The honorable Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell represent the mind set of long seated Republicans and Democrats. Picture John and Mitch relaxed in a bath tub with a small fire keeping the water at hot tub temperature. The fire represents spending exceeding revenue. Obama and the Democrats used the recession to added a lot of fuel to the fire. John, Mitch, and the representatives and senators that have been in Washington DC for years are comfortable in the hot tub. They will not change their actions as the water is heated to a boil. The leadership keep telling the new representatives to get into the relaxing hot tub and that the water is still comfortable. In reality they may be able to stand the hot water, however; stay in it and the heat will dull feelings. Their first responds is to jump out. Its our job to remind them to get out and stop putting fuel on the fire. Ask them if removing a few twigs will reduce the heat from the large chunks of wood, spending from the fourth branch of government added by Obama, Boiling Frog Syndrome?
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Throughout all of the recorded history of Islam, we find extreamism.
Frankly, What does it take for the average American to finely understand that
our constitution is being used against us by this "so called religion".
They come to our country, in which religious freedom is a constitutional law, and start building the underlying structure for the progression of there religion and are within the laws of our land in doing so.
My observation is clear on this issue but what i would like everyone to try to understand is the "so called religion " demands death to the infidel with a reward in Heaven for those who preform these acts.
Wake up America, This "so called Religion" Has no place here in America,
Fight for our country through the vote, Make your voice heard, Like our forfathers did.
by: Trent Derr - American Exceptionalism
When you examine Obamacare in detail, you find that the facts of the legislation contradict most of the selling points that the Liberals used as their basis for voting for the bill.
#1 – 18 Million People Added to Medicare while Cutting $500 Billion from the Program
Obamacare claims to cover 34 million new individuals with insurance. The primary approach that the legislation uses to cover the uninsured is to expand the number of people under Medicare. Yes, Medicare. The same Medicare that was already scheduled to go bankrupt by 2017 before Obamacare passed. The new legislation will add 18 million people to Medicare while reducing funding for Medicare by $500 billion. Thus there is no choice but to reduce benefits to the existing Medicare recipients. Given that more than half of the doctors in the United States do not accept Medicare, the further constraint of doctor availability will be another form of institutionalized rationing.
#2 – 17.1 Million Individuals with Private Insurance Will Lose Their Existing Coverage
Although more people are covered under Obamacare, the plan also causes a major redistribution of how individuals are covered for health care. 1.4 million citizens will lose their employer sponsored coverage and 15.7 will lose their other private coverage while they are shifted to either Medicare, “exchanges” under the plan, or will become uninsured. Yes about 1 million individuals with insurance today will become uninsured and have no coverage under Obamacare. So the economics of Obamacare will cause at least 17.1 million Americans to lose their existing coverage under Obamacare although the President assured us all that we would be able to keep our existing plans. Continue...Can We Trust Muslims?
If Islam is superior to Christianity then Muslims would not leave their home country. You do not have Christians migrating to Islamic lands, because Muslim society is inherently oppressive. If Muslims were loving then every Muslim would expect prosecution of terrorists. Instead we see Muslims celebrating the death of Christians, Jews and non-Muslims. It appears that Islam is intolerate and only grows not because of the superior ideology, but through intimidation.
Love is far superior than hate. Christianity is a belief were our God is loving and does not mandate servitude. Christian faith is based on Free will, not by oppression and threats to non-believers. Christianity does advocate lying, cheating and stealing, however, Islam the end justifies the means. Truthful people are self correcting and until Muslims spend more energy countering the bad behaviors and extremism of Islam it is insane to believe that Muslims can be trusted or have a legitimate religion.
Fast review in committee of Colorado House Bill 11-1290
Friday, Colorado House Bill 11-1290 was introduced. The Colorado Statesman explained that it might be debated soon. The installment loans origination fee of $20 per $100 loaned for the first $300 and $15 per $100 loaned for the next $200 up to a maximum of $500 loaned nets loan companies up to $75. A finance charge of 45 percent is allowed also in accordance with Colorado law. Another $7.50 maintenance fee per $100 lent per month is also allowed.
