The participants heard from Talal DeLorenzo, an American convert and product of a jihadist madrassa in Pakistan who has played a leading role in half a dozen U.S. Muslim extremist organizations, apart from being a kingpin among international “sharia advisors.”

Also speaking was American Islamic banker David Loudon of Chicago’s Devon Bank, whose close associate, sharia confidant and fellow banker Salman Ibrahim, just disappeared with up to $80 million stolen from Sunrise Equities, the Islamic financial house he headed.

Last but not least, there was the estimable Harvard professor Samuel Hayes, a long-time fixture at Harvard’s Wahhabi-funded Islamic Finance Project, aka, King Fahd Chair of Sharia Studies. A key player at the yearly sharia finance propaganda forums at Harvard, Professor Hayes advises Arcapita Inc., an Islamic investment fund,

One of President-elect Barack Obama’s biggest missteps thus far has been surrounding himself with old Washington insiders that are proponents of disastrous “free trade” agreements that have utterly decimated America’s manufacturing base and were instrumental in putting the economy in the poor shape it is currently in.


The appointments of Bill Richardson to head the Commerce Department, a nomination that was recently withdrawn, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk as U.S. Trade Representative and Rahm Emanuel as Chief of Staff represent a complete about-face from Obama’s campaign rhetoric regarding “free trade.”

“There’s no doubt that [the North American Free Trade Agreement] needs to be amended,” Obama said during the campaign. “I’ve already said I would contact the president of Mexico and the prime minister of Canada to make sure that labor agreements are enforceable.”

During the 110th Congress, Rep. William Pascrell (D-NJ), along with 14 additional cosponsors, introduced the Border Tax Equity Act of 2007 in the U.S. House of Representatives, a key piece of trade legislation that would have went a long way towards remedying the border tax inequities that hamper the U.S. since the Value Added Tax (VAT) is utilized by most of America’s trading partners.


In short, the bill would have allowed the U.S. to levy its own border taxes on VAT nations to level the playing field unless the U.S. Trade Representative was able to negotiate a remedy within the framework of the World Trade Organization

The problem is that there is too much debt in the system; adding more debt to the system simply makes the problem worse at an exponentially-increasing rate.

It is impossible to fix a problem that is best explained as "too much" of something by adding more of that same thing.

This is true whether the "too much" is a drunk who wants a bottle of whiskey, a crackhead who wants another hit, or a heroin addict who begs for another shot.

You can't solve any of their problems with more of what ails them any more than you can solve a debt problem with yet more debt.

he has not done the traitorous deed, blunders and mistakes that our present president has done.

So much for this quote of yours, then, huh?

You know what? Maybe these mystery people with whom you have differed politically but respected their intellect don't really care whether you respect their intellect or not

Did someone call for no criticism of Obama?? Where? Skepticism and criticism of our governmental officials are good things.

Why should we wait to talk about his plans when people are freely talking about how "more of the same" it's *going to be*? If his critics can jump on his cabinet picks, being just certain that they indicate "more of the same" (without really having a clue), why must his supporters wait to talk about the change that we see coming in the future?

You don't have to ask permission. Feel free to call him whatever vile name you like within the T&C.