PETRO DOLLARS: USA consumers apparently funding UK bailout!

If I understand this right, the UK's Gordon Brown (PM) is seeking to influence Saudi Arabia's support of the IMF and the World Bank ... why? Because the Saudis have excess petrodollars lying around and the IMF and the World Bank, due to the seriousness of the global financial crisis, don't! So?

It seems Brown, like most of the rest of the world, needs tons of pounds to bail the English economy out, and the UK doesn't want to be seen going hat in hand to Arab Gulf states; normally the only source of those funds is the IMF and the World Bank.

Where did the Saudis get all this hard cash? From petrodollars ... the recent rise in crude prices filled Arab States coffers. Where do the petrodollars come from? Well, something shy of 25% of every petrodollar comes from the American consumer (this assumes US petroleum consumption and US energy consumption track).

So if the Saudis agree to fund the IMF and the World Bank, and the UK obtains bailout funds from them, about 20 cents of every dollar borrowed by the UK would come from an American purse!

So, the American taxpayer is not only bailing out AIG, the national banking system, and soon the automakers, but theoretically any nation or group that relies on Saudi funding; blend in ongoing funding of the UN (22% of annual budget), the consumer's indirect involvement in any UK bailout, the fact that Arabian petrodollars go to support terrorist organizations, and a web of self-destructive global financing begins to appear before our eyes.

What a mess! If we factor in the bankrupt Social Security and Medicare systems it gets even messier.

American taxpayers need immediate action from their representatives.

Bailout, IMF, Medicare, Petrodollars,
Politics, Saudi Arabia, Social Security,
Terrorism, UK, UN, World Bank

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TRAITORS 'R US: Why it's difficult to see Muslims as loyal!

It would be nice to believe that foreign national Muslims, legally residing in Western nations, could be loyal to their adopted homelands ... but the truth is far from that fiction.

In this day and age, believing in Lahlah-land can be fatal on the battlefield and in your local marketplace.

The UK is now aware that British Muslims are serving as insurgents in Afghanistan and fighting against British military interests there.

British Brig. Ed Butler is quoted in the Telegraph ...

"There are British passport holders who live in the U.K. who are being found in places like Kandahar."

Earlier this year, it was revealed that RAF Nimrod spyplanes monitoring Taliban radio signals in Afghanistan had heard militants speaking with Yorkshire and Midlands accents. [...]

Butler, 46, said he had seen evidence that terror groups based in southern Afghanistan were plotting with Muslim extremists in Britain to carry out terror attacks in the UK. "There is a link between Kandahar and urban conurbations in the UK," said Brig. Butler. "This is something the military understands but the British public does not."

I guess it would go something like this: "I say old sot, let's don our turbans, strap on one of those vest things there, and take a goodly stroll to the market! Say what chap?"

I know, I know, "not all Muslims are like that!" You're right, I admit it. And not all snakes are like Black Mambas, or other poisonous varieties either. But I'm still distrusting of everything that slithers and has no legs; more so when my family is threatened by them.

These are hard times for civilized people, believing the difficult to believe, turning the other cheek, and blind tolerance will get our loved ones killed ... if not soon, soon enough.

HT: New English Review

Here, Christianity, England,
Islam, Loyalty, Muslims, Religion

TOTALITARIANISM: Blog censors coming to America, soon!

Today we're warned that blog censors will soon be scouring British Internet sites for offending content. [Telegraph.co.uk; HT: Iain Dale's Diary]

Internet users will be protected from abusive bloggers and malicious Facebook postings under proposals to set up an independent internet watchdog, The Daily Telegraph has learnt.

The body, made up of industry representatives, would be responsible for drawing up guidelines that social networking sites, the blogosphere, website owners and search engines would be expected to follow.

Since the American intelligentsia seem to be in charge of our asylum nowadays, and since they also seem to be animated by European social and political views, we can only assume this kind of thing will arrive on our shores very soon ... if it hasn't already.

The comments section of Iain Dale's blog offers a taste of bloggers' opinion ... including mine.

Blogging, Censorship,
Totalitarianism