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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY PASSES ANTI – AGENDA 21 RESOLUTION

We reported yesterday about the RNC resolution against Agenda 21 that actually mentions ICLEI as the agency implementing Agenda 21.

I got GOOD NEWS! The anti-Agenda 21 resolution was unanimously, yes without dissent, PASSED! RAH! (If my family weren’t here I’d be jumping and cheering around the house like a madman!) Here’s the report:

Great news. Some have seen my FB note about the Indiana committeeman verifying that the RNC passed a resolution exposing UN Agenda 21, unanimously. This is true. (See attached). Now Oklahoma also verifies it. See below correspondence from Robert Semands, Govern Edmond Locally spokeperson, and please repost. Let’s hold our GOP elected officials at all levels accountable to adhere to this RNC resolution. Are they Republican or not? Time to hold them accountable.
This blogger also reports that last October, an even better resolution was passed by the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (a staunchly conservative group) that cites the unconstitutionality of joining ICLEI:

RESOLVED, that Article one, Section ten of the Constitution prohibits any State or subordinate governmental body from contracting with nondomestic entities such as ICLEI; and be it
RESOLVED, that the NFRA shall not endorse a candidate or elected official including the office of President that refuses to oppose the same.

I’d written it differently but the NFRA is correct! Maybe now a GOP Attorney General will look into the constitutionality of ICLEI membership by the communities in its state. Thanks to NOlathe and WE the people USA for the story!

You asked ‘what do I think’? I’ll tell you what We The People think. We The People think raising the taxes on the job creators in this country might raise 47 billion dollars over a ten year period which is a drop in the bucket. Spending in excess of 3.5 trillion per year is the problem. We The People borrow money from China to give to the very people that hate us and want to see us dead. We The People give deadbeats free food, cell phones, yes free cell phones, We The People pay people to go to college or trade schools not to learn or better themselves to get off social programs but to collect a check. We The People pay for these same deadbeats to have babies so they can collect more checks, worse yet We The People pay for them to abort babies that have no say.
In the real world We The People have to make a budget, and learn to live within that budget. Not in Washington, you just spend willy nilly then want to raise taxes on the masses, yes, We The People. Just look at the news lately, the GSA spends our money on lavish vacations, parties, spa outings and who knows what else. “We The People” are fed up with this crap coming from Washington. We The People are told we have to pass a bill before We The People know what’s in it. Then when We The People speak out it’s crammed down our throats.
We The People question the eligibility of our President and are ridiculed for it. We The People demand an answer. We The People are finished being silent. We The People are watching. We The People demand voter ID laws in all States, in all elections. We The People will be voting in November and We The People are going to take OUR Country back. We The People want Tort reform. We The People want term limits, one and done no pensions and medical for life. It’s a shame when you send our young men and women to fight and sacrifice for our country and to put their lives on the line for a meager salary. Why are taxes taken out of their checks? Why after serving 20 years do they get 50% of their pay, when Senators and Congressmen serve 1 term and get full pensions and Medical? There, I’ve told you what I think.

