Daily Archives: July 25, 2010

Obama Lied About Release of Lockerbie Bomber

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London Heathrow to New York’s JFK International Airpot, a Boing 747-121, was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, southern Scotland, were killed as large sections of the plane fell in and around the town, bringing total fatalities to 270. 190 were American citizens. The event is known as the Lockerbie Bombing.

After a 3-year joint investigation by the FBI and the Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary, during which 15,000 witness statements were taken, indictments for murder were issued in November 1991 against Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer and the head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA), and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah, the LAA station manager in Luqa Airport, Malta. On 31 January 2001, Megrahi was convicted of murder by a panel of three Scottish judges and sentenced to 27 years in prison but Fhimah was acquitted.

Megrahi

Megrahi served just over 8½ years of his sentence. On August 20, 2009, he was released from prison on compassionate grounds, ostensibly because he had only 3 months to live. His doctors now maintain that Megrahi – living in Libya – actually will live for another 10 years.

Today, we learn that Obama’s expression of “surprise, disappointment, and anger” at the news of Megrahi’s release was another one of the Sociopath’s many lies. The Obama administration actually supported the terrorist-murderer’s “humanitarian” release.

~Eowyn

White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi

Jason Allardyce and Tony Allen-Mills – The Australian – July 26, 2010

The US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.

The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer. The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.

Scottish ministers viewed the level of US resistance to compassionate release as “half-hearted” and a sign it would be accepted. The US has tried to keep the letter secret, refusing to give permission to the Scottish authorities to publish it on the grounds it would prevent future “frank and open communications” with other governments.

In the letter, sent on August 12 last year to Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and justice officials, Mr LeBaron wrote that the US wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime. The note added: “Nevertheless, if Scottish authorities come to the conclusion that Megrahi must be released from Scottish custody, the US position is that conditional release on compassionate grounds would be a far preferable alternative to prisoner transfer, which we strongly oppose.” Mr LeBaron added that freeing the bomber and making him live in Scotland “would mitigate a number of the strong concerns we have expressed with regard to Megrahi’s release”.

The US administration lobbied the Scottish government more strongly against sending Megrahi home, under a prisoner transfer agreement signed by the British and Libyan governments, in a deal now known to have been linked to a pound stg. 550 million oil contract for BP. It claimed this would flout a decade-old agreement between Britain and the US that anyone convicted of the bombing would serve their sentence in a Scottish prison. Megrahi was released by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill on the grounds that he had three months to live, making his sentence effectively spent.

The US Senate foreign relations committee launched a probe after The Sunday Times revealed this month that Megrahi’s doctors thought he could live for another decade.

A source close to the Senate inquiry said: “The (LeBaron) letter is embarrassing for the US because it shows they were much less opposed to compassionate release than prisoner transfer.”

Last week, a succession of British politicians – including Mr MacAskill, Mr Salmond and former justice secretary Jack Straw – delivered a diplomatic snub to the senators by refusing to fly across the Atlantic to answer questions at the Senate’s hearing on Thursday (US time) about their role in Megrahi’s release.

Despite the controversy over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and Megrahi’s release, it emerged over the weekend that BP is planning deep-water drilling off Libya. And BP boss Tony Hayward is poised to quit this week when the company announces its half-year results, London’s Sunday Telegraph reported.

The Sunday Times, AFP

1 of 2 Americans Have $2,000 or Less in Retirement Savings

When Social Security was instituted in 1935, it was never meant to be an individual’s sole source of financial support in his/her retirement years. Millions of Americans, however, have lived their lives in denial of that truth. The result is nothing less than frightening.

According to Dallas Salisbury, president of the Alliance for Investor Education and the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), the reality today is that:

  • 1 out of 3 working Americans does not have retirement savings beyond Social Security.
  • 35% of Americans over 65 rely almost totally on Social Security alone.
  • Of the remaining two-thirds of working Americans who have some retirement savings:
    • 27% have less than $1,000.
    • 16% have between $1,000 and $9,999 saved.
    • 11% have between $10,000 and $24,999.
    • 12% have between $25,000-$49,999.
    • 36% have $50,000 or more.
  • As much as 50% of Americans have $2,000 or less saved for retirement. 

