RWC Unfiltered 12-29-11

• U. S. Docs Reject ObamaCare                                                                                      
  
• FOX NEWS 10 years on Top
• Iran Begins Persian Gulf Naval Maneuvers
• Paul Not Racist Says Aide: Just Clueless
• Did U. S. Sell Israeli Dude Bunker Buster Bombs
• Tens Of Millions Of U. S. Doper Dollars Funding Terrorists

Obama holds a wide lead among Hispanic voters when matched against potential Republican challengers, even as widespread opposition to his administration’s stepped-up deportation policies act as a drag on his approval ratings among these voters, according to a new Pew poll.

That iis why Obama and his sycophant AG Holder are desperate to allow illegals voting rights. Because they well know the impact of non-citizen voters will have ib 2012; even more than 2008.

Nearly seven of every 10 doctors believe that medicine is no longer attractive to America’s “best and brightest.”

Obama promised that his reform package would begin to stymie the out-of-control growth in the cost of American health care. He pledged $2,500 in health insurance savings for the typical American family.

But doctors don’t buy it. Only one quarter feel that Obamacare will reduce health insurance costs for consumers. Nine out of ten posit that insurers will raise premiums for employers and individuals.

They have good reason to doubt Obamacare’s cost-cutting potential. Healthcare spending is expected to reach $2.7 trillion this year - or about $1 of every $6 spent in our economy. By 2020, health spending will account for a full fifth of America’s GDP.

That increase is in large part thanks to Obamacare. Instead of relieving high insurance premiums, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that American families in the non-group market will see their premiums rise $2,100.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, average family premiums in 2011 topped $15,000 - a 9 percent increase from 2010. Prior to Obamacare’s passage - from 2009 to 2010 - premiums went up just 3 percent.

In April 2010, Richard Foster, the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), concluded that American spending on health care through 2019 would be $311 billion higher than if the law had never passed.

Even with all that additional money flowing through the system, doctors don’t think that the quality of care will improve. Half of all doctors believe that access to care will diminish because of hospital closures prompted by health reform.

Further, nearly 70 percent of doctors believe that long wait times will plague emergency rooms. A full 83 percent of physicians foresee increased wait times for primary care appointments.

That’s in large part because Obamacare.

An LA dentist has organized a national coalition of physocians to eradicate ObamaCare before its implementation.

The 90-year-old venerable Scholastic magazine has joined Uber liberal educators and teachers unions to indoctrinate and radicalize American school children.by sympathizing with Occupy gangsters while lambasting Tea Partiers right in taxpayer funded classrooms.

Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes leads off this year’s list of “The Most Powerful in Television News” in TVWeek’s NewsPro magazine.

“In January it will be 10 years since Fox News Channel surpassed CNN to become the top-rated news channel. That dominance doesn’t seem likely to change anytime soon,” the magazine states in its December issue.

“The channel continually beats CNN and MSNBC combined in total viewership, and in the wider cable world is behind only ESPN and USA Network in total viewers.

“It’s also one realm of News Corp.’s journalism empire that has stayed above the fray as a phone-hacking scandal engulfed the company’s British newspaper operations and claimed a top Wall Street Journal executive.”

NewsPro adds: “There’s no reason to think that the upcoming presidential year, with its extended Republican nomination wrangling, won’t give FNC a boost.”

The cover story of Newsmax magazine’s November issue, “The Most Powerful Man in the News,” explored how Ailes single-handedly changed the way Americans get their news, building an audience that felt politically alienated by what they perceived to be the liberal bias of the big three networks.

Others on NewsPro’s list include, not surprisingly, the heads of CBS News, ABC News, CNN Worldwide, NBC News, and MSNBC.

But also on the list are Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”; Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report”; and Randy Falco, president of the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.

