WHY ARE  WE BANKRUPT? 

The Costs of Illegal Immigration total is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY. 

The Mystery of the Forgotten U.S. Flag Revealed.

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November 2009 Headlines
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11/30/09

Billboard Warns: “Prepare For War” Against Government A new billboard off of Interstate 70 in Missouri provides a short “citizens guide to REVOLUTION of a corrupt government” and issues a call to “PREPARE FOR WAR.” This billboard replaces one that warned that the socialist “Obama-Nation” is “coming for you.” It’s unclear who the owner of the billboard is, but the first one was the work of a “Missouri businessman.”While it’s unclear who owns it, the Lafayette County Republican Central Committee seems to endorse it.

Israel ready to release 1,000 Palestinians for captive soldier Israel revealed for the first time today it is ready to release nearly 1,000 Palestinian prisoners to secure the freedom of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier held captive in Gaza.

All 40 GOP senators to fillibust Obamacare This Saturday’s Senate vote on National health care for America looks likely to turn into a long, drawn-out bloodbath as all 40 of the Republicans in the chamber have vowed to filibuster the bill.Even moderate Republican Olympia Snowe has saidshe will participate in the fillibuster against Obamacare.Democrats need to only get 60 votes to proceed to debate, where they only need a majority to pass the bill. This will allow Democrat Senators vulnerable in their re-election 2010 bids a  John-Kerry-esque “I voted for the bill before I voted against it” line of politicking, where they can vote for the bill first and then against it to pass the legislation into law.

Legal Travesty in the Kahre Case Federal Judge David Ezra has sentenced Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre to serve 15 years in the federal penitentiary. What a travesty of justice. The man no more belongs in jail than, say, Plaxico Burress, the NFL player who was sentenced to serve two years in a New York jail for possessing a handgun for self-defense. It’s just part of the trend in America to send good people to jail for violating ridiculous regulations.What was Kahre’s crime? He took advantage of a loophole in U.S. tax law and then openly and publicly exposed it.

Second body in two days found in Portland waters A body has been found in Portland's Columbia Slough. This is the second body found in Portland-area waterways since Saturday.  Detectives from the Portland Police Bureau's Missing Person's Unit, with the assistance of the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, located  the body of someone they have identified as "a 38-year-old man" on Sunday. The body was found in the slough under the Interstate-5 overpass near Martin Luther King Boulevard.

Climate-Gate, the new Red-Herring! A "Red Herring" is something that is designed to distract you from the real issues. "Look over Here, not Over There!" is an age old political trick as old as time. A "red herring" in a bucket of fish usually means something worse is in the barrel. Something "rotten in Denmark" as it were. Climate-gate is indeed a scandal. It is also a controlled release scandal. People don't dump this kind of information in the public domain without ending up dead somewhere. Just ask the numerous microbiologists that were killed because they possessed information that only "could" have been released to the public.

DUBAI FALLOUT INCLUDE U.S. BANKS / LIKE CITI'S 8 BILLION LOAN Hello ! That's our money, folks !

england: Man with sexual fetish for slurry jailed....we want to know why he isn't in a mental facility?......like this is normal???

Mysterious Saddam Hussein channel hits Iraq TV Saddam Hussein is the star of a mysterious channel on satellite TV in Iraq that began broadcasting on the Islamic calendar's anniversary of his 2006 execution. The channel, which is broadcast across the Arab world, dredges up the sectarian divisions that Saddam inspired among Shias and Sunnis at a time when Iraq is gearing up for crucial national elections. Iraqi politicians have been arguing over parliamentary seat distribution in a dispute that has inflamed the splits. The wrangling will likely delay the vote beyond its constitutionally required Jan 30 deadline.

German Cabinet official resigns over Afghan airstrike Reporting from Berlin - A top German official resigned Friday after admitting that the government had withheld information about Afghan civilian casualties after a NATO airstrike. Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung, who until recently was Germany's defense minister, said he took "political responsibility for the internal communication policy" of his former ministry.
His departure came just one day after the resignation of Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the army's chief of staff, and Peter Wichert, deputy defense minister, over the German-ordered airstrike, the deadliest operation involving German troops since World War II.

11/29/09

Iraq: The war was illegal Tony Blair will be quizzed over a devastating official memo warning him that war on Iraq would be illegal eight months before he sent troops into Baghdad, it was claimed last night. The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war will consider a letter from Lord Goldsmith, then Mr Blair's top law officer, advising him that deposing Saddam would be in breach of international law, according to a report in The Mail on Sunday.

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The inconvenient truths Mr Gore and his fanatical friends DIDN'T tell you about climate change article by Peter Hitchins. As it happens I was Green before the word came to mean what it does now. From a very early age, I hated the ploughing up of this country for the motor car, and grieved at the mad closure of the railways, a view that has now become much more widespread than it was then........Check out the book * The Real Global Warming Disaster, by Christopher Booker, Continuum Books, £16.99.

THE ROVING EYE
Pipelineistan, Part 1: The rules of the game War against terrorism? Not really. Reminder: it's all about oil.
A quick look at the map is all it takes. It's no coincidence that the map of terror in the Middle East and Central Asia is practically interchangeable with the map of oil. There's Infinite Justice, Enduring Freedom - and Everlasting Profits to be made: not only by the American industrial-military complex, but especially by American and European oil giants

ooooooo OOOPS, not something you want to hear after an operation is it?....Woman's leg amputated by mistake following false cancer diagnosis and this was decided in a committee of EXPERTS!!!.....doesn't this make you feel all warm and fuzzy about medical procedures, etc.

My Child

4 police officers shot dead at Wash. coffeehouse A gunman burst into a coffeehouse Sunday and opened fire on four police officers as they sat working on their laptops, killing the three men and one woman in what an official described as a targeted ambush.Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said officers were looking for one male suspect who fled the scene and haven't ruled out an accomplice, possibly a getaway driver.It wasn't clear whether the officers even had time to draw their weapons to return fire, Troyer said."This was more of an execution. Walk in with the specific mindset to shoot police officers," Troyer said

Inventor's terminal cancer courtesy of Verichip? Bob Boyce, who has invented a super-efficient electrolysis method, as well as a self-looping electrical circuit capable of charging batteries, discovered a microchip implant in his shoulder when having a tumor removed from that spot, which metastasized.  It turns out the chip was made by VeriChip; and he has no idea how it got there.

DUBAI / A DYING MONUMENT  TO GREED AND EXCESS. Debt strapped Dubai World who can't pay its bills ( 60 billion dollar debt ) is a dying monument to world wide greed and excess and its obvious consequences ~ for in attempting to create an artificial economy from reclaimed land and borrowed capital, it has become a crumbling sub-prime in the desert: Allen L Roland

'Seven-year-old Picasso' Kieron sells his art for £17,000... in 14 minutes A boy of seven has been hailed a genius after selling his paintings for £17,000 in just 14 minutes.Buyers from as far afield as Japan and Canada paid more than £1,000 each to buy one of Kieron Williamson's 16 watercolours, oils and pastels of Norfolk landscapes.

Royal Marines could have rescued pirate hostages, but the order to attack never came The disturbing truth behind the Royal Navy’s failure to prevent Somali pirates kidnapping a British couple from their yacht can be revealed today.An investigation by The Mail on Sunday demolishes accounts by the Ministry of Defence and the head of the Navy which suggest that a naval vessel at the scene had no rescue force available.In fact, far from being a toothless bystander, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Wave Knight was within seconds of unleashing a crack team of 20 lethally armed Royal Marines.As for the Chandlers, whose lives are being ransomed in Somalia for £4million, the agonising memory of October 28 is unlikely to fade soon.They saw the Navy come to their rescue and then sink their hopes.

Russian Officials: Bomb Caused Train Crash That Killed 26 Russian officials say a bomb explosion derailed an express passenger train late Friday, killing at least 26 people and injuring more than 50 others.Russian news media quote Russia's railways chief, Vladimir Yakunin, as saying a second smaller device exploded near the crash site Saturday, about 400 kilometers northwest of Moscow. 

Matthew Hoh Speaks Grim Truth To Power The rare resignation on principle is always telling in American government. When Matthew Hoh recently left the State Department -- a Marine Captain in Iraq who became a diplomat in Afghanistan -- his act was significant far beyond the first reports.Hoh speaks grim truth to power. His message is that to pursue the Afghan war policy in any guise -- regardless of the troop level President Obama now chooses -- will be utter folly, trapping America in an unwinnable civil war in the Hindu Kush, and only fueling terrorism.

I'm Allowed to Rob You! video

Fall of the Republic video

Military Horror: Proposed Military Robot Would Literally Feed off Dead Battlefield Bodies to Power Itself

Did the war make him do it? Iraq veteran Jessie Bratcher shot the man he was told had raped his girlfriend. An Oregon jury found he had been legally insane at the time because of post-traumatic stress disorder.

11/27/09

Kenyans draw weapons over shrinking resources Experts fear the conflicts involving cattle, water and land may be just the beginning of climate-driven violence in Africa. At least 400 people have died in northern Kenya this year, the U.N. says. Reporting from Isiolo, Kenya - Have the climate wars of Africa begun?

The Fall of Mexico. Those famous words came to mind when another man named Díaz offered me an equally concise observation about the realities of life in the country today: “In Mexico it is dangerous to speak the truth. It is even dangerous to know the truth.”

