09 December 2010

Run Wesley! Run!

Update: He checked into his country club, McKean Federal Correctional Institution in Lewis Run, today 12/9/2010.

Below was posted 11/20/10.

Wesley Snipes to serve three year jail sentence for tax evasion | UKTODAYNEWS.COM:

"Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes is likely to serve a three year jail sentence, after he was found guilty for tax payment irregularities. BBC states that the actor has been ordered to surrender himself to the police authorities at the earliest."

Snipes has been protesting US income tax since the 1990's. A Law.Com article from 2008 has a detailed history.

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Geraldo Rivera says FBI Seduced Islamic Terrorists

Just heard about this:
Geraldo Rivera is adamant that the FBI seduces terrorists into terrorist acts!

What a weirdo! In the latest close-call, four of Mohamed Hussain's buddies did the right thing. One did the best thing and reported Mohamed to the FBI. It does not look any different than when news people catch sexual predators and the potential victim is played by an adult actress. In this case, the potential victims were real and the weapon was impotent.
Criminal complaint.

Update to Baltimore recruiting center bombing plot

Update to yesterday's story.

In plan to attack recruiting center, echoes of Christmas tree bombing plot - CSMonitor.com:

"Antonio Martinez, 21, of Baltimore appeared in federal court on Wednesday and was charged with attempting to explode a car bomb at a military recruiting station in Catonsville, Md.

There was no real bomb. It was all a setup arranged by undercover FBI sources and operatives posing as militant Muslims."

Yesterday, a CBS affiliate reported Martinez went by Mohamed O. Mohamud and Mohamed Hussain (I still prefer Mohamed O'Mohamud). More from CSM:

The operation nearly fell apart because of similarities to the Nov. 26 case in Portland. After seeing news accounts of the sting operation and arrest, Martinez phoned the same unnamed confidential source and expressed concern about an undercover FBI agent who was posing as an Afghan militant.

Martinez told the source that he needed to know “who this brother is. … I’m not falling for no B.S.,” according to the affidavit.

And -

“Every person Mr. Martinez asked to join in his scheme either declined to participate, tried to talk him out of it, or reported him to the FBI,” US Attorney Rod Rosenstein said in a statement. “There is no evidence that Mr. Martinez received direction or support from any other person.”

CBS Evening News reports:

According to an affidavit the government was tipped to Martinez back in October, recording numerous conversations he allegedly had with an informant as well as an undercover agent over two months. In one conversation, Martinez said, "[W]e blow one recruiting center up, then we hit another one, there's no more recruiting centers in Maryland."

As evidence the government also cites Facebook postings including, "[T]he sword is cummin (sic) the reign of oppression is about 2 cease..."

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08 December 2010

Mohamed O. Mohamud Arrested In Baltimore Bomb Plot

See Dec. 9 2010 update.
From the 'If these guys do not stop, their religion might get a bad name' department:

Jihad Barbie models winter boots.

Person Arrested In Baltimore Bomb Plot:

"An official who was briefed on the arrest told AP on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information that the person was given a phony bomb and was arrested after trying to detonate it.

U.S. law enforcement officials told CBS News that the case was 'similar to Portland.' Mohamed O. Mohamud is accused of trying to detonate a van during a Christmas tree lightening ceremony in Portland, but the FBI infiltrated the plot in its early stages and supplied Mohamud with fake explosives.

The Baltimore man is expected to be charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and was under surveillance by law enforcement for months.

Sources tell CBS that the man is 21 years old, a United States citizen and a convert to Islam."

The Wikileaks nation must be in tears about another headline getting in the way of Julian Assange news. Also, I suspect a typo. Mohamed O'Mohamud has such an IRA/Hamas fusion to it.

Read it all at KKTV.

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Do the Mossad Genetically Modified Sharks have Six-Pointed Lasers too?

This is just too juicy to ignore:

Egypt: Sinai shark attacks could be Israeli plot

Israel rejects the notion as "too ludicrous" for comment; German woman killed near Sharm e-Sheikh, Russian tourists also mauled.

Courtesy climateprogress.org

Here are the best bits:

“What is being said about the Mossad throwing the deadly shark [in the sea] to hit tourism in Egypt is not out of the question, but it needs time to confirm,” South Sinai Gov. Muhammad Abdel Fadil Shousha was quoted as saying by the Egyptian state news site egynews.net.

Israeli officials said the claims were too ludicrous to comment on. Israel has issued an advisory warning against travel to Sinai due to plots against Israelis by terrorist groups linked to al-Qaida.

Form in your own mind which side is expressing the more rational position. The attack happened in the Red Sea, and according to Wikipedia there are 44 species that populate that body of water. Egypt has a bustling resort business there too.

Lets connect some dots: sharks, humans, tourist dollars, politics.

But Aviv Levy, a shark expert and the curator of the Underwater Observatory Marine Park in Eilat, said the Egyptians usually engaged in “smoke screening” when it came to shark attacks.

