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		<title>&#8216;Executive Suite&#8217; - Final Scene (video) - 1954 Film directed by Robert Wise</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/09/02/excutive-suite-final-scene-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Everest</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a retired investment banker who has seen many companies wrestle internally to do the right thing, to choose the right leaders, to keep the right dreams alive, I would suggest that this film, Executive Suite, captures the very best of those struggles.
To my way of thinking, this film captures what America is losing under [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a retired investment banker who has seen many companies wrestle internally to do the right thing, to choose the right leaders, to keep the right dreams alive, I would suggest that this film, <em>Executive Suite</em>, captures the very best of those struggles.</p>
<p>To my way of thinking, this film captures what America is losing under Obama&#8230;and what can be gained by returning to what made America great!</p>
<p>Here is the final scene of that film.  </p>
<p>Nine minutes of one of the finest scenes in American film history and in American story telling&#8230;
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		<title>The Federal Deficit with and without the Iraq War (Graph)</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/09/01/the-federal-deficit-with-and-without-the-iraq-war-graph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This graph speaks for itself&#8230;

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This graph speaks for itself&#8230;
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		<title>The Political Left and its appeasement of Islam</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/08/29/the-political-left-and-its-appeasement-of-islam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comment from contributor Dr. Miles Bennell&#8230;

As I see it, the Left is tolerant only of those who threaten them.  They are cowardly and want desperately to appease (read tolerate) Islam because they believe Islam&#8217;s violent nature can be avoided by acquiescence and submission.
They hate war because they believe its existence, like that of God, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Comment from contributor Dr. Miles Bennell&#8230;</p>
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<p>As I see it, the Left is tolerant only of those who threaten them.  They are cowardly and want desperately to appease (read tolerate) Islam because they believe Islam&#8217;s violent nature can be avoided by acquiescence and submission.
<p>They hate war because they believe its existence, like that of God, depends on whether or not they believe in it.  They believe war can be avoided by simply ignoring it and refusing to fight.
<p>The Left is the girlish or effeminate boy, immature, frightened adolescent aspect of American life compared to the Right, which is the adult/parental, strong man/woman, responsible, civilized, honorable, self-respecting aspect.
<p>Just as parents cannot let children rule the house, the Right must take charge of the American political environment if it wants to end the chaos injected into it by Obama and his followers.
<p> Glenn Beck and those who attended the Restoring Honor Rally took a big step in that direction yesterday.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>James Lewis: Obama Is Colluding with a New Fascist Imperialism</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/08/15/james-lewis-obama-is-colluding-with-a-new-fascist-imperialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 12:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Everest</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Even if you plan to read nothing today, you must still read James Lewis&#8217; article in today&#8217;s American Thinker.
Lewis, in his article Obama Is Colluding with a New Fascist Imperialism, does a brilliant job of stripping away the contrived facade of the Left to reveal how its cowardice enables the Fascist bullies of the world.