U.S. Army Interrogator Shot Execution Style at U.S. Iraqi Military Base One Day Before Hasan’s Ft. Hood Rampage The day before Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan went on a rampage at Ft. Hood and allegedly shot 43 military personnel, wounding 31 and killing 12, there was another “shooting” at an American military base in Iraq which has been treated far differently by the military: the “execution-style” murder of Staff Sgt. Amy C. Tirador, 29, of Albany, N.Y. at the U.S. military base near Kirkush. Even though the DOD claimed Tirador died due to a “non-combat related incident”, the DOD also stated that her death was “under investigation” and here’s the reason why: Tirador’s parents publicly stated that their daughter was shot “execution style” in the back of the head.

Big Pharma Sells Out However the Senate's health-care debate pans out, we'll wager this prediction: The pharmaceutical executives who have endorsed this exercise will eventually be exposed as among the most shortsighted CEOs in the history of capitalism.In June, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America sealed a deal with the White House and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus promising to contribute $80 billion in lower drug costs over the next decade to ObamaCare, plus a multimillion-dollar TV ad campaign. In return they were to be spared from price controls and the reimportation of cheaper foreign drugs

Voter Anger Is Building Over Deficits After engineering an unprecedented spending surge for nearly a year, President Barack Obama now wants to signal that he takes deficits seriously. So this week the White House announced that it is considering creating a commission to figure how to fix the budget mess.

Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement? We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven't heard about it, that's because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled together for leaders to consider. And neither have the media.

Enter Lord Christopher Monckton. The former adviser to Margaret Thatcher gave an address at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month that made quite a splash. For the first time, the public heard about the 181 pages, dated Sept. 15, that comprise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—a rough draft of what could be signed come December.

So far there have been more than a million hits on the YouTube post of his address. It deserves millions more because Lord Monckton warns that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty is to set up a transnational "government" on a scale the world has never before seen.

Gore Flees in Panic from Chicago Book Signing Appearing at a bookstore in the downtown Loop, Gore was confronted by a team of demonstrators from a grass roots group called "We Are Change," as he was signing his latest fascist screed on the global warming swindle.Make no mistake about it. This little encounter is typical of the kinds of things going on all over the country, as the fascists who brought you the near-destruction of the United States and an onrushing global Dark Age, are no longer walking the streets, smug in the belief that they are literally getting away with murder

UK diplomat: US was 'hell bent' on Iraq invasion The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.Jeremy Greenstock, British ambassador to the United Nations from 1998 to 2003, said that President George W. Bush had no real interest in attempts to agree on a U.N. resolution to provide explicit backing for the conflict.

CCRKBA BLASTS DALEY'S 'NEW LOW,' FOR BLAMING FORT HOOD MASSACRE ON GUNS Anti–gun Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has reached a new low in his attempt to blame the Fort Hood massacre on firearms, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“Mayor Daley is deplorably capitalizing on the outrage at Fort Hood to push his gun prohibition agenda,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “This is the height of moral bankruptcy from a man whose administration was sued Wednesday morning by the Chicago inspector general over apparent interference with an investigation into possible wrongdoing by current and former city employees.” (comment: hellooooooo ....on a military base for cripes sake...where they learn to use guns, have guns and plan to use them and it is not only legal but supported and condoned! Thats like 'apples and oranges'!)

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How Obama Screwed Up It's polarized, lobbyist-laden business as usual in Washington, and President Obama is largely to blame despite his campaign pledges to change the way business is done in the capital, writes Fred Barnes. Obama mistook his personal election victory for a victory for liberalism and failed to try hard enough for bipartisan compromise when he had the chance, Barnes writes in the Wall Street Journal.

Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make it go away Climate sceptics have lied, obscured and cheated for years. That's why we climate rationalists must uphold the highest standards of science. I have seldom felt so alone. Confronted with crisis, most of the environmentalists I know have gone into denial. The emails hacked from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, they say, are a storm in a tea cup, no big deal, exaggerated out of all recognition. It is true that climate change deniers have made wild claims which the material can't possibly support (the end of global warming, the death of climate science). But it is also true that the emails are very damaging.

Extreme Heat vs. Extreme Cold: Which is the Greatest Killer? Hypocrisy in high places is nothing new; but the extent to which it pervades the Climategate Culture - which gave us the hockeystick history of 20th-century global warming - knows no bounds.

MEP reprimanded for exposing EU dictatorship Farage chastised in Parliament for highlighting the fact that the European Union is an authoritarian tyranny, breaks crazy law that states it is illegal to criticize the EU. An astounding exchange took place in the European Union Parliament earlier this week when MEP Nigel Farage was reprimanded for daring to expose the fact that the EU is an authoritarian dictatorship ruled by unelected bureaucrats to the detriment of national sovereignty. Farage effectively broke a tyrannical 1999 law that states it is illegal to criticize the EU.

China Executes 2 Men for Abducting and Selling Children BEIJING —  China has executed two men for abducting and selling 15 children, many of whom were taken as babies or toddlers and have not yet been reunited with their parents, state media said Friday.The official Xinhua News Agency said Hu Minghua, 55, and Su Binde, 27, were executed Thursday morning, according to a statement from the Supreme People's Court.

11/26/09

TV Environmentalist Goes Nuts Over ClimateGate

Hacked e-mails fuel climate change debate An online debate over global warming science has broken out after an unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming and posted them online.

Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama's. That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush's for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office. 

Princess for a day, September 12, 2009 This was the first line of the first letter I wrote about Lillian Ellis. Life is a challenge on how we travel down that highway we call life, with all the bumps, road blocks, curves, intersections, dead ends and road hazards we have to pass through to get to our destination.
My little angel Lilly finally arrived at her final destination. Her road was very bumpy and it was filled with all the hazards of the road that we face and travel every day..................The surgery started off great, then God started to talk to her and she listened.

Utah family struggles to make sense of cave death The brother of a man who died early Thursday trapped 700-feet inside a Utah cave said his family is remarkably strong but struggles to make sense of what happened.John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park, died nearly 28 hours after he became stuck upside-down in Nutty Putty Cave, a popular spelunking site about 80 miles south of Salt Lake City.His death is the first known fatality at the cave, according to the Utah County sheriff's office.

Abandoned yacht 'my heart and soul' - sailor Lone sailor Bernt Luchtenborg was unable to hold back the tears when he talked about his decision to abandon his beloved boat Horizons during a rescue off the New Zealand coast early this week. "It's my heart and my soul. It's a piece of me," he said, safe in the captain's cabin on the luxury cruise liner Seven Seas Mariner - the ship which rescued him from stormy seas on Tuesday.The 56-year-old German-born Swiss man was forced to abandon his 15.84m yacht, on which he was attempting a double circumnavigation of the globe, after he crashed into what he thought was a whale.

Dubai request for debt 'standstill' raises fear

Female Elephants Rescue A Drowning Baby video

11/25/09

-Shocking H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Miscarriage Stories From Pregnant Women – Tell Your Doctors That Vaccines And Pregnancy Do Not Mix!

Australia issues 'catastrophic' fire warning Authorities are asking residents in some some parts of south Australia to evacuate their homes as an impending heat wave prompted the nation to issue its first "catastrophic" brush fire warning.The warning system was put in place to better alert residents after a devastating brush fire ravaged the southeastern state of Victoria in February, killing more than 170 people and destroying 2,000 homes

Why we're broke 3 trillion dollars down the drain. The US crowed about bankrupting the Soviet Union by engaging them in an arms race the USSR couldn't afford. Just twenty years later, we're bankrupting ourselves in an entirely bogus "War on Terrorism." And the band plays on. Three trillion is real money.

Judge blasts bad bank, erases 525G debt A Long Island couple is home free after an outraged judge gave them an amazing Thanksgiving present -- canceling their debt to ruthless bankers trying to toss them out on the street. Suffolk Judge Jeffrey Spinner wiped out $525,000 in mortgage payments demanded by a California bank, blasting its "harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive" acts. The bombshell decision leaves Diane Yano-Horoski and her husband, Greg Horoski, owing absolutely no money on their ranch house in East Patchogue. Spinner pulled no punches as he smacked down the bankers at OneWest -- who took an $814.2 million federal bailout but have a record of coldbloodedly foreclosing on any homeowner owing money.

NO WAY THROUGH / THE PALESTINIAN NIGHTMARE CONTINUES..No words can adequately describe the futility of living in Israeli occupied Palestine but this award winning seven minute video graphically depicts what it's like to exist in a living nightmare where you are surrounded by check points, road blocks and walls : Allen L Roland

Lawmaker wants repeal of teacher-garb ban An Oregon legislative leader says he will introduce a bill to repeal a state law from 1923 that bans teachers from wearing religious garb.House Speaker Dave Hunt, D-Gladstone, said he will push to "allow teachers to have the same religious free exercise rights as every other Oregonian" when legislators meet in February.

Merck's Vioxx scandal widens: Drug maker knew Vioxx was deadly for years before risk was made public

Nicola Tesla, genius of all time

11/23/09

Analysis: Fed under fire as public anger mounts Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag.Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Get probing audits of its behind-the-scenes operations, others say.The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is always fair game for criticism and second-guessing, usually over interest rate actions. But this year the criticism is much broader as Congress responds to widespread public anger that the Fed bailed out Wall Street but not ordinary Americans, and with unemployment in double digits..............read about the 'illegal' founding of the Federal Reserve and the stranglehold and financial slavery it has imposed on the American people too.

