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Palestinians Terrorizing Isreal

Once again, Palestinian Hamas has launched rockets from Gaza, and now Egypt at Israel. Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood confidant Morsi met with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip leaving many questioning exactly what those like-minded folks talked about. Pundits from across the country and weighing in on the violence and in typical fashion liberal bastions like reddit.com are full of foreign policy Neanderthals that place blame squarely on Israel’s shoulder. Here, we know better. In fact, the problem lays not squarely only on Hamas and extremism, but also on the reticent 'peaceful' Muslim community that refuses to reject these violent savages.

FOOLED: Obama succesfully hides Benghazi truth until after election...

General Petreaus revealed on Friday, November 16th that he, and other top intelligence officials, immediately concluded the attack against the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was a terrorist attack. The General also suggested the Obama administration altered CIA talking points to remove the link to terrorism. Although Fieldcomments prides itself on the individual contributor, rather than the career pundit or journalist, Thomas Sowell forecasted and described exactly what the Obama administration was trying to do vis-à-vis Benghazi. We suggest you read Sowell’s story.

$1,600,000,000 in new taxes?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting President Obama has set his sights on $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue. This is what 51% of America voted for. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not going work; as the saying goes: there is no free lunch.

Sit back and reflect on how our nation has changed when sane (allegedly) people vote for someone they know will raise taxes. It does not matter who bears the brunt of the tax increases, we will all pay. You cannot remove that kind of cash from the private sector and expect no consequences.

Read the WSJ article about President Obama and his $1.6 trillion tax plan.

SPY GAME: FBI uncovers affair; General Petraeus resigns.

General Petraeus asked President Obama for permission to resign as the head spy after an FBI investigation revealed an affair with a former aide. Rumors and leaks float throughout the media that Eric Holder knew for months, Petraeus was just informed, and SECDEF is finding out his information by reading the newspaper.

IRAN: We will break Obama's 'Grapsing hands'

Iranian leadership continues to exploit a weak U.S. foreign policy and an international sense of disinterest. Meanwhile, centrifuges keep spinning. While President Obama was debating the Reublican Challenger Mitt Romney, he claimed, "America's never been as strong overseas as it is now." The worst type of politician is the one that says someothing patently false but with such conviction that the ignorant are convinced."
Read the artricle from the Associated press.

TERRORISM

Israel hits Hamas buildings, shoots down Tel Aviv-bound rocket

RETALIATION: Isreal fires rockets back into Gaza

WSJ: Isreal readies troops...

Hacker group anonymous takes down Isreali sites

Republican's feeling the heat.

LA TIMES: Reality crashes the Republican Party

BUSINESS INSIDER: There Is A Brutal Civil War In The Republican Party, And It Looks ...

WASHINGTON POST: The GOP has lost its way. Here's how it can return to its roots.

Scientists create invisibility cloak

Texas has the signatures. Petition to be reviewed by the White House.

BACKLASH: States petition to secede from the union

France President Hollande approval rating 41%

Terror in Nairobi. Bomb detonates on bus, kills six

FOOLED: Obama succesfully hides Benghazi truth until after election...

General Petreaus revealed on Friday, November 16th that he, and other top intelligence officials, immediately concluded the attack against the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was a terrorist attack. The General also suggested the Obama administration altered CIA talking points to remove the link to terrorism. Although Fieldcomments prides itself on the individual contributor, rather than the career pundit or journalist, Thomas Sowell forecasted and described exactly what the Obama administration was trying to do vis-à-vis Benghazi. We suggest you read Sowell’s story.

"I'll transmit this information to Vladimir"

In May, President Obama asked the Russian Prime Minister for more 'space' until after his re-election. Weekly Standard reports the Russian government has invited President Obama to visit to discuss, "progressive development." If past events are any prediction of the future, we can be sure President Obama will bow to the demands of the Russians even though they are consistently battle with China for the title of international nuisance. Read the Weekly Standard article.

"I'll transmit this information to Vladimir"

In May, President Obama asked the Russian Prime Minister for more 'space' until after his re-election. Weekly Standard reports the Russian government has invited President Obama to visit to discuss, "progressive development." If past events are any prediction of the future, we can be sure President Obama will bow to the demands of the Russians even though they are consistently battle with China for the title of international nuisance. Read the Weekly Standard article.