In his article of July 16, 2010 for AlterNet, “The Retirement Nightmare: Half of Americans Have Less Than $2,000 Banked for Their Golden Years,” Scott Thill quotes Salisbury that “Individuals need to follow the advice of the ages. Spend less than you earn by 25% and save for your future.”

It also means that Americans will have to postpone their retirement. As Sara Horowitz, executive director of the nonprofit Freelancers Union, puts it: “Americans will no longer have retirements that demand no additional work. They will lessen work in old age. In other words, retirement will increasingly mean becoming an independent worker.”

Thill concludes that:

“With declining earnings and a culture of borrow-and-consume, America’s workers face a future of uncertainty and little money to pay for their retirement. If the gushing oil bleeder in the Gulf of Mexico is a sign of anything, it’s of our excessive appetites. Today, it’s time pay up, especially if we want to retire later. Our messy ways and means have to be choked off and cleaned up. If we’re smart, live well below our lucky means, and stop trashing the planet, and its political processes, then we might just get lucky enough to dodge the guilty bullets.”

But the news gets even worse. The Social Security “trust fund” is a myth: our Social Security taxes have always gone into the federal government’s general coffers, and payments of Social Security come out of the federal government’s general funds. There is no trust fund. All of which means that, with the government’s huge deficit spending, Social Security is already broke.

A report from the Congressional Budget Office in January 2010 shows that for the first time in 25 years, Social Security is taking in less in taxes than it is spending on benefits.

That would explain why Social Security’s trustees have postponed the release of their annual report indefinitely.

In their July 12, 2010, article for Forbes, “The (Still) Missing Social Security Annual Report,” Jagadeesh Gokhale and Mark J. Warshawsky write:

“The Social Security‘s trustees’ annual report is, by law, supposed to be published by April 1. This year, however, the trustees have postponed its release indefinitely. The program’s financial condition continues to remain hidden from public view–and by many accounts will continue to be so until the end of the fiscal year.

The program’s cash flow has been in the red for several months as payroll tax revenues have declined because of the recession. The recession and slow economic growth are worsening Social Security’s long-term finances as well, as the latest Congressional Budget Office report on the long-range federal budget outlook confirms. According to liberal folklore, the Social Security trust funds will ride in to the rescue and are capable of plugging the revenue shortfall for a long time. Unfortunately, when it comes to those trust funds, there is no ‘there’ there; they are just accounting devices–and the call on general revenues has already begun.”

The latest Gallup Poll of July 20, 2010, shows 60% of working Americans believe they will get no Social Security benefits when they retire, while more than half of retired Americans (56%) believe their existing Social Security benefits will eventually be cut.

Meanwhile, the government allows illegal aliens to collect Social Security, even for jobs obtained through false or stolen documents.

H/t Van Helsing of Right Wing News.

~Eowyn

The Question That Won’t Go Away

In a mere 17 months, this man has turned the United States upside down, bitterly divided Americans along racial lines, and spent us and our grandchildren into debt servitude.

Do you really know who he is?

~Eowyn

Why Lou Dobbs Left CNN & Got His House Shot

In a two-week span beginning in July 2009, popular CNN newsman Lou Dobbs was the only mainstream news anchor to give airtime to what the Left and the MSM (same thing!) derisively call the “birthers.” He was criticized by left-leaning advocacy groups, including Media Matters and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which eventually led CNN President Jon Klein to rein Dobbs in via an internal memo.

On November 11, 2009, after 27 years at CNN, Dobbs suddenly announced his departure from the network. His departure came less than two weeks after somone fired a shot at his house.

In this video, Dobbs tells Bill O’Reilly that someone shot at his house because he had asked on his show why Obama wouldn’t just show his original long-form birth certificate, if only to shut up the “birthers” once and for all. Dobbs also said that the American people have the right to see that birth certificate.

H/t CommieBlaster!