Forced labour and rape, the new face of slavery in America Human trafficking has become a major issue in the Midwest heartland of America, causing some campaigners to dub it a modern form of slavery.Figures from the State Department reveal that 17,500 people are trafficked into the US every year against their will or under false pretences, mainly to be used for sex or forced labour. Experts believe that, when cases of internal trafficking are added, the total number of victims could be up to five times larger. And increasing numbers of trafficked individuals are being transported thousands of miles from America's coasts and into heartland states such as Ohio and Michigan."In one recent incident a 16-year-old Mexican girl was found to have been trafficked across the US border. Doctors noticed the heavily pregnant girl showed clear signs of physical abuse when she was brought into a hospital in Dayton to give birth. The police were called but the couple who had brought her had already fled. When the girl's story emerged, it became clear she had been kept against her will in the nearby city of Springfield and used for labour and sex. "I thought slavery ended a few centuries ago. But here it is alive and well," said Springfield's sheriff, Gene Kelly."

Coma Man Was Conscious for 23 Years A man believed to be in a coma for 23 years following a car accident was actually conscious but completely paralyzed. "I dreamed myself away," said Belgian Rom Houben, now 49. A doctor finally made the correct diagnosis and discovered Houben's brain was completely normal and functioning. With therapy, Houben is now able to communicate tapping out messages on a computer screen.

Brits in Iraq: US Military Bosses Were 'Like Martians'British military officers serving in Iraq in the early days found their American counterparts so uncommunicative they called them “a group of Martians” for whom “dialogue is alien." In documents leaked to the Daily Telegraph, the top British general says he didn't even have a secure line to Gen. Rick Sanchez, the US commander, he saw him only once in seven months, and he admits to spending "a significant amount of time" "evading" and "refusing" orders from American superiors.

Pirates Holding 12-Year-Old Girl for RansomA just-released pirate hostage says the Somalian scallywags are holding a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl captive aboard the British ship Ariana. Captain Ricardo Blach, whose ship, the Alakrana, was released last week after six weeks of captivity, says the pirates at one point brought him aboard the Ariana, where he met the girl, along with her mother and father, an Ariana crew member.

Goldman Sachs Apologizes, Gives Back The Wall Street firm that has arguably taken the most heat for its multibillion-dollar employee compensation will donate $500 million for a new program to help small businesses.

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams The economic elite have launched an attack on the U.S. public and society is unraveling at an increased rate. You may have missed it in the mainstream news media, but statistical societal indicators are reading red across the board. Let’s look at the top 15 statistics that prove we are under attack.

Filipino Gunmen Kidnap, Kill 21 Filing Election Papers Philippine troops found 21 bodies in the country's restive south today, after dozens of gunmen hijacked a convoy of politicians and supporters filing their nominations for next year's elections, officials said. The victims, 13 women and eight men, were found in southern Ampatuan township, three miles from where they were taken hostage as they traveled in vans earlier in the day. The identities of the gunmen were unclear but victims' relatives blamed political rivals.

At One Clinic, Two Standards of Care At one New York City radiology clinic you get what you pay for—there are different names, different doors, and very different experiences for those paying with insurance and those shelling out their own cash.

Centrist senators say healthcare bill needs major changes Reporting from Washington - Only a day after Senate Democrats voted to move into a historic debate on overhauling the nation's healthcare system, key centrists made it clear Sunday that the party was still a long way from delivering on its promise to provide near-universal insurance coverage and contain medical costs.

Civil War Spreads Across North West Pakistan The Pakistani military offensive in South Waziristan against Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP)—the Pakistani Taliban—has escalated into a civil war throughout the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) and North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Islamists and tribal militants now consider themselves in a fight to the death with the pro-US government of President Ali Asif al-Zardari, which has bowed to Washington’s demands to deploy overwhelming force to stop the predominantly ethnic Pashtun regions being used to support the Taliban resistance over the border in Afghanistan. the rest at the link

11/22/09

Mexican American former anti-drug chief's reputation on trial Reporting from Nogales, Ariz. - Around here, the grim joke goes, most people work for the government or the mafias. Or both.

Kuwaiti firm accused of 'massive overcharging' of U.S. on military food Reporting from Atlanta - A Kuwait-based company that is the principal food supplier to the U.S. military in Iraq has been indicted on charges that it defrauded the U.S. government in a series of alleged schemes that, by one account, have cost American taxpayers more than $1 billion.

11/21/09

Why are Chileans so Unhappy??????? SANTIAGO, Chile — Franco Carcuro seemed to have it all going for him. The 32-year-old son of a well-known TV sports commentator led a quiet life and had a successful career as sports director at a private university. But last September, he went up to the 10th floor of his apartment building and jumped.

Elf Yourself Dancing Flash Mob Invades NYC

Parents: Daughter took our house and put us in a home An elderly couple is suing their daughter for deceit after she allegedly got them to sign their house over to her and then put them in a nursing home.

AFLAC Denies Benefits After Daughter Murdered A mother whose daughter was murdered is suing American Life Assurance of Columbus (AFLAC) because it has refused to pay the death benefit on life insurance the daughter applied for shortly before her death. According to the complaint, on June 22, 2004, Michelle Williams of Lynwood, Illinois, applied for a life insurance policy on her own life and named her mother, plaintiff Kathryn Depratto, as the beneficiary. AFLAC issued a temporary binder while the policy of insurance was being issued, the complaint states.

Iraq War Veteran on a Mental-Health Mission Chuck Luther, who served 12 years in the military, is a veteran of two deployments to Iraq, where he was a reconnaissance scout in the 1st Cavalry Division. The former sergeant was based at Fort Hood, Texas, where he lives today. Here is his story at the link

Compton pastor suspected of embezzling more than $800,000 from church A Baptist minister was arrested this morning on charges of stealing more than $800,000 from the church he leads in Compton, officials said.The Rev. E. Joshua Sims, pastor of Double Rock Baptist Church in Compton, was taken into custody this morning at his home in Corona, said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The arrest concludes a months-long investigation by sheriff's deputies, Whitmore said.

Cows Pulled From Slaughter - Too Many Antibiotics

France Finds Monsanto Guilty of Lying

Bruce Gagnon on Military Policy Under Obama video Bruce Gagnon is the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space which is comprised of some 150 organizations around the world. Here he talks about how the Obama administrations military policy is shaping up and the hold the military complex has on both Democrat s and Republicans

11/19/09
200 Web sites spread al-Qaida's message in English Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida's message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood shootings.

Sen. Dodd on Warpath Against Fed A DEMOCRAT SENATOR is defending sweeping financial reforms he recently unveiled, which would strip the Federal Reserve of its broad and unchallenged authority while reining in a greedy Wall Street. On Nov. 10, Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, introduced his financial overhaul bill called the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2009, a massive bill that comes in at just over 1,100 pages.

Health Care issues: Mandated individual coverage

Internet Under Seige. American soldiers are committing suicide in the greatest numbers since official records began in 1980, with the US Army at a loss to explain the phenomenon since a third of the dead have never been deployed in combat.

Rise in soldier suicides leaves Pentagon looking for answers American soldiers are committing suicide in the greatest numbers since official records began in 1980, with the US Army at a loss to explain the phenomenon since a third of the dead have never been deployed in combat.

Computer games fan 'planned school massacre' A 13-year-old computer games enthusiast is facing charges of attempted murder after police said that they had thwarted a plan to shoot dead his teachers for giving him poor marks.

Woman awarded $3M in assault claim against KBR A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton Co. subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case.Tracy Barker had sued U.S. contractor KBR Inc, its former parent company Halliburton and several affiliates in May 2007, claiming she was sexually attacked by a State Department employee while working as a civilian contractor in the southern Iraqi city of Basra

Al Gore: Earth's Interior 'Extremely Hot, Several Million Degrees' For several years as uneducated sycophants in the media gushed and fawned over every utterance from former Vice President Al Gore, NewsBusters has informed readers of just how absurd the junk science he's peddling really is

This comes under the category of WAY COOL: video Water Drop at 2000 Frames per Second

Couple arrested for not paying 18% tip If you’re frustrated by poor service at a restaurant, think twice before you decide to not tip. You may be in for a bit more than just a dirty look from the waiter. "Nobody, nobody wants to be forced to pay a tip or be arrested for terrible service," Leslie Pope said when her happy hour ended in handcuffs.Pope and John Wagner were hauled away by police and charged with theft for not paying the mandatory 18 percent gratuity totaling $16 after eating at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem, Pa. with six friends. Pope claimed that they had to wait nearly an hour for their order and that she had to get napkins and silverware for the table herself

Students storm UCLA building to protest expected UC system fee increase [Updated] About 30 students stormed UCLA’s Campbell Hall and barricaded the doors with chains and bike locks early this morning to protest a student fee increase that is expected to be endorsed by the University of California’s Board of Regents today. Updated at 8:39 a.m.: The UC Regents have started to meet, and hundreds of students have surrounded the building, protesting the proposed fee hike.]Students who spent the night were sprawled outside Campbell Hall in sleeping bags. They carried posters and signs that read, “Don’t take our education away” and “Don’t

A glitch causes widespread US air travel delays Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.The Federal Aviation Administration said the problem, which lasted about five hours, was fixed around 10 a.m., but it was unclear how long flights would be affected.

11/18/09

Government Web site says stimulus created jobs in nonexistent districts The federal Web site that tracks spending from the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus program reports that the program has created thousands of jobs in congressional districts that don't exist.According to www.recovery.gov, California has seven more congressional districts than the 53 it actually has, including a 99th District. In South Carolina, the site reported Tuesday evening, $40.7 million in economic stimulus funds have gone to seven spurious congressional districts, including 00 and 25. South Carolina has six U.S. House districts.

