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Silver poised to skyrocket and yet it is falling or rising right now..???
It's up, it's down, it's up, it's down......what to do? Updates and information on the world market. (Do you EVER wonder WHO is manipulating silver, gold and the markets?......You better wonder!)

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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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2/9/10

Millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy."More and more I heard the words: 'Stop what you are doing now – all this luxury and consumerism – and start your real life'," he said. "I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need. Since selling his belongings, Mr Rabeder said he felt "free, the opposite of heavy". But he said he did not judge those who chose to keep their wealth. "I do not have the right to give any other person advice. I was just listening to the voice of my heart and soul."

Fires strike 2 more east Texas churches A sheriff's dispatcher says fires have struck two more rural east Texas churches, just hours after investigators announced that a blaze last week marked the eighth arson against a house of worship in the state this year.

Man rescued after 3 days in snow-covered SUV in CO A 31-year-old Indiana man says he had not food but kept himself hydrated with Mountain Dew and snow while he was stuck in his snow-covered SUV in southwestern Colorado for three days.Jason Pede was rescued Sunday morning after his vehicle ran out of gas and he walked seven miles to a road, signaling for help with a flashlight.

Marines wait in the cold for Afghan offensive

Congressman: Murtha's intestine damaged in surgery A Pennsylvania congressman and longtime friend of the late Rep. John Murtha says the congressman's large intestine was damaged during gallbladder surgery and the complications led him to be hospitalized.Murtha died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan. 31.The gallbladder surgery was performed days earlier at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.

Another major storm headed to snowy Mid-Atlantic A second major storm in less than a week was blowing Tuesday toward the Mid-Atlantic region, where plows still hadn't touched some roads, utility workers were struggling to restore power and shovels were in short supply.Forecasters predicted the snow would start Tuesday afternoon and continue into Wednesday, along with wicked winds. A foot or more was forecast for Washington and as many as 18 inches for the Northeast travel hub of Philadelphia — which could cause travel problems as far north as Boston. Some areas are already under nearly 3 feet of snow.

2/8/10

BRITAIN, YOU BETTER WAKE UP BY GILAD ATZMON The more I read about the Chilcot inquiry the more disturbed I am. The fallacy imbued in the heart of British ‘democracy’ is staggering.

Haiti: 360° Views from CNN cameras .....up close and personal, ride up and down the streets and see what the people are living with

Ripples of Dubai killing spread across region hadowy figure murdered in his Dubai hotel room by a hit squad that the police say operated with European passports. It sounds like the plot of a John Le Carré spy novel, but this is reality and the hunt is on for the killers of top Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. At al-Mabhouh's funeral in Damascus, Syria, where he spent the last years of his life, few doubted Israel was behind the assassination. At his family home in Gaza there is the same conviction that Israel's intelligence unit, Mossad, was responsible. Dubai police have said Mossad could be behind this killing on their territory and has warned Hamas and Mossad to stay away. But the evidence is not compelling yet to lay official blame.

Seats at a premium on planes, trains out of DC A $20 cab ride to the airport skyrocketed to the "snow rate" of $100 in the nation's capital, and those travelers who could get to the airport or train station still had to haggle or wait in long lines to escape the snowbound Mid-Atlantic.The most pressing matter: get out before another foot or more of snow comes Tuesday.The region had nearly 3 feet of snow in some areas. One scientist said if all the snow that fell on the East Coast were melted, it would fill 12 million Olympic swimming pools or 30,000 Empire State buildings. Philadelphia and Washington each need just a little more than nine inches to give the cities their snowiest winters since 1884, the first year records were kept.

Gun confiscation in New Orleans video

China finds 170 more tons of tainted milk powder

Failed job seekers add to homeless problem in ND North Dakota has the lowest unemployment in the nation and a booming oil industry. But with its good fortune has come an unexpected problem: homelessness, as desperate job seekers flow into the state looking for work.Officials say shelters are full statewide. Some homeless newcomers are living in cars, while others are bunking with acquaintances to avoid freezing.

Obama, The War President by Helen Thomas / President Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It's called war. The President has not defined any real difference between his hawkish approach to international issues and that of his predecessor, former President George W. Bush. Where's the change we can believe in? Bush left a legacy of two wars, neither of which was ever fully explained or justified. Obama has merely picked up the sword that Bush left behind in Iraq and Afghanista

Dow closes below 10,000 for first time in 3 months

Sen. Schumer calls out Napolitano over elimination of anti-terrorist Coast Guard unit Say it ain't so, Janet!Sen. Chuck Schumer called out Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Sunday, protesting an Obama Administration plan to eliminate an anti-terrorist Coast Guard unit that keeps watch over the city's harbor."They are our eyes and ears," Schumer said of the elite, 90-member Coast Guard unit established after 9/11. The unit provides terror-related surveillance and security for waterfront events like the Fourth of July fireworks.

Body found in landing gear of NY-to-Tokyo flight A body was found inside a wheel well of a Delta Air Lines plane after it landed in Tokyo from New York, and Japanese authorities Monday were trying to identify the man.The body of the apparent stowaway was clad only in a long-sleeved, plaid shirt and jeans, police at Narita International Airport said.A mechanic found the body lying inside the landing gear compartment of the Boeing 777-200 during maintenance after Delta Flight 59 landed Sunday night, police official Zenjiro Watanabe said.

Canada: Stop selling unlicensed natural health remedies: pharmacy regulators

Facebook 'cash scam' grows Social-networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are being used by fraudsters to harvest users' personal financial details, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) warned this week. "The public should be aware of the predatory nature of fraudsters and be careful about revealing personal information on social-networking sites, as this has become a primary method of harvesting information and targeting victims," they said.

Meet the real Sarah Palin! Sarah Palin urges Israel settlement expansion, attacks Barack Obama Sarah Palin calls for an expansion of Israel settlements – challenging 40 years of US policy – in an interview with Barbara Walters. Palin also criticizes Barack Obama for urging an Israeli halt.

La Cañada Flintridge digs out as a new storm nears One day after a river of mud brought havoc to a La Cañada Flintridge neighborhood, residents faced a massive cleanup Sunday, with chest-high mounds of muck lining the streets, damaged homes rendered uninhabitable and nearby catch basins filled to capacity with debris. Authorities lifted evacuation orders that at one point Saturday had affected 500 homes in the fire-ravaged foothill communities of La Crescenta and La Cañada Flintridge. Forty-three homes in the communities were damaged, and nine were red-tagged, preventing residents from entering until the structures could be stabilized.

Michael Jackson's doctor charged with involuntary manslaughter in pop star's death Prosecutors on Monday charged Michael Jackson’s personal physician with involuntary manslaughter in connection with administering a combination of surgical anesthetic and sedatives blamed in the music legend’s death last summer.

