RWC Unfiltered 11-24-11

• Mathews Has Lost Thrill Up His Leg for Obama.
• 390 Years Since First Thanksgiving
• What’s With Obama’s New Cold War
• Inscrutable Chinese Response To Barrack
• Big Money Behind OWS
• Obama Losing Egypt To Jihadist
• Russian Sabre Rattling
• 60% Favor Keystone XL Pipeline

70% of Americans prefer to say Merry Christmas not Happy Holidays. 88% of conservative prefer it but only 57% of liberals.

Liberal MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews is known to throw punches at Republicans during his daily show. But the commentator has become increasingly critical of Democratic President Barack Obama, the same man whose words used to give him a “Thrill up my leg.” Matthews has a book on President John F. Kennedy but during an interview on Weekends with Alex Witt Matthews went on a rant criticizing the President, and the “little kids with propellers on their heads” advising him.

Mathew’s complaint is that Obama is not far enough to the left to suit him.

By the way don’t waste money on buying the Matthews book. It is not that good.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has erected bill boards featuring a turkey with a dog head saying if you wouldn’t eat your dog why eat a turkey for Thanksgiving?

In 1621,390 years ago, 50 of the Plymouth colonists (including just 4 women) and 90 Wampanoag men shared a three day autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn’t until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.

 Although the American concept of Thanksgiving developed in the colonies of New England, its roots can be traced back to the other side of the Atlantic. Both the Separatists who came over on the Mayflower and the Puritans who arrived soon after brought with them a tradition of providential holidays-days of fasting during difficult or pivotal moments and days of feasting and celebration to thank God in times of plenty.

As an annual celebration of the harvest and its bounty, moreover, Thanksgiving falls under a category of festivals that spans cultures, continents and millennia. In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans feasted and paid tribute to their gods after the fall harvest. Thanksgiving also bears a resemblance to the ancient Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. Finally, historians have noted that Native Americans had a rich tradition of commemorating the fall harvest with feasting and merrymaking long before Europeans set foot on their shores. For some scholars, the jury is still out on whether the feast at Plymouth really constituted the first Thanksgiving in the United States. Indeed, historians have recorded other ceremonies of thanks among European settlers in North America that predate the Pilgrims’ celebration. In 1565, for instance, the Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilé invited members of the local Timucua tribe to a dinner in St. Augustine, Florida, after holding a mass to thank God for his crew’s safe arrival. On December 4, 1619, when 38 British settlers reached a site known as Berkeley Hundred on the banks of Virginia’s James River, they read a proclamation designating the date as “a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.”

An inept and corrupt U. N. can be expected to be ever more noisey about Iran and have no constructive affect whatsoever as it moves inexorably forward on developing nuclear weapons which some expect it will have by April 2012.

 Countering China’s new asymmetric warfare weaponry is the basis for a new Pentagon battle concept that is the first step in what defense officials say is a new Cold War posture toward China.

The Air Sea Battle Concept was unveiled publicly last week at a Pentagon briefing. Officials said the Pentagon in August created the Air Sea Battle Office to integrate air and naval combat capabilities to bolster “emerging” national security requirements, code for China.

Military officials said the new concept is not directed at a single power. China, however, is the only nation developing anti-access, area denial weapons. Those weapons include conventional ballistic missiles, long-range precision cruise missiles, advanced integrated air and missile defense systems, electronic and cyber warfare capabilities, submarines, surface combatants, and modern combat aircraft.

“Air-Sea Battle will enable the projection of force in defense of U.S. interests and those of our allies and by sustaining stability and freedom of access throughout the global commons,” the Pentagon said in a statement.

A senior Obama administration official told The Washington Times that the new approach is a significant milestone that signals a new Cold War approach to Mainland China.

“Air Sea Battle is to China what the maritime strategy was to the Soviet Union,” the official said, noting that during the Cold War, U.S. naval forces around the world used a strategy of global presence and shows of force to deter Moscow’s advances.