CHINA:Children’s hospital doctor on duty playing games, 5-month-old baby dies November 5, 2009 afternoon, a tragedy happened in a Children’s hospital, but we the common people will not see it in today’s newspapers or from major media. It’s not that we didn’t ask for help, but there was no one helping us. Posting this in hope of friends in the society can support us, to make people responsible at the hospital step up, to make the major media step up including our beloved 110 (police) also step up.(please read the whole heartless story at the link, is this how the doctors and hospitals treat their people in China, is one baby's life treated with such disdain there, one wonders how many die from lack of 'caring'?)

Judge: Corps' negligence caused Katrina flooding U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval sided with six residents and one business who argued the Army Corps' shoddy oversight of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish. He said, however, the corps couldn't be held liable for the flooding of eastern New Orleans, where two of the plaintiffs lived.Duval awarded the plaintiffs $720,000, but the government could eventually be forced to pay much more in damages. The ruling should give more than 100,000 other individuals, businesses and government entities a better shot at claiming billions of dollars in damages.

Washington Post: D.C. to pay $450,000 to war protesters over 2002 interrogation The District agreed to pay $450,000 Monday to eight war protesters to settle a civil lawsuit they filed after a 2002 interrogation. The protesters had alleged that FBI agents had detained them in a Washington parking garage and interrogated them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs.

More than $98 billion in improper gov't payments More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year.In all, about 5 percent of spending in federal programs in fiscal year 2009 was improper, according to new details of a government financial report that were released Tuesday. Saying the overall error rate was similar in 2008, officials attributed the $26 billion jump to some changes in how to define improper spending as well as an increase in overall spending due to the recession.

Washington Post: D.C. quietly folds up police checkpoint program Remember all the controversy over military checkpoints in the District neighborhood of Trinidad?D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier set up roadblocks there in the summer of 2008 in an effort to combat crime in the Northeast neighborhood. Residents, frustrated that they could not drive down the block in their own neighborhood sued with the help of the nonprofit Partnership for Civil Justice.They initially lost, but then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled this summer that the checkpoints, known as the Neighborhood Safety Zone program, were unconstitutional, handing a legal victory to the nonprofit and residents.

Mexican Government Admits ET's are Real! video at the link

DEADLY  PNEUMONIC VIRUS  STRANGLES UKRAINE. Tymoshenko, prime minister of Ukraine and a candidate in upcoming national elections, visits a children's hospital in western Ukraine ~ where a deadly virus has plunged the country and its neighbors into a state of panic.

A cocktail of three [Baxter] flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a deadly pneumonic virus, which may be far more dangerous than swine flu ~ and it appears to have strangled  Western Ukraine and its neighbors in panic: Allen L Roland

Maersk Alabama repels 2nd pirate attack with guns Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship who fired off guns and a high-decibel noise device.A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds.

11/17/09

L.A. water main breaks may be tied to reservoir, DWP says

Man says 30-foot 'monster' lurking in canals of Madeira Beach There's something strange and big swimming in the canals of Madeira Beach along the Pinellas County coast. Those who have seen it say it's no fish and think it could be a sea serpent. Russ Sittlow, 78, has seen it. He calls the creature "Normandy Nessie" because he lives on Normandy Road.The retired engineer said he first saw "Nessie" in April."His head come up out of the water, and then he rolled up in a double roll behind him and he was long he was huge," he said of that first sighting......video

BOMBSHELL: Bin Laden worked for US until 9/11 Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).
In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11." These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.

11/16/09

Torture Resisters Arrested at Fort Huachuca Human rights activists protesting torture being carried out by the United States marched to the main gate at Fort Huachuca Army Intelligence Center, where five crossed into the base and were taken into custody on Nov. 15. "Rogue assassinations and torture have damaged the soul of our nation and tarnished our image around the world," torture resisters said in a letter to the Army base.Arrested were: Joshua Harris, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Mariah Klusmire, Albuquerque; John Heid, Tucson; Fr. Jerry Zawada, Tucson and Fr. Bob Carney, Tucson.

I introduced Belle to vice girls: It showed her the 'human face' of sex trade, says father Belle de Jour's estranged father broke down in tears last night as he revealed he had used more than 150 prostitutes himself - and had introduced his daughter to some of them.

Blue lights installed in Tokyo train stations to stop suicides Designed to soothe and calm, the specially-designed blue LED lights have been suspended above the platforms of dozens of Tokyo railway stations in order to stem the nation's spiralling suicide rate. Japan has long been home to a soaring suicide rate, recently exacerbated by the economic climate, with the number of people committing suicide this year expected to surpass the previous record of 34,427 deaths in 2003.

Watchdog: Gov't may have overpaid to bail out AIG Officials managing the multibillion dollar bailout of insurance giant American International Group Inc. bungled the first rescue and may have overpaid other banks to wind down AIG's business relationships, a government watchdog says.The Federal Reserve Bank of New York — headed at the time by now Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner — paid AIG's business partners face value for securities so they would cancel insurance-like contracts AIG had written and ease the firm's liquidity crunch. But at least one of those partner banks would have canceled the contracts for less, according to a report Tuesday from Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the $700 billion financial bailout Congress approved last October.

AP Poll: Americans fret over health overhaul costs It's the cost, Mr. President. Americans are worried about hidden costs in the fine print of health care overhaul legislation, an Associated Press poll says. That's creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to close the deal with a handful of Democratic doubters in the Senate.Although Americans share a conviction that major health care changes are needed, Democratic bills that extend coverage to the uninsured and try to hold down medical costs get no better than a lukewarm reception

Chinese censors block Obama's call to free the Web President Barack Obama prodded China about Internet censorship and free speech, but the message was not widely heard in China where his words were blocked online and shown on only one regional television channel.China has more than 250 million Internet users and employs some of the world's tightest controls over what they see. The country is often criticized for its so-called "Great Firewall of China" — technology designed to prevent unwanted traffic from entering or leaving a network.

Strong Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for some skywatchers the show could be quite impressive. The best seats are in Asia, but North American observers should be treated to an above average performance of the Leonid meteor shower, weather permitting. The trick for all observers is to head outside in the wee hours of the morning – between 1 a.m. and dawn – regardless where you live.

Millions will have to repay part of tax credit More than 15 million taxpayers may owe the government $250 or more because of how the IRS last spring set up President Barack Obama's tax break that was designed to help consumers spend the U.S. economy out of recession....(OH THANKS BARKEY!...I am sure that was a big help to millions of Americans????.....how bout not promising billions to other countries????...how about not spending every single dime of Americans taxes and MORE on war machines and to rebuild other countries????)

4.6 earthquake hits in San Bernardino County The temblor struck east of Ridgecrest and north of Barstow at about 1:20 p.m. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.The earthquake was centered near Searles Valley, about 117 miles from downtown Los Angeles.It's the latest of several quakes to hit the region in the last day.Earlier this morning, a magnitude 3.6 earthquake hit Riverside County east of Temecula. The temblor did not cause any damage, though it was felt in parts of the Inland Empire. It hit near the small town of Anza in southwestern part of the county

Oklahoma doctor held in death of son, 9 A doctor in suburban Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was arrested Monday and accused in the early morning death of his 9-year-old son, police said.Dr. Stephen Wolf, 51, faces first-degree murder charges, said Nichols Hills, Oklahoma, Police Chief Richard Mask.ry Wolf, Stephen Wolf's wife and the boy's mother, suffered defensive puncture wounds to her hands and a wound to her mouth, and was being treated at a hospital, Mask said. Authorities believe she attempted to "intercede and protect her child," he said. Her wounds were not considered life-threatening.

Girl's body found in North Carolina, police say The body of missing 5-year-old girl, Shaniya Davis, has been found in North Carolina, police said Monday.Police have charged the girl's mother, Antoinette Nicole Davis, with trafficking and other offenses, authorities said. Davis was "prostituting her child," Chance said. Hotel surveillance video taken around the same time Shaniya was reported missing showed the girl with a man identified as Mario Andrette McNeill. He was charged with first-degree kidnapping.

Obama - Don't Lecture China On Censorship President Obama, in his visit to China, held a "town meeting" with Chinese students in which he praised openness and lectured them on the value of freedom of information, saying that he is a "supporter of non-censorship" and that open access to information was a "source of strength."And yet America is hardly free of censorship. Heck, the president himself has gone to court to prevent the release of photographs of US troops torturing captives in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo. Talk about censorship! But it goes way beyond just such crude, totalitarian style control over information.

Paul Mirengoff: Why does he hate us? Barack Obama's America-effacing presidency On the morning after the deadliest instance of Islamist terrorism in the United States since 9/11, President Obama warned the American public not to "jump to conclusions" about the motives that impelled Nidal Hasan's rampage of mass murder at Fort Hood. By the time Obama issued this warning, it had already been reported that Hasan yelled "Allahu akbar" before he opened fire.This assertion of the supremacy of Allah is invoked by Islamic terrorists worldwide before they kill.

75,343 Bogus jobs 'created or saved' by the Stimulus More than ten percent of the jobs the Obama administration has claimed were "created or saved" by the $787 billion stimulus package are doubtful or imaginary, according to reports compiled from eleven major newspapers and the Associated Press.

