News, views and opinions from the Alternative Media ... week ending September 11

9/11 Conspiracy Theory .... a short fable


James Bradley at ConsortiumNews
North Korea’s Understandable Fears

North Korea carried out its fifth nuclear test on Friday, drawing condemnation from President Obama and a charge from the Pentagon that the test was a “serious provocation.” Ho-hum, here we go again.

Every year, America pays its vassal-state South Korea huge sums of U.S. taxpayer money to mount 300,000-man-strong military “games” that threaten North Korea. North Koreans view images that never seem to make it to U.S. kitchen tables: hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of U.S. armaments swarming in from the sea, hundreds of tanks and thousands of troops – their turrets and rifles pointed north – and nuclear-capable U.S. warplanes screaming overhead.

But when a young dictator straight out of central casting responds to U.S. threats with an underground test on North Korea’s founding day, it’s the number-one story on the front page of the New York Times.....
Let’s connect some dots. Washington and their note takers in the American press constantly tell us that crazies in Pyongyang and Tehran are nuclear threats. The misplaced, but easily sold, fears of the “North Korean missile threat” and the “Iran missile threat” allows the Pentagon to install “defensive” missile systems in South Korea and Eastern Europe which actually amount to offensive systems targeting Beijing and Moscow (by making first strikes against China and Russia more feasible).....

UK High Court to Look Into British Arms Sales to Saudi Over Yemen Deaths: https://t.co/t8KuGdIJXM via @SputnikInt

— Maureen Callahan (@MaureenCallaha2) September 12, 2016

From ZeroHedge
US-Trained Special Ops Fighter Is The Islamic State's New Top Commander In Iraq

Just days after the news hit that ISIS' main propaganda officer, Mohammad al-Adnani, one of the Islamic State's most prominent leaders, the second in command of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as well as the unofficial spokesman of the terrorist organization, was killed (with a scandal promptly erupting between the US and Russia over who had taken him out), the power vacuum that formed at the top of the Islamic State has been promptly filled, after former Tajik Special Forces colonel Gulmurod Khalimov became the top ISIS battlefield commander in Iraq, after defecting last year and swearing jihad against the West....

....What makes the ascent of Khalimov particularly embarrassing for the US is that The former paramilitary unit commander of the Tajikistan armed forces received his battlefield training from American advisors and even came to the United States on several occasions to receive special counterterrorism training through the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security/Anti-Terrorism Assistance program. ....

Wayne Madsen at StrategicCulture
Obama-Duterte Blow Up: What the Corporate Media Doesn’t Get

The explanation by the Western corporate media, which caters to a very basic secondary school level of education, about the reasons behind the recent war of words between U.S. President Barack Obama and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, had little to do with the leader of the Philippines calling Obama a «Putang ina» or «son of a whore» in Tagalog. The breakdown in relations between the Philippines, a former and much-abused American colony, and the United States is based on renewed Philippines nationalism, a disgust by Duterte for the selective human rights agenda of the Obama administration, and the Philippines leader’s antipathy for those schooled in Muslim beliefs in neighboring Indonesia.

Duterte knows full well that Obama prayed in a mosque and recited from the Koran in his early childhood years at a quasi-Islamic state school in Jakarta. And for Duterte, a former mayor of Davao City in Mindanao, -- a southern Philippines island plagued by Saudi-financed Abu Sayyaf Group Wahhabist terrorism nurtured from radicalized mosques across the Sulu Sea in Indonesia -- Obama’s upbringing in Southeast Asia is very germane.

Duterte’s reference to Obama’s mother was not uttered in a vacuum of history. Duterte fully understands Stanley Ann Dunham Obama-Soetoro’s role in the aftermath of the 1965 bloody Muslim- and Central Intelligence Agency-backed coup that toppled Indonesia’s secular president, Sukarno. The coup, in which Obama’s Indonesian stepfather, Lieutenant Colonel Lolo Soetoro, participated as a brutal thug out to identify and execute as many Communists and ethnic Chinese Indonesians as possible, was staffed out of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta.

In 1967, Obama’s mother took young Barack Obama to join her war criminal husband in Jakarta. After her arrival in the country with the world’s largest Muslim population, Obama’s mother worked for the CIA-linked U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) fanning out across central Javanese villages with orders to collect as many names of Communists as possible......

....Instead, Duterte is a fiery pragmatist who is on guard against Obama and the neoconservative war hawks and Wahhabi and Salafist accommodators who dominate America’s CIA and State Department. Duterte and his supporters know fully well that the bloody CIA purge of PKI members and sympathizers, along with ethnic Chinese, in Indonesia would not have been possible without the support of Indonesia’s Sunni Muslim hierarchy – a group in which Obama’s mother and stepfather were in total lockstep.....

Joon Ian Wong at Quartz
Norway is furious with Facebook and its algorithms for “censoring” an iconic war photo
A ruckus has erupted in Norway over Facebook’s repeated removal of an iconic 1972 war photograph of a naked young girl fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam. Facebook has also suspended users who uploaded it. Things have come to a head today after Norway’s largest newspaper devoted its front page to an open letter to Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

The letter, written by Aftenposten’s editor-in-chief, Espen Egil Hansen, accuses Zuckerberg of “abusing” his role as “the world’s most powerful editor.” Hansen wrote: “The media have a responsibility to consider publication in every single case. This may be a heavy responsibility … This right and duty, which all editors in the world have, should not be undermined by algorithms encoded in your office in California.”

Norway’s prime minister, Erna Solberg, also posted the iconic photo to her Facebook page today (Sept. 9) to protest “censorship” by the social network. “I say yes to a healthy, open and free debate on the internet,” she wrote in Norwegian. “But I say no to this form of censorship.” Her photo was later removed by Facebook, according to a subsequent post by Solberg. She posted a version of the photo with nudity blacked out. “What Facebook does by removing images of this kind, good as the intentions may be, is to edit our common history,” she wrote.....