Nero Once Fiddled, Now Obama is Manning the Printing Presses For President Obama it has been a dismal year. He cannot claim victory on even a single one of his big four agendas: healthcare, the economy, the war or the environment. It seems for every step forward the Obama administration has taken two steps back. Before you agree to wholeheartedly embrace this rumbling disaster, take note that Obama’s failures, even if they extend just another three years, are the nation’s failures and there will be consequences thrust upon us all. The economy is so weak that one adult in eight and one child in four needs food stamps. Wall Street has so far ignored the three-legged table that is our economy, but perhaps not much longer

Iran lawyer haunted by young man's execution Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is filled with rage over the treatment of her client, 20-year-old Arash Rahmanipour, who was not defended in court and then was quietly put to death. Reporting from Tehran and Beirut - The defendant met with his lawyer once for 15 minutes before he was sentenced to death and hanged. When the lawyer complained to authorities, they ignored her. When she tried to enter the courtroom where he was being tried, they threatened her with arrest. And when she spoke out publicly at what she described as a gross miscarriage of justice, they shut off her cellphone. Iranian authorities executed Rahmanipour and Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, 37, both alleged to be members of an outlawed monarchist group called the Kingdom Assembly, and sentenced nine others to death in late January in what many interpreted as a warning to protesters ahead of Thursday's commemorations of the Islamic Revolution.(the rest of the story at the link........this gives you an idea of what it is like to 'not have the rights and freedoms' we have had in America. This can come to this country and indeed, stories keep being uncovered that let us see travesty of justice in our own country. This is a reminder that we all need due diligence to pay attention, speak up, take action when we see it in our own country, for together we are powerful and can make a difference. Apathy breeds loss of freedom for all)

After Liberals, Sarah Palin Calls For Sanctioning Rahm Emanuel

No joke: South Carolina now requires ’subversives’ to register

1 dead, 4 wounded in SF night club shooting  Police are investigating whether there is a second suspect in a shooting that left one man dead and four others injured by a night club near San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf Sunday morning, a sergeant said.Lawon Hall, a 19-year-old Richmond man, was fatally shot after someone opened fire on a crowd at about 1:40 a.m. near Suede night club, located at 383 Bay St. Hall was pronounced dead at the night club.Four other people were injured in the shootings. At least three of the injured people are males, San Francisco police Sgt. Wilfred Williams said.

What Was Your First Laugh...At Yourself?

Historic' snow strands countless in Mid-Atlantic Planes were grounded, trains stood still and Greyhound buses weren't rolling in the Mid-Atlantic on Sunday, leaving stranded travelers wondering when they'll be able to escape the icy, gray mess created by a major snowstorm. Hundreds of thousands of homes were without power with temperatures below freezing all day, with utilities warning it could be days before it's all restored. Plows had scraped down to bare pavement on some main thoroughfares while not touching streets in many areas buried by 2 feet or more. In the nation's capital, meanwhile, Monday will be another day for residents to get back to normal. The federal government made the decision to close agencies Monday, and many school districts across the region were giving students a snow day. For those stranded, however, the thought of another day of weekend wasn't much to smile about.

Giant ET UFOs near Sun now visible with close-up image technology, exposing possible NASA cover-up

ABC News segment about indigo children

  What really happened in New Orleans?

2/7/10

THE SLEEPING GIANT STIRS..The sleeping  Giant of the American public stirs but conveniently forgets who originally dropped the debt bomb on them and, in the process, become members of the Republican hijacked Tea Party movement: Allen L Roland 

Tea and no sympathy for the 'devil' Obama The Opryland Hotel in Nashville has a river all its own, one that runs, so the plaque says, with water blended from sources all across theUnited  States. And the Tea Party movement that has come together at the hotel this weekend is like that: the roughly 600 politically excited folk who signed up for this event (and, controversially, paid $549 for the privilege) come from every corner of the country, including Alaska and Hawaii. Like the hotel's river, the movement is running swift and smooth – but if you open your nostrils wide and sniff, there is a bit of a bad smell.

Subverted Tea Party Movement Told to Embrace Republican Platform The Tea Party movement is now almost completely unrecognizable from what it was a few short years ago. It came to prominence in 2008 when the Libertarian Party of Illinois planned to hold an April 15, 2009 anti-tax “Boston Tea Party” in Chicago. In February 2009, the idea grew after CNBC personality Rick Santelli, speaking from the floor of the Chicago stock exchange, criticized the Obama administration’s tax and economic policies and urged Americans become Tea Party activists.

Connecticut gas plant explodes, 2 reported dead At least two people died and dozens were feared injured on Sunday when a massive explosion erupted in a gas power plant under construction in Connecticut, police said.The local CBS station WFSB reported on its website that up to 250 people were feared hurt but this could not be confirmed by other sources. Scores of ambulances and several helicopters rushed to the scene of the Kleen Energy plant on the banks of the Connecticut River.Medical rescue personnel said two people were dead and at least 100 were injured, four critically, according to the Hartford Courant newspaper website.

House fire in Warwick, RI, kills 5, including baby A house fire that officials said might have simmered undetected for hours Saturday killed five people, including a mother and her 7-month-old baby, in one of Rhode Island's deadliest blazes since a 2003 fire at a crowded nightclub killed 100 people.Firefighters found the victims unconscious and severely burned on the second floor of a single-family house in a residential neighborhood, Warwick Fire Chief Kevin Sullivan said. They were called to the house just after noon by a friend of the victims who was sleeping on the first floor after a late-night party at the home, he said.

Flying Cheap..... FRONTLINE INVESTIGATES SAFETY PROBLEMS OF MAJOR AIRLINES OUTSOURCING FLIGHTS TO SMALLER REGIONAL CARRIERS Frontline special Feb 9,2010 9PM The crash of Continental 3407 outside Buffalo last year, killing all on board, was big news, as any commercial crash is. But like many who were fortunate enough not to be touched personally by the tragedy, what most caught my attention was the news that followed. The co-pilot had been making less than $16,000.

While I knew the airline industry had been struggling through tough times since 9/11, I sure didn’t know that some of the folks that fly me around are working second jobs and overnighting on lounge room La-Z-Boys. And I didn’t know that regional airlines, once thought of as puddle-jumpers, had grown so fast that they now account for more than half the nation’s daily departures. We are on our way to becoming a regional airline nation.

The US Government has Lost its Reason for Being

Strong earthquake hits off southern Japan coast

Judge seals video in racially-charged Taser ‘homicide

Haitian women become crime targets after quake

Rescued animals need new homes, deputies say

Children shifted to violent families - Bath report

Girl buried alive in Turkish honour killing

EMERGING SUNSPOTS:

NASA Spots Mysterious Space Debris (PHOTO)

2/6/10

Big Pharma executive murders 8-year-old son with Xanax and Ambien(NaturalNews) I've always said that Big Pharma executives were guilty of crimes against humanity. Now one of their wealthiest and most successful executives has been caught trying to pull off a murder-suicide in an upscale NY hotel. Gigi Jordan, who ran pharmaceutical companies selling pills to treat cancer, murdered her 8-year-old son by force-feeding him ground-up pharmaceuticals which included Xanax and Ambien.

Caught on tape: Pastry thief and a bad dog walker When three former Palm executives started public testing of their security monitoring software late last year, the goal was to prove to the world that the product--Vitamin D--was really better than other technologies at distinguishing humans from other moving objects. But several months of testing also led to some rather interesting things being caught on tape. Owners of a San Leandro, Calif., coffee shop, for example, were able to determine who was stealing pastries once a month, forcing a $300 pastry order to be scrapped each time."This is exactly what we wanted to do by getting out the free beta," Vitamin D co-founder Greg Shirai said in a telephone interview. "Our theory was that people were going to just going to try it and come up with their own uses."

Snowball fight in Washington, DC biggest snowball fight ever!.....:-)

Evacuations continue as officials scramble to clear debris basins Rivers of mud and debris damaged or destroyed dozens of homes as they cascaded down the hillsides of La Cañada Flintridge. Crews are racing to make room in catch basins before more rains arrive. A flash flood warning in the San Gabriel Mountain foothills damaged by the Station fire has been lifted and a second band of rain cells passed through the burn area without triggering more of the mudslides that damaged or destroyed 43 homes in La Cañada Flintridge, closed several roads in the Santa Monica Mountains and washed out portions of Angeles Crest Highway and Ortega Highway near Idyllwild.