As two-week pay day loans can no longer be offered in Colorado, loan providers argue that being able to charge a full origination fee as HB 11-1290 stipulates is necessary for survival.
HB 10-1351 and HB 11-1290 sponsors argue
The legislation has 10 co-sponsors in the House, including Rep. Sue Schafer, D-Wheat Ridge, who voted “no” on HB 10-1351, also as Rep. Ed Casso, D-Commerce City, who favored HB 10-1351. U.S. Senate sponsors consist of other anti-HB-1351 legislators for instance Sen. Mary Hodge, D-Brighton, and Sen. Lois Tochtrop, D-Adams County.
Technical correction or incentive to re-borrow?
Supporters of Colorado House Bill 11-1290 maintain the origination fee change is merely a technical correction to the provisions of last year's HB 10-1351. Bell Policy Center’s Rich Jones doesn't agree. He says:
“It's an incentive for the lenders to get customers to pay off their loans early and then take out more loans,” Jones told the Statesman Friday.
Information from
DORA
dora.state.co.us/Financial-Services/pdf_forms/Revised HB10-1351_2.pdf
State Bill Info
statebillinfo.com/bills/bills/11/1290_01.pdf
Colorado Statesman
coloradostatesman.com/content/992687-payday-lender-bill-being-fast-tracked-through-house
'Steering Colorado's economy back on course'
youtube.com/watch?v=3mHOl-S6F1s
Numbers and logic dovetail. To determine how logical a crow was, an enclosure was placed in a corn field. Two people entered the enclosure and one came out and left the corn field. The crows didn’t appear. They knew someone was in the enclosure. Three people entered the enclosure and two came out and left the corn field. The crows stayed away, and so on, until six people entered the enclosure and five came out and left the corn field. The crows, thinking all the people were gone, flew in and started eating corn.
The number 5 is the limit of a crow’s logic. Man has learned to use numbers to make logic far beyond our human sensibilities and yet man does not know as much about living together in peace as crows. Why?
There are those of us with a burning desire to control, which comes from feeling inferior. Not only do these folks want to control their own lives, but other lives as well. It is called inferiority complex. Their desire for control insatiable—all-consuming—some of these folks become monsters. They will do whatever it takes. Their end justifies any means. You know people like that in America—labor bosses, communists, one and all.
Then there are lawyers, highly trained professionals in the art of putting their spin on the law. Politicians are their kin. Of course there are the rich who use their power in making the law to favor themselves. In defense, we form groups. As a result, the Constitution has become a historical document. The battle for control rages. In Wisconsin, a judge, favoring the group that screams the loudest, has overturned the law and threatens contempt of court on the governor. I’ve been before 18 federal judges. Drunk with the power they have usurped from the American people, this we see before us is legal spin at its very worst.
Remember, Hitler was legal. I was there. Seeing is believing. You would not believe the suffering that monster caused. Do you want to wind up a slave? German judges gave Hitler the go ahead nod. The Jews did not act. They prayed to God. God helps those who help themselves. Do I ever wish I was the governor of Wisconsin right now. I would send that lawless Wisconsin judge to hell.
I’m not one of those millions who feel inferior and are willing to be controlled, who don’t feel they have the ability to direct their own lives. They are easily sucked in by handouts. Obama is their man. Woe be unto the likes of me who keep this wolf in sheep’s clothing empowered. At best, it will take several generations to pay the debt Obama and his colleagues have created before working people start to pay for their own keep. There is an excellent chance that America will become a communist dictatorship.
Yesterday, we learned from a South American Indian shaman that we are mysteriously connected. There is but one logical answer: A universal soul or consciousness. “In earth as it is in heaven,” said Jesus. “But seek ye first the kingdom of God.” Where is the kingdom of God? Where is Obama’s “collective salvation?” A Harvard educated slick lawyer, Big Daddy Obama, the silver-tongued orator, you can’t believe a word he utters.