8 soldiers killed as suicide car blast hits police station in Yemen: ADEN， Yemen， Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- A suic... https://t.co/5oiwwEeZuc

— Yemen News Links (@dlyemennews) September 11, 2016

From Off-Guardian
why we’re covering 9/11 fifteen years on

....We aren’t interested in simply erecting new certitudes to replace the used ones. We aren’t claiming “Bush did it” or “Israel did it” or “the Saudis did it”, or indeed “Bin Laden did it.” We want to take a long and dispassionate look at the evidence for what actually happened that day, and give space, as our remit dictates, to those opinions and facts that tend to be silenced in the mainstream.

On 9/11 three steel-framed high-rise buildings collapsed completely at near free-fall speed allegedly due to fires – which, if true, makes them the only steel-framed high-rises in construction history to have ever done this. Rationally and objectively, this is something worth examining, as unique events always are. Did the government-appointed enquiry by the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) do a thorough job in explaining why this unique event occurred? Or did it do what government-appointed enquiries usually do and fudge? Do we have answers or evasions?

For some reason these questions are routinely avoided, even by those who are willing to ask similar questions about WMDs or Syrian chemical weapons or Chilcot. The fear of the label “conspiracy theorist” deters too many of us – which of course is just what it was intended to do.....

The real danger for Russia

#cdnpoli #TOpoli The real danger for Russia lies in Russia’s desire for Western acceptance" Yup! https://t.co/RFVjkGDpdr via @ForPolJournal

— MariaS Nunes (@Dodocanspell) September 4, 2016

Robert Parry at ConsortiumNews
UN Team Heard Claims of ‘Staged’ Chemical Attacks

United Nations investigators encountered evidence that alleged chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian military were staged by jihadist rebels and their supporters, but still decided to blame the government for two incidents in which chlorine was allegedly dispersed via improvised explosives dropped by helicopters.

In both cases, the Syrian government denied that it had any aircraft in the areas at the times of the purported attacks, but the U.N. team rejected that explanation with the curious argument that Syria failed to provide flight records to corroborate the absence of any flights. Yet, if there had been no flights, there would be no flight records.

The U.N. team also dismissed out of hand the possibility that jihadist rebels who had overrun some air bases and thus had operational helicopters at their disposal might have used them as part of a staged event designed to incriminate the Damascus regime and thus justify U.S. or other outside military intervention.

Another problem with the U.N. team’s findings is that the home-made chlorine bombs had minimal military value, inflicting relatively few casualties and only a handful of deaths.

Why the Syrian government, which was under intense international pressure regarding alleged chemical weapons use and was in the process of surrendering its stockpile of such weapons, would have jerry-rigged a handful of homemade bombs and dropped them for no discernible military effect makes little sense.

However, since Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been thoroughly demonized over his harsh reaction to an uprising that began in 2011, pretty much any accusation against him – no matter how unlikely or implausible – is widely accepted in the mainstream Western media and political circles. In other words, the U.N. team was under pressure to reach a guilty verdict.....

Craig Murray at his blog
Thought is Dangerous to the USA

I have been refused entry clearance to the USA to chair the presentation of the Sam Adams Award to CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou and to speak at the World Beyond War conference in Washington DC. Like millions of British passport holders I have frequently visited the USA before and never been refused entry clearance under the visa waiver programme.....

....It is worth noting that despite the highly critical things I have published about Putin, about civil liberties in Russia and the annexation of the Crimea, I have never been refused entry to Russia. The only two countries that have ever refused me entry clearance are Uzbekistan and the USA. What does that tell you?....

Mrs Merkel defeated in her home region. Huge leap by anti-immigration AFD. #Germany turning? https://t.co/j0coPit8w7

— ?????? ????? (@KanchanGupta) September 4, 2016

Corey Schink at SottNet
The Easters: A case study in psychopathy and ponerization

....On April 6th, 1986, a series of bombs were detonated in a Berlin dance hall. The result was the deaths of US marines and the opportunity Reagan had been waiting for to strike Gaddafi. About a week later the US Air Force, having to bypass France due to pressure from French politicians, rained missiles down on Gaddafi's house, murdering his adopted Palestinian child. There was no evidence that Libya was involved in the terrorist attack, let alone justification for murdering an innocent child in response. As was revealed decades later, the allegation against Libya over the Berlin bombing was false, another staged event to provide justification for murder in broad daylight.

Gaddafi survived that attempt, but the US was always going to try again. In 1988 there were the Lockerbie bombings, and once again Gaddafi was fingered as the man responsible for the attacks, despite massive evidence to the contrary:

    British MP: Lockerbie 'evidence' against Libyans was planted by CIA
    Leaked documents: Lockerbie evidence 'was tampered with, destroyed and overlooked'
    BBC probe casts doubt on Lockerbie evidence

Fortunately for Gaddafi, Francis A. Boyle smelled a rat. A prominent international lawyer, Boyle effectively issued the international equivalent of a restraining order against the US. The night before US jets were poised to strike the country the motions were filed, and the US backed down. Clearly the international community had not yet lost its collective mind, and such a legal injunction was capable of working. As the decades went by it was clear that individuals within the US were ready to make sure such restraint would not work again.

By 2011, not only had Gaddafi survived repeated Western assaults, he had overseen a massive increase in the living standards and social rights of the Libyan population, including free health care, education, and women's rights that included free childcare and payment for raising children. Gaddafi wanted to emancipate Africa from Western corporate and imperial interests. Libya, the most prosperous African democracy, was a beacon of freedom in an increasingly dark world. Something had to be done to crush him and the Libyan people. ....

Pope Francis declares Mother Teresa a saint https://t.co/uK2vDA8eJz pic.twitter.com/06lXMIDZmY

— euronews (@euronews) September 4, 2016

Andrei Akulov at StrategicCulture
US Faces Major Setback As Europeans Revolt Against TTIP

France wants to halt thorny EU-US trade talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) as President Francois Hollande underlined there would be no deal until after President Barack Obama leaves office in January. Matthias Fekl, the French minister for foreign trade, has said his country will call for an end to the deal. France has been sceptical about the TTIP from the start and has threatened to block the deal, arguing the US has offered little in return for concessions made by Europe. All 28 EU member states and the European parliament will have to ratify the TTIP before it comes into force.

