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The President and the Attorney General could be inadvertently helping the 9/11 war criminals' civilian court case. Click here for the expert analysis.

The latest Gallup poll is striking. Click here for the story.

The Obama birth certificate/eligibility issue won't go away, as an encounter, captured in the video below, shows.

Click here for the must-read IBD editorial.

You can't keep a good woman down.

The positively brilliant and indomitable Jane Friedman--America's most accomplished publisher--is back in action with an e-book venture. Click here for the story.

Her stroke of genius: a unique mix of backlist titles, new books, and online marketing.

Exclusive: China Confidential has learned that Friedman--who was among the first publishing executives to recognize the importance of audio books--is interested in innovative integration of video and text.

Click here for a truly brilliant essay by a real expert on the Islamist menace.

Defending America is now a hate crime. Click here for the sickening story.

Jewish Communists, cowards, left-wingers and liberals and their Israel-hating friends in the mainstream media are sickened by Sarah Palin's steadfast support for the Jewish State. Click below for her newsworthy comments.

America's first Muslim-born President (according to Islamic law) has cut the White House Hanukkah party down to size, so to speak, to send a signal to pro-Israel Jews. Click here for the story.

A courageous Russian priest has been gunned down by masked Muslim terrorists, as reported here.

The appeaser-in-chief has ended the war against radical Islam. War criminals are going to be treated like common criminals or rapists. Click here for the analysis, a confirmation of China Confidential reporting and analysis.

Liberals and conservatives agree: Obama's Treasury Secretary must resign. Click here.

Obama looks more like a one-termer--another Carter--every day.

The world's central bankers are the biggest gold buyers, as reported here.

Experience disproves another suicidally stupid Left/liberal idea. Click here for the must-read editorial.

The Islamist-leaning, left-wing Obama administration has done nothing--zero--to put an end to the scourge of Muslim piracy.

A manmade fraud--the idea that carbon dioxide is pollution--exposed by hacked emails. Click here for the story.

It is only a matter of time before Al Gore is universally condemned as a charlatan--and worse. Unlike a simple snake oil salesman, who hurt nobody or perhaps a few people, the former Vice President, who parlayed a slide show into an Academy Award and a Nobel Peace Prize, has hurt humanity, starting with his own countrymen, by seeking to choke the energy supply on which our civilization depends.

Obama's appeasement of Islamist Iran--and Islamism in general--has backfired horribly. Click here for the story.

Obama's election, as China Confidential had predicted, assured Iran of at least an additional year to acquire atomic arms.

IBD nails it--again--here.

Self-hating American media are developing a metanarrative for the Islamist mega-attacks....

Click here for the story. China Confidential has all along predicted it would come to this. There is no diplomatic solution....

This report does not quote the President in detail. He defended his engagement (appeasement policy) on the grounds that it has led to "unity" in the international community with regard to Iran (even though the policy has thus far given Iran nearly an additional year to advance toward acquisition of atomic arms).

CNN carried the news conference live. It will be interesting to see if the unity remarks are reported by the mainstream media.

IBD editorializes on "Bombs and Circuses in New York" as follows:

Terrorism: "Live from New York," the trials of the 9/11 conspirators will be a media freak show that paints a giant bull's-eye on the Big Apple. Worse, it will provide al-Qaida with national secrets.

Why have the president and his attorney general decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a handful of other 9/11 schemers in a courthouse a short walk from Ground Zero?

Don't joke that "if they can make it there, they can make it anywhere!" National Review's Andrew McCarthy, who led the prosecution against the 1993 World Trade Center terrorists, reminds us that Khalid and his co-terrorists could exploit the Constitution's Sixth Amendment right to self-representation.

America could then be faced with this choice: Let the terrorists serve as their own lawyers and be allowed reams of national security material — or deny them that right and risk the case being thrown out on Sixth Amendment grounds.

McCarthy warns that Khalid and the others "can and will demand discovery of mountains of government intelligence. They will demand disclosures about investigative tactics; the methods and sources by which intelligence has been obtained; the witnesses from the intelligence community, the military, and law enforcement who interrogated witnesses, conducted searches, secretly intercepted enemy communications, and employed other investigative techniques."

