Obama Orders Navy SEALs To Remove “Don’t Tread On Me” Navy Jack From Uniforms

This flag of the American Revolution is banned by Obama and his hateful Socialists.
Leftist are hell-bent on destroying the foundations of our country.

The Obama administration has decided to

wage war on our Navy’s heritage.

 

By Carl Higbie

Author, 'Battle on the Home Front'

 
The Navy Jack is the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag, one that has earned a revered place in America’s naval history and a beloved place in sailor’s hearts, through its use for over two centuries. This symbol of America’s naval ferocity has spanned our country’s entire existence, flying from the masts of the Continental Navy during the war of independence, to today’s War on Terror. In fact, an amendment to the Navy code called SECNAV Instruction 10520.6 clearly states that as of 31 May 2002 all ships are to fly the flag throughout the duration of the War on Terror.

So why would ranking SEAL commanders ban the historical symbol? Is the proverbial top bass banning the flag? Is President Obama?

Clearly the administration and sycophant “top brass” officers have degraded America’s military prestige; from hand-tying rules of engagement, to uniform regulations that make our military allegedly more compatible with foreign forces, to the banning of an awe-inspiring flag that traces its roots to the first U.S. Navy. We have a civilian-led military, but why should our ranking commanders be complicit in the administration’s war on it? Why don’t they stand up to Obama and his leftist cronies?

During my two deployments to Iraq, “Don’t  Tread on Me” was a phrase seen on nearly every uniform and platoon space — including mine. From patches to flags to large paintings on concrete barriers, our commanders themselves wore the insignia on their sleeves — until now.

Perhaps this is why so many of my former teammates felt compelled to send me the email below.

They may not be able to expose the administration’s travesty, but I can. The email, dated October 22, reads:

ALL:
WARCOM and GROUP TWO/ONE have pushed out the uniform policy for NWU III and any patches worn on the sleeve.
All personnel are only authorized to wear the matching “AOR” American Flag patch on the right shoulder.  You are no longer authorized to wear the “Don’t Tread On Me” patch.
Again the only patch authorized for wear is the American flag on the right shoulder. Please pass the word to all
Thanks
Senior Enlisted Advisor
[Name Redacted]

“I have not yet begun to fight!”
John Paul Jones
The Battle of Flamborough Head

After reading the email, I first wondered, ‘why?’ (Actually, first I headed to the gym to take out my frustration and anger on some unsuspecting weights with the fury and intensity only a former Navy SEAL can exert.) Why would our leaders sell out our heritage? Why would they rob present and future sailors of our battle cry?

When a friend of mine asked his leadership the same question, he was told, “The Jack is too closely associated with radical groups.” We must assume that this thought policeman embedded in the SEAL community is speaking of the Tea Party, whose flag (which also dates from the American Revolution) depicts a snake with the same defiant slogan as The Navy Jack.

This begs yet another question: Who defines “radical group”? The last time I checked, all military personnel are under oath to “support and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” The Tea Party stands for constitutional rights and founding principles of civil liberties and limited government. Radical? Not unless you’re a leftist hell-bent on destroying the foundations of our country. Or as the President has stated as the objective of his presidency, “to fundamentally transform” America.

My friends asked me what they should do about this order. I answer them by saying, “You took an oath to defend this country from enemies foreign and domestic. Will you put your career before country? Will you put your career before your sacred oath?” I cannot tell anyone how to respond. I can tell you though that an enemy — foreign or domestic — that tries to take the Navy Jack from my uniform could only do so by ripping the patriotic patch from the uniform of my cold, dead body.

We all have choices to make. The Obama administration and the yes-men top brass have decided to wage war on our Navy’s heritage. Will the SEALs choose to defend that heritage and defy them, with all the impertinence the flag’s slogan implies? Or will they be tread upon?


Read more at the:   Daily Caller.

 

Jobless rate in Europe increased for the 29th consecutive month

A huge 12.2% "official" unemployment rate in Europe

While 23% is the real unemployment in the U.S.  

Pressure is mounting on the European Central Bank to boost activity in the euro area after the latest figures showed a fresh rise in unemployment, and inflation dropping sharply to a four-year low.

The jobless total for the 17 nations that use the single currency rose by 60,000 in September to 19.4 million – the 29th consecutive monthly increase. Unemployment is a million higher than in September 2012 and up by almost four million since the spring of 2011.