The statements came just a couple of days after German economy minister Sigmar Gabriel had said talks for TTIP had de facto failed. Gabriel, who leads Germany’s centre-left Social Democratic party and is vice-chancellor in the coalition government, said Europe mustn’t submit to the American proposals. ....

Prof Michel Choussudovsky at GlobalResearch
US-NATO-Turkey Invasion of Northern Syria: CIA “Failed” Turkey Coup Lays Groundwork for Broader Middle East War?
 

In mid-July, President Erdogan pointed his finger at the CIA, accusing US intelligence of having supported a failed coup directed against his government. Turkish officials pointed to a deterioration of US-Turkey relations following Washington’s refusal to extradite Fethullah Gülen, the alleged architect of the failed coup.

Erdogan’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag was categorical:

    “If the US does not deliver (Gulen), they will sacrifice relations with Turkey for the sake of a terrorist”

Public opinion was led to believe that relations with the US had not only deteriorated, but that Erdogan had vowed to restore “an axis of friendship” with Moscow, including “cooperation in the defence sector”. This was a hoax....

....The failed coup was indeed supported by the CIA, but the failure was coordinated with President Erdogan. It was an intelligence op which was meant to fail and mislead public opinion.....

Zika virus ... here's an example of how the powers-that-be create a problem to make $s from the solution.  EVIL INCARNATE !!

#cdnpoli #tcot #TOpoli Meet yr rulers who r grateful 2 WaPo, NYT, Time n others 4 hiding the Zika secret for 40 yrs https://t.co/p1GTleuDbP

— MariaS Nunes (@Dodocanspell) September 5, 2016

Aram Mirzael at TheSaker
The latest development in northern Syria

...It is worthy of notice that just before the Turkish incursion, the Kurdish YPG and their police forces “Asayish” were attacking the Syrian government forces in the city of Al-Hasakah, and despite numerous attempts at a ceasefire by the Syrian government, the Kurdish forces refused and declared their intention to fully claim Al-Hasakah for themselves. This could also explain why Syria and Iran have been neglecting the fact that Turkish forces are attacking the YPG/SDF as well. Indeed both Syria and its allies have previously tried to cooperate with the SDF or at least remain neutral towards them, yet recent events have shown that they answer to Washington rather than taking an independent stance towards the conflict. This was very much clear when the SDF spokesman Talal Silo said in an interview that “in Syria, the Americans forbid us from talking to Russia”. [4]...

From ZeroHedge
40,000 Students In Limbo, 8,000 Employees Fired As ITT Suddenly Shuts Down

The long-running tragic saga of ITT Education Services, which was established nearly 50 ago and operates the ITT Technical Institutes for-profit college chain, finally came to a end this morning with both a bang and a whimper, when it announced that it is shutting down effective immediately, leaving the fate of 40,000 students currently enrolled in limbo, and some 8,000 workers without a job.

The company said the closure is due to an investigation and sanctions by the U.S. Department of Education.

"It is with profound regret that we must report that ITT Educational Services, Inc. will discontinue academic operations at all of its ITT Technical Institutes permanently after approximately 50 years of continuous service," the company stated Tuesday. "Effective today, the company has eliminated the positions of the overwhelming majority of our more than 8,000 employees."

As previously reported,  ITT Tech stopped enrolling new students on August 29, just a few days after it was cut off from a significant amount of federal funding by the government. ITT's collapse was catalyzed when the Department of Education effectively killed the company two weeks ago, when it told the company on August 25 that it couldn’t enroll new students who use federal financial aid. The school accused federal officials of forcing the closure and denying it due process. The company has been the subject of state and federal probes for various reasons, including its recruitment tactics, lending practices and job placement figures.

Among the measures imposed, ITT was been ordered to pay $152 million to the department within 30 days to cover student refunds and other liabilities in case the company closes. The chain, based in Indiana, is still paying another $44 million demanded by the department in June for the same reason.....

Third blast in Kabul, after earlier suicide bombings killed 24 https://t.co/b2k0g92XHG

— Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) September 5, 2016

From RT
Times reporter abducted and shot in Syria says his kidnapper now US-backed rebel

A Times reporter who was kidnapped and twice shot in the leg in Syria claims to have recognized his abductor on a recent Facebook video, which shows him in the ranks of a US-backed “moderate” opposition rebel group.

Journalist Anthony Loyd was captured on his way from Syria to Turkey along with his colleague, photographer Jack Hill, not far from the Syrian town of Tal Rafat in 2014, a week after they had started covering the situation in Aleppo.
It was with some surprise watching a video of a victorious band of western-backed rebels that I noticed the face of America’s newest ally in the war against ISIS in Syria,” Loyd wrote in Britain’s Times newspaper on Saturday.

The Facebook video of a victory celebration by a CIA-vetted rebel group in the border town of al-Rai supposedly showed Hakim Abu Jamal, also known as Hakim Anza, or Abdel Hakim al-Yaseen....

Daisy Luther at her blog
Louisiana Officials Demand That Self-Reliant Locals Stop Surviving the Flood Without Permission

Around the world, governments have recently been issuing an unsettling call for their citizens to become more self-reliant. Just this week, the governments of both Germany and Czechoslovakia warned that people should be  “be prepared for the worst case possible scenario.”

But here in the United States, just the opposite is happening. Our government seems to have an unquenchable thirst for cracking down on those who take responsibility for themselves. There is an abundance of evidence of this in Louisiana.

The southern state has been hit with the worst flooding in over 500 years.

While the final numbers won’t be known for some time, Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office has estimated 60,646 houses were damaged and 30,000 people rescued; other people escaped on their own. FEMA says 109,398 people or households have applied for housing help, and 25,000 National Flood Insurance Program claims have been filed. The American Red Cross called it the worst natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy struck New Jersey in 2012.

This massive disaster was all but ignored by the mainstream media, since it didn’t fit the current agenda of divisiveness and racial tension. So what did the folks in Louisiana do?....

Not so "deranged" anymore... https://t.co/K8l5Egv6XF

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) September 12, 2016

Only the lapdogs' barking can wake up the great Obama

HAHAHAHAHA!

