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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!</description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Iranian Protesters to Obama: "You're Either With Us or With Them" </title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/4049C474-668C-4D2D-8AFA-449AFC184EC8/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;      "I have made it clear that the United States of America wants to move beyond this past, and seeks a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Now the Iranian protesters know who the man is with.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Since we've never had a President who favored tyranny over liberty before, this appears to be uncharted territory for not only the protesters -- but the American citizenry as well. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/11/iranian-protesters-to-obama-youre.html" title="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/11/iranian-protesters-to-obama-youre.html"&gt;directorblue.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/iran-cracks-protesters-hostage-anniversary/story?id=8998930"&gt;ABC reports&lt;/A&gt;: Iranian protesters took to the streets today as they do every Nov. 4 to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover. But this year, opponents of the Iranian regime used the government sanctioned day of street demonstrations to challenge the hard line administration. While supporters of the regime led chants of "death to America," crowds nearby shouted "death to the dictator," a veiled reference to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his political ally, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/69BA6382-42BB-457C-8F81-D77D87DB5329.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;And &lt;A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC5IlZCb9Do"&gt;via this video report&lt;/A&gt;, &lt;B&gt;CNN adds the protestors had a direct message for America's president too: "You're Either With Us or With Them"&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Meanwhile, somewhere on another planet, a pointy-eared man with a peculiar name had this to say about the takeover by Iranian militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: "This event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust and confrontation," he said in his statement. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ahmadinejad/" rel="tag"&gt;ahmadinejad&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ayatollah+ali+khamenei/" rel="tag"&gt;ayatollah ali khamenei&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/challenge+hard+line+administration/" rel="tag"&gt;challenge hard line administration&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iranian+protesters/" rel="tag"&gt;iranian protesters&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/street+demonstrations/" rel="tag"&gt;street demonstrations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/11/iranian-protesters-to-obama-youre.html</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:30:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title> TenSION</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/23971492-52A3-40BD-8C11-FC255B5E8F61/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Obama On Iran: "I''m Not Interested in Victory" &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD6nMxYcmjE&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD6nMxYcmjE&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;H/T Gateway Pundit&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;HotAirpundit  Well done Chip Reid  You showed the President's hand&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;    Reid: Thank you Mr. President, you just mentioned sanctions that have bite, what kinds of sanction, and I know you can't get into details but what kind of sanctions at all would have bite with Iran, do you really think that any kind of sanctions would have any effect on somebody like Ahmadinejad, secondly some of your advisers today said that this announcement was a victory, do you consider it a victory and if so why didn't you announce it earlier since you have known since you were President elect?..&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Obama flustered by the question,&lt;br/&gt;"I'm not interested in victory, I'm interested in solving the problem"&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Clearly, today is a big smokescreen, he doesn't wanna come across as "America good, Iran bad," the global citizen is all talk here, we're not going to do anything &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://powip.com/2009/10/tension/" title="http://powip.com/2009/10/tension/"&gt;powip.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;UPDATE: Bingley says, and probably quite rightly, that I shouldn’t use a pic of this solemn ceremony to score “cheap points,” but I believe this is Obama’s way of saying McChrystal isn’t getting his 40k troops for Afghanistan.  Obama said he &lt;A href="http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/09/obama-on-nuclear-conflict-with-iran-im-not-interested-in-victory-video/"&gt;wasn’t interested in victory over Iran on the nuclear issue&lt;/A&gt;, but I think he’s not much interested in victory at all, unless it’s against his perceived domestic enemies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/AEA4DB8B-1D6B-4146-BA0C-0EF476275DC1.jpg" alt="obama dover" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;UPDATE x2: &lt;A href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/147172"&gt;Peter Wehner agrees with Bingley&lt;/A&gt;.  I’m sure I feel bitter because I don’t want their sacrifice to be in vain.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/0bamas+dover+photo-op/" rel="tag"&gt;0bamas dover photo-op&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/fallen+service+members/" rel="tag"&gt;fallen service members&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/general+mcchrystal/" rel="tag"&gt;general mcchrystal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/troop+reinforcements/" rel="tag"&gt;troop reinforcements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://powip.com/2009/10/tension/</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:31:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title> One Other Thought</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/75FDC5A3-5D2B-4907-BC37-09F60A6C590E/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  I know the pundits are all saying this means people will have to take him seriously and go along with the hopey peace thing. OK, only the sap pundits are saying that, but still …&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Mickey Kaus &lt;i&gt;has a point&lt;/i&gt;. Maybe he should turn it down. Before he’s stuck with it, and its stuck all over him.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/10/09/what-obama-should-do-with-his-nobel-peace-prize.