Monthly Archives: October 2008

Airline Passenger Arrested with Pipe Bomb at Long Island’s MacArthur Airport

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20-year-old Steven Noble of Las Vegas was caught trying to board a plane departing from Long Island’s MacArthur airport with a pipe bomb, fireworks, a 7 inch knife and .22 nailgun rounds. He had a one way ticket after spending about a year in Long Island. Don’t worry his step-sister claims he’s a good “kid” and didn’t mean to hurt anyone:

A Las Vegas man attempted to bring a pipe bomb on board a jet at Long Island MacArthur Airport yesterday morning, federal officials said in court documents.

The suspected pipe bomb that was found in Steven Nobles’ baggage “could have functioned. It could have detonated,” federal prosecutor John Durham said at Nobles’ arraignment in U.S. District Court in Central Islip late yesterday afternoon.

But Nobles’ attorney, federal public defender Randi Chavis, said Nobles, 20, had not intended to harm anyone and inadvertently placed the device in his luggage as he was returning to visit his mother after a year of working on Long Island.

Sources familiar with the investigation said that at this point federal prosecutors and FBI agents do not believe Nobles was bent on terrorism, but, at the very least, displayed poor judgment.

I’ll say. And isn’t it obvious a man boarding a plane with several explosives and a knife isn’t connected at all to terrorism? It’s not as if Whites are being recruited into terror cells or anything.

Besides, like I said we have his step-sister’s word for it that he wasn’t up to anything:

Nobles’ stepsister, Alexandria Stills, said whatever Nobles was doing, he would never intentionally hurt anyone.

“I’m sure Steven is giving the police his information. He’s a good kid,” said Stills, 20, of Central Islip. “I don’t think that he had anything to do with any type of bomb. He does electrical work. I’m thinking that whatever he had in his bag was related to his work.”

If you can’t trust the step-sister of a man caught with a pipe bomb in an airport who can you trust?

N.T.A. has the whole story.

Brussels: “You Know, Maybe Global Warming Not Such a Big Deal”

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At least not when it looks like America won’t be able to pick up the tab any more in the form of subsidies, tourism and consumer spending. Most of Europe’s “generous” welfare policies make those countries ill equipped to throw billions of dollars away on green schemes that are designed to make people feel good at the expense of their quality of life.

From the NYT:

BRUSSELS — Fears of a sharp worldwide economic slowdown are threatening a hard-won European plan on climate change that European leaders hoped would set an example for the rest of the world.

At a rancorous summit meeting this week of the European Union’s heads of state, several Eastern European countries and Italy said they might no longer be able to afford to slash greenhouse gas emissions as envisioned under a broad plan agreed upon last year and would need some concessions from other countries in the bloc. That agreement called for the union to reduce such emissions, linked by climate scientists to global warming, by 20 percent from 1990 levels by the year 2020.

The plan — hailed by the former French president Jacques Chirac as “a great moment in European history” — goes beyond the Kyoto Protocol, which requires industrial nations bound by the treaty to reduce the emission of global-warming gases by an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

After the outline was agreed to last year, the countries began working on detailed proposals for how they would reach the goal for emissions cuts, which essentially meant figuring out how much of an economic burden each nation would bear. France, which holds the rotating presidency of the union, had hoped to win approval for a more detailed agreement in December.

While some countries had already begun worrying about how much they were being asked to contribute to hit the emissions reduction goal, the economic downturn increased their concerns.

At this week’s two-day meeting, which ended Thursday, the countries that were questioning the plan won the right for any of the 27 members of the bloc to veto it. They also refused to set December as a goal for completing negotiations, though they said they would try.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, who led the assault on the package, said: “We don’t think this is the moment to push forward on our own like Don Quixote. We have time.”

Indeed. The pursuit of destructive green policies was always Quixotic in many ways. The real goal of the green movement isn’t a cleaner planet but the “Re-Wilding” of the world. Re-Wilding is a sort of Anarcho-primitivism where those suffering the ennui of modern life romanticize and adopt what they perceive to be as a more sustainable “primitive” lifestyle. Similar to historical trekkers or people (like myself) who practice “traditional” skills, the Re-Wilders differ in their desire for the collapse of industrialized society despite the millions of deaths such a thing would cause.

