Barack Obama, who is working around the clock to become the next commander-in-chief of every American Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine recently accepted fifty thousand dollars from Code Pink leader Jodie Evans.

Jodie Evans, a Code Pink leader, gathered at least $50,000 from friends and associates and donated it to Obama’s presidential campaign, according to information compiled by the nonpartisan watchdog group, Public Citizen.

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The donations have raised questions about Obama’s association with the more radical elements of his base. Code Pink has harassed, vandalized and impeded military recruiters across the United States in a campaign it calls “counter-recruitment.” The group also gave $600,000 to the families of Iraqi terrorists in Fallujah, whom it called “insurgents” fighting for their homes. [Human Events]

So they give money to the families of terrorists, and they give money to Barack Obama. If the lack of experience, the racist spiritual adviser, and the complete lack of a platform with any substance weren’t enough, I think taking money from the morons at Code Pink would cause me not to vote for Obama.

Obama should have refused to accept the money. Instead, he is receiving support from an anti-military organization who believes that our military is no more than a machine for mass murder.

Added Bonus!

Here’s a short video from The Daily Show that is both funny and informative.

The plot in Berkeley continues to thicken. The Daily Californian is reporting that a group of students are trying to get the same permits that “Code Pink” currently has. This should be interesting to watch.

The Berkeley College Republicans are looking to get the same permit privileges that anti-war group Code Pink use to protest outside the Marine recruiting center in Downtown Berkeley.

Working with Councilmember Kriss Worthington, the group is asking for sound waiver permits and a parking spot reservation outside the center on Wednesdays from 12 to 4 p.m., the same time Code Pink protests outside the center, said Kimberly Wagner, activism chair for the Berkeley College Republicans.

“(Code Pink’s) claim is that they’re protecting free speech,” she said. “I kind of don’t feel they are, they are inhibiting the recruitment center in general. It’s important that they are not unopposed, that there are people willing to fight them. Even though it’s Berkeley, the liberal center of America, there will be people (opposed).”

All American Blogger applauds the Berkeley College Republicans. It’s sad that the city council of Berkeley is allowing the liberal wingnuts from Code Pink to harass our Marines. Let’s see if they will allow the same freedom to speak to these conservative students that they have allowed to the liberal protesters.

In 1990, a small, round faced Canadian described a scenario to a reporter. He envisioned a small group of world leaders concluding that the rich countries were the “principle risk to the Earth.” This group then created a plan to get the rich countries to “sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment.” When the rich countries refused, the group decided “the only hope for the planet” was for the industrialized civilizations to collapse. He pondered, “Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?”

Two years later, he helped lay the foundation for the Kyoto Protocol at the Earth Summit in Rio De Janeiro. His name is Maurice Strong, and he would love to see America collapse. (more…)

Remember when Israel blew the crap out of a non-descript building in Syria and nobody said anything about it? Well, that’s a bit of exaggeration. There were rumors at first, then Syria came out and admitted it. Now video surfaces of North Koreans helping out around the facility:

A video taken inside a secret Syrian facility last summer convinced the Israeli government and the Bush administration that North Korea was helping to construct a reactor similar to one that produces plutonium for North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, according to senior U.S. officials who said it would be shared with lawmakers today.

The officials said the video of the remote site, code-named Al Kibar by the Syrians, shows North Koreans inside. It played a pivotal role in Israel’s decision to bomb the facility late at night last Sept. 6, a move that was publicly denounced by Damascus but not by Washington.

Sources familiar with the video say it also shows that the Syrian reactor core’s design is the same as that of the North Korean reactor at Yongbyon, including a virtually identical configuration and number of holes for fuel rods. It shows “remarkable resemblances inside and out to Yongbyon,” a U.S. intelligence official said. A nuclear weapons specialist called the video “very, very damning.”

Of course, Syria is denying it all, saying that we shouldn’t trust the U.S. government more than the North Koreans and the Syrians. Personally, I’ll stick with the CIA on this one.