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/kausfiles/archive/2009/10/09/what-obama-should-do-with-his-nobel-peace-prize.aspx&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/" title="http://www.julescrittenden.com/"&gt;www.julescrittenden.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H3 id="post-18409"&gt;&lt;A title="Peace In Our Time" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/10/09/peace-in-our-time-3/"&gt;Peace In Our Time&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/world/10nobel.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss"&gt;This&lt;/A&gt; takes a lot of the heat off. The big question is, who nominated him. Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Mullah Omar?   &lt;A class="more-link" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/10/09/peace-in-our-time-3/#more-18409"&gt;(more…)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H3 id="post-18443"&gt;&lt;A title="One Other Thought" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/10/09/one-other-thought/"&gt;One Other Thought&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;They popped it on a Friday, the traditional graveyard of embarrassing news.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Does that mean they hoped &lt;A href="http://www.memeorandum.com/091009/p10#a091009p10"&gt;no one would notice&lt;/A&gt; that they just taped a big “Kick Me” sign on his behind? I bet these guys noticed:   &lt;A class="more-link" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/10/09/one-other-thought/#more-18443"&gt;(more…)&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/10/09/one-other-thought/" title="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/10/09/one-other-thought/"&gt;www.julescrittenden.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/AFD3B422-B74D-47C8-861C-964307AE75E5.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/9B146A4C-078B-45BB-A624-B9930FBECE26.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/D504D637-8ED5-4E35-B877-98EFC1A671C2.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/BC908369-C773-4E3E-AE72-1C4D1C3E6190.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/69830C73-38F7-42EA-8619-BA3340D38409.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/055C4197-0928-483D-A640-CAAD8CBFF593.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/6D02AEA7-A80D-485C-9889-3AB889103288.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/415D5E62-D856-41CD-8723-035BF14951DF.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;I could go on.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/" title="http://www.julescrittenden.com/"&gt;www.julescrittenden.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H3 id="post-18449"&gt;&lt;A title="OK, One More Thought" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/10/09/ok-one-more-thought/"&gt;OK, One More Thought&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;About President Barack Obama’s &lt;A href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/press.html"&gt;Nobel Peace Prize&lt;/A&gt;. It would be one thing if it was those &lt;A href="http://www.adl.org/Braun/dim_14_1_neutrality_europe.asp"&gt;money-grubbing, Nazi-collaborating … excuse me, neutral … Swedes&lt;/A&gt; who had awarded it. Can’t expect them to know the true value of peace.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;But the Norwegian Nobel Committee theoretically should be aware that peace and freedom &lt;A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_resistance_movement"&gt;do not grow on trees&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/0bama/" rel="tag"&gt;0bama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/moronocy/" rel="tag"&gt;moronocy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.julescrittenden.com/</clipSource><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:50:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb? </title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/1D2BC8DA-0DBC-44DD-B6BB-213B7E3E4C79/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  positions shifted. American and Israeli national-security players grudgingly accepted that they could tolerate Iran having some civilian nuclear-energy capacity. Ahmadinejad, Khamenei and the religious radicals wavered; then, as the model reached our present day, their power " another variable in Bueno de Mesquita’s model " sagged significantly.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Amid the thousands of rows on the spreadsheet, there’s one called Forecast. It consists of a single number that represents the most likely consensus of all the players. It begins at 160 " bomb-making territory " but by next year settles at 118, where it doesn’t move much. “That’s the outcome,” Bueno de Mesquita said confidently, tapping the screen.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;What does 118 mean? It means that Iran won’t make a nuclear bomb. By early 2010, according to the forecast, Iran will be at the brink of developing one, but then it will stop and go no further. If this computer model is right, all the dire portents we’ve seen in recent months . . . &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16Bruce-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine#" title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16Bruce-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine#"&gt;www.nytimes.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Many people wonder, but Bruce Bueno de Mesquita claims to have the answer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Bueno de Mesquita is one of the world’s most prominent applied game theorists.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;But among national-security types and corporate decision makers, he is even better known for his prognostications.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Since the early 1980s, &lt;A title="More articles about the Central Intelligence Agency." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/central_intelligence_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org"&gt;C.I.A.&lt;/A&gt; officials have hired him to perform more than a thousand predictions; a study by the C.I.A., now declassified, found that Bueno de Mesquita’s predictions “hit the bull’s-eye” twice as often as its own analysts did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;At the beginning of the simulation, the positions were what you would expect. The United States and Israel and most of Europe wanted Iran to have virtually no nuclear capacity, so their preferred outcomes were close to zero. In contrast, the Iranian hard-liners were aggressive. “This is not only ‘Build a bomb,’ ” Bueno de Mesquita said, characterizing their position. “It’s probably: ‘We should test a bomb.’ ”&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;But as the computer model ran forward in time, through 2009 and into 2010&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/applied+game+theory/" rel="tag"&gt;applied game theory&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bruce+bueno+de+mesquita/" rel="tag"&gt;bruce bueno de mesquita&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/central+intelligence+agency/" rel="tag"&gt;central intelligence agency&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/when+will+iran+build+the+bomb/" rel="tag"&gt;when will iran build the bomb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16Bruce-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=magazine#</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:14:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title> The Greatest Threat in the Middle East</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/AFEBE585-3720-43F1-B983-91D3A1B0AA67/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Dr. ElBaradei has long considered a confrontational strategy toward Iran to be counterproductive. Responding to calls for the report’s release, he has raised doubts about its completeness and reliability.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;ElBaradei’s non-confrontational approach likely explains today’s statement in Tehran that “Israel is the number one threat to the Middle East given the nuclear arms it possesses.” Because it’s much safer to verbally attack democratic nations like Israel than unpredictable authoritarian regimes like Iran.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;patterico's pontifications&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://patterico.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;http://patterico.com&lt;/a&gt;/ &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://patterico.com/2009/10/04/the-greatest-threat-in-the-middle-east/" title="http://patterico.com/2009/10/04/the-greatest-threat-in-the-middle-east/"&gt;patterico.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Iranian President Ahmadinejad has &lt;A href="http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/archive/2005-11/2005-11-04-voa1.cfm"&gt;repeatedly&lt;/A&gt; &lt;A href="http://www.iranfocus.com/en/iran-general-/iran-s-ahmadinejad-says-evil-israel-will-be-annihilated-07166.html"&gt;threatened&lt;/A&gt; to &lt;A href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983359.html"&gt;annihilate&lt;/A&gt; Israel and now UN nuclear agency experts have confirmed that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” &lt;A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/world/middleeast/05iran.html?_r=1&amp;partner=MYWAY&amp;ei=5065"&gt;atom bomb&lt;/A&gt;: &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;“Senior staff members of the United Nations nuclear agency have concluded in a confidential analysis that Iran has acquired “sufficient information to be able to design and produce a workable” atom bomb.&lt;BR /&gt;
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If Iran is designing a warhead, that would represent only part of the complex process of making nuclear arms. &lt;STRONG&gt;Experts say Iran has already mastered the hardest part, enriching the uranium that can be used as nuclear fuel.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;While the analysis represents the judgment of the nuclear agency’s senior staff, a struggle has erupted in recent months over whether to make it public. The dispute pits the agency’s departing director, Dr. ElBaradei, against his own staff and against foreign governments eager to intensify pressure on Iran.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/israel/" rel="tag"&gt;israel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/elbaradei/" rel="tag"&gt;elbaradei&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/international+atomic+energy+agency/" rel="tag"&gt;international atomic energy agency&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iranian+nuclear+bomb/" rel="tag"&gt;iranian nuclear bomb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/united+nations/" rel="tag"&gt;united nations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://patterico.com/2009/10/04/the-greatest-threat-in-the-middle-east/</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:28:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Smart Power! Results May Not Be The Same as Implied or Expected</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C8AAA171-A8EA-4641-8D1C-D98F017F59DE/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  That would be the same Mohammed El-Baradei that, you know, conveniently left out of the IAEA reports the part concerning Iran’s work on nuclear weapons; the same El-Baradei that considers himself a world peacemaker that’s doing God’s work!  This is the guy the administration is going to rely on to “coordinate the details” of the Qum inspection schedule and regimen?  This is the kind of Smart Power ! that’s guiding our nation’s most urgent and sensitive foreign policy actions; yet another example of the President’s Brilliance! and Judgement! perhaps?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It’s been observed by some of his opponents that all of Obama’s promises have an expiration date, but a few months ago nobody would have believed that the time period would become this short!  And I guess it’s safe to say that his proclamation that, “a nuclear Iran is unacceptable“, has expired too; after all, they’re just words …&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://powip.com/2009/10/smart-power-results-may-not-be-the-same-as-implied-or-expected/" title="http://powip.com/2009/10/smart-power-results-may-not-be-the-same-as-implied-or-expected/"&gt;powip.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;During the 2008campaign, Obama promised to meet with the leaders of Iran and North Korea, “without preconditions”.  And while much has been made about that promise, it seems that he forgot to tell the American people that he would also be happy to meet with them&lt;STRONG&gt;&lt;EM&gt;  without expecting any real results either&lt;/EM&gt; !  &lt;/STRONG&gt;I guess the moving goalpost disclaimer was in the fine print…&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/61401-state-dept-iran-inspection-deadline-not-qhard-and-fastq#"&gt;According to Tony Romm at “The Hill”&lt;/A&gt;:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;President Barack &lt;STRONG&gt;Obama first issued the tough two-week deadline&lt;/STRONG&gt; in a speech &lt;A href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/61217-obama-iran-meetings-constructive-beginning-two-weeks-allowed-for-nuclear-inspections"&gt;following Thursday’s meeting&lt;/A&gt;s between Iran and the P5+1, a coalition of British, Chinese, French, German, Russian and U.S. officials. At the time, &lt;STRONG&gt;Obama reiterated the U.S. approach to Iran’s nuclear program would be tough — especially so, he added, if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad failed to provide nuclear inspectors “unfettered access” to its uranium facilities&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;[emphasis-ed.]