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An attacker using a meat cleaver and his armed partner killed a 25-year-old British soldier in the streets of London on Wednesday, and Britain’s elite law enforcement believe the Nigerian men may be affiliated with a dangerous and bloodthirsty Islamist group based in Nigeria and affiliated with al-Qaeda.

The United Kingdom‘s world-renowned law enforcement agency, Scotland Yard, reported on Thursday that two more suspected Nigerian terrorists were arrested by inspectors investigating the hacking death of a British soldier, Lee Rigby, in London by two suspects yelling “Allahu Akbar.”

Scotland Yard officials said counterterrorism unit detectives arrested a male and female on Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Both suspects are being held in a London police station, officials noted.

The two suspects who killed the young soldier — both in their mid-20′s — were shot and arrested by police at the scene of the killing of a British soldier on Wednesday. Both men remain hospitalized in stable condition, according to Scotland Yard.

Former al-Muhajiroun head Anjem Choudary reportedly identified the man in the cell phone video as Michael Adebolajo, a Christian who converted to Islam around 2003 and took part in Islamist anti-West demonstrations in London.

In the video, one of the suspects, Adebolajo, said, “We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. We must fight them as they fight us.”

According to a counterterrorism expert, the attackers in this incident are likely affiliated with — or influenced by — the Islamist terror organization based in Nigeria called Boko Haram.

The Islamic jihad in Nigeria started as a riot in 2009 by members of an Islamist group known as Boko Haram. That first encounter turned into a full-blown gun-fight between Boko Haram and its supporters and the police and the military, according to Canada Free Press.

Since 2010, Islamists have perpetrated drive-by shootings and suicide bombings that have killed 1,548 people. Boko Haram, which means “Western education is sacrilege,” has said it wants its imprisoned Islamists released and for the current Nigerian government to institute Sharia law throughout the nation.

The group officially affiliated itself with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in 2010, about the same time that Somalia’s Al-Shabaab also announced its Islamist-affiliation with al-Qaeda, according to Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugged.

last week, Nigerian police and security forces reported that upwards of 60 people were fatally wounded when suspected al-Qaeda affiliate Boko Haram Islamists attacked security formations in Nigeria’s terrorist-infested Borno region, according to Jorge Vega, an international counterterrorism and security expert.

According to Vega, the Boko Haram terrorists also executed 14 Nigerian prison officials in cold-blood and they freed more than 100 Islamist prisoners, who will probably return to the battlefield.

The suspected terrorists then torched a police station and its adjoining police barracks, as well as a local courthouse and Bama’s government complex where some of the buildings were totally destroyed.

During the attack, the terrorists perpetrated extensive arson on the divisional police station and police barracks. More than 20 police officers lost their lives, while three Children and a woman were burned to death.

In April, a fierce battle in Baga, Nigeria between security forces and Islamic terrorists left at least 200 Nigerians dead in that nation’s northeast coastal region, an Israeli terrorism analyst who monitors jihad in Africa said.

“I just want to know what the answer is.” - Chris Wallace, May 19, 2013

 Subsequent to a meeting with my primary source inside the intelligence community last week, an individual I refer to as  my “intelligence insider,”  I wrote a column titled The Benghazi deception. Published on Thursday, May 16, 2013, it concerned Barack Hussein Obama’s location and activities on the night of the Benghazi attack when four Americans were murdered during a preplanned attack against a CIA operations compound. My source was extremely emphatic about this particular issue, stating that the Obama administration will never provide a truthful or detailed answer to this question.

“Why,” I asked, “I mean, what could possibly be so damning about his location and activities during the 18 1/2 hour period in question? He was in the White House, correct?” It was here that there was a long, uncomfortable pause as I waited for my answer.

“The White House is a pretty big place, you know,” stated my source in such a way that made it seem that I thought it to be a small, single family home. “I’m telling you, ‘somebody’ in the press will be asking that question and won’t get an answer,” he stated very emphatically. “Just ask the question,” he said, leaving me to wonder momentarily if I was to ask him. “Write about it, and ask the question. Exactly where was Barack Hussein Obama following his 5:00 meeting in the Oval Office until the next day? Where wasn’t he? It’s almost as if the Wizard of Oz himself waved his magic wand to divert attention away from those lost hours. Nobody is asking the question,” he said to me, almost in a scolding manner.