“It is a very forward-deployed, assertive strategy that says we will not sit back and be punished,” the senior official said. “We will initiate.”

The concept, according to defense officials, grew out of concerns that China’s new precision-strike weapons threaten freedom of navigation in strategic waterways and other global commons.

Defense officials familiar with the concept said the ideas under consideration include:

• Building a new long-range bomber.
• Conducting joint submarine and stealth aircraft operations.
• Jointly operating new long-range unmanned strike aircraft with up to 1,000-mile ranges.
• Using Air Force forces to protect naval bases and deployed naval forces.
• Conducting joint Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force strikes inside China.
• Using Air Force aircraft to deploy sea mines.
• Using the Air Force and Navy to attack Chinese anti-satellite missiles inside China.
• Increasing the mobility of satellites to make attacks more difficult.
• Launching joint Navy and Air Force cyber-attacks on Chinese anti-access forces.

Pentagon press secretary George Little said the new office “is a hard-won and significant operational milestone in meeting emerging threats to our global access.”

China in recent years has grown more assertive in waters near its shores, harassing U.S. Navy surveillance ships in the South China Sea and Yellow Sea.

The Pentagon also is concerned about China’s new DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile that can hit aircraft carriers at sea. Carriers are the key power-projection capability in Asia and would be used in defending Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour and spins at 1,000 MPH.

The Hu Jintao leadership is mapping out measures to blunt what Beijing perceives is an enhanced effort by Washington to counter China’s power projection in the Asia-Pacific Theatre.

While visiting Australia on Nov. 16, President Barack Obama and host Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that U.S. Marines would be based in the North Australian port of Darwin. The initial deployment of 200 to 250 Marines will expand to 2,500 within five years.

U.S. officials have indicated that since Darwin is only 820 kilometers from Indonesia, the troops could be used to tackle security issues in the South China Sea and other hot spots in the region.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Manila on the same day to give backing to the Philippines’ effort to convene an international conference to resolve sovereignty disputes in the South China Sea. While China claims ownership over the entire South China Sea, its sovereignty is disputed by countries including the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and Taiwan.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino is set to initiate talks relating to the South China Sea crisis at the ASEAN East Asia Summit to be held in Bali, Indonesia this weekend. One proposal is to convene an international conference to discuss how to turn the South China Sea into what Manila calls a “Zone of Peace, Freedom, Friendship, and Cooperation.” Obama, who would attend the summit, is also expected to address issues of freedom of navigation in the waters of the Asia-Pacific.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry slammed the stationing of U.S. troops in Australia as “inappropriate and counter to the peaceful development of the region.”

“It may not be quite appropriate to intensify and expand military alliances and this may not be in the interest of countries within this region,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said.

The Peoples Daily pointed out in a commentary on Wednesday that “If Australia uses its military bases to help the U.S. harm Chinese interests, then Australia itself will be caught in the crossfire.”

Moreover, Beijing has called upon ASEAN members including Malaysia and Indonesia not to second Aquino’s motion to discuss the South China Sea in Bali. Beijing has indicated that only economic and trade matters should be put on the agenda of the summit. It has been a long-standing Chinese policy to insist on resolving territorial disputes on a one-on-one and not a multilateral basis.

Chinese sources in Beijing said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership was taken aback by the series of aggressive steps taken by Obama the past week. While hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum at Hawaii last weekend, Obama also gave a big push to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free-trade area of up to 10 countries that does not include China.

The sources said the CCP Leading Group on Foreign Affairs, the nation’s top foreign policy-making organ headed by President Hu, had decided on a two-pronged strategy to blunt Obama’s “anti-China containment policy.”

In the near term, Beijing will focus on reassuring ASEAN members that its basic principle regarding the resolution of territorial claims in the South China Sea is “joint development while setting aside the issue of sovereignty.” The CCP leadership is also prepared to boost investment in and infrastructure aid to countries including Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.

At the same time, the Peoples’ Liberation Army Navy will raise the frequency of its patrols of disputed islets in the Paracel and Spratly islands. This is geared toward putting pressure on individual ASEAN countries to arrive at an early settlement with China under the “joint development” model.

