Fact vs. BS - Part 7
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DISCLAIMER: THIS COMMENTARY AS WELL AS ALL (5 Bloggers) MY PREVIOUS COMMENTARIES ARE MY PERSONAL OPINION AND MY PERSONAL VIEWPOINT. WHEN I QUOTE SOME ONE IT IS COPIED AND PASTED FROM A PUBLIC DOMAIN OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER. I DO PAY FOR SOME DETAILED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS THAT I SHARE WITH YOU. IF YOU CAN NOT DEAL WITH REALITY, PLEASE LEAVE NOW.
I have been fighting the war of truth and quality for 35 years and I am as fed up as you can imagine. I want to let you know that I now have a Major website and 5 bloggers and I will list them all. www.google.com has me very well covered and these other bloggers have my permission to copy anything up here as long as it is not altered. I can not now or ever change the truth of reality. "IT IS WHAT IT IS"... I have no control over sub standard work that is performed by others. I can only control my degree of quality and honesty in reporting all this to you.
My current sites are as follows.
www.actionsbyt.com
www.truthaboutparts.blogspot.com A PICTURE IS WORTH 1000 WORDS, THIS WILL BE THE EDUCATION OF YOUR LIFE IN DUE TIME.
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www.commentsbyt.blogspot.com
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IF ANY OF YOU HAVE PICTURES OF SPECIFIC PARTS AND OR PARTS OF A HANDGUN YOU WANT ME TO CONSIDER PUTTING UP, PLEASE SEND THEM TO tjacobson@houston.rr.com
I am trying my best to look out for your best interest and I am also asking for your help. I have a lot on my plate as my health declines but there will never be any give up attitude in me on your behalf if you are an honest decent gun owner. These sites of mine carry a lot of weight and I get more hits in one day than many websites get in a month or two or three, etc.
My personal opinion is that the current crop of production handguns has really deteriored as a general rule. There are some decent products still available but it is not easy to pick them out because of all the BS on the forums and the publications where big advertising money talks and BS walks. NO GUN WRITER WILL EVER JEPARDIZE HIS OR HER JOB TO TELL YOU WHAT THEY THINK, THAT IS ASSUMING THEY REALLY KNOW WHAT QUALITY IS. AS DEFINED BY WEBSTER - QUALITY IS DEFINED BY DEGREE OF EXCELLENCE.
Do you really think a worker who makes ten dollars (plus or minus) an hour cares about the degree of excellence or the worker that works on commission only really cares. GET REAL.........
I still do limited trigger work only and I do not cater to target people as I will not now or ever put up with their BS. Most want super light triggers and I will not do it, of course I know how but its too much liability and besides its almost impossible to please a target shooter. They think that light is better some want 1.5 lbs on their single action. INSANITY. What is more important is how clean the hammer and sear break and most Smiths are lost in the dust when it comes to serious changing of angles which is mostly what I have done all these years. A trigger should break like a glass rod or an icicle. Actually there are many old time gun writers that really understand what I am saying and I know many of them read my bloggers. I welcome them here and mean them no harm by my abrasiveness. I come from a world that most would not understand.
Many people help me with my bloggers and some give me very good advice. Most people are getting much more cautious about the firearms they are purchasing, because of the truth that they have read here. Just to think you have been given a line of BS that you can not win a gun fight unless you carry a 1911 pistol is ludicrous. I know of one famous person that has made a living talking and teaching and promoting the 1911 pistol. I regret I can not tell you his name but I can tell you his wife carries a 38 special revolver in her purse. Hows that for hypocrisy. Sometimes secrets must be kept. In this case that is where its at.
ITS VERY HARD TO EXPLAIN CERTAIN THINGS TO PEOPLE IN WORDS, THAT IS WHY I DECIDED TO CREATE A BLOGGER FOR PICTURES ONLY THAT WILL CONVINCE YOU WHAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU IS ALL TRUTH AND REALITY. MANY OF THESE PICTURES WILL SHOCK YOU INTO UNDERSTANDING WHY I AM SO UPSET WITH HANDGUNS TODAY AND THE BS THAT PEOPLE WRITE IN ORDER TO GET YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. NOT MANY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT ANYTHING BUT LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH MR. FRANKLIN. I CARE ABOUT HONOR AND INTEGRITY.
U.S. troops to Romania?
Terror threat leads to talks to send 2,300
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Author: Joseph Farah
© 2005 G2 Bulletin
Publishing date: 24.11.2005 23:41
As negotiations between Washington and Romania on the deployment of 2,300 U.S. troops on Romanian soil is reaching its final stage, Catalin Harnagea, the recently selected intelligence czar, was instructed by President Traian Basecu to intensify surveillance on jihadist activity in the country.
Traian Basecu The government, pressured by its allies in West Europe and in anticipation for a 2007 full acceptance to the European Union, demanded more hard-line attitudes toward criminal gangs, smugglers of all kinds and militant Arabs or Kurds. Some of these groups are interwoven in what is described by observers as a “colorful spider web.” The Romanian Dragons gang is the most dominant of these groups with its tentacles stretching throughout the Balkans into the heart of Europe, and through Turkey to the Middle East and beyond.