Sarah Palin at her Facebook page:
......Obama knows nothing, sees nothing, and hears nothing unless his lapdogs bark, then his ears perk up. Not exactly using a hunting dog to flush out the truth, is he? Kind of reminds me of that famous Will Rogers quote: “All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.”

The head of a government that has the most sophisticated spying apparatus ever created can monitor who we talk to, what we talk about, how many twinkies our kids eat and the calories we consume, where we travel, etc. etc., yet announces our President’s daily Intelligence report is actually prepared by Matt Drudge. Hmmm. Perhaps the NSA should take out ads in the sports section to assure the President reads his morning Intelligence briefing. 

Here’s a quick video of our Community Organizer-in-Chief explaining his lack of knowledge of the nation’s major scandals, using his favorite convenient excuse and perhaps also saying much about his management skills with a dysfunctional, disinterested staff. What do you think?

From Townhall:
....Montage: Obama Discovers   Every Scandal Through the Media.

Sarah Palin on the recent depravity of a bitch filming the murder of her baby

I couldn't bring myself to actually go to the links and watch the murder.  
The stuff that's happening in the USA and in many other countries around the world, makes me think of  the following phrase, which I believe was originally used in an old Greek folk tale.

"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad"

I am far from being a religious person,  but I think the madness we are seeing of late can have only one ending.

Sarah Palin writing at her Facebook page:
I Aborted My Baby, So Hear Me Roar 

Sad, gut wrenching, barbaric, hopeless, too far-gone a society that celebrates filming this?

This is so horrifying that when I first heard the report I couldn’t bring myself to speak or write about it. I didn’t want to believe it was true; I found myself mute while processing it and could only think those aforementioned words to describe it. Though my heart went out to all involved and a part of me knew the importance of bringing this to light in order to reach those not yet confident in how strong they are and how precious life is, still, I didn’t want to depress others by sharing it. The story is so unbelievably strange that it’s easier, though cowardly, to ignore it or wish it away. I had a feeling Bristol would cover it though, as she isn’t afraid to take a stand. She tackles the tough things. She isn’t afraid of life. Here is Bristol’s coverage:

Woman films own abortion

Haunted photos of woman who filmed own abortion

(And see this story as well: Oregon County Orders Incinerator to stop using aborted babies to generate power.

These stories are especially painful as Mother’s Day approaches and we celebrate both cherished motherhood and the fresh spring season that sustains life.

Like other average American families, my family knows "life happens!" And it’s so often way out of our control. Mistakes are made by all because we’re fallible. Thank God, though, no matter past actions we can find peace and courage as over-comers thanks to forgiveness and grace. That needs to be offered to those who’ve made a regretful choice in the past.

Thank you, women, for knowing you are strong enough and capable of protecting the precious life of your baby, even in less than ideal circumstances. Even in the most difficult situations (especially in those situations!), it is the strong and selfless woman who faces life head-on and seeks the help she needs, all while acknowledging the life within her is purposeful and precious – the life of a baby, the precious life of a child.

I encourage women to open their eyes and hearts to realize the help that’s available – including resources to protect an unplanned, “unwanted” baby. There are people who will help them find their babies loving homes with adoptive families who will..............

No apologies, no regrets ... A Woman of Substance that she is, Sarah Palin doubles down ....

on the humorous one-liner she had made linking baptism by waterboarding  when dealing with terrorists.

At her FaceBook page:
.....Actions to stop terrorists  who’d utterly annihilate America and delight in massacring our innocent children? Darn right I’d do whatever it takes to foil their murderous jihadist plots – including waterboarding. Whatever one thinks of my one-liner at the NRA rally about treating evil terrorists the way they deserve to be treated to prevent the death of innocent people, it’s utterly absurd for MSNBC to suggest that I could put our beloved troops in harm’s way, but we’ve come to expect the absurd from that failing network. If you want to talk about what really harms our troops, let’s talk about politicians who gut our military’s budgets, or a president whose skewed budgetary priorities slash military benefits, or an administration that puts our vets on endless waiting lists for care that comes too late to help those who’ve paid the price for our freedom, or those who break bread with those who think it makes no difference how our military heroes died in Benghazi or anywhere else trying to protect America. Those actions are a heck of a lot more harmful than declaring an appropriate message our enemies should receive. If some overly sensitive wusses took offense, remember the First Amendment doesn’t give you a right not to be offended. Perhaps hypocritical folks who only want Freedom of Speech to apply to those who agree with their liberal agenda might want to consider that the evil terrorists who were the brunt of my one-liner would be the first to strip away ALL our rights if given the chance. That’s why we do whatever we can to prevent them from killing innocent people. And for that, we should NEVER apologize. Good Lord, critics... buck up or stay in the truck. And if you love freedom, thank our troops! Thank our vets! And thank those who have the brains to support them and the guts to defend what they have earned!

Comic relief: Jimmy Fallon and Sarah Palin

"Amazing America" hosted by Sarah Palin

April 3 is the date for the special 1 hour premiere on the Sportsman channel.

The resignation of WH pastry chef reminds Sarah Palin of one of her favorite recipes

The WH pastry chef has quit saying: "I don’t want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs."  
You don't have to stretch your imagination too far for the reason why the man called it quits.  HAHAHAHHA!

From WashingtonTimes
.... Michelle Obama may have pushed the White House pastry chef a bit too far with her constant requests to replace fatty foods like cream and butter with lower-calorie options: He’s quit, calling the decision “bittersweet,” various media reported.
Bill Yosses, who was hired in 2007 under the George Bush administration, has announced he’s leaving his position in June and heading to the private sector in New York to teach people some healthy eating tactics, The New York Times reported....

From Sarah Palin's Facebook:
...“W.H. pastry chef quits: ‘I don’t want to demonize cream, butter, sugar and eggs’” I love this person.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/19/white-house-pastry-chef-quits-saying-cream-and-but/

And HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY PIPER INDI GRACE! We love you!
And speaking of butter and sugar... I love getting your favorite recipes. From my last book, here's one of mine!

Juanita’s Soft, Gooey Oatmeal Raisin White Chocolate-Chip Heaven
Now, you can have the perfect gift to give your loved ones at Christmas! It’s fun to give these away in festive packaging. These delicious little treats deserve it!

