RWC unfiltered 11-14-11

• Obama Gives Half Billion No Bid Contract To Buddy For Questionable Vaccine
• Romney Leads Obama In Show Me State
• Israeli ICBM Can Strike Targets 5,000 Miles Away
• CBS Poll Has Cain Narrowly on Top Followed By Tied Romney and Gingrich
• Israel to Attack Iran Soon: London Daily Mail
• Radicals at NLRB Intentionally Costing Jobs
• Obama Supporting Hamas With Millions Of Taxpayer Money
• Golden State Tarnished
• Libyan Muslim Brotherhood Mercenaries Blasting Israel From Gaza

 The World Health Assembly declared smallpox eradicated in 1980 and recommended that all countries cease routine smallpox vaccination. It is a deadly bio-weapon.

Obama has secretly awarded a half billion dollar no bid contract to a billionaire buddy and big donor for small pox vaccines at 85 times the usual cost at $255 ostensively to be used to counter a bio attack. To clear the field when competitors wanted to bid Obama closed bidding and blocked all other bidders.

Maybe the worst part is no one even knows if it works.

 Google: Grand Jury Report Penn State to read the 23-page report on the Child Molestation by former coach Sandusky. You’ll be better able to judge- it is graphic and grim.

Israel is increasingly concerned over the rise of the Islamic opposition in Jordan. Sources say Jordan’s King Abdullah is increasingly being seen as conceding to the demands of the opposition, including possibly rejecting Jordan’s peace treaty with Israel.

“Abdullah is fading rapidly and needs U.S. help,” an official said.

Netanyahu has convened high-level consultations regarding the instability in Jordan. Sources said the prime minister was urged to use Israeli influence to help Jordan in the United States, particularly for seeking an increase in aid to the Hashemite kingdom.

“Israel’s immediate responsibility is to support the kingdom, support the king, and convince the United States to cancel its millions [of dollars] in debt, to speak with the Jordanians, to call the king and to create numerous connections, as did, for example, [the late Prime Minister] Yitzhak Rabin,” Israeli analyst Eitan Haber said.

Officials said Abdullah has been disassociating himself from Israel.

They cited the king’s repeated warnings of regional instability because of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. Most say he did so to appease Obama who has increasingly dissed Israel in favor of Muslims.

Haber, regarded as close to Defense Minister Ehud Barak, said Jordan remains vital for Israel’s security. A former adviser to Rabin, Haber said Israel’s help to Jordan would ensure that the kingdom serve as a buffer for any Iranian ground attack.

“Jordan today separates between the Iranians and Israel,” Haber said in an analysis published in Israel’s Yediot Aharonot daily on Nov. 2. “The Iranians will stop on the border of the desert if they know that the Jordanians are willing to fight them, and if they know that behind them, ready to do battle, is the power of Israel.”

On Nov. 4, the Obama administration reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to Jordan.

Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Shapiro said the U.S. was providing Jordan with more than $300 million in military and security aid amid the revolt in neighboring Syria.

“Jordan continues to provide support for U.S. regional priorities, such as the Middle East peace process, countering radicalism, stabilizing Iraq, and most recently Operation Unified Protector in Libya,” Shapiro said.

The longest slumber ever! A snail can sleep for three years, at a stretch.

 One of the most serious consequences of Obama’s Rodney King-like foreign policy is China’s support for Iranian terrorists. For instance:

• China constructed a missile manufacturing plant in Iran last year in possible violation of UN sanctions. U.S. law requires sanctions be imposed against foreign companies that help Iran’s arms programs.
• According to a draft report by the congressional U.S.-China Commission, the Chinese also sold cruise missiles to Iran in violation of a 1997 promise by Beijing not to export C-802 anti-ship missiles to Iran.

A C-802 missile was later used by Hizbullah terrorist military forces to sink an Israeli patrol boat during the 2006 summer war in southern Lebanon, highlighting the proliferation risk of Chinese missile sales.

“China continues to provide Iran with advanced conventional weapons,” the commission report said. These are all the effects of America’s lose of stature; failed respect. and absence of it being feared.

