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Hezbollah, Terrorist Group, Training Operations On US Border

Hezbollah Considered To Be More Advanced Than Al-Qaida

 

 
 

SAN DIEGO — A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico.

“They are recognized by many experts as the ‘A’ team of Muslim terrorist organizations,” a former U.S. intelligence agent told 10News.

The former agent, referring to Shi’a Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah, added, “They certainly have had successes in big-ticket bombings.”

Some of the group’s bombings include the U.S. embassy in Beirut and Israeli embassy in Argentina.

However, the group is now active much closer to San Diego.

“We are looking at 15 or 20 years that Hezbollah has been setting up shop in Mexico,” the agent told 10News.

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, U.S. policy has focused on al-Qaida and its offshoots.

“They are more shooters than thinkers … it’s a lot of muscles, courage, desire but not a lot of training,” the agent said, referring to al-Qaida.

Hezbollah, he said, is far more advanced.

“Their operators are far more skilled … they are the equals of Russians, Chinese or Cubans,” he said. “I consider Hezbollah much more dangerous in that sense because of strategic thinking; they think more long-term.”

Hezbolah has operated in South America for decades and then Central America, along with their sometime rival, sometime ally Hamas.

Now, the group is blending into Shi’a Muslim communities in Mexico, including Tijuana. Other pockets along the U.S.-Mexico border region remain largely unidentified as U.S. intelligence agencies are focused on the drug trade.

“They have had clandestine training in how to live in foreign hostile territories,” the agent said.

The agent, who has spent years deep undercover in Mexico, said Hezbollah is partnering with drug organizations, but which ones is not clear at this time.

He told 10News the group receives cartel cash and protection in exchange for Hezbollah expertise.

“From money laundering to firearms training and explosives training,” the agent said.

For example, he tracked, along with Mexican intelligence, two Hezbollah operatives in safe houses in Tijuana and Durango

“I confirmed the participation of cartel members as well as other Hezbollah individuals living and operating out of there,” he said.

Tunnels the cartels have built that cross from Mexico into the U.S. have grown increasingly sophisticated. It is a learned skill, the agent said points to Hezbollah’s involvement.

“Where are the knowledgeable tunnel builders? Certainly in the Middle East,” he said.

Why have Americans not heard more about Hezbollah’s activities happening so close to the border?

“If they really wanted to start blowing stuff up, they could do it,” the agent said.

According to the agent, the organization sees the U.S. as their “cash cow,” with illegal drug and immigration operations. Many senior Hezbollah leaders are wealthy businessmen, the agent said.

“The money they are sending back to Lebanon is too important right now to jeopardize those operations,” he said.

The agent said the real concern is the group’s long-term goal of radicalizing Muslim communities.

“They’re focusing on developing … infiltrating communities within North America,” the agent told 10News.

http://www.10news.com/news/27780427/detail.html

http://patdollard.com/2011/05/abc-news-san-diego-hezbollah-sets-up-headquarters-in-mexico-near-u-s-border/

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/05/05/ex-agent-hezbollah-ramping-up-border-operations-near-san-diego/

http://thesparkoflife.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/san-diego-news-hezbollah-terrorist-group-setting-up-operations-near-border-major-media-blackout/

Patriots:

    On May 11, 2011 i attended the launch and conference for the ASU School of Transborder Studies (at the Tempe Arts Center). And, what is that you may ask? Think La Raza plus the New World Order all rolled into one and you’re starting to get the picture. 
     Below are some links related to the “Transborder Studies” initiative.
 
~For Liberty~
Harry – admin. Education Action Committee
 
 
ASU School of Transborder Studies:
High Brow La Raza and Indoctrinating for a Borderless America

 

The ultimate goal of programs like The School of Transborder Studies is to Indoctrinate and move the United States toward a North American Governance (Union) and then to an American Union and then combine with the European Union, African Union, other world unions and finally a one world government under the control of the United Nations and their various cooperative governments, organizations, committees and NGO’s.

 

North American integration refers to the process of economic and political integration in North America particularly integration of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_integration

 

THE FOUNDERS THOUGHT THAT CENTRALIZED PLANNING UNDER THE  BRITISH EMPIRE WAS BAD.
JUST WAIT ‘TILL WE ARE ALL UNDER CENTRAL PLANNING BY THE U.N.!