Without being represented by counsel sworn not to reveal national security secrets, these murderers will pass on all that information to al-Qaida, as happened in the 1993 Trade Center trial.

Had the president simply allowed a military trial to proceed, on the other hand, McCarthy points out that "these war criminals would be well on their way to the execution of death sentences."

Bringing Khalid to New York for trial will also make the city "the focus of mischief in the form of murder," former Attorney General Michael Mukasey warned last week.

Even someone as far to the left as New York Gov. David Paterson knows this, and he is understandably incensed. Paterson blasted the president this week, saying "this is not a decision that I would have made." He added that "having those terrorists so close to the attack is gonna be an encumbrance on all New Yorkers."

"Encumbrance" may end up being an understatement. As University of Missouri constitutional law professor Kris Kobach has pointed out, "During the trial, every building in Manhattan becomes a target for the jihadists."

That will still be the case if Governor's Island is chosen as the trial venue, as some suggest. Kobach also notes that, with defense-lawyer maneuvers that would be prohibited in a military tribunal, "the trial will take many years to complete. Indeed it may not even start for five years or more."

China Confidential analysts add that it is important to recall that nuclear terrorism experts have for years warned that there is at least a 20% chance that a nuclear device will be detonated in an American city over the next two decades. Bringing Al Qaeda war criminals to New York for civilian trials would seem to increase the chances of such an attack. More likely, arguably, is a Mumbai-style swarming attack on soft targets in the city, including schools, hospitals, churches and synagogues. The threat to the Jewish community--the world's largest outside Israel--is especially serious.

Islamist terrorists are not likely to attack the area surrounding the lower Manhattan courthouse. They are not likely to attempt a Western movie-style attack to free the Al Qaeda mass murderers. More likely, the Islamists will attack other neighborhoods and boroughs--e.g. midtown Manhattan, the upper East and West sides, Brooklyn, etc. There aren't enough police to protect all these areas.

The downgrading of the war against Islamist terror to a law enforcement problem is downright obscene and insane.

Obama's dumbbell diplomats dither as defiant Iran rejects the flawed UN-brokered uranium export deal ... and plays for time ... to acquire atomic arms. Click here for news of yet another setback for Obama's potentially catastrophic appeasement policy.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ('Bibi") Netanyahu staged a photo opportunity to send a message to nuclear-arming, Islamonazi Iran: Israel can strike Iran with nuclear missiles. Click here for the story.

The China trip was a total flop. Click here for the analysis.

Reuters reports:

Israel triggered a fresh rift with Washington over settlement building on Tuesday by approving the building of 900 homes for Jews on West Bank land it occupied in a 1967 war and annexed to its Jerusalem municipality.

The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth said U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy, George Mitchell, had asked an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a meeting in London on Monday, to block the proposed construction at the settlement of Gilo.

But a government planning commission approved the addition of 900 housing units at Gilo, where 40,000 Israelis already live.

The Israeli decision drew an unusually sharply worded rebuke from the White House, which said it was "dismayed" and accused Israel of undermining Obama's efforts to resume peace talks with Palestinians stalled since December.

Continue here.

Top-drawer Peruvian gold miners have a new theory about the rise of gold.

The precious metal's price per ounce will seesaw between the $1,000 range and $1,200 for about two years, these experts predict, with no guarantee of a $1,000 floor, because it will take two years for the widely anticipated inflation to kick in worldwide.

After that, the sky is the limit, they tell China Confidential.

The Peruvians expect gold to climb all the way to $4,000 an ounce in 2012.

That is the good news, in their view.

The bad news? Production and exploration costs will also soar. So supplies will remain tight or tighten ... which could further affect the price of gold. Or not affect it ... assuming inflation and economic chaos are the key drivers.

Click here for the story. Even the pro-Obama Times can't put a good face on the fact that the the trip was a total flop. China's leaders have the upper hand--and know it.

The former senior diplomat, an expert on North Korea, agrees with our analysis. North Korea, David Straub says, is not prepared to give up its nuclear weapons. Click here for the interview.

Peru and Chile. They argue over maritime boundaries, the origin of the potato and Pisco--you name it. Now, Peru is accusing its neighbor of spying. Click here for the story.