Rabbit Hole

Protesters: IDF used .22-caliber ammo at West Bank fence Protesters say the Israel Defense Forces used live ammunition from Ruger rifles last Friday to disperse a demonstration near the separation fence at the West Bank town of Na'alin. In 2001, the military advocate general ordered a halt to the use of such rifles for crowd control.

AFGHANISTAN / THE BIG PICTURE  The big picture in Afghanistan is that we have no intention of leaving this illegally occupied country for two reasons; First, to restore and control the world's largest supply of Opium and Second, to build a permanent US military strike force with a series of permanent US airbases across Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda, in reality, does not exist as a threat in Afghanistan: Allen L Roland

Farmers, Ranchers Fighting Back Against FDA Tyranny Over Animal Farms (NaturalNews) A bill that would grant the FDA expanded authority to inspect farms has come under fire from ranchers and farmers concerned about increased government interference in their operations.n response to a recent series of food-borne illness outbreaks, a bill has been approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee that would allocate more money and authority to the FDA to fulfill its current food safety duties. Although technically the bill would not expand the FDA's authority to foods currently supervised by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) – meat, poultry and some egg products – many farmers and their advocates are concerned that the language of the bill is too vague to ensure against this.

11/15/09

On Abortion, Hypocrisy Reigns Among Blue Dog, Republicans & Christians

Mystery of Bangladesh's mass arsenic poisoning solved Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published Sunday.For nearly three decades scientists have struggled to figure out exactly how arsenic was getting into the drinking water of millions of people in rural Bangladesh.The culprit, says the new study, are tens of thousands of man-made ponds excavated to provide soil for flood protection.

HUGE NEWS! FEDERAL JUDGE Carter sets Trial Date for Obama's Eligibility!!! I and many other concerned veterans and citizens attended the hearing
today in Federal Court in Santa Ana in the lawsuit against Barack Obama to determine his eligibility to be President and Commander in Chief.. About 150 people showed up, almost all in support of the lawsuit to demand that Obama release his birth certificate and other records that he has hidden from the American people.

U.S.: Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan NTURA, California, Nov 13 (IPS) - U.S. Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson, a single mother, is being threatened with a military court-martial if she does not agree to deploy to Afghanistan, despite having been told she would be granted extra time to find someone to care for her 11-month-old son while she is overseas. Hutchinson, of Oakland, California, is currently being confined at Hunter Army Airfield near Savannah, Georgia, after being arrested. Her son was placed into a county foster care system. (oh yeah.....the country with a 'heart'!)

Medicare cuts in healthcare bill may burden doctors, report says A government report finds that the proposed cuts would reduce benefits for some seniors and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others. Washington - A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's healthcare system -- would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.

Coming Soon Frontline: A Death in TehranTuesday, November 17 at 9 pm (check local listings) . At the height of the protests following Iran’s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death -- filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web -- quickly became an international outrage, and Agha Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government’s hold on power.Frontline investigates....

Pregnant Women Reporting H1N1 Vax Miscarriages ..... read the comments after the article.....and see how many are miscarrying....there are NO coincendences!

Fragile Care Worsened Swine Flu in Ukraine When patients began arriving in Vyacheslav Bonder’s intensive care unit two weeks ago, their lungs so saturated with blood that they could barely gasp, the only thing he could compare it to was a field hospital in wartime. As soon as he hooked one patient up to a ventilator, a second and third would appear in the doorway.By that time, hospitals were clearing wards to make room for a wave of pneumonia cases, and people were crowding into drugstores to buy whatever they could get their hands on. Rumors were circulating that the government had ordered the city aerially sprayed with chemicals, to cure Lviv (pronounced luh-VEEVE) of disease or, in a grimmer version, to exterminate its carriers.(this does not seem to be the same as the well advertised 'swine' flu...this is much worse and some are wondering what has been 'cooked' up now and is being dumped upon the people?) "The virus causing the deaths is extremely aggressive, it doesn't first infect the throat (as is common in flu), but strikes the lungs directly," said Dr. Viktor Bachinsky, according to a ZIK news agency web report.

QUESTION: Why does no one at Columbia remember Mr. Obama even being a student there and there are no records askes Wayne Allyn Root?

11/14/09

AMERICA IS ME - Anthem for "We the People" by Mack Hayes - Tea Party salute.

Huge Rise In Birth Defects In Falluja Falluja: Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting.

TV evangelist jailed over child 'brides' Former TV evangelist Tony Alamo has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across US state lines for sex. Alamo, original name Bernie Hoffman, was sentenced today in Texarkana, Arkansas.

Sleeping boy attacked in Sydney home A six-year-old boy has been attacked by an armed intruder who gained entry to a family's home in Sydney, police say. (Thank goodness his father stopped the attack and sat on the intruder until police arrived...the pedophiles must be getting desperate.....and stupid.)

Obama to attack guns as public-health? Second Amendment advocates are expressing alarm that the most significant attack on gun rights across the United States in years soon could come in the form of a workplace "safety" regulation under President Obama's nominee to run the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Obama has nominated David Michaels, a George Washington University professor and the chief of the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy, which reportedly partially is funded by George Soros.

11/13/09

Woman ‘Incurably’ Crippled by Vaccine Cured by Alternative Healer In late August, Desiree Jennings was a beautiful and athletic 26-year-old Washington Redskins cheerleader anxious for the upcoming Sunday excitement, but by the time the new season began in September, she was a crippled and hopeless spastic who could speak only with great difficulty and one syllable at a time. She had taken a seasonal flu shot and experienced what doctors called a “one-in-a-million” adverse neurological reaction and was left with an “incurable” affliction known as dystonia.Enter Dr. Rashid Buttar, who does not use the conventional cures of the medical world but rather natural remedies and nutrition. He noticed immediately that Desiree’s whole system was shutting down. Read at the link what he did to totally transform this young woman and give her her life back!.....naturally the AMA are being silent on this!

Suspect sought in acid attack on South L.A. woman Authorities pleaded for the public's help Wednesday in capturing a 30-year-old reputed gang member who police say poured acid on his girlfriend to "teach her a lesson" in a savage Halloween night attack in South Los Angeles.Investigators identified the suspect as Miguel Angel Herrera, a documented gang member. Herrera allegedly tied up his girlfriend, then raped, stabbed, punched and struck her with an electrical cord because she had shown up at his apartment late. (picture of him at the link....if you see this man call the police immediately!)

THE REVOLT  OF THE FIFTH ESTATE / THE PEOPLE The fourth Estate, Main Stream Press, is now the voice of the Corporate Oligarchy. But from the ashes of this economy will rise the Fifth Estate, the People, who are already demanding truth and transparency and it's fueled by the Internet. The movement started in Latin America but is now heading north and building momentum. This is what the global elite fear most and it cannot be defeated: Allen L Roland

Facebook crowdsourced investigation exposes vaccine denials of SIGA Technologies (NaturalNews) When you publish a hard-hitting story containing links to lots of little-known documents, you never know what kind of bizarre blow-back you'll receive. The latest episode of reactive strangeness occurred following our publication of the story about SIGA Technologies and the conflicts of interest found in Dr. Mehmet Oz's holding of 150,000 option shares in that company (http://www.naturalnews.com/027451_D...) even while pushing vaccines on TV. Shortly after publishing this article, NaturalNews was contacted by a public relations firm called KCSA Strategic Communications, which represents SIGA as an "investor relations counsel." (http://www.reuters.com/article/pres...)

Blasts rip through Russian arms depot Explosions rip through an arms depot in Russia's city of Ulyanovsk (pictures)

Lawyer: Accused Fort Hood gunman may be paralyzed The Army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralyzed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney told The Associated Press on Friday.

NASA finds water found on the moon QUOTE: 'The impact sent a huge plume of material billowing up from the bottom of the crater, which has not seen sunlight for billions of years.".....(our question is then why.....did not millions of people watching from all over the planet not see this 'huge plume'? .....are they telling the truth?....or know something we don't know and they aren't telling?......hmmmm) One researcher described this as the equivalent of "a dozen two-gallon buckets" of water. .....oh yeah.....that is sure copious ......(shrug)

More girls in India are refusing to become child brides.Despite a 2006 law banning the age-old practice, most parents in rural India still want to marry off their daughters before the legal age of 18. Reporting from Mohammad Nagar Dhani, India - Her fate was all but sealed, the wedding bells ringing in her relatives' heads. Then the bride-to-be, a little girl playing in the dirt in this impoverished village, plucked up her courage and said, "I do not." Roshan Bairwa, then 14, joined a growing number of girls defying the centuries-old tradition of child marriage in a country where nearly half of all women are married before

11/12/09

PREMEDITATED MERGER U.S. troops' continental insignia bears U.N. colors Indicates advancement of plan to integrate North America. NEW YORK – Troops in the United States' USNORTHCOM ranks appear to have adopted a shoulder patch showing a North American continental design, with an emphasis on United Nations colors, giving evidence of the strength of a plan to integrate North America. The patch reveals the continent of North America in the orange and blue colors typical to the U.N. It also carries the image of a mosque to designate the unit's service in North Africa in World War II.insignia patch is displayed on the 5th Army website, the home of U.S. Army North, USARNORTH, the Joint Force Land Component Command and the Army Service Component Command of USNORTHCOM.

Vaccine Victims Blamed For National Emergency: Smoking Guns Indict Murdoch's Media in Deadly Corruption

How the US army protects its trucks – by paying the Taliban (Say what?)