And [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even if you plan to read nothing today, you must still read James Lewis&#8217; article in today&#8217;s <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/obama_is_colluding_with_a_new.html"><i>American Thinker</i></a>.</p>
<p>Lewis, in his article <i><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/obama_is_colluding_with_a_new.html">Obama Is Colluding with a New Fascist Imperialism</a></i>, does a brilliant job of stripping away the contrived facade of the Left to reveal how its cowardice enables the Fascist bullies of the world.</p>
<p>And he paints a clear and bleak picture of how the soldiers of Islam are taking full advantage of the Left to advance their plan to drive the world into dhimmitude.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Wherever Islamic  fascists go, they first like to frighten and intimidate less warlike  peoples &#8212; as in London today, where any BBC criticism of Islamic  fascists is <em>streng verboten</em>. That&#8217;s what the Ground Zero Mosque  and the Mohammed cartoon uproar have in common: They are purposeful  agitprop campaigns to scare and intimidate all the weak-willed liberals  in the West, a standard Islamist tactic to conquer by intimidation, just  as Muslim conquerors have always done. Why bother to wage war when you  can win by terror? Putin understands that, the Chinese understand it,  and it&#8217;s clear enough around the Middle East. Only American liberals and  European socialists are in denial. That&#8217;s why they are the biggest  <a href="http://www.wordwizard.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=7&#038;t=21189">round-heels</a> in the world. They will happily collude in their own  subjection and degradation.</p>
<p>Islamic  practice has always required mosques to have the highest towers in any  subjugated city. No Jews or Christians were ever allowed to build higher  places of worship, to ride higher (on horses or mules), or even to  raise their heads higher while walking the streets than any Muslim. If  you were a Jew or a Christian, you would duck your head deep down as you  passed a Muslim, who was allowed to spit on you at will. As recently as  the Ottoman Empire (crumbled in 1917), all dhimmis were unceremoniously  beaten to the ground if they dared to raise their heads higher than a  passing Muslim. Modern Westerners deny the obvious, but that is because  they are wishful idiots, self-inflicted ignorami, and dead meat to all  the predators of this world. It&#8217;s Little Red Riding Hood skipping into  the dark forest again, but this time nobody told her about the Big Bad  Wolf.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Professor Terry J. Lovell:  Obama and Holder are taking the side of Mexico and the drug cartels in suing the State of Arizona&#8211;Andrew Napolitano rebuts (two videos)</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/08/13/professor-terry-j-lovell-obama-and-holder-are-taking-the-side-of-mexico-and-the-drug-cartels-in-suing-the-state-of-arizona-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Everest</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Terry J. Lovell, Professor of Business and Economics at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona, clears the air about what Obama and Holder are doing in suing the State of Arizona over its immigration law (SB1070).
He states unequivocally that Obama and Holder are unprecedented in not only refusing to defend citizens of the U.S. but [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr. Terry J. Lovell, Professor of Business and Economics at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona, clears the air about what Obama and Holder are doing in suing the State of Arizona over its immigration law (SB1070).</p>
<p>He states unequivocally that Obama and Holder are unprecedented in not only refusing to defend citizens of the U.S. but aligning themselves with a foreign government and its drug cartels in attacking the very people they have sworn to protect.</p>
<p>Here is the video of Prof Lovell and below it is the rebuttal by Judge Napolitano&#8230;<br />
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		<title>Black Tea Partiers Speak Directly to Liberals, the NAACP, and Obama! (2 videos)</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/08/05/black-tea-partiers-speak-directly-to-the-naacp-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Everest</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is great!
H/T to Liberty Juice and Dittos Rush!




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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is great!</p>
<p>H/T to <a href="http://www.libertyjuice.com/2010/08/05/black-tea-partiers-speak-directly-to-the-naacp/">Liberty Juice</a> and <a href="http://www.dittos-rush.com/2010/08/reporters-vs-conservative-black-leaders.html">Dittos Rush!</a>
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		<title>Obama brings a Presidential Podium on his visit to tiny NJ sub shop!  Is he nuts? (photos)</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/07/28/obama-brings-a-presidential-podium-on-his-visit-to-sub-shop-is-he-nuts-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Everest</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only does Obama bring a Presidential Podium to a tiny Edision, NJ sub shop, he has microphones installed on the podium.
Does he think folks over by the Coke machine (approximately 8-10 feet away) might be unable to hear his speech?


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not only does Obama bring a Presidential Podium to a tiny Edision, NJ sub shop, he has microphones installed on the podium.</p>
<p>Does he think folks over by the Coke machine (approximately 8-10 feet away) might be unable to hear his speech?</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Run America, run away from tyranny!&#8217; (&#8217;Runaway Slave&#8217; video-trailer)</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/07/22/when-you-say-racism-is-the-problem-you-give-your-power-to-someone-else-runaway-slave-video-trailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Everest</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The title of this post is a quote from this great video (the trailer for the upcoming full length film) by Pastor C.L. Bryant about the slavery of American Blacks by Liberalism.  And it includes an honest discussion by and about black conservatives in America today.