SPY GAME: FBI uncovers affair; General Petreaus resigns.

General Petreaus asked President Obama for permission to resign as the head spy after an FBI investigation revealed an affair with a former aide. Strangely, the General asked to resign three days after the general election and one week before he was expected to testify under oath about the Benghazi scandal. Read more and discuss...

Israel strike kills 11 civilians in Gaza..

Senior Hamas leaders: No truce with Israel

Israel shoots down Tel Aviv-bound rocket

Israel launches scores of airstrikes into Gaza

POWERLESS: Abbas defies US interests and requests UN upgrade.

Syrian opposition coalition gets ambassador to France

Nuclear agency says Iran plant fully equipped

SECRET SITES: Petraeus mistress suggests CIA taking prisoners in Libya

CIA denies...

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YOU'RE WELCOME: Benghazi attackers include Egyptians.
CIA Acting Chief to testify about Bengazi in Petreaus' stead.

NYPOST: White House denies terror delete

SHAM: Clinton and Petraeus not testifying in congressional hearings

Sen Graham (R-SC): Essential for Pertaeus to testify about Benghazi

OPINION: Obama let them die

FOXNEWS: PETREAUS SCANDAL: Affair revealed after email probe

Petraeus personally investigated Benghazi attack!

NYTimes: Petraeus quits; evidence of affair was found by F.B.I.

Petraeus quits just DAYS before he was due to testify at Benghazi hearings as FBI probes 'massive national security threat'

FOOLED: Obama succesfully hides Benghazi truth until after election...

General Petreaus revealed on Friday, November 16th that he, and other top intelligence officials, immediately concluded the attack against the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya was a terrorist attack. The General also suggested the Obama administration altered CIA talking points to remove the link to terrorism. Although Fieldcomments prides itself on the individual contributor, rather than the career pundit or journalist, Thomas Sowell forecasted and described exactly what the Obama administration was trying to do vis-à-vis Benghazi. We suggest you read Sowell’s story.

James Bond? More like Mr. Bean

USA Today is reporting General Petraeus and his mistress communicated by using an online dropbox in an email account. Take it from someone who used to teach clandestine communication: this is the dumbest trick in the book. Amateurs do this.

Just because you are not 'sending' an e-mail does not mean the information you type on the computer magically gets to the online drop-box. When a man surrounded by the nation's top spies cannot figure out how to get a message discretely to his fling, we have much bigger problems. Read the article about Petraus and his lady... 

Eric Holder does not inform the White House for months about an investigation targeting the top spy in America and President Obama asks him to stay? General Petraeus asks to reisgn two days after the General Election and only days before congressional hearings on the assassination of Ambassador Christopher Stephens and three brave Americans. Does this pass your sniff test?  This sophomoric maneuvering is typical of the Obama Administration and, perhaps most shamefully, they believe Americans are stupid enough to believe the lame narrative.

Petraeus tells Congress that Benghazi attack was terrorism

Petraeus: CIA Blamed Terrorists for Libya Attack

FBI Agents raid Petraeus' mistress' home.

TYPICAL: Eric Holder knew for months...

Petraeus shocked at mistress' e-mails...

DRAMA: Jealous mistress brought down the spy chief.

Petraeus knew for six weeks...

Congress to press FBI, CIA on discovery of emails that exposed Petraeus' career-ending affair

Feinstein: Hill inquiry into Libya attack will include questions on Petraeus, FBI

STALKER: Petraeus harrased mistress by E-mail.

China to make Landrovers...
CBS: Gin not exclusive to drunks anymore...
U.S. Airlines To Face Pilot Shortage
Wall Street Stocks Meander
Consumer Confidence at a Five-year High
Lew, Bowles Rumored To Replace Treasury's Geithner
No more twinkies...

After 82 years of operating, Hostess is closing their factories and distribution centers after being forced into bankruptcy from Bakers Union strike over an 8% wage cut. Hostess warned the Union members that if the strike did not stop the company would be forced to close. Now 18,500 people are unemployed. The bakery union contends Hostess failed because management failed to make the company profitable. Yet, no independent auditor has ever authored an opinion that Hostess Brands Inc. would fail to meet debt obligations.

