Just spent nearly three weeks in the USA and have just summoned up the energy to write about it.
I was mainly in Washington DC and New York, doing research, meeting people, organizing a new project, doing a couple of talkback shows and speaking at the Accuracy in Media 40th Anniversary Conference.
One highlight was a guest spot on G Gordon Liddy's talk show. This guy is a living legend-pushing 80, but sharp as a tack. Ex FBI, so he really understands security issues. me.
Was also on the Swaggart Network, a conservative Christian show which broadcasts out of Texas, all over the US.
The Accuracy In Maedia conference in Washington was excellent. I spoke on my work on Obama, Van Jones etc and was well recieved.
Other speakers included Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman, Media Fairness Caucus, Tony Blankley, VP, Edelman PR & former Washington Times editor, Andrew C. McCarthy, senior fellow, National Review Institute, John Fund, "On the Trail" columnist, Wall Street Journal, Lord Christopher Monckton, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large, National Review Online, Cliff Kincaid, editor, Accuracy in Media Anita MonCrief, ACORN Project Vote whistleblower, Hans von Spakovsky, Heritage fellow & former FEC memmber, Marc Morano, Climate Depot, Robert Bluey, online strategy director, Heritage Foundation, J.P. Freire, commentary editor, The Washington Examiner, Ann McElhinney, director, Not Evil Just Wrong, and Danny Glover, online strategy consultant, Accuracy in Media, Don Irvine, chairman, Accuracy in Media.
Also great was Ann McElhinney-a very recent leftist, moved to expose the "climate change" scam, by listening to a few too many blithering socialists without a fact to their name.
Here she is a Heritage Fondation bloggers event.
It was also great to meet ACORN "whistleblower" Anita MonCrief-we have a lot of mutual friends and it was excellent to meet her at the conference.
I met heaps of US bloggers, Obama researchers, journalists and activists-including briefly the ACORN exposing "prostitute and pimp" team of Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe at the National press Club lauch of their latest video.
Also got to meet the great P J O'Rourke at a media awards dinner in New York.
The US is undergoing two revolutions-the top down Obama/Democrats socialist revolution and the grass roots patriotic pro-Constitution insurgency.
Whichever side wins will determine the fate of the planet.
New Zeal and the Obama files is pretty well known in the US and is widely drawn on by other writers and researchers.
The Van Jones resignation raised my profile a lot and I was generally very well received and made lots of great contacts.
American hospitality and generosity is first rate. Thanks to you know who.
Look out for some good info coming up.
Please think about contributing through the PayPal button on the right if you can to help get more research underway.
The more you dig around Obama and the Dems, the more dirt you find.
This is reportedly an eye witness account of part of the Fort Hood massacre.
Since I don't know when I'll sleep (it's 4 am now) I'll write what happened (the abbreviated version.....the long one is already part of the investigation with more to come). I'll not write about any part of the investigation that I've learned about since (as a witness I know more than I should since inevitably my JAG brothers and sisters are deeply involved in the investigation). Don't assume that most of the current media accounts are very accurate. They're not. They'll improve with time. Only those of us who were there really know what went down. But as they collate our statements they'll get it right.
I did my SRP last week (Soldier Readiness Processing) but you're supposed to come back a week later to have them look at the smallpox vaccination site (it's this big itchy growth on your shoulder). I am probably alive because I pulled a ---------- and entered the wrong building first (the main SRP building). The Medical SRP building is off to the side. Realizing my mistake I left the main building and walked down the sidewalk to the medical SRP building. As I'm walking up to it the gunshots start. Slow and methodical. But continuous. Two ambulatory wounded came out. Then two soldiers dragging a third who was covered in blood. Hearing the shots but not seeing the shooter, along with a couple other soldiers I stood in the street and yelled at everyone who came running that it was clear but to "RUN!". I kept motioning people fast.
