No 860 “En mi
opinión”
Febrero 5, 2015
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño EDITOR
Amenper: ¿Hay alguna vacuna para la falta de razonamiento?
Si hubiera alguna vacuna para la falta de razonamiento, habría que
determinara obligatoria para todo el que quiera entrar en la arena política.
Este asunto de las vacunas al que se le ha dado un matiz político, no tiene
nada que ver con la política aunque la izquierda quiera dárselo. Les gusta
decir que los republicanos son estúpidos, y esto es una buena ocasión, aunque
se trate de la salud de nuestros niños.
Es el deber del gobierno el velar por la salud pública, sobre todo en caso
de epidemia.
El Gobierno no puede "forzar" los padres a vacunar a los niños.
Pero desde siempre en los Estados imponen sanciones (por ejemplo, prohibir la
asistencia en las escuelas públicas) a aquellos que representan un riesgo para
la salud pública.
El negarse a vacunar a los hijos con las vacunas contra las enfermedades
infecciosas es un peligro en caso de epidemia.
Esto nos parece un uso legítimo del estado usando sus poderes conforme a la
Constitución. También es un sacrificio pequeño y razonable de libertad para
prevenir la infección potencialmente mortal de los niños que se confinan en
lugares como Disneyworld y en las escuelas.
Esto no es algo demócrata o republicano, lo es así bajo la presidencia de
Obama, y lo será bajo la administración del próximo presidente de los Estados
Unidos, Scott Walker, que ya ha dicho escuetamente que “claro que se deben
vacunar a los niños”.
Además el próximo secretario de salud bajo la administración de Walker, el
Dr. Ben Carson ha dicho lo siguiente:
Ben Carson, es un neurocirujano de fama mundial y conservador, fue inequívoco
cuando se trató el tema de las vacunas, dijo: Es un tema de seguridad pública y
los estadounidenses deben exigirse vacunar a sus hijos. "Cuando
tienes enfermedades que han demostrado ser reducidas o erradicados mediante la
vacunación, ¿por qué ni siquiera pensar en no hacerlo?"
Carson dijo esto ayer en una entrevista con NPR Tamara Keith.
Las vacunas tienen efectos secundarios, la mayoría de ellos menores y son
"tan raros que es difícil saber si son causados por la
vacuna".
Esto lo sabíamos en los años cincuenta cuando vacunamos a nuestros hijos
con la triple la DPT, para la difteria, Pertussis (tosferina) y tétano, pero
todos lo hicimos todos los pediátricos lo recomendaban, aunque algunos
preferían vacunarlos con vacunas individuales para no abrumar el sistema
inmunológico con tantas vacunas al mismo tiempo, esa es la libertad que tenemos
no el no vacunar.
Ninguno de mis hijos o nietos han tenido problema de autismo o deficiencia
mental por las vacunas, todos crecieron normalmente, son republicanos.
Aunque los demócratas ahora gritan que los republicanos no quieren que
vacunen a los niños, la realidad es que solamente dos llamados candidatos
republicanos han hecho algunas declaraciones que pudieran relacionarse con
esto. Uno es Chris Christie, que parece que el tejido adiposo hay
veces que se le pasa al cerebro y dice cosas un poco raras, pero ya su oficina
rectificó que eso no era lo que había querido decir que había sido lo que dijo.
(parece que los empleados de la oficina también tiene exceso de tejido adiposo
cerebral)
El otro es Rand Paul, que debiera saber lo que está hablando, pero parece
que el mojón libertario que tiene atravesado en el cerebro le hace poner por
delante su doctrina a la realidad, ya sea en este caso de las vacunas como su
aprobación a las relaciones con Irán y Cuba.
Ninguno de los candidatos republicanos serios ha expresado que los niños no
deben de ser vacunados.
Una ironía es que la ansiedad sobre la vacuna es más común en las
comunidades privilegiadas de la elite liberal.
Las escuelas de de Santa Mónica y Beverly Hills en California son las que
tienen de las tasas más bajas de inmunización están agrupadas en los reinos de
la sublimidad de alimentos orgánicos—yoga-meditación y medicina natural.