 

My Summary on the Opening Ceremonies and Conference on May 11, 2011 of the School of Transborder Studies (by Harry Mathews)

http://teach1776.ning.com/group/theschooloftransborderstudies/forum/topics/the-asu-school-of-transborder

 

ASU School of Transborder Studies

http://sts.asu.edu/

 

ASU President Crow gives opening speech for the launch of the School of Transborder Studies on May 11, 2011

http://teach1776.ning.com/video/asu-president-crow-asu-school

 

Slide Show for School of Transborder Studies

http://teach1776.ning.com/photo/albums/the-asu-school-of-transborder

 

Transborder Competitiveness Index (Economic Zone Which Straddles the Mexican /U.S. Border):

 

ASU North American Center for Transborder Studies

http://nacts.asu.edu/

 

Indoctrinating a New Generation: “Think North American”

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24973

 

New center revives North America agenda

Presses Obama administration to advance continental integration

 

Directors of the North American Union Agenda

http://www.fina-nafi.org/eng/fina/conseil.asp?langue=eng&menu=fina

 

Marxist Critical Border Theory

http://teach1776.ning.com/group/theschooloftransborderstudies/forum/topics/marxist-critical-border-theory

 

CANAMEX Corridor and the North American Union

http://teach1776.ning.com/group/theschooloftransborderstudies/forum/topics/canamex-corridor-and-the-north

 

ASU Panamerican Initiatives

http://www.asu.edu/panamerican/initiatives.htm

 

Portal For North America

http://www.portalfornorthamerica.org/fr/node/129
Kwantlan Institute for Transborder Studies

 http://www.kwantlen.ca/its.html

 

 

 

Watch this video and weep for ShariAmerica:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Acts17Apologetics#p/u/0/ErzxOz3Dzv8

He apparently has more control of his emotions than we thought!

Welcome to Oakland

Posted: August 7, 2010 in Commentary

Ron Dellums
Mayor of Oakland, California
By Andrew Stevens, Deputy Editor

“Oakland has struggled with significant challenges, including high unemployment, widespread poverty, and an elevated rate of violent crime.” – Wikipedia

Accolades:

  • Dellums was born 1935 in the city he now leads to a family of labour organizers
  • Member of racist Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity for African-Americans
  • Community activist in a number of causes, becoming a member of Berkeley City Council in 1967
  • Co-founder of the racist, pro-Castro, pro-communist Congressional Black Caucus
  • Supported Cuba’s intervention in the Angolan civil war
  • Affiliated with: New Left’s Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, Democratic Socialists of America (the US’ Socialist International affiliate-founded by Karl Marx), of which he was vice chair
  • Dellums was elected mayor in June 2006’s non-partisan race after a lengthy ballot-counting exercise and disputed write-in votes for candidates such as “George Bush” and “Homer Simpson”.
  • His step-son is currently serving life imprisonment for murder.
  • Following several recent attempts at a recall election in the city against charges of inaction and enhancing his own salary and office budget, Dellums remains defiant
  • Dellums became a professional lobbyist, disillusioning some long-time allies and supporters in the process, not least for his work on behalf of defense manufacturer Rolls Royce aerospace and for private healthcare groups and pharmaceuticals concerns.

 

http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/oakland-mayor.html

Other wonderful things about Oakland:

Obama State of the Union: He got the ball rolling

January 29, 2011

In some ways last night’s State of the Union address by President Obama was a virtuoso performance. There were stirring moments, memorable turns of phrase, humor, a defense of activist government, and proposals that will be welcomed, and surely help, millions of people in need.

With the scent of Massachusetts still in the air, the president reasserted his reform agenda and took the fight to the party of obstruction. In polite, nuanced but forceful terms, he chastised the Republican Party.

In powerful oratory, he challenged some of the main ideological talking points of right-wing extremism, reminded everyone that he inherited record deficits and an unprecedented economic mess, and defended the stimulus bill and other recovery measures, including, and unfortunately the unconditional bank bailouts.

One of the high points of the evening was when the president called out the right-wing (and maybe worse) dominated Supreme Court whose members were sitting directly in front of him for their recent decision saying it’s OK for corporations to throw money into the election process.

One of the low points was his defense of the escalation of troops in Afghanistan and his threatening tone toward Iran and other “adversaries.”

Overall, I’d say that if the leaders of the “Party of No” came into the legislative chamber last night with wind in their sails, they left with their sails trimmed and a dour look on their faces. The evening for them turned out to be a “bummer.”

They had hoped to hear President Obama repeat what President Clinton said in his State of the Union address in 1994: “The era of big government is over.” But the president disappointed them.

While the broad people’s coalition that elected him will not, I’m sure, be entirely happy with the president’s speech, all signs are that his fighting tone (“I will not quit”), his focus on the economy, his defense of democratic rights (civil, labor, women, immigrant, gay and lesbian), his insistence on financial reform, and his policy initiatives outlined in the speech, including a health care bill, will reenergize this coalition, which, as of late, has been understandably dismayed by the pace and depth of change.

But this new energy will quickly dissipate if the White House and congressional Democrats go back to ignoring the rumbling from below and bending over backwards to satisfy Republicans and conservatives in their own party.

Working people expect them to draw a line in the sand, show more partisanship, push the legislative process, and tenaciously fight for the American people. If the Republicans obstruct and filibuster so be it. At least everybody will know who is blocking legislative measures that would ease the economic crisis when they go to the polls this fall.