Obama, The New NeoCon -  Military Confrontation Rising

Thunderous mudslides sweep away cars, assault homes in foothills north of Los Angeles Thunderous mudslides damaged dozens of homes, swept away cars and pushed furniture into the streets of the foothills north of Los Angeles on Saturday as intense winter rain poured down mountains denuded by a summer wildfire. No injuries were reported but residents and emergency responders were caught off guard by the unpredicted ferocity of the storm, which damaged more than 40 homes and dozens of vehicles.

3 dead in Boulder mid-air collision Authorities say an airplane towing a glider has collided with another aircraft in Boulder County, sending the two planes crashing into the ground and killing at least three people. FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said one of the aircraft clipped the towline of a plane that had been pulling a glider. Sheriff's spokesman Rick Brough said the glider disconnected from the plane just before the second craft hit the tow rope.

U.S. Counterterrorism Officials Insisted that Crotch Bomber Be Let Into Country Undersecretary for management at the State Department, Patrick F. Kennedy, told Congress that the State Department wanted to keep crotch bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab out of the U.S., but that intelligence agencies insisted that Abdulmutallab be let into the country. Specifically, on January 27th, Kennedy told the House Committee on Homeland Security that intelligence agencies blocked revocation of Abdulmutallab's visa because it would have foiled a "larger investigation" into Al Qaeda.

Cynthia McKinney Receives Munich Peace Prize "Clearly, the MAPC gave more thought to the significance of those whose struggle for peace is based on principle . . . than did the Nobel Peace Committee that rewarded our President for war."

Former Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party Presidential Nominee will participate in an International Peace Conference scheduled to take place in Munich, Germany on February 6 - 7, 2010 while the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) meets in the same city to plan war.  McKinney, a long-time proponent of abolishing NATO, is scheduled to speak on February 6 at a rally to protest the NATO "security" conference.  After the rally, McKinney will participate in the International Peace Conference whose schedule and call to demonstrate against NATO war policies are included below. The MAPC Peace Prize is normally awarded by the previous year's winner.  In McKinney's case the honors will be done by André Shepherd, a U.S. Army deserter from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and asylum seeker in Germany.  Said McKinney of her selection for the award, "I am humbled to be so recognized.  Clearly, the MAPC gave more thought to the significance of those whose struggle for peace is based on principle and an unshakeable commitment, despite the personal sacrificies required, than did the Nobel Peace Committee that rewarded our President for war."  McKinney continued, "In this way of thinking, peace is now war, lies are now truth, and ignorance is strength."

McKinney calls on Americans across Germany to converge on Munich and protest U.S. and NATO war policies.  McKinney will meet with American ex-patriots in multiple meetings while in Munich.

Boiling Tea in America The attitude toward the Tea Party movement is an emerging division in the American electorate. 
Those who support and those who oppose the Tea Party agenda are often as different as conservatives and progressives. The Tea Party attitude is more predictive of President Barack Obama's approval than are education, race, religious and party affiliation. In addition, a very large portion of the likely electorate sides with or against Tea Partiers, leaving few moderate voices in between.  Tea Partiers are not a fringe phenomenon. The political views of those who identify with Tea Partiers from a distance and those who are actively engaged in the movement are very similar. From the perspective of Tea Party detractors, the sympathizers are for the most part as extreme as are actual Tea Party organizers and participants. 

Tancredo says Obama won because we lack a ‘literacy test before people can vote in this country.’ ......well how about tests for our candidates kiddo!???? ..fair enough???!!!

andatory evacuations ordered for 500 homes in La Canada Flintridge, La Crescenta and Acton as rain bears down

Critical debris basins along the San Gabriel Mountains are near capacity or overflowing as another band of rain and thunderstorms bears down on the charred foothills this afternoon, prompting officials to order more evacuations as they brace for the possibility of more damaging mudslides.Evacuation orders are in place for about 500 homes in parts of La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta and Acton. At least 41 houses have been damaged or destroyed in a hillside neighborhood in La Cañada Flintridge. The city of Sierra Madre, where saturated foothills are threatening to break loose, has also issued evacuation orders.

Police want backdoor to Web users' private data Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They're pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers with those of Internet and e-mail providers so requests can be sent and received electronically.

‘HUNTING – THE “SPORT” OF COWARDS’

India forms new climate change body

$99 hardware chainsaw used on Rockefeller HERMAN Rockefeller died after a fight broke out when he turned up at a swinger's house without his wife.It also can be revealed his body was dismembered with a $99 chainsaw bought from a Bunnings store. It is believed the millionaire's sexual advances were rejected when he arrived alone at a Melbourne home posing as Andy Kingston. Rockefeller was the director of 45 companies with interests mainly in Queensland, NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. Revelations about his sex life came after his wife, Victoria, told the media there was no conflict in their marriage.

Taxpayers, Meet Your New Tenants

EMERGING SUNSPOTS: New sunspots are popping up faster than NOAA can number them. Today's image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) shows a pair of no-name sunspot groups rapidly growing in the sun's northern hemisphere: This raises to three the number of sunspot groups currently visible from Earth. The last time we could see three sunspots at the same time was in May of 2008. Since then, the sun fell into--and is now bouncing out of--a century-level solar minimum. Readers with solar telescopes should train their optics on the circled areas to witness sunspot genesis in action.

U.S. missionary freed by N. Korea is on his way home Looking pale and drawn, an American missionary was on his way home Saturday after being freed by North Korea, which detained him for illegally crossing its border from China on Christmas Day.Robert Park, his eyes almost closed, made no comment as U.S. consular officials guided him to a transit area after his arrival in Beijing's airport from North Korea.U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Susan Stevenson said Park would leave later in the day for the United States.

Mid-Atlantic shuts down ahead of huge snow warning Life in the nation's capital ground to a halt Friday as steady snow fell, the beginning of a storm that forecasters said could be the biggest for the city in modern history.A record 2 1/2 feet or more was predicted for Washington. More than 8 inches had already fallen in some D.C. areas by midnight and 10 inches was reported in Pittsburgh as the blizzard blew into the Mid-Atlantic region, reducing visibility. Big amounts of snow were expected throughout the region.Authorities blamed the storm for hundreds of accidents and the deaths of father-son Samaritans in Virginia.

Activity increasing at Tungurahua in Ecuador

Gov't buys $2.5M in Super Bowl ads to boost census

Submarine eruption near Japan

2/5/10

E-mails detail Todd Palin's role in Alaska decision-making During the 2 1/2 years that his wife, Sarah, was governor of Alaska and then a vice presidential candidate, Todd Palin inserted himself into a host of state decisions, including judicial nominations and gas pipeline bids, according to e-mails released Friday.Before Sarah Palin resigned her office in July, the "First Dude," as Todd Palin became known, weighed in on appointments to state boards, labor disputes and the use of government aircraft, according to the documents, which were obtained by MSNBC.com under Alaska's public records law.

MEET JIM TRAFICANT

Tea Partiers Meet to Rally for the Future

NASA Spots Mysterious Space Debris (PHOTO) NASA scientists have spotted a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern with trailing streamers of dust that is unlike any image astronomers have seen before. The behavior is not typical of comets, UCLA investigator David Jewitt explains, and researchers believe something unprecedented has been spotted:

Spending America Into Oblivion

Snowstorm or 'Snowpocalypse'? D.C. Abuzz as Weather Hits The flakes hadn't even begun flying before fear of the impending "snowpocalypse" began sweeping the nation's capital this week. Now, as the city hunkers down for what meteorologists predict will be a "historic" storm, District of Columbia residents are abuzz with a collective mania many say they've never seen before. The federal government, which employs nearly 300,000 people from the greater D.C. area, and many local businesses planned to close hours early today. Dozens of school districts decided Thursday to give students the day off; all before any snow had fallen. Forecasters expect the region to receive between 16 and 26 inches of snow by Saturday night, rivaling the top two snowstorms in history. Washington, D.C., received 20.5 inches in a February 1899 storm and 28 inches in a January 1922 storm.