Estos usan la exenciones a la ley constitucional que aplican en la religión
y convicciones “filosóficas” para no vacunar a sus hijos
Sin lugar a dudas, también hay algunos que se llaman conservadores, aunque
a veces sin saberlo su filosofía realmente es libertaria, y consideran que los
padres no el gobierno son los “dueños" de sus hijos y que deben determinar
si se vacunan o no. Pero estamos hablando de la salud de los niños,
la salud y la vida del niño es la de una persona independiente de los padres
y/o del gobierno en cuanto a su vida o salud, lo es a cualquier edad durante la
niñez, y debiera también serlo antes de nacer.
Si pensáramos como los libertarios, y de hecho ellos piensan así, la madre
es la dueña de su cuerpo y puede matar a su hijo con el aborto, es su derecho
según esa manera de pensar.
Pero bueno, la ley permite que por razones filosóficas puedes impedir que
tus hijos se vacunen y que puedas matar a tus hijos en tu vientre también. Es
la ley de los hombres, y cada uno es libre de tener su manera de
pensar aunque también es esclavo de las consecuencias.
Amenper: Aprendiendo de David Hume
<<Afirmaciones extraordinarias, requieren pruebas
extraordinarias>>
Es rara vez que libertad de cualquier tipo se pierde todo a la vez.
La esclavitud es algo tan espantoso a los hombres acostumbrados a la
libertad que se le debe robar a ellos por grados y debe disfrazarse
en mil formas para poder ser recibida. David Hume
Este pensamiento de Hume, es algo que entendemos bien los que pasamos por
el proceso de implantación del comunismo en nuestra patria- Nosotros, los
cubanos, con nuestra costumbre dicharachera criolla, planteamos el mismo
el pensamiento que Hume, como "La revolución del callo" porque
paulatinamente como dice Hume las personas despertaban cuando le pisaban el
callo.
Pero ¿hemos aprendido? Hume también nos habla de nuestra mala
memoria o de nuestro poco entendimiento.
"Hemos dicho que todos los argumentos acerca de la existencia se
fundan en la relación causa-efecto, que nuestro conocimiento de esa relación se
deriva totalmente de la experiencia y que todas nuestras conclusiones
experimentales se dan a partir del supuesto de que el futuro será como ha sido
el pasado. Pero todo el mundo se queja de su mala memoria; nadie de su poco
entendimiento." David Hume
Los que hemos pasado por el proceso de la implantación del sistema
comunista, debiéramos por la experiencia del pasado conocer como sería el
futuro si volvemos al comunismo y como prevenirlo.
El hombre es un ser racional, y, en cuanto tal, recibe de la experiencia el
conocimiento de lo que podemos esperar de una causa y el efecto que este puede
traer.
Pero tan escaso es el alcance de la mente humana que poca satisfacción
puede esperarse en este punto, ni del grado de seguridad, ni de la extensión de
sus adquisiciones-. Y cuando, después, de buena gana descubrirían la trampa
para desengañar a la multitud engañada, el momento ha pasado y los testigos
que podrían aclarar el asunto han desaparecido irremediablemente o son
considerados como viejos que no comprenden la modernidad.
Hay dos metáforas que voy a mencionar que son corolarios del pensamiento de
Hume al principio de este escrito.
Una es que si nos ponen una zancadilla y nos caemos, debemos levantarnos y
seguir luchando. La otra es una metáfora sobre cómo se cocina una rana. Dice
que la rana no se debe poner en el agua caliente, porque saltará al recibir el
calor fuera de la cazuela, que se debe poner en agua fría que se calienta
paulatinamente hasta que se cocine sin darse cuenta.
Las metáforas son alegorías para dar una enseñanza, todas lucen sabias,
pero si las analizamos, muchas son falsas.
Estas dos son falsas, si nos ponen una zancadilla y nos caemos
quizás nos quebramos la cadera y no podemos levantarnos y hasta pudiéramos
convertirnos en paralíticos para el resto de nuestra vida, como le pasó al
pueblo de Cuba.