Greens want the world to end, thus their destructive policies. It is telling that in Europe it took a global financial crisis to make politicians admit that those policies were bad for their countries.

Opec Panics as Oil Drops to $70 a Barrel

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From the Financial Times:

Opec on Thursday brought forward to next week an emergency meeting to consider a cut in production after oil prices dropped to less than $70 a barrel for the first time in more than a year on worries about a global recession.

The move coincided with fresh calls from those countries within the oil producing cartel that are heavily dependent on oil revenues for their budgets – most notably Iran, the organisation’s perennial hawk – to cut output. Ecuador and Qatar also supported slashing production.

Even Saudi Arabia, the cartel’s most powerful member, which initially opposed the 500,000 barrel a day cut announced last month and is close to the US, appears to be in agreement that the group needs to reduce its production.

The kingdom, which boosted its output by far more than any other Opec member when prices were high and supply was struggling to keep up with demand, has already cut some shipments, according to ship tracking data.

Opec had said that it would need to pump about 31.3m barrels a day in the first quarter of next year to balance the market, well below its current output of 32.2m b/d, suggesting that the cartel sees a need to cut output by almost 1m b/d.

Ben Dell, of Sanford C. Bernstein a New York research firm, said Opec would need to make an additional cut of 1m barrels a day in order to avoid a glut in the market in 2009.

“Such a large cut in production is only likely to come from Saudi Arabia as the other Opec members are levered to higher oil prices in order to maintain their spending programmes,” said Mr Dell in a report.

The meeting will be the biggest test in more than a decade of Opec’s resolve and power to form a cohesive unit to stop tumbling oil prices.

The group will have to act decisively in its round of cuts because otherwise it runs the risk of pushing down prices even further as traders write it off as toothless.

Opec’s decision to meet next Friday came after investors sold commodities en masse amid worries that the credit crunch had mutated into a global toxic economic crisis that would damp demand for raw materials.

In its monthly report, the cartel said that even if governments were successful in unfreezing credit markets in the near future, “the fallout on the real economy from the financial market headwinds is expected to be ­considerable”.

Looks like things are tough all over. And OPEC is looking to keep them tough for the rest of us.

Obama Supported Legislation That Would Have Allowed State Police to Raid Homes and Confiscate Legally Obtained Firearms!

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Theres a letter being circulated by the Illinois State Rifle Association that exposes Obama as a gun grabbing fascist whose policies sound more luike an Alex Jones fever dream than what an American would support:

Fellow Sportsman,

Hello, my name is Rich Pearson and I have been active in the firearm rights movement for over 40 years. For the past 15 years, I have served in the Illinois state capitol as the chief lobbyist for the Illinois State Rifle Association.

I lobbied Barack Obama extensively while he was an Illinois State Senator. As a result of that experience, I know Obama’s attitudes toward guns and gun owners better than anyone. The truth be told, in all my years in the Capitol I have never met a legislator who harbors more contempt for the law-abiding firearm owner than does Barack Obama.

Although Obama claims to be an advocate for the 2nd Amendment, his voting record in the Illinois Senate paints a very different picture. While a state senator, Obama voted for a bill that would ban nearly every hunting rifle, shotgun and target rifle owned by Illinois citizens. That same bill would authorize the state police to raid homes of gun owners to forcibly confiscate banned guns. Obama supported a bill that would shut down law-abiding firearm manufacturers including Springfield Armory, Armalite, Rock River Arms and Les Baer. Obama also voted for a bill that would prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one gun per month.

Without a doubt, Barack Obama has proven himself to be an enemy of the law abiding firearm owner. At the same time, Obama has proven himself to be a friend to the hardened criminal. While a state senator, Obama voted 4 times against legislation that would allow a homeowner to use a firearm in defense of home and family.

Does Barack Obama still sound to you like a “friend” of the law-abiding gun owner?

And speaking of friends, you can always tell a person by the company they keep. Obama counts among his friends the Rev. Michael Pfleger – a renegade Chicago priest who has openly called for the murder of gun shop owners and pro-gun legislators. Then there is his buddy Richard Daley, the mayor of Chicago who has declared that if it were up to him, nobody would be allowed to own a gun. And let’s not forget Obama’s pal George Soros – the guy who has pumped millions of dollars into the UN’s international effort to disarm law-abiding citizens.