By Caroline B. Glick

Hatred of Jews is the central animating feature of the political and strategic reality of the Middle East. It is hatred of Jews that dictates the legal regimes, foreign policies, military aspirations, cultural mores, educational themes and even public health policies of our neighbors from Ramallah to Teheran.
Despite the centrality of Jew hatred in all aspects of public life in the Arab and Muslim world, our neighbors’ unrelenting and irrational abhorrence for Israel and the Jewish people remains a dirty secret that you aren’t supposed to mention in polite company. From Washington to Brussels, talk of the policy implications of Arab and Muslim Jew hatred is prohibited.
Omar Abu-Sneina, a convicted terrorist murderer is one of the thousand Palestinian terrorists that Israel released from prison in order to secure the release of Israeli hostage IDF Sgt. Gilad Schalit. Originally from Hebron, Abu-Sneina was released to Hamas-controlled Gaza. This week the IDF announced that since his release Abu-Sneina has returned to the terror business. The Israel Security Agency intercepted a memory card he sent his family in Hebron with instructions for how his fellow terrorists should go about kidnapping and holding IDF soldiers hostage. The instructions demonstrate how for Abu-Sneina, Israelis don’t even deserve to be treated like animals.
Among other things, he discussed how to hide a hostage. As he put it, “Avoid hiding [the captive soldier] in desolate places, tunnels or forests, unless the aforementioned [captive] is a corpse or a severed head. If the aforementioned is a live human, that must be visited at least once a week and provided with food and drink, it is best to hide him in a house, an agricultural farm, a workplace, etc.”
Abu-Sneina’s coldblooded cruelty and rejection of the inherent value of the lives of Israelis is not simply a function of the fact that he is a terrorist. It is a reflection of the values of Palestinian society. Those values are continuously expressed and reinforced by Fatah and Hamas controlled media outlets, cultural and educational institutions and religious authorities. The ubiquitousness of Jew hatred in the daily lives of Palestinians is so overwhelming it is difficult to imagine any facet of Palestinian life that isn’t inundated by it.
Take grammar lessons. According to a translation provided by Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority’s Arabic language matriculation examinations for high school students include questions such as, “Punctuate the underlined phrase: Do not view the occupier as human.” And “Punctuate the underlined phrase: We shall die in order that our land may live.”

This week a Palestinian court sentenced Muhammad Abu Shahala to death for selling a home in Hebron near the Cave of the Patriarchs to Jews. Shahala was arrested shortly after several Jewish families moved into the house last month. He was reportedly tortured and quickly tried and sentenced to die by a PA court.

The PA was established in May 1994. The first law it adopted defined selling land to Jews a capital offense. Shortly thereafter scores of Arab land sellers began turning up dead in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria in both judicial and extrajudicial killings.
Leaders of the Jewish community of Hebron wrote a letter to international leaders this week asking them to intervene with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and demand that he cancel Shahala’s sentence. They addressed the letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy, the Director General of the International Red Cross Yves Daccord as well as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres. In it they wrote, “It is appalling to think that property sales should be defined as a ‘capital crime’ punishable by death. The very fact that such a ‘law’ exists within the framework of the PA legal system points to a barbaric and perverse type of justice, reminiscent of practices implemented during the dark ages.”

They went on to make the reasonable comparison between the PA’s law prohibiting land sales to Jews to Nazi Germany’s Nuremburg laws that constrained and finally outlawed trade between Jews and Germans. The letter concluded with the question, “Is the Palestinian Authority a reincarnation of the Third Reich?”
The Palestinians of course are far from unique in their obsession with hating Jews. Their hemorrhage of hatred, their obsessive need to reject any move towards peaceful coexistence with Israel, or what the renowned late Palestinian poet Yousuf Al Khatib referred to picturesquely as “the Jewish filth of Europe” is matched in every Arab land. And of course, it is the primary obsession of the Iranian regime.

The parallels between Nazi laws and the laws of the PA and the Arab states that outlaw all cooperation with Israel and make such cooperation a capital offense are obvious and straightforward. Yet generally speaking, anyone who points out this fact is automatically dismissed as an alarmist or an extremist. Given the PA’s relative military weakness when compared with Israel and the Arab world’s current lack of interest in waging active war against Israel, noting their inarguable ideological affinity with the Nazis is considered socially and even intellectually unacceptable. The fact that they lack the ability to implement their ideology renders it improper to mention it.