Notice to the Sociopath in the White House and his supporters/enablers:

This issue ain’t going away. It will dog you for the duration of your fraudulent presidency and your entire life. Count on it.

For the umpteenth time, the Sociopath has only made public, via his obliging mouthpiece Factcheck.org, an online image of his putative Certification of Live Birth (COLB), which is a secondary document generated from a person’s original long-form birth certificate. Here’s Obama’s putative COLB:

Here’s what a long-form birth certificate from Hawaii looks like — the primary document from which a COLB is generated. Notice that the long-form includes many details that are left out of a COLB, including the name of the birth hospital, and the name and signature of the attendant physician:

~Eowyn

Mom of Murdered Obama Gay Lover Speaks Up

Donald Young

In late May, Wash. DC-based investigative journalist Wayne Madsen had a bombshell revelation about Obama’s membership in a Chicago gay club, Man’s Country. Madsen also reported on Obama’s sexual relationships with other men, including named D.C. politicians and Donald Young, the openly-gay choir-director of the church in Chicago of which Obama was a member for some 20 years — Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ black liberation theology. Obama’s relationship with Young was confirmed by Larry Sinclair, who claims to have had two sex-cocaine trysts with Obama. 

There were two other openly gay men in Wright’s church: Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. In late 2007, as Obama began his ascent to be the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee, in a span of 1½ months, all three men “conveniently” died:

  • Bland was murdered execution-style on November 17, 2007;
  • Young was murdered execution-style on December 24, 2007;
  • Spencer reportedly died of septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV on December 26, 2007. (Death certificates of Bland and Young, HERE.)

Nate Spencer (r)

Now, Young’s elderly mother is speaking out about her suspicions that her son was murdered to protect Obama’s reputation and assure his political future as President.

~Eowyn

White House ramps up damage control over Obama Chicago gay history

An exclusive Wayne Madsen Report – July 19, 2010

The story about President Barack Obama’s bi-sexual past will not go away. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe, Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. Donald Young’s bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago apartment on December 23, 2007, in what appeared to be an assassination-style slaying.

Norma Jean Young revealed to The Globe that her son Donald, who was openly gay, was a “close friend” of Obama. Mrs. Young also believes the Chicago Police Department has not placed a high priority on finding the killers of her son. Mrs. Young, who is, herself a former employee of the Chicago Police Department, told The Globe that, “There is more to the story,” adding, “I do believe they are shielding somebody or protecting someone.”

The Globe’s revelations are consistent with information obtained by WMR during a May investigation conducted in Chicago. On May 24, WMR reported:“President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city.” The report added, “WMR spoke to several well-placed sources in Chicago who reported that Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Obama’s former church of 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago’s south side, ran what was essentially a matchmaking service for gay married black professional members of the church, including lawyers and businessmen, particularly those with children. The matchmaking club was called the ‘Down Low Club’ but references to it over the phone and email simply referred to the group with the code phrase ‘DLC.’ The ruse, according to our sources, was to make anyone who was eavesdropping on the communications [FBI wiretaps in the Rod Blagojevich case likely contain such references] believe that the references were to the Democratic Leadership Council, also known as the DLC . . . Among the members of the gay ‘DLC’ were Obama and TUCC’s choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: ‘septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV.'”

Larry Sinclair, the gay man who claimed to have had two sexual encounters with Obama in Chicago in 1999, wrote a book, “Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder,” in which he states that Obama was linked to Young’s murder. Sinclair wrote that he was in contact with Young shortly before his murder and Young revealed his relationship with Obama. At the time of his revelations about Obama at a National Press Club news conference, WMR doubted the veracity of Sinclair’s story due to the absence of corroborating evidence coupled with a bizarre news conference. However, since that time, WMR has received corroboration from a number of sources in a number of locations, including Chicago, Alabama, Georgia, and Washington, DC. WMR has received information that various competing camps, including the Hillary Clinton and John McCain campaigns, attempted to co-opt Sinclair and his revelations for their own political purposes. Sinclair, it should be noted, has not deviated from his original story or charges against Obama.

