ISIL - YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

The Real Threat from ISIL

By Ronald Kessler

The current debate over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant misses the real threat: a weapons of mass destruction attack that would cause massive casualties.

In interviews for my book "The Secrets of the FBI," Robert S. Mueller III told me when he was FBI director [September 4, 2001 - September 4, 2013] that what keeps him awake at night is the possibility of a terrorist attack using radiological biological, or chemical weapons that would wipe out millions of Americans in cities like New York and Washington.

Given that ISIL has more than $1 billion in cash and additional millions coming in from oil revenue every week, it would be easy for the terrorist group to buy off an expert who could unleash such an attack within the next month or two. Since ISIL members include Americans with U.S. passports, bringing such weapons into this country would be no problem at all. 

"The biggest threat comes from individuals who have had some association with the United States, understand the United States, can move either individually or with others relatively freely into the United States and within the United States," Mueller has told me. 

Thus, those who say ISIL poses no immediate threat to the homeland because no credible plot has yet been detected or would only shoot up some people in a shopping mall or knock down a building are as wrong as those who thought before 9/11 that al Qaeda consisted of a bunch of cavemen who could never launch a major attack on the U.S. 

• Moreover, because of laxness and corner cutting by Secret Service management exposed in my book The First Family Detail, the agency has not kept up to date with the latest technology for detecting WMD or preventing an attack on the White House. Having ignored the ISIL threat for nearly a year as it obviously gained momentum, President Obama could tragically wind up being its victims. 

Even a WMD attack that does not kill a great number of people would have a crushing psychological impact.

"A singular lone wolf individual can do things in the dark of the night with access to a laboratory with low quantities of material and could hurt a few people but create a devastating effect on the American psyche," according to Dr. Vahid Majidi, who was the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate. 

Another "huge" potential threat, says Arthur M. "Art" Cummings II, who headed FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations, is the explosion by terrorists of a nuclear weapon high in the atmosphere to unleash an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). The electromagnetic pulse generated by the blast would fry all electronics in North America. Because almost everything we need to survive relies on microchips—computers, financial records, furnaces, refrigerators, police dispatchers, hospitals, telephones, cars, trains, trucks, and planes—such a blast would send America back to the 1300s. 

In the event of an EMP attack, the electrical power grid would be destroyed because its computers would be inoperative. Transformers critical to it would take years to replace. The vast majority of Americans would die from starvation or disease or would freeze to death, according to Dr. William Graham, who was chairman of the bipartisan congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from EMP Attack. And those exposed to biological, radiological, or chemical weapons would die horrible deaths. 

The Obama administration has said it will take three years to wipe out ISIL In the meantime, we could all become its victims. As long as ISIL exists, the question is not whether but when cataclysmic attacks by the barbaric group on the U.S. homeland will occur. 

BIO: Ronald Kessler, a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal investigative reporter, is the author of "The Secrets of the FBI" and "The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents".

http://www.mainjustice.com//2014/09/18/the-real-threat-from-isil/  

Afghan Schoolgirl Teaches Obama World History

 

Malala Yousafzai, don't pay attention to this girl - she had a hole in her head!

That fact is true, but not a reason to ignore her warning on true danger - Pakistani militants aka The Taliban. Malala was feted at the United Nations after a failed head-shot in a Taliban assassination attempt to rid Pakistan of this female scourge pushing for women's fundamental education rights against Sharia Laws. Afghanistan remains one of the worst places on Earth to be a woman, despite billions of dollars in aid and pledges to better their lives. There is now mounting concern that such freedoms will not be protected and may even be traded away as Kabul seeks a peace deal with the Taliban, as most foreign troops prepare to leave the country by the end of 2014.

"Public opinion is confused about the Malala issue. Many people hate Malala," said Zubair Torwali, a newspaper columnist from her home valley of Swat. "Anything here in Pakistan related to the West or America becomes a thing of conspiracy. The Taliban's ideology is flourishing in Pakistan. It is victorious."

The simple truth is that the Taliban are doing as well as they are because they are being supported by Pakistan in Afghanistan. Afghanistan's old ethnic conflict has become a proxy war for the bitter feud between the region's two nuclear powers, Pakistan and India. Like the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the problems between India and Pakistan stem from the ill-conceived and poorly implemented geopolitics of the partition of the British Empire in 1948. And the Taliban are being supported by Pakistan because the Pakistani generals fear being squeezed in an Indian nutcracker, faced with not only a massive Indian presence to their south but a pro-Indian regime to the north in Afghanistan.