Intelligence officials point to the fact hundreds of Muslims of Arab or Turkish descent have been questioned since the fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1989. Seventeen have already been expelled and cases against at least 50 more are being prepared. These days the Romanian SIE is focusing on the activities of various branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Movement – Hamas, the Kurdish left wing PKK and the Islamic Jihad of Egypt and the Palestinian Authority.
A number of intelligence and security services interested in the terror hubs of Bucharest, and even more so in the university city of Cluj where many foreigners study, are assisting Romania. An Israeli court in Haifa recently lifted a gag order from the case of two Hamas recruited Israeli Arab dentists, Doctor Nazmi Hassin and Doctor A’Salam Zeidan, who are graduates of the university in Cluj. Two were arrested in early September and the Israeli General Security Service, Shabak, placed a request for a gag order based on the need to broaden the interrogation.
A similar request came from security agencies of Romania, Turkey, and even from the Palestinian Authority, which gradually is becoming more hostile towards the Islamic Movement – Hamas. Information obtained by G2B points to the existence of a large jihadi network formed in Romania which has some 250,000 Muslims out of about 22 million inhabitants. A sizeable number of Muslim students are enrolled in Romanian universities, a trend which began during the reign of Nicolae Ceausescu and continues until today.
Some of the militant activity revolves around a Muslim center on Pasteur Street in Cluj. Hamas recruiters and those from other terrorist organizations use Muslim gatherings and prayer sessions to identify possible candidates as was done by al-Qaida affiliates who managed to send some of their recruits to the battlefields of Iraq. Their methods included sending chosen candidates on a seemingly charity oriented Hajj to Mecca or to vacations in Istanbul or central Europe.
Some places, such as the holy Muslim city of Mecca, serve as locations for direct recruitment of pilgrims from Romania. Others, including the two Arab-Israeli dentists, are sent to undertake five-day crash courses in an Istanbul safe house where they learn methods of intelligence gathering, encryption, surveillance and a variety of clandestine operations and techniques. It is believed some of the candidates who graduated from the intelligence and terror school in Istanbul were whisked to Iraq for a short period with the insurgents to “get the feeling,” while others were sent on a visit to Iran.
In the case of the two Galilee dentists it was learned they were ordered to recruit Israeli Arabs, especially academics and professionals, and to scan crowded sites in Tel Aviv, Haifa and other major Israeli towns, as possible bombing targets. But target selections were not limited to Israel. An intelligence source in Israel told G2B the dentists’ arrest led to at least 15 additional arrests of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members in the West Bank. Through interrogation of the detainees it became clear handlers from Romania had instructed some of their recruits to scan for western targets in Egypt and Jordan, as well as for military targets in West Europe.
According to one assumption even the Amman hotel attacks on November 9 were planned following intelligence scouting by terrorist recruits who did not know on whose behalf the intelligence was being collected. This leads to an assessment, now under thorough investigation in some countries, there is an unofficial network of jihadi groups jointly assigning duties and selecting terror targets later distributed among various groups. Romania has been struggling organized crime, huge money laundering operations, drug trading and major smuggling crimes, and has become a prime meeting location for terror agents from all over the Middle East.
Here they can mingle with thousands of Arab students, Turks and even Chechens and Balkan Muslims, a large pool of potential militant Muslim candidates targeted for their origin and nationalities. Bucharest is described as “Terror Finance Inc.,” a place where al-Qaida cells, for example, are busy laundering money required for the activity of the organization. Various connections lead to individuals in the Balkan corruption network maze, identified by intelligence agencies as targets of interests. Some are identified by nicknames hinting to their illicit activities like King of the Alcohol Market, The Mercedes Dealer, or a religious Muslim clergy described as The Key Holder to the Garden of Eden, a recruiter of suicide bombers.
The Romanian government is well aware the country’s acceptance into the EU and NATO depends on eliminating the terror and crime centers from Bucharest, Cluj and other cities infested with large-scale illicit activities. Only then will economic growth and international support be offered to Romania.
G2B contributor Yoram East
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Israeli intelligence sets deadline for strikes on Iran
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The best-case scenario for the Bush administration in Iraq now is a modicum of stability under a Shi'ite-dominated regime more loyal to Tehran than Washington. In the January 2005 elections, voters trounced the US proxies, the secular Shi'ites of Iyad Allawi's CIA-groomed Iraqi National Accord, in favor of the Tehran-backed radical Shi'ites of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
So "regime change" in Iran is now necessary for the US to maintain effective control over Iraq as well. But how, given that Bush has already got his hands more than full with an increasingly unpopular quagmire? The answer is obvious: US imperialism's regional pit-bull, Israel. From the Jerusalem Post, Nov. 30:
Military Intelligence Chief Aharon Ze'evi Farkash said [Nov. 30] that after March, Israel must be prepared to use means other than diplomacy to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program...