About 6-10 minutes later (the shooting continuous), two cops ran up. one male, one female. we pointed in the direction of the shots. they headed that way (the medical SRP building was about 50 meters away). then a lot more gunfire. a couple minutes later a balding man in ACU's came around the building carrying a pistol and holding it tactically. He started shooting at us and we all dived back to the cars behind us. I don't think he hit the couple other guys who were there. I did see the bullet holes later in the cars. First I went behind a tire and then looked under the body of the car. I've been trained how to respond to gunfire...but with my own weapon. To have no weapon I don't know how to explain what that felt like. I hadn't run away and stayed because I had thought about the consequences or anything like that. I wasn't thinking anything through. Please understand, there was no intention. I was just staying there because I didn't think about running. It never occurred to me that he might shoot me. Until he started shooting in my direction and I realized I was unarmed.
Then the female cop comes around the corner. He shoots her. (according to the news accounts she got a round into him. I believe it, I just didn't see it. he didn't go down.) She goes down. He starts reloading. He's fiddling with his mags. Weirdly he hasn't dropped the one that was in his weapon. He's holding the fresh one and the old one (you do that on the range when time is not of the essence but in combat you would just let the old mag go). I see the male cop around the left corner of the building. (I'm about 15-20 meters from the shooter.) I yell at the cop, "He's reloading, he's reloading. Shoot him! Shoot him!) You have to understand, everything was quiet at this point. The cop appears to hear me and comes around the corner and shoots the shooter. He goes down. The cop kicks his weapon further away. I sprint up to the downed female cop.
Another captain (I think he was with me behind the cars) comes up as well. She's bleeding profusely out of her thigh. We take our belts off and tourniquet her just like we've been trained (I hope we did it right...we didn't have any CLS (combat lifesaver) bags with their awesome tourniquets on us, so we worked with what we had). Meanwhile, in the most bizarre moment of the day, a photographer was standing over us taking pictures. I suppose I'll be seeing those tomorrow. Then a soldier came up and identified himself as a medic. I then realized her weapon was lying there unsecured (and on "fire"). I stood over it and when I saw a cop yelled for him to come over and secure her weapon (I would have done so but I was worried someone would mistake me for a bad guy). I then went over to the shooter. He was unconscious. A Lt Colonel was there and had secured his primary weapon for the time being. He also had a revolver. I couldn't believe he was one of ours. I didn't want to believe it. Then I saw his name and rank and realized this wasn't just some specialist with mental issues.
At this point there was a guy there from CID and I asked him if he knew he was the shooter and had him secured. He said he did. I then went over the slaughter house. the medical SRP building. No human should ever have to see what that looked like. and I won't tell you. Just believe me. Please. there was nothing to be done there. Someone then said there was someone critically wounded around the corner. I ran around (while seeing this floor to ceiling window that someone had jumped through movie style) and saw a large African-American soldier lying on his back with two or three soldiers attending. I ran up and identified two entrance wounds on the right side of his stomach, one exit wound on the left side and one head wound. He was not bleeding externally from the stomach wounds (though almost certainly internally) but was bleeding from the head wound. A soldier was using a shirt to try and stop the head bleeding. He was conscious so I began talking to him to keep him so. He was 42, from North Carolina, he was named something Jr., his son was named something III and he had a daughter as well. His children lived with him. He was divorced. I told him the blubber on his stomach saved his life. He smiled. a young soldier in civvies showed up and identified himself as a combat medic. We debated whether to put him on the back of a pickup truck. A doctor (well, an audiologist) showed up and said you can't move him, he has a head wound. we finally sat tight.
I went back to the slaughterhouse. they weren't letting anyone in there. not even medics. finally, after about 45 minutes had elapsed some cops showed up in tactical vests. someone said the TBI building was unsecured. They headed into there. All of a sudden a couple more shots were fired. People shouted there was a second shooter. a half hour later the SWAT showed up. there was no second shooter. that had been an impetuous cop apparently. but that confused things for a while. meanwhile I went back to the shooter. the female cop had been taken away. a medic was pumping plasma into the shooter. I'm not proud of this but I went up to her and said "this is the shooter, is there anyone else who needs attention...do them first". she indicated everyone else living was attended to. I still hadn't seen any EMTs or ambulances. I had so much blood on me that people kept asking me if I was ok. but that was all other people's blood. eventually (an hour and a half to two hours after the shootings) they started landing choppers. they took out the big African American guy and the shooter. I guess the ambulatory wounded were all at the SRP building. Everyone else in my area was dead.
