On a lighter note – I so wish I liked Skittles, because then I’d have an excuse to get one of these:
H/T: ZAGG
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Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes
November 6, 2012 — xanthippa‘We are unable to confirm whether or not something fraudulent has occurred, but the story seems to lean towards a malfunction. Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Senior Staff Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology, has claimed that it is a miscalibration of the touch screen, though Centralpavote’s personal account directly contradicts that statement, pointing towards a malfunctioning piece of hardware, incorrectly implemented software or, in the worst case scenario, intentional voter fraud.’
Read it and weep: incompetence or malice, it does not really alter the fact that with electronic voting, without backup paper ballots, there is no way to verify whether the results the machines are reporting accurately reflect the will of the people. Where such an accountability vacuum exists, fraud is sure to follow soon – it’s human nature!
Sad, just sad…
Russian attack submarine sneaks inside the 200 mile territorial limit on the East coast of the USA
November 6, 2012 — xanthippaThis time, it’s no Marko Alexandrovich Ramius trying to defect, either!
From Washington Free Beacon:
‘A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine cruised within 200 miles of the East Coast recently in the latest sign Russia is continuing to flex its naval and aerial power against the United States, defense officials said.
The submarine was identified by its NATO designation as a Russian Seirra-2 class submarine believed to be based with Russia’s Northern Fleet. It was the first time that class of Russian submarine had been detected near a U.S. coast, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of anti-submarine warfare efforts.’
The same article cites something that is potentially even more disturbing:
‘Meanwhile, the officials also said that a Russian electronic intelligence-gathering vessel was granted safe harbor in the commercial port of Jacksonville, Fla., within listening range of Kings Bay.
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“A Russian AGI [Auxiliary-General Intelligence] and an SSN in the same geographic area as one of the largest U.S. ballistic missile submarine bases—Kings Bay—is reminiscent of Cold War activities of the Soviet navy tracking the movements of our SSBN’s,” said a third U.S. official, referring to the designation for ballistic missile submarines, SSBN.’
It only gets worse:
‘The submarine deployment followed stepped-up Russian nuclear bomber activity near U.S. borders last summer, including the transit of two Bear-H strategic bombers near the Alaska air defense zone during Russian strategic bomber war games in arctic in late June.Then on July 4, in an apparent Fourth of July political message, a Russian Bear-H flew the closest to the U.S. West Coast that a Russian strategic bomber had flown since the Cold War when such flights were routine.
In both incidents, U.S. military spokesmen sought to downplay the threat posed by the air incursions, apparently in response to the Obama administration’s conciliatory “reset” policy of seeking closer ties with Moscow.
U.S. and Canadian interceptor jets were scrambled to meet the Russian bombers during the flights last summer.’
In other words, specifically in response to Obama anemic projection of woosiness power, Putin’s Russia has placed air, surface and underwater military assets within US territorial jurisdiction…all without any response from Obama’s eviscerated military!
No wonder Putin has thrown his support behind Obama in the 2012 election!
Sure, the Bolsheviks are not in power in Russia any longer, but Obama and his Mensheviks are winning the long-term war in America – and dictators like Putin know how to exploit this very weakness!
Stephen Coughlin, Part 2: Understanding the War on Terror Through Islamic Law
November 6, 2012 — xanthippaThis one video from the series stands out because it explains really, really well why we need to study and understand Sharia.
People do not act based on facts and reality – they act based on their understanding of what constitues facts and reality.
In this video, Stephen Caughlin uses documents certified as the most authoritative understanding of what Sharia is and how it is to be implemented.
Certified by whom?
By the highest Islamic authorities (scholars) in existence today.
Whether they reflect the true teachings of Islam or not, Muslims worldwide – including in the US, Canada and other Western countries – believe that this is what constitutes Sharia; they teach it through their Mosques and to children in Islamic schools and they work actively to bring it into reality.
Sharia is not religion – it is a political doctorine.
That is why we must educate ourselves about it.
Because not doing so imperils both non-Muslims and all non-Sharia adherent Muslims!
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