Camp Keating Officers Disciplined for Attack That Killed 8 U.S. Troops

UPDATE 1-Powerful snowstorm hits U.S. East Coast A powerful storm slammed the U.S. mid-Atlantic on Friday, threatening record snowfall in a region heavily dependent on home heating oil and natural gas supplies. Forecasts calling for 20 to 30 inches (50 to 76 cm) of snow and near-blizzard conditions from Virginia to southern New Jersey prompted U.S. government offices in the Washington area to close their doors four hours early. President Barack Obama, who previously has made fun of the reaction in Washington to small amounts of snow, was not taking this storm lightly. "I think even a transplanted Hawaiian to Chicago has sufficient respect for a forecast of nearly two feet (61 cm) of snow," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

Texas Nationalists Say ‘Sovereignty or Secession’ The Texas Nationalist Movement, whose motto is “Independence, in Our Lifetime,” was going to hold its first-ever Texas Independence Conference in mid-March at the Municipal Auditorium in downtown San Antonio. But that event is being slated for later in the year due to scheduling conflicts. Meanwhile, however, the movement’s leaders have been conducting “road shows” in Beaumont, Austin, San Antonio and elsewhere to inform interested people in these communities about making Texas independent again.

2/4/10

Campaign finance ruling impacts tribes

Obama aunt fights deportation before US court

Stocks tumble on worries about jobs, European debt

House agrees to $1.9 trillion more debt

Italy Seizes Bank of America, Dexia Assets Amid Probe

Green Tea Extract May Help Treat Uterine Fibroids

Attorney: 10 US Baptists charged with child kidnap

Psoriasis medication causes deadly complications

Lifeguard describes rescue of shark attack victim A lifeguard who rescued the victim of a shark attack off Florida's Atlantic coast said Thursday he could see several sharks breaking the surface and blood in the water as he approached in rough surf.he 38-year-old victim, Stephen Howard Schafer, died in a hospital soon after being pulled to shore, marking the first fatal shark attack in Florida in five years.Lifeguard Daniel Lund, 47, said he first spotted Schafer from his tower on the beach Wednesday afternoon and he could tell the kiteboarder was in trouble. He said Schafer was lying on the large sail he was using to pull himself across the water.

Card company results show waning credit card use

An Iraqi woman's taste of freedom turns sour

2/2/10

McConnell: Obama, Federal Government Trying To Do Too Much

Yemen: USA are fighting against democracy, not against Al-Qaeda A pair of trousers catches fire in an aeroplane close to Detroit and missiles rain down on Yemen.  Is this is what is called the butterfly effect?  For Mohammed Hassan, the terrorist threat is only an excuse.  In this latest chapter in our series "Understanding the Muslim world", our specialist explains what is really at stake in Yemen: i.e. undermining democracy in the Gulf in order to keep control over its oil.  Since the failed attack on the Amsterdam-Detroit flight, Yemen has hit the headlines.  It's there that the young Nigerian terrorist is supposed to have trained.  How could this country, an ally of the US, become of refuge for al-Qaeda?

HOWARD ZINN'S LEGACY / CHANGE IS  INEVITABLE    ..Howard Zinn's legacy is that he clearly defined the power that Governments cannot suppress as the people ~ that they are already on the march and that change is inevitable : Allen L Roland

The late Howard Zinn asks and answers the question, in his recent book A POWER GOVERNMENTS CANNOT SUPPRESS , that many progressives and Independents are asking today. The question is " In this world of war and injustice, how does a person manage to stay socially engaged, committed to the struggle, and remain healthy without burning out or becoming resigned or cynical? "

Rescued animals need new homes, deputies say

Do not adjust your sets: solar storms could cause blackouts at Olympics With terrorist threats, dire transport links and overspent budgets you'd be forgiven for thinking that the 2012 London Olympics had enough problems to worry about. But another nightmare scenario has just been added to the Olympic dream – a communications blackout caused by solar storms. After a period of unprecedented calm within the massive nuclear  furnace that powers the Sun, scientists have detected the signs of a fresh cycle of sunspots that could peak in 2012, just in time for the arrival of the Olympic torch in London.

U.S. Pentagon Cyberwar Strategy: Secret Cyberweapons The China-U.S. diplomatic spat over cyberattacks on Google has highlighted the growing significance of the Internet as a theater of combat. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn recently warned of its appeal to foes who are unable to match the U.S.'s conventional military might. An enemy country could deploy hackers to take down U.S. financial systems, communications and infrastructure, he suggested, at a cost far below that of building a trillion-dollar fleet of fifth-generation jet fighters.

Palin goes after Emanuel on 'retarded' slur On Facebook, Sarah Palin launched today an unusual, personal attack on the chief of staff in response to a report that he'd dismissed progressives' attempts to pressure Senate centrists as "retarded." Her heading: "Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel?"

Christian Father Faces Jail for Taking Daughter to Church

Eustace Mullins Passes On

Scientist convicted of trying to kill Americans A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist was convicted Wednesday of charges that she tried to kill Americans while detained in Afghanistan in 2008, shouting with raised arm as jurors left the courtroom: "This is a verdict coming from Israel, not America."

The Coming Grab at Your Wealth and Retirement

Iraq to sue US, Britain over depleted uranium bombs Iraq's Ministry for Human Rights will file a lawsuit against Britain and the US over their use of depleted uranium bombs in Iraq, an Iraqi minister says.  Iraq's Minister of Human Rights, Wijdan Mikhail Salim, told Assabah newspaper that the lawsuit will be launched based on reports from the Iraqi ministries of science and the environment. 

Early draft of the Constitution found in Phila

Could museum's gold be from ancient Troy?

Obama's budget includes $100-billion jobs plan

Nostradamus Predicted World War III for 2010

Lawmakers upset over Obama's 2nd anti-Vegas remark

Egypt set to unveil Tutankhamun DNA results

New "Destroyer" Dinosaur Found, Was T. Rex Relative

Japanese Scientists Create Elastic Water

Federal Reserve Under Lock Down Conditions!

WHY SO MUCH ABOUT SCIENCE IS WRONG

Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site

Police: Foreigners among 6 dead in Pakistan blast

Israeli Women Soldiers Break the Silence What's it like to be a woman serving in the Israeli occupation force in the West Bank? Is a woman's experience as an occupier any different than a man's? Yes indeed, say some women who have just broken their silence and offered a glimpse into the grim reality of the occupation."A female combat soldier needs to prove more," one explains. "A female soldier who beats up others is a serious fighter...When I arrived there was another female [who] was there before me...Everyone spoke of how impressive she is because she humiliates Arabs without any problem. That was the indicator. You have to see her, the way she humiliates, the way she slaps them, wow, she really slapped that guy."

United Nations Report Validates Whistleblower's Claims of Human Rights Abuses at Guantanamo Bay  A joint study on secret detention facilities to combat terrorism worldwide released by the United Nations appears to validate revelations made public last month in an expose published in Harper's magazine: that three detainees were removed from their cells on the night of their deaths and did not take their own lives by hanging in their cells as reported by the military. As part of a sweeping report from the Human Rights Council, the Council partially validates claims from whistleblower Sgt. Joseph Hickman who told the magazine about the existence of a secret detention facility at Guantanamo Bay called "Camp No."