“Something is very strange here. The Egyptians are trying to hide it,” Levy told The Media Line. “This is very bad news for the sharks. It was strange after the first attacks last week and now even more so.”

Egyptian authorities launched a hunt for sharks after four Russian swimmers were mauled at the Red Sea resort last week. Over the weekend, government conservation officials released photos of two captured sharks: an oceanic whitetip and a mako.

The mayor of Sharm e-Sheikh had announced that the beaches were reopened after authorities deemed that the sharks no longer posed a threat and that it was safe to go back into the waters. The sandy resort at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula is popular with European tourists and attracts over 3 million visitors a year.

Shark attacks in the Red Sea are not unheard of, or 'unprecedented' as the popular kids of the MSM would say if Obama were involved. Nope, suddenly trumping up charges against Israel are more important than covering up shark attacks for more tourist dollars, unless you can keep blaming Israel. You would think that a shark attack announcement, with Israel's Mossad standing as the accused, might put a dent in tourism to the Sinai. Not according to the Egyptians:

Israeli travel warning an attempt to discourage tourism:

The governor of northern Sinai, outraged by an Israeli travel warning on the Egyptian peninsula issued earlier this week, claimed Saturday that the warning was an attempt to harm the Egyptian economy.

Abdel Fadil Shusha said Saturday morning that the situation in the area was quiet and secure and that Israel has become used to publishing such travel warnings during Egyptian holiday seasons since the 2004 Taba attacks.

At least he did not say that the warning was to keep Israelis away from the Mossad trained sharks. Maybe he missed the news from November, when Egypt arrested 25 people accused of plotting terrorist attacks against Israelis in the Sinai?

Not mentioned is the annual UN vote to declare a Palestinian state coming up soon.

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07 December 2010

Suki Paperbacks Replenished at Park Sundries

Full set of all Suki series paperbacks again for sale at Park Sundries, Maynine, INC, Crystal Park III, 2231 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia, 22202. Located in the same courtyard as Chipotle. They currently carry one copy each of Suki I, Suki II: Sunshine Returns, Suki III: Never Let Us End, Suki IV: Finally A Vacation (War With Iran) and Suki V: The Collection (first four novels in one volume). Also, one copy of Suki With A Twist: Part One (An Alternate Future).

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Thank You President Obama for Revealing Your Hidden Agenda

A photoshopped rendering of another Obama compromise.

Obama Reveals Compromise (video at the link)

The media wants to spin Obama's "compromise" on taxes and unemployment compensation as something Republicans painted him into a corner about. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
-No Republican holds a veto pen in the current federal government.
-Both houses of Congress are controlled by Democrats until the end of the year.

If Obama really wanted to raise taxes on "the wealthiest Americans" he could just let the Bush-era tax rates expire, allowing them to rise to Clinton-era rates. If the incoming Congress decides to change that, he could blame them when it happens. No, gentle reader, Obama really wanted to cut taxes for "the wealthy" and he will be taking credit for that, along with taking credit for the economic benefits that they generate, before his next election.

Actually, he is taking credit for it now. He mentioned how more jobs will be created and other nice things about keeping taxes where they are now. Obama seemed to be against these things before, but it must have been a ruse.

Obama: The No New Taxes president. I fully support him in this matter.

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London

Julian Assange

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London - World news, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk:

"Scotland Yard has confirmed that Julian Assange has been arrested by police in England.

A warrant had been processed by the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency and was sent by the Metropolitan Police.

Mr Assange, believed to be residing in South-east England, is a suspect in a case in which two women claim they were sexually attacked by him when he visited Sweden in August this year.

The 39-year-old Australian was held when he attended a central London police station by appointment."

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05 December 2010

The Seymour Hersh Myth of "breaking" the Abu Ghraib Story

Via dailymail.co.uk

A bit of talk radio in the wee hours of the night last night reminded me a recent media myth. It is striking because it is easily found out, full documentation available on the internet. Sadly, there was better documentation available a few years ago.

The 2004, Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse in Iraq story is generally credited as "broken by" Seymour M. Hersh.
False. The US Army Central Command broke the story themselves in January, 2004, long before Hersh wrote a single word about the affair.

Hersh's Chain of Command seems to return to the scene of his first and biggest success: war crimes. But this time facts and logic are rather scarce. Ever since the Pentagon released the news of the investigation of prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib in January 2004, Hersh has been taking credit for "breaking" the story. Now, in his new book, he's arguing that since late 2002, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice have met and made decisions that amounted to ordering the prisoner abuses that later occurred at Abu Ghraib.

CENTCOM briefed reporters, broadcast live, that an investigation of prisoner abuse was recently initiated. The announcement was ignored for months as the Army conducted their investigation. Hersh came along a few months later, with false accusations of a cover-up, and "broke" the story that he and his peers ignored for weeks.

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