I suppose the emergency responders were told there were multiple shooters. I heard that was the delay with the choppers (they were all civilian helicopters). they needed a secure LZ. but other than the initial cops who did everything right, I didnt' see a lot of them for a while. I did see many a soldier rush out to help their fellows/sisters. there was one female soldier, I dont' know her name or rank but I would recognize her anywhere who was everywhere helping people. a couple people, mainly civilians, were hysterical, but only a couple. one civilian freaked out when I tried to comfort her when she saw my uniform. I guess she had seen the shooter up close. a lot of soldiers were rushing out to help even when we thought there was another gunman out there. this Army is not broken no matter what the pundits say. not the Army I saw.
and then they kept me for a long time to come. oh, and perhaps the most surreal thing, at 1500 (the end of the workday on Thursdays) when the bugle sounded we all came to attention and saluted the flag. in the middle of it all. this is what I saw. it can't have been real. but this is my small corner of what happened.
The original has been taken down, but it is now available on Youtube.
The tapes show Reverend Jeremiah Wright, speaking at the 60th anniversary of the Marxist journal US Guardian on September 17 2009.
Tedious and mean spirited, but very revealing.
Note that Wright talks about Marxism, socialism, "liberation theology" and his links to Cuba, El Salvador's Marxist FLMN rebels, Qadaffi's Libya and Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan.
Barack Obama sat in this man's church for 20 years and claims he didn't notice Wright's radical Marxism.
Either the 44th President of the United States is a fool or he is a liar.
It seems that Fox news has gotten rid of radical commentator Mark Lamont Hill.
Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid today welcomed FOX News Channel’s decision to fire cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill as a paid analyst. Kincaid learned of Hill’s firing this morning at the annual meeting of News Corporation, the parent company of FOX News, in New York City. Accuracy in Media is a News Corp. shareholder.
Kincaid was in the middle of raising a question that he has asked in a series of recent columns – namely, while properly questioning how the Obama Administration could possibly have hired Van Jones, with his radical background, how did FOX News hire Marc Lamont Hill as an analyst, when Hill had an easily documentable record in support of cop-killers.
Before Kincaid completed the background for his question, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch interrupted Kincaid to say that he appreciated Cliff’s work on this matter, and that Hill had been “fired” last week.
Kincaid announced that he will have more to say on this in the coming days. His previous columns on Marc Lamont Hill are available on the AIM website.
Great work Cliff and kudos to Fox for making the right call.
On Friday October 23, Accuracy in Media holds its 40th Anniversary conference in Washington DC- 9am to 5pm at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Hampton Ballroom.
Speakers include;
Rep. Lamar Smith (R Texas), Chairman media Fairness Caucus.
Andrew C McCcarthy Author, Senior fellow, National Review Institute
Don Irvine Chairman, Accuracy in Media
Anita MonCrief ACORN/Project Vote "whistleblower"
Marc Morano Founder, Climate Depot
John Fund Columnist, Wall Street Journal
Trevor Loudon Blogger, New Zealand newzeal.blogspot.com
Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Robert Bluey, Director of Online Strategy, Heritage Foundation
Anne McElhinney, Director and Producer of "Not Evil Just Wrong"
Why European Socialists Gave Obama the Nobel Prize
President Obama has long term ties to Democratic Socialists of America, the US affiliate of the Socialist International.
Former Israeli diplomat Yoram Ettinger points out that those who awarded Obama the Nobel Prize were European affiliates of the Socialist International.