At 12.2%, the jobless rate was the highest since monetary union began at the end of the 1990s, according to data from Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency reports the UK Guardian.

Analysts said the labour market in the euro area had yet to stabilise despite the return of modest growth in recent months.

Jobless rates range from 4.9% in Austria and 5.2% in Germany to 26.6% in Spain and 27.6% in Greece, with unemployment in Italy rising to a record high of 12.5% in September. The jobless total in France also rose, up by 34,000 in September and by almost 250,000 in the past year.

Unemployment among the under-25s rose by 22,000 in September to 3,548,000 – nudging up youth jobless rate to 24.1%. In France, the youth jobless rate jumped from 25.6% to 26.1%, while in Italy it increased from 40.2% to 40.4%.

23% Unemployment in the USA

Alternate Unemployment Charts

The U.S. seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers.
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The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.

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See more at Shadowstats.com

Finns speak out against an Islamic invasion

Finnish MP Stands Against Islam

Islamic immigration has triggered a nationalist

movement in Finland

(Tundra Tabloids.com)      -  Finnish Member of Parliament Olli Immonen of the True Finn Party has been aggressively speaking out against the Islamization of Europe.

Here is a recent posting.

- I do not want a future for our country, in which Finnish posterity has to start the day with a Muslim muezzin’s scream echoing from the minarets in our cities. I also hope never to see on the streets of our country, women reduced to the status of a ”shadow human being”, in a burqa and niqab, wrote True Finns MP Olli Immonen in a Uusi Suomen blog post. Immonen also serves as president of the nationalist Finnish Sisu.

 

- All of our population’s groups, gender, age, or ethnic background should be in on the fight against Islamification, it is by only stopping the influence of Islam in Europe that secures the conditions for a decent human life for us, Immonen continues.

Finnish MP Olli Immonen
www.olliimmonen.net

 

The MP believes that the European and Finnish Islamization must be fought resolutely. According to him, it will require administrative and legislative changes, starting in Europe, immigration from Muslim countries in order to achieve reduced minimal levels.

 

- In addition, Muslims living in Western countries should be actively encouraged to move back to their home countries.

 

The remaining Muslims in Europe should in his opinion, “should enter into the integration agreement with the host state, in which they commit themselves to the life of a secular and liberal democratic social order in accordance with those standards.”

 

- This refers to the rejection of specific Islamic practices which war against the European way of life. If a person professing Islam can not adapt methods of integration defined by the framework agreement, it should result in the individual’s deportation.

 

In addition, Muslims have to, according to Immonen, be brought on an equal footing with the native population, which means ending positive discrimination as well as the case law which interprets hate speech.

 

- All in all, it would be desirable that the number of Muslims and the role of Islam in European societies remain as little as possible to maintain social peace on our continent.

 

Immonen has extensively categorized on his blog the problems which are, in his opinion, associated with the ”trend of Islamization”. He says that the prevention of problems  with Islam has been one of the main themes of his political career. Immonen is involved in today’s, Tuesday, Yle 2 program, Islam debate evening.

 

The True Finns Party

An anti-immigration and Finnish nationalism party, the True Finns burst into the front ranks of politics by winning 39 seats in the 2011 election.

True Finns Party 

 

Parliamentary elections

Parliament of Finland

Election year	# of total votes	% of overall vote	# of seats won
1999	26,440	0.99%	1
2003	43,816	1.57%	3
2007	112,256	4.05%	5
2011	560,075	19.05%	39

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Thousands of Muslims gathered at mosques in Finland to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

A Military Coup? - Obama is purging the military

“There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/top-generals-obama-is-purging-the-military/#vTtKGCZuaHAOuiEB.99

“There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/top-generals-obama-is-purging-the-military/#vTtKGCZuaHAOuiEB.99

“There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent
on emasculating the military."

Major General Patrick Henry Brady

Holder of the Congressional Medal of Honor

Barack Obama is relieving four-star generals from the military at an unprecedented pace. This year alone, nine senior commanding generals have been fired by the administration.

Retired generals and current commanders who have spoken to TheBlaze believe that political ideology is the primary impetus behind the effort.

World Net Daily reported:

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, recipient of the U.S. military’s highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, as well as other top retired officers, say President Obama’s agenda is decimating the morale of the U.S. ranks to the point members no longer feel prepared to fight or have the desire to win. 

