The Rise of the USSA

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I keep saying it: we are in deep!

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UK NEWS
BROWN HAILS OBAMA AS 'NEW HOPE'

Gordon Brown has welcomed Barack Obama and chance to build new world order

Monday November 10,2008

Gordon Brown hailed the election of Barack Obama as a source of "hope and inspiration" as he urged the United States to join with Europe to build a new global order.

In his annual foreign policy address to the City of London, the Prime Minister called on fellow world leaders to "seize the moment" and lay the foundations for the "first truly global society".

Addressing the Lord Mayor of London's banquet at the Guildhall, Mr Brown acknowledged that while the challenges facing the world appeared "daunting", they also presented the opportunity to build a better future.

He said the "unprecedented" election of Mr Obama as America's next president offered the prospect of a new "dawn of hope", both in the US and the wider world.

"Just days ago, across the Atlantic, our closest ally gave new meaning to its founding creed that all are created equal. Gave new strength to the notion that the American dream is for all Americans," he said. "Whatever one's politics, it can surely only be a source of hope and inspiration that a nation which once would have looked at Barack Obama and defined him only by his colour today sees in him the man they want to be their president and commander-in-chief.

"As America stands at its own dawn of hope - so let that hope be fulfilled through a pact with the wider world to lead and shape the 21st century as the first century of a truly global society.

"I believe that with the far-sighted leadership we have in Europe, the whole of Europe can and will work closely with the rest of the world to meet the great challenges which will illuminate our convictions and test our resolution."

Mr Brown - who earlier signalled that ministers were considering new tax cuts - welcomed plans by Mr Obama and by the governments of China and Germany to inject fresh funds into their economies to keep them going through the downturn.

"This is no time for the old approach of short-term spending cuts in a downturn that would hurt families and businesses today and damage the long-term productivity of the economy," he said.

Mr Brown, who flies to Washington this week for a financial summit of world leaders hosted by outgoing President George Bush, said it was vital that countries did not retreat into protectionism and isolationism in the face of the global downturn.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/70476

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Why Europe is secretly afraid of a socialist America

By James Lewis

Suppose you've been living under the protective wings of a benevolent superpower for sixty years. And suppose you've used that big half century to take off on an endless vacation -- spending all your tax money to buy votes for the socialist Ruling Class. It's been one long, grand, drug-infested, sex-drenched, self-indulgent, tabloid party scene. Any time danger threatens you look to Washington for protection. The rest of the time you noisily abuse those Yankee imperialists, merely to boost your fragile ego. Corruption has become pervasive.

That's Europe today.

What a sweet deal.

But now you see your guardian superpower electing a guy who wants to follow your example. Whooops! Time to sober up. Fast.

Yes, you went hoarse cheering Obama's ego trip at the Berlin Victory Monument, because you love the idea that O will teach America to love Eurosocialism forever and ever. But shivers are running up and down your spine --- because if he is what you think he is, America won't be there any more to save you. It will just slide into vegetarian nihilism and leave Europe to the New Soviet Empire.

Europe would crumble like a soggy crouton without America's commitment to its defense. We saw that happen three times in the 20th century, and the bad news is that it's starting again. Real danger is at the gates; Europe's Ruling Class is in denial; and half of it is preparing to surrender to the Russians or the Muslim fascists, whichever gets there first.

The Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes a future of Sharia for Britain. Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants to cannibalize your dead body for parts for the National Health Service without your prior consent. Two years ago the European Union solemnly promised to supply six helicopters to save endangered Africans in Chad -- and they haven't been able to get those choppers going yet. Those African civilians are long dead, and the Eurocrats are still dithering.

Shakespeare had it in Henry VIII, "Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness!" Except that Europe always dreams of its own greatness. While we were having the most mendacious election in history, Europe chose Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the Choral Movement, to be its new national anthem. But Europe's latest imperial illusion is Obama, a Eurosocialist to the core. Europe would love to control US policy; and in the O years it might succeed. Yet by itself it plays helpless.

The tales of Europe's futility are endless, because its actions have no visible consequences. Dead fetuses don't raise a fuss. Dead Africans in Chad and the Sudan never show up on BBC TV. Neither do HIV victims of the sexual revolution, burned-out junkies of the drug revolution, or assisted suicides of the elderly, thanks to the national health-care revolution. It's a Progressive's Dream Come True. All the failures and mistakes are ignored by the Leftist media.

Sound familiar?

Well, if America becomes O-merica, the consequences will finally arrive with a loud thud in London, Paris and Berlin. Europe may have to grow up. Because America will no longer have the power or the will to act. It will be Carterized.

So the Euro-Left is sounding scared. Take the Guardian, the noisy cabal of anti-Americans who went into shrieking paroxysms when George W. Bush overthrew the bloody tyrant of Baghdad. The Guardianistas were shocked by America's willingness to fight for a cause that Winston Churchill would have considered to be civilized and honorable. The Brit Left hasn't seen that much heterosexual gumption since World War Two. They were appalled, my dear.

But today, one week after the O Revolution in America, the Guardian suddenly sounds like the Wall Street Journal -- telling its readers not to worry, that nothing is going to change.

We see headlines like:

"Why America will not turn to the left"

Hold the red carpet: amid the euphoria, states find their own reasons for doubt.

The Guardian sounds worried that under Obama America might leave the Philippines to its Muslim rebels, or that it might stop defending free capitalist trade in the world's oceans.