A death blow to economy-killing schemes? Click here for the analysis.

Robert Reich's essay is must reading. Click here to read it.

President Obama's former friend, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, was interviewed by Al Jazeera about the Fort Hood massacre. The transcript is set forth below.

Interviewer: "Let us begin with the most recent development on the American front, and the racial discrimination against Muslims and their persecution - the incident associated with Mr. Nidal Hasan, a Muslim psychiatrist of Arab origin, who killed 13 soldiers at the U.S. Fort Hood base. To what extent might this incident affect the Muslims in the U.S. and make them targets of persecution?"

Louis Farrakhan: "As you know, since 9/11, in America and in other parts of the world, those anti-Islamic forces have stepped up their efforts to make Muslims... to cause the Muslims to be looked at as uncivilized, savage, or wicked people. This is an attempt by anti-Islamic forces, and some members of the Jewish community, and some members of the Christian community, who have united to condemn Islam and to speak ill of our Prophet Muhammad, and to even go so far as to say that the Muslims worship the devil.

"It is because, my dear brothers and sisters, Islam was making so much progress in the United States that those anti-Islamic forces are trying to stem the tide of the progress of Islam.

"This recent unfortunate event, which took place at the Fort Hood base in Texas, has only added fuel to the fire. On behalf of all the Muslims in the Muslim world, we are saddened by the loss of these 13 American soldiers and the 30 others who were wounded in the incident. No human being would be pleased to see that kind of slaughter, coming from a fellow officer in the U.S. Army.

"However, we have to look at Major Nidal Hasan. What happened to him? What kind of stress was he under? What kind of insults had he borne?

"When there are Muslims who love America, and who join the armed forces to protect America, and to serve the interests of America, and then America, unfortunately, under the falsehoods of the George W. Bush administration, launches attacks against Iraq and against Afghanistan, and now, those soldiers are killing Muslims... So when they go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the kind of hatred that is built up in the American forces, when they call the Muslims 'ragheads' and 'desert niggers,' and then, in the Abu Ghreib prison, Muslim women were raped, and Muslim men were sodomized... All this affects Muslims serving in the army. So when you are being insulted by your superior officers or by your fellow soldiers, at some point, a person might break. Unfortunately, I believe this is what happened to Captain [sic] Nidal Hasan."

It is increasingly dangerous to be an American abroad. The United States is regarded as a paper tiger by Islamist scum, thanks, in large measure, to the Obama administration's appeasement policy. Click here for the nauseating news.

The cowardly, craven creep is defending his mismanagement of the Iran hostage crisis. Click here for the story.

Gold continued advancing to record highs, as reported here, on a weak dollar and fears of inflation.

$1,400 an ounce is the next milestone; after that, China Confidential gold analysts predict, the precious metal will soar to $2,000 or $2,200 before the end of next year, though profit taking and corrections should be expected along the way.

The U.S. economy is a hollowed-out shell; the stimulus, a fraud. Gold's climb reflects that reality.

UPDATE: Commodities guru Jim Rogers agrees with China Confidential that gold will hit $2,000 an ounce, and should, in fact, already be that high or higher; but Rogers is relatively conservative, forecasting a $2,000 gold price "within a decade." Click here for the interview. Notice his negative view of gold stocks. His point is well taken--most gold stocks don't pan out for investors--but the few that do are major money makers.

The New York Post has the story, a solid exclusive, here.

One criticism: the Post reporters refer to "Al Qaeda animals." That is an insult to animals, innocent creatures, in sharp contrast with the Islamist monsters and mutants that murder and maim and plot and plan civilization's doom. Every animal is far more worthy of respect and far more deserving of humane treatment than any Al Qaeda creature.

Read all about it here. The rapidly changing, Communist Party-controlled country is still tightly controlled.

Click below for a CBS News segment on the event. Notice at the end of the piece that the correspondent seems to not know the difference between Twittering and simply using a BlackBerry device for wireless email.

China's chief banking regulator has criticized U.S. monetary policy. Click here for the story. His comments coincided with the start of President Obama's three-day visit.