“There is no doubt he (Obama) is intent on emasculating the military and will fire anyone who disagrees with him” over such issues as “homosexuals, women in foxholes, the Obama sequester,” Brady told WND. 

“They are purging everyone, and if you want to keep your job, just keep your mouth shut,” one source told WND. 

Not only are military service members being demoralized and the ranks’ overall readiness being reduced by the Obama administration’s purge of key leaders, colonels – those lined up in rank to replace outgoing generals – are quietly taking their careers in other directions. 

Retired Army Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, who was with Delta Force and later Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence under President George W. Bush, says it is worrying that four-star generals are being retired at the rate that has occurred under Obama. 

“Over the past three years, it is unprecedented for the number of four-star generals to be relieved of duty, and not necessarily relieved for cause,” Boykin said. 

“I believe there is a purging of the military,” he said. “The problem is worse than we have ever seen.”

Also see General Patrick Henry Brady

Dr. Michael Savage

Generals Fired-Missing Nukes  -  Obama Coup?

Fired by Obama
Nuclear commanders Navy Vice Admiral Tim Giardina (left) and
Air Force Major General Michael Carey.
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See our article Missing Nukes and Fired Generals.

And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
Ah, you don't believe
We're on the eve
of destruction.

---Barry McGuire

Senate Backs More and Expanded Big Brother Spying

A Giant Fuck You to America

Gun-Grabber Dianne Feinstein's Committee Passes
Bill 11 to 4 That Expands NSA Powers

Both the GOP and Democrats lock arms to fuck the 4th Amendment.

Just days after pretending outrage over reports of widespread surveillance of foreign leaders by the National Security Agency, gun grabber Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) pushed through the Senate Intelligence Committee on an 11-4 vote a bill that enshrines the bulk collection of Americans' phone call records into law, and expands the agency's authority to track foreign nationals who enter the United States.

Sponsored by Leftist chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, the bill lets the NSA continue to collect phone metadata of millions of Americans for renewable 90-day periods, and allows the government to retain it. Some legislators have alternatively proposed letting phone companies hold the metadata. It passed the committee by an 11-4 vote Thursday afternoon, paving the way for a full Senate vote.

Further codifying current practice, the bill allows analysts to search through the data when if they suspect there is a “reasonable articulable suspicion” that a suspect is associated with international terrorism reports the Huffington Post.

The bill is a direct challenge to one introduced Tuesday by senator Patrick Leahy that would end domestic phone-records collection. It was also opposed by leading intelligence committee member Mark Udall, who said it did not go far enough says the Guardian.

"The NSA's invasive surveillance of Americans' private information does not respect our constitutional values and needs fundamental reform, not incidental changes. Unfortunately, the bill passed by the Senate intelligence committee does not go far enough to address the NSA's overreaching domestic surveillance programs," Udall said.

Udall is a co-sponsor of a bill introduced earlier this week by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that would end the NSA's bulk collection of phone call records. The passage of Feinstein's bill sets up a confrontation with Leahy's Judiciary Committee over what version of NSA reform Congress will produce.

Another Democratic member of the committee, Ron Wyden, said the bill maintains "business as usual" and "remains far from anything that could be considered meaningful reform".

"The Feinstein bill is terrible and would make things worse. I think the Leahy-Sensenbrenner bill begins to address some of the problems" with the NSA, said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.

Feinstein defended the NSA bulk collection program.

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic 
 centimetres inside your skull. ”
― George Orwell, 1984

1984
Fully Financed by a Democrat Senate
and a Republican House.

The Goldman Sachs Bribery of Hillary Clinton - Everyone is Lining their Pockets with Cash

Retroactive Bribery

• If Goldman Sachs handed an envelope with $400,000 in it to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for "services rendered" both sides can go to jail.
• But if Goldman Sachs handed an envelope with $400,000 in it to ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for past "services rendered" then it is legal.
• Corporations and unions have discovered a legal way to bribe politicians  -  monstrously huge fees for making a boring, short and forgettable 30 minute speech.  
• Line the right pockets of the special interest groups with taxpayer cash and they will make you wealthier that your wildest dreams.

"Corruptus in Extremis"  -  A now "retired" Hillary Rodham Clinton has plunged into the lucrative world of paid speechmaking, joining a branch of the family business that has brought the Clintons more than $100 million since her husband left the White House in 2001.