Two daughters with cancer: Is the U.S. to blame? (more effects of the US and the military consciousness/spending/testing.....for other countries)

Haiti food convoy attacked; UN warns of volatility

The enemy is at home video: I can't imagine stating it any more clearly.  We need our soldiers home - and surrounding Washington.  Draft dodgers:  George Bush, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney. Veterans: Ron Paul, Daniel Elsberg, Howard Zinn 

CIA Whistleblower talks about Heart Attack gun video.. CIA whistleblower talks about a gun that shoots a frozen dart of poison that mimicks a heart attack in the unfortunate victim. Go find out for yourself how many witnesses died of heart attacks in cases involving the US government. Start off with the JFK assassination.

A way to eat that heals Simple and reliable.. Every now and then a ray of truth breaks through the corporate information black hole.  The fact is factory-produced meat and dairy (the only source of these things for most people) is highly toxic.  Watch the progress with Rocko.

2/1/10

Why they killed King Nothing could be more relevant today. Yet you won't see this speech on US television, nor will you hear it even referred to...even on Martin Luther King Day, a national holiday in the United States. More information about the political assassinations of the 1960s:

How Many Climategates Are Needed?

Hundreds of Quakes Are Rattling Yellowstone

Body found near San Diego may be missing toddler Volunteers have found the body of a young girl near Border Field State Park in the San Diego area, and authorities are investigating whether she was one of two children swept away 11 days ago by a rain-swollen Tijuana creek.

Somali Pirates Will Donate Booty to Haiti

Daddy Warbucks Vs. The Banksters

The Battle of the Titans: JP Morgan Versus Goldman Sachs

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D

Sen. Blanche Lincoln: Endangered in the political kingdom

Man Catches Fire After Tasering Police in Perth have launched an internal investigation after a man caught alight after being shot with a Taser.Police say the 44-year-old man locked himself inside a house on Helidor Place in suburban Forrestfield last night and was threatening to burn it down. He spread fuel throughout the house and when he told officers he was going to get some matches, they forced their way inside. While they were attempting to arrest him, a Taser was fired, igniting the fuel and causing burns to the man's arms and upper body.

Escaped Criminals Raping, 'Running Wild' in Haiti

1/30/10
The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti

Doctor: Quake victims dying without US airlifts

Anger as NATO airstrike kills 4 Afghan soldiers

John Edwards: the ultimate American politician The John Edwards scandal is not just about sex, argues Toby Harnden in Washington. It's about why Americans have lost trust in the political class.

Has Forbes Gone Psychotic or Taken the Blue Pill? Forbes has declared Monsanto “Company of the Year,” calling criticism of the notorious company “vicious” attacks against a company that “has been working to make humanity better fed.” (like huh?????......time to get rid of Forbes tt then!)

THE NEW PENTAGON PAPERS / THE EIKENBERRY CABLES The albatross around the neck of Obama is Afghanistan and the Eikenberry cables of November 2009 show that Obama's cowardly decision to cave in to General Patraeus's surge request was to both avoid a National Intelligence Review and to politically avoid appearing soft on terrorism in an election year: Allen L Roland Daniel Ellsberg, the man who blew the whistle on the fraud of the Vietnam War 35 years ago, by copying the Pentagon Papers and turning them over to the New York Times ~ who then  took 18 months to publish them ~ would have had them instantly published on today's Internet and at the expense of far fewer lives.

1/29/10

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy. The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

US announces $6B arms sale to Taiwan In a move sure to aggravate China, the Obama administration on Friday announced plans for more than $6 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island the Chinese claim as their own.The sale would include Black Hawk helicopters, Patriot missiles, mine-hunting ships and information technology. Lawmakers have 30 days to comment before the plan proceeds; senior lawmakers have traditionally supported arms sales to Taiwan.Taiwan is the most sensitive matter in already-tense relations between the U.S. and China, two powers increasingly linked by security and economic issues. The sale could spark a temporary break in U.S.-China military ties.

Immigrants More Likely to Have Jobs Than Native Born: Report

Peru evacuates last tourists from Machu Picchu Helicopters ferried out the last tourists stranded near Machu Picchu on Friday, leaving the country to contemplate a prolonged shutdown of its top tourist site.A total of 3,900 tourists and local people were flown out of the tiny mountain village of Machu Picchu Pueblo this week after mudslides and torrential rains on Sunday destroyed sections of the railway that is the only form of transit in and out of the village below the Machu Picchu citadel.Authorities closed the Inca trail, a popular four-day trek that ends in Machu Picchu, after a mudslide killed two people Tuesday. The trail also is likely to remain closed for weeks, although it has seldom been used at the height of the area's rainy season in February.

Obama, GOP exchange barbs, ideas in rare encounter

Body found buried under newly-laid concrete believed to be missing £19.3million lottery winner A body found buried in fresh concrete at a home in Florida may be that of missing lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare.The 43-year-old has been missing since April last year, after becoming embroiled in a bitter legal battle over the £19.3million jackpot.Today, police made the discovery after a tip-off, which suggested officers would find human remains near a home in Plant City where new concrete had been laid.Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said the body was slowly being uncovered.

Anti-Israelism: Why Zionism Doesn’t And Can’t Get It There is no doubt it. More and more people all over the world, and probably many of their governments behind closed doors, are beginning to see the Zionist state of Israel for what it really is - not only the obstacle to peace but a monster apparently beyond control; and they, more and more so-called ordinary folk everywhere, are beginning to turn against it.

16-Year-Old Starbucks Barista Sues Over 'Sex Demands' at Work An "alarmingly high" number of high school students are reporting sexual advances from their adult bosses and other supervisors at some of the country's best known fast food operations, according to an official of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar” Is Promoting Child Porn in the Classroom– Kevin Jennings and the GLSEN Reading List

Father Accused of Killing 2-Year-Old Son

House Collapses After Homeowner Hears Weird Noises People living inside a Mid-City home Wednesday night ran for their lives after hearing loud abnormal noises coming from the inside their house. No one was hurt when the roof on the one-story home collapsed in the 1800 block of South Longwood in Mid-City, Los Angeles.  A frightened homeowner told firefighters he heard loud "creaking" sounds right before the collapse.

Baghdad government building bombing kills 21

Scott Roeder convicted of murdering abortion doctor George Tiller Reporting from Wichita, Kan. - In a trial that never became the referendum on abortion that some abortion foes wanted, Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old airport shuttle driver, was convicted today of murdering George Tiller, one the nation's few physicians who performed late-term abortions. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated for only 37 minutes. Roeder faces life in prison after being convicted of first-degree murder.

Push to send FEMA trailers to Haiti stirs backlash The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea denounced by some as a crass and self-serving attempt to dump inferior American products on the poor."Just go ahead and sign their death certificate," said Paul Nelson of Coden, Ala., who contends his mother died because of formaldehyde fumes in a FEMA trailer.

Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name.

Medicine running out at Haiti hospitals, clinics

Obama on Palestine and Israel 'conflict' video a gutsy studen asks......why?

Ron Paul Bill Seeks Coin and Bullion Tax Ban

Heavy snow, ice bury southern Plains, cut power A storm that toppled power lines, closed major highways and buried parts of the southern Plains in heavy ice and snow began moving into the South on Friday, leaving tens of thousands of people in the dark — possibly for several more days.Winter storm warnings were in effect from New Mexico to North Carolina, and Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe declared a state of emergency. The storm threatened to dump up to a foot of snow across the region after leaving 13 inches in the northern Texas Panhandle, where nearly all of Interstate 40 from the Texas-Oklahoma line to New Mexico was closed.