Obama’s Nobel Prize win a blatant attempt to Europeanize US policy
According to Alfred Nobel's will – and in contrast with other Nobel Prize committees – the members of the Nobel Prize for Peace committee are not experts, but politicians, members of the Norwegian Parliament.
The chairman of the committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Norway, is the Vice President and the Chairman of the Middle East Committee of the "Socialist International," known for its opposition to US and Israeli policies.
He is, also, the Chairman of the "Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights," which advocates a Dovish-Leftist worldview, in cooperation with former President Jimmy Carter, who is close to President Obama and considered a role-model for the new Nobel laureate.
Along with other members of the Committee, Jagland represents a Parliament that has called to recognize Hamas, to dialogue with Iran, to tolerate rogue regimes, to enhance ties with Muslim regimes, to condemn (what he terms) Islamophobia and to condemn systematically the policies of Washington (until Obama's victory) and Jerusalem.
Awarding Obama the Nobel Peace Prize – in spite of the fact that the deadline for nominations was February 1, 10 days into Obama's Administration – constitutes a transparent attempt by European politicians to bolster Obama's determination in the global arena and improve his standing in the domestic arena. While Obama's stock has risen internationally, it has deteriorated internally, in light of his lack of success in the areas of unemployment, taxes, budget deficit, health insurance reform, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia and al-Qaeda.
Jagland and his colleagues are determined to provide Obama with a tailwind. They consider him the most UN-driven American President since Woodrow Wilson, who established the League of Nations in 1920. They encourage him to sustain his efforts to endear the UN to the American people and legislators and to highlight the UN as the key formulator of international relations. They identify with – and are eager to advance – Obama's worldview, as they assess it: that the superpower role pf the US is over, that moral equivalence – and not moral superiority – dominates relations between the US and non-Western democracies, and that the West must reconcile itself to the rise of the Muslim World.
This perceived worldview also holds that the US must desist from unilateral political and military initiatives, that America should advance multilateral initiatives which reflect values and attitudes shared by the majority of the UN membership, that there is no military option against Iran, that the battle against Islamic terrorism must be conducted diplomatically, economically and legally and not militarily, that there should not be a surge in Afghanistan, that retreat from Iraq should be accelerated, that the Palestinian issue is the core cause of Middle East turbulence and anti-Western Islamic terrorism, etc.
Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama does not reflect respect by the Nobel Prize Committee toward the American President. It does not intend to express appreciation of the American legacy and American human and mega-billion monetary sacrifice, which spared Europe defeat during World War I and World War II, produced victory over Communism and minimized Islamic terrorism in Europe.
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee aimed to improve Obama's image among Americans and leverage his presidency in order to Europeanize US policy, thus accomplishing the "wet dream" of US critics, rivals and enemies. Reservations expressed by most of the US public, legislators and media suggest that the Norwegian politicians may relive the Biblical episode of Balaam in reverse: They came to bless, but ended up cursing.
New Zealand, like most Western countries has had socialized health care for decades.
It is a constant source of public dissatisfaction and bitching.
The system is in perpetual crisis, with overworked and underpaid doctors and nurses, more bureaucrats than health professionals in the system, long waiting lists, rationed care and restricted access to drugs and treatment.
Families regularly have take their cancer stricken children to other centers or even Australia for treatment. People mortgage their houses to pay private hospitals to administer treatments not available in the public sector. if waiting lists get too long, you get a letter telling you you are no longer on the list, that you must go back to your family doctor (if you have one in your town) for assessment and re-apply for treatment. You can spend years in discomfort waiting for a basic hip or knee operation.
Doctors and nurses, being altruistic types by nature, keep the system functioning-but only just. Large numbers of them head overseas annually, meaning we have to recruit health professionals from the third world to cope-no aspersions cast here, they are good people. The point is that our system is so rotten we can't retain enough NZ trained professionals.
Now Americans, with the best health care in the world, are being told that they need to be more like us.
At least this guy can see the utter folly in that.
All ideology aside America.
If you want queues, rationing, reduced healthcare options, doctor shortages and more moaning and bitching support Obamcare.