The America-hating, Islamist-appeasing Times is trying to generate sympathy for U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Click here for the sickening story, the first of many to come.

There is more. China Confidential sources at the Times say the paper plans to mobilize an army of reporters, writers and columnists to defend the "rights" of the 9/11 mastermind and his accomplices when they are tried in a New York civilian court as a result of the Obama administration's obscene/insane decision, which the Times firmly supports.

China Confidential has learned that the Obama administration is quietly backing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in an attempt to curry favor with the banned Islamist opposition group.

In response to the Brotherhood's emergence from elections in 2005 as Egypt's main opposition group, the government of President Hosni Mubarak has wisely banned religion-based political parties. The government has introduced legislation preventing Muslim Brothers from standing in elections as independent candidates.

The government has also sought to cripple the movement by arresting hundreds of its members.

Obama's engagement of the Brotherhood recalls the Eisenhower administration's covert support for the group in a failed attempt to topple the secular nationalist Nasser regime and the catastrophic Carter administration's covert backing of the Ayatollah Khomeini and craven betrayal of Iran's pro-American, modernizing monarch, the Shah, in a disastrous attempt to hop aboard the Islamist bandwagon in that country.

The world's oldest and largest Islamic political group, the Muslim Brotherhood was founded by the Egyptian schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna in 1928. It spawned Al Qaeda, among other groups, and serves as the center of the global Islamist movement.

On October 6, 1981, the Brotherhood made history by assassinating Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. He was gunned down during an annual military parade in Cairo. A fatwa approving his assassination--for the "crime" of making peace with israel--had been obtained from Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind cleric later convicted in the United States for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He is currently serving a life sentence at a U.S. prison in North Carolina.

Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, long regarded as a so-called moderate by Islamist-appeasing Americans and Europeans, criticized U.S. President Barack Obama Sunday, arguing that his promise to change U.S. policy toward Tehran amounts to nothing.

Larijani said that after a year of Obama's speeches and slogans, it is a "disgrace" that his actions are the same as his predecessor.

The Iranian lawmaker decried the extension of U.S. sanctions against Iran.

Larijani also rejected the most recent Western proposal to resolve questions about Iran's nuclear program, dismissing it as "unimportant" and "irrational." The flawed plan calls for Iran to send uranium abroad for enrichment. Tehran countered with conditions to what was presented as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.

Larijani's remarks were followed by "Death to America" chants in the Iranian legislature.

Larijani formerly functioned as Iran's top nuclear negotiator.

By Mona Charen

President Obama likes to preen himself on his supposed moral superiority to his predecessor. He announced the closing of Guantanamo in his first week on the job (though, ten months on, it remains open) to advertise the new administration’s disdain for George Bush’s war-fighting tactics. And at every opportunity since, he has stressed that his policies — on taxes, on the Middle East, on health care, on “man-caused disasters,” and on “climate change” — reflect a more refined and elevated morality than has ever before held sway in Washington, D.C.

So you have to wonder how the president slept last Wednesday night.

He has known that critics in the United States regarded his posture toward the Iranian regime as weak. But on Wednesday, he heard this critique from a different quarter — one that will be more difficult to dismiss.

Every year, on November 4, the anniversary of the day in 1979 when Iranian thugs took American diplomats hostage in Tehran, the government has organized a street demonstration outside the former American embassy. In the early days, the rallies may have engaged a certain number of spontaneous participants, but they have long since become utterly stage-managed government shows. The only people the regime could muster this year to chant “Death to America! Death to Israel!” were non-Iranian members of Hezbollah and students bused in from the provinces for that purpose.

But that wasn’t the only demonstration in Tehran that day. Displaying awe-inspiring courage in light of the brutal tactics (including murder) the regime has used to quell opposition, tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets again. Instead of “Death to America,” they shouted “Death to the Dictator,” referring to Ahmadinejad. And they trampled on photos of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Michael Ledeen, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, reports that demonstrations also erupted in Shiraz, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Zahedan, Arak, Mazandaran, Tabriz, and Rasht. As before, the regime used paramilitary goons on motorcycles to beat, tear-gas, and bludgeon protestors. And again the regime disrupted cell-phone service, text messaging, and the Internet to prevent demonstrators from coordinating their activities.