TIME TO PREPARE: 20 minutes 
YIELDS: About 4 dozen cookies
2 sticks semi-hard butter (still chilled from the fridge, not softened in the microwave, and don’t overmix the butter with the sugars, eggs, and vanilla) 1 cup brown sugar 
½ cup white sugar 
2 eggs 
1 teaspoon vanilla 
1 ½ cup flour plus a smidge more 
1 teaspoon baking soda plus a smidge more 
½ teaspoon salt 
1 teaspoon cinnamon and a few pinches of allspice 
3 cups oatmeal 
lots of white chocolate chips; Juanita adds some dark and semisweet chocolate chips, too. raisins, to taste (or dried cranberries to make cookies more colorfully festive) 1 cup (or so) chopped walnuts unless your kids demand “no nuts!”


1. Preheat your oven to 350º F. ......................

Gov. Sarah Palin at CPAC 2014

Sarah Palin slaps Peggy Noonan .... hard!

Many of the MSM's  journalists are still in Obama's back pocket where they made their abode from 2008, however, some are now climbing out or giving that impression.  A bit too late, wouldn't you say?  Peggy Noonan is one of the escapees  ... for now.

Noonan's article is behind a pay wall,  I have copied/pasted whatever I could find from the few lines at the link and from her Facebook page.

Sarah Palin at her facebook page:
Great article, Peggy,  but where the heck were you when I and other commonsense conservatives were sounding the warning bell in '08? You joined the "cool kids" in mocking and condescendingly criticizing -- ultimately demanding that we "sit down and shut up." Better late than never, though, Peggy and your ilk, because, meanwhile back in America... 

Peggy Noonan at WallStreetJournal:
 The growing distance between  Washington and the public it dominates. The State of the Union was a spectacle of delusion and self-congratulation in which a Congress nobody likes rose to cheer a president nobody really likes. It marked the continued degeneration of a great and useful tradition. Viewership was down, to the lowest level since 2000. This year's innovation was the Parade of Hacks. It used to be the networks only showed the president walking down the aisle after his presence was dramatically announced. Now every cabinet-level officeholder marches in, shaking hands and high-fiving with breathless congressmen. And why not? No matter how bland and banal they may look, they do  have the power to destroy your life—to declare the house you just built as in violation of EPA wetland regulations, to pull your kid's school placement, to define your medical coverage out of existence. So by all means attention must be paid and faces seen.

I watched at home and thought: They hate it. They being the people, whom we're now supposed to refer to as the folks. But you look at the polls at how people view Washington—one, in October, had almost 9 in 10 disapproving—and you watch a kabuki-like event like this and you know the distance, the psychic, emotional and experiential distance, between Washington and America, between the people and their federal government, is not only real but, actually, carries dangers. History will make more of the distance than we do.....

Sarah Palin on the SOTU address

Gov. Palin writing at her Facebook page:
...If you skipped huddling  around the TV last night for the State of the Union address because you’ve heard it all before, plus you were just busy with life, well… so did I. Putting the real world on hold to watch the fantasy declaration of “utopia’s-on-its-way” just isn’t efficient. 

My truck radio was tuned in though. And driving kids to and from ball games with me negotiating control of the dial allowed me to hear what I’d forebodingly anticipated. Later, reading the President's remarks on my cell phone made sitting on sticky steel bleachers (that exacerbate parents’ sore backs) that much more uncomfortable. It was all confirmation that we HAVE heard it all before – how more government is supposedly the answer. But the extreme hubris and naïveté that emanated from that speech was something new and alarming.

Ronald Reagan said the nine most frightening words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Well, last night's promise to grow even more unaffordable, unsustainable bureaucracy confirms we need rescuing from government like never before.

Consider all the “help” a bloated bankrupt federal government has given us…

In an attempt to “fix” our health care system, government has taken away our health insurance and forced us to buy worse plans we don’t want and can’t afford.

To “stimulate” the economy, government blew a trillion dollars on a failed stimulus scheme that sunk us deeper into such a pile of debt that our great-great-great grandchildren won’t be able to pay it off. And our government still wants to blow more money we don’t have on “investments” that will incur more deficits year after year.

To “lead” us to energy independence, government throws billions at bankrupt boondoggle green energy gimmicks that conveniently reward campaign donors. Meanwhile, the President stymies development of conventional resources that we actually use and he kills a pipeline that’s guaranteed to provide jobs and reliable energy...........

Why is the Left so racist while professing not to be so?

I don't get it.  
Everywhere you turn you find those on the Left saying the most nasty things, especially, IMO,  Black lefties jump at every opportunity to hit at the White population while forever playing the victim card making it look like they are at disadvantage because of the Whites' treatment of them.  What treatment?  The actual facts are just the opposite. Blacks go about "playing" knock out games on mostly non-Blacks, especially the elderly and the media throws it all under a heavy blanket. Blacks get the best spots as TV hosts from whence they can spew out their hatred. Below is just one example ... and it is all the more disgusting because mix-race Melissa Harris-Perry herself was born into a white Mormon family. 

From SandraRose blog:
....During a segment   of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on Sunday, the panelists joked about a viral photo of the Romneys sitting in an idyllic setting surrounded by their 21 grandkids including little Kieran dressed in a pink onesie.
One of the panelists, actress Pia Glenn, sang “one of these things is not like the other,” while another joked that the photo was representative of the Republican Party’s lacking diversity.
“It really sums up the diversity of the Republican Party, the RNC. At the convention, they find the one black person,” said comedian Dean Obeidallah.
MSNBC host Harris-Perry joked about Romney’s grandson marrying Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter, North West............

It was good to see that the Tea Party did not sit by and let this blatant racism go by ... even if the Rinos did so as usual.  The reason the Tea Party patriots are hated so much is because the Left has become used to the Rinos (Republicans In Name Only) taking the slaps from the Left and moving on.  Not so the Tea Party folks....and that's the way it should be. If the Left can dish it out, they should also be made to eat the stuff.

