Obamacare Nabs Tax Non-Payers - Will Pay VAT

Looking wistfully back to 2008 after the 2012 Presidential elections, the Obama euphoric election afterglow has left much too soon this time. The stark realities of Obamanomics dulled feelings fast. Obama ignored blatant warning signs and well-marked guideposts which then shoved the country further down as it lost its footings and then ground in laying out any future foundation. "Community Organizer" skills didn't cut it as the CEO of the biggest country in the history of the world. 

This fact was not lost on taxpayers that Obama was taxing and spending, but what about the other clueless who did not pay taxes? For tax yearFirst-Time taxpayers Shocked - Pay VAT Tax share 2011, the non-partisan Tax Policy Center estimates that only 54 percent of Americans paid Federal income tax. Coming soon, a bill will be introduced for a Federal VAT, Value-Added-Tax, charged on every item sold to pay for the Obamacare Program. (State & Local Taxes not included) How do the 46 percent income tax-free filers feel now, especially when VAT has been forecast upwards to 20% to start? (Top VAT: 25% Norway & UK: 20%) So, a $2.50 bread loaf jumps to $3.00/loaf; a $3.00 gal./gas to $3.60 gal.; a $4.00 cup/latte to $4.80 cup; or $100.00 Mo./TV Cable to $120.00 TV Cable.  ....Now, How does EVERYONE love Obamacare?

We have allowed our Federal government to rob the American people of its rich culture, freedom and livelihood through its overreaching, burdensome, instructive regulations and laws. How is it that Obama can pick or chooseFailures: Obamacare, Benhanzi, IRS, AP, Fast & Furious & Immigration. which laws he wishes to enforce and then tinker with them to his liking without Congress? Obama has never submitted a comprehensive budget since he has been office either and yet spends more not knowing his budget spending limits?  The myriad of scandals mount, why have none of them been investigated or settled? When does this guy read the Constitution to learn his duties? Why do all of the politicians in Washington, DC let this continue on and do nothing about it?

As the Arab World News Turns - A Soap Opera

Saudis Gain Amid Islamist Setbacks

Morsi's Ouster and Syrian Rebel Vote Strengthen Kingdom's Hand

Is it News or a News Release?

It definitely helps in today's politics to understand reportage bias before taking in any information as news fact or news release fiction, especially where the middle East is concerned. 

The Fox News programs under President Roger Ailes has proven to me about "fair and balanced" time and again, which offers a reporting standard today that many news outlets have long forgotten and woefully lost all credibility right along with readership and viewers.

The WSJ newspaper publication like all news organizations manage from the top as with the Chairman Rupert Murdoch and directions go down to be acted upon in the collection and reporting of news content. Although the above headline and byline were printed within the World News section of the venerable Wall Street Journal, it still makes sense to probe its veracity. Upon closer inspection, did you know that the House of Saud, the Saudi Arabia royal family owns voting shares of News Corp., the parent company of the Wall Street Journal and Fox News?

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns the largest chunk of News Corp. stock outside the Murdoch family. Shortly after his purchase of 5.5 percent of News Corp. voting shares in 2005, Alwaleed gave a speech that made it clear just what he had bought. As noted in The (U.K.) Guardian, Alwaleed told an audience in Dubai that it took just one phoneSaudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal & Rupert Murdoch call to Rupert Murdoch – “speaking not as a shareholder but as a viewer,” Alwaleed said – to get the Fox News crawl reporting “Muslim riots” in France changed to “civil riots.” That opening act of eliminating key information from News Corp.’s coverage of Islamic news might well have set a pattern of omission. Alwaleed’s stake today, by the way, is now 7 percent in 2013.

Here is a surprise "tit for tat" tidbit: Not only does Alwaleed own a stake in News Corp., Murdoch owns an even more substantial stake (18.97 percent) in Alwaleed’s Arabic media company Rotana.

Al Risala TV - Tele-Islamist Tareq Al-SuwaidanHere is further incest: Within the Alwaleed-Murdoch-Rotana galaxy is a 24-hour-Islamic outlet called Al Risala, which Alwaleed founded in 2006. The channel’s director and popular “tele-Islamist” is Tareq Al-Suwaidan, widely reported to be a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait. According to former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, the station’s “Supreme Advisory Committee” includes Abdullah Omar Naseef who is “a major Muslim Brotherhood figure” involved in the financing of al-Qaida.

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Islamic Muslim Brotherhood terroristAnother pattern of omission in News Corp.’s coverage is of Al Jazeera Network's alignment with the Muslim Brotherhood, the global Islamic movement whose motto is, “The Quran is our law; jihad is our way; dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” Al Jazeera’s superstar TV host and ideological lodestar, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a leading Muslim Brotherhood figure at the network and in Qatar – where it is against the law for journalists to criticize the Qatari government, the ruling family or Islam. Yusuf al-Qaradawi has called for Americans in Iraq and Israelis everywhere to be targeted by terrorists (“martyrs”) who would then find a place in Islamic paradise.