And so I did. I asked the question, using his exact words in my article published last Thursday. What happened within the next 72 hours should also speak to the authenticity of my source.

Sunday, May 19, 2013

It was exactly three days after my article was published when Fox News Sunday host  Chris Wallace asked Daniel Pfeiffer, Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Adviser to the President for Strategy and Communications the question about Obama’s activities that night. During the approximate five-minute question and answer session, Mr. Wallace asked Pfeiffer no fewer than eight times where Obama was and what he was doing as events in Benghazi were unfolding.

The following portion of the exchange was excerpted directly from the show video transcript and illustrates the attempts by Mr. Wallace to get a single, straightforward answer to one simple question (edited for brevity; highlights by this author):

WALLACE: OK. Let’s turn to Benghazi… Question, what did the president do the rest of that night to pursue Benghazi?

….

WALLACE: But with due respect, you didn’t answer my question. What did the president do that night?

PFEIFFER: He was talking to his national security staff, his National Security Council, the people who keep him up to date about briefings as they happen.

WALLACE: Was he in the Situation Room?

PFEIFFER: He was kept up to date throughout the day.

WALLACE: Do you not know whether he was in the Situation Room?

PFEIFFER: I don’t remember what room the president was in on that night. And that’s a largely irrelevant fact.

WALLACE: Well –

WALLACE: Here’s the point, though.

Anthony Weiner’s announcement that he would, as expected, be running for mayor of New York City has generated some classic headlines, as well as a warning from the candidate himself:

Former congressman and newly announced New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (D) said in an interview Thursday morning with WNYC-FM that there could be women coming forward with more e-mails or photos from the inappropriate digital conversations that led to his resignation in 2011.

“It is what it is,” Weiner said. “People may decide they want to come forward and say, here’s another email that I got or another photo. I’m certainly not going to do that. So people may hear things that are true, they may hear things that are not true, but I’m going to try to keep being focused on issues that are important to New York City.”

Weiner acknowledged that his campaign will include “a lot of apologizing,” but says he hopes people will first give him a chance to make his case and then think about voting for him.

Candidates who are apologizing before the election enter the race at a disadvantage, but he certainly has no shortage of press coverage as a result. However, it doesn’t appear that Weiner is going to get the endorsement of Andrew Cuomo any time soon.

Here’s Weiner’s first mayoral bid video, which reveals a four-pronged campaign strategy: “More cops, lower rent, better schools and sorry if I tweeted you a picture of my willy”:

In 2008, candidate Obama made numerous promises that if elected president he would immediately close the prison at Guantanamo Bay:

Today, some five years later, Obama’s going to call (again) for steps that could culminate in the shuttering of the prison. Problem is, those steps involve sending some of the suspects back to one of the world’s foremost terrorism incubators:

President Obama will announce Thursday that the White House plans to lift the ban on sending detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, Fox News confirms, a move that could effectively resume efforts to close down the prison.

That effort, however, has been stymied because many countries don’t want the detainees or are unwilling or unable to guarantee that once transferred, detainees who may continue to be a threat will not be released.

There are currently about 166 prisoners at Guantanamo, and 86 have been approved for transfer as long as security restrictions are met.

Sending terror suspects to Yemen as long as security restrictions are met is like sending Michael Moore to McDonalds to lose weight as long as everybody promises not to let him near any food.

Flashback to March of last year:

(Reuters) – The proportion of militants released from detention at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay who subsequently were believed to have returned to the battlefield rose slightly over the last year, according to official figures released on Monday.

In a summary report, the office of the Director of National Intelligence said that 27.9 percent of the 599 former detainees released from Guantanamo were either confirmed or suspected of later engaging in militant activity.

The alternate title to this post could also be “Obama proposes speeding up Yemen/Gitmo revolving door.”

Last but not least, a new strategy to combat terrorism:

Nathan Wurtzel @NathanWurtzel

Republicans are getting tripped up by the media when challenged about evidence of President Obama’s personal involvement in the IRS scandal. Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan, who chairs the House committee looking into the IRS, “admitted there was no evidence” linking Obama to the IRS scandal, as MSNBC described his appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Camp said, “We don’t have anything to say that the President knew about it.” Michael O’Brien, a political reporter for NBC News, said both Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and Rep. Dave Camp “admitted they lacked evidence that the targeting of conservatives was ordered by the White House.”