State Farm won't renew thousands of Fla. policies Thousands of State Farm Florida property insurance customers will be seeing notices in their mailboxes next week saying their policies will not be renewed, a company spokesman said Thursday.The first wave of notices will be mailed Monday to a selected number of the company's policyholders who were set to renew Aug. 1, spokesman Chris Neal said.It's part of an agreement reached with the Office of Insurance Regulation in December. The company is cutting 125,000 policies in the next 18 months to reduce its liability in hurricane-prone Florida, where State Farm insures nearly 714,000 homeowners

1/28/10

Somalia's face of war boy dies after operationA Somali boy who was horribly disfigured months ago by a stray bullet in Somalia's violent capital has died just days after undergoing reconstructive surgery in neighboring Kenya, his doctors said Thursday.The plight of 8-year-old Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud was reported by The Associated Press in November in a story, photos and video, two months after he was shot in Mogadishu. Ahmed personified the civilian toll in the brutal conflict in Somalia and drew offers of aid from around the world. The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth and destroyed his right eye.

Forest Service shares plan for Siskiyou travel

US troops shoot and kill Afghan cleric near Kabul

Lots of foreign guns, not much aid video on the ground

2 LAPD Metro Division officers arrested in off-duty assault

State of the Union punctuated by tough talk, odd reaction

Howard Zinn, author of 'People's History' and left-wing historian, dies at 87 in California

A day in the life of a Haiti tent city

'Proud racist' comment roils Santa Clarita

'Poltergeist' actress Zelda Rubinstein dies at 76

NASA Images Earth sized objects in the Corona of the sun!!

In Haiti, U.S. troops embrace a new role

Republicans say Obama has done little to revive economy In the GOP response to the president's State of the Union address, newly elected Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell specifically criticized Obama's stimulus plan for failing to curb unemployment. Even as President Obama mounted a spirited defense of his fiscal policies Wednesday night, Republicans charged that his approach had done little to revive a moribund economy. In particular, they criticized Obama's stimulus bill, which they said had failed to curb unemployment.

Haiti adoptions: Keeping youths in the right hands

1/27/10

Pernell Roberts, Adam Cartwright on "Bonanza," dead at 81

Health Ranger is keynote speaker at Health Freedom Expo in Long Beach, CA, March 26 - 28

Haiti adoptions: Keeping youths in the right hands

Lawsuits battle clear-cutting in Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges

Just fine after a stormy night out

Baghdad: Witnesses to devastation, and to their own luck

Unprecedented shutdown hammers Toyota, partners Toyota Motor Corp shares dropped more than 8 percent on Wednesday in U.S. trading as concern deepened about the automaker's suspension of sales and production of some of its best-selling vehicles due to problems with faulty accelerators.Shares of auto parts suppliers and dealerships with exposure to Toyota also tumbled, while expectations built that the company's troubles would benefit rivals.

1/26/10

Food handout turns chaotic in Haitian capital

Send California inmates to Mexico, says Schwarzenegger

Obama to seek freeze on part of budget

$6.7 billion to come by June

1/25/10

Neighbor: Stacy Peterson said 'I'm already dead' The fourth wife of former Illinois police officer Drew Peterson was sure her husband would kill her, even telling a neighbor days before her disappearance in 2007 that "I'm already dead," according to testimony at a hearing on Monday.The neighbor sobbed uncontrollably at times as she spoke during the hearing meant to determine what, if any, "hearsay" evidence prosecutors can use during Peterson's upcoming trial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio, in 2004.

Homes evacuated in San Antonio as hill crumbles Construction crews moved dirt to shore up a group of houses precariously perched on a crumbling hill in San Antonio on Monday as engineers tried to determine why the land below was shifting, causing dozens of homes to evacuate.Gaping crevices, some 15 feet deep, cut across several yards as dirt cascaded into a towering stone retaining wall that nearly split in half. Fences crumpled like accordions as crews packed dirt under one home and around its exterior after part of its foundation was exposed.

Suicide And The Soldier Nine years ago, the Cheney/Bush/Rove/Rumsfeld administration started, by a series of treasonous lies, its so-called endless wars on the nebulous "terrorism", much of which was provoked by decades of anti-Muslim/pro-Israeli US foreign policies. According to the US Department of Defense more US military personnel have taken their own lives since 2001 than have been killed in action (KIA) in either Iraq or Afghanistan. In 2009 alone, more than 330 active servicemen and women have committed suicide - more than those KIAs in Afghanistan and Iraq. And this number doesn't count the veterans who have killed themselves following their discharge.

UFO papers to be made public

Pentagon chief defends arms sales to India, Pakistan Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates leaned on India and Pakistan during his trip to South Asia this week to set aside a simmering rivalry and confront militant extremists. At the same time, Gates and other U.S. officials pushed arms sales that could fuel the antagonism between the two countries. Gates' trip was framed by that apparent contradiction in U.S. policy. On his arrival in Pakistan, a television news interviewer put the question bluntly: "Why re-arm both countries?" The Pentagon chief sidestepped the question. (why indeed......unless you read General Smedley Butler's writings......is about the $$$$$....WAR IS A RACKET!)

Cutting out the middleman video Thanks to a recent decision by the Supreme Court, corporations don't have to sneak around any to gain improper influence over the direction of the country.  One weird thing about this Olberman commentary though... More that half the things he says are coming have already happened.  This Supreme Court just cut out the middleman. 

Witnesses: Plane tumbled out of sky off Lebanon The first sign of trouble was a flash of light on the horizon Monday — and then witnesses said the Boeing 737 tumbled like "fire falling down from the sky" into the stormy Mediterranean Sea.All 90 aboard were feared dead in the pre-dawn crash. Lebanon's leaders ruled out terrorism while investigators collected witness accounts in hopes they could provide clues. Aviation experts cautioned it was too early to know what brought down the Ethiopian Airlines jet — particularly without the black boxes.

RUNNING SCARED ...Key senators lead charge for Bernanke

General hints at Taliban talks

What 'skeptics' really believe about vaccines, medicine, consciousness and the universe

Haiti ends quake rescue operations

Haiti earthquake claims lives of country's leading feminists

Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn't been verified

Baghdad blasts strike popular hotels, kill 37 Suicide bombers struck in quick succession Monday at three Baghdad hotels favored by Western journalists in well-planned assaults that killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100.

1/24/10

What Now?  Seen on radar by thousands today over Australia. What is going on? Two bizarre features seen on radar over the North West and South East of Australia today ( Jan 22, 2010) The ring over the south east appeared approximately 30 seconds before the bizarre red star over the north west.

Vancouver Police Apologize After Man Beaten The Vancouver Police Department has issued an apology after a man said he was beaten by officers who knocked on the wrong door while investigating a report of a violent domestic dispute.

Obama Weekly Address VIDEO: President Blasts Supreme Court Over Citizens United Decision President Barack Obama on Saturday sharply criticized a Supreme Court decision easing limits on campaign spending by corporations and labor unions, saying he couldn't "think of anything more devastating to the public interest." He also suggested the ruling could jeopardize his domestic agenda. In its 5-4 decision this week, the high court overturned two decisions and threw out parts of a 63-year-old law that said companies and unions can be prohibited from using their own money to produce and run campaign ads that urge the election or defeat of particular candidates by name.

Storms trash Calif. beaches, bring snow to AZ, NM Spare tires, rusted shopping carts and still steaming trash cover this ocean beach — ugly remnants from the series of dangerous and damaging storms that tore through states in the southwest.

1/21/10

Storm causes flooding in Orange County; Southwest Airlines grounds flights [Updated] A powerful storm front barreled into Orange and Riverside counties this afternoon, producing a mudslide that closed Ortega Highway, flooding numerous streets and causing Southwest Airlines to cancel flights. Southwest cut some flights to Burbank, John Wayne and Ontario airports, likely through 6 p.m. [Updated at 1:49 p.m.: Southwest Airlines is suspending and canceling flights arriving and departing at its airports in Burbank, Ontario, Orange County, San Diego, Phoenix and Tucson this afternoon, citing forecast high wind conditions.