What Sarah Palin said at her Facebook page: 
.....Holy unbelievable.  The hypocritical leftist lamestream media should be shamed by every caring, child-loving American. It has once again reached a new low. See the article linked below. One just can't win in their petty little games. Good thing most Americans don't play those little games! It's a beautiful thing the Romney family has done by embracing “the spirit of adoption.” What on earth is more beautiful? Shame on MSNBC for mocking this.
The LSM's pursuit of “shock ratings” is unreal. Governor Mitt Romney ran for higher office with what I believe is a servant's heart. He was saddled with some sup-par campaign tactics. That does not make him a bad person nor does it open his children or grandchildren to attacks over a year after the fact. This latest attack from the Left is despicable.
Leftist media hounds are not expressing an opinion with this attack; they are expressing a prejudice that would never be accepted if it came from anyone else but the lib media.
You really need a conscience, yellow journalists. May your 2014 New Year's Resolution be to find one.
Thank you, Romney family, for giving a child a family full of love.

What Greta van Susteren of FoxNetwork said:
How could anyone – MS/NBC host – be THIS cruel to a child?  this really is about as cruel as you can get to a child…
The Romney family adopted an African American child. The Romneys love the child. The child loves them. This is a wonderful story…but not to MS/NBC....
....In my wildest dreams I can’t understand or imagine anyone being this mean to an innocent child….this really tops all.
Of course there is also the coldness and awful motive of trying to discourage people from opening their homes to any and all children who desperately need a family to raise them and provide love.
Yes…there are some trying to help make the world better for others and then there are the others…..

And, this from the  TeaPartyNewsNetwork:
 ....In a disgusting and contemptible display of bigotry, liberal panelists on MSNBC on Sunday stooped to a new low by mocking former Governor Mitt Romney for having an adopted black grandchild.
It’s truly disgusting that ideological-driven hatred and desperation created by low ratings has driven MSNBC to this low, but alas, here we are..........

Sarah Palin and Hannity talk about A&E's hypocrisy

Martin Bashir, one of MSNBC's leading scumballs, resigns

It will take a long time to forget  the obscene allegations and opinions that spewed from his mouth against a good woman.  The upside of  the incident is that he has shown a whole lot of dhimmis out there how intolerant, spiteful and terribly hateful Muslims can be when they target a woman for criticism.  The more people becoming aware of Muslim men's behaviour towards women, the better informed they become about islam's poisonous ideology.  Oft times, it's the muzzies themselves throwing sunlight on themselves. 

update:  Oops! Forgot that the scum is not a Muslim but a Christian of Pakistani origins.


Jessica Chasmar writing at WashingtonTimes:
.....Just weeks after MSNBC host Martin Bashir   issued a foul attack against former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on his show, the outspoken progressive announced he is resigning from the troubled network.
“After making an on-air apology, I asked for permission to take some additional time out around the Thanksgiving holiday,” Mr. Bashir said in a statement Wednesday afternoon, Mediaite.com reported.
“Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.......

Poor Cher, she's responsible for making her daughter into a son/whatever, and now she can't stand normal families

It's amazing how many dysfunctional people are out there who have this exact same irrational hatred like Cher has shown towards Sarah Palin.  One of the obvious reasons is the envy these poor souls can't control when they see that Palin has everything they wanted in their own lives but missed the boat altogether, all because of their own folly. 

The mutant  below is Cher's offspring.  Born a normal girl, left in the care of a lesbian pedophile who sexually abused her, the girl turns into what you see in the vid.  Is it any wonder that Cher has major regrets?   But does that mean Cher-the-freak-show has to vent her frustration on Sarah Palin? The freak herself is responsible for the Sad Sack below. She was a disaster as a mother and now she can't stand an ideal mother like Sarah Palin.



Sarah Palin at her Facebook page:
Click the link below to read  a fine response to Cher. And enjoy this pic of my brother Chuck's beautiful wife and daughter. They paint a beautiful picture, and I'm thankful they know how to react to irrational rants. Thanks, brother! See you at Thanksgiving dinner! Bring your skates.
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The "Hate Sarah Palin" meter hits an all time high with the pure unadulterated hatred coming from yet another British anchor brought to America to insult American citizens

Is USA not able to find Americans to host their TV shows?  Do they have to outsource everything to foreigners?   Brainless Martin Bashir need many more refresher courses in the English language.  The bastard just does not know that metaphors exist in the English usage. He is a Pakistani Christian born in the UK, but chances are the shithead was enrolled either in the worst of schools in the UK or his parents took him back to Pakistan where the teaching of English is not an important subject compared to learning the koran by heart without understanding a word within it.



Tony Lee wrting at Breitbart:
Former Nightline anchor and MSNBC host Martin Bashir     suggested Friday that someone should defecate and/or urinate in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's mouth because she compared the federal debt to slavery.
Bashir said that, given what he believed to be Palin's "reputation as a world-class idiot, it's hardly surprising that she should choose to mention slavery in a way that is abominable to anyone who knows anything about its barbaric history."
He gave an example in Thomas Thistlewood, an overseer of slaves at a major plantation in Jamaica in the 1700s. Bashir said that in his diary, Thistlewood wrote, “A slave named Darby catched eating canes; had him well flogged and pickled, then made Hector, another slave, s-h-i-t in his mouth.”
Bashir said this became known as "Darby’s dose, a punishment invented by Thistlewood that spoke only of the slave owner's savagery and inhumanity." 
"And he mentions a similar incident again in 1756, this time in relation to a man he refers to as Punch," Bashir continued. "'Flogged Punch well, and then washed and rubbed salt pickle, lime juice and bird pepper; made Negro Joe piss in his eyes and mouth.' I could go on, but you get the point."
In concluding his segment, Bashir said when Palin "invoked slavery, she doesn’t just prove her rank ignorance. She confirms that if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, then she would be the outstanding candidate........

Sarah Palin's daughter: "Dear President Obama, Please save this American in Iran"

At her facebook page Palin links to her daughter Bristol's  plea to  bring wider attention to the plight of Pastor Saeed who is sentenced to 8 years,  only because of  his Christian faith, on thumped up charges.  

Bristol Palin writing at Patheos:
...Pastor Saeed, a U.S. Citizen, is in danger of being murdered.  According to the ACLJ website, he has been transferred to a deadly cell block in one of Iran’s most dangerous and obscure prisons.