&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iran+nuclear+weapons/" rel="tag"&gt;iran nuclear weapons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/obama+coddles+americas+enemies/" rel="tag"&gt;obama coddles americas enemies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/promise+expiration+date/" rel="tag"&gt;promise expiration date&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/promises+expire/" rel="tag"&gt;promises expire&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/smart+power%2fweakness/" rel="tag"&gt;smart power/weakness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://powip.com/2009/10/smart-power-results-may-not-be-the-same-as-implied-or-expected/</clipSource><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:36:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Jewish Roots Revealed: "Heil Sabourjian!"</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8EFC0544-33DF-4D97-97C7-7CFCB0CFB589/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  The phenomenon of Jews denouncing other Jews and being their own worst critics (and I do mean worst) is a well known one, in history down to the present day -- whether it's those who profess to still identify with the faith, as with some members of Jewish Voice for Peace (most have long since substituted Marxism for their religion and simply live off genetics), those whose parents converted (as with Marx), or those who converted out themselves and now prove their bona fides by trashing their former co-religionists.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;One thing's for sure, this is just more proof that there's something about those Jews -- always prime movers on every side of world-historical events and movements. In fact, maybe that's it! Ahmadinejad (nee Sabourjian) is just a ZIonist under deep cover, agitating for a war to bring about Iran's ultimate defeat and the massive expansion of Greater Israel's borders. Think about it, fever swampers.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The title of course refers to the fact that Adolf Hitler's . . . &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/10/mahmoud-ahmadinejads-jewish-roots-reveal/index.shtml" title="http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/10/mahmoud-ahmadinejads-jewish-roots-reveal/index.shtml"&gt;www.solomonia.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;No, not a joke. The Telegraph sounds pretty sure, actually. If true, the great Jew-hater of our generation is as Jewish as Karl Marx and a lot of other such people whose parents converted out of the faith -- actually &lt;EM&gt;more&lt;/EM&gt; Jewish than Marx, since Mahmoud was actually born a Jew. As the article says, this explains much: &lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6256173/Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-revealed-to-have-Jewish-past.html"&gt;Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card during elections in March 2008 clearly shows his family has Jewish roots.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;A close-up of the document reveals he was previously known as Sabourjian - a Jewish name meaning cloth weaver. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/73CBF7E2-2530-4B58-A9C4-D30109C5F841.jpg" alt="ahmadinejad.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;The Sabourjians traditionally hail from Aradan, Mr Ahmadinejad's birthplace, and the name derives from "weaver of the Sabour", the name for the Jewish Tallit shawl in Persia. The name is even on the list of reserved names for Iranian Jews compiled by Iran's Ministry of the Interior.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Update: Here's a scan of the Telegraph print edition which has a closer-up view of the document:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/312121BB-73DC-4D6C-8CBC-BF802B54C4A1.jpg" alt="ahmadinejadjewtelegraph.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Video]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ahmadinejad's+jewish+roots-sabourjian/" rel="tag"&gt;ahmadinejad's jewish roots-sabourjian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/hitler's+jewish+roots/" rel="tag"&gt;hitler's jewish roots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2009/10/mahmoud-ahmadinejads-jewish-roots-reveal/index.shtml</clipSource><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:18:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama's Move: Iran and Afghanistan</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/6CABD58E-BB77-41CE-8B07-37F1B35C83E4/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  United States between April and September. In his speech to the Islamic world from Cairo, he planned to show a desire not only to find common ground, but also to acknowledge shortcomings in U.S. policy in the region. With the appointment of special envoys George Mitchell (for Israel and the Palestinian territories) and Richard Holbrooke (for Pakistan and Afghanistan), Obama sought to build on his opening to the Islamic world with intense diplomatic activity designed to reshape regional relationships.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It can be argued that the Islamic masses responded positively to Obama’s opening " it has been asserted to be so and we will accept this " but the diplomatic mission did not solve the core problem. Mitchell could not get the Israelis to move on the settlement issue, and while Holbrooke appears to have made some headway on increasing Pakistan’s aggressiveness toward the Taliban, no fundamental shift has occurred in the Afghan war.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090928_obamas_move_iran_and_afghanistan?utm_source=GWeeklyS&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=090928&amp;utm_content=readmore" title="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090928_obamas_move_iran_and_afghanistan?utm_source=GWeeklyS&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=090928&amp;utm_content=readmore"&gt;www.stratfor.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/foreign_policy_and_presidents_irrelevance"&gt;We are never impressed with campaign positions&lt;/A&gt;, or with the failure of the victorious candidate to live up to them. That’s the way American politics work. But in this case, these promises have created a dual crisis that Obama must make decisions about now. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;H3&gt;Iran&lt;/H3&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Back in April, in the midst of the financial crisis, Obama reached an agreement at the G-8 meeting that &lt;A target="_blank" href="http://www.stratfor.com/geopolitical_diary/20090408_geopolitical_diary"&gt;the Iranians would have until Sept. 24 and the G-20 meeting to engage in meaningful talks&lt;/A&gt; with the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany (P-5+1) or face intensely increased sanctions. His administration was quite new at the time, so the amount of thought behind this remains unclear. On one level, the financial crisis was so intense and September so far away that Obama and his team probably saw this as a means to delay a secondary matter while more important fires were flaring up. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;But there was more operating than that. Obama intended to try to bridge the gap between the Islamic world and the &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ahmadinejad-unrest+after+election/" rel="tag"&gt;ahmadinejad-unrest after election&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sarkozy+%26+brown/" rel="tag"&gt;sarkozy &amp; brown&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/g-20+summit/" rel="tag"&gt;g-20 summit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/george+mitchell+%26+richard+holbrooke/" rel="tag"&gt;george mitchell &amp; richard holbrooke&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/moscow+%26+beijing/" rel="tag"&gt;moscow &amp; beijing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/u.n.+security+council+speech/" rel="tag"&gt;u.n. security council speech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090928_obamas_move_iran_and_afghanistan?utm_source=GWeeklyS&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=090928&amp;utm_content=readmore</clipSource><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:57:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama On Nuclear Conflict With Iran: "I'm Not Interested In Victory" (Video)</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C26EB1BA-E574-4365-93C7-E3879813E1EA/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Obama At The G-20  On Iran: "I'm Not Interested In Victory"&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Oh yes he did say it, first of all, Obama gets hit with a very good question from CBS's Chip Reid&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Well done Chip Reid....You showed the President's hand...&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Reid: Thank you Mr. President, you just mentioned sanctions that have bite, what kinds of sanction, and I know you can't get into details but what kind of sanctions at all would have bite with Iran, do you really think that any kind of sanctions would have any effect on somebody like Ahmadinejad, secondly some of your advisers today said that this announcement was a victory, do you consider it a victory and if so why didn't you announce it earlier since you have known since you were President elect?..&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Obama flustered by the question,&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;"I'm not interested in victory, I'm interested in solving the problem"&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Clearly, today is a big smokescreen, he doesn't wanna come across as "America good, Iran bad," the global citizen is all talk here, we're not going to do  &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-on-nuclear-conflict-with-iran-im.html" title="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-on-nuclear-conflict-with-iran-im.html"&gt;gatewaypundit.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Come again?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;What kind of a radical crackpot did we elect?&lt;BR /&gt;Obama tells reporters at G20 Meeting-- "I'm not interested in victory."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;[Video]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;A href="http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-at-g-20-on-iran-im-not-interested.html"&gt;HotAirpundit&lt;/A&gt; has the transcript.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Today's tip: Buy stock in bomb shelters.
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&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/0bama/" rel="tag"&gt;0bama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iran's+highly+enriched+uranium/" rel="tag"&gt;iran's highly enriched uranium&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-on-nuclear-conflict-with-iran-im.html</clipSource><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:24:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title> The Iran Attack Plan </title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/F225C2A9-5708-4CC3-9FF7-4518C2F644EE/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Israel would have to contend with the fact that it has consistently had a "red light" from both the Bush and Obama administrations opposing such strikes. Any strike that overflew Arab territory or attacked a fellow Islamic state would stir the ire of neighboring Arab states, as well as Russia, China and several European states.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;No one knows what specialized weapons Israel may have developed on its own, but Israeli intelligence has probably given Israel good access to U.S., European, and Russian designs for more advanced weapons than the GBU-28. Therefore, the odds are that Israel can have a serious impact on Iran's three most visible nuclear targets and possibly delay Iran's efforts for several years.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The story is very different, however, when it comes to destroying the full range of Iranian capabilities. There are no meaningful unclassified estimates of Iran's total mix of nuclear facilities, but known unclassified research, reactor, and centrifuge facilities number . . . &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574418813806271306.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1&amp;" title="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574418813806271306.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1&amp;"&gt;online.wsj.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned at the United Nations this week that "the most urgent challenge facing this body is to prevent the tyrants of Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt; Just Friday, Iran confirmed that it has been developing a second uranium-enrichment facility on a military base near Qom, doing little to dispel the long-standing concerns of Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, and the U.S. that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/74C5D8ED-408B-4E72-B210-43274F1B3583.jpg" alt="Cover_Main" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/0E148C93-F0AF-4A78-8103-A38351F7F07C.jpg" alt="Cover_Bottom" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Anyone who meets regularly with senior Israeli officials, officers and experts knows that Israel is considering military options, but considering them carefully and with an understanding that they pose serious problems and risks.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;One of the fundamental problems dogging Israel, especially concerning short-ranged fighters and fighter-bombers, is distance. Iran's potential targets are between 950 and 1,400 miles from Israel, the far margin of the ranges Israeli fighters can reach, even with aerial refueling.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/5761D39A-89E2-4BB3-BD1C-F23377B84ECF.