, once the controversy got started more alarming portions of the website were re-written and whitewashed for our western eyes.

http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2010/08/17...w-the-shariah/

ABC asked the question on many minds - since Imam Rauf is now traveling around the world as the US taxpayer funded bridge builder between the Muslim world and US Muslims, will he be accepting funding from the fundamentalist Islamic governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia for the NYC Cordoba project? Remember the Imam's goal with this project is to improve the acceptance of Islam and spread Shari'a to democratic governments.

Pressed on whether the developers were willilng rule out accepting donations from the governments of Saudi Arabia or Iran, he repeated, "I can't comment on that."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Politics/is...ry?id=11429998

But of course, Bloomberg says investigating who is funding the mosque itself is "unamerican".

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/...wtc-mosque-op/

Thank your stars you don't live in Tamworth, New Hampshire. A local blogger who has been outspoken about Tamworth politicians found himself slapped with a $4,000,000 tax assessment on his modest single family home, which resulting $70,000 /year tax bill from the Board of Selectmen in Tamworth.

http://www.livefreeandcomply.org/201...on-assessment/

At least he has a sense of humor about it. I might be inspired to a different approach:


You go, Byron... and let us help you publicize this outrage.

This is a really interesting article which really needs to be read completely to get all the information contained.

Testing for long term effects of child abuse, researchers were looking at stress markers -- interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), and the lengths of telomeres. Shortened telomeres have been linked to aging and age related diseases. Surveys were used to determine what kind of abuse or adversity was present in childhood.

The results showed that child abuse reduced the lifespan between 7 to 15 years, but that abused children that became care givers were especially prone to higher stress markers, and shortened telomeres, which resulted in serious health problems as they aged as opposed to non-care givers.

Please take the time to read this article here:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0815111450.htm