Hillary Clinton spoke at two separate Goldman Sachs events on the evenings of Thursday, October 24 and Tuesday, October 29. As both Politico and the New York Times report, Clinton’s fee is about $200,000 per speech, meaning she likely netted around $400,000 for her paid gigs at Goldman over the course of six days.

Last Thursday, Clinton spoke for the AIMS Alternative Investment Conference hosted by Goldman Sachs, a closed event exclusively for Goldman clients. AIMS is an annual conference that explores the latest strategies and products available to financial advisers.

At the event, Clinton offered what one attendee described to me as “prepared remarks followed by questions,” reports National Review.

On Tuesday, Clinton spoke at the Builders and Innovators Summit, devoted to discussing entrepreneurship and how to help innovators expand and grow their businesses.

According to Politico, Clinton conducted a question-and-answer session with Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

Goldman Sachs declined to comment on the subject of her remarks or why Mrs. Clinton in particular was invited to the events.

Keeping close to the investment world, Clinton also made visits to private-equity firms KKR in July and the Carlyle Group in September.

At KKR’s annual investor meeting in California, Clinton answered questions from firm co-founder Henry Kravis on the Middle East, Washington, and politics. At Carlyle Group, Clinton made a speech to shareholders moderated by Carlyle founder David Rubenstein.

Clinton’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Magic money falls from the sky

"Magic" special interest money just falls from the sky and somehow manages to land

right in the wallets of the corrupt politicians.

The $100 Million Couple
Bill and Hillary did not have jack shit in the way of money because Bill worked a lifetime as a low paid Arkansas elected official.  But "very grateful" special interest groups have paid the Clintons more than $100 million since they left the White House in 2001.
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Now everyone in Washington is sucking hard on the special interest teats.  Congressmen, Senators and hack appointees alike are legally "rewarded" for past services rendered with jobs on corporate boards, speaking fees or being hired as lobbyists.

Does Google work for the NSA?

NSA broke into Yahoo and Google data centers

• Is the NSA that damn good to break through the security systems of the Internet giants or do Google and Yahoo just look the other way when it is the government doing the snooping? 
• The NSA has reportedly struck deals with technology companies to install hidden access points in their equipment that can be used for surveillance.

The latest Edward Snowden documents claim the NSA has worked with its British counterpart, GCHQ to collect entire data flows across fiber-optic cables in a project codenamed MUSCULAR, said the Washington Post.  It reported:

According to a top secret accounting dated Jan. 9, 2013, NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from Yahoo and Google internal networks to data warehouses at the agency’s Fort Meade headquarters. In the preceding 30 days, the report said, field collectors had processed and sent back 181,280,466 new records — ranging from “metadata,” which would indicate who sent or received e-mails and when, to content such as text, audio and video.

General Keith Alexander, director of the NSA, said on Wednesday in an interview on Bloomberg Television that that the agency is “not authorized to go into a U.S. company’s servers and take data,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

The Washington Post reported that the agency "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world."

According to documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the agency is intercepting emails, documents, and other electronic communications as they move between the companies' privately controlled facilities and the public Internet, giving the NSA access to data in nearly real-time.

"The most enduring setback on national security from all of this could well be the impact on U.S. companies," observed a former U.S. official intimately involved with intelligence matters.

"We've created a Huawei problem for these companies," this official said, referring to the Chinese telecommunications firm that many U.S. lawmakers and intelligence officials believe is a proxy spy for the Chinese government.

The NSA has reportedly struck deals with technology companies to install hidden access points in their equipment that can be used for surveillance.  And the agency is believed to be the biggest purchaser of so-called "zero day" vulnerabilities, which are flaws in a piece of hardware or software discovered by a hacker but never revealed publicly.


See more at The Washington Post and at The Cable Foreign Policy.com

Asshole Alert
“You can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t KNOW your privacy is violated”
Congressman Mike Rogers
GOP Chairman of House Intelligence Committee
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Big Brother loving "Conservative" Republican Mike Rogers of Michigan has a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 89.5%.  That again brings up the question of what exactly is a conservative?  Does Rogers understand that a Bill of Rights even exists?  Does he even care?  Just because you favor "security" does not mean you believe in Constitutional freedom.  Historically thugs from Caesar to Napoleon to Mao have also favored "security".
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See Mike Rogers at hearings.
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