China sold $312-million worth of arms to Iran, second only to Russia, after Congress passed the Iran Freedom Support Act in 2006. The act allows the U.S. government to impose sanction against foreign companies that provide advanced arms to Iran. After Russia began cutting back arms transfers to Iran in 2008, China became the largest arms supplier to the Iranian military, the report noted.

China regards U.S. sanctions as a violation of its sovereignty and has ignored U.S. appeals not to arm Teheran.

 Most of the weapons transfers involved Chinese anti-ship cruise missiles, the report said.

 The Chinese missile plant was built to produce Iran’s Nasr-1 anti-ship cruise missile. “Because of the relatively short range of these missiles, China’s provision of them to Iran does not violate the Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act of 2006, which seeks to prevent the transfer of only those missiles that can carry a 500-kilogram (1,100 pounds) warhead more than 300 kilometers (217 miles),” the report said.

“It is possible, however, that these transactions violate the Iran Freedom Support Act, or the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010, which both use the ambiguous term ‘advanced conventional weapons.’ ”

The report also said there are concerns that China “quietly continued to provide some support for Iran’s pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile capabilities.”

 China, according to the report, also is supporting North Korea’s military and providing economic and technical assistance to Pyongyang.

“Despite Beijing’s stated claim to be acting as a responsible major power, China continues to place its national interests ahead of regional stability by providing economic and diplomatic support to countries that undermine international security.”

The butterfly was originally known as the ‘flutterby’.

So goes Missouri, so goes the nation. No state has supported the winner in more presidential elections than the Show Me State, and right now Mitt Romney is the only Republican presidential hopeful who leads Obama among Missouri voters.

The first Rasmussen Reports Election 2012 survey of Likely Missouri Voters finds Romney with 45% support to Obama’s 42%.

A generic Republican candidate continues to lead Obama in a hypothetical Election 2012 matchup, this time by four points for the week ending Sunday, November 6.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds the generic Republican earning 46% support, while Obama picks up 42% of the vote.  Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided.

Egypt, now run by the anti-US Muslim Brotherhood. has forsaken the US in favor of China and Russia for its arms supplies The US has been giving Egypt  $3 billion a year.

Israel is suspected of producing a nuclear capable missile that could strike Russia, a report said.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies asserted that Israel
has produced several missiles designed to contain nuclear warheads. In a
report, the center said the latest missile was believed to have a range of
7,800 kilometers.(nearly 5,000 miles).

The Israeli Jericho-3 missile is said to have a range of 7,800 kilometers. /Yediot Aharonot.com

“This could hit any target in the Middle East and targets as far away as Pakistan and Russia,” the report, titled “Iran’s Strategic Competition with the U.S. and Arab States - Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Capabilities,” said

In a decision that could have immediate fallout for medical marijuana dispensaries, a state appeals court has ruled that California law allows cities and counties to ban the pot shops,

In the Republican race for the presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich’s support continues to slowly grow, and he is now tied with Mitt Romney , while Herman Cain slipped back to third zccording to a Marist poll. Both Cain and Romney have lost support since late October.

In a new CBS News Poll, 61 percent of Republican primary voters say the sexual harassment accusations against Cain won’t make any difference in their vote, but 30 percent say the charges make them less likely to back him, and that rises to 38 percent among women. Cain has lost support among women since last month - from 28 percent in October to 15 percent now. He has lost ground with conservatives and Tea Party supporters as well.

But the race could still change; seven in 10 Republican primary voters say it is still too early to say for sure which candidate they will support.

It’s a sly and devious approach to promoting Middle East arms proliferation and saber rattling against Iran: the Obama administration (unlike the Bush administration which refused to do so) has already supplied Israel with the bunker buster bombs which they would need to (try to) take out Iran’s nuclear facilities.  

But this makes the U. S. look like Israel’s weapons pimp.  So what better way to defuse that claim than by arming an Arab country that hates Iran almost as much as Israel, with the same weapons?  Now, if only Israel can persuade UAE to launch a joint attack on Iran you’d have an Israeli-Arab Coalition of the Willing, even if it’s only two. That dramatically changes the dynamic.

