Posted on 04/11/2010 9:33:03 AM PDT by Velveeta
Obama amputates our nuclear arms
By: Charles Krauthammer
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Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.”
Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker is up-to-date with its latest IAEA inspections, well, it gets immunity from nuclear retaliation. (Our response is then restricted to bullets, bombs and other conventional munitions.)
However, if the lawyers tell the president that the attacking state is NPT noncompliant, we are free to blow the bastards to nuclear kingdom come.
This is quite insane. It’s like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets hanged or 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.
Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the United States without fear of nuclear retaliation?
The naivete is stunning.
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Thanks to both of you for the ping.
I’m sure it won’t be very long until C.A.I.R. comes out with a strong denouncement of this message. (/sarc)
Be alert and stay safe.
Yeah, yeah... I keep hearing all the posturing and prancing about on this topic but when push comes to shove the Jihadis aren't interested in eyeball to eyeball confrontations with an American who is also ARMED and trained to use said firearm... cowardly animals like these choose to mow down only those incapable of returning effective and accurate fire. Talk is cheap and terrorists are all cowards who hide behind women and children and blow themselves up instead of risking a fight they know they will surely lose... I'm tired of the invectives. Either bring it on in a straight up fight for all the marbles or bow your heads like the miserable cowards you are and just go home. We're busy, here.
The New Media Journal | Nuclear Bomb Material Found for Sale on Georgia Black Market
Posted: 08 Nov 2010 08:37 AM PST
The New Media Journal | Nuclear Bomb Material Found for Sale on Georgia Black Market: “Highly enriched uranium that could be used to make a nuclear bomb is on sale on the black market along the fringes of the former Soviet Union, according to evidence emerging from a secret trial in Georgia.
Two Armenians, a businessman and a physicist, have pleaded guilty to smuggling highly enriched uranium (HEU) into Georgia in March, stashing it in a lead-lined package on a train from Yerevan to Tbilisi.
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http://www.newmediajournal.us/international/1108.htm
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Billions of dollars have been spent upgrading security at nuclear sites around the globe, particularly in Russia, which has an estimated 700 tons of HEU in hundreds of facilities. But it is unclear how much has already been stolen. “The question is: of what iceberg are we seeing the tip?” said Matthew Bunn, a Harvard expert and former White House science adviser, who compiles an annual assessment of the nuclear terrorism threat titled Securing the Bomb.
The uranium sample that Sumbat Tonoyan and Hrant Ohanyan were peddling is thought to have been stolen several years ago. US tests have confirmed it is 89.4% enriched, usable in a nuclear warhead. The Armenians only had 18 grams, but had been told by their supplier in Armenia that much more was available. They smuggled it into Georgia by train in a cigarette box lined with lead to fool radiation sensors at the border. Tonoyan, a 63-year-old who once ran a successful dairy business but gambled away his fortune, and Ohanyan, a 59-year-old scientist at the Yerevan Institute of Physics, had arranged to meet their buyer in a hotel in the Georgian capital on 11 March. They thought they were selling their 18g sample to a representative of an Islamist group as a precursor to a bigger consignment. But the buyer was an undercover police officer.
It is the third time in seven years HEU has been intercepted in Georgia. There have been 21 seizures or attempted thefts of weapons-grade material, uranium or plutonium, in the region since the Soviet Union collapsed. In every case the material seized had not been missed and mostly the theft was by an insider.
Amen, brother.
Only trouble is, they won’t bother with us until they work their way through the soft targets and maybe crowbar enough politicians around sideways that they’ll just declare us outlaw and send some of our own to put us down.
Don’t know about you, but I plan to make that a very lively experience for somebody.
Taught this crap for ten years, spent twenty watching my students and thinking up refinements and just about ready to put all that theory into practice. Even got kids (and now a couple of grandkids) who are almost better shots and maybe meaner in a fight than The Old Man.
Little Big Horn’s a bit east of our place, so we’ve got a good example right in the neighborhood.
Let’s go get some.
Iraqi Archbishop urges Christians to leave country: “If they stay they will
be finished one by one”
“any jihadi who wants to kill Americans doesn’t need a ‘fatwa’or special religious permission, since Americans are the enemy and the ‘devil.’”
So says Al Awlaki. Hasn’t he forgotten one important fact? HE’S an AMERICAN, so he’s giving jihadis the green light to kill himself. Ruh, oh.
With so much Christmas stock arriving in the UK, they are confident their toy bombs can remain undetected.[...]<<<
They will be difficult to catch, for they were even putting them in balls in Iraq recently.
Remember the gun in the Teddy Bear, about 5 years ago, in Florida?
Some gal gave it to a cute 3 year old child, to take back on the airplane and the airport caught it.
Time for a homemade Christmas.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.7852/pub_detail.asp
November 8, 2010
The Ashburn Jihadist Signals a Greater Danger
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Throughout the summer and fall, U.S. authorities witnessed a significant
rise in jihadist activity, using increasingly sophisticated operational
strategies. According to open-source reports, between 2001 and 2008, U.S.
agencies stopped one or two terror attempts a year. However, from 2009 until
today, the government has been uncovering one or two cases a month, a
troubling growth in jihadi activities.
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“During a meeting at a hotel in Herndon, Virginia, on Sept. 28,” the
indictment reads, “[Ahmed] suggested that rolling suitcases be used instead
of backpacks, and he said that he wanted to kill as many military personnel
as possible.”