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Isfahan Uranium Conversion&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/4D282A59-6427-4CBD-8D17-2C8DBF794308.jpg" alt="Iran_Isfahan" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/israel/" rel="tag"&gt;israel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/nuclear+iran/" rel="tag"&gt;nuclear iran&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/prime+minister+netanyahu/" rel="tag"&gt;prime minister netanyahu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ahmadinejad/" rel="tag"&gt;ahmadinejad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204518504574418813806271306.html?mod=igoogle_wsj_gadgv1&amp;</clipSource><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:36:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Obama: From Savior to Leftist Windbag in Nine Months</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5D1C6BA6-86CF-4FEB-AE5B-5955C7AA6444/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Hugo Chavez got a big round of American-hating applause when he said “it doesn’t smell like sulfur in here anymore” in reference to President Bush whom he had previously referred to as the devil.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Words are cheap and Obama used a whole lot of them to promote his socialist-light agenda to the nation last year. There might not be much in the ways of original ideas floating around in his head - just a collection of discarded Democrat lost causes from the past half century or so -&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Obama has convinced himself that as a man of destiny he doesn’t have to bother with trivial matters like telling the truth or keeping his word. In an effort to sell healthcare reform to the nation that it doesn’t want, Obama habitually plays fast and loose with the truth. It’s gotten to the point where he can barely speak on the subject for longer than a few minutes without someone wanting to cough up the word “liar” in the background, just like Rep. Joe Wilson did last week.&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15138" title="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15138"&gt;canadafreepress.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Obama was at the UN this week calling for his &lt;SPAN class="IL_LINK_STYLE"&gt;brave new world&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;, but in reality no one is listening … unless of course you count his bashing of Israel, a universal UN message if there ever was one. During his opening speech, Obama reminded the world that he “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israel settlements.” Fortunately, the Israelis are starting to tune him out like everybody else. Prime Minister Netanyahu complemented the President for his “unequivocal” support for the &lt;SPAN class="IL_LINK_STYLE"&gt;state of Israel&lt;/SPAN&gt; and completely ignored Obama’s questioning of the settlements. &lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Soon after Obama spoke Libyan dictator Gaddafi took the stage to blame Israel for JFK’s assassination, amongst other crazy talk. Iranian dictator Mahmoud “Bloodbath” Ahmadinejad extolled the importance of free elections - the same man who stole an election only a few months earlier and is still jailing and murdering his political opponents to this very day. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/0bamas+promises/" rel="tag"&gt;0bamas promises&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/becoming+alibis_and%2for+lies/" rel="tag"&gt;becoming alibis_and/or lies&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/pompous+windbag/" rel="tag"&gt;pompous windbag&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15138</clipSource><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:32:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>United Nations; Trade Union &amp; Social Club For Tin Pot Tyrants by Mark Steyn</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/CE0E8D4D-E13C-4ED4-906E-EEA458BAADED/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  which of them is more unreal. To be sure, Colonel Qaddafi peddled his thoughts on the laboratory origins of “swine flu” and the Zionist plot behind the Kennedy assassination. But, on the other hand, President Obama said: “No nation can or should try to dominate another nation.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Pardon me? Did a professional speechwriter write that? Or did you outsource it to a starry-eyed runner-up in the Miss America pageant? Whether or not any nation “should try” to dominate another, they certainly “can,” and do so with effortless ease, all over the planet and throughout human history.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;And how about this passage?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;“I have been in office for just nine months " though some days it seems a lot longer. I am well aware of the expectations that accompany my presidency around the world. These expectations are not about me. Rather, they are rooted, I believe, in a discontent with a status quo that has allowed us to be increasingly defined by our differences . . . ”&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjdjNjhkOTI1NDBhNGY4MzJjMGUxYmYzYjM4N2NiMjE=" title="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjdjNjhkOTI1NDBhNGY4MzJjMGUxYmYzYjM4N2NiMjE="&gt;article.nationalreview.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;SPAN class="drop"&gt;H&lt;/SPAN&gt;alf a decade or so back, I wrote:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt; “It&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;’&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog feces and mix ’em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That’s the problem with the U.N.”&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;When you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn’t that they'll meet each other half-way but that the free world winds up going three-quarters, seven-eighths of the way. That’s what happened in New York last week. Barack Obama is not to blame for whichever vagary of United Nations protocol resulted in the president of the United States being the warm-up act for the Lunatic-for-Life in charge of Libya. But it is a pitiful reflection upon the state of the last superpower that, when it comes to the transnational mush drooled by the leader of the free world or the conspiracist ramblings of a terrorist pseudo-Bedouin running a one-man psycho-cult of a basket-case state, it’s more or less a toss-up as to &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/barack+obama/" rel="tag"&gt;barack obama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/colonel+qaddafi/" rel="tag"&gt;colonel qaddafi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/iran/" rel="tag"&gt;iran&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/north+korea/" rel="tag"&gt;north korea&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/president+ahmadinejad/" rel="tag"&gt;president ahmadinejad&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/prime+minister+benjamin+netanyahu/" rel="tag"&gt;prime minister benjamin netanyahu&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/saudi+arabia/" rel="tag"&gt;saudi arabia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sudan/" rel="tag"&gt;sudan&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/united+nations/" rel="tag"&gt;united nations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/venezuela/" rel="tag"&gt;venezuela&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjdjNjhkOTI1NDBhNGY4MzJjMGUxYmYzYjM4N2NiMjE=</clipSource><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:21:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>PM Netanyahu's Address to The Nations </title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/478FE3A1-16EA-48A0-9214-0947A7EE6B85/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Here is a copy of those minutes, in which the Nazis issued precise instructions on how to carry out the extermination of the Jews. Is this a lie?