A sparkling miracle at the Mall

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(Hat tip to Victoria Jackson, my TeaPartyExpress pal, fellow WND columnist, frequent guest on the Johnny Carson Show and former SNL comedienne who can do a handstand better than anyone I know).

Victoria Jackson hand stands at Tea party rally in OK City

Can they do this without Congressional OK?

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Surf’s up at World Net Daily, where you’ll find my latest column about what’s happening on the Internet, under attack from an overreaching federal government.

What comes through most strongly from Wikileaks?

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Tip of the Hat to Dan Friedman of NYC

Tablet Magazine, Nov 29, 2010
By Lee Smith

The classified diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks are the Pentagon Papers of the pro-Israel right…one might easily wonder if Assange isn’t instead a clandestine agent of Dick Cheney and Bibi Netanyahu

What comes through most strongly from the Wikileaks documents, however, is that U.S. Middle East policy is premised on a web of self-justifying fictions that are flatly contradicted by the assessments of American diplomats and allies in the region. Starting with Bush’s second term and continuing through the Obama Administration, Washington has ignored the strong and repeated pleas of its regional allies—from Jerusalem to Riyadh—to stop the Iranian nuclear program.

Perhaps the most disturbing revelation in the documents is the extent to which both the Bush and Obama Administrations have concealed Iran’s war against the United States and its allies in Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and the Arab Gulf states, even as those same allies have been candid in their diplomatic exchanges with us. U.S. servicemen and -women are being dispatched to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistanwhere they are fighting Iranian soldiers and assets in a regional war with the Islamic Republic that our officials dare not discuss, lest they have to do something about it.

Read it all.

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Assange. Villain or Hero?

Julian Assange — hero or villain?

Forbes mag has a fascinating interview with Assange that gives us a glimpse of the man behind the leaks.

Admire him or revile him, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is the prophet of a coming age of involuntary transparency, the leader of an organization devoted to divulging the world’s secrets using technology unimagined a generation ago. Over the last year his information insurgency has dumped 76,000 secret Afghan war documents and another trove of 392,000 files from the Iraq war into the public domain–the largest classified military security breaches in history. Sunday, WikiLeaks made the first of 250,000 classified U.S. State Department cables public, offering an unprecedented view of how America’s top diplomats view enemies and friends alike.

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In a rare, two-hour interview conducted in London on November 11, Assange said that he’s still sitting on a trove of secret documents, about half of which relate to the private sector. And WikiLeaks’ next target will be a major American bank. “It will give a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level in a way that will stimulate investigations and reforms, I presume,” he said, adding: “For this, there’s only one similar example. It’s like the Enron emails.”

Here is an edited transcript of that discussion:

Consider what the Wikileaks docs have revealed:

1.  Hillary  to the world as the devious, cold hearted, malevolent blackmailing battle axe Commie she is.

2.  The machinations of the Arab world vis-a-vis Iran, and how their fear of the mullahs exceeds their hate for Israel.

3.  The mass media now knows that its entire model of the Middle East has been wrong. For years, we have been told that the region revolves around the Arab-Israeli conflict.

4.  Shows Syria’s radicalism, close links with Tehran, and how it has lied to the U.S. government making the Obama Administration look foolish.

5.  Iran steadily smuggled arms to Hizballah using various means including in ambulances and medical vehicles during the 2006 war. This violates the laws of war.

6. Iran and North Korea cooperated to provide Tehran with long-rang missiles that were shipped to Hizballah.

7. He’s planning to divulge banking secrets.

8. Putin and Medvedev are Russia’s Batman and Robin.

9. John F. Kerry wanted to give half of Jerusalem to the Palestinian factions and believed that Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad was a man of change.

10.  It didn’t get nearly as much play as it should have, but Obama’s June 2009 meeting with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah ended with the monarch flying into a tirade and more or less telling the President to get a grip. This was the Riyadh meeting that Obama took on his way to his insulting and failed Cairo Speech, the better to prepare himself by visiting “the place where Islam began.” The sit-down was such a disaster that Dennis Ross was hurriedly brought into the White House and given a broader role…

There’s more, much more, and yet more to come.  Stay tuned…

UPDATE:

John McTernan writes:

WikiLeaked: John Kerry calls for Israel to cede Golan Heights and East Jerusalem

In some respects, I am delighted with the Wikileaks. It has exposed China, North Korea and Iran as truly being an axis of evil. It has also revealed what is going on with some US politicians. It has really exposed Senator John Kerry for what he is. He was stablbng Israel in the back with the Saudi Arabians as he wants Israel to give up Jerusalem and the Golan!

Tomorrow I plan on calling Kerry’s office and condemn him for what he did. I encourage everyone to call to show Israel is not to be carved up. Contact Senator John Kerry.