A senior Foreign Office official says British government ministers have been told to expect Israeli military action in the wake of the UN watchdog report “as early as Christmas or very early in the new year,” the London Daily Mail reported Thursday, Nov. 10.  The ministers were told that Israel would strike Iran’s nuclear sites “sooner rather than later” - with “logistical support” from the US.

According to the British paper, which has good military and intelligence ties in London, President Barack Obama would “have to support the Israelis or risk losing Jewish-American support in the next presidential election.” The bigger concern is that once Iran is nuclear-armed, it will be impossible to stop Saudi Arabia and Turkey from developing their own weapons to even out the balance of nuclear terror in the Middle East.’

Military sources add that Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has told Obama more than once this year, “If Iran gets nuclear arms, Turkey will get nuclear arms.”

The Daily Mail goes on to report that in recent weeks, British Ministry of Defense sources confirmed that contingency plans had been drawn up in the event that the UK decided to support military action.

 The British chief of staff, Gen. Sir David Richards, paid a secret visit to Israel on Nov. 2, followed the next day by the arrival in London of the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak for talks with British defense and military heads.

The reference to US logistical support is explained by our military sources as pointing to the Libyan model of military intervention whereby France, Britain and Italy spearheaded the action against the Qaddafi regime while the United States from “a back seat” laid on satellite and aerial intelligence and placed at their disposal its logistical supply network, including the in-flight refueling of bombers and ordnance.

Transposing this model to an offensive against Iran, Israel’s air and naval forces would front the attack on Iran with logistical and intelligence backup from the United States, while leading NATO powers France, Britain, Germany, Holland and Italy would participate directly or indirectly in the Israeli operation.
Since this attack would almost certainly bring forth reprisals from Tehran and its allies, Syria, Hizballah and the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami, it would almost certainly expand into a wider Middle East conflict, thus also broadening US and West European military intervention.

 Prospects are fading for the alternative to military action - tough new sanctions able to choke Iran’s financial operations and oil exports after the nuclear agency confirmed its surreptitious attainment of a nuclear weapon capability.

Wednesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov promised visiting Iranian official Ali Baqeri that “Any additional sanctions against Iran will be seen… as an instrument for regime change in Tehran. That approach is unacceptable to us and the Russian side does not intend to consider such proposals.”

China will certainly go along with Russia on this.

 Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s first response to the IAEA report was to attack its credibility and declare that Iran would continue its nuclear program regardless of its findings.

For every person there are roughly 200 million INSECTS

Lawyers for the federal labor agency fighting Boeing’s new factory in North Charleston, N.C., repeatedly joked among themselves about the dispute and exchanged a political cartoon portraying S.C. Sen. Glenn McConnell as a crass-speaking confederate soldier, according to internal documents released Wednesday.

 The emails, memos and other documents from the National Labor Relations Board, which the agency provided in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, also portray Sen. Lindsey Graham’s behind-the-scenes efforts to prevent it from filing a complaint against Boeing.

And two internal emails on April 21 and April 22 refer to Sen. Jim DeMint as “Senator Dement” and “Sen. Dement,” with the normally capitalized “M” in his name typed as a small “m” in an apparent bid to tie it more directly to the word “demented.”

In an April 8 conversation, Graham warned NLRB acting general counsel Lafe Solomon against incurring DeMint’s wrath if he took action against Boeing over alleged union-busting at its Everett, Wash., commercial jet plants.

“He said that the charge would scare Boeing’s customers and could affect orders,” Solomon wrote in a note for his files after talking with Graham. “He said that the political fallout would be huge and that he was more reasonable than his Senate counterpart (DeMint).”

Graham used tougher words in a follow-up conversation three days later.

“He said that if a complaint was filed, it will be ‘nasty, very, very nasty,’” Solomon wrote in an April 11 file note. “He said that this was a case of how not to grow the economy. … He said that if (a) complaint issued, he was going ‘full guns-ablazing.’”