Beijing also hopes to use economic inducements to convince countries including Australia and Japan not to join in Washington’s “anti-China containment policy.” Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who recently concluded military a and intelligence-gathering cooperation agreements with Vietnam and the Philippines, is scheduled to visit Beijing next month.

Asia Continent covers 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world’s population.

Obama said Monday that he would veto any attempt by Congress to eliminate the automatic spending cuts triggered by the failure of the deficit supercommittee.

The law creating the supercommittee said that if it failed to reduce the deficit by $1.2 trillion, across-the-board cuts to defense and domestic spending totaling that amount would occur in 2013. Some members of Congress have already said they would look for ways to soften the impact of the automatic cuts.

As predicted in these pages the so-called Super Committee failed raising the ante for the 2012 election.

America’s debt is climbing at the rate of $4,000,000,000 (billion) a day.

Turns out when you follow the Occupy Wall Street money it leads back to anti-American billionaire George Soros or more specifically to his “charity”  fronts. The Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) and through it to the OWS radicals. AGJ is a tax exempt front for giving to radical causes so contributors can claim tax deductions which they otherwise could not. OGJ has funded the communist Sandanistas; World Can’t Wait the spin off of the Revolutionary Communist Party; Courage to Resist that urges soldiers to desert, and various anti-Israel pro Islam groups.

Soros, with a net worth of $22 billion, is part of the ultra-secret Democracy Alliance a radically leftist anti-America group of billionaires that works for America’s demise.

These are near the core of a hotbed of leftist radicalism and has been paying the bills for OWS. So much for the myth that OWS was somehow a spontaneous  grassroots movement.

The tax deductable scam and tactics are borrowed from the Anti-Viet Nam era protests although then money was funneled from the former Soviet Union through Canadian banks.

There have been 6  attempts to penetrate Pakistani nuclear weapons storage sites and steal a warhead.

The Arab Spring has failed in Egypt, and the Muslim Brotherhood may turn the most populous nation in the Middle East into an Islamist state within months, says Walid Phares, a Mideast expert and adviser to Congress.

And if the Obama administration doesn’t alter its flawed strategy in confronting this threat, the entire region could be in turmoil by this time next year, Phares said in an exclusive Newsmax interview.

“If the Obama administration doesn’t change strategic direction in Washington, the Middle East, one year from now, will look much more dangerous than ever before,” Phares said.

Phares spoke as events in Egypt, which makes up roughly one-quarter of the Arab world’s population, disintegrated further. Egypt’s military rulers agreed on Tuesday to form a “national salvation government” and speed up the process towards presidential elections, reports say. The move follows days of often violent protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

“At the end of the day, it is really the Muslim Brotherhood who are taking advantage of the process and we may end up seeing an Egypt, a few months from now, next year, as an Islamist state,” Phares said.

Thousands of protesters have converged on Tahrir Square in Cairo and also in Alexandria and Suez during the past four days to demonstrate against military rule, and specifically, the military’s move to exempt itself from control by the civilian government, whose members resigned en masse late Monday night.

Deposed leader Hosni Mubarak’s former defense minister heads the military council, called the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.

“Unfortunately, over the past few months, the Muslim Brotherhood and the military have cut a deal. Now the deal is off,” Phares said in explaining the circumstances that have brought thousands back to the streets in the biggest protests since massive demonstrations forced President Hosni Mubarak from office after 30 years of rule.

The Muslim Brotherhood mobilized the majority of the youths protesting in Tahrir Square to attack the military to force the military council to “cut another deal.”

The Muslim Brotherhood wants power transferred from the military council into its own hands to use it to establish an Islamist state, Phares said.

The significance cannot be ignored because is not only the largest Arab nation but also Israel’s main partner in the peace process in the Middle East, Phares said.

“In the region, all of that could change,” Phares said. “The peace process will be impacted, our alliance with the Egyptian government and military can change, and the Muslim Brotherhood are not going to be only in Egypt, they are going to be across the region.”