En el caso de la rana, en mi pueblo, la Sagua de la que algunos de ustedes
también son oriundos. había una empacadora de ancas de ranas. Tuve
la oportunidad de visitarla, y vi como en un tanque de agua hirviendo se
cocinaban las ranas. Le mencioné al dueño la metáfora de las ranas,
y se rió de mí.
Me dijo que eso del agua fría era inoperante, que las ranas morían
instantáneamente en el agua hirviendo.
Lo que nos pudieran enseñar estas metáforas es que tenemos que evitar que
nos pongan una zancadilla para no caer. En el caso de la rana, lo
que tiene que hacer la rana, es evitar ser capturada, porque si la agarran será
hervida sin remedio.
Lo que nos trae a la actualidad de la metodología del socialismo,
especialmente este socialismo del siglo XXI.
Tenemos un presidente que en cada discurso se nos vende que no es un
ideólogo, pero un pragmático que hace lo indicado para que trabaje mejor.
La realidad es que es un ideólogo socialista y que lo que hace no trabaja
para nosotros, pero para el avance del socialismo y lo hace disfrazando su
mensaje, como nos dice Hume.
Pero Obama no es más que un hombre, el problema no está en el hombre pero
en la ideología.
Obama desaparecerá de la presidencia en dos años. Lo que tenemos
que evitar para no caer, es que la ideología no continúe con el nuevo
presidente, esto es algo imperativo para nuestra supervivencia como
una sociedad libre..
En el pensamiento de Hume, él nos dice, una realidad que sentimos, el que
se acostumbra a la libertad le es espantoso el pensar en la esclavitud del
socialismo.
No vivimos en el socialismo todavía, hay libertades, hay democracia
representativa, las elecciones parciales nos lo han demostrado. La
sociedad americana no gusta del socialismo aunque parezca lo contrario cuando
leemos a la prensa tramitada.
Cualquier candidato opositor al partido que nos ha llevado por el camino al
socialismo tiene una buena oportunidad de ser electo, quizás por eso hay tantos
que quieren ser el candidato.
Es nuestro deber como personas con el entendimiento del pasado, el escoger
el mejor candidato.
Todos los aspirantes candidatos de la oposición advocan la libertad y
condenan al socialismo, y creo que son sinceros, aunque tengan versiones del
conservadurismo diferentes.
Debemos de seleccionar al mejor, pero si nuestro candidato favorito no es
el escogido en las primarias, es nuestro deber de votar por el candidato que
vaya contra el candidato socialista.
No podemos por una arrogancia suicida, el quedarnos en la casa el día de
las elecciones, porque pudiéramos no tener una casa en que quedarnos cuando se
celebren las próximas elecciones.
Alguien, que en mi cansada y gastada memoria no puedo recordar su nombre,
dijo que todo lo que tiene que hacer el mal para triunfar, es lograr que los
hombres buenos no hagan nada.
Las elecciones del 2016, ya se perfilan, como los juegos de exhibición y
entrenamiento de la pelota, comienzan desde ahora, es el momento de escoger
los mejores jugadores.
Pero las elecciones reales son en el 2016, y tenemos que ir considerando
las palabras de Hume de usar el entendimiento para después no tener que
lamentarnos de nuestra mala memoria.
Un voto de abstención en el 2016 es un voto a una candidata que puede
engañarnos como lo hizo Obama sobre su ideología socialista, pero que su
trayectoria la condena, fue y es una aventajada discípula del comunista
Alinski..
Un socialismo después del camino pavimentado que ha dejado estos 6 años de
progresión al socialismo, haría más fácil y rápida la trayectoria.
Vamos a prepararnos, vamos a estimular el intelecto que nos dio la
naturaleza, lo que no se usa se atrofia, vamos a usar el razonamiento por la
experiencia, vamos a ejecutar con el voto el producto de este razonamiento.
Amenper: Títulos
para muchos, Trabajos para pocos
Yo creo que la mayor parte de los que nos dijo Obama en su discurso del
Estado de la Nación, fueron más políticas que algo real, como dicen la gente,
lo que dijo no se lo creyó ni el mismo.