But this is what should awaken Obama’s conscience: The protestors chanted something new this time. As they dodged the blows of the militia they chorused: “Obama! Obama! Either you’re with them or you’re with us.”

This exquisitely moral White House was unmoved. Incredibly, President Obama released a statement that very day commemorating (!) the 30-year anniversary of the kidnapping of America’s diplomats, taking the opportunity once again to abase himself and us. “Thirty years ago today,” the president recalled, “the American embassy was seized” — he did not say by whom. But because some anonymous agent seized the embassy, it “set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust, and confrontation” that Obama is determined to reverse. He wants to move beyond the past and seek “a relationship with the Islamic Republic of Iran based upon mutual interests and mutual respect.”

By ostentatiously using the term “Islamic Republic,” Obama tips his hand. He could have expressed his hopes for good relations with the people of Iran. That would have left the door open to a new Iranian regime that might not be politically Islamic. Instead he has signaled his eagerness to placate and, yes, appease the current malevolent Iranian leaders. “We do not interfere in Iran’s internal affairs,” he assured them. Asked about the demonstrations flaring around Iran, the president’s spokesman Robert Gibbs hoped that “the violence will not spread,” which sounds like something you’d say about rioters. In Iran, the violence is coming exclusively from the government, which is firing upon unarmed demonstrators.

Though the Obama administration has tripled the deficit in just ten months in office, it has found one program to cut — the $3 million to support the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. The tiny research organization, which kept records of the disappearances, murders, and other human-rights abuses in Iran, was abruptly defunded last month, sending a clear message of contempt to the Iranians who are putting their lives on the line to resist this vicious regime.

A successful overthrow of the nearly nuclear mullahs in Iran would be the greatest boon to world peace and stability since the fall of the Berlin Wall. After this week’s events, it can no longer be said that the Obama administration isn’t doing enough to support the opposition. The people on Tehran’s streets know the truth — he’s effectively supporting the regime.


Mona Charen is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2009 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is threatening to change tactics and bypass the negotiating table. The PA plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to endorse a Palestinian state without Israel's consent, PA senior negotiator Saeb Erekat said Sunday.

"The purpose of such a move is to keep the hope in the minds of Palestinians alive," Erekat told Israel's Army Radio. He asserted that Palestinians have lost hope in the peace process since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office eight months ago. The PA has demanded a complete freeze on Jewish settlement expansion as a precondition for resuming peace talks, but Netanyahu has refused, offering a partial freeze instead, Erekat said, adding that peace talks that began in 1991 have failed to achieve the goal of Palestinian statehood.

"It is very, very obvious to Palestinians now that 18 years later, that the Israeli government is not willing to even resume the negotiations where we left them in December 2008, but their main goal and the main strategy for the government is more settlements," Erekat said.


Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom was quick to respond.

"Any unilateral statement that will be made by the Palestinians will not move the Israeli side forward in order to achieve peace with the Palestinians," Shalom said.

Israeli officials say a unilateral declaration of statehood could doom peace efforts; Palestinians say the peace process is already dead.

A key question: what will the United States do? Most Middle East experts expect the U.S., which is one of five permanent Security Council members, to veto any UN initiative. But China Confidential analysts disagree. They believe U.S. President Obama is inclined to back the Palestinian move, or, at the very least, to threaten to support it as a means of exerting pressure on Israel.


Obama Influenced by Anti-Israel Advisors

Obama is heavily influenced by anti-Israel advisors, analysts say, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, who has urged the President to authorize the downing of Israeli warplanes in the event of an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear (and missile) sites, and Samantha Power, who has advocated U.S. military intervention in "Palestine" in order to force Israel's withdrawal to indefensible borders (pre-1967 boundary lines) and acquiescence to a Palestinian state in the disputed West Bank territories with Jerusalem as its capital.

UN Security Council members Russia and China are also likely to support the initiative, according to China Confidential analysts.

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) declared independence unilaterally on Nov. 15, 1988. The declaration was recognized by dozens of countries, but never implemented on the ground.