Combivir: The HIV Drug in Hasan's Shoe Box Among the few belongings that Major Nidal Malik Hasan didn't give away, and left behind in his Casa del Norte apartment near Fort Hood, was his stash of prescription and over-the-counter medications. Stuffed into a shoe box and left in the laundry room, the collection included vitamins and an old bottle of an anti-HIV drug called Combivir.

America's Shameful Neglect Every now and then one of the MSM outlets does a worthwhile story that is long overdue. It is sad and telling that it was a UK newspaper and not a US newspaper that ran the story that American media is too cowardly to address. "UN investigator accuses US of shameful neglect of homeless"

New York City: Mujib Rahman wanted to be the first Bangladeshi elected to New York's City Council. His strategy: tell voters about his opponent's sexuality

An 'Honor Flight' for WWII Vets

Pressure grows on Barack Obama as memos expose rifts over Afghan policy Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in Tokyo today at the start of a nine-day trip that will take in South Korea and China, but the issue that will haunt his visit will never be far away: Afghanistan, especially after leaked diplomatic memos exposed deep divisions in his administration.The correspondence from the US ambassador, Karl Eikenberry, expressing opposition to more US troops being sent unless the Afghan government makes a serious attempt to clean up corruption, came at an awkward moment for Obama.

New account of Fort Hood shooting may put another officer in spotlight A witness to the shooting spree told the New York Times today that Hasan was taken down by Senior Sergeant Mark Todd, a veteran police officer.

Give Us $7B or We Kill the Trees

Bomb hits Pakistan's spy agency in northwest A powerful bomb targeted the offices of Pakistan's main spy agency in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, tearing down much of the building and causing several casualties, witnesses said.The blast struck at the heart of the agency overseeing much of the anti-terror campaign in the border regions with Afghanistan, where al-Qaida and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding out.

Deputies Hold Boy Who Fled Flu Shot t took the strength of two sheriff's deputies to keep a middle schooler still enough to receive a shot of the swine flu, or H1N1, vaccine at a recent clinic.During a regular Wheeling-Ohio County Health Board meeting Tuesday, health department Administrator Howard Gamble told board members about the student's attempt to flee Wheeling Middle School during a vaccination clinic held there last Friday.

Judge Andrew Napolitano Natural rights Patriot Act - Part 3 of 3 video Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and from where our rights come. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why we must fight to regain and retain our freedoms.

Join reader action to educate the Associated Press about natural remedies, alternative medicine (NaturalNews) The Associated Press continues its assault on alternative medicine, led by writer Marilynn Marchione who writes attack pieces on everything under the sun (including the sun itself) related to alternative medicine and natural therapies. The Associated Press continues to publish stories carrying this highly-opinionated (and provably false) header:

Riverside County prosecutors today announced a 155-count indictment in a large public corruption investigation that includes charges against several elected officials.

Palin in book: McCain aides kept me 'bottled up' The rumors are true, according to Sarah Palin: The McCain-Palin campaign was not a happy family. In Palin's new memoir, "Going Rogue," she confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain. The vice presidential candidate confirms that she had wanted to speak on election night, but was denied the chance and says she was kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign.

Feds move to seize 4 mosques, tower linked to Iran Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in U.S. history, prosecutors filed a civil complaint in federal court against the Alavi Foundation, seeking the forfeiture of more than $500 million in assets.

Fed: banks need customer consent on overdraft fees Banks will have to secure their customers' consent before charging large overdraft fees on ATM and debit card transactions, according to a new rule announced Thursday by the Federal Reserve.( the feds finally did something on OUR SIDE??? after years and years of destroying or nearly destroying millions of people's accounts/reputation/income?...They do throw us a bone once in awhile kids....)

11/11/09

Indymedia.us and the EFF successfully fight back against bogus FBI subpoena indymedia.us Nov 11 2009 Indymedia.us is happy to announce that we've managed, after nearly a year of legal action on our behalf by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to successfully fight back against a bogus subpoena request issued by the FBI in conjunction with a grand jury investigation.

Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists

I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs The Sunday Times gains unprecedented access to the world's most powerful, and most secretive, investment bank. Number 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office block in lower Manhattan, doesn’t look like a place to stop and stare, and that’s just the way the people who work there like it.

Germany's Keeper Dies in Train Suicide German soccer fans are stunned tonight over news that the man likely to be the national team’s goalkeeper at next summer’s World Cup committed suicide today by stepping in front of a train traveling 100 mph. Robert Enke, 32, had been “unstable” recently, the president of his club team said, though gave no further details

Brazil seeks cause of massive blackout Brazil on Wednesday sought to uncover the cause of a massive and mysterious blackout overnight, amid concerns of energy supply stability for the 2016 Olympics host nation.The outage, which hit at 10:15 pm Tuesday (0015 GMT Wednesday) and lasted around four hours, plunged nearly half the country into darkness after supply problems from the country's biggest power plant.

FT HOOD QUESTION / WAS IT DRUG INDUCED DEMENTIA ? Unlike modern Psychotherapy ~ most modern drug dispensing Psychiatry, particularly in the military, is about controlling and suppressing their patients, through psychotropic drugs, which takes a huge toll on both the patient and doctor ~ as it most likely did with the Ft Hood shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan: Allen L Roland  

Reconsider screenings for breast and prostate cancer, experts say NaturalNews) According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, affecting over 200,000 women in the U.S. each year and killing more than 40,000. For American men, cancer of the prostate is the type of malignancy that strikes with the greatest frequency. So after two decades, all this testing must have resulted in a huge decline in deaths from these diseases, right? Wrong.

11/10/09

Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa

11/9/09

CIA aware Ft. Hood shooter tried to contact terrorists Army massacre fiend Nidal Malik Hasan reportedly tried to make contact with al Qaeda terrorists, something intelligence agencies were aware of months ago. It is not known whether the intelligence agencies informed the Army that Maj. Hasan, an Army shrink, was seeking to connect with suspected terrorists, ABC News reported today on its Web site.

List of 13 Fort Hood shooting victims

Fort Hood tragedy rocks military as it grapples with mental health issues Psychological problems are rampant, leaders admit. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been long, and repeat deployments are highly stressful. Doctors, too, fall prey to mental illness.

11/8/09

The Coming U.S. Budget Attack The United States is moving backwards…fast. State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters. To make matters worse, all of this is occurring when the loss of jobs stands at a twenty-six year high with no end in sight.

Is America On A Wrong Track? Is America on a wrong track? Is the Obama administration failing to fulfill people’s aspirations and expectations?

Swedish woman got the "swine flu" in spite of vaccination against it. In an article today in Expressen a Swedish woman tells her story about how she got the "swine flu". That would have been ordinary but in her case she was vaccinated against it five days earlier. In the article it is implied that she got the flu from someone else and that her vaccination did not "take effect" for another several days.

800,000 Americans Busted Annually For Pot Seven million Americans have been arrested since 1995 on marijuana charges and 41,000 of them are rotting in federal and State prisons---but the public is starting to rebel against “the preposterous war on pot,” two political scientists say. Thousands of other pot users and sellers are confined in local jails as well.

The Annexation Of Colombia To The United States Anyone with some information can immediately see that the sweetened ‘Complementation Agreement for Defense and Security Cooperation and Technical Assistance between the Governments of Colombia and the United States’ signed on October 30, and made public in the evening of November 2, amounts to the annexation of Colombia to the United States.

President of Ukraine's neighbour says "swine flu" pandemic artificially createdated Alexander Lukashenko, the President of Belarus, a country bordering the Ukraine, has said that the panic over the "swine flu" has been artificially created by pharma companies, according to reports in the local media.
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Government: 91 dead in El Salvador flooding El Salvador – Three days of heavy rains in El Salvador touched off floods and slides that have killed at least 91 people, the government said Sunday.Dozens are still missing, and about 7,000 are in shelters, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno told a news conference.

La. Gov. declares state of emergency ahead of Ida NEW ORLEANS – Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Sunday as the Gulf Coast braced for the arrival of Hurricane Ida, which was making its way across the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 storm.A hurricane watch was in effect from southeastern Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, meaning hurricane conditions were possible in the

UKraine first and Austria second for martial law? Ukraine is the first country to come under the control of the WHO and the UN under the International Health Regulations 2005, and the reality is that Yuschenko and his Prime Minister Julia Timoschenko are just carrying out the orders from WHO and the UN when they suspend civic rights and democracy under the pretext of fighting a pandemic emergency.

Military jihadists fill 'every branch' Ultimate 5th column penetration, warns best-selling 'Muslim Mafia'. "Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor." That's what Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan said about America before he and possibly other Muslim soldiers at Fort Hood shot 43 fellow soldiers, killing 12, who were returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. "He said Muslims had a right to attack" the U.S., said Col. Terry Lee, who worked with Hasan at the Texas post, where the devout Sunni Muslim refused deployment. "He said Muslims shouldn't be fighting Muslims," he added. "He was very clear on that."

George W. Bush makes secret visit to mourning families at Fort Hood; Laura Bush goes too Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood.The Bushes instructed the commander of the mourning military base that they wanted no publicity. With their Secret Service detail, Bush and his wife made the 30 mile trip unannounced from their ranch near Crawford, Texas Friday evening.