Let me tell you how I found universal consciousness. I was out to get my rights back. The IRS claimed it had the right to take 100 percent of my property. The IRS does have the legal right to take everything I have and put me on the street. I have the right to take my case to a court that favors the IRS. I claimed Uncle Sam was unconstitutionally taxing me. I went to the country law library to study the Constitution and the legal procedure for suing the IRS. I’m the only American, it seems, who knew at the time that my Constitution was not a historical document. While I studied the Constitution, I felt that voices of the past were speaking to me. My fight turned from my constitutional rights to rights for everyone’s. I had a bigger than life calling that empowered me.
I sidestepped my ego-self and entered the kingdom of God. I matured. If you have been reading my stuff, you know I’ve been blessed. Unfortunately, most of you have not. You are wondering what the future holds for you. It could be very bleak.
Shades of the past, last night I viewed the History Channel’s presentation of the “Dark Ages.” Following the glory of Rome—centuries of divine rulers and ruthless, inhuman behavior—came the Dark Ages and great human suffering under barbarian war lords. The only hope was in the Christian Church, and it was into brutal acts against people. Fifteen hundred years after Jesus was hung from the cross, Martin Luther’s protest was a blow to the Holy Catholic Empire, as was Galileo’s proof that Earth was not at the center of the universe. Came the Age of Enlightenment and the colonization of America, opportunity seeking Europeans asking only for the chance to make a life of their own. Came the American Constitution, a carefully crafted document whose aim was to divide power in such a way the people would be protected in their God-given rights.
It is clear now that the powers that be don’t have the answer. They are phonies playing a shell game. Sad to say, they are trying to make the American people think they know. Two hundred and thirty years after America had her Constitution the battle for control rages. The American free enterprise economy, coming closer and closer to a meltdown, how long we remain a free market economy depends on how long we think it will be free. Collectivist control freaks are doing all they can to bring down America’s free market economy. Who needs enemies when you have friends like these? We have our work cut out for us.
The Tea Party is the only hope out there that America as we know her will be saved.
In 1776, tired of royal mistreatment, the peoples of the assorted colonies were at wits end. A handful of brave, very wise men gathered together to sign a document that would forever change the face of world politics. They put their very lives and personal honor on the line. The Declaration of Independence announced to the world that we no longer wanted or required an imperial presence in our affairs.
In May of 1787, after the Revolutionary conflict concluded, another group of wise and honorable men gathered once again to try to formulate a plan to govern the new states as a unified entity. There were statists, nationalists and federalists present at this historic event so debate and rhetoric was abundant and heated, to say the least. Many were the points of disagreement. Cooler heads prevailed and after many hot months, in late September of 1789, these men managed to put together one of the most important documents the then modern world had ever seen, the Constitution of the United States of America. There were still areas of disagreement, such as the need for an explicit Bill of Rights, but for the most part it was generally considered to be the closest one could come to the “perfect” republican form of government. Benjamin Franklin spoke of this at the close of the convention: “ … For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our councils are confounded like those of the Builders of Babel; and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats. Thus I consent, Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best.”
Thus, after a long ratification period, there was created a constitutional republic. It was intended that the Almighty reign as the ultimate sovereign, followed respectively by the people, the states, and finally the federal government. There are many who, through hubris or ignorance, will contest this hierarchy, but nonetheless it was then the consensus and the intent of the men who codified this great experiment in human governance.
Now, two-hundred years plus, we once again find ourselves at the mercy of an “imperial” government. We no longer have the vestiges of a Constitutional government, except when it suits the needs and goals of the Imperium. The only time this revered document is quoted is when it obliquely fits the whims of the moment. Otherwise, it is considered a nuisance and impediment to “progress”
What are patriots to do? What can we do? What should we do? What are we willing to do? Therein lays the conundrum. So many things are amiss that it is difficult to simply decide where to begin.