But a Democratic Administration or its president does not need to issue orders or directives or make telephone calls demanding that the IRS act against conservatives. History shows that it is simply how the federal bureaucracy operates. The “smoking gun” is liberal politics as usual, and it stretches back to the Kennedy Administration.

To illustrate this point, consider an article on a left-wing website attempting to distinguish between the Obama Administration’s IRS “affair” and Richard Nixon’s “Watergate-era IRS scandal,” The author is none other than Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who insists that what Nixon did was far worse than anything that has been done under Obama. He advised Republicans not to fall victim to “anti-Obama hysteria” and to avoid talking about Obama’s impeachment.

“A principal distinction” between the use of the IRS by the Nixon and Obama Administrations, he said in his column, “is the ingredient of direct presidential involvement.”

He does acknowledge that Nixon, who resigned from office because he was threatened with impeachment, “was aware that the IRS had audited him in 1961 and 1962 and presumed those audits were politically motivated by the Kennedy White House.” He doesn’t provide any more details, probably because he doesn’t want to implicate his father, Robert F. Kennedy Sr., and his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, in the political use of the IRS. But that is exactly what they did. In fact, they did it before Nixon, and led Nixon to believe the practice was routine.

As noted by Victory Lasky’s book, It Didn’t Start With Watergate, the practice of using the IRS for political purposes began with the Kennedy brothers, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, when they were President and Attorney General, respectively. Not only were Nixon and others involved in his presidential campaign audited after John F. Kennedy won the 1960 election, “tax-exempt right-wing groups” were targeted by the Kennedy Administration’s IRS for special reviews and some lost their tax-exempt status.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s article focused on a “Special Service” staff of the IRS under Nixon. What he does not talk about is a special project under President Kennedy dealing with “ideological organizations.” According to the staff report “Investigation of the Special Service Staff of the Internal Revenue Service,” prepared for the Joint Committee on Internal Taxation in 1975, “This program apparently was stimulated by a public statement of President John F. Kennedy and also a suggestion by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.”

In other words, initially there were no direct orders or direct presidential involvement. IRS officials simply responded to the President’s public statements and his concerns.

This is what happens when the politically correct socialist government decides to disarm law-abiding citizens and enlarges the victim pool …

Blood on his hands, hatred in his eyes: 2.30pm on a suburban high street, Islamic fanatics wielding meat cleavers butcher a British soldier, taking their war on the West to a new level of horror

• Two men repeatedly stab and try to behead off-duty soldier in SE London
• They shouted ‘Allah Akbar’ attack and told witnesses to film them
• Charged at police officers with rusty revolver, knives and meat cleavers
• Killing took place 200 yards from barracks and close to primary school
• Both men placed under arrest after being treated for gunshot wounds
• PM: Killing is ‘sickening’ and Britain will ‘never buckle’ in face of terror

Clutching a bloodied meat cleaver after  executing a soldier on a crowded street, he delivers a  chilling message of  hate.

‘You people will never be safe,’ he declares  in a clear south London accent. ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a  tooth.’

Source: Woolwich attack: Two men ‘hack soldier wearing Help for Heroes T-shirt to death with machetes in suspected terror attack’ | Mail Online

Bottom line …

Are you going to allow corrupt politicians to disarm law-abiding citizens to allow criminals and crazies to run amok among unarmed citizens. With no one able to stop the carnage? Are you that effin’ crazy?

– steve

No, folks. The Obama syndicate was never incompetent. It was and is, however, the most corrupt, criminal and openly tyrannical US government, which is now openly attacking the USA and its people, that has existed in US history. It has also, until recently, been able to keep all aspects of its tyranny under wraps…with the assistance and collaboration of the equally corrupt US media. Even today, many media outlets are still working for Obama, in order to minimize his visible complicity in the assassinations of US citizens in Benghazi, his illegal spying on and record-seizing of news agencies and their reporters (to date the AP and Fox News), his illegal and Gestapo-like usage of one of the most powerful and suppressive agencies ever to exist…the IRS…to threaten and intimidate US citizens (aka conservatives) who do not agree with his Hitlerian and Stalinistic programs and policies with their own and their families’ personal destruction; along with Obama’s continuing active destruction of virtually every aspect of what was once the United States of America.