He is no longer sharing a cell with political prisoners but with murderers. Rajai Shahr Prison is where prisoners are sent to disappear – many are murdered at the hands of other prisoners.
President Obama, who has already spoken to the President of Iran about Pastor Saeed, must take immediate diplomatic action to save Saeed’s life. Time is of the essence....

Sarah Palin to gossip monger Piers Morgan begging her appearance on his "shambolic" show: "Kind of busy right now"

and that message is on a hunting pic of her kill ... a  big black bear.  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!   And, she didn't say "get stuffed" ... she says.  HAHAHAHA!   Man-o-Man!!   This makes my day.

Sarah Palin wrote at her FB page after she saw how Morgan spread rumors about her:

Oh dear Piers, thank you so much for all your invitations to appear on your shambolic show, including the adoring message you sent. But is it still any wonder why I've politely responded that I'm too busy doing, um, er... pretty much anything to accept the invite? (At least I didn't tell you to "get stuffed".) And to all our British friends: we ask, what did your friends across the pond ever do to you to deserve your Piers?

HAHAHAHAHA!

From Breitbart:
 Piers Morgan spreads fake story trashing Palin. The Daily Currant is a satire site, but that didn't stop CNN primetime anchor Piers Morgan from gleefully tweeting out a Currant story attacking Sarah Palin, without noting that the story was untrue. Moreover, nothing on the page indicates the article is satire. The fake story ridiculed Palin for something she did not do: Claim that Christ celebrated Easter before his death:

And, can you believe this nutjob has 3.7 million followers on Twitter who will be able to read his twit's tweet and probably believe the fuck?!  This is how false stories about Palin get started in the first place.  From brainless people to more brainless people ... spreading like wildfire and maligning a good, decent woman.  

Sarah Palin titles her article: "The Corrupt Bastards Club. They said it, I didn't"

HAHAHAHHAHA.   What's not to like about her?  She's the best thing that's happened to American politics.  Would you rather prefer "What difference does it make?" when people die violently at terrorists' hands?
From many recent indications,  the disappointment mingled with the alarm that the Tea Party biggies are feeling these days is coming across as just that,  no matter how much they try to hide it.  If they don't take the step of  divorcing themselves from the Republican party and forming a third party, and doing it pronto, they risk going down with the Republican party into total darkness and oblivion.  The Republicans in the USA are finished, over, gone. If you don't believe me now, you will after the next election.

Sarah Palin writing at Breitbart:
....In Alaska we had a group of politicos

  who chuckled as they dubbed themselves the “CBC,” which stands for “Corrupt Bastards Club.” But it was no laughing matter. I, and many others, took them on. We won. When I served as chairman of our state’s Oil and Gas Commission, I reported on the cronyism of the chair of my own Party, who had been appointed by our governor to that same energy regulating commission. (Click here to see a reporter’s reaction to a short Newt Gingrich interview on the matter.) The whistle blowing resulted in him receiving the largest ethics fine in the state’s history. But that was just the tip of the oily iceberg. The FBI investigated Alaskan lawmakers for taking bribes from the oil industry in exchange for votes favorable to that industry, and politicos ended up in jail.* The lawmakers actually called themselves the Corrupt Bastards Club and even emblazoned the CBC initials on baseball caps they gifted each other – that’s how untouchable they believed they were. But average, concerned citizens said, “enough is enough,” and shook things up. Though some of the CBC members ended up in horizontal pinstripes, much of the compromised party apparatus stayed in power.
I’ll never forget standing at the podium during our state GOP convention and asking delegates to stand up with me and oust the status quo because the political environment had to change for Alaska to progress toward her manifest destiny as a more productive—and ethical—state to help secure our union. Only about half stood up. The rest looked around gauging the political winds and sat on their thumbs. Our federal delegation was incensed at me. Their influence resulted in much of the party machine staying put, but I’ll never be sorry I fought it. 
Today, doesn't it seem like we have a Corrupt Bastards Club in D.C.? On steroids? It might not be as oily and obvious as its Alaska counterpart, but it’s just as compromised because its members, too, are indifferent to what their actions mean for We the People.
I’m prepared to be attacked for suggesting this comparison of the D.C. political establishment with the CBC. But I call it like I see it. And lived it. The fight over defunding socialized healthcare, aka Obamacare, should have opened everyone’s eyes to call it the same.
From the very start, we knew that any health care reform could move us in one of two directions: closer to a genuine free market and patient-centered system to allow choices, affordability, and continued economic freedom, or closer to full socialized healthcare in the form of a single-payer system. President Obama and many Democrats have always openly admitted they want socialized medicine in the form of a single-payer system.
It can be argued that Obamacare isn’t full socialized medicine… yet. Right now it is a sort of corporatism, which is the collusion of big government with big business. With Obamacare, the government has taken over an industry that comprises a sixth .....

The Stealth Jihad on Christmas traditions rages on in Canada and the United States

Christians are discriminated against by Muslims, Atheists and Socialists. You will rarely find them going at each other's throats and that proves that they are hand in glove  in this persecution of Christians and the simple enjoyable traditions that are a part and parcel of Christianity.  Why is that?  Why would singing Christmas carols get these people's panties in such a twist that their underwear shoots up right into their mouths and give off the most terrible stench?

Christians all over should keep a sharp lookout for any school or store that might be on a stealth jihad to kill Christmas.  Remember that this is their stealth way of telling us Christians that they think we are a highly superstitious group and that the portrayal of our superstition in such gaudy displays is getting on their raw nerves and it is not welcomed. They would rather welcome islam and the caliphate.  

We don't go about planting bombs or beheading innocent people ... yet  it will be like going  through a field of haystacks looking for a needle to find even one socialist or an atheist trying to take away the extremely ugly sight of Muslim men with their butts  in the air praying to their god.

Targeting  Christians for discrimination  is fair play because we don't suicide bomb, behead, flog, "honor" kill, walk around in black tents, insist on our own sharia laws, wage lawfare on free speech,  get our kids married well before their teenage years, etc.etc.etc.etc. .