Those headlines come from the same scribblers who soft-pedaled Putin's brutal invasion of Georgia just six months ago. The same folks spent years noisily sneering at the danger of Iranian mullahs armed with nukes. Every single day of the Bush years the Guardian ripped us another one. For decades they peddled multiculti nonsense to browbeat their domestic enemies and smeared dissenters as racists. They went weak in the knees for radical chic, Islamofascist style, and scoffed at democracies under deadly assault, like Israel, the elected governments of Iraq and Afghanistan and most recently Georgia. They imposed a Politically Correct speech code on everyday life in the United Kingdom.

It would be poetic justice for the European Left to get exactly what it's been asking for. Unfortunately that would be bad for the United States and the civilized world. If the US withdrew from Europe, would you trust them to behave decently? I wouldn't. They would instantly sell out to the nearest Putinista or the richest Saudi Prince, or both.

That's the real American dilemma when it comes to the Left, here and abroad. The big question about the radical Left is always - should grownups let them cross the street alone? Can you ever trust them?

We will find out the answer very soon.

If there are any grownups in Washington in the coming administration -- a very big "if" -- they will have to answer that question every single day. If the Left follows its instincts and the American military are systematically weakened, cut down and demoralized, Europe may realize its fondest wish.

No more American guardian angel.

It's what they secretly fear.

James Lewis blogs at dangeroustimes.wordpress.com.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/...ly_afraid.html

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Remarks about Bush have never been investigated unless it was against his personal safety.

Remarks against Obama probed

Durham police conducting internal investigation; chief says it wasn't a slur

Stanley B. Chambers Jr., Staff Writer
DURHAM - Derogatory remarks toward President-elect Barack Obama made on a social networking Web site are now the subject of an internal police investigation.


A police department employee claims the statements were made on the MySpace pages of two Durham officers.

"There's no exact words that were said," said Police Chief Jose L. Lopez Sr. in a telephone interview Wednesday from San Diego, where he is attending the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference. "It wasn't a racial slur, but we're still investigating it."

Investigators, who are focusing on the context of what was written, have been looking into the allegations since Thursday.

Lopez wouldn't disclose what was said or identify the officers involved.
City Manager Tom Bonfield, who was notified of the investigation late Tuesday afternoon, said he advised Lopez to complete it as quickly as possible.

Bonfield, whom Lopez reports to, said the department has the discretion to notify him of such inquiries.

The police, as well as other city agencies, have a good sense of when an issue is big enough to notify him, said Bonfield, who added that he notified city council members within an hour of talking with Lopez.

"It's important that the investigators have a chance to do their jobs and make sure they get all of the information," he said. "I think it's important that the police are given the opportunity to respond against any allegations against them."

Bonfield added that if the allegations are found to be true and officers posted racially charged statements, then an appropriate response by the department would be warranted.

The department's code of conduct, under the heading "private life," states that an officer's "character and conduct while off duty must always be exemplary, thus maintaining a position of respect in the community in which he or she lives and serves. The officer's personal behavior must be beyond reproach."

Lopez said even though the remarks were made on a personal Web page, the comments could be a violation of the policy.

"As a police officer, it doesn't matter where you do it, if you provide disservice to the organization, it violates the [department's] code of conduct," he said. "It is a high standard that officers are held accountable to."
stan.chambers@newsobserver.com or 919-932-2025

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/dur...y/1292635.html

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Well... look for them to knock on our doors soon. LOL

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Barack Obama should lead Middle East peace efforts, says Tony Blair

Tony Blair has called on Barack Obama to lead the world in finding a solution to conflict in the Middle East.

By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
Last Updated: 11:23AM GMT 14 Nov 2008


Mr Blair said it was important to see the connection between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the battle with extremists such as al-Qaeda Photo: AP


The former Prime Minister said the new President would have the chance to heal divisions in an 'era of real possibility'.

Speaking during a visit to Rwanda, Mr Blair said world leaders had been too tied up with their own domestic agendas to focus properly on the decades-old Middle East conflict.

He admitted that though he tried to influence the Middle East peace process while serving as Prime Minister, his efforts were doomed because he could not acquire the necessary detailed understanding of the issues.

And he said Mr Obama could heal rifts between America and Europe by being prepared to champion causes regarded as priorities in Europe such as the Middle East, poverty and the environment.

"I think he can say to Europe, look I'm going to champion a global deal on climate change, I'm going to take the Middle East peace process seriously, I'm going to make sure that poverty in Africa is right at the top of the agenda, I'm going to listen to your concerns and get a shared agenda with you."

He said progress would come if America, Europe and the international community delegated genuine authority to envoys tasked with focusing fully on issues such as peace in the Middle East.

Since standing down as prime minister, Mr Blair accepted a number of jobs including the position of Palestinian development envoy for the Quartet – the grouping of America, Russia, the United Nations and European Union.

"I do think what's very interesting about these international situations – and I found this quite shocking in a way – is how much more comprehensive my understanding of the Israel-Palestine situation is now than when I was in office," he said.

"The interesting thing is how the international community delegates authority to make up for the limited knowledge that these leaders can have nowadays when they're dealing with a multiplicity of problems in their own domestic situation.

"I think, for example, there's no way the Middle East is going to be resolved unless there are empowered senior people from the international community able to do it.

"Because, as I say, I now have a far better understanding of what needs to happen than I did when I was British prime minister.

"And yet in one sense when I was British prime minister I obviously had greater power over the situation."

Speaking to the Guardian about the election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States, Mr Blair said it was important to see the connection between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the battle with extremists such as al-Qaeda.

"I personally think that one of the essential things both for the next American president and for the world is to regard this region, and broader than this region, as one problem because you face the same issue everywhere, which is a battle between those who want a modern and progressive future and those who are reactionary extreme," he said.

"Whether it's in Iraq or in Palestine or what's happening in all the different parts of Afghanistan or Pakistan, it's the same issue."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ony-Blair.html