The PA is the administrative organization that was established pursuant to the 1994 Israel-PLO Oslo accords to govern Gaza and parts of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank. Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007--and now threatens to take over the West Bank--is an Iranian Islamist proxy dedicated to Israel's destruction that regularly accuses the PA of being an Israeli-American proxy.

PA President and PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas draws his political strength from the Fatah party, which has dominated Palestinian politics for decades. Like Hamas, Fatah is formally committed to Israel's elimination. Fatah has recently escalated its anti-Israel rhetoric to the point of including pro-Hitler statements on the organization's website.

China Confidential has learned that Israeli President Shimon Peres' sate visit to South America is turning into a security nightmare.

Pro-Palestinian and Islamist groups, aided by Iranian-controlled Hezbollah cells and internationally-connected neo-Nazi elements, have compelled security officials to change the president’s schedule.

Peres is scheduled to leave Brazil today to travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina, after attending an economic conference sponsored by Israeli business leaders.

On November 12, Peres told Brazilian Jews in Sao Paulo: "Nothing is left of those who tried to destroy Israel in the past."

The Brazilian Jewish community held receptions to welcome Peres to their country--the first visit by an Israeli president to Brazil in 40 years.

In Sao Paulo, about 2,000 people attended a ceremony at the Hebraica Club, the major meeting point for the city's 60,000-member Jewish community. The institution is considered to be the largest Jewish club in the world.

Speaking in Hebrew, Peres praised Brazil's tradition of religious tolerance.

Later, referring to Iran's president, he said: "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad preaches a message of war, hatred and threat. And now he is a great historian by denying the Holocaust. He doesn't tell the truth and doesn't bring a message for the future. One who doesn't bring messages for the future won't have any future."

The following day, in Rio de Janeiro, home to Brazil's second largest Jewish community, with some 40,000 members, the community held a welcoming event at a luxury hotel facing the renowned Copacabana beach.

Peres' weeklong agenda in Brazil included a meeting with President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Peres also addressed the Brazilian Congress and was granted the title of honorary citizen of Brasilia, Brazil's capital.

Peres, a former Prime Minister and a member of the Kadima party, was elected by the Knesset as President of Israel in June 2007. The position is largely ceremonial.

North Korea is believed to be preparing a new provocation, including, possibly, test-firing of missiles and an attack on a South Korean target.

An incident is imminent, according to China Confidential analysts in the region.

Click here for the background.

Determined to "engage" Burma, which is ruled by a mass-murdering, military junta, America's appeaser-in-chief sent mixed signals to the pariah state Sunday.

The U.S. President overturned a long-standing policy of shunning the regime and instead used a meeting with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to urge Burma (Myanmar) to free pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

It was the first meeting in 43 years between a U.S. president and the leaders of junta.

Obama reportedly told Burma's non-elected, so-called prime minister, General Thein Sein, to release Suu Kyi.

The message fell on deaf ears. All that matters to the junta is that the U.S. has helped to legitimize it.

Again, Obama has put his personal prestige and the prestige of the nation he was elected to lead and represent on the line--for no apparent gain apart from "dialogue."

Dialogue and diplomacy are ends, not means, in Obamaworld.

Human rights groups had hoped a communique out of the meeting would call for the release of Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest. But the statement merely made a cryptic reference to a previous ASEAN foreign ministers communique that called for her release.

Sunday's statement did say that 2010 elections in Myanmar must be "free, fair, inclusive and transparent." Obama will certainly try to characterize the language as a victory of some sort.

In fact, the failure to single out Suu Kyi was "another blow" to dissidents who want more pressure on the Myanmar junta, said Soe Aung, a spokesman for the Forum for Democracy in Burma, a Thailand-based organization.

"We keep saying again and again that the U.S. should not send a mixed signal to the regime."

Obama continues to engage (appease) a defiant, nuclear-arming Iran, as reported here.

Even if the Islamonazi regime in Tehran accepts a uranium export arrangement, there will be enough loopholes so as to merely slow down, at best, rather than stop Iran's atomic advances.

Intentions matter. In fact, intentions are key. Iran intends to destroy Israel and drive the United States from the Middle East--for starters. Bringing the U.S. to its knees through the use of weapons of mass destruction and economic warfare are long-range Islamonazi objectives.

