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Illegal Immigration Watch: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Denies President Bush’s National Guard Request
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (L) looks over a photo locator guide with Darryl Griffen, Chief of the San Diego Sector, U.S. Customs and Border Protection during an aerial tour of the border between San Diego and Mexico June 21, 2006, in advance of the anticipated arrival of National Guard troops on June 15 at the border.
AP: Schwarzenegger Denies Bush Troop Request
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week rejected a request from the Bush administration to send an additional 1,500 National Guard troops to the Mexican border, the governor’s office confirmed Friday.
The National Guard Bureau, an arm of the Pentagon, asked for the troops to help with the border-patrol mission in New Mexico and Arizona, but Schwarzenegger said the request would stretch the California Guard too thin in case of an emergency or natural disaster.
Schwarzenegger spokesman Adam Mendelsohn confirmed the governor’s decision Friday after two California National Guard officials revealed it to The Associated Press.
Mendelsohn said the governor believed sending more troops would create an inappropriate burden on the state and disrupt the guard’s training schedule.
The overall deployment for the border mission will remain at 6,000 soldiers.
This sounds like an excuse for the Governor who is running all around the state pandering for Hispanic votes, but visitng the National Guard troops at the border and then criticizing the Congress or the President or anyone not the great Governator for illegal immigration problems.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, center, and Pico Rivera mayor Pete Ramirez, right, pose for a photo, as he campaigns Saturday, June 10, 2006, in Pico Rivera, Calif. Schwarzenegger is campaigning in several California cities after he won the Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday. Man on the left is unidentified.
Arnold has an incoherent policy on illegal immigration.
First, he was with the Minutemen. Then, he was against a border wall. And he BLAMED the federal government for inaction.
And…….now what?
Come on Arnold…..tell us what you plan?
You veto driver’s licenses for illegal aliens but want to include healthcare fiunds for illegal alien children in your budget.
Arnold, what is your policy?
Is your policy to get you re-elected?
On June 1, Schwarzenegger agreed to send the California National Guard to the Mexican border to help the federal government’s effort to curb illegal immigration. That ended a 17-day standoff with the Bush administration over whether the state would join the border patrol effort and who would pay for it.
California has committed to putting 1,000 troops on the border by July 31 and has 250 there already.
Schwarzenegger initially criticized the administration’s plan to deploy troops to the border, saying it was the wrong approach to dealing with illegal immigration.
The governor finally relented after the Pentagon signed a document promising to pay for the entire mission, a cost that could top $1.4 billion nationally.
Schwarzenegger also wanted the Bush administration to commit to a firm end date. It did not, but Schwarzenegger signed an executive order saying he would not authorize the deployment beyond the end of 2008.
***Flap to Arnold – SECURE THE BORDER – SEND THE NATIONAL GUARD***
Arnold, you have been insulting conservative GOP voters with your flip flops on illegal immigration and other issues. It is increasingly hard for any conservative to vote for you this November even if it means California Democrat Treasurer Phil Angelides wins. At least you will know where he stands on the issues.
Good Grief, Arnold, are you this stupid?
Stay tuned……
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A US Border Patrol officer patrols the fence at the US-Mexico border near Nogales, Arizona.
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North Korea Watch: Director of the Missile Defense Agency Henry Obering Confident of North Korean Missile Interception
Lt Gen. Henry A. Obering III, Director of the Missile Defense Agency
Official: U.S. Can Hit N. Korea Missile
The Pentagon’s missile defense chief predicted on Friday that interceptor rockets would hit and destroy a North Korean missile in flight if President Bush gave the order to attack it on a path to U.S. territory.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III, director of the Missile Defense Agency, told reporters he has little doubt that the interceptor system would work, even though it has never been used in a real emergency and even though the U.S. government knows relatively little about how the North Korean missile would perform.
Obering refused to say whether the U.S. missile defense system is ready now for a possible intercept mission, but noted that it has been designed specifically to defend U.S. territory against known missile threats from North Korea.
“(From) what I have seen and what I know about the system and its capabilities, I am very confident,” he said when asked at a news conference about the likelihood that one of the 11 missile interceptors based in Alaska and California would succeed against North Korea’s long-range Taepodong 2 missile.
Obering refused to discuss more specifically the level of his confidence.
He also would not say whether the missile defense system, which includes missile-tracking radars and a communications system linked to the interceptors in underground silos, is currently in an “operational” status. He said it is shifted from a test mode to an operational mode frequently. “We do it all the time,” he said.
Missile interception by Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI)
Missile Interception by Aegis Ship-Based BMD
Noting that North Korea has not conducted a test flight of a ballistic missile since 1998, Obering said that means the Pentagon has a limited amount of information about how a long-range Korean missile would function.
