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Congressman John Conyers Jr has had a very rough week, his wife, a member of the Detroit City Council pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge of conspiracy to commit bribery, not only did she have to resign her office but she faces up to five years in prison. She was also implicated in another potential bribery case involving a controversial deep injection waste well near Romulus. Here is the coincidence, in 2003 and 2004, before Monica Conyers was elected, John Conyers and his staff raised environmental concerns about the well project. Monica Conyers' former aide, Sam Riddle, told The...

In his new book Homeland Security, Assessing the First Five Years, former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff argues: Al-Qaeda and its network are our most serious immediate threat, they may not be our most serious long-term threat….[Hezbollah] has developed capabilities that Al-Qaeda can only dream of, including large quantities of missiles and highly sophisticated explosives. Chertoff’s statement is conventional wisdom among many terrorism experts. Shortly after 9/11 then Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage stated: Hezbollah may be the 'A-Team of Terrorists' and maybe al-Qaeda is actually the 'B' team." SNIPPET: "Has Hezbollah’s ability to launch an attack deteriorated, or is...

SNIPPET: "Today, I received two emails from an Elly Kilroy on behalf of WLUML, asking me to “please immediately remove the link to Women Living Under Muslim Laws from your list of recommended websites; we do not want to be associated with you in any way.” The email reads as follows: “Dear Phyllis, Please could you remove the link to Women Living under Muslim Laws from your list of Recommended Websites; we are more than uncomfortable about being in the same list as names such as Daniel Pipes, Melanie Phillips and Internet Haganah to name just a few. We are...

In the spring of 1941, the Navy was looking to replace its F4F "Wildcat" (also manufactured by Grumman) in light of new developments in the field of aeronautics, and the worsening military situation both in Asia and in Europe. On June 30, 1941 the Navy ordered the prototypes XF6F-1 and XF6F-2. They were to have the Wright R-2600-16 engine, producing 1,700 horsepower, on the -1 and a Wright 2800-16 fitted with a turbo-supercharger on the -2. Immediately after the first flight of the XF6F1 on June 26, 1942, the craft was mysteriously redesignated the "XF6F-3" and the engine was changed...

Wooing Moscow by: Emily Kanyi, June 25, 2009 Days ahead of the President’s planned visit speculations are rife in Washington as to what the outcome of his Moscow trip will be. During a June 24, 2009 conference held at the Hudson Institute, a Washington D.C. based think tank, a panel of experts expressed little hope that Obama’s visit will succeed in mending relations between the two countries. “Whatever optimism there might be about Obama reaching out to Russia [is] unrealistic,” said David Satter, a senior fellow at Hudson and former Moscow correspondent. Satter called for the President to exercise caution...

June 23rd, 2009 | Iran, Strategy SNIPPET: "How will the Iran debacle affect al-Qaida? This was the question raised yesterday in a short strategic study titled “The Iran Crisis and Its Effects on the Global Jihad by Abu al-Fadl Madi..." SNIPPET: "If, as Abu al-Fadl suggests, the geopolitical nature in the Middle East changes because of the Iran crisis, the question will become how will the jihadi movement react to the possibility of a weakened Hezbollah, Syria, or Hamas? "

SNIPPET: "At least one fugitive is still at large and his photos have been posted up around military bases. No details about the nature of the links or the offences that resulted in death sentences. Interesting to note that most of those names were connected to air force transport. Missile transporter staff?"

Anti-trust or Anti-trustworthy? by: Mytheos Holt, June 19, 2009 Last month, assistant Attorney General Christine Varney announced plans by the Obama administration to reinvigorate antitrust policy as a step to solve “cases where monopolists try to use their dominance in the marketplace to stifle competition and harm consumers," a plan legal critics are warning is on a “collision course” with recent precedent set by the Supreme Court, and by extension, with the constitutional rule of law itself. For his part, DC Appellate Court Justice Douglas Ginsburg argues that recent Supreme Court decisions show a “more informed approach to antitrust cases”—one...

In Cold Blood: What Truman Capote did not want you to know How a gay writer became famous covering up the homosexuality of a gay couple who killed an evangelical family 50 years after the hideous slaughter of the Clutter family, Brazilian writer Julio Severo questions Truman Capote and his book By Julio Severo“Homophobia” crimes are, spurred by gay activists, fast becoming an incessant and omnipresent propaganda in the liberal media. Such propaganda is leading most people to see homosexuals as eternal innocent victims and the rest of society as potential oppressors. Crimes committed by homosexuals? This is a new...