Gamal Mubarak: Egypt’s Next Unelected President It is always amusing to see how authoritarian regimes endow themselves with the trappings of democracy – a party, parliament, “elections” – as if they somehow confer legitimacy to otherwise undemocratic governance. In Egypt, the 28-year rule of U.S.-backed president Hosni Mubarak is a good illustration. Although Mubarak claimed election victory in 2005 and his “National Democratic Party” (NDP) holds a majority in parliament, since assuming power in 1981, his government has been most notable for political intimidation of opponents, suppression of dissent, and silencing any and all who dare challenge his authority.

Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush During the election campaign, Barack Obama's cool detachment was a winning quality, the "No Drama Obama" a welcome contrast with the "Mr Angry" John McCain, never mind the hot-headed "I'm the decider" President George W Bush. A year into his presidency, however, Mr Obama seems a curiously bloodless president. If he experiences passion, he seldom shows it. It is often anyone's guess as to whether an event or issue truly moves him.

What H1N1 swine flu? Majority of Californians intend to ignore the late vaccine: Times/USC poll A new poll confirms that the Obama administration and federal health officials have failed to convince Americans -- at least those in the most populous state of California -- of the seriousness of a H1N1 swine flu pandemic.A majority of those registered voters polled by a new survey team involving The Times and the University of Southern California said they believed the new, delayed vaccine was safe. But a majority also said they had no intention of getting it.

Fox News broke news of the visit this afternoon. Other sources said the former first couple spent about two hours meeting with the wounded, family and soldiers, talking quietly and at times hugging them as they did in private at other times of crisis such as post-9/11.

Natural Disasters In Asia: Harbinger Of Things To Come? In a span of 5 weeks and one day earthquakes, floods, mudslides, typhoons and tsunamis swept through 10 nations leaving thousands of people dead and rendering millions more homeless. At the link...listing of many of the disasters.

Tough road ahead in Senate for health care bill The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be rocky.The 220-215 vote late Saturday cleared the way for the Senate to begin a long-delayed debate on the issue that has come to overshadow all others in Congress.

Great balls of fire in the Bay Area skies The annual Taurids meteor showers put on a show in the Bay Area on Saturday evening, with one especially spectacular fireball wowing residents from around the region.April Orcutt caught a glimpse of the slow-moving meteor in the western sky from her home in San Anselmo at 5:10 p.m., moments after the sun had gone down.

11/7/09

Tornado Causes Major Property Damage in Lincoln City Lincoln City, Ore. - On November 6, 2009 atabout 9:00 PM Lincoln County experienced severe weather.  A large thunderstorm moved through the coastal area bringing heavy rains. The system caused flooding of streets, and at about 10:13 PM lighteningstuck the Alsea Bay Bridge in Waldport damaging a light pole and sprayingdebris onto the roadway.  At about 9:54PM residents of the Roads End residential area, just north of Lincoln City near the Chinook Winds Casino, reported seeing a large waterspout tornado move on shore and through a section of the community. more at the link

2010 elections: Democratic fears, Republican hopes WASHINGTON – Oh, how the tables have turned.Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governors' races in a cross-country Democratic wave.Now, with most states under their control and comfortable majorities in Congress, Democrats must protect far more seats than Republicans: 19 governors' mansions, 17 Senate seats and as many as 60 House districts in moderate-to-conservative regions and swing-voting areas

Alleged Ohio serial killer rare among mass killers Authorities say Anthony Sowell lured women into his home in a busy neighborhood, killed them — most by strangulation — and scattered their remains throughout the inside and buried some in the backyard.Such brazenness defies logic, but experts identify a narrow subcategory of serial killers, including the 1893 Chicago Fair killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes, and Milwaukee cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, who hunt from home

Open Letter To Obama On Afghan War Troop Decision

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.  The JCT letter  makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

Orlando shooter, US army Fort Hood shooter both linked to psychiatric drugs

Girls in the Hood If women can defend Fort Hood, they can defend America.Fort Hood, Texas, hosts tens of thousands of men who are trained to fight for their country. But none of them stopped Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as he blew away 13 of their colleagues Thursday afternoon. It was a civilian police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who confronted and shot him in an exchange of gunfire. For her trouble, Munley took bullets in both legs and an arm. Maybe the president will pin a medal on her.Here's a better way to honor Munley: End the ban on women in combat.

Suspect told 'There's something wrong with you' There was the classroom presentation that justified suicide bombings. Comments to colleagues about a climate of persecution faced by Muslims in the military. Conversations with a mosque leader that became incoherent.As a student, some who knew Nidal Malik Hasan said they saw clear signs the young Army psychiatrist — who authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 29 others wounded — had no place in the military. After arriving at Fort Hood, he was conflicted about what to tell fellow Muslim soldiers about the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, alarming an Islamic community leader from whom he sought counsel."I told him, `There's something wrong with you,'" Osman Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."

House approves landmark healthcare reform bill After a day of testy, sometimes repetitive debate, the House tonight passed a landmark healthcare bill that would create a new role for the federal government in supplying insurance for almost all Americans.Cheers broke out when the vote went over the magic number of 218 needed to pass the legislation. The final vote was 220-215.

Fort victims had different reasons for enlisting The 13 people killed when an Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Here is a look at some of the victims. list at the link..

Shooting reveals tensions over Muslims in the military The killings of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas , by an Army psychiatrist who also was a Muslim set off a rancorous debate Friday that once again spotlighted the fear among Muslims in America that they'll be collectively found guilty for the actions of one man.Vitriolic exchanges filled Internet sites devoted to military affairs, with some posters arguing that Muslims should be barred from the armed services.

11/6/09

Doctors in Mexico arrested over newborn baby-selling ring Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City.

What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought.

The jobless rate rocketed to 10.2 percent in October, the highest since early 1983, dealing a psychological blow to Americans as they prepare holiday shopping lists. It was another worse-than-expected report casting a shadow over the struggling recovery.

BREAKING: Former employee opens fire at Orlando office tower A gunman opened fire Friday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago. At least six people were hurt and police were searching for a gunman in a sport utility vehicle.People streamed out of the 16-story Legion Place office building around lunchtime and some told local television stations they had barricaded themselves inside their offices.Orlando police spokeswoman Barbara Jones identified the gunman as Jason Rodriguez, 40, and said he might be in a 2002 silver Nissan SUV with license plate D119UX. She said he used to work at the building but did not say where or when he left.

Ft. Hood death toll rises to 13 Army officials confirmed that the alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was due to be deployed overseas. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was shot by a police officer and is hospitalized.Cone said at a news conference Thursday evening that Hasan was shot multiple times by a female civilian Army police officer, who was also injured. The suspect reportedly had not spoken with investigators, and Cone would not say anything more about him.Civilian Civilian police Sgt. Kimberly Munley stepped into the line of fire to stop the deadly shooting at Fort Hood. police Sgt. Kimberly Munley stepped into the line of fire to stop the deadly shooting at Fort Hood.

36 HOUSE MEMBERS DEFEND GOLDSTONE REPORT / 344  CONDEMN IT. In what has to be the most blatant act of allegiance to AIPAC versus their constituencies ~ the House of Representatives denounced the balanced and responsible Goldstone Gaza war crimes Report 344 to 36 despite the fact that every Israeli human rights NGO denounced the Gaza war and supports the Goldstone Report : Allen L Roland

11/5/09

Secret Israeli database reveals full extent of illegal settlement Just four years ago, the defense establishment decided to carry out a seemingly elementary task: establish a comprehensive database on the settlements. Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel, aide to then defense minister Shaul Mofaz, was put in charge of the project. For over two years, Spiegel and his staff, who all signed a special confidentiality agreement, went about systematically collecting data, primarily from the Civil Administration. One of the main reasons for this effort was the need to have credible and accessible information at the ready to contend with legal actions brought by Palestinian residents, human rights organizations and leftist movements challenging the legality of construction in the settlements and the use of private lands to establish or expand them. The painstakingly amassed data was labeled political dynamite.

PDF file of the health plan for you to read Wally Herger wants you to read it

Saudis bomb Yemen rebels across border Saudi Arabia sent fighter jets and artillery bombardments across the border into northern Yemen on Thursday in a military incursion apparently aimed at helping its troubled southern neighbor control an escalating Shiite rebellion.The Saudis — owners of a sophisticated air force they rarely use — have been increasingly worried that extremism and instability in Yemen could spill over to their country, the world's largest oil exporter. The offensive came two days after the killing of a Saudi soldier, blamed on the rebels.

75% of America's youth unwanted by Uncle Sam The latest Army statistics show a stunning 75 percent of military-age youth are ineligible to join the military because they are overweight, can't pass entrance exams, have dropped out of high school or had run-ins with the law.

Fort Hood Jihadi, a devout Muslim, had "Palestinian" Parents, Admired Homicide Bombers Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is a U.S. citizen whose parents are Palestinians from the West Bank, according to the Washington Post. He wrote Allah on his door, according to a neighbor,in Arabic. Allah on the door. Hasan was put on probation early in his postgraduate work at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He was disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues, according to the source, who worked with him at the time. NPR

Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.

Ohio woman: I got away from serial killing suspect Suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell seemed like a "civilized person" on the April evening that Tanja Doss went up to his third-floor bedroom for a beer — until, she said, he leapt up and began choking her and threatening to kill her.

OBAMA APPOINTMENT: Arif Alikhan, Asst Secretary DHS June 7, 2009. Arif Alikhan, currently deputy mayor for the city of Los Angeles, was appointed as assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security.