But as good as many parts of Obama’s speech were, it didn’t fully rise in substantive terms to the challenges of our times and this era. The president could have knocked the ball out of the ballpark, but he settled for less. He had a chance to make the case for deep-going political, economic and social reform, including radical reform, but he came up short of that.

His speech didn’t have the programmatic depth that is objectively necessary at this moment. It took us an important step closer to solving the awful economic mess and relieving the human toll that comes with it, but only a step.

Politics is an art as well as a science. And part of that art includes knowing when to advance and when to retreat. Last night President Obama didn’t retreat, but he didn’t advance the people’s agenda to the degree that was possible and necessary. He roused the nation, but he didn’t hit the high note.

We would probably have to go back to Franklin Roosevelt to find a president who has the trust of our nation’s multi-racial, multi-national, male-female, young and old working class as President Obama does.

But the people’s trust has to be constantly renewed – and on the basis of practical performance, on the basis of systematically fighting for the crying needs of the American people. This president can be a transformative leader (he has that potential in my view), but only if he embraces and fights for a transformative agenda.

That agenda in a full-blown sense has yet to be articulated by him. If President Obama and the Democrats want to hail the private sector as the engine of growth, I wouldn’t quibble too much as long as they recognize that the private sector at this moment (big or small business) isn’t generating jobs and probably won’t for a long time. In these circumstances, only direct and indirect government intervention in the form of a massive public works jobs program, infrastructure repair and renewal, aid for state and local governments, and special measures for the hardest hit communities, and especially communities of racial minorities and immigrants, stands a chance of lowering unemployment in any kind of meaningful way.

In other words, the economy still has to be re-inflated and restructured along democratic, sustainable, nonmilitary, and worker-friendly lines, but the likelihood of the private sector doing that is zero. To a degree, the president is moving in this direction, but the pace and nature of the economic reforms that he prescribes is far too limited for the scope and depth of this crisis.

One of the serious missteps that he made last night was his call for a freeze on domestic discretionary spending, beginning in 2011. Hopefully the freeze is only a political calculation to ward off the Republican wolves who accuse him of being a “spend and tax” liberal. But in any case, it comes with a price insofar as it entrenches in the public mind that deficit spending is inherently bad and that our budgetary woes are caused by “handouts” to the poor and vulnerable, especially people of color and immigrants – not to mention aid to developing countries.

This is an unmitigated falsehood that ruptures our sense of social solidarity, of connectedness to every other human being. The truth of the matter is that the current budget deficit, as the president said, began during the Bush years as a result of two wars of aggression, mammoth tax breaks to the top income tier, and a bulging military budget.

Fiscal discipline and balanced budgeting are not an article of faith that has to be adhered to no matter what the circumstances. If that were the case, the U.S. and world economy could easily have tumbled into a full-blown depression last year. Capitalism isn’t a self-correcting system. Market failure and crisis are as much a reality as sustained economic growth. Vicious and reinforcing contractions of the economy can easily leave an economy stagnating at a far from optimum level or in complete ruin unless they are counteracted by aggressive government action and spending measures. The stimulus and anti-crisis measures of the Obama administration acted as a tourniquet; it stopped the hemorrhaging.

But it didn’t heal the wound.

If the president looks to the Depression years he will see more than one Roosevelt. There was the Roosevelt of 1934-1936 and the Roosevelt of 1937. The 1934-1936 Roosevelt had hit a wall as far as his reform efforts were concerned and he was faced with a moment of decision as to how to proceed – should he stay the course, retreat, or enlarge his vision. He chose the latter and thus the New Deal.

Or Obama could look to the 1937 incarnation of Roosevelt who, when seeing a surge of economic activity, decided to cut back on spending and balance the budget, which, as it turned out, was exactly the wrong medicine for an economy in its early stages of recovery.

From President Obama’s speech it seems like he hasn’t definitively decided which Roosevelt he will emulate, although I believe he leans toward the 1934-1936 Roosevelt. Which is what we need. Admittedly a bold anti-right, anti-corporate course of action won’t be easy. The opponents are many and powerful. Resist they will.

Thus to level and tilt the playing field in a progressive/radical direction, the president has to be joined, prodded, and where necessary differed with by the labor-led coalition that elected him. So far it hasn’t carried its share of the load; it is not even strong and united enough to enact even the program that the president outlined last night – let alone win more fundamental reforms. Too many of us have been content to watch, offer opinions, criticize, express our frustrations, and feel disappointed in the president.

But aren’t we part of the problem too, indeed a big part? An era of reform – and especially radical reforms – combines popular, sustained, and united action from below with new political openings from above. Both are necessary.

Last night the president got the ball rolling, but he didn’t roll it far enough or always in the right direction. So now it’s our turn to get a lot more players involved, roll the ball further and roll in the direction of economic security, equality, democracy and peace.

http://cpusa.org/obama-state-of-the-union-he-got-the-ball-rolling

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