Pero hay algo que aunque es político, muchos piensan que está bien y es el
que la matrícula de los Junior Colleges sea gratis para que más puedan estudiar
o para que otros reciban cheques sin tener que trabajar haciéndose
profesionales del estudio por años, lo cual aumenta el dinero de la institución
y los salarios de los profesores liberales. ..
El problema que enfrenta la nación no es que haya pocas personas con los
títulos asociados de esas instituciones educacionales, al contrario el problema
es que no sólo los graduados con títulos asociados, pero los graduados de
Universidades de estudios superiores, están teniendo dificultades para
conseguir trabajo.
Entonces, me pregunto, ¿No es mejor tratar de beneficiar a las empresas que
crean empleos, que perjudicarlas para que haya más desempleados con las
regulaciones y los impuestos que las hacen cerrar o bajar su nómina? No
es mejor estimular a los creadores de empleos que imponerles impuestos para
subsidiar a personas para que reciban títulos que sólo le servirán para
guardarlos en el orificio de la sección glútea si no hay demanda para
obtener una posición con ese título.
¿Qué cosa es lo que yo no entiendo que entienden estos liberales? ¿Qué cosa
es lo que no entiendo sobre el superávit que veo de universitarios cuando
aplican en mi empresa para posiciones inferiores a sus calificaciones
académicas?
¿Qué es tan complicado es como para darse cuenta que el problema no es de
falta de personas con títulos pero falta de trabajos?
Hay personas que tienen títulos de Universidades superiores, esos por
lógica tienen la preferencia, después vienen los trabajadores especializados,
sin títulos, o con títulos de academias vocacionales, como plomeros,
albañiles, electricistas etc. Después los que tienen títulos de asociados
y que tienen ya experiencia en algunos trabajos. Lo que queda después se lo
tienen que repartir la nueva camada que saldrá de los Junior Colleges gratis
que serán bastantes por lo que por la ley de la oferta y la demanda tendrán el
salario que hoy en día reciben los graduados de High School.o un trabajador
común sin especialidad.
Me parece que esto no debe de ser difícil de razonar, Obama tiene que
saberlo, porque en las estadísticas de desempleo que él debe de recibir, si se
ocupa de leerlas, aparece el grado de desempleo según los estudios cursados, y
lo de lo que más se habla es de los graduados universitarios que no pueden
conseguir trabajo, cuanto más los de títulos de asociados.
¿Por qué esta idea revolucionariamente innecesaria en estos momentos?
¿Ignorancia? No lo creo. ¿Ganas de joder? Absolutamente, no veo otra
alternativa que pensar así.
No creo que este sea el último proyecto ni la última decisión ejecutiva que
veremos de Obama guiado por el poderoso incentivo de joder, de dejarnos jodidos
a los que quedaremos trabados con sus impuestos y regulaciones, y por el
poderoso incentivo de presentar la fantasía socialista de que ayuda a los más
necesitados, que es el gran benefactor de las minorías..
Cuando pasen algunos años y haya un derrame de personas con títulos
asociados, muchos graduados con sus títulos en la mano, quizás trabajando como
profesionales sanitarios (basureros) se den cuenta que salieron también jodidos
con el altruismo de Obama.
Amenper: Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is a poem by John Milton , 1608 -
1674
Milton had planned a great epic; and, as his
Latin poems show, had thought of something from the legends of the Bruts, or
stories of Britain, to match the Iliad and the Aeneid.
With topics ranging from poetry, fiction, drama
and essays to history, theology and political writing.
The book representing the fall of man and
the Angelic War over Heaven is recounted from different perspectives.
Satan's rebellion follows the epic convention of
large-scale warfare. The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's
forces take place over three days
However, the true nature of his role in the poem
has been the subject of much notoriety and scholarly debate. While some
scholars, like the critic and writer C. S. Lewis, interpret the poem as a
genuine Christian morality tale, other critics, view it as a more ambiguous
work, with Milton's complex characterization of Satan and his soldiers playing
a large part in that perceived ambiguity.