The Romans used asbestos in their cloths for daily use - such as dish-towels, napkins, and table cloths. Pliny the Elder (a Roman naturalist) Gaius Plinius Secundus (23 AD - August 25, 79 AD), said that they could be cleaned whiter than normal cloth by simply throwing them in the fire. He also noted that the slaves who wove the mineral for cloth often suffered from lung disorders.

As ex-aide of Ron Paul says after working with him for 12-years he knows he is not racists- just clueless. The indictment arose after newsletters from the 1990s that are racists and anti-jewish in nature surfaced. Paul contends he neither wrote nor read those newsletters. Yet his signature appears on those newsletters. Ron Paul is leading all candidates in Iowa.

SEARS and Kmart will close 120 underperforming stores across the nation. That will likely cost some 3,000 jobs. Other retailers like: Wal Mart, Target, and Dollar Tree were up but the overall market did not increase, and SEAR and K-Mart have not kept pace in and those stores are frumpy. Montgomery Ward closed its last retail stores in 2004 and it now an entirely internet based enterprise.

Al Qaida’s network in North Africa is believed to have acquired thousands of surface-to-air missiles from the arsenal of the late Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi.

A retired Western diplomat said Al Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb has been a key beneficiary of the ouster of Gadhafi in September. Robert Fowler, captured by AQIM in 2008 and freed a year later, said the insurgency network has acquired a huge amount of conventional military equipment from Libya, including the Russian-origin SA-24 man-portable air defense system.

“They’re now equipped with enormous amounts of Libyan weapons, and I mean such sophisticated weapons as SA-24 missiles, heavy mortars, heavy artillery and thousands of anti-tank mines,” Fowler said.

The assertion differs from assurances by Libya and the United States, both of which denied any evidence of a major arms flow from the North African state to AQIM. The State Department has said that Washington helped Libya retrieve about 5,000 SAM weapons over the last three months.

“I’m worried about the vast quantities of heavy mortars, heavy artillery, anti-tank mines - two or three of which in the back of a car with half a pound of plastic will make an awfully big mess,” Fowler said.

In a Dec. 7 conference convened by the Royal Institute for International Affairs, Fowler, also a former UN envoy to Niger, recalled his 135 days in AQIM captivity along the Algerian border. He said AQIM fighters were intent on destroying governments throughout North Africa and the Sahel region.

“They wanted to turn the Sahel into one vast, seething, chaotic Somalia,” said Fowler, who discussed strategy with his captors. “They said that was their objective, their brothers in Al Shabab in Somalia were achieving exactly what they wished to achieve from Nouakchott to Mogadishu, 7,000 kilometer-wide of turmoil in which their jihad could grow and prosper.”

European officials appeared to agree with Fowler’s assessment. Jerome Spinoza, head of the French Defense Ministry’s Africa bureau, said AQIM has grown rapidly from its base in Algeria and was headed south to Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.

“AQIM is coming from Algeria, but it is now, more or less, an autonomous branch of it,” Spinoza said. “It has its own interests. It tends to go south.”

Spinoza urged North African states to cooperate in tracking and fighting AQIM. But he acknowledged that the effort has been hampered by regional rivalries, particularly between Algeria and Morocco.

“Without a meaningful policy, the area could constitute a lasting safe haven for jihadists,” Spinoza said.

More World War II US servicemen died in the Air Corps than the Marine Corps. While completing the required 30 combat missions your chance of being killed was an astonishing 71%.

Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi Monday, Dec. 26, revealed Tehran’s plan to use its big 10-day naval drill east of the Strait of Hormuz to test its vaunted cyber intelligence prowess against US warships. He said Iran has great capabilities in “all fields of national defense, including the use of intelligence drones as well as decoding of such aircraft and countering electronic and covert warfare.” The Islamic Republic, he said, could employ aerial drones to counter any potential US-led covert war.