“It’s very, very difficult to understand what they may have, how it may perform,” he said, adding that any long-range ballistic missile would have to follow known trajectories in order to reach U.S. territory.
The Taepodong 2 missile is a newer version that has never been flight tested.
U.S. officials and private experts say they are uncertain of North Koreans’ motives for apparently preparing to launch a Taepodong 2, which U.S. officials believe has a range of between 5,000 miles and 7,500 miles. They may be planning a test flight of the missile to verify its design and gain other technical data for further improvements to the system, or they may use the missile to try to thrust a satellite into orbit.
There is no expectation that the missile would be launched as a deliberate attack on the United States, but without knowing for sure in advance the Pentagon has been considering the circumstances under which it would try a mid-flight intercept, on Bush’s order.
The North Korean missile program is especially troubling to the United States, Japan and other countries potentially within missile range because of North Korea’s declared _ but unproven _ possession of nuclear weapons.
Alan Romberg, an Asia policy expert and former State Department official, said in an interview Friday that he believes it is likely that North Korea has managed to fashion a number of weapons from its nuclear materials, but he finds it questionable to conclude that they have one that could be carried atop a long-range missile.
The three United States options remain:
1. Preemptive Destruction
2. Interception and Destruction
3. Diplomacy to prevent launch
Stay tuned……
A commercial satellite photo of North Korea’s Nodong missile launch site taken on by a Digital Globe satellite and annotated and released by analysts at GlobalSecurity.org on May 24, 2006. The United States and Japan warned North Korea on Monday against a missile launch that experts say could reach as far as Alaska and threatened harsh action if the test flight goes ahead.
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President Bush Issues Executive Order Protecting Private Property Rights
U.S. President George W. Bush (C) delivers opening remarks before a Tee Ball game on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington June 23, 2006.
On the anniversary of the Kelo v. City of New London, 125 S. Ct. 2655 (2005)[1]
case, President Bush issued the following Executive order:Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the rights of the American people against the taking of their private property, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken.
Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Attorney General shall:
(i) issue instructions to the heads of departments and agencies to implement the policy set forth in section 1 of this order; and
(ii) monitor takings by departments and agencies for compliance with the policy set forth in section 1 of this order.
(b) Heads of departments and agencies shall, to the extent permitted by law:
(i) comply with instructions issued under subsection (a)(i); and
(ii) provide to the Attorney General such information as the Attorney General determines necessary to carry out subsection (a)(ii).
Sec. 3. Specific Exclusions. Nothing in this order shall be construed to prohibit a taking of private property by the Federal Government, that otherwise complies with applicable law, for the purpose of:
(a) public ownership or exclusive use of the property by the public, such as for a public medical facility, roadway, park, forest, governmental office building, or military reservation;
(b) projects designated for public, common carrier, public transportation, or public utility use, including those for which a fee is assessed, that serve the general public and are subject to regulation by a governmental entity;
c) conveying the property to a nongovernmental entity, such as a telecommunications or transportation common carrier, that makes the property available for use by the general public as of right;
(d) preventing or mitigating a harmful use of land that constitutes a threat to public health, safety, or the environment;
(e) acquiring abandoned property;
(f) quieting title to real property;
(g) acquiring ownership or use by a public utility;
(h) facilitating the disposal or exchange of Federal property; or
(i) meeting military, law enforcement, public safety, public transportation, or public health emergencies.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) authority granted by law to a department or agency or the head thereof; or
(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budget, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) This order shall be implemented in a manner consistent with Executive Order 12630 of March 15, 1988.
(d) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 23, 2006.
Let the litigation and rehearing of the controversially decided Kelo case ultimately by the United States Supreme Court begin. Note well that the United States Supreme Court has two new conservative justices that are prone to support private property rights. But, conservative justices will need one more vote, probably from Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Flap handicaps that Kelo will be overturned/redecided……If not, a constituional amendment will be drafted.
Stay tuned…….
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North Korea Watch: Former Vice President Mondale Supports Preemptive Strike Against North Korea
Former Vice President (under Jimmy Carter) and 1984 Democrat Presidential candidate Walter Mondale debates President Ronald Reagan in 1984.
KARE TV: Mondale: Force an option for stopping North Korea
Former Vice President Walter Mondale says he supports a pre-emptive U.S. strike against a North Korean missile that is raising nuclear fears around the globe.
Earlier this week North Korea announced it was preparing to test a missile that could reach United States mainland. Tensions rose further when the North Koreans put fuel into the missile, and continued to insist that a test firing was imminent.