Milton shows example after example of people who
ignore the responsibilities. How they have and try to either raise themselves
above God or disobey God's commands. The result is always the same —
destruction.
Milton made references preoccupied by authority
and freedom, and how these ideals interact with God and religion. An original
act of disobedience and indifference, is responsible for bringing a new quality
in the world - in Paradise Lost it is sin, and neglect of man to confront
Satan, the result of the lost.
In the world we live today we are confronting a
new Satan, paradoxically (or premonition?) Milton represents Satan soldiers as
“Araby the Blest Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath’d”
He tell us about how facing the enemy with war
is the solution, and complacency eventually will be the end of our “paradise”
our way of life, the end of our moral values.
If we read Milton’s words looking at the world
today, the danger of the new armies of the new evil, we find a striking
similarity to the modern events.
Will we lose our paradise?
The following are excerpts from the Poem.
Their rising all at once was as the sound of thunder heard remote, on half
the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Sabean odours from the
spicy shore, of Araby the Blest Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath’d
And with necessity, the tyrant’s plea, excus’d his devilish deeds.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth, unseen, both when we wake
and when we sleep
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible, in dim
eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
My sentence is for open war, which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
Oft times nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
well manag’d
Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.
To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue, Dropp’d manna, and could
make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash maturest counsels, for who would
lose, though full of pain this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander
through eternity, to perish rather, swallow’d up and lost in the wide womb of
uncreated night? Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev’d.
The never-ending flight of future days, in discourse more sweet; for
eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.
Others apart sat on a hill retir’d, in thoughts more elevate,
and reason’d high, of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,
Fix’d fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in
wand’ring mazes lost.
Vain wisdom all and false philosophy
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?—thus leave thee, native soil, these happy
walks and shades?
So farewell hope?, and with hope farewell fear, farewell remorse; all good
to me is lost.
Evil, be thou my good?.
PUSSIFICATION: Peters, ‘My God, ISIS
Is Taking Over The Middle East, And Our President Can’t Even Say Islamist
Terror’
Col. Ralph Peters is kicking ass.
Why do you think BHO won’t say ‘Islamist Terror?’
Lt. Col. Allen West and Lt. Col Ralph Peters were on
“Hannity” tonight to sound off on a new video which shows ISIS militants
burning a Jordanian pilot alive.
The Associated Press reports that Jordan has just
executed two prisoners in response. http://clashdaily.com/2015/02/pussification-peters-god-isis-taking-middle-east-president-cant-even-say-islamist-terror/#
EYE FOR EYE: Jordan Executes Two ISIS
Jihadists in Dawn Hangings, Including Female Suicide Bomber
Jordan
retaliates against ISIS releasing horrifying video of pilot being burned to
death in cage.
Jordan has executed two
ISIS-linked prisoners, including a would-be female suicide bomber, it has been
revealed this morning.
The executions, at
about 4am local time today, came just hours after Islamic State militants
released a sickening video showing a captured Jordanian fighter pilot being
burned alive in a cage.
Jordan had vowed a
swift and lethal response and government officials this morning revealed that
two prisoners, Sajida al-Rishawi and Ziad al-Karbouli, have already been
hanged.
Al-Rishawi had been on
death row for her role in a triple hotel bombing in the Jordanian capital Amman
in 2005 that killed dozens.
The executions took
place after gruesome footage emerged showing Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh
being torched to death by his captors.
The chilling footage,
entitled ‘Healing the Believers’ Chests’, shows the captured airman wearing an
orange jumpsuit and seemingly doused in fuel as a trail of petrol leading up to
the iron bars of the cage is seen being set alight.
Flames are seen quickly
spreading across the dirt to the cage, where they completely engulf the helpless
pilot in images that are far too distressing to publish.
Extremists pour debris,
including broken masonry, over the cage, which is then flattened by a
bulldozer.
NBC's Brian Williams Fesses Up: His Helicopter
Wasn't Shot Down in Iraq
"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian
Williams is recanting his astonishing claim of being aboard a helicopter forced
down by a rocket-propelled grenade during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Stars and Stripes reports.