The social prohibition on drawing parallels between the threats facing Israel today and those that faced the Jewish people seventy years ago is not limited to the discourse on Arab world’s conflict with Israel. It extends as well to polite society’s discourse on Iran’s nuclear program, which the Iranian regime has made clear repeatedly is aimed at destroying Israel.
In his address to the nation at the annual Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony at Yad Vashem on Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu took aim at that taboo when he attacked those who accuse him of belittling the Holocaust by comparing the annihilation of European Jewry to the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Netanyahu said, “I know there are also those who believe that the unique evil of the Holocaust should never be invoked in discussing other threats facing the Jewish people. To do so, they argue, is to belittle the Holocaust and to offend its victims.
“I totally disagree. On the contrary. To cower from speaking the uncomfortable truth — that today like then, there are those who want to destroy millions of Jewish people — that is to belittle the Holocaust, that is to offend its victims and that is to ignore the lessons.

“Not only does the Prime Minister of Israel have the right, when speaking of these existential dangers, to invoke the memory of a third of our nation which was annihilated. It is his duty.”
Netanyahu is right, of course. Unfortunately for Israel, raising the Holocaust in the context of a discussion about contemporary threats to the Jewish people is the rhetorical equivalent of dropping a nuclear bomb. Just as no one is allowed to use a nuclear bomb, no one is allowed to mention the Holocaust. And that means that there is ultimately no way to speak about the violent hatred that animates our enemies in every aspect of their policy making. From the seemingly anodyne issue of property sales to the existential issue of nuclear weapons programs, the Jew hatred that lies at the foundation of their actions is out of bounds for discussion.

Actually, the situation is both better and worse than that. Netanyahu’s rhetorical boldness in drawing the parallel between Iran and the Nazis is arguably the only reason that the EU and the Obama administration have taken any actions against Iran. No, as their feckless negotiations with the mullahs, their foot dragging in implementing economic sanctions, and their outspoken opposition to military action against Iran make clear, they do not really mind the prospect of Iran acquiring the ability to wipe out the Jewish state. But the only reason they have adopted sanctions at all is because Netanyahu’s Holocaust rhetoric made them fear that Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear installations if they didn’t.

On the other hand, when it comes to their direct dealings with Jew haters, Westerners not only fail to confront them about their prejudice. They enable it. For instance, at a townhall meeting during her visit to Tunisia last month, Hillary Clinton was asked how US leaders can be trusted when during elections, “most of the candidates from both sides run towards the Zionist lobbies to get their support.”

Rather than reject the anti-Jewish premise of the question — that Jews exert inordinate control over US politics or that there is something wrong with candidates expressing support for Israel — Clinton treated the question as legitimate.
Clinton said, “A lot of things are said in political campaigns that should not bear a lot of attention.”

Clinton even congratulated her anti-Jewish questioner saying, “I think it’s a fair question because I � sometimes am a little surprised that people around the world pay more attention to what is said in our political campaigns than most Americans.”
Similarly, a report on the behind the scenes goings on at last weekend’s nuclear negotiations with Iran published by Al-Monitor described the friendly discussion that took place at a dinner Friday night between EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian chief negotiator Saeed Jalili. According to a European diplomat, the conversation was aimed at breaking the ice. And it included a discussion of “political party funding in the US.”

It is hard to imagine that such a discussion involved anything other than a group tongue clucking session directed against the inordinate impact of “Jewish money” on US electoral politics. That is, it is all but impossible to imagine that the discussion involved anything other than Ashton attempting to build a rapport with her Iranian counterpart based on shared hatred or contempt for Jews.

The fact that the West refuses to consider the policy implications of the most powerful force in Arab and Iranian policymaking and political life does not mean that Israeli policy makers should necessarily expand their discussion of the topic — although it would probably not hurt for them to do so. What it means is that the general policy debate in the West about the nature of Middle Eastern politics is completely divorced from reality.

Because the Americans and the Europeans refuse to acknowledge the elephant of Jew hatred in the middle of the room, they cannot be trusted to make reasoned or rational policy decisions. And since they cannot be trusted to act rationally, Israel cannot rely on the Americans or the Europeans as allies or partners when it confronts threats from its Jew obsessed neighbors.