A passage from this article that really sticks out to me is here:

U.S. officials said that Israel shared the video with the United States before the Sept. 6 bombing, after Bush administration officials expressed skepticism last spring that the facility, visible by satellite since 2001, was a nuclear reactor built with North Korea’s assistance. Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal that it has never declared.

But beginning today, intelligence officials will tell members of the House and Senate intelligence, armed services and foreign relations committees that the Syrian facility was not yet fully operational and that there was no uranium for the reactor and no indication of fuel capability, according to U.S. officials and intelligence sources.

The first sentence makes sense, in that we are explaining how we saw the video. But then the second seems like some kind of anti-Israel texual Tourettes statement. I mean, it really doesn’t belong there. It’s like they had to get it in the story, but didn’t know where to put it, so they just jammed it in there and then they go right back to the story.

What does it even have to do with the fact that North Korea was helping Syria build a nuclear reactor? Nothing.

It seems, however, that the Iraq War is having a positive influence on the region:

Syria’s top envoy to Washington said the CIA briefings were meant to undermine diplomatic efforts with North Korea, not to confront Syria. Why, Moustapha said, are “they repeating the same lies and fabrications when they were planning to attack Iraq? The reason is simple: It’s about North Korea, not Syria. The neoconservative elements are having the upper hand.”

He added, “We do not want to plan to acquire nuclear technology as we understand the reality of this world and have seen what the U.S. did to Iraq even when it did not have a nuclear program. So we are not going to give them a pretext to attack Syria.”

Good call, Moustapha. Now let’s talk about Hezbollah.

Muslim “scientists” called for the world to abandon Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Instead, it is time to switch to “Mecca Time” (insert obligatory MC Hammer reference here):

The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar under the title: Mecca, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice.

One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca’s was in perfect alignment to magnetic north.

He said the English had imposed GMT on the rest of the world by force when Britain was a big colonial power, and it was about time that changed.

Yes, instead, the entire Earth should be set to Islam’s most holy site. There’s not really anything more to this, is there?

But wait folks, there’s more. Because Mecca Time comes with a free Mecca Watch:

The watch is said to rotate anti-clockwise and is supposed to help Muslims determine the direction of Mecca from any point on Earth.

That’s right folks! The new Mecca watch runs backwards. That’s pretty telling, isn’t it? It will be very helpful when we turn our watches to Mecca time.

Step one, turn your clock back 1400 years.

I didn’t say it. Someone much more of an authority on the subject of journalism said it. In defending the doctoring of the most famous photo from World War II, “Managing Editor Richard Stengel said the cover art was part of the publication’s global warming advocacy…”

He continued:

Stengel defied the traditional notion that journalists should be unbiased. “I didn’t go to journalism school,” Stengel said. “But this notion that journalism is objective, or must be objective is something that has always bothered me – because the notion about objectivity is in some ways a fantasy. I don’t know that there is as such a thing as objectivity.”

Stengel supported his claim by stating the role of journalists is not to ask questions, but answer them.

So, newspapers are not there to ask questions, but to answer them. There is a word for that.

He went on to say that journalists just make up standards as they go along.

“I don’t even know what rules there have been all along in journalism,” Stengel said. “There are rules we kind of observed by tradition, but it’s not like you know the legal code or the being a doctor with the way you treat people. We sort of make it up as we go along and I think that is what will continue to happen.”

Stengel’s position ignores principles set down in the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics. The “standards of practice” that Stengel’s standpoint might have violated include:

• Examine their own cultural values and avoid imposing those values on others.
• Distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Analysis and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.
• Be sensitive when seeking or using interviews or photographs of those affected by tragedy or grief.
• Admit mistakes and correct them promptly.