 Solomon ignored Graham’s warnings and filed a complaint with the NLRB on April 20. It alleges that Boeing expanded production of its Dreamliner aircraft to South Carolina, a right-to-work state, in retaliation for past strikes by Machinists union members at its Puget Sound factories.

Boeing says it built the plant next to Charleston International Airport because the state government gave the aerospace giant $900 million in tax incentives and it couldn’t afford to production delays that future work stoppages might cause.

An NLRB administrative law judge in Seattle is considering the case following oral arguments by the two sides in June. It could end up in the federal courts and take years to resolve.

Graham, a Republican, said Wednesday that Solomon had described their conversations accurately, including his warning about DeMint. “Both senators were outraged,” Graham spokesman Kevin Bishop said.

DeMint took no offense at Graham’s characterization of him.

“He’s right,” DeMint said. “I tend to be less forgiving of these things.”

DeMint aimed his ire at the NLRB.

“These documents support what we all suspected,” the Republican said. “This is a politically driven attack on workers in right-to-work states by ideologues on the board to tilt the scales of justice in the union bosses’ favor.”

 NLRB officials declined to comment on the documents, which were obtained by Judiciary Watch, a Washington watchdog group. Rep. Tim Scott, a first-term North Charleston Republican whose congressional district is home to the new Boeing

factory, called on the labor agency to drop the complaint against Boeing immediately.
“I am shocked the NLRB would make such comments as they hold in their hands the jobs of 1,100 hard-working men and women here in South Carolina,” Scott said. “This continues to show the poor judgment and lack of common sense in the board’s leadership which already threatens the future of major parts of our nation’s economy.”

Among the agency’s more provocative internal documents:

 

• On May 12, NLRB attorney Joseph Baniszewski emailed to agency lawyer Jennifer Abruzzo cartoon in which Spartanburg Herald-Journal illustrator Robert Ariail portrayed McConnell in confederate garb and under a confederate “Right to Work” flag firing a cannonball emblazoned “To NLRB - Kiss My Grits.” McConnell, who participates in Civil War reenactments, says in the cartoon, “Keep yo’ featherbeddin’ union hands off of our jobs, Yankee pond scum!”
• On April 22, Solomon emailed to a colleague an online article from Europe that criticized the agency for going after Boeing. “The article gave me a new idea,” Solomon quipped. “You go to Geneva and I get a job with Airbus. We screwed up the U.S. economy, and now we can tackle Europe.”
• On April 28, Miriam Szapiro, an NLRB attorney, sent an email to agency lawyer Debra Willen, noting that an Economist magazine blog was backing the NLRB’s position in the case. “It just shows you how incredibly reactionary the U.S. is, that the conservative Economist thinks we’re (Americans) Neanderthal,” Szapiro wrote.

Rob Godfrey, a spokesman for S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley, said the NLRB employees’ jokes about the Boeing case didn’t amuse her.

“The NLRB is a disrespectful agency that apparently believes that the jobs and companies they are threatening is all fun and games,” Godfrey said. “They are wrong. These are real people, real jobs and real companies. This is not and has never been a laughing matter.”

ALBATROSSES have a wing span of up to 14ft and need to land only once every couple of years to breed one flight can span thousands of miles.

By executive order, Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20,300.000 (million) in “migration assistance” to the Palestinian refugees and “conflict victims” in Gaza. The “presidential determination” which allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, many with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United States, was signed and appears in the Federal Register.

Few on Capitol Hill, or in the media, took note that the order provides a free ticket replete with housing, transportation (cars) and food allowances to individuals who have displayed their overwhelming support to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the parliamentary election of January 2006. Now we learn that he is allowing thousands of Palestinian  refuges to move to, and live in, the US at American taxpayer expense.

These important, and insightful, issues are being “lost” in the blinding bail-outs and “stimulation” packages. 

Dolphins can hear sounds underwater from as far away as 15 miles.

In the least business friendly state in America California tax collections since the start of the fiscal year have fallen $1.5 billion behind projections, raising concern that the most-populous U.S. state will face automatic spending cuts.