Television's leading anchor told the newspaper he'd incorrectly remembered the events and was sorry.
"I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams told Stars and Stripes. "I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."
Last Friday, Williams' breathtaking story of the downed-aircraft story came during NBC’s coverage of a public tribute at a New York Rangers hockey game for retired soldier Tim Terpak, who had provided security for the grounded helicopters.
Television's leading anchor told the newspaper he'd incorrectly remembered the events and was sorry.
"I would not have chosen to make this mistake," Williams told Stars and Stripes. "I don’t know what screwed up in my mind that caused me to conflate one aircraft with another."
Last Friday, Williams' breathtaking story of the downed-aircraft story came during NBC’s coverage of a public tribute at a New York Rangers hockey game for retired soldier Tim Terpak, who had provided security for the grounded helicopters.
"The story actually started with a
terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the
helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an
RPG," Williams reported.
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"Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded, and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry."
But crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that Williams was nowhere near that aircraft — or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that came under fire.
Instead, the newspaper reports, Williams arrived about an hour after the incident on another helicopter after the other three had already made their emergency landing, crew members told Stars and Stripes.
Williams' craft took no fire, landing beside the damaged craft ahead of a sandstorm from the Iraqi desert, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Miller told Stars and Stripes.
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"Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded, and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry."
But crew members on the 159th Aviation Regiment’s Chinook hit by two rockets and small arms fire told Stars and Stripes that Williams was nowhere near that aircraft — or two other Chinooks flying in the formation that came under fire.
Instead, the newspaper reports, Williams arrived about an hour after the incident on another helicopter after the other three had already made their emergency landing, crew members told Stars and Stripes.
Williams' craft took no fire, landing beside the damaged craft ahead of a sandstorm from the Iraqi desert, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Miller told Stars and Stripes.
"No, we never came under direct enemy
fire to the aircraft," Miller told the newspaper.
Lance Reynolds, a flight engineer, told Stars and Stripes the frightening episode "was something personal for us that was kind of life-changing for me. I know how lucky I was to survive it."
"It felt like a personal experience that someone else wanted to participate in and didn’t deserve to participate in," he told the newspaper.
When Williams took photos of the damage, Reynolds told Stars and Stripes he brushed off the famed broadcaster because the helicopter crew was assessing damage and he was worried his wife might see the news report.
"I wanted to tell her myself everything was all right before she got news of this happening," Reynolds told Stars and Stripes.
NBC first ran a story on March 26, 2003, with the headline "Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC's Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire," Stars and Stripes reports.
But Williams insists initial reports were correct, saying he originally reported he was in another helicopter but later confused the events, Stars and Stripes reports.
In a 2008 NBC blog post with his byline, he wrote the "Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor," the newspaper notes.
Lance Reynolds, a flight engineer, told Stars and Stripes the frightening episode "was something personal for us that was kind of life-changing for me. I know how lucky I was to survive it."
"It felt like a personal experience that someone else wanted to participate in and didn’t deserve to participate in," he told the newspaper.
When Williams took photos of the damage, Reynolds told Stars and Stripes he brushed off the famed broadcaster because the helicopter crew was assessing damage and he was worried his wife might see the news report.
"I wanted to tell her myself everything was all right before she got news of this happening," Reynolds told Stars and Stripes.
NBC first ran a story on March 26, 2003, with the headline "Target Iraq: Helicopter NBC's Brian Williams Was Riding In Comes Under Fire," Stars and Stripes reports.
But Williams insists initial reports were correct, saying he originally reported he was in another helicopter but later confused the events, Stars and Stripes reports.
In a 2008 NBC blog post with his byline, he wrote the "Chinook helicopter flying in front of ours (from the 101st Airborne) took an RPG to the rear rotor," the newspaper notes.
"Over the years it faded," Mike
O’Keeffe, who was a door gunner on the damaged Chinook, told Stars and Stripes.
"And then to see it last week it was — I can’t believe he is still telling
this false narrative."