U.S. International Geo-Political - Religious - Business Relationships

Huma Abedin, the wife of Democratic NYC mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner worked as an assistant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,; daughter of Saleha Abedin of the radical Muslim Sisterhood; who works with Abdullah Omar Naseef, a major leader in the radical Muslim Brotherhood.

The Saudi and the Qatar royal families both adhere to Wahabi Islam but appear are at odds. The Qatari are viewed as being too slack and deviating from Wahabi beliefs while making democratic and social reforms too quickly and allowing relatively free critical media where the Saudis are seen adopting overly rigid religious practices along with tighter reigns on critics. Appearances, though, are not so revealing here since the Saudi officials shrewdly view the Qatari acts as useful stimulus for evolutionary reform in Saudia Arabia and a counterbalance to the region's Islamic extremists. So why do the Saudis feel a need for an equilibrium to Wahbi Islamic extremists?

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The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of al-Qaeda

by Yaroslav Trofimov

On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week.

  That same morning—the first of a new Muslim century—hundreds of gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam’s holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Armed with rifles that they had smuggled inside coffins, these men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times.

Led by a Saudi preacher named Juhayman al Uteybi, they believed that the Saudi royal family had become a craven servant of American infidels, and sought a return to the glory of uncompromising Islam. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, Mecca’s bloody siege lasted two weeks, inflaming Muslim rage against the United States and causing hundreds of deaths.

Despite U.S. assistance, the Saudi royal family proved haplessly incapable of dislodging the occupier, whose ranks included American converts to Islam. In Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini blamed the Great Satan—the United States —for defiling the shrine, prompting mobs to storm and torch American embassies in Pakistan and Libya. The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos led by tough-as-nails Captain Paul Barril, who prepared the final assault and supplied poison gas that knocked out the insurgents.

Though most captured gunmen were quickly beheaded, the Saudi royal family responded to this unprecedented challenge by compromising with the rebels’ supporters among the kingdom’s most senior clerics by deporting many rebels back to their countries of origin or Europe.  The Saudi royal family by these actions was helping them nurture and export Juhayman’s violent brand of Islam around the world - Wahabi Islam.

This dramatic and immensely consequential story was barely covered in the press in the pre-CNN, pre–Al Jazeera days, as Saudi Arabia imposed an information blackout and kept foreign correspondents away. Yaroslav Trofimov now penetrates this veil of silence, interviewing for the first time scores of direct participants in the siege, including former terrorists, and drawing on hundreds of documents that had been declassified on his request.

Written with the pacing, detail, and suspense of a real-life thriller, The Siege of Mecca reveals how Saudi reaction to the uprising in Mecca set free the forces that produced the attacks of 9/11, and the harrowing circumstances that surround us today.

ObamaScare Offers Individual DoNotCare Policies

Obamacare Traiin Wreck is coming in 2014

ObamaCare has become a rolling "train wreck," in Senator Max Baucus's memorable phrase, and it gets worse the more of it the public sees. Mark Mazur, the deputy assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy, published a July 2 blog post that Obama cancelled  Obamacare reporting rules and tax enforcement for businesses only until 2015.

Obama had once told the NY Obama Times that Valerie “Rasputin” Jarrett can: “speak for me, particularly when we’re dealing with delicate issues.” So, White House fixer Valerie Jarrett tried to contain the fallout with her separate blog post promising that ObamaCare is otherwise "staying the course." That's true only if she's referring to the carelessness and improvisation that have defined the law so far.

The Obama Administration's media cheerleaders are nonetheless portraying this as a stroke of political genius to push all the pain past the 2014 elections. But if that's the goal, it is too clever by half. If Republicans have any sense, they will move immediately to delay the rest of the bill for at least a year too. They should start with the individual mandate to buy insurance or pay a tax.

 Obamacare 2014:  Individuals Pay - Businesses Exempt

• Individuals are only supposed to be eligible for ObamaCare's subsidies if their employer doesn't offer the right benefits - But how will the Treasury know who qualifies in 2014 if they lack the information that businesses are supposed to provide?
  

• Citizens must also pay the individual mandate-tax if they decline coverage from their employer - How will the Treasury verify these offers?

All these issues brings us to the dubious legality of this delay. The Affordable Care Act's Section 1513 states in black-letter law that "(d) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2013." It does not say the Administration can impose the mandate whenever it feels it is politically convenient."

Ireland Through the Looking Glass

A Cracked View Clearly

Have you ever turned the telescope around and spied at yourself from that perspective?  It is refreshing to take a break from the American lens to focus on viewing ourselves through another optic.  I received this recent article published by RT.com website, Russian Television, which is provides an alternative perspective on major global events, and acquaints the international audience with the Russian viewpoint.

In 2013, RT completes the move of its studios, headquarters and Moscow offices to a brand-new, state of the art facility. Situated over 28,000 square meters, the new venue houses 6 studios, the latest technology and a staff of more than 2000 professionals; it processes more than 40 incoming satellite and terrestrial feeds, and concurrently streams 8 HD feeds. RT has a global reach of over 630 million people in 100+ countries, or more than 28% of all cable subscribers worldwide.