Vahidi’s words implied two key points: That Tehran did not expect the US to carry out a lone strike against its nuclear facilities but in conjunction with fellow NATO member and Israel. And two, that the Islamic Republic has convinced itself that by downing the US stealth drone RQ-170, it has acquired all the technology necessary for repelling penetrations and attacks by drones and warplanes with stealth capabilities.

While boasting of its ability to overcome a “US-led covert war” by means of electronic and intelligence means, Iran’s defense minister avoided making the same boast about a full-scale war offensive.

This, say military sources, is because Tehran has reason to believe that Washington too in another strategic turnaround has stopped thinking in terms of a full-scale war against Iran and switched to a selective approach, as disclosed in an article by Matthew Kroenig he published in the latest issue of the authoritative Foreign Affairs.

According to this approach, the US could disable and demolish Iran’s known nuclear facilities by targeting select facilities, such as “the UF6 plant at Isfahan which converts yellowcake into uranium hexafluoride gas; the heavy-water reactor at Arak and various centrifuge-manufacturing sites near Natanz and Tehran, all of which are located above ground and are highly vulnerable to air strikes.”

Gen. Vahidi’s remarks aimed at warning the United States that Iran is also capable of trouncing covert strikes on those sites. He said that Iran has great capabilities in all fields of defense and will develop and maintain its accomplishments which have been achieved during the most difficult circumstances and under full, comprehensive sanctions.”

Sunday, Dec. 24, reported:  Iran launched its 10-day naval drill “Velayati (Supremacy) 90″ east of the strategic Strait of Hormuz Saturday, Dec. 24, to show its muscle - first of all to Washington in view of the Obama administration radically changed stance in favor of an attack to destroy the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons program.

It is a message that, notwithstanding the proximity of US warships in the area, Tehran can close the Persian Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz to the passage of one third of the world’s oil consumption; and if attacked, it will not just hit back at  US targets in the region and Israel; Saudi Arabia and Jordan are additionally in its sights.

Israel was informed of the US policy reversal on Iran in the one-on-one talk President Barak Obama held with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at Gaylord Hotel, Maryland on Dec. 16.

For Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Barak, the tightening of military coordination on Iran between the US and their government is a signal achievement for which neither has won kudos at home, where a sustained campaign is afoot to end their rule by raising one prickly domestic issue after another.

So far, their political foes have made no headway. The Netanyahu administration is supported by a comfortable parliamentary majority and can safely focus on pressing military and strategic decision-making.

The Iranian war game covers a 2,000-kilometer stretch of sea off the Hormuz Strait, in the northern Indian Ocean and in the Gulf of Aden up to the entrance to the Red Sea.

Military sources are waiting to see how the Iranian exercise develops in relation to the two US aircraft carriers patrolling the same waters with their strike groups, USS John C. Stennis and USS Bataan Amphibious Ready Group.

Since capturing the American RQ-170 stealth drone on Dec. 4, the Iranians appear to be spoiling to show off their cyber and intelligence feats. They claim that with the drone, they have won control of secret US cyber technology and are now capable of overpowering the advanced military and intelligence systems aboard US aircraft carriers, warships and fighter-bomber jets.

Tehran is going all out to demonstrate that the drone was downed by superior intelligence and technology, not as a result of a malfunction, as US officials have claimed. This putative prowess is expected to be tested against a US naval vessel or Air Force plane to show the Americans they are in no condition for attacking Iran’s nuclear sites.

For Tehran therefore, it is more important for Velayati 90 to test its intelligence ability against US systems than to conduct operation naval exercises, because without the former, the latter has no chance against US capabilities.

The US high command is certainly well prepared for the challenge, military and intelligence sources report. Anyway, Iranian bragging is hard to miss.

On Dec. 19, Iranian intelligence chief Gen. Seyed Hessam Hashemi boasted: “Iran will bring down all aggressive spy drones and aircraft if the US continues espionage operations over Iran.”

Iran is playing for very high stakes: A failed performance in the face of US forces in the region will tell the West and its Arab Gulf neighbors that the Islamic extremists of Tehran talk big but can’t deliver on their threats.