What a crazy, delightful ever changing world! Who could have thought
that in 2012 young people in Moscow would put on a “flash mob” happening, dancing to an 83 year old American song written by a Russian born American-Jew (Irving Berlin) whose last name is the capital of Germany…
(Check out that red Chrysler 300 limo!!!)

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Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 5, 2012, 5:55 AM
Last February THOUSANDS of Tea Party Patriots turned out in Madison, Wisconsin, in support of Republican Governor Scott Walker. It was an amazing turnout considering the Saturday rally was only announced on Friday morningThe tea party patriots filled the state capital grounds from the steps to the street over 100 yards back. There were so many Walker supporters there that you couldn’t hear the speakers from the stage in the back of the crowd.

Next week we’re doing it again…
Show Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker that he has support by coming out to the Wisconsin Tax Day Rally at the Capitol on Saturday April 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Confirmed Speakers Include:
Fox News Contributor – James T. Harris
Conservative Talk Show Host – Vicki McKenna
Big Journalism.com – Dana Loesch
Gateway Pundit – Jim Hoft
PJTV – Stephen Kruiser
Nashville Recording Artist – Krista Branch
AFP WI State Director – Luke Hilgemann

Invited Speakers Include:
Governor Sarah Palin – Invited
Actor Jon Voight – Invited
NRO & Fox News – Jonah Goldberg – Invited
Navy Seal Team 8 – Chris Mark Heben – Invited

Today, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is in Milwaukee raising funds for Mayor Tom Barrett. He is, without a doubt, showcasing how his failed leadership coupled with the dangerous policies of Governor Quinn can reverse the positive benefits to society that the Walker Administration has worked so hard to give back to the people of Wisconsin.
Chicago style politics are rearing their head on other campaigns as well. Two-time statewide loser Kathleen Falk is also holding a fundraiser this Friday called “Chicago Stands with Falk.”
Those looking to oust Governor Walker from office seem to look no further than to the failed policies from our neighbors to the south for inspiration.
Politicians like Governor Quinn and Mayor Emanuel will stop at nothing to further their liberal agenda and spread it like cancer throughout our country. Sadly, Mayor Barrett is cut from the same cloth and his policies, if left unchecked, will wreak havoc on our budding economy.
With the impending recall election, the people of Wisconsin are once again faced with a crucial decision. On one hand, there is the prosperous foundation that has been laid by Governor Walker as evidenced by the growing job numbers and economy that Wisconsin has seen in the last year. On the other hand, the liberal ideology that has ruined Illinois’ economic future is a very real possibility in our future if failed leaders like Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett take the reins of power in Madison.
The reforms of Wisconsin and the lack thereof in Illinois, truly showcase the Tale of Two States when it comes to economic recovery.
Wisconsin
Illinois
Eliminated $3.6 Billion deficit without raising taxes
$8.5 Billion in unpaid bills and raised income taxes by 66%
Cut taxes on businesses that invest in Wisconsin
Increased corporate tax rate by 46%
Budget called “credit positive” by Moody’s
Bond rating downgraded to lowest in nation by Moody’s
Public Employee Retirement System fully funded
$83 Billion shortfall for Public Employee Retirement System
Unemployment rate at 3-year low of 6.9%
Unemployment rate higher than the national average at 9.1%

The choice is clear in Wisconsin. The voters resoundingly stood together in November of 2010 to say enough is enough, and we will stand together again on June 5th and to let those with a far left, liberal, tax-and-spend methodology towards governing know that their time has come and passed. We will continue to stand behind Governor Walker and his bold reforms that have put Wisconsin on the track towards prosperity and are moving us forward.
Sincerely,

Ciara Matthews
Communications Director
Friends of Scott Antoniette D Walker

Located in the Idaho panhandle is scenic Priest Lake which is known for its great lake trout fishing as well as it beautiful setting. It’s an ideal location for anyone wanting to build a home and settle down.