Survivor describes Nazi camp at Demjanjuk trial Jewish prisoners had to unload decomposed corpses at the Nazi death camp at Sobibor and were forbidden to warn new prisoners that they would be gassed within the hour, a survivor testified Thursday at the trial of John Demjanjuk.The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk, an 89-year-old retired Ohio autoworker, is accused of serving as a low-level guard at the Nazi camp in occupied Poland and is charged with accessory to murder in 27,900 deaths. Demjanjuk rejects the charges, saying he never served in Sobibor or any other Nazi camp.

China teen seen as hero for killing local official When Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years.Instead, villagers in the northern town of Xiashuixi have made Li's teenage killer something of a local hero. More than 20,000 people from the coal-mining area petitioned a court for a lenient sentence.

As another powerful storm moves in, Southern California braces for heavy rains, mud flows and power outages [Updated] What forecasters say may be the strongest storm of the week is rolling into Southern California this morning, with heavy rain expected to hit in the late morning through early evening, bringing a threat of flash floods and mudslides to L.A.'s rain-soaked foothills.

Missing plane found with two bodies inside A plane that went missing earlier this week was discovered early this morning with two bodies inside, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The wrecked twin-engine Cessna 340 was found at 1:50 a.m. about six miles northwest of the Rialto Airport in the San Bernardino County foothills, said Ian Gregor, a spokesperson for the FAA Western-Pacific Region. The pilot and his one passenger were killed and the aircraft was destroyed, he said.The victims have not yet been identified.

U.S. indicts four Israelis in international bribery case The United States Justice Department indicted four Israeli businessmen Tuesday for allegedly attempting to bribe the defense minister of an African country in order to secure a multimillion-dollar contract to supply his country with military equipment. 18 other businessmen were indicted in the same case.
The U.S. Department of Justice identified the Israelis as Ofer Paz, 50 - the president and chief executive officer of an Israeli company, Paz Logistics, that acts as sales agent for companies in the law enforcement and military products industries; Haim Geri, 50 - the president of a North Miami Beach, Fla., company that serves as a sales agent for companies in the law enforcement and military products industries; Yochanan R. Cohen, aka Yochi Cohen, 47 - the chief executive officer of a San Francisco company that manufactures security equipment, including body armor and ballistic plates; and Israel Wissler, former CEO of the company Ayit which sold equipment to the Israeli Defense Forces.

Muslims In 21st Century America - Part 18 Warning From Europeans, By Frosty Wooldridge

‘Barack Obama made a lot of promises but they meant nothing’ Voters in Massachusetts cast their votes yesterday amid freezing temperatures and falling snow. They provided a window to America’s sour mood, even in this traditional Democratic stronghold.“I think the country is a mess,” Kathelyn Neas, a stay-at-home mother, said at a polling station at South Boston Library. Seamus Kelley, a state employee, voted for the Democratic candidate but said: “I think there are a lot of people who, because of this economy, are not happy with any incumbents. In the last two elections it was Iraq and Afghanistan and people took their ire out on President Bush. Now it’s the Democrats.”

Why they killed King Peace and Civil Rights .. Nothing could be more relevant today. Yet you won't see this speech on US television, nor will you hear it even referred to...even on Martin Luther King Day, a national holiday in the United States. POWERFUL SPEECH!

Stalking & Googling Someone 40,000 Times = 16 Weeks in Jail

Haiti, Katrina, and Why I Won't Give To Haiti Through the Red Cross by Bruce A. Dixon

FBI 'fabricated terror emergencies to get phone records' The US justice department is preparing a report which concludes that theFBI repeatedly broke the law by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist to obtain more than 2,000 telephone call records over four years from 2002, including those of journalists on US newspapers, according to emails obtained by the Washington Post.

AUSTRALIA: Spencer Starves as Rudd Watches Cricket ...... Peter Spencer went on a hunger strike for 52 days sitting 10 metres up a pole on his property in Shannon's Flat, New South Wales from 11/23/09 to the 1/13/10. He survived on water and supplements. He wants the Federal Government to compensate farmers for the  land it had grabbed to create a "carbon sink", in order to fulfill its obligation to the Kyoto Protocol of carbon emissions reduction. The land grab (affecting more than 30,000 farms, according to his daughter Sarah), was accomplished via laws that had been introduced across Australia through the state governments since 1995 to protect native vegetation. Spencer wants to see a Royal Commission into the process that occurred in this take-over of rural properties

UK: Muslim police say Islam not to blame for terror attacks Muslim police officers have rebelled openly against the Government’s anti-terrorism strategy, warning that it is an “affront to British values” which threatens to trigger ethnic unrest. Far-Right extremists were a more dangerous threat to national security, it said. The officers told MPs that Muslims were being “stigmatised” by the Government’s attempts to tackle terrorism, which was adding to “hatred” against entire communities.

Taliban leaders 'offered asylum' under London peace plan Taliban leaders could be offered exile abroad and have their names deleted from a UN sanctions blacklist as part of a peace plan for Afghanistan to be unveiled in London next week. (huh?)

More than 600 earthquakes recorded in current Yellowstone earthquake swarm

Oregon, others petition FERC to halt gas pipeline

American ex-convicts suspected of link to Yemen militants Reporting from Washington - U.S. officials believe that as many as three dozen Americans who converted to Islam while in prison in the United States have traveled to Yemen over the last year, possibly to be trained by Al Qaeda, according to a Senate report. The findings have alarmed U.S. counter-terrorism officials, who think that Al Qaeda has expanded its recruitment efforts in Yemen "to attract nontraditional followers" capable of carrying out more ambitious operations.

Haiti's mass graves swell; doctors fear more death

Appeal court frees man jailed for attacking burglars

WEATHER: Update: Freeway reopens, but expect extreme winter conditions in California (3:25 p.m.) there are some restrictions...read report

"There is very strange weather happening here - please check" A contact in Australia just alerted me to  what he describes as "very strange  weather taking lace over the south  west of Australia".  

Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker faces hate speech trial Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders sat in the defendant's dock Wednesday, nodding his head as prosecutors read aloud a hundred remarks he has made condemning Islam, Muslims and immigrants — notably one comparing the Quran to Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Wilders' criminal trial for allegedly inciting hate against Muslims has resonance across Europe: He is one of a dozen right-wing politicians on the continent who are testing the limits of freedom of speech while voicing voters' concerns at the growth of Islam.

Venezuela's Chavez seizes French-owned retailer President Hugo Chavez signed a decree to expropriate a French-owned retail chain Wednesday, accusing the retailer of improperly raising prices and hoarding goods after Venezuela devalued its currency.The state takeover of Exito hypermarkets raised concerns of Venezuelan business leaders, who predicted private investment will decline as a result of the government's drive to expropriate stores involved in what it calls price speculation.

7 bodies found in abandoned cars in south Mexico

Poll: Nearly 1 in 5 may not fill out census form With the launch of the decennial census just weeks away, nearly 1 in 5 people may not participate in the high-stakes head count, citing mostly a lack of interest but also a broader distrust of government.