The real truth is even more complex. There is not just a proxy war between India and Pakistan, but also Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US too. So, what lies at the heart of the current war in Afghanistan is the hostility between India and Pakistan, ongoing for more than 60 years and the malign influence of Qatar, Saudi and other vastly rich gulf states on an impoverished Pakistan forcing Salafism onto Islamic believers as the truer pure Islam of the Queran along with violence that strict religious radicalism often brings.

Additionally, Obama has told Afghanis and Pakistanis that the U.S. is and will be leaving in 2014, thereby creating a vacuum relinquishing back the region to the Afghan goverment and Taliban. Will the Taliban get together for a big kumbaya group hug? ...Hmmn, that will never happen because India most likely would be filling the security vacuum left by the US withdrawal, advance its regional interests, compete with its Chinese rival for influence in the country as China hedges mining minerals and resources by investing heavily into the rural populations of mountainous areas, and thwart its Pakistani enemy at the same time. 

Boy, isn't this great news? All of our U.S. "blood and treasures" have been dumped down into this Afghanistan - Pakistan regional rat hole, and for what?  It's certainly not for any form of "Democracy" in Afghanistan or Pakistan, nor in an al Queda "Theocracy" under a totalitarian Islamic regime somewhere. The American people have been "sold a bill of goods" by our Washington politicians to enter a war chasing after the al Queda and a President Obama that cut back pentagon funding so that we ended up just chasing after our own tail - and so, What are the real facts? We certainly did not learn them in U.S. public school history classes. Stupid students. Stupid citizens - Dead soldiers. Sad. 

Afghanistan has deposits of rare earths, gold, copper, iron and other minerals worth an estimated $3 Trillion. The problem is that they are located in one of the country's most dangerous spots, on the south bank of the Helmand River, in a traditional Taliban stronghold. All cell phones need the other rare earth minerals for circuit boards. China produces 97 per cent of the world’s rare earths output. However, it is estimated to hold only 30 per cent of the world reserves.

So now China takes away needed massive mineral deposits while the U.S. walks away with nothing for all of their body bags or military assets and money wasted.

FACTOID: According to a recent Congressional Research Service report, world demand for rare earth metals is estimated to be 136,000 tons per year, and projected to rise to at least 185,000 tons annually by 2015. With continued global growth of the middle class, especially in China, India and Africa, demand will continue to grow. High-tech products and renewable energy technology cannot function without rare earth metals. Neodymium, terbium and dysprosium are essential ingredients in the magnets of wind turbines and computer hard drives; a number of rare earth metals are used in nickel-metal-hydride rechargeable batteries that power electric vehicles and many other products; yttrium is necessary for color TVs, fuel cells and fluorescent lamps; europium is a component of compact fluorescent bulbs and TV and iPhone screens; cerium and lanthanum are used in catalytic converters; platinum group metals are needed as catalysts in fuel cell technology; and other rare earth metals are essential for solar cells, cell phones, computer chips, medical imaging, jet engines, defense technology, and much more.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-09-rare-earth-metals.html#jCp

Nancy Pelosi's P.C. Police Force

San Francisco has been "Different" since the era of the "Flower people" in the 1960's. Have you ever wondered why folks in California appear so confused?  Well, this might show why...

The San Francisco Police Department

• Chief Heather Fong (left), is the first SFPD female, lesbian chief of police.
• Theresa Sparks (center),  a former male, is president of the San Francisco Police Commission, CEO of a multi-million dollar sex toy retailer, and a transgender woman.
• Sgt. Stephan Thorne (right), a former female, is the first transgender male SFPD police officer.

But what explains it? Well, this might...

Their Representative in Congress is Nancy Pelosi.

...Any Questions?

No one can complain about real gender neutrality issues when hiring to fill jobs when there are six categories represented: Male, female, transgender female, transgender male, lesbian and homosexual. 