In Libya, where the transitional government recently announced that Shariah, or Islamic religious law, will be instituted, the young will be educated in madrasas, Islamic schools, Phares warned. A jihadist movement will be built up from those youths, he said.

“We’re too late. We tried to drive from behind, maneuver from behind, and now the results are dramatic,” he said.

The Obama administration committed what Phares described as a “strategic analysis failure” in Libya that resulted in missteps during the uprising, although it resulted in the capture and killing of Moammar Gadhafi.

“The problem has been in Washington that the administration’s evaluation and the expertise offered to the administration for that evaluation have not been correct,” Phares said. “Now, we have a situation in Libya and in North Africa whereby the Islamists, who have been coined and described as moderate and as reformists, are going to emphasize a jihadist ideology and that will create trouble in the region.”

And Iran, which continues to develop nuclear weapons, clearly has no fear of the Obama administration, he said.

“If they look to their west, they see us withdrawing abruptly from Iraq in weeks. If they look to their east, they know we are trying to engage the Taliban to withdraw from Afghanistan,” Phares said. “If they look to their south, we are not mobilizing out task forces to contain the Iranians.

“And if they hear the speeches coming out of Washington when there were uprisings in the streets of Tehran as of June 2009, they hear word from the administration that we are not interested in supporting the Iranian opposition. So if I am the Iranian regime, I wouldn’t be worried.”

There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in your body.

Obama’s choices for the federal bench have been rejected as “unqualified” by the liberal vetting group that was considered a thorn in the side of George W. Bush.

The New York Times​ reports that the American Bar Association, which has been roundly criticized by conservatives for decades for its liberal bias, has trashed more of Obama’s nominees in just three years than in did in the entire eight years of the Bush administration. The number of Obama’s choices rejected also exceeds the total that were deemed unworthy during the Clinton presidency. Considering that this stern verdict comes from an organization clearly sympathetic to Obama’s politics and judicial philosophy, these figures speak volumes about the poor quality of those tapped for the bench by the Democrats in the last three years,

That report has been made secret.

The FBI reports that there have been 1,040 hate crimes against Jews versus 140 against Muslims in the most recent reporting period.

Russia has threatened to aim long-range missiles at Europe after talks over the United States’ missile defence plans failed to reach an agreement.

In a live television broadcast, the country’s president, Dmitry Medvedev, said that Russia could aim missiles at US missile defence sites, if the two nations and Nato are unable to reach a compromise.

He added that Russia could opt out of the New Start arms control deal that he signed with Obama in 2010.

The United States wants to install an anti-missile defence system in Europe by 2020 to safeguard against attacks from countries like Iran.

However, Russian officials say the system could weaken their own defences.

The United Kingdom is home to a number of sites that house US and Nato military operations, including RAF Spadeadam in Cumbria and Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire.

As you’re probably aware, Earth has 1 moon (The Moon). But did you know there are 2 additional asteroids locked into  co-orbital orbits with Earth? They’re called 3753 Cruithne and 2002 AA₂₉. It Is 6 meters across and makes a horseshoe orbit around earth nd was discovered in 2002.

3753 Cruithne is 5 km across, and sometimes called Earth’s second moon. It doesn’t actually orbit the Earth, but has a synchronized orbit with our home planet. It has an orbit that makes it look like it’s following the Earth in orbit, but it’s actually following its own, distinct path around the Sun.

Most voters support the building of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas and believe it can be built without harming the environment.

Sixty percent (60%) of Likely U.S. Voters at least somewhat favor building the pipeline which President Obama has delayed until at least 2013 because of environmental concerns. Just 24% are opposed. Sixteen percent (16%) are not sure.

Obama has delayed its construction pandering to the environmental radical left despite the thousands of jobs that would be created and the likelihood it would be the cornerstone for energy independence driving fueld prices down by at least a dollar per gallon. Canada says it will sell its oil to China if Obama fails to OK pipeline.

John F. Kennedy was buried without his brain after it was lost during the autopsy!