The Tea Party spoke and many of the RINOs and progressives found themselves on the outside looking in. This was a good first step. The major problem is that the very people to whom we gave the reins of the House now lack the moral courage and intestinal fortitude to make use of them. With a few pleasant exceptions, the Republicans have once again succumbed to a lack of will and instead, consent to the status quo. Their “solutions” are toothless and lacking in boldness and intent. The Speaker of the House fails to lead. He instead acquiesces and makes supplication to the gods of the progressives (AKA Socialists and Statists).
Defeating Obamugabe at the next presidential election is of course a no-brainer. This must happen. But that is only a minor start to the monumental task to regain our liberty and freedoms. We must also send honorable, wise, and selfless, men and women to the halls of congress. We need to close down most of the cabinet level departments. And, we most definitely need to rein in the countless alphabet agencies that “create” law through regulation. Most. If not all could simply disappear with no harm to the people or their needs. We must downsize this many-tentacled leviathan and quench its rapacious appetite for yet more and more of the people’s wealth and prosperity. Can this even be considered, let alone accomplished? Yes, with certain caveats.
It waxes strange, that in this age of almost instant communications, that the people of the United States are so ill-informed about things politic. Oh, to be sure, they might listen to the news each evening; they may even sit long enough to read a newspaper. They see our government at work in all its obscene glory. Yet, they don’t comprehend. They accept the spin the media spews forth without any effort at analysis or understanding. Apathy and ignorance reign supreme! This is not entirely the fault of the people. The fault lies before their time for the most part. The fault lies at the feet of those individuals who decided to eliminate the study of government and civics from our school curriculums. The fault lies with those religious "leaders' who forfeited their claim to moral and spiritual leadership by bowing to the government and its offer of exemption from taxes for those who turned a blind eye to the sins of the country's nobility. The fault lies with parents who failed to step up and enlighten their offspring in the absence of such from other sources. Even more fault lies with those among us who permitted them to do so. We have, as a result, the most politically naive and clueless population in history.
The good news is that there is an awakening in progress. Many of our younger citizens have begun to realize that this is not the life their parents and grandparents enjoyed, They wonder where things started to come apart. More importantly, they seek a remedy to the problems. They are becoming increasingly aware that the federal government, indeed any government, is not necessarily the solution, but may if fact be the problem. They are beginning to question why they should work and strive, only to have the fruits of their labor siphoned off and “redistributed” in some scheme of fairness. They question why we support tyrants and dictators in other countries with our wealth, when those very people hate us as a nation. They question why we aid and support the poor of other nations when Americans suffer and starve here at home. They question ... BRAVO! I begin to think that there may actually be those young people who are capable of critical thought processes. Perhaps there is a light at the end of this very dark and gloomy tunnel.
In the meantime, we, the informed, must nurture these young people and see that they are given the real facts on which they will formulate a strategy for recovering the republic. We must see that the nefarious ramblings of the main stream media are negated by the truth as we know it to be. I see the rescue of America as an educational task. We must teach, we must educate, we must reason with those in need of enlightenment. We must return their thoughts to why the Constitution was worded such as it is. They must understand that words have meanings and once they are put to paper or parchment, they never change … ever. These powerful words must be engraved on the hearts and minds just as they were put to parchment so long ago.
God bless America and those who would sacrifice to return her to her rightful greatness and glory! Woe to those who would stand in the way. We are angry and we will not accept half-assed promises and measures. We expect to be heard and we expect results. If those in power cannot or will not deliver, we will see them cast aside and will elevate those who share our vision. BEWARE! We are serious.
We are a nation trapped in forty years of failed energy policy, forced to fight wars at the behest of our oil suppliers in order to maintain a society that cannot function on its own.
Cap and Trade is just the latest ruse to keep the system from failing under its on weight.
Smoke and mirrors used to camouflage the creation of a dynamic system of money transfer to third world nations is the essence of “cap and trade”. It will require a huge investment in people to manage a trading system that creates money out of thin air in an attempt to buy appeasement. The reduction of so called green house gas, CO2, is never accomplished.