Sen. Barbara Boxer says every state now 'in play'(excerpt from Senator Boxer) "I think every state is now in play, absolutely,"' she said. "You have to make the case that you're the one that's on the people's side. And people have to get it."' ..............[No Barbara, maybe the case is that YOU have to get it...not only Democrats or Republicans, independents or Libertarians ......everyone needs to look with open eyes at our DEPRESSION...and see the factors that have caused it and hopefully come up with some good solutions 'TOGETHER'. History has show us already that "democracies" don't have a long life span...but what about the 'Republic' which is what we were set up to be? ]

Storm moves ashore as officials brace for mudslides, coastal flooding [Updated]Los Angeles

1/20/10

Graco Stroller Recall: Children Fingertip Amputations Prompt 1.5 Million Strollers Recalled About 1.5 million Graco strollers sold at Wal-Mart, Target and other major retailers are being recalled after some children's fingertips were amputated by hinges on the products

Cuba in Haiti getting the job done

Obama's Foreclosure Prevention Efforts Are Failing Because They Don't Reduce Principal, Say State Regulators President Obama's foreclosure-prevention efforts are making things worse because, while lowering monthly payments, they often raise the principal when what underwater homeowners need is principal reduction, according to a new report by a group of state attorneys general and bank regulators.The lackluster efforts risk worsening the foreclosure crisis, potentially hurting even those creditworthy Americans with a good shot at staying in their homes, according to the report by the State Foreclosure Prevention Working Group, a collection of 12 state attorneys general and three state banking supervisors.

Aftershock rattles Haiti, but aid flow ramps up

PDF FILE of H.R. 3200 health bill SO YOU CAN READ FOR YOURSELF! ...e.mails welcome.

H1N1 swine flu hoax falls apart at the seams

1/19/10

Man rescued after spending more than two days trapped in Haiti elevator Rescuers pulled a man with ties to Wisconsin out of the rubble in Haiti Friday. The man, Daniel Woolley, spent more than two days trapped in an elevator in Haiti's capital.

1/18/10

Gov't Cessna crashes into Oregon forest, two dead Two people are dead after a Cessna registered to the Department of the Interior in Boise, Idaho, crashed in Oregon's Benton County. The wreckage of the fixed-wing single engine plane was found 8:30 a.m. Monday morning. A Benton County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue effort for the plane, and the as-yet-unidentified pilot and passenger inside, began Sunday night.

Michelle Obama's Birthday Surprise Party At Restaurant Nora (PHOTOS)

Initiative would allow pot sales at liquor stores Relax it and tax it. That's the motto behind a new cannabis initiative that would allow Oregon's state-controlled liquor stores to legally sell marijuana to adults. Initiative backers said their plan would send 90 percent of the proceeds from the state's sale of marijuana to Oregon's General Fund, which could lower Oregonians' state tax burden. Smaller percentages would go to funding drug abuse education and treatment programs. The initiative would also legalize the growing of hemp, a non-drug variant of cannabis that can be used to make industrial-strength fibers and bio-fuels. Supporters claim that allowing cannabis cultivation and sales through state liquor stores would add $300 million in combined tax revenues and savings to Oregon's budget. (growning Hemp has been done for as long as this country as been here for many wonderful purposes, even George Washington grew Hemp.....it has been said, that this could save the world and solve so many problems environmentally!)

German protesters decry Israeli atrocities with signs that indicate 'Jews, yes...Zionism...NO! German supporters of the Palestinian cause are holding a demonstration against a joint German-Israeli cabinet meeting in Berlin. A crowd of demonstrators gathered on Monday to expressed anger at Israel's ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip and the ongoing expulsion of Palestinians from East Jerusalem Al-Quds. They have also vowed to expose Israel's indiscriminate and targeted killings of the Palestinians, which was highlighted in Israel's relentless three-week blitz on the tiny enclave in December 2008-January 2009. More than 1,400 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in the onslaught during which Israeli soldiers committed war crimes by using human shields, targeting schools and UN buildings that were hosting civilians.

Aid to Haiti Speeds Up, but Delays Plague Effort

Deadly cold waves continue in China's Xinjiang Heavy snow and deadly cold waves gripping the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of China have killed four people and almost 40,000 livestock. The latest figures show that around 16,000 houses have been destroyed. The number of people affected has risen to nearly one million. Also, more than 92,000 folks have been evacuated from the rural areas because their houses were either flattened or damaged by the snowstorms or their neighborhoods were threatened by potential avalanches or food and water shortages.

5 US youths detained in Pakistan say they were tortured Five American youths held in Pakistan on suspicion of 'using the Internet to contact militants,' say they have been tortured by police. During their hearing in a court in Sargodha town on Monday, which took place under tight security, the suspects charged that they had been tortured while in custody. “We are being tortured, we are being tortured,” they shouted on the way back to prison. The Muslim American students, in their 20s and from the Washington, DC area, were detained in December at a house in the Punjabi town of Sargodha, south of Islamabad. The arrests came as US officials and their internal intelligence arm, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), alerted the Pakistani government that the five Muslim youths had vanished from their homes and headed for Pakistan.

Hecklers Stop Obama Speech

Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince UPDATE Jan 18, 2010

Aristarchus Crater, Electric Blue Gem or Fushion Reactor

Jewish settlers beat up Palestinian child Tens of fanatic Jewish settlers on Saturday night assaulted a Palestinian child in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in occupied Jerusalem under the very eyes of the Israeli occupation police who did nothing to stop the assault.  Eyewitnesses told the PIC that the settlers severely beat up Amna Al-Nashashibi, 16, during their provocative march, adding that they pulled her from her hair. They said that the girl was among a group of people who arrived in the neighborhood in solidarity with its inhabitants who were thrown out of their homes by the Israeli occupation authority. The settlers hurled abuse at the Palestinian women before withdrawing from the scene under police escort, the witnesses added.

Goldman Holders Miffed at Bonuses

Rapes of elderly women terrify central Texas towns YOAKUM, Texas

Colorado surgery tech details stealing painkiller A surgery technician who infected three dozen people withhepatitis C and may have exposed thousands of others by switching used syringes with ones filled with a powerful painkiller says she got careless while at two Colorado hospitals and doesn't expect to be forgiven. (ya think?) Ahead of a hearing where she'll be sentenced to 20 years in prison, Kristen Diane Parker described for prosecutors how she slipped through a hospital's drug screening process and began stealing drugs as she coped with a heroin addiction.

Davidson: Obama White House Is Lying to You Author, investor and longtime Wall Street observer James Dale Davidson says our government is lying to us: There is no genuine economic recovery happening.
“I think what we have seen ... is a simulated recovery which has been generated by the government faking it in a lot of different ways," putting out what he calls statistical falsehoods on economic numbers "to make it seem that the economy is stronger than it is,” Davidson told Newsmax.
For example, calculations for the recently released unemployment figures released failed to include the fact that the Bureau of Labor Statistics had undercounted the number of unemployed people in 2009 by 824,000 persons. Video — Davidson: Obama White House Is Lying to You

With Bombs Falling Around Loretta Sanchez, She Still Questions Afghanistan Adventure

1/17/10

Body With 'Very Long' Fingers Discovered On Plum Island PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. (WPIX) - An alleged mutated human body washed ashore on Plumb Island, a small island where the U.S. Government typically studies dangerous animal diseases. A security guard on foot patrol reportedly discovered the clothed decomposing body Thursday afternoon on the southwest beach area of the island, where access is restricted, police said.
The body was described as that of a white male about 6-feet tall with a large build and "very long" fingers. According to authorities, there were no obvious signs of trauma.

Hecklers Stop Obama Speech A heckler was removed Sunday during a Barack Obama speech supporting the Democratic candidate in the race to fill the seat of former Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The incident occurred during the rally for Democratic state Attorney General Martha Coakley's at Northeastern University. The man held a sign that read, "Jesus Loves All Babies." The crowd booed the man as he interrupted the President's speech.

Australian media crews pull baby from rubble in Haiti

5 people found slain in southeast Texas home; police have 1 person in custody BELLVILLE, Texas (AP) — