Who is Samantha Power and why should I care?

Well, incredibly, it seems as if she may be one of the chief "behind the scenes" reasons why we are in Libya bombing our little hearts out!  Huh?

 

Samantha is President Obama's "National Security Advisor on Human Rights."  Supposedly, she has direct access to Obama on human rights issues.  What does that mean?  It means that she attended a function as the representative of the White House in November 2010 called the International Symposium on Preventing Genocide and Mass Atrocities.  Guess who's a member of the clique that makes the rounds of meetings like that?  How about none other than our good friend and world government proponent George "No Borders" Soros.

 

In her position in the Obama administration, Power argues for a doctrine dubbed the Responsibility to Protect.  This doctrine is being embraced as a governmental golden rule to justify the penetration of national borders to prevent the sort of atrocities, real and imagined, orchestrated by Gadhafi in Libya.  If you're a "No Borders" guy like Soros, how clever is it to support the implementation of a philosophy that mobilizes the entire might of the US military into a region without a formal declaration of war from the US Congress?  The previous sentence read backwards means "without the consent of the American people." 

 

Give the devil his due, Soros knows what he wants and knows how to get it.  Soros backs corrupt politicians who are ready to trade national sovereignty for campaign contributions leading to power.  Libya is a test by the Obama administration for future incursions like we are witnessing on the evening news.

 

John Boehner, Speaker of the House, seems to sense that there's a rat in the mill and is chastising Obama for US involvement in Libya without Congressional approval.  However laudable, Boehner's objections come as our planes are still flying over Libya, US war ships are still steaming in the Med and there's no telling which countries Obama may have in his sights next: Syria?  Yemen?  Bahrain?  Saudi Arabia?

 

Yes sir, Middle East chaos reigns supreme and that's just how Obama wants it!  Let's see, we still have Africa, South America, the Far East......

 

 

John P. Kuchta, Jr.

Virginia Beach, VA

Post World War II European Arrogace

The Truman Doctrine, put forth by President Harry Truman when he addressed Congress on March 12, 1947, essentially stated:

"The United States will defend free people and their free institutions at any place at any point in the world where outside communist aggression threatens that nation's internal stability."

The Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift

The United States was now committed actively to opposing the spread of Soviet-style Communism. The first plan that put this policy to use on a large scale was the Economic Recovery Plan of 1947, also known as the "Marshall Plan." In a commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, George C. Marshall, a former general and now Truman's secretary of state, proposed that the nation make a huge economic commitment to rebuild the war-torn nations of Western Europe. 

His objective was to "restore the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole." Marshall believed that the American economy depended on open markets. Thus, rebuilding the economies of Europe would guarantee American prosperity by providing an outlet for the nation's goods. 

Marshall also contended that economic stability in Europe would translate into political stability, that Communism would have little appeal to well-fed and employed Europeans. 

Between 1948 and 1951, the United States sent $13 billion in aid to Western European nations. West Germany benefited the most from the plan. Between 1947 and 1951, a period that historians refer to as the "German miracle," West Germany's economic output increased 312%. 

As the United States invested heavily in the reconstruction of Western Europe, it also struggled with the Soviet Union for influence in Eastern Europe. This struggle became evident during the 1948 Soviet blockade of Berlin. After the end of World War II, the Allies had divided the city of Berlin, and the country of Germany as a whole, into four zones, one controlled by the Soviet Union, and the other three controlled by Great Britain, France, and the United States.

In response to growing American economic and military power  in Europe, the Soviet Union cut off western links to Berlin, which was located inside the Soviet-occupied zone.

Truman, in turn, ordered a massive, year-long airlift of medical supplies, food and clothing for West Berliners. Eventually, the Soviets lifted the blockade. In 1948 and 1949, however, the Soviet Union sponsored Communist revolutions in Eastern-bloc countries such as Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.

In response, in April 1949, twelve nations of Western Europe and North America signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The goal of NATO was to coordinate the defense of Western Europe. An attack on any of its member nations was equal to an attack on all, with each nation obliged to battle their common foe. 

Primary support, both militarily and monetarily, came from the United States.

A re-post from http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture24.html

Obama, Reid and Environmentalist to Blame (in part) for Jap Nuke Disaster!

Yes, President Obama by nixing funding and Senator Reid’s continual campaign against protecting the world from radioactive waste and the perpetual “what if’s” by environmentalists based on fear and not facts have helped lay the ground work for Japan’s Nuclear disaster.

"This is great news because it not only prevents Nevada from becoming the nation's nuclear dumping ground, it also protects hundreds of communities through which the waste would have had to travel in order to get to Yucca," said Senate majority leader Harry Reid, who represents Nevada, in a statement released Sunday on his website. (From csmonitor.com)

Japanese spent nuclear fuel (where there is more radioactive material then in the core) could have been safely transported and stored in one of the most researched and geological sound and safest places in America.  Instead of trucks, trains, boats and planes, a plume of radioactive dust will make its way to Yucca Mountain via the jet stream contaminating the Eastern coast of Japan and soon our American West coast and the Pacific Ocean.  

We could have even charged the Japanese for the storage of their waste.  Now we are going to spend untold millions to evacuate our citizens, move our ships and help clean up the mess!  Thank you Obama, Reid and environmentalists for being such great stewards of our environment, tax dollars and not listening to the professionals!

Day 7 Get some... More!

Another day at the rifle range the "Location of Hit or Miss" trainer.  An electronic contraption that displays where you shoot when you shoot at targets 75M 175M and 300M  I was a "spotter" if you will and sat on the range in front of a computer all day long. When I finally shot, I shot 160 bullets down range in one sitting.  80 with no armor on, 80 with armor on.  A big difference.  Good training, just long days.  Always fun to the pull the trigger.  wake up 0445 Chow at 0530 bus ride to the range at 0600.  At the range until 1400 bus ride home, clean weapons, prep as necessary for next day, chow, shower, rest, repeat!

A couple of observations; my new call sign is "Crocs" for my day glow orange crocs I wear in the shower.  Several of us have very similar political views which is scary and in some ways sad for the way we view the state of our nation politically and economically.  Perma-dirt has set in I will have to take a picture to better explain!  Note the action photo of the ejected bullet flying through the air... They are hot when they land on skin!

Oops!

Somebody know something we don't?!

Here is an interesting perspective..

How to save the Obama presidency 

- bomb Iran