Hat Tip: BMI and Free Republic

Remember back on the March 31 podcast, we discussed a story by Gateway Pundit in the Bloglines chapter. The story was about the appointment of Richard Falk, an Israel hater and Ayatollah Khomeini supporter, “as special investigator on Israeli actions in the territories for a six-year term.”

Falk, in his academic writing, has already stated that a Palestinian holocaust was in the making.

Yitzhak Levanon, ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, spoke against Falk’s appointment in an address to the council on Wednesday.

“In a recent article, [Falk] stated that he did not think it to be “an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with the criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity,” Levanon said.

“He has taken part in a UN fact-finding mission which determined that suicide bombings were a valid method of ’struggle,’” Levanon said.

The New York Sun reports that Mr. Falk has called for “an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.”

While Mr. Falk’s specialty is human rights and international law, since the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he calls the “9-11 official version.”

On March 24 in an interview with a radio host and former University of Wisconsin instructor, Kevin Barrett, Mr. Falk said, “It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don’t think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess.”

A U.N. appointed 9/11 truther, claiming the neocons were behind the 9/11 attacks. Let that sink in for a second.

Who are the neocons?

Jews.

A conspiracy theory website, The Power of Prophecy has a page titled “Jewish Neocons: Covert Enemies of the U.S.A..” It lists quotes showing how some truthers see neocon and Jewish as almost interchagable:

“What is striking about Fox News Reporter Carl Cameron’s portrait of Israel’s spy network in the U.S. is the sheer vastness of his subject. The broad scope of the Israeli spy operation, with its many fronts and activities conducted coast to coast…In the months leading up to 9/11, Cameron claimed, Israel was waging a covert war against its principal ally and benefactor, the United States.”

—Justin Raimondo “The Terror Enigma: Israel and the September 11 Connection,” Chronicles Intelligence Assessment, August 2003

“A new generation has its hands on the tiller of power…Jewish neocons have emerged as the Pentagon’s Paladins…Most striking is how unmentionable this is in the liberal press…These well-placed hawks are Jewish-Americans and it is their hardcore Zionism that is shaping American foreign policy. Zionism is fast becoming a poisoned chalice…There is real madness here, but who will stop it?”

—Ann Pettifer Common Sense December 18, 2002

It turns out that neocon U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, Centcom Commander and head of U.S. troops in the Iraqi war, is Jewish. Seen on MSNBC reviewing the troops in Baghdad, Franks shocked some by proudly giving the Communist clenched fist, outreached arms signal rather than the traditional U.S. military salute. At a press conference on March 25, 2003, General Franks stated, “The media is a weapon of war.”

—Conspiracyworld.com September 1, 2003

“[The Jewish neocons] are really a kind of Masonic secret society who preach one doctrine to the masses but maintain among their inner circles an esoteric doctrine that glorifies power, deception, and repression…Jewish identity also undoubtedly shapes neocon support for immigration (as a means of protecting against the emergence of anti-Jewish movements by diluting the Old Stock ethnic homogeneity of the United States).”

—Samuel Francis “The Real Cabal” Chronicles September 2003

So we have a Israel hating official calling for an investigation into the role Jews played in 9/11. And this guy was unianimously voted into his position.

Why are we paying over $5 billion dollars in donations to the United Nations for this conspiracy theory buffoonery?

Hat Tip: Quinn and Rose, Rhymes with Right

UPDATE:

To illustrate the point I tried to make above about the truthers seeing Neocons as Jews, behold this truther headline:

U.N. Official Urges Commission To Study Jewish Neocon Role in 9/11

From the mind of a truther:

I just discover that Falk is Jewish! So apparently there is some pressure on the Zionists. This is classic! Set up a Jew in charge while denouncing him publicly as he investigates a crime where Jews are allegedly involved. He certainly has the credentials of of anti-Zionists but would he implicate the Zionist at the point of the investigation?. However, the good news is that some sort pressure has built to the point where the Zionist have started planting shills.

That is some serious conspiracy thinking. I’m not sure I even know what he said.