As Americans had bought into Obama‘s catchy phrases of “Hope“ and “Change“ and “Yes, we can!” that he had used during the election, we are reminded of the Latin phrase “Caveat Emptor,“ which is used widely when talking about consumers. Obama’s poll numbers have slipped this week to 58%, which is the lowest that it’s ever been, and many Democrats seem to be following Obama’s own doctor of 22 years in turning their backs on ObamaCare. What does all this mean for Republicans and Conservatives alike? The road to defeating Obama in 2012 is still going to be a long...

SNIPPET: "Here’s what the struggle of a typical American jihobbyist in Stage 1 radicalization looks like. Read the post and then the responses, here: American Jihobbyism – Stage 1 Now, thanks to Youtube, we can all take the English-language courses on Jihobbyism that you want. I’ve compiled a random sampling of vidz for your learning pleasure. This is the only way we’re going to understand their ideology as well as they do."

Senior al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban leaders are reported to have met with Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud to advise him to move his group's operations into Afghanistan and halt attacks against the Pakistani state. Several meetings were said to have been held last week after an 11-man delegation of al Qaeda and Taliban heavy hitters arrived in Waziristan to deliver a request from Mullah Omar, the Amir al Mumineen, or the leader of the faithful in Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to a report in The Nation. The Taliban dispatched Sirajuddin Haqqani, the powerful military commander of the Haqqani Network,...

Abu Yahya al-Libi circles back to Algeria today in his new video, “Algeria Between the Sacrifice of Fathers and Faithfulness of Sons.” In short, it seems like a call for direct action to the AQIM guys against Algerian military/government targets and a broader recruiting call to the broader Maghrebi jihadi population.

Over the past year I have been going over articles about Asperger's syndrome. Asperger's syndrome is considered to be a highly functioning form of autism yet it is also considered to be a disability. Members of the autism community have worked for years trying to downplay the severity of the disorder. I first heard about Asperger's in 1998 while watching a documentary. Asperger's disorder was first invented by a German doctor named Hans Asperger. (the disorder was named after him.) Asperger did study on children who though they were bright were considered awkward. The world health organization began to use...

THURSDAY, 4 JUNE 2009 "Taliban uses cartoon character to tell the news"

SNIPPET: "There are, however, some aspects of English-language jihobbyism that keeps me coming back for more. Above all else is their humour. I find jihobby humour to be like a car wreck. It’s gruesome and painful but you can’t not stare out of horrified curiousity. This post will highlight a variety of their jokes, including Abu Abdullah as-Sayf’s new t-shirt designs, presonal photos of Yousef al-Khattab that he finds to be hilarious and more. You’ll find that many of the jokes are esoteric to the point where you may not ‘get’ the joke."

Weekend Trivia June 19th, 2009 | Afghanistan, Bin Laden, Uncategorized, art SNIPPET: "British soldiers found an Aston Villa tattoo on the body of a dead Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, British newspapers reported earlier this week."

Note: The following blog entry is a quote: Blog Details Syrian Journalists To Train At Al-Jazeera Qatari Culture Minister Hamad ibn Abd Al-'Aziz Al-Kuwari has responded to a request by Syrian Information Minister Muhsen Bilal to have Syrian journalists train at the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV. At a June 17 meeting between the two in Damascus, Bilal said that his country was interested in utilizing the experience of the Al-Jazeera training center. Source: Teshreen, Syria, June 18, 2009 Posted at: 2009-06-19

Please keep in mind that with this media that we have nowadays, we should always be skeptical of the information that we're getting, especially if it is in English. I really want to send out a warning to all members about any information that we may be receiving about the Iran election. Being that I used to blog on McCainSpace during the election, I had remembered this vital piece of information that may be of use to us now: Obama and Ahmadinejad may be on the same side. Why do I say that? Obama and Ahmadinejad are actually connected through...

The United Nations Nuke Watchdog, IAEA director Dr. Mohammed El-Baradei has a history of appeasing terrorist powers looking to become nuclear, for example: For over three years, the quarterly IAEA reports on Iran contained the details of violations, obstruction of inspector's visits, important inconsistencies between official claims and the results of tests from samples taken from various facilities, and other forms of non-compliance. But the final assessment in each report, signed by the director-general, absurdly concluded that this evidence did not demonstrate that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons.....This process delayed the imposition of sanctions that might have dissuaded Iran from...