Obama has shown that he is more than willing to use other people’s money to fund his campaign to take your guns away from you. While a board member of the leftist Joyce Foundation, Barack Obama wrote checks for tens of millions of dollars to extremist gun control organizations such as the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Violence Policy Center.

Does Barack Obama still sound to you like a “friend” of the law-abiding gun owner?

By now, I’m sure that many of you have received mailings from an organization called “American Hunters and Shooters Association(AHSA)” talking about what a swell fellow Obama is and how he honors the 2nd Amendment and how you will never have to worry about Obama coming to take your guns. Let me make it perfectly clear – everything the AHSA says about Obama is pure hogwash. The AHSA is headed by a group of left-wing elitists who subscribe to the British view of hunting and shooting. That is, a state of affairs where hunting and shooting are reserved for the wealthy upper-crust who can afford guided hunts on exclusive private reserves. The AHSA is not your friend, never will be.

In closing, I’d like to remind you that I’m a guy who has actually gone nose to nose with Obama on gun rights issues. The Obama I know cannot even begin to identify with this nation’s outdoor traditions. The Obama I know sees you, the law abiding gun owner, as nothing but a low-class lummox who is easily swayed by the flash of a smile and a ration of rosy rhetoric. The Obama I know is a stony-faced liar who has honed his skill at getting what he wants – so long as people are willing to give it to him.

That’s the Barack Obama I know.

Hmmm. Weren’t there were other charismatic leaders with their own civilian national security force who banned guns? How did that work out?

Secret Service: Liberals Lied About “Kill Him” Comment at Palin Rally

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Shocking I tell you. The left in America are known for their fairness and even temperament. From the TimesLeader.com:

SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.

The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Obama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him.”

News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.

Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.

“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.

He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.

Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”

“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”

In law enforcement circles if you can’t “back up the story” the assumption is that you’re lying. I think reporter David Singleton has some explaining to do.

Ed Morrissey adds motive to what seems like an outright case of a reporter lying about what happened:

This was deemed so damaging to Republicans that Barack Obama mentioned it in last night’s debate. However, only Singleton managed to hear it in a crowd of thousands. The newspaper says it will stand by its story, but the reporter never bothered to look around to get a description of the alleged offender, and never bothered to get confirmation from the many people standing around him at the time.

That’s not exactly a great piece of journalism, is it? And the Times-Tribune’s editors seem a little too credulous to run an allegation, even if witnessed by their reporter, without having him get at least a couple of bystanders to agree with his recollection. We can make the same criticism of the national media, who seemed so eager to paint McCain-Palin rallies as gatherings of Deliverance-style mutants to bother checking the quality of the report.

The easier to convince people to kill us of course.

Gateway Pundit is also on this story.

Liberals won’t care however, because the myth of a hateful Palin rally is easier to accept than the idea that people simply don’t agree with them on many important issues. Liberalism is secularized dark ages Christianity where to challenge with the orthodoxy makes you, in the Liberals mind, not just wrong but deliberately rejecting the Truth and thus evil. Tell a liberal raising taxes on large companies means they’ll raise prices on products and lay off workers and you’ll be accused of shilling for them and working against “the people” even if you’re just some guy running a few websites for a living. Tell that same liberal you support the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and you’re called a redneck or worse, despite often being much better educated. Support a candidate they don’t and they’ll try to destroy your business.

Be a woman who became successful and holds traditional values, the values Liberalism’s light was to burn away from we heathen masses, and you’ll find yourself on the butt end of a smear campaign where any lie about you, no matter how nonsensical (I’ve heard she’s a “witchhunter”) is taken as having to be true.

Years from now, despite the report by the Secret Service, some liberal will be lecturing Republicans about our hateful rallies, while studiously ignoring Liberal calls for Republicans to be put in camps. We are closer to civil war than we have been since the late 1800s and I only hope we on the right understand the threat this naked hatred and dementia represents and are prepared to fight to protect our homes and families. We Republicans have been been so vilified that violence against us is becoming increasingly common. If Obama wins, it will become public policy as his “civilian defense corp” takes to the streets SS-style and starts the pogrom all Liberals secretly wish would happen.