The ObamaGov is unabashedly a criminal syndicate that has been getting away with its criminalities via stonewalling Congress (which recently finally decided to actually fight back) during committee investigation questioning, providing the answer “I don’t know” to virtually everything asked of them (on Benghazi Hillary consistently said “I don’t know” and “what difference does it make” and regarding his DOJ Holder says he “knows nothing” about what‘s going on in his department if he is implicated in its ongoing criminalities). And now, a top IRS official (who has been rewarded by Obama for her criminal behaviors with her new position of “Head Enforcer of ObamaCare“) Lois Lerner has invoked the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination during today’s House Oversight Committee. Sitting there with her stone-faced “you can’t touch me” demeanor, Lerner repeatedly told Chairman Darrell Issa ‘I refuse to answer any questions on the subject posed by the committee today’. BTW, if you didn’t already know it, this scandal (and others around the country) was perpetrated by Lerner’s IRS lackeys who affected the let’s-go-after-all-Conservatives-and-Constitutionalist-and-get-’em-good programs.

Guys and gals, this is what I and other have been writing about for years. I have repeatedly written that we are living under tyranny since 2009 when Obama began seizing power from both Congress and SCOTUS…with few to no “peeps” from either of those bodies. Almost every day now, some new Obama scandal seems to be developing. We certainly must wonder how long the dyed in the wool pro-Obama leftists and their media will continue to fall on swords and/or continue to support and protect this far-worse-than-Nixon illegal POTUS. Are the media also supporting the criminalization and end of the USA? Sure seems so…doesn’t it?

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places ”–Ephesians 6:12

It appears the the socialist/communist democrats and their republican enablers like Arnold Schwarzenegger have screwed all California gun owners …

California Certifies Microstamping  brought to us by our new city attorney Mike Feuer and signed by Arnold. Implemented by Kamala Harris

Last Friday the California Dept. of Justice suddenly announced that the technology to microstamp firearms is now unencumbered by patents. As a result, a law passed in 2007 becomes effective immediately.

Every newly introduced model of semiautomatic handgun in the state now must have a microstamped firing pin that, theoretically, would accurately and reliably engrave a firearm’s identification information on each cartridge casing fired from the pistol. The law was signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2007 but never implemented because the technology was, and remains, patented. NSSF, NRA, Calguns and CRPA are exploring legal options to challenge the erroneous and politically motivated certification, which is in essence a gun ban since manufacturers cannot comply with the law due to the extra cost of at least $200 it will add to the price of each firearm. Even the patent holder has acknowledged his concept functions unreliably and requires further study, and should not be legislatively mandated at this time.

The flawed and unreliable nature of this technology has been noted in independent peer-reviewed studies, including one by the National Research Council and another in the professional journal of the Association of Firearms and Tool Mark Examiners. As a crime-solving tool, microstamping is suspect because it does not reliably and legibly imprint the information on the casing, and the shallow marks on the firing pin wear through normal usage. Also, microstamping can be easily circumvented by criminals by filing down the imprinted code using common household tools or swapped out for unmarked pins.

Even law enforcement is against this technology for the fear that some of their microstamped shell casings fired at a range might be picked up and salted at a crime scene. In fact all of us should worry.

AB711 Lead Ban

The California Assembly on Thursday, on a largely party-line 44-21 vote, passed legislation that would make California the first state to ban completely the use of traditional lead ammunition in hunting. Previously, traditional ammunition was banned only in California Condor range areas. The bill, AB711, sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Rendon of Lakewood now goes to the state Senate.

AB711 could create a de facto ban on hunting, due to possible federal prohibition of alternative ammunition made of other materials, which is under consideration by the ATF. Even though the science used to justify the legislation is flawed, if the law passes the Senate and is signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, the ban would be phased in over two years and become fully effective in July 2016.

Locate your state senator here and tell them that you oppose this legislation. If enacted, the impact would be a substantial loss of business for retailers that sell ammunition and hunting-related accessories and equipment. There is some $500 million in tax revenue generated by sportsmen in California.

After telling the story of Mohammed’s boast that he would make the mountain come to him, only to be forced to go to it, Francis Bacon observed, “If the mountains will not come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain.”

Americans, Englishmen, Frenchmen and countless others went to the Muslim world hoping to turn it into another Boston, another London and another Paris. Instead Boston, London and Paris are turning into another Kabul, another Islamabad and another Mogadishu. Mohammed has come to the mountain.