Excellent article at American Thinker below which is a "must read" in full.



Cynthia Yacowar-Sweeney writing at AmericanThinker:
According to CTV News Canada.  on October 7, 2013, ... the previously canceled Halloween and Christmas celebrations have just been reinstated at Winnipeg's Hastings School.  These Canadian traditional holidays that have been celebrated for a few hundred years, were about to be replaced with possibly Islamic ones.  Yes, Islamic ones.  How so?
Hastings School chose to replace Christmas festivities with African "drumming."  Given the insistence on an African theme, why did the school not choose African "music" instead, like the magnificent and magical music of Mali that was outlawed by Islam when al-Qaeda took control there?  Why drumming?  Here's why.
According to the more authentic and reliable hadiths -- traditions or deeds attributed to Mohammed that provide the basis of sharia or Islamic law, after the Koran -- musical instruments are all regarded as tools of Satan (Bukhari, vol.2, book 15, hadith 70) and forbidden in Islam, except for the daf drum (Abu Dawud, book 15, hadith 3306).
Singing, which was not a Christmas-replacement option for Hastings School, is also forbidden in Islam (especially for women), as it "produces hypocrisy (Abu Dawud, book 41, hadith 4909) in the heart" and is considered to be the voice of Satan.  Both musical instruments and singing lead man astray and deviate from the path of Allah.  Those who use musical instruments will be destroyed and "transformed into monkeys and pigs" (Bukhari, vol. 69, hadith 494v).  One hadith from the sacred collection called Hadee's-e-Qudsi Ahmad (19:5) commands Mohammed "to destroy all the musical instruments, idols, crosses and all the trappings of ignorance."
The daf drum from Islamic North Africa is the only musical instrument and the only kind of drum allowed in Islam because this drum, being hollow like the tambourine but without jingles, emanates a sound that could be construed as uninspiring and incapable of stirring up human emotion.  Moving the human spirit is simply not allowed in Islam when it has nothing to do with worshiping Allah or promoting faith in him.  Therefore, this particular drum is often allowed in Islam, as it supposedly evokes no emotion.  Is this the drum that Hastings school would have offered in lieu of Canada's traditional celebrations?......

In America, the stalwart  Sarah Palin fights the war on Christmas raging down there. At her Facebook page, she wrote:  

Thank you to all the Wausau, Wisconsin, residents who showed up to protest a wrongheaded school directive against Christmas carols. Wausau showed that there is power in unity as we battle against Scrooges who want Christ out of Christmas.  My new book tackles issues like this one. It explains the steps we can take to combat the Scrooges so that we may forever protect the heart of Christmas from those who seek to diminish its true meaning.

Todd Starnes writing at FoxNews:
....The Wausau, Wis. School District says   it’s okay to jingle bells and don gay apparel but lay off the Baby Jesus stuff – and that has parents and students ready to deck somebody’s halls.

The community became enraged after the elementary schools canceled their upcoming Christmas concerts and the school district issued guidelines that curtailed the number of sacred holiday songs the high school choir could perform.

Phil Buch, the director of the Wausau West High School choir programs since 1981, told the Wausau Daily Herald that he was given three choices after meeting with school officials about the upcoming yuletide season.
He was told the choirs could perform one sacred song for every five secular songs performed; eliminate all Christmas music or postpone December concerts.
He was also reportedly told that the district had to approve every musical selection. Instead, Buch announced that he was temporarily disbanding the school’s elite choir.
School Board member Pat McKee told me it’s nothing short of a war on Christmas.
“When you look at it on the surface, it’s hard to argue against that train of thought,” he said.
“People are justifiably making that correlation – that it’s a war on Christmas.”
McKee said he doesn’t blame parents, teachers and students for being upset.
“People should be angry,” he said. “People are very, very angry, very passionate and rightfully so.”
The Wausau School District said there’s a perfectly good explanation and they pointed out they are not banning all Christmas music.
“Rather district administration has taken steps to help ensure that religiously-themed music is incorporated into the curriculum and performances in a manner that satisfies legal and educational requirements,” read a statement from the district.

So what are the legal requirements for boys and girls singing “Silent Night”?
Well, according to the school district, the elite choir was given a choice to sing “seasonal and Christmas selections that do not involve the celebration of the religious holiday of Christmas.”
“This approach would allow for the continuation of a holiday theme,” the district stated.
The second option would involve changing the format of the winter performance to eliminate any reference to Christmas “so that the District could not be challenged as .........

Million Veterans March on Washington DC ....and the media is caught sleepwalking as usual

The alphabet big media is silent and ignoring the march. Looks like the idiots will take longer to realize that they have become irrelevant in the age of alternative media like twitter, blogs, etc.  

Developing… Vets Storm Washington DC… March Now At White House… Secret Service On Scene: Developing… Veterans ... http://t.co/RLuzP9ZeVj
— Resistance (@Resista38176897) October 13, 2013

#TedCruz & #sarahpalin showed up at the Veterans, truck march. No media coverage on vets taking the Lincoln memorial pic.twitter.com/9JF30cFD3C
— LittleMama (@TXSweetTweets) October 13, 2013

Plenty of pics  at WeaselZippers blog.

From RalphHall House:
This morning, Rep. Ralph Hall (TX-04) attended the Million Veterans March  at the World War II Memorial. The rally, with location points across the Nation, met to draw attention to the Administration’s unfair treatment of veterans with its decision to barricade open-air memorials during the government shutdown.  

“As a navy pilot in World War II and someone who grew up in a military family – my father was a World War I veteran and my brother fought in both theaters during World War II – I understand the frustrations fellow veterans feel with this Administration,” said Hall. “The decision to lock veterans out of a memorial built in remembrance of their service to this great country is a dishonor to the sacrifice of all veterans who have served, as well as the troops who are serving today. It is equally unfair to the military families and friends who lost loved ones and would like to pay tribute to their fallen heroes, but are unable to do so.”
Hall continued, “It is my hope that Congress and the President will come to a budget negotiation soon, but in the meantime, the President should reopen all open-air memorials. American citizens should be allowed to properly pay tribute to the servicemen and women who bravely fought on their behalf.”