The largest financial burden on Hostess was due to union healthcare and pension plans. Surprise, surprise. The bakery union represented only 30% (5,550) of the 18,500 workers. In the end, 5,550 union members forced 12,950 employees – with families, kids and bills – into the unemployment line. Read about Hostess Brands Inc closing from dailyfinance.com.

walmart hikes 'middle class' employee premiums

Employees of U.S. Wal-Marts will watch their premiums increase between 8 and 36 percent in 2013.  Many of the 1.4 million will forego health care coverage altogether.  Given Wal-Mart jobs are typically part time and lower wage(under 36k/yr), one can assume their employees overwhelmingly voted for Obama last election (Obama won incomes less than $36k by 18%).  So laugh a little bit inside when you hear a Wal-Mart employee complain about their premiums going up.   Read the CNBC news article here.

Prepare for the meltdown

Wealthy Dump Assets Amid Worries About Going Over 'Cliff'

Iran Set to Double Nuclear Fuel Capability

Emirates Profit Soars

CUPCAKE MADNESS: Hostess Brands Hit by Strikes

Hostess goes under...18.5k unemployed

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Featured Blog: Dereliction of Duty
By Nate Charbonneau

When we first learned of the loss of our Ambassador in Benghazi, Libya, most were willing to give& the administration a chance to explain the circumstances.  Most of us understand that foreign service is inherently dangerous, and yes, sometimes bad things happen.  But what we weren’t prepared for was the serial deception or ignorance from the Obama administration.  There is no question that the administration’s response to the terror attacks in Benghazi is blatant incompetence, but is it also criminal dereliction of duty?                 

When I was deployed to Iraq during four separate tours, before leaving any of the Forward Operating Bases (FOBs) we painstakingly covered the patrol order.  One of the last parts of that patrol order is the ‘missing Marine plan’.  If a Marine is missing from the patrol at any point in time, there are several things that automatically happen.  Notice the emphasis on automatically.  First, the patrol immediately informs higher headquarters of the missing Marine’s identification, last known location, and gear and equipment.  Second, patrols immediately return to the last known location and begin a systematic search of the area.  Third, the higher headquarters diverts all assets, regardless of mission to seal off the area and ensure the Marine is contained to an area.  Those are not decisions made by a wise commander after-the-fact.  They aren’t audibled.  They aren’t searched for by sifting through pages of regulations and Standard Operating Procedures.  They just happen.  The only way they don’t happen, is if someone decides they don’t happen.             

I’ve never worked in the State Department, but I’d imagine they must have contingencies for an Ambassador in peril.  In fact, it can’t be just an assumption; they do have procedures for an Ambassador in peril.  And, much like military commanders establishes criteria for his immediate notification (the top one is and always is a missing member of the command), regional State Department officials must have a set of notification criteria.  And surely, Hillary Clinton must have notification criteria established for Regional officials.  The reason ‘missing members of the command’ has a higher precendence than ‘command casualties’ is because you can recover a missing member alive.                 

So given the conditions and procedures I’ve already mentioned, surely when Ambassador Stevens was missing, the Embassy would notify the Regional officials, and then the Regional officials would notify the State Department (Hillary Clinton) who then would, and should, notify the president.  Now, as those notifications are sent, they are triggers for recovery procedures.  Surely the recovery assets starting prepping to assist.  Surely commanders and intelligence units were downloading the latest maps of Benghazi, Special Forces were putting rounds in magazines, and helicopters were fueling up.  Those things were happening.  They are automatic.  Why didn’t they leave?  Why didn’t those loaded weapons and Special Forces get on the helicopters, fly to Benghazi, and at least save the life of the two Seals who died in the last hours of the attack?                 

Someone said no.  That’s the only way to stop things that are already set in motion.  They’re automatic.  We know the attack was watched in real-time by State Department Officials.  We know they had multiple drones overhead.  They had constant radio communication with the assets on the ground, under attack.  We know they requested help.  We know there were assets available.  Our government asked and ordered Americans into harm’s way and when they needed help, someone said no.