U.S. appeasement of Iran is making war in the Middle East inevitable.

CNN, commonly called (in patriotic circles) the Communist News Network, is working overtime to manage the Obama administration's capitulation to Al Qaeda. Click here for the nauseating "opinion piece."

CNN and other liberal media outlets are dedicated to managing and manipulating the news. Mere reporting and analysis is obsolete in Obamaworld.

This native New Yorker--a Jew and a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism--is sickened and embarrassed by what nowadays passes for the press.

The globe-trotting Appeaser-in-Chief brings pain and misery to democracy seekers everywhere. Click here for the news from China.

America's first Muslim-born, Islamist-appeasing President has granted the 9/11 mastermind his wish--a New York stage--as reported here.

Many Israelis want to know: why didn't the soldiers attacked by a U.S. Army major-turned-terrorist return fire?

When a Muslim goes, well, Muslim in Israel he is typically shot to death by someone--say, a reserve soldier--within seconds of screaming "Allah Akbar."

In contrast with the Israeli experience, it took 10 minutes before a civilian police officer at Fort Hood was able to shoot and stop Muslim fanatic Nidal Malik Hasan.

How could that happen? How could so many people trained in the strategies and tactics of modern warfare be so defenseless?

The answer--and this may astonish many Americans--is that the victims were unarmed. U.S. soldiers are not allowed to carry guns for personal protection, even on a 340-acre base quartering more than 50,000 troops.

So it goes in brain-dead, liberal America.

Fort Hood is a "gun free" zone, thanks to regulations adopted in one of the very first acts signed into law by anti-gun President Bill Clinton in March, 1993. Click here for the file.

Contrary to President Obama's crocodile tears, his Islamist-appeasing administration is bent on further disarming the U.S. military, and all Americans. Obama and his Communist crowd will not rest until every American is a sitting duck.


POSTSCRIPT: Israeli teachers, from kindergarten on up, are also armed; so, a Virginia Tech-type slaughter is highly unlikely at an Israeli university.

Israelis, who have had to combat terrorism all their lives, are not afraid of guns. They are an armed people, ready, willing, and able to defend themselves and their country.

Unlike indoctrinated Americans, paralyzed by fear and political correctness, Israelis understand that people, not guns, kill people.

American Jews, for the most part, are nothing like their Israeli co-religionists. American Jews--as this American Jewish journalist well knows--are disproportionately liberal and anti-gun. This is especially true of elitist, intellectual/professional Jews in Manhattan and the New York suburbs. They pride themselves in their masochistic, near-suicidal "tolerance" of Jew-haters and violent criminals.

The lessons of the Holocaust are lost on these Jews. They relish victimhood. Proud, tough Jews and proud, patriotic Americans make liberal Jews--and liberals in general--nervous.

Perfidy!

Another first from the Appeaser-in-Chief.....

While in Singapore for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to meet a representative of military-ruled Myanmar, or Burma, one of the world's most repressive regimes. Obama will meet Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein, who is fourth in the junta's hierarchy, below ruling general Than Shwe.

A U.S. President has never met with a leader of the Burmese junta. But Obama has authorized a new policy of "pragmatic engagement" of Burma.

In 2004, Brad Adams, director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, described the human rights situation in Burma as appalling.

"Burma is the textbook example of a police state," Adams said.

Three years later, the junta's security forces gunned down dozens of Buddhist monks and other peaceful protesters.

The legitimate claimant to the role of Burmese prime minister is Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, who has been under house arrest since winning the election (and subsequently winning the Nobel Peace Prize) in 1990 and 1991, respectively.

Obama is likely to simply shake the junta representative's hand. As he is neither a Japanese emperor nor a Saudi king, Obama will probably not feel compelled to again disgrace himself and his office by bowing to a foreign leader. A hand clasp should suffice, though the Burmese murderer will probably not be treated to the sort of power handshake that Obama bestowed on Venezuela's anti-American strongman, Hugo Chavez.

Burma is one of 10 member-nations of ASEAN.