So were the dreams of Mike and Chantell Sackett who purchased nearly two-thirds of an acre in a new development. They set about making their plans for their dream home. Before they could start building the house, they spent three days hauling in dirt to fill in areas on the lot and get everything leveled off.

Suddenly, officials from the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Army Corps of Engineers showed up on the site and ordered the couple to halt all activity. It turns out the agencies suddenly declared the land in the new subdivision was a wetland. Six months later they received a compliance order from the EPA informing them that the lot was a wetland and that they had to restore it back to its natural condition. If they did not comply with the order, the EPA notice said that they could be fined up to $37,500 per day.

The Sacketts tried to appeal the order but were told by the EPA that decisions involving wetlands are not open to appeal. They took their case to the courts and all of the courts up to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that landowners had no right to appeal an EPA order involving wetlands until fines have been assessed. The case then went to the US Supreme Court who just released their ruling on the case.

In the majority decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the Sacketts should have the right to file a civil suit against the EPA under the Administrative Procedures Act since the EPA order is a final one and that the couple were facing the huge fines. He also wrote that the Clean Water Act, which is what the EPA was using to force the Sacketts to restore their property back to the original condition, is not exempt from judicial review.
Justice Samuel Alito added that allowing property owners to file civil suits against the EPA was better than nothing. He also urged that Congress review the Clean Water Act and come up with new legislation that more clearly defines the extent and power of the Act when used against landowners such as the Sacketts.

Damien Schiff, the Sackett’s attorney praised the Supreme Court ruling saying that it demonstrates that the EPA is not above the law as they seem to consider themselves to be and that private citizens do in fact have a legal recourse against them when they believe they are being treated unfairly.

In all of the articles I read on this case, no one addressed my first question. If the area was a wetland to begin with, then how could the developer of the area rightfully sell lots for people to build on? Could the Sacketts go after the person or company that sold them the lot and get their money back because of the EPA order? And lastly, why would anyone want to build a house on wetland that has to be filled in first? If the ground in a natural wetland, you are bound to have issues with the underlying soil settling which can present serious issues for any home built on it.

So personally, I question the Sackett’s judgment to build there in the first place, but am still glad that the Supreme Court ruled in their favor and that the couple now has an avenue to challenge the EPA order.

“Man arrested, suspected of planning Milan-synagogue attack,” from ANSA, March 15 (thanks to David):

Man arrested, suspected of planning Milan-synagogue attack (ANSA) – Milan, March 15 – Police arrested a suspected terrorist in the northern city of Brescia early on Thursday who they believe may have been planning an attack on Milan’s synagogue.
The 20-year-old, a Moroccan citizen who has lived in Italy since he was six, is also suspected of setting up secret Facebook pages providing training on making bombs and using weapons for budding terrorists.

Police said they found evidence on the man’s computer that he has conducted a thorough inspection of Milan’s synagogue, with information on the security measures used and the police who guard the building. Investigators added that they had intercepted messages in which the man talked about a “jihad mission”.

They said he was identified as a suspect terrorist during monitoring of websites that feature forums and publish documents on the ‘jihad’….

“Woman, 40, arrested in London terror raid as police probe ‘secret Facebook plot to blow up Italian synagogue,’” by Nick Pisa for the Daily Mail, March 15 (thanks to David):

A British police today arrested a woman who was in Facebook contact with a man detained by Italian police plotting to blow up a synagogue.
The 40-year-old woman, who has not been named, was held in a dawn raid by officers from Scotland Yard and at the same time Italian police arrested Mohamed Jarmoune, 20, following months of undercover detective work that involved monitoring a secret Facebook account.

Metal worker Jarmoune was held at his home in Brescia, northern Italy and video footage released by police showed officers with sniffer dogs carrying out an extensive search of his apartment and he was also shown being led away.

Officers took away several items including his computer as well as several Nazi flags that were found in the apartment, which was in the centre of city and which has been the scene of several anti terror investigations in the past.