DEAD MICROBIOLOGISTS, SCALAR BIOWARFARE There are some dots that need to be connected and I'm afraid I don't have time or energy to do it properly right now. The best I can do is mention them and give a few links for now. The overall question is: Are we entering a long predicted biowar? Predicted by scalar scientist Tom Bearden? A biowar involving the use of the scalar weapons known as "longitudinal electromagnetic wave interferometers?"

BREAKING:Army: 12 dead, 31 hurt in attacks at Fort Hood A soldier opened fire at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, unleashing a stream of gunfire that left 12 people dead and 31 wounded. Authorities killed the gunman, and apprehended two other soldiers suspected in the attack.The shooting began around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said at a news conference. He said all the casualties took place at the base's Soldier Readiness Center, where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening.

Police: Mother had given 'missing' child to babysitter Investigators spent five days searching dense vines and marshes for a missing infant, only to find her lying quietly in a 2-foot by 3-foot cedar box that had been shoved under her baby sitter's bed.Clothing was packed around it to muffle any sounds and baking powder placed inside to mask the stench of dirty diapers

Inmates saved deputy's life during attack, sheriff's office says The detention deputy was sitting at his desk when the inmate attacked. The deputy is 64; the inmate 40 years his junior.Deputy Kenneth Moon had another disadvantage: He was the sole deputy in a jail pod that houses 62 inmates. The only nearby people who could help him were there because they have been charged with attempted murder, home invasion, drug dealing. And yet they did. Deputy Anthony Brown works in the unit and knows Moon and many of the inmates. He said the inmates' actions showed there is more to their character than the crimes they are charged with.

In Iran, anti-government protests rival anti-America rally Reporting from Tehran and Beirut - A cry from the streets of Tehran put Iranian attitudes toward America at the center of a day of violent clashes Wednesday. "Obama, Obama!" protesters chanted on a day marking the 30th anniversary of the United States Embassy takeover. "Either you're with them, or with us." The poignant slogan came in contrast to that of nearby government supporters and schoolchildren draped in Iranian flags, who chanted, "Death to America!" reiterating the rallying cry of the Islamic Revolution, which toppled U.S.-backed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, establishing Iran as the world's first modern theocracy.

Our tax dollars at work?

11/4/09

Police Find 11th Body at Rapist's House Cleveland police found another body at the home of convicted rapist Anthony Sowell, bringing the total to 11. Law enforcement also identified the first victim found as 53-year-old Tonia Carmichael, who went missing last November. "We expected the worst when these bodies starting popping up," a relative tells the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "We knew she could be one of them.” All the victims are black females, and at least five were strangled.

Blueberry Farming Giant Found to Use Child Labor at Michigan Fields An ABC News investigation has exposed how one of the country’s largest blueberry growers uses child labor on its fields. Adkin Blue Ribbon Packing Company in South Haven, Michigan is at the center of this scandal. Wal-Mart and the Kroger supermarket chain were among Adkin’s high-profile customers that have now cut ties with the blueberry grower.

Top L.A. County official removed from job after audit found she improperly hired relative L.A. County's second-highest-ranking employee has been removed from her position, less than two weeks after The Times reported that county auditors found that she had improperly helped her son-in-law obtain a county job that was "overcompensated" by nearly $1,000 a month.Sharon Harper, a veteran L.A. County manager, was the top deputy to the county's chief executive.

Top official stole from children's center, bought a pool, went shopping The former chief financial officer of Orange County’s Orangewood Children’s Foundation was convicted today of stealing more than $780,000 from the nonprofit for abused children. Tracy Lynn Salcido, 40, pleaded guilty in Orange County Superior Court to 206 felony counts of forgery and 20 felony counts of falsifying records. She was sentenced to 12 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.15 million in restitution and legal and accounting fees stemming from the case.

Donald Sterling to pay $2.725 million to settle housing discrimination lawsuit [Updated] Los Angeles Clippers owner and real estate mogul Donald T. Sterling has agreed to pay a record $2.725 million to settle allegations that he discriminated against African Americans, Hispanics and families with children at scores of apartment buildings he owns in and around Los Angeles.

Famed French judge Bruguiere tells of a troubled Pakistan Reporting from Washington - The Pakistani government has lost control of rogue military and intelligence officers who aid Al Qaeda and its allies and play a double game with the West, a renowned French judge asserts in an upcoming book.

Obama can't be community organizer for the world A lot of observers are having trouble figuring out the philosophical underpinnings of Barack Obama's foreign policy. How does the president see America's place in the world? How will he use American power? How much does he care about such things?There are no good answers at the moment, but there is a new theory going around: Obama approaches foreign affairs as he would neighborhood issues

State prison watchdog strongly criticizes procedures in Jaycee Dugard case Reporting from Sacramento - State parole officials missed many chances to capture convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido and find Jaycee Dugard, whom he is accused of kidnapping 18 years ago and harboring in his Antioch backyard, a prison watchdog has concluded in a highly critical report to be released today..

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Judge in Italy convicts 23 Americans in 2003 CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Reporting from Washington and Rome - A judge in Milan convicted 23 Americans today of the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003, culminating a landmark trial that gave a look into the secret world of CIA renditions of terror suspects.

Marriage Licensing - No Compelling State Interest

Who Are You Calling "Extremist"? By Michelle Malkin Here is one of the loudest messages of the 2009 off-off-year elections: Conservatives in America will no longer let their opponents define them as outside of the mainstream. They will not submit to Democrats. Or to the media. Or to Beltway Republican capitulationists. They will not "rebrand." They will not sit down. They will not shut up.

(A clue here: ......it has been standard practice by those in power or who want to be in power to find someway to 'devide' and conquer. One of those methods, call it brain-washing/manipulation or strategy is to start 'labeling' groups/people, putting all of them into this box or that camp and then pitting people against each other. America was founded on 'freedom of speech'.......'they' want to stop that and this is the method they use to do that......It behooves us to remember the famous saying {paraphrased}: "I may not agree with what you are saying, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" If you want your freedom to speak saved, then you must help save that freedom for all!)

After a flurry of stimulus spending, questionable projects pile up The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went:

11/2/09

Jane Doe ID'd after 55 years Denver - Police have identified a woman whose nude and battered body was found along a Boulder, Colo., creek 55 years ago, but the case isn't closed: They want to name her killer.
She was buried under a headstone that read "Jane Doe" and remained anonymous until a DNA test revealed that she was Dorothy Gay Howard of Phoenix, officials announced Wednesday. She had been reported missing in March 1954, when she was 18.

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11/1/09

Audit warns KBR to cut number of employees in Iraq Pentagon auditors are warning the Army's primary support contractor in Iraq, responsible for everything from mail and laundry to housing and meals, to cut its work force there or face nearly $200 million in penalties for keeping thousands too many on the payroll

As jobs vanish, factory towns slow to see stimulus Many communities hit hardest by job losses, those built around dying factories and mills, have been slowest to see relief from President Barack Obama's stimulus plan, underscoring how hard it is for Washington policymakers to create lasting work in areas that need it most.The manufacturing industry has shed hundreds of thousands of jobs during the recession as plants have closed or scaled back. Places such as the southwest Missouri city of Lamar, tucked amid endless fields of winter wheat and soybeans, have seen the cornerstones of their economies disappear, leaving a gap that even billions in roadwork and government aid cannot fill.

Colorado county copes with methane mystery Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and shot flames 30 feet high.The friend wasn't hurt. But that and an explosion at another home weeks earlier forced Colorado to suspend natural gas drilling around this southern plains town until someone could find out why dangerous levels of methane were getting into the groundwater

OSHA issues record $87.4-million fine against BP Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says the British oil company 'has allowed hundreds of potential hazards to continue unabated' at a Texas refinery four years after a fatal explosion.

WHY I DON'T TEXT MESSAGE  As I have told my friends ~ the reason I don't have a cell phone or text is because I like my privacy and enjoy being out of reach and in the moment wherever I am. It's refreshing, somehow the world survives and I apparently avoid accidents and brain tumors : Allen L Roland

Amber Alert: 7-year-old boy missing BOISE, Idaho – An Amber Alert has been issued on a possible parental kidnapping in Boise. A male suspect knocked on the apartment door and asked to see Luca Principali because his mother wanted to see him. The victim's sister heard a scream and when she looked out the victim was gone. Suspects were possibly driving a silver 2009 Chrysler Town and Country minivan with the California plate 6GQC981 when the abduction occurred. A person of interest in this case is Ekatrina Principali, also known as Moryakova. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 immediately. You can also call the Boise Police Department at 208-570-6457 or visit http://www.idahoamberalert.com.Luca Principali is a 7-year-old boy, about 4-feet tall and weighing about 60-pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing a black Star Wars t-shirt with a picture of Darth Vader and the Emperor on it, camouflage knee-length shorts, and barefoot. Luca’s nickname is Goober.

KILLING THE FAMILY OF JESUS U.S. shipped 989 munitions containers to Israel week before Gaza invasion Modern genetics testing has demonstrated that modern-day Palestinians have a direct genetic trail back to the biblical Israelites.

Israel is killing them.

And YOU are paying for it, which means you share the guilt. YOU are paying for the weapons used to kill the modern day family of Jesus. The moment you sign that 1040 form, you sign a confession, admitting before all the world that you are an accessory in the murder.

(7th FIRE EDITORS NOTE: Violence is never the answer or solution to any problem, question or frustration. This type of 'shooting is becoming all to common, all over America and the world, in homes, in schools, as well as other places, and by all kinds of people. Violence only begets more violence when understanding, love and compassion is so badly needed in the world today.)

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

~Albert Einstein