Along these same lines, we wrote a short article [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The title of this post is a quote from this great video (the trailer for the upcoming full length film) by Pastor C.L. Bryant about the slavery of American Blacks by Liberalism.  And it includes an honest discussion by and about black conservatives in America today.</p>
<p>Along these same lines, we wrote a short article back in December 2009 (<a href="http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2009/12/09/obamas-new-amerikan-plantation/">&#8216;Obama’s New Amerikan Plantation&#8217;</a>) in which we said&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>
[Socialism is] the destruction of freedom so that those who fear it are no longer threatened or tempted by it (freedom, that is). Socialism creates a zoo for us to live in. It rids humanity of all the excellence and invention and creativity that free men are capable of…and replaces it with a vast, inescapable plantation of shared mediocrity and hopelessness.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s the trailer to Pastor Bryant&#8217;s upcoming film (to be released in 2011)&#8230;</p>
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		<title>UPDATE: The Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, NAACP  affair</title>
		<link>http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2010/07/21/update-the-breitbart-shirley-sherrod-naacp-affair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know, yesterday Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign over a video released by Breitbart which showed her making racist statements to the enthusiastic applause of the NAACP.
Upon her resignation the NAACP released a statement concurring &#8220;with US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack in accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod for her remarks at a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As we all know, yesterday Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign over a video released by Breitbart which showed her making racist statements to the enthusiastic applause of the NAACP.</p>
<p>Upon her resignation the NAACP released a statement concurring <a href="http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/local_news/NAACP-Statement-on-Shirley-Sherrod-Resignation-20100720-am-sd">&#8220;with US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack in accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod for her remarks at a local NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Later, after a review of the situation, the NAACP released another statement reversing the first (here is an excerpt)&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>With regard to the initial media coverage  of the resignation of USDA Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart into believing she had harmed white farmers because of racial bias.</p>
<p>Having reviewed the full tape, spoken to Ms. Sherrod, and most importantly heard the testimony of the white farmers mentioned in this story, we now believe the organization that edited the documents did so with the intention of deceiving millions of Americans.   <a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36789_NAACP_Releases_New_Statement-_We_Were_Snookered_by_Fox_News_and_Andrew_Breitbart">Source</a></p></blockquote>
<p>As reported by Brett Baier on last night&#8217;s Special Report (Fox), Fox had only reported the story after the resignation of Sherrod and played no role in &#8220;snookering&#8221; the NAACP.</p>
<p>Breitbart, on the other hand, appeared to swing in the wind until last night when he told John King of CNN that the video was not about Shirley Sherrod but about the NAACP&#8217;s enthusiasm for what appeared to be her racist statements.  Breitbart went on so tell King &#8220;that the real context of the Shirley Sherrod videos at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner begins with last week&#8217;s resolution by the NAACP labeling the Tea Party movement as racist.&#8221; </p>
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Here&#8217;s the video&#8230;</p>
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<p>Breitbart also explains his motives to Hannity and provides the details of how he came into possession of the Shirley Sherrod/NAACP tape in the following video (the original Sherrod tape is played first and the new part begins at the 3:40 mark)&#8230;</p>
<p><script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=4288023&#038;w=466&#038;h=263"></script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a></noscript></p>
<p>Per Breitbart.com (again note that Breitbart&#8217;s appearance in the video begins at the 3:40 mark&#8230;so move the cursor forward to avoid a repeat of old footage)&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Breitbart reiterates the first video released on Breitbart.tv features Sherrod telling a racist tale that is received by the NAACP audience with laughter and cheers. The audience wasn’t cheering redemption; they were cheering discrimination.</p>
<p>Breitbart clarifies he released the video to target not Sherrod, but the NAACP who had condemned the Tea Party&#8217;s alleged racism. Though Sherrod became the scapegoat, it was the delight the NAACP audience took in the racist part of Sherrod&#8217;s speech that was truly damning. Breitbart noted he’s agnostic to her firing.</p>
<p>Later on the Breitbart.tv Publisher argued bogus racism charges flung at the Tea Party are meant to distract the public from staggering unemployment figures and other hot-button political topics unfavorable to the Democrats and the left.  <a href="http://www.breitbart.tv/breitbart-to-hannity-naacp-tarred-tea-party-movement-with-the-false-charges-of-racism/">Source</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>The coming crusade: Ralph Peters on African Christians vs. Islamists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Everest</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Peters often tackles issues that other commentators avoid.  And he often reveals a story that is in direct opposition to what is reported in the media and, in doing so, exposes the truth.