Three House Republicans Vote Against
Repealing Obamacare
ALEX
PAPPAS
Alex Pappas is a Washington D.C.-based political reporter for
The Daily Caller. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and the
Mobile Press-Register. Pappas is a graduate of The University of the South in
Sewanee, Tenn., where he was editor-in-chief of The Sewanee Purple. While in
college, he did internships at NBC's Meet the Press and the White House. He
grew up in Mobile, Ala., where he graduated from St. Paul's Episcopal School.
He and his wife live on Capitol Hill.
Three House Republicans joined
Democrats on Tuesday in voting against a bill that would repeal President
Obama’s health-care law.
Illinois Rep. Robert Dold, New
York Rep. John Katko and Maine Rep. Bruce Poliquin all voted against the
legislation which guts Obamacare while calling for a conservative replacement.
“Casting yet another symbolic
vote for full repeal of the law, without any replacement legislation, simply
distracts us from the work that must be done to drive costs down, restore
access to care and make healthcare work for everyone,” Dold said after the
vote.
Added the congressman: “The
people of the 10th district sent me to Congress to advance solutions, not
sound bites, to the problems we face.”
Katko and Poliquin were elected
to Congress in 2014. Dold was re-elected in 2014, after losing his seat in
2012.
Shock
Testimony: This Al-Qaeda Terrorist Just Revealed An Alleged Saudi Plot Against
US President
Zacarias
Moussaoui disclosed names and details in plot.
Now serving a life sentence for
his role in the 9/11 terror attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui has reportedly provided
shocking testimony about Saudi Arabia’s royal family and their alleged al-Qaeda
connections, including discussions about shooting down Air Force One.
The
New York Times says
that Moussaoui’s lengthy statement was presented voluntarily to the federal
court in New York where relatives of those killed on September 11, 2001, have
sued Saudi Arabia.
Interviewed by lawyers at the Colorado prison where he has been
ordered to spend the rest of his life, Moussaoui reportedly described how
prominent members of Saudi Arabia’s royal family were major donors to the
al-Qaeda terror network prior to 9/11. The Times article states
that Moussaoui:
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…claimed that he discussed a plan
to shoot down Air Force One with a Stinger missile with a staff member at the
Saudi Embassy in Washington.
Mr. Moussaoui’s testimony, if
judged credible, provides new details of the extent and nature of that support
in the pre-9/11 period. In more than 100 pages of testimony, filed in federal
court in New York on Monday, he comes across as calm and largely coherent….
Moussaoui’s testimony was given last October, but was reportedly
only finalized and presented to the court on Monday.
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According to the website RT, this
new information about the 9/11 attacks is especially troubling, as the former
al-Qaeda operative claims the new King of Saudi Arabia, then Prince Salman, was
involved in terror-related meetings.
Shortly after the death of the late Saudi King Abdullah on
January 23, President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry visited the kingdom in
an effort to signal that ties between Saudi Arabia and the United States are
strong.
Should this just-revealed testimony from Zacarias
Moussaoui be judged credible, it could prove embarrassing to the
Obama administration and put significant strains on relations between the two
countries.
Via RT:
It should be noted that
allegations of ties between top Saudi businessmen, the political elite and
Al-Qaeda are nothing new. They have been substantiated by evidence in the past.
[Osama] bin Laden himself was the
son of a Saudi construction magnate, and the money trail existed before the
2001 attacks.
The New York Times reports that the Saudi Embassy issued a
statement Monday night calling Moussaoui a “deranged criminal” and rejecting
his claims that the Saudi government or any of the nation’s super-wealthy
officials had funded al-Qaeda or were ever involved in discussions about
shooting Air Force One out of the sky.
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A former Al-Qaeda member
has revealed a strong connection between the terrorist group and the Saudi
Royal family in the 1990s. More notably, he alleges that Saudi princes and
terrorists discussed a plan to shoot Air Force One out of the sky.
The revelations came in
the form of a testimony, delivered from a maximum-security prison, where
Zacarias Moussaoui is incarcerated.
According to the New York
Times, Moussaoui submitted the claim on his own initiative. He sent a letter to the judge
presiding over the lawsuit filed by family members of 9/11 victims against the
government of Saudi Arabia.