Like the ETF, and factious stock market of today where no one is interested in owning the underlying companies preferring instead to gamble on the market, cape and trade, creates an international pyramid scheme where only those in the know benefit. C&T is a project of “community engagement” to funnel money to people in order to secure a stable base of funding and support. Obama has increased the EPA budget to the highest levels in history for enforcement by hiring radical individuals to infiltrate American industry in ways never imagined.
Just in the attempt to jump start the system the EPA budget has been increased to a record $10.020 Billion dollars. What a waste of money. Check out the 102 page budget and ask yourself if there is anything which supports its mission statement[i]. How is it being used other than to destroy the efficiency of the American industrial base? What is the real objective?
Listen to his speech today and try to discern what is going on in the background. Then TAKE ACTION! REDEFINE THE MISSION OF THE EPA OR JUST TOTALLY DEFUND IT!
The future of the United States of America is depending on “WE THE PEOPLE”.
Stay tuned for a look at a real energy policy coming Thursday morning.
In Genesis 1:26, we read, “Let us make man in our image.” What has come around now goes around making man, once again, in a flawed image.
Newton's laws of motion are immutable, but we are not fixed in our movements. We make things happen, one has to assume, for a purpose. The U. S. Constitution, whose background is God's purpose, was painstakingly pieced together to individually unite us. United we stand, divided we fall. What could be more clear? Obama does the best he can with “collective salvation.” Without the Constitution, it isn’t good enough.
Obama takes us into war against a third Muslim state for humanitarian reasons. The way Obama put it, it sounded reasonable, but what is he going to do when the Muslims attack Israel? Is he going to start World War III, or will he allow Muslims to brutally kill Jews and take Palestine back?
It is not hard to understand that man's purpose, for control, is to divide and conquer individuals. Obama, the loser, is currently up a creek without a paddle and Congress has painted itself into a corner. When men and might make the determination, this is what you get.
It seems odd that nature would make man the only life form on the planet capable of our awareness. Why? We obviously don’t yet know. None of the powers that be understand God's law. Even though man was created with consciousness far beyond that of all other life on the planet, we live today in America by the law of the jungle, the individual forced to jump though the high and mighty’s hoops. And under Sharia law, Mid-East Muslims view America as the Great Satin. War is the inevitable outcome, after which the mighty divide the spoils and proceed to manipulate and maneuver the masses for the next conflict. Animals know more about life than these runts called man.
On the History Channel last night I got the truth of the matter in "Science of the Soul," from a South American Indian shaman who uses a plant named Ayahuasca to discover the hidden secret that we have souls. This "vine of the soul," the shaman called it, has divine power. When the plant is harvested, the limbs and leaves crushed and boiled in water in a large kettle, and the potion derived, together with the shaman, who knows that these plants are sensitive and intelligent, and that inside the plant is a soul that hears our voice, many times in our dreams, intuitively, or in visions, this plant communicates, he tells us. After ingesting this potion one can have out of body experiences.
Well, a Dr. Achenhauffer (sp) is studying this plant's effects. He has studied the brain patterns of Buddhist monks and thinks this is a clue. Through meditation, Buddhist monks achieve an altered state of awareness that brings them, they say, closer to the universal soul.
So, thirty minutes after drinking the vine of the soul potion, Dr. Achenhauffer, lying with his eyes closed, wired to a brain wave machine, saw in his mind’s eye moving patterns that became more complex. Then he saw faces and soon felt that he was moving on a journey. He started moving his hands as though he was conducting an orchestra. After examining the brain wave graph the next morning, he found that his brain “was on fire.”
Dr. Masaru Emoto, in The Hidden Messages in Water, reports that he has found in frozen ice crystals expressions of gratitude, stupidity, and various other expressions formed by what people think when near them. The planet Earth, a water planet—life began in the ocean—what does this say about the cosmos? How did Earth become located exactly right for life? What were the chances? Are we connected with the cosmos in a way we don’t recognize? It seems so.