Mondale said on WCCO-AM Friday that the United States should tell North Korea “defuel that missile. It has three boosters. Dismantle it and put it back in the sheds. Because if you’re getting ready to fire this, we’ll take it out.”
Mondale, who’s also a former U.S. ambassador to Japan, calls the North Korean missile “one of the most dangerous developments” in recent history.
“Nuclear weapons can destroy hundreds of millions of people in one strike – destroy major cities -it is the danger of our time,” Mondale said. “Here’s this bizarre, hermit kingdom up there, with a paranoid leader getting ready to test a missile system that can hit us. We’ve got to stop it.”
And wasn’t Mondale against the Strategic Defense Initiative and National Missile Defense? But, this is the second Democrat in a few days that has urged the President to preemptively strike North Korea.
“This is such a legitimate thing for the United States to do,” Mondale said. “The nature of the threat is so serious that I think we should knock it out right there if they won’t stop.”
President Clinton’s defense secretary, William Perry, advocated such a pre-emptive strike in The Washington Post. Current National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley brushed aside Perry’s suggestion, saying he hoped that North Korea would see the unanimously negative reaction from the international community to the test and return to the negotiating table.
Now, one has to ask if Mondale and Perry are providing diplomatic cover for President Bush – noting the severity of a potential nuclear missile launch against the United State mainland?
Or are the providing disinformation for North Korean consumption?
Stay tuned……
A commercial satellite photo of North Korea’s Nodong missile launch site taken on by a Digital Globe satellite and annotated and released by analysts at GlobalSecurity.org on May 24, 2006. The United States and Japan warned North Korea on Monday against a missile launch that experts say could reach as far as Alaska and threatened harsh action if the test flight goes ahead.
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Michael Ramirez on Missile Defense
Remember the ridicule of President Reagan when he announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
SDI is believed to have been first dubbed “Star Wars” by opponent Dr. Carol Rosin, a consultant and former spokeswoman of Wernher von Braun. Some critics used that term derisively, implying it is an impractical science fiction fantasy, but supporters have adopted the usage as well on the grounds that yesterday’s science fiction is often tomorrow’s engineering. In comments to the media March 7, 1986, Acting Deputy Director of SDIO, Dr. Gerold Yonas, described the name “Star Wars” as an important tool for Soviet disinformation and asserted that the nickname gave an entirely wrong impression of SDI.[22]
How the world has changed!
And thanks to President Bush who in 2001 ordered the accelelerated deployment of a National Missile Defense – now the Missile Defense Agency.
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Global War on Terror Watch: Dear Mr. Keller – Why?
Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger (left) presents Bill Keller of The New York Times, with the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.Dear Mr. Keller,
Why have you endangered America’s National Security by publishing the secret NSA Surveillance and Swift Financial Anti-terrorist Program stories in the New York Times?
Why? For the public interest? Or the interest in winning Pulizer Prizes?
Please explain………
Please explain why subscribers should could continue to pay your company to endanger their lives?
Hugh Hewitt wonders if you have the guts to be interviewed and calls you out. How about it?
Hugh calls Bill Keller out again…… Well?
To prepare for your interview, Bill, you can go here and read some messages for blabbermouths – meaning you.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Uranium Enrichment Halt Not a Precondition to Negotiations And Not EVER
Javad Vaeedi, deputy head of Tehran’s national security council and of its nuclear negotiating team, speaks to the students of Tehran’s universities at the Bahman cultural center in Tehran February 14, 2006. Iran could stop enriching uranium at best only as a result of negotiations with big powers, but not as a precondition for such talks as they demand, Vaeedi said on Thursday.
Reuters: No Iran nuclear suspension even after talks: official
Iran is not considering a halt to its nuclear fuel program even after any negotiations with major powers, a senior Iranian official said on Friday.
The Iranian Embassy in Vienna said Tehran’s deputy nuclear negotiator had been misquoted in a German translation of a speech he gave on Thursday that raised the possibility of Iran stopping uranium enrichment as a result of negotiations.
“Iran considers a suspension of uranium enrichment neither as a precondition for talks nor as a result of such talks,” Javad Vaeedi told an Austrian think-tank, according to a corrected text of his speech provided by the embassy.
Oops! Translation error.
So, Iran’s answer to the Big 6 propsoal is as expected – NO!
Iran will NEVER agree to suspend uranium enrichment because they COVET nuclear weapons.
Apparently, Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs wish to stall a formal decision until August, past the G-8 summit in mid-July. The United States will NOT allow this delay.
“And in this framework (Iran) considers the continuation of talks without any precondition as the only peaceful solution to the issue to remove Iran and the EU3’s concerns,” he said, referring to Britain, France and Germany.