&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A day before I was in Wannsee, I was given in Berlin the original construction plans for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Those plans are signed by Hitler's deputy, Heinrich Himmler himself. Here is a copy of the plans for Auschwitz-Birkenau, where one million Jews were murdered. Is this too a lie?&lt;br/&gt;This June, President Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp. Did President Obama pay tribute to a lie?&lt;br/&gt;And what of the Auschwitz survivors whose arms still bear the tattooed numbers branded on them by the Nazis? Are those tattoos a lie? One-third of all Jews perished in the conflagration. Nearly every Jewish family was affected, including my own. My wife's grandparents, her father's two sisters and three brothers, and all the aunts, uncles and cousins were all murdered by the Nazis. Is that also a lie?&lt;br/&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/PMSpeaks/speechUN240909.htm" title="http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/PMSpeaks/speechUN240909.htm"&gt;www.pmo.gov.il&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/EB9B6F3A-0BF7-49A5-B8AC-DEA701B1EAB8.jpg" alt="Homepage" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/09/pm-netanyahus-address-to-nations.html" title="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2009/09/pm-netanyahus-address-to-nations.html"&gt;directorblue.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;The highlights of &lt;I&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/PMSpeaks/speechUN240909.htm"&gt;PM Netanyahu’s Speech at the UN General Assembly&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/I&gt;:&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen,&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;Nearly 62 years ago, the United Nations recognized the right of the Jews, an ancient people 3,500 years-old, to a state of their own in their ancestral homeland... The United Nations was founded after the carnage of World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust. It was charged with preventing the recurrence of such horrendous events.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;A href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SrwYSXiHKsI/AAAAAAAAWLE/KckKgcN58SQ/s1600-h/090924-un-ahmad.jpg"&gt;&lt;IMG border="1" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385205958262074050" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_orkXxp0bhEA/SrwYSXiHKsI/AAAAAAAAWLE/KckKgcN58SQ/s400/090924-un-ahmad.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/A&gt;Nothing has undermined that central mission more than the systematic assault on the truth. Yesterday the President of Iran stood at this very podium, spewing his latest anti-Semitic rants. Just a few days earlier, he again claimed that the Holocaust is a lie.&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Last month, I went to a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee. There, on January 20, 1942, after a hearty meal, senior Nazi officials met and decided how to exterminate the Jewish people. The detailed minutes of that meeting have been preserved by successive German governments.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/prime+minister+netanyahu+speech/" rel="tag"&gt;prime minister netanyahu speech&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/at+the+un+general+assembly/" rel="tag"&gt;at the un general assembly&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/ahmadinejad+%40united+nations/" rel="tag"&gt;ahmadinejad @united nations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/PMSpeaks/speechUN240909.htm</clipSource><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:30:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The UN Loves Barack Obama Because He Is Weak</title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/674ED433-178B-4A85-8739-9BAE10B40E05/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Not convinced about that last “seething with anti-Americanism” line, though. I think the world actually loves America. That’s why the world is all trying to get here. The world just has a bit of an adolescent attitude toward America’s dad-like role in the world. . . I’d say it’s more the United Nations General Assembly that is seething with anti-Americanism. Get back on topic, Nile! OK, here we go:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;It is natural that much of the UN will embrace an American president who declines to offer strong American leadership. A president who engages dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez will naturally gain respect from the leaders of the more than 100 members of the United Nations who are currently designated as “partly free” or “not free” by respected watchdog Freedom House.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The UN is not a club of democracies - who still remain a minority within its membership " it is a vast melting pot of free societies, socialist regimes and outright tyrannies.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/09/23/truth-hertz-donut-2/" title="http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/09/23/truth-hertz-donut-2/"&gt;www.julescrittenden.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Today’s bitter breakfast compliments of Nile Gardiner, &lt;A href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6221379/The-UN-loves-Barack-Obama-because-he-is-weak.html"&gt;UK Telegraph&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The latest Pew Global Attitudes Survey of international confidence in Obama’s leadership on foreign affairs shows strikingly high approval levels for the president in many parts of the world –&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;The Pew survey of 21 countries reveals an average level of 71 percent support for President Obama, compared to just 17 percent for George W. Bush in 2008.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits the president at Turtle Bay. Obama’s popularity at the UN boils down essentially to his willingness to downplay American global power.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;– ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do to atone for your country. This is a message that goes down very well in a world that is still seething with anti-Americanism.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;Ouchie ouchie. No one fries up breakfast like the Brits. Damn, I love the Telegraph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;That little corner of Fleet Street that will be forever England.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/0bama/" rel="tag"&gt;0bama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/anti-american+despots/" rel="tag"&gt;anti-american despots&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/appeasing+iran/" rel="tag"&gt;appeasing iran&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/bullying+israel/" rel="tag"&gt;bullying israel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/climate+change+deal/" rel="tag"&gt;climate change deal&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/siding+w%2f+honduran+marxists/" rel="tag"&gt;siding w/ honduran marxists&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/surrender+to+moscow/" rel="tag"&gt;surrender to moscow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/united+nations/" rel="tag"&gt;united nations&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.julescrittenden.com/2009/09/23/truth-hertz-donut-2/</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:20:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Evil Ahmadinejad in Denial as He Discusses 'democratic' Iran at UN  </title><link>http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/C09FFA74-EE78-4C4F-A70F-4CF8E134C1DE/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;clipped by:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/merrie/"&gt;merrie&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;clipper's remarks:&lt;/b&gt;  Those who stayed had to all but stifle their laughter when Ahmadinejad heralded Iran's recent "glorious and fully democratic election" - a contest that sparked massive street protests, which ended only after Ahmadinejad's thugs brutally beat and killed opponents.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;"I don't think I have sever seen a walkout of this magnitude," Walter Russell Mead of the conservative Hudson Institute told CNN after Ahmadinejad finished playing to the half-empty General Assembly hall. "It was a speech Adolf Hitler could have given."&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Outside UN headquarters, hundreds of Iranians picketed the Iranian strongman for much of the day.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;"He is not our voice. He is not our representative. We want him out of the UN," said Masomeh Ataey, 52, who traveled from Virginia to join hundreds of flag-waving protesters at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Ahmadinejad insisted his country is ready to shake all hands "that are honestly extended to us," which seemed to be an odd reversal on his comment Tuesday that he'd . . .  &lt;br&gt;&lt;div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"&gt;&lt;div style="background-color:#e5e5e5"&gt;&lt;div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;"&gt;Clip Source: &lt;a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/09/23/2009-09-23_ahmadinejad_talks_us_and_pals_walk.html" title="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/09/23/2009-09-23_ahmadinejad_talks_us_and_pals_walk.html"&gt;www.nydailynews.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/merrie/512/ABAC50DB-56E1-451E-A1DC-5A2472BB18B4.jpg" alt="Protesters against Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were in full force outside the UN." /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;Protesters against Iranian madman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were in full force outside the UN.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV class="art_img_lrg_credit"&gt;Samad/Getty&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;DIV class="art_sidebar"&gt;
                    

                    
                    
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			&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;Iranian madman &lt;A title="Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Mahmoud+Ahmadinejad"&gt;President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&lt;/A&gt; served up his usually fetid mix of anti-American, anti-Israeli rhetoric at the &lt;A title="United Nations" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/United+Nations"&gt;United Nations&lt;/A&gt; on Wednesday night - causing a steady stream of diplomatic walkouts.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;No one was at the &lt;A title="United States" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/United+States"&gt;U.S.&lt;/A&gt; desk when the tieless tyrant accused foreign forces of spreading "aggression, terror and intimidation" in &lt;A title="Afghanistan" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Afghanistan"&gt;Afghanistan&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A title="Iraq" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Iraq"&gt;Iraq&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A title="Israel" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Israel"&gt;Israel&lt;/A&gt; was nowhere to be seen when the loopy leader - who recently repeated his taunt that the Holocaust is "a lie" - inveighed against the Jewish state's "racist ambitions" toward Palestinians.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;hr size="2" color="#666666" /&gt;&lt;div style="padding: 10px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:left;"&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A title="France" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/France"&gt;France&lt;/A&gt; and &lt;A title="Canada" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Canada"&gt;Canada&lt;/A&gt; added to the parade of nations that chose to get up and leave rather than listen to the delusional diatribe.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/delusional+ahmadinejad/" rel="tag"&gt;delusional ahmadinejad&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/'democratic'+iran/" rel="tag"&gt;'democratic' iran&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/'adolf+hitler'/" rel="tag"&gt;'adolf hitler'&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/green+movement+protesters/" rel="tag"&gt;green movement protesters&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/united+nations/" rel="tag"&gt;united nations&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/apologist-in-chief/" rel="tag"&gt;apologist-in-chief&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/parade+of+dictators/" rel="tag"&gt;parade of dictators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><clipSource>http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/09/23/2009-09-23_ahmadinejad_talks_us_and_pals_walk.html</clipSource><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:01:58 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>