In Cosmos and Psyche, distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas demonstrates the existence of correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history and biography. In The Physics of Consciousness, brain doctor and quantum physicist Evan Harris Walker says there are happenings that are left to the selection of the mind. Behind this selection is the will.
Now we are getting down to the nitty-gritty! In Astrologer’s Handbook, under Pisces, we read that Pisces, as a rule, is weak willed and easily influenced by external factors, like glib tongued Obama, like with “collective salvation.” Hey guys! We are moving away from the Age of Pisces, entering the Age of Aquarius. Obama losses.
I’m Aquarius rising. In The Rising Sign, under Aquarius Rising, Jeanne Avery points out that Aquarius rising “is willing to let go of the trunk of the tree to walk out on the edge of a limb. He knows where the fruit grows and where the spotlight can hit.” Absolutely! Our world is due to change for the better.
Avery says the planet Uranus is on the ascendant of the chart of the United States. That means Uranus is the ruling planet. Uranus is representative of freedom. On my chart, the planet Uranus is on the ascendant. By the time I was in my forties, Uranus had transited from the time of my birth to a position opposing itself. It meant pressure to change, to want to be free to do my thing. It fits like a hand in a glove.
My business enterprise went on the rocks and my wife was divorcing me when I was forty-nine. I was forced to change. On Good Friday 1975, the day Jesus was supposed to have died on the cross, I cut my umbilical cord with my past. I took the leap into an unknown future. I bought a sailboat I named Bold Venture. On Christmas Eve 1975, I set sail on the South Atlantic Ocean and tied up at a marina on Grand Bahama Island for the first day of my new life, on Christmas day.
Reborn on Christmas day, during my time at sea I psychically picked up on three young people who had been snorkeling over a reef, who were taken by a current miles out to sea. I sailed straight to them. In a storm at sea between Nassau and Florida’s Lake Worth Inlet at Palm Beach, I felt somehow removed, as though I was looking at myself and boat from above. My hands on the wheel were like those of an orchestra conductor keeping in time with the beat of the storm. Even though we changed course 90 degrees when the storm hit, we arrived at our destination at our estimated time of arrival. With seas breaking completely across our inlet, we slid down a giant sea into the inlet that never broke. My friends with me called it a miracle.
During my time at sea, I saved seven lives from a watery grave, including my own. I’m now age 85, living in the tall timber near Mt. Hood, Oregon. All my dreams have come true.
The present world situation is much like my personal situation in 1975 when I cut my umbilical cord and headed into an unknown future. The Constitution was involved. I blamed the United States for all my woes. I went to the county law library to study the Constitution and how to proceed in suing the IRS. While there, I got the feeling that voices of the past were speaking to me. I had a bigger than life calling—got past my ego-self. God is internal. Whatever the way one takes to the universal soul of man, it comes from getting past the ego self and into the inner self.
I don't know how many people saw or heard Donald Trump this morning on Fox News' "Fox and Friends", but I had to clean up my coffee mess after I jumped off the couch hollerin' and clapping.
It's wayyyy past time that somebody with a national voice stood up and said what needs to be said, and the "Donald" did it again.
He was asked about his appearance on "The View", and Whoopie Goldberg's reaction to his comment that Obama should just produce his birth-certificate and be done with it.
It really was quite the thing to hear. Mr. Trump said that all he wants to see, is Obama produce his original long-form birth certificate and end the controversy. He then added that he didn't think it was that big of a deal at first, but now, with additional information he's been receiving, and the continuing refusal to provide confirmation of Constitutional eligibility by the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he's really curious about the refusal to provide documentation. Just a short time ago, Trump posted his own long-form birth certificate on Newsmax, among other places. "It took me less than an hour", he said.
He also said that..."the COLB means nothing. Any one can go to the state of Hawaii and get one...", which is absolutely true. He went on to question the ads that announced the birth days later in the papers, and the claim of the governor of Hawaii, Abercrombie, as to remembering visiting the baby Obama 50 years ago in the hospital after his birth.