Revenue was $810.5 million less than budgeted in October, bringing the total to 6.2 percent below expectations for July 1 through Oct. 31, according to figures released today by Controller John Chiang. Since the start of the fiscal year, the state has spent $1.7 billion more than it budgeted.

The $86 billion spending plan Governor Jerry Brown and fellow Democrats adopted in June included a series of cuts to be activated if revenue falls below certain levels. In December, Brown’s finance department will estimate whether the rest of the year’s revenue can meet the original projection.

“October’s poor revenues capped a very disappointing first four months of the fiscal year,” Chiang said in a statement. “Unless revenues and expenditures begin to track with projections, the state will face increasing cash pressure in the months ahead.”

The first tier of cuts, if the shortfall is $1 billion, would trim University of California and California State University budgets by $100 million each, increase community- college fees by $10 per unit and cut in-home services for the elderly and disabled who need help.

If the gap widens to $2 billion, it could mean a seven-day reduction in the school year to save $1.54 billion and an end to $248 million in student busing subsidies.

California’s politicians have not admitted “you can’t eat sunshine” and the “Golden State” is broke.

British government ministers have been told to expect Israeli military action against Iran “as early as Christmas or very early in the new year,” the London Daily Mail reported Thursday, Nov. 10.  The ministers were told that Israel would strike Iran’s nuclear sites “sooner rather than later” - with “logistical support” from the US.

Fifty Libyan Muslim Brotherhood mercenaries arrived in the Gaza Strip from Tripoli last month - in time to take part in the Jihad Islami’s last missile offensive against Israel starting Oct. 29.

They arrived at the wheels of minivans on which were mounted the new Grad multiple rocket-launchers which Palestinian terrorists fired for the first time last month. These mobile rocket-launchers were last seen on the Libyan battlefield in use against Muammar Qaddafi’s army.

The 50 mercenaries did not bother to paint over the Libyan national colors or replace the trucks’ Libyan license plates. Jihad Islami fighters kept them sequestered away from awkward questions about who sent them.

The Libyan mercenaries left Tripoli on October 10 aboard two buses which drove them via Benghazi to Tobruk. They then entered Egypt as tourists.On Oct. 21, the day Muammar Qaddafi was killed, they crossed the Suez Canal into the Sinai Peninsula.

The minivans mounted with the Grad multiple rocket launchers had been moved out of Libya by a separate route and were waiting in the care of Bedouin smugglers beside a Sinai wadi near the old copper mines of Ras Sudar.

They looked quite new with no sign of having been in combat

Military sources report that, Qatar and the United Arab Republic had supplied these advanced rocket-launchers to assorted Libyan National Transitional Council militias, their accurate fire against designated targets intended to counter the precision of the Libyan army’s artillery.But their effectiveness was demonstrated most strikingly after Qaddafi’s fall in the Gaza Strip, where they instantly improved the Palestinian extremists’ aim against Israeli locations. Most of these rapid-firing missiles were also able to evade Israel’s Iron Dome missile interceptors. When the Palestinians reverted to their old weapons, they continued to miss their aim.

The Libyan convoy had to travel some 2,000 kilometers through Egypt to reach the Gaza Strip, raising questions about how it had failed to arouse the notice of local security units. Western sources discovered that the Egyptian Islamic Brotherhood had made all the necessary arrangements for the Libyan Brotherhood mercenaries’ long trek to Gaza under its protection, and more are on the way.

Furthermore, large sums of money would have been available to smooth their passage and that of the new Grads. Intelligence sources report that Hamas and Hizballah arms purchasing missions worked out of Benghazi and Tripoli for seven months, buying hardware from rebel militias for hard cash. After Tripoli fell in late August, they split up between the two cities and are still snapping up black market arms sold by NTC militias.

Syria got enriched uranium and equipment for its “newly discovered” uranium enrichment plant from Iraq when its ruler Saddam Hussein in early March 2003  decided to dispose of the bulk of his nuclear plant and weapons of mass destruction by spiriting them out to Syria, then his closest ally. According to the latest IAEA report. It was just such WMDs that provoked President Bush’s invasion of Iraq and when nothing was immediately found he was accused of lying. Now the full details are finally coming to light.