In this case, he tells the truth about Islam in Africa.
In today&#8217;s NYPost (The Coming Crusade&#8211;Ralph Peters), he shines the light [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ralph Peters often tackles issues that other commentators avoid.  And he often reveals a story that is in direct opposition to what is reported in the media and, in doing so, exposes the truth.</p>
<p>In this case, he tells the truth about Islam in Africa.</p>
<p>In today&#8217;s <em>NYPost</em> (<em><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_coming_crusade_Z9uUphPo0KFvXK5i3wzlzJ">The Coming Crusade</a></em>&#8211;Ralph Peters), he shines the light on Islam&#8217;s losing battle to dominate the lives of the poor peoples of East Africa.  And he speaks of how the gains of Christianity in Africa will eventually (probably sooner rather than later) bring it in into direct conflict with increasingly moribund, but deeply angry, Islam</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s are a few excerpts&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>A few years back, during one of four major research trips to  sub-Saharan Africa, I visited the traditionally Muslim city of Mombassa  on the old Swahili (Arab-slaver&#8217;s) coast in Kenya. What I found was one  of the sharpest religious juxtapositions I&#8217;ve seen in global travels.</p>
<p>Thanks to Saudi funding folly, there were far too many mosques for the  congregants, so few hit critical mass. Islam in Mombassa felt sleepy,  dusty and <em>dull.</em></p>
<p>Kenya&#8217;s Muslims were backward and listless. Condemned to  poverty by poor educations (the Saudis pay Muslims to send their  children to madrassahs, instead of to state schools), their culture  seemed out of steam.</p>
<p>But Christianity <em>blazed</em>.  Mega-churches couldn&#8217;t contain all those who&#8217;d accepted Jesus as their  Savior: City parks were packed with ecstatic worshippers every Sunday.</p>
<p>All along east Africa&#8217;s Swahili Coast &#8212; once a necklace of gems on  the body of Islam &#8212; the faith of Mohammed seemed like a museum exhibit  in a neglected side room. The Christians &#8212; from tribes Muslims had  enslaved &#8212; were the rising power.</p>
<p>As far as converts go,  Muslims are being baptized (at great personal risk), but Christians  aren&#8217;t converting to Islam. Wahhabi Islam&#8217;s rejection of joy just  doesn&#8217;t speak to Africans &#8212; who even in misfortune seem incomparably  alive.</p></blockquote>
<p>Yet, however much Christianity is ascendant, Islam isn&#8217;t just going to give up without a battle.  After all, despite its obfuscations to the contrary, Islam is a religion of war!  And as such, its adherents in African regularly butcher Christians for their faith.</p>
<p>But in the end, as Peters points out, African Christians can and will take only so much.</p>
<p>As the death cult of Islam inflicts itself on the religion of joy, it would do well to remember that the excitable religious fervor of Christians, when pushed beyond its breaking point, could quickly become transformed into an overwhelming and devastating army of crusaders.</p>
<p>For fans of Lieutenant Colonel Peters, his latest book is &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Endless-War-Middle-Eastern-Western-&lt;/i&gt;Civilization/dp/0811705501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1279539427&amp;sr=8-1"><em>Endless War</em></a><em>.&#8221;</em></p>
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