The U. S. and allies say Iran could perhaps close the Straits for a couple day to as much as a week provoking a fierce response that would result in the destruction on Iran’s NAVY and its offensive systems. It would be bloody.

Iran can ill-afford to lose oil revenues.

The  U.S, has sortiedva carrier task force into the straits warnings to I ran not to harass those ships and that any attack will be ferociously opposed.

The U.K. has evacuated all diplomatic staff from Iran following Tuesday’s attack on its embassy in Tehran by Iranian protesters, local media reported last Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the Iranian authorities lashed out at the United States and Britain on Wednesday in response to the UN Security Council’s strong condemnation of the attack late last Tuesday.

Israel is seeking clarifications from the United States to ensure bunker buster bombs it recently purchased are not carrying defective fuses that could cause their premature detonation.

Last week the US settled a lawsuit against a defense contractor for allegedly supplying it with faulty fuses.

The laser-guided bomb, GBU-28, weighs about 2.5 tons and is reportedly capable of penetrating 30 meters (over 98 feet) of earth or alternatively 6 meters (about 20 feet) of reinforced concrete.

The bomb was initially developed in the 1990s to penetrate hardened Iraqi command centers located underground.

Israel ordered its first batch of the GBU-28 from the US in 2005 and reportedly received them a year later. In 2007 it asked the Pentagon for another batch of bombs but the delivery was delayed due to concern in Washington that Israel planned to use the bunker buster bomb to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, some of which are located in fortified bunkers.

In September, Newsweek reported the Obama administration had recently decided to authorize the delivery of 55 GBU-28 bombs as part of an aid package aimed at improving strained  ties with Jerusalem.

There are now concerns in Israel that some of the bombs supplied to Israel over the years could have been installed with defective fuses.

Israel concerned that recently purchased laser-guided bombs may carry defective fuses that could cause premature detonation.

Israel is seeking clarifications from the United States to ensure bunker buster bombs it recently purchased are not carrying defective fuses that could cause their premature detonation.

Last week the US settled a lawsuit against a defense contractor for allegedly supplying it with faulty fuses.

The laser-guided bomb, GBU-28, weighs about 2.5 tons and is reportedly capable of penetrating 30 meters of earth or alternatively 6 meters of concrete.

The bomb was initially developed in the 1990s to penetrate hardened Iraqi command centers located underground.

Israel ordered its first batch of the GBU-28 from the US in 2005 and reportedly received them a year later. In 2007 it asked the Pentagon for another batch of bombs but the delivery was delayed due to concern in Washington that Israel planned to use the bunker buster bomb to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, some of which are located in fortified bunkers.

In September, Newsweek reported the Obama administration had recently decided to authorize the delivery of 55 GBU-28 bombs as part of an aid package aimed at improving ties with Jerusalem.

There are now concerns in Israel that some of the bombs supplied to Israel over the years could have been installed with defective fuses.

On Friday, the US Justice Department announced it had reached a settlement with aerospace manufacturer Kaman Corp., which allegedly substituted a fuse in four lots of fuses made for the bombs. Under the settlement, Kaman Corp. will pay the government $4.75 million.

The US government alleged in its lawsuit against the company that the installation of defective fuses could lead to the premature detonation of the bomb and cause accidental misfires.

In September 2010, the US Defense Department announced it had awarded Kaman Precision Products, a subsidiary of Kaman Corp, a $35m. contract to manufacture fuses for four foreign countries. One of those countries was likely Israel. South Korea is also in possession of the GBU-28.

Israel first filed a request to purchase the GBU-28 in the 1990s but only received Pentagon approval for the sale in 2005 in a deal estimated at about $30m.

According to Jane’s - a weapons reference organization -Israel received 100 units of the bomb in 2006, during the Second Lebanon War and as part of a US weapons shipment to help Israel destroy hardened Hezbollah targets.