And so, for two days last
October, lawyers were permitted for the first time to interview the terrorist
at the federal prison – the most secure facility in the federal system, in
Florence, Colorado. He gave a damning report that included very prominent
members within the royal family, including three princes he says were all
Al-Qaeda donors.
The testimony was
finalized on Monday.
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of 9/11 attacks says Saudi prince financed operation
The meeting discussing the
plan to down Air Force One allegedly took place at the kingdom’s embassy in
Washington DC.
This and other meetings
allegedly involved some of Saudi Arabia’s top princes and billionaires, including
then-Prince Salman – brother to the late King Abdullah and now the King of
Saudi Arabia. If Moussaoui’s testimony holds up, the view of Saudi involvement
in attacking the United States and its alleged double-dealings could be changed
profoundly.
Apparently from 1998 to
1999, Moussaoui was tasked by the Afghan terrorist branch with creating a
digital database of Al-Qaeda donors, including Prince Turki al-Faisal, the
former chief of Saudi intelligence, as well as others, mostly billionaire
businessmen and leading clerics.
“Sheikh Osama wanted to
keep a record” of the money flow,
Moussaoui’s testimony says, adding that he acted as courier for Bin Laden
himself.
NY Times also recounts
Moussaoui describing in detail the training he received in the camps, as well
as a trial run of a 750-kg bomb that was to be used on the American embassy in
London – and later the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
But what would surely be a
major blow for the US, Moussaoui also revealed plans to down the president’s
Air Force One airplane with a Stinger missile. This was apparently discussed
with the Islamic Affairs Department of the Saudi embassy.
“I was supposed to go to
Washington and go with [a visiting Saudi official]… in order to find a location
where it would be suitable to launch a Stinger attack and then, after, be able
to escape,” Moussaoui went on.
His arrest allegedly came
on the eve of that scouting trip.
There were attempts in
2006 to present the terrorist as insane, due to some instances of erratic
behavior, but that didn’t fly with the judge, despite a psychologist’s
diagnosis. And so he was deemed fit to stand trial.
In fact, “he has actually a better understanding of the legal system than
some lawyers I’ve seen in court,” Judge Leonie M. Brinkema said at the time. She also called him “an extremely intelligent man” and said she was “fully satisfied” with his mental state.
The Saudis didn’t take
kindly to the possible impact these revelations could have. Judgment on
Moussaoui’s mental health is what could make or break the credibility of his
testimony. And when submitting it on Monday, there were no indications
whatsoever that the 9/11 attacker was not of sound mind.
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prices, poor health: New Saudi king’s challenges
According to NY Times, on
the same day, the Saudi embassy referred to how the September 11 commission
flatly rejected the possibility of such a relationship, pointing to how“Moussaoui is a deranged
criminal whose own lawyers presented evidence that he was mentally
incompetent.” They were alluding to his
earlier mental diagnosis.
“My impression was that he
was of completely sound mind — focused and thoughtful,” said a Philadelphia lawyer questioning him.
It should be noted that
allegations of ties between top Saudi businessmen, the political elite and
Al-Qaeda are nothing new. They have been substantiated by evidence in the past.
Bin Laden himself was the son of a Saudi construction magnate, and the money
trail existed before the 2001 attacks.
At the same time, it’s
also known that the Saudi family had collaborated with the US as well to
finance Islamic militants, many of whom ended up in what would later become
Al-Qaeda. This was during the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
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king
This is not the most
convenient time for Moussaoui’s allegations to surface. It has only been two
weeks since the death of King Abdullah, succeeded by King Salman – his brother
– who Moussaoui had also allegedly been involved with.
President Barack Obama and
Secretary of State John Kerry visited the kingdom recently, signaling the
strong ties that exist between the two countries.
The world at large
continues to blast Saudi Arabia and its international partners for the
atrocious human rights situation that still persists there. There have already
been four executionsin the weeks since Obama’s new friend King Salman
acceded to the throne.
“En mi opinión”
No 860 Febrero 5, 2015
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
Lázaro R González Miño EDITOR
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