Farkash would not detail other options, but sources on the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which Farkash was addressing Wednesday said it was clear that Israel would have to consider taking military action against Iran.
"In my years here, seeing the data I have seen, I feel it is clear that Iran has passed the point of no return," said committee chairman Yuval Steinitz (Likud). "It is accurate to say that unless Iran encounters a major interference, it will have a functioning nuclear arsenal within one or two years."
Iran has produced 45 tons of UF- 6 gas that is used in the centrifuge process for producing enriched uranium for nuclear weapons, said Steinitz.
"If by the end of March 2006 the international community will have failed to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program, diplomatic efforts will be pointless," said Farkash. "Iran has the upper hand in negotiations with the international community.
In order to deflect international attention from its weapons program, Iran has been encouraging Hizbullah to step up attacks on Israel, said Farkash, noting that the recent Hizbullah attacks along Israel's northern border were instigated by Syria and Iran.
"The latest flare up in the north was a strategic plan by Hizbullah," Farkash said.
The story also noted that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz denied that Israel was considering attacking Iran. He seems to (whether wittingly or not) be playing a game of good-cop/bad-cop with the bellicose Farkash.
There are several such games going on here. Israel itself is playing Bad Cop for Washington. Bush is restrained by politics from openly threatening aggression against Iran right now, so good thing Farkash is so obliging. And as veteran journalist Doug Ireland recently
This is the leak which resulted in the indictment of two AIPAC staffers (whose arrests garnered much more media coverage than the actual content of what was leaked). So the Justice Department played Bad Cop with Israel (mostly for US domestic consumption) even while elements of the Pentagon were throwing the Israelis a wink.
Of course, if Israel takes the bait and once again does Uncle Sam's dirty work, the worst of the backlash will be conveniently deflected from the US—not only to Israel, but to Jews all over the world. Will the Jews ever wake up?
Russia equips Iran for war
Moscow sells Tehran anti-missile system
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Author: Joseph Farah
© 2005 G2 Bulletin
Publishing date: 02.12.2005 05:45
Russia has signed a deal with Iran to sell its Tor M-1 anti-missile system, a development that will complicate any planned pre-emptive attack on the nation's nuclear facilities, G2B has learned.
Tor M-1 anti-missile battery The system would theoretically permit Iran to intercept some cruise missiles as well as airborne missiles that U.S., Israeli or other western countries might use in an effort to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons or using them.
The sale of 29 units was confirmed by a source at the Koupol military factory in Russia who claimed the deal would not violate any international agreement, because Moscow made a secret 1995 agreement with Washington known as the Gore-Chernomyrdin protocol, which permits Russian military sales to Iran.
Russian sources say the Tor system is "a weapon of defense" and does not represent a danger to the U.S. as long as Washington does not attack Iran. Another Russian source says Iran only seeks "to defend its nuclear thermal power station" that Moscow is building in Bushehr – set for completion in 2007. Washington, meanwhile, along with European nations, claims Iran is attempting to develop offensive nuclear weapons under the pretense of civilian activities.
The purchase of the systems Tor M-1 would cost Iran more than $700 million, according to experts on the subject. They say the surface-to-air missiles are capable of knocking down cruise missiles and aircraft bombs launched against a target. The Gore-Chernomyrdin protocol was first disclosed publicly in 2000.
It was the result of secret talks between then Vice President Al Gore and then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin. After the revelations in 2000, the State Department acknowledged Gore assured Russia that, under the provisions of the agreement, the U.S. would not sanction the Kremlin for Russian arm sales to Iran.
Critics of the agreement pointed out it was in violation of the spirit, if not the letter of the Iran-Iraq Non-proliferation Act, sponsored by then Sen. Gore, that required the imposition of sanctions against countries that made destabilizing arms sales to either Iran or Iraq. Sources in Russia were not certain whether the move was made possible by the firing of Alexander Rumyantsev as head of the Russian Agency for Atomic Energy, Rosatom. Rumyantsev was seen in Washington and Jerusalem as a foe of further technological assistance to the rogue regime in Iran.
Russian President Vladimir Putin offered no explanation for his replacement by a former Russian prime minister, Sergei Kiriyenko, who reportedly has no experience in the nuclear energy field. Meanwhile, Israel carried out a successful test of its Arrow anti-missile system today, which Defense Ministry officials called a response to the increasing threat of ballistic missiles in the region.
The Arrow anti-missile missile was fired at 10:28 A.M. from an Israel Air Force base in the center of the country, and hit the target. The test was the 14th of the Arrow system, which is being developed with the United States, and the ninth test of the missile itself. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the danger posed by Iran "does not relate only to Israel." Israeli officials say that if the international community does not manage to use diplomatic means to block Iran's effort to produce a nuclear bomb by March, there will no longer be any reason to continue diplomatic activity.
Teddy
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