The world’s most venomous insect is the harvaster ant, 12 stings can kill a 4.4 pound lab rat.

Hizbullah is using U.S. banks and other financial institutions to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal drug money.  Officials said the revenue stems from trafficking in South America and is funneled to purchase cars in the United States for shipment to Africa.

Beirut-based Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) faces U.S. Treasury Department accusations of involvement in money laundering.

“It puts into stark relief the nexus between narcotics trafficking and terrorism,” said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

On Dec. 15, federal authorities filed a complaint of a “massive international scheme” in which Hizbullah-linked banks laundered drug money through the United States.

The complaint, filed by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Justice Department, charged that Hizbullah was buying used cars in the U.S. for transport to and sale in West Africa, mostly Benin.

“DEA and its partners have exposed the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a major money laundering source for Hizbullah,” said DEA administrator Michele Leonhart. “The connection between drug traffickers and terror networks is evident.”

The Hizbullah money-laundering scheme was said to have involved 30 car buyers as well as a shipping company in the United States. The complaint seeks $483.1 million in penalties for the alleged laundering.

The United States has already imposed sanctions on several of the targets in the federal investigation of Hizbullah. This included Hassan Ayash and Ellissa, both of them said to be linked to Ayman Joumaa, a Lebanese drug trafficker linked to Hizbullah and himself indicted on drug trafficking and money-laundering in the United States in cooperation with Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.

Joumaa is said to launder up to $200 million per month.

Officials said Hizbullah sent funds through wire transfers to purchase used cars for shipment to Benin, where Elissa operates a subsidiary. Sales revenue was transported to Lebanon through couriers and smugglers by Hizbullah operative Osama Salhab.

Salhab also owns Cybamar Swiss, a company based in Michigan that shipped the cars to West Africa.

“Cash transported from West Africa was often received at the Beirut airport, where Hizbullah security safeguarded its passage to its final destination,” the U.S. Attorney’s office said.

When the US Army landed in North Africa in 1942 among the equipment brought ashore was 3 complete Coca Cola bottling plants. In 1941 Coca Cola’s CEO  issued an order saying, “”See that every man in uniform gets a bottle of Coca Cola for 5 cents wherever he is and whatever the cost to the company”.

Obama’s total withdrawal of all U. S. forces from Iraq is being blamed for scores of bombing deaths in a series of blast in and around Baghdad in sectarian conflicts between Sunni and Shite sects.

The withdrawal was entirely politically motivated and against the advise of U. S. military commanders and manyIraqi leaders. It appears that Iran is about to fill the vacuum raising worries that civil gains will be reversed.

Al Qaeda Iraq (AQI) is said to be taking a bigger and more aggressive role compounding concerns there and in neighboring Kuwait.

Some of the U. S. troops moved out of Iraq are still in Jordan adding it to Iran’s declared hit list in the event its nuclear warhead plant is attacked.

35,000 allied Prisoners of War escaped from prison camps in Germany or Italy during World War II one third credit a super secret Monopoly game manufacturer by John Waddington Ltd in UK. The special :games” contained silk escape maps hidden in game pieces and in some tiny files could be assembled from game pieces. Tha maps were specific to the camps showing the best escape route. Hitler has decreed prisoner not be kept with 1,000 miles of the English Channel.The games were distributed by the International Red Cross.

Mideast saber rattling surrounding the Strait of Hormuz will unlikely escalate into a full-scale military conflict, but should that happen, the United States and the rest of the world will fall into a crippling depression, says commodities research analyst and trader Stephen Schork.

Iran has threatened to block access to the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow passageway connecting oil-rich Persian Gulf countries with the rest of the world if the West makes good on threats to sanction Tehran for allegedly pursuing a nuclear program.

Fears that the conflict could escalate into regional military conflict involving Israel are growing as well.

The wildcard is an Iranian nuke that reshuufles the whole deck.