It was just the first of this month that Russian President Vladimir Putin in a meeting with President Obama delivered scathing remarks about the Obama administration supplying arms to the rebels opposing Syrian President Bashir Assad.  Putin ridiculed and admonished Obama for holding a blind eye to those same rebels cutting the organs, hearts and livers, out of their enemies and eating them. (See our Rovalocity June 13, 2013 Op-Ed Spin about this meeting)

It is with a jaundiced, journalistic eye that one can appreciate the following news story reporting a similar view with Putin on the Obama administration's decision to supply rebel firearms and munitions.  The Member of Parliament in Ireland takes the argument further by pointing to  "undermining secularism" in the region as a whole since this group is "radical Muslim" in a jihad to destroy the Big Satan America too.  

Obama Scandals Bringing Down Obamacare ProgramSo, what is Obama thinking anyway, that his constant "campaign rhetoric" stump speeches will solve all world problems? Seems like Fast & Furious, Benghazi, AP, NSA, IRS and FBI scandals are a pretty full plate with zero answers, arrests, convictions, fines or jail time for anyone. 

Obama is now focusing on helping Syria, Iran's ally, that totally hates us while risking entry into another unpopular war - Obama is desperate to take U.S. public attention off all of his scandals and so this Ireland visit has no play in mainstream U.S. news outlets which effectively buries any of Obama's critics on his diplomatic weaknesses and shortcomings in foreign security and global affairs. 

Ireland News Story

(Excerpts - RT.com  June 27, 2013)

US President Barack Obama waves as he poses for the group picture of the G8 summit at the Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen in Northern IrelandBarack Obama is a “war criminal” and a “hypocrite,” a MP, Member of Parliament, Clare Daly has said in a damning attack on the US president. The MP slammed the Irish media coverage treatment of the visit of Obama as akin to "a nation of pimps, prostituting ourselves in return for a pat on the head" during his G8 visit held in the five-star resort of Lough Erne, Northern Ireland.  

“It’s hard to know which is worse, whether it’s theFirst Lady Michelle Obama (C) her daughter Sasha (L) & Malia (R) during a visit to the Wicklow Mountains National Park. outpourings of the Obamas themselves, or the sycophantic fawning over them by sections of the media and the political establishment,” said Daly, saying that, "The Irish nation had been subjected to “unprecedented slobbering” over the presidential family." (Sure sounds like the news media  in the U.S. to me too.)

Rounding on the president, she condemned his speech to children in Northern Ireland about the peace process as the “biggest irony of all.” Citing Obama’s decision to supply the Syrian opposition with arms, she asked: “Is this person going for the hypocrite of the century award?”

“By any serious examination this man is a war criminal,” said Daly, accusing the Obama administration of purposely stalling the Geneva talks by increasing their backing for the Syrian opposition and undermining secularism in the region as a whole.

She called on the Irish government to take steps to “ensure no weapons go through Shannon [Airport] to Syria in breach of the international laws”.

Obama Coal War & Your Property Rights

 ~ The UN Agenda 21 Initiative ~

Obama Coal War is for Openers

Today Obama has decided to announce his coal energy program and policies that close coal plants to reduce hydrocarbon emissions citing Global Climate changing and warming issues. An Associated Press analysis has found by the end of 2014, that more than 32 mostly coal-fired power plants in a dozen states will be forced to close because of the new, more stringent regulations. Another 36 plants are at risk of closing.

Obama's coal energy strategy during his 2012 Presidential campaign was to quietly sign his executive order to enable the Environmental Protection Agency to develop its policies and green energy programs and act upon it after the election so as not to upset the coal energy lobbies and the voters.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is changing how it analyzes problems and makes decisions, in a way that will give it vastly expanded power to regulate businesses, communities and ecosystems in the name of “sustainable development,”  the centerpiece of a global United Nations initiative called Agenda 21.

Under the opaque veil of UN Agenda 21 regulations, the EPA will now decide on where we will work, live and play. How? - Very simple. Agenda 21 is a brilliant plan to put the socialist/Marxist elites in control of every person and commodity:

• The EPA energy plan closes coal-fired electric plants which destroy jobs and kill communities. 
  

• It is a population redistricting control plan to bring together people into homogenous city master plan areas which center around mass transit that takes urban dwellers to schools, jobs, good and services, and linked to recreational areas.
  

• It is a master plan that geographically depopulates to remove suburbanites from outlining areas made into "human-free" zones while forcing them into high-rise or multiple person dwellings.

• The Agenda 21 plan recognizes individual property rights for private ownership as a threat to central government jurisdiction because property owned and controlled by citizens have power to rebuke authority. So, all property must be confiscated by claiming water, mineral and resource rights are owned by the state-run government to be regulated by the EPA, Environmental Protection Agency. 

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George Orwell can't even make this stuff up! - Obama is Setting it up Now!

Want to live in the "perfect city"? Ready to give up all your freedom? It's called AGENDA 21.

That's exactly the plans of the UN for your future, as presented in this stunning 'promotion' video for the 'perfect city' of the near future. Man is to be utterly separated from nature, living in confined, controlled, and closely monitored habitats. Oh sure, there are holdouts - they live in "freedom ghettos" outside of perfection, but still apparently very confined.