MSNBC's Islamist-appeasing Chris Matthews could barely conceal his dislike for a courageous American Muslim, a former Navy doctor, who dares to oppose radical islam. Click below to watch the segment.

Liberal media representatives are fond of saying that a mere 10 percent of the world's estimated 1.6 billion Muslims back the violent, global jihad.

Assuming that is true, it would mean that only 160 million Muslims support mass murder of infidels--how comforting.

Rod Dreher's column is must reading:

Don't jump to conclusions about Islam's role in the Fort Hood massacre, the media warned. Who needed to jump? From almost the beginning, it was clear that Maj. Nidal Hasan was a homegrown jihadi.

Within hours of the attack, people who knew Hasan were telling reporters how openly pious he was and how he often expressed his opposition to U.S. war policy in religious terms favored by Islamic extremists. In fact, you had to strain hard not to see the role Islam played in this atrocity. But that's an exercise politically correct American elites – in the media, academia and government – are good at. They've certainly had lots of practice since 9/11.

When it comes to investigating and exposing radical Islam in America, the media see their job as managing the story, not telling it. Six years ago, the then-head of the Islamic Society of North America came in for an editorial board meeting. He talked about peace, friendship and tolerance. But when I calmly asked him how he reconciled that rhetoric with the record of support for radical causes among ISNA board members, he shook his fist at me and called me a Nazi.

That routine is, alas, not alien to American Muslim leaders with whom I've clashed since. They obfuscate what they really believe and try to intimidate critics into silence with accusations of bigotry. They cannily understand that's kryptonite to many journalists, who find Baptists scarier than Wahhabists.

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Now we know....

Barack Hussein Obama, America's first Muslim President (according to Islamic law) would bring Osama Bin Laden and his most senior commanders to the United States--New York City, probably--for civilian court trials.

Obama would bring Mullah Omar to the U.S. for a civilian court trial.

Had he been President at the end of World War II, Obama would have sabotaged the Nuremberg trials and instead brought Nazi war criminals to New York for civilian court trials.

Had he been in power in those days, Obama would have brought Japanese war criminals to the U.S.--Hawaii, probably--for civilian court trials.

Obama believes that war criminals and enemy combatants deserve U.S. Constitutional protection.

Another deep, deferential bow from America's most un-American-like President. Click here for the story.

Calling himself the first "Pacific President" of the United States, Barack Obama told U.S. ally Japan--one of the world's great democracies--that he welcomes China's rise. Click here for the story.

Obama will get nothing in return for kowtowing to Rising China--no support for new sanctions on Iran, no meaningful help with North Korea, no new trade or economic understandings--nothing but goodwill for himself, personally.

Which is a main point of his Presidency. It serves as one of two strategic springboards, or platforms, from which the Anointed One can seek his Next Big Job--President of the World--i.e. United Nations Secretary-General.

Obama's other platform is the "Muslim world." Hence, his attempts to appease and align with Islamist Iran and Islamism in general. The Muslim world is a constituency capable of propelling Obama into the top UN post.

Today, the White House; tomorrow, the world....

Heaven help us.

An unparalleled legal nightmare:

Whatever the case, if it actually makes its way before a jury, it promises to be a trial like no other in memory, an extraordinary clash involving the morality of torture, due process rights of foreign terrorist operatives, and the ability of civilian courts to handle national security cases.

Mr. Mohammed and his four co-defendants in military custody have admitted their active involvement in plotting the Sept. 11 attacks and have boasted of their success in killing 3,000 people.

Once the Justice Department brings formal terrorism charges against him, Mr. Mohammed could seek to enter a guilty plea, just as he has tried to do in military custody.

But legal analysts were not convinced that he would go that route and said that he might instead seek to martyr himself in the eyes of Muslim extremists through a grand and lengthy trial.

“There’s reason to believe he will try to take advantage of a public platform — more public than Guantánamo afforded him — to publicize his jihadist views,” said David H. Laufman, a Washington lawyer and former federal terrorism prosecutor.

In fact, one question will be how a judge will prevent a trial from turning into a forum on the American war on terrorism, including the Bush administration’s interrogation policies. Terrorism defendants in lesser-known trials have given rambling speeches condemning the government.

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