On June 19, 2008, WMR reported: “WhiteHouse.com held a news conference following Sinclair’s at which a video of Sinclair’s polygraph was to be shown. After experiencing technical difficulties with the video presentation, Parisi abruptly canceled the news conference and took no questions.” The aborted news conference was as bizarre as Sinclair’s. Sinclair was arrested by Washington, DC police following his news conference based on a warrant from Delaware issued by Vice President candidate Joseph Biden’s son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. The Delaware charges against Sinclair were later dropped.

Sinclair’s book is now the subject of a defamation lawsuit [Daniel Parisi, et al v. Lawrence W. Sinclair a/k/a “Larry Sinclair,” et al] brought by Dan Parisi, the proprietor of the website, Whitehouse.com, who is mentioned in Sinclair’s book with regard to his involvement in polygraphs administered to Sinclair after he made his allegations against Obama public during the 2008 presidential campaign. The lawsuit is being handled by the politically powerful Patton & Boggs law firm, the same firm that represented George W. Bush’s top political adviser Karl Rove in the Valerie Plame Wilson/CIA leak, and has been filed against Sinclair, his publishing company, and distributors, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Sinclair is currently a resident of Florida.

The lawsuit against Sinclair has been assigned to Judge Richard Leon, the Republican deputy chief minority counsel on the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, aka, the Iran-contra scandal. From 1988 to 1989, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and from 1992 to 1993 was the Republican chief minority counsel on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s October Surprise Task Force investigating the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign’s secret dealings with Iran to ensure the defeat of President Jimmy Carter. Leon Leon was nominated for the federal bench by President George W. Bush on September 10, 2001. Leon’s involvement in so many high-level cover-ups of White House misconduct makes him an illogical choice to hear a case involving serious allegations against President Obama.

Note: Blagojevich’s defense in his federal corruption trial is slated to begin today in Chicago. Judge James Zagel has denied the defense’s request for all the government’s wiretaps to be played. The tapes, as previously reported by WMR, contain some earthy references to Obama’s and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s homosexual habits.

Sinclair has told WMR that he believes the Obama White House is trying to have his book withdrawn from circulation to avoid any further embarrassments about Obama’s homosexual past and the possible involvement of his top lieutenants in Young’s murder. The Globe reported in May 2008 that a top Chicago private detective said he believed Young was “rubbed out” because of his relationship with Obama. Sinclair has echoed the private eye’s beliefs about Young and Obama. The Globe reports that before his death, Young was planning to flee to Africa to teach. The information was provided to The Globe by Young’s mother, who also now fears for her life and plans to leave her Peoria, Illinois home for a secret location. Mrs. Young said the Chicago police have warned her that her life is in danger.

UPDATE (1.20.2012):

Wayne Madsen has this to say in an exclusive-to-subscribers report on Jan. 19, 2012:

WMR has learned from a source who is an official of Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) in Chicago, President Obama’s former church, that congregants are afraid of discussing the brutal execution-style murders of two of the church’s members.

The church’s choir director Donald Young was murdered on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2007, at the beginning of the presidential campaign. Although the Chicago Police Department indicated there was a “person of interest” in the Young case, no one has been charged with Young’s murder. Another church member, Larry Bland, was murdered execution-style on November 17, 2007. […]

When TUCC pastor Jeremiah Wright retired as pastor in early 2008, several church members left the predominantly African-American mega-church along with him, according to our TUCC source. The new pastor, Otis Moss III, has shown no interest in trying to find out the killers of Young and Bland, although the church is active in several community action programs, including those dealing with violence.

The TUCC source says there has been a “stand down” at TUCC in dealing with the Young and Bland murders. Although a service was held for Young at TUCC, the church, according to the source, “ignored the two murders,” adding, “there is no interest in pursuing the murderers.”

See also “Another of Obama’s gay young men died mysteriously,” April 4, 2013.

~Eowyn

How Does He Do It?

This guy is amazing. His name is An Ha Lim.

H/t my sis-in-law Shireen!

~Eowyn