Police said Jarmoune had lived in Italy since he was six years old but he had ‘come across their radar’ as part of another investigation and when they began investigating his background discovered he had been looking at several Islamic extremist websites….

Posted by Robert on March 15, 2012 12:39 PM | 3 Comments
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Pakistan: Muslim jailed for life for burning Qur’an
They didn’t kill him. They must be moderates. But note well: this is the kind of treatment Islamic supremacists would love to see imposed in the West upon those who “offend Islam.” Sharia Alert from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: “Pakistani Muslim jailed for burning Koran,” from AFP, March 15 (thanks to David):

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, March 15, 2012 (AFP) – A Pakistani court on Tuesday jailed a 42-year-old Muslim man for life for burning a Koran, officials said. Naseem Ahmed, a father of three, was arrested last June on charges of desecrating Islam’s holy book in Lasda village in Pakistani Kashmir, about 40 km (25 miles) east of the regional capital Muzaffarabad.
The farmer was found guilty under the Muslim country’s tough blasphemy laws that make defaming Islam punishable by death and which have been heavily criticised in the West, particularly over the persecution of a tiny non-Muslim minority.

“We heard up to 15 witnesses. His mother also testified against the accused and we have given him life imprisonment,” Judge Ameerullah Khan told AFP.

Ahmed said he would appeal the sentence, professing his innocence and saying he had no idea that a Koran was among a pile of books he set alight.

“My younger brother and sister didn’t care about their school books and used to leave them scattered around the house,” Ahmed told AFP, speaking by telephone from custody.
“One day I came home and got angry at seeing the books scattered. I collected them up and burnt them. My mother admonished me, telling me that among the books I burnt, was a copy of Holy Koran,” he said.

“The neighbour overheard and called the police. Members of a rival (Sunni Muslim) sect with whom I had been clashing in the past suddenly became active in this case that is why I have been convicted,” he said….

The controversy over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate is at a boiling point, as many Catholic leaders continue to view the president’s so-called “accommodation” as a failure to protect religious liberty.

Now, Glenn Beck is coming forward with a new movement called “We Are All Catholics Now.” The main goal of the initiative is to ask Americans to reach out to Congressional leaders (at the moment, Senators) to encourage the passage of legislation that would protect religious groups’ conscience rights.

Watch Beck discuss the effort on his radio show this morning:

The main push, Beck says, is to support the highway transportation bill, which will likely be voted upon this week. It will include an amendment – Blunt Conscience Protection Amendment – from Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) that would protect religious conscience rights. In the House, Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) is working on companion legislation, though it may not be voted on for a few weeks.

Beck is encouraging individuals to get involved by calling their Senators and letting them know that “we are all Catholics now.” The issue at hand is not about contraception as it has been framed by many media outlets, he says. Instead, it is a religious freedom issue that hinges upon the separation of church and state’s mandate that the government not force churches to violate their values and principles.

Here are his directions for getting involved and making an impact:

Call the Capitol and speak with your Senator. The numbers are: 202.224.3121; 202.225.3121; the toll free numbers for the Capitol Switchboard include: 1-866-220-0044 1-877-851-6437, 1-800-833-6354, 1-888-355-3588, 1-866-808-0065, 1-877-762-8762, 1-800-862-5530.
Call the switchboard, ask to be connected to a Senator from your specific state (it will take two calls, one for each Senator).
Whoever answers:
1. Tell them that you want to tell the Senator to vote for the Blunt conscience protection amendment.
2. Ask them if they know how the Senator will vote on that amendment
3. Tell them you want to be contacted back about how he voted (be sure to ask for accountability — they hate it, but it makes them call you back).
4. When you call, be sure to tell them “We are all Catholics now”. This key phrase will let them know you are part of a larger, organized movement working in support of religious freedom.
You can read more about the movement at GlennBeck.com.