Looking at 5 Eyes through Trifocals

Our national security requires a view through Trifocal lens to see near, far and farthest to assess not only the kind of threat but the distance from an approaching threat and the anticipated time it will arrive. What clouds our lens is the collective hubris of government agencies which only adds fuel to the fires of public distrust. People see politicians as incapable of self-regulation and so consistent oversight, review and congressional authority under U.S. constitutional laws must be maintained to control this bureaucratic invasive monster. This is a love-hate relationship for which Americans must endure heightened vigilance in order to ensure their absolute safety and well-being.

“To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle.  It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...” - T.S. Eliot

Written in 1963, fifty years ago, how apropos these music lyrics are today.

"...'cause the night has a thousand eyes
And a thousand eyes can't help but see if you are true to me
So remember when you tell those little white lies
That the night has a thousand eyes." - Bobby Vee

With revelations of spyware planted on 50,000 networks, the "Five Eyes" states have been allowed to trample over their citizens' privacy for far too long.  - Editorial Credit: Eric King, The Guardian 11/26/13.

 "For more than 60 years, the secret patchwork of spying arrangements and intelligence-sharing agreements that makes up the Five Eyes alliance has remained obfuscated by the states that it benefits – Australia, the US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. Save for one critically important release of declassified documents in 2010, the Five Eyes states have spent almost 70 years concealing from their citizens the scope and extent of their global surveillance ambitions – eroding the public's ability to communicate privately and securely without examination or question."

"Despite the fact that the Five Eyes comprises democratic governments, the rules that govern the arrangement – rules that have allowed the infiltration of every aspect of the modern global communications systems – are entirely hidden from the public. Providing for a complex division of roles, responsibilities and lines of authority, and the establishment of jointly run operations centres, the Five Eyes arrangement creates a signals intelligence architecture faster than NATO. And while its actions implicate the private communications of every connected individual across the globe, the arrangement was executed and operates clandestinely, hidden from the scrutiny of public oversight mechanisms and – until recently – the public."

"A fundamental principle of a democratic society is that people should know the laws and rules that govern the society in which they live. We cannot allow the Five Eyes to continue to operate shrouded in vague justifications of promoting security and defending against terrorism. [That is a very tough point to lobby much public support for because of the IS bloodlust to kill all infidels - i.e., Christians, Jews, Non-Believers & Apostates.]  

 "There is an urgent need to unmask this two-faced, five-eyed monster and subject it to the rigours of modern democratic criticism and scrutiny. The Five Eyes must be held to a new legal framework that respects the rights of all individuals, not just the citizens that live within a respective government's borders. [An international legal authority as a "new legal framework" such as the U.N. would be impossibly unable to address the security needs of each individual sovereign nation.] Without acting swiftly, the five-eyed monster will continue to grow in ambition, size, and scale, swallowing up everything in its path until we have no privacy left."

Obama Gives Away U.S. Internet Free Speech

The U.S. Internet ICANN issue is on target for international turnover next year as authoritarian governments seek control unless we all complain to our Senators and Congressmen--we need to act now in order to avoid it! 

"The Obama administration plan to give up U.S. protection of the open Internet won't take effect for a year, but authoritarian governments are already moving to grab control."--The Internet Commerce Association, which represents Web businesses, warns that the proposal "would transform Icann into a government-led organization," which is "completely counter" to the U.S. requirement that the Internet remain free of government control. They will suppress free speech. Where is YOUR outrage here?  YOUR Internet will be monitored and censored!

The World Wide Web, the Internet is teetering on the brink of collapse into an evil abyss. How many ways to Sunday do I have to emphasize that OBAMA KNOWS NOTHING? "Much of the blame for the splintering of the multistakeholder system lies with Mr. Obama's naïveté in putting Internet governance up for grabs. He underestimated the importance of Washington's control in maintaining an open Internet—and the desire among other governments to close the Internet. And there still is no plan to keep Icann free from control by governments."--sound like any of Obama's other plans like how to handle the Islamic State terrorism? Scary??

"Obama Administration officials pledged to Congress that "the U.S. would keep control over the Internet" if (1) the alternative was to empower other governments or (2) if there isn't full accountability for Icann. Both red lines have been crossed.

If Mr. Obama persists, Congress should block his plan with a simple message: The open Internet is too valuable to surrender." 

CALL YOUR SENATOR TO KEEP U.S. INTERNET FREE OR LOSE IT UNDER OBAMA PLAN.