A German-language text from the embassy distributed after the speech mistranslated Vaeedi to say: “Iran considers a suspension of uranium enrichment not as a precondition for talks, rather in the best case as a result of talks.”
An embassy spokesman said: “The translation error was ours.” No English text was provided and a running oral translation of the speech was drowned out by applause at the pro-Iranian think tank. Iranian officials were not available after the address.
Vaeedi also said Iran was taking its time to reply to an unprecedented offer from six major powers of economic incentives to halt nuclear work in order “to maximize the chances of success of this proposal.”
Tehran has said it will reply by August 22. The six big powers want an answer by mid-July.
Time for negotiations is OVER.
Next stop is the United Nations Security Council and SANCTIONS against Iran.
Stay tuned…….
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei REJECTS Suspension of Uranium EnrichmentThe Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Global War on Terror Watch: Miami Terror Suspects Sought to Work With Al Qaeda
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, front right, accompanied by Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher, left, and Deputy FBI Director John Pistole, gestures during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2006 to discuss the arrest in Miami of a group of ‘homegrown terrorists’ who sought to work with al-Qaida but ended up consorting instead with a law enforcement informant.
AP: Terror Suspects Sought Ties With al-Qaida
Seven young men arrested in an alleged plot against the Sears Tower were part of a group of “homegrown terrorists” who sought to work with al-Qaida but ended up conspiring with an informant, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday.
Outlining an alleged plot to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and a federal building in Miami, Gonzales told a Justice Department news conference: “They were persons who for whatever reason came to view their home country as the enemy.”
The seven individuals – ranging in age from 22 to 32 – were indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami. Six were taken into custody in Miami Thursday when authorities swarmed a warehouse in the Liberty City area, removing a metal door with a blow torch. A seventh was arrested in Atlanta.
The alleged terrorists – five U.S. citizens, a legal immigrant from Haiti and a Haitian national who was in this country illegally – were expected to appear in federal court in Miami later Friday. They had taken an oath to al-Qaida and sought help from someone they believed was a member of the terrorist organization, the indictment alleged.
Homegrown terrorists but two immigrants and one who was illegal. And maybe the Congress will get serious about border security?
In this undated photo provided by the Florida Dept. of Corrections Stanley Grant Phanor is shown. Phanor, also know as “Brother Sunni” is one of seven young men arrested in a Miami warehouse who have been charged in a federal indictment with conspiring with al-Qaida to “levy war against the United States” by committing acts of violence including blowing up Chicago’s Sears Tower.
Said Gonzales: “The convergence of globalization and technology has created a new brand of terrorism. Today terrorist threats come from smaller more loosely defined cells not affiliated with al-Qaida but who are inspired by a violent jihadist message, and left unchecked these homegrown terrorists may prove to be as dangerous as groups like al-Qaida.”
Gonzales outlined the contents of an indictment handed up Thursday, which identified Narseal Batiste as having recruited and trained others beginning in November 2005 “for a mission to wage war against the United States government,” including a plot to destroy the Sears Tower.
To obtain money and support for their mission, the conspirators sought help from al-Qaida, pledged an oath to the terrorist organization and supported an al-Qaida plot to destroy FBI buildings, the four-count indictment charged.
Batiste met several times in December 2005 with a person purporting to be an al-Qaida member and asked for boots, uniforms, machine guns, radios, vehicles and $50,000 in cash to help him build an “‘Islamic Army’ to wage jihad’,” the indictment said. It said that Batiste said he would use his “soldiers” to destroy the Sears Tower.
Gonzales said “the individual they thought was a member of al-Qaida was present at their meetings and in actuality he was working with the South Florida Joint Terrorism Task Force.”
Those named in the indictment are:
Narseal Batiste
Patrick Abraham – “Brother Pat”
Stanley Grant Phanor – “Brother Sunni”
Naudimar Herrera – “Brother Naudy”
Burson Augustin – “Brother B”
Lyglenson Lemorin – “Brother Levi” or Brother Levi-El”Rotschild Augustine – “Brother Rot”
An indictment handed up against the men by a grand jury in south Florida said they pledged loyalty to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda in order to “wage war” against the U.S. government and build an Islamic army.
It said at least one of them plotted to blow up the 110-story Sears Tower, the tallest building in the United States.
110 Story Chicago’s Sears Tower
A handout photograph from the U.S. Department of Justice shows Burson Augustin, one of seven people arrested in Miami Thursday, who, U.S. officials said on June 23, 2006, had discussed attacks on the landmark Sears Tower in Chicago, the FBI building in Miami and other government buildings. An indictment handed up against the men by a grand jury in south Florida said they pledged loyalty to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda in order to wage war against the U.S. government and build an Islamic army.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
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