The plan closely resembles past attacks, such as the train bombings of
Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005. More important, the plot is consistent
with the standing orders of al Qaeda and other jihadists to attack U.S.
military personnel.
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Thanks for the ping Vel.
Yes, I believe he means what he says.
[This was a part of the collection of articles / history, that came today.
It is a subject that we should all be alert to.
granny]
“Hamas: Anthrax should be put in US water supply
Atallah Abu Al-Subh, a columnist for the Hamas weekly Al-Risala based
in Gaza, writes open letters to prominent figures, ideologies, and
events. His most recent letter, No. 163, was titled “To Anthrax”:
“The truth is that I wondered how to begin! Should I greet you [i.e.
anthrax], or should I curse you? Should I hold my tongue?... I will
begin by saying: Oh Anthrax, despite your wretchedness, you have sown
horror in the heart of the lady of arrogance, of tyranny, of
boastfulness! Your gentle touch has made the US’s life rough and
pointless...
“You have entered the most fortified of places; [you have entered]
the White House and they left it like horrified mice ... The Pentagon
was a monster before you entered its corridors... And behold, it now
transpires that its men are of paper and its commanders are of
cardboard, and they hasten to flee as soon as they see - only see -
chalk dust!
“Nevertheless, you have found your way to only eight American breasts
so far ... May you continue to advance, to permeate, and to spread.
If I may give you a word of advice, enter the air ... the water
faucets from which they drink, and the pens with which they draft
their traps and conspiracies against the wretched peoples.”
(The Middle East Media Research Institute translated the above op-ed
piece which originally appeared in Al-Risala)
http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/11/07/LatestNews/LatestNews.37698.html
POLITICS PERSONIFIED (any country) hilarious , real photos - must see and share.
Applies to the USA or Iran or Europe or......
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2010/10/news-ticker-tape.html
Inserted into the Fox News ticker tape lead article.
Agreed.
Thanks for the ping!
Vt nuclear plant to repair radioactive water leak - Road Runner
Nov 8, 2010 ... FILE - In this April 20, 2007 file photo, Indian Point nuclear power plant’s ... MONTPELIER, Vt. — Unplanned shutdowns an hour apart at nuclear ... at the Vermont Yankee plant in Vernon and at Indian Point 2, where a spare transformer was on site. ... Sporadic fighting continues at Myanmar border ...
websearch.timewarnercable.com/.../Vt_nuclear_plant_to_repair_radioactive_water_leak
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News for Transformer Explosion Closes Indian Point ...
# msnbc.com Entergy Shuts Indian Point Reactor After Explosion - 21 hours ago
... its 1020-megawatt Indian Point 2 reactor in New York after a transformer explosion, according to a report from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ...
BusinessWeek - 1126 related articles
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Transformer Explosion Closes Indian Point Nuclear Plant | NBC New York
Nov 8, 2010 ... A transformer exploded at a nuclear power plant 24 miles north of New York City, leading to an emergency shut down of one of its reactors.
www.nbcnewyork.com/.../Transformer-Explosion-Closes-Indian-Point-Nuclear-Plan-106877783.html?...
BreakingNews: Pentagon, Navy tell NBC they have no idea who launched Monday night’s missile off Calif. coast. ‘We’re checking,’ frustrated officials say
Off today - trying to catch up :)
Ummmmm I kinda think that maybe the ALAMO would present a better example. Little Big Horn was indeed a massacre but one born of Custer's arrogance and I'm not certain the costs were that significant to the attacking force. But the Alamo? Those defenders extracted a dramatic cost in lives (demonstrated in the ratio of defenders to attackers) and time that allowed Texas to get some serious payback at the Battle of San Jacinto. I'd like for my story to be whispered in hushed and reverent tones around the campfires of patriots for generations... wouldn't you? Get some!!
LOL
Think I’d settle for being the subject of nightmares until I and the people around me can be left at peace.
That's the real answer that Baracka Hussein Aby Amama should have given to the Indian lady asking him about JIHADI!!!
So many bizarre/alarming news stories that it’s impossible to keep up! How is it that NOBODY knows who launched this missile??? Pentagon report coming within the hour.
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High School on alert after tip of potential shooting (NJ)
An anonymous e-mail tip warned that four Asian males were overheard discussing a planned school shooting this week at Northern Valley High School’s Demarest campus, Police Chief James Powderly III said Tuesday....
http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/110910_High_School_on_alert_after_threats_of_potential_shooting.html
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Resident: Chemical release, body found at Rolling Green apartments in Amherst (MA)
HazMat responders are on scene at the Rolling Green apartments off of Route 9, investigating what appears to be a body and a harmful chemical release, according to an eyewitness.
Police and fire officials, including personnel from the Department of Fire Service Hazardous Material Response unit, evacuated a parking lot at the complex off Belchertown Road this morning to take a closer look at a suspicious vehicle.
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Martinelli said he noticed a chemical scent, describing it as something he hadn’t smelled before.
“You just knew something was wrong. It’s a smell you never smell,” said Martinelli.....
http://www.gazettenet.com/2010/11/09/resident-chemical-release-body-found-rolling-green-apartments-am
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Knife found under seats on Delta flight to Japan (NEW Incident - not the one from last week)
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9JCKBEO0.htm
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Awlaki Involved In Training Chaplains For Defense Department
From instructor to high-value target.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39857
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