Well, I applaud the Donald whole-heartedly. He wasn't that concerned until he started seeing what a lot of us have seen all along---Obama is a fraud, and an illegal one at that. He cannot, nor ever could, pass Constitutional muster, and has been engineering the greatest downfall of a nation ever witnessed in history.
Like Donald Trump, I'm not a "birther" either. I just want to see the birth certificate.
And, having spent a few years and many hundreds of hours researching and writing about this usurpation, my final question to any deniers or obfuscators would be this:
WHEN DOES THE RULE OF LAW AND OUR CONSTITUTION MEAN NOTHING?
The Libyan Fighting Group (LIFG) also known as Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya is the most powerful radical faction waging Jihad in Libya against Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi's regime. Shortly after the 9-11 attacks, LIFG was banned worldwide (as an affiliate of al-Qaeda) by the UN 1267 Committee.
LIFG was founded in the fall of 1995 by Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan. It aims to establish an Islamic state in Libya and views the current regime as oppressive, corrupt and anti-Muslim (which is what makes it corrupt and oppressive to the rebels), according to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. LIFG claimed responsibility for a failed assassination attempt against Gaddafi in February 1996.
Fierce clashes between [Qadhafi's] security forces and Islamist guerrillas erupted in Benghazi in September 1995, leaving dozens killed on both sides. After weeks of intense fighting, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) formally declared its existence in a communiqué calling Qadhafi’s government “an apostate regime that has blasphemed against the faith of God Almighty” and declaring its overthrow to be “the foremost duty after faith in God.” This and future LIFG communiqués were issued by Libyan Afghans who had been granted political asylum in Britain….
Emerged in 1995 among Libyans who had fought against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, the organization declared the government of Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi un-Islamic and pledged to overthrow it. Some members maintain a strictly anti-Qadhafi focus and organize against Libyan government interests, but others are aligned with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization or are active in the international mujahidin network.
As recently as February 2004, then-Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that “one of the most immediate threats [to U.S. security] is from smaller international Sunni extremist groups that have benefited from al-Qaida links. They include … the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group.”
Derna is famous as the home of a large number of suicide bombers in Iraq. It is also deeply hostile to Gaddafi. “Residents of eastern Libya in general, and Derna in particular, view the Gaddadfa (Gaddafi’s tribe) as uneducated, uncouth interlopers from an inconsequential part of the country who have ‘stolen’ the right to rule in Libya,” US diplomats were told in 2008, in a cable since released by WikiLeaks.
The last 110 members of the LIFG were freed on 16 February, the day after the Libyan uprising began (the 1995 uprising not the 2011 uprising). One of those released, Abdulwahab Mohammed Kayed, is the brother of Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaida’s top propagandists. Koumi fled Libya and is said to have ended up in Afghanistan working for Bin Laden. Captured in Pakistan, he was handed over to the US and sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002. In 2009 he was sent back to Libya....
Also Search:
Armed Islamic Group of Algeria
Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (Libya) and the Safist Group for Preaching and Fighting:
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links (searchable headline)
In an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, Mr al-Hasidi admitted that he had recruited "around 25" men from the Derna area in eastern Libya to fight against coalition troops in Iraq. Some of them, he said, are "today are on the front lines in Adjabiya". Mr al-Hasidi insisted his fighters "are patriots and good Muslims, not terrorists," but added that the "members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting against the invader".
Not me. I concentrate on solutions for the problems. It's a win-win situation.
+ Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
+ Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levies.
+ Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.
Any other problems you would like me to solve today? Yes?
Think about these:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments
C O W S
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
T H E C O N S T I T U T I O N
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.
T H E 1 0 C O M M A N D M E N T S
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this: You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...It creates a hostile work environment.
As Congress finally returns to work, many are reflecting whether or not they made the right choice in the GOP's "second chance" election. This doubt began within a few short weeks of the historic November 2010 election shellacking, and the shellacking began to fade away, as the Democrats appeared unsinged.
WHAT WOULD DEMOCRATS CUT?
It is understandable why the Senate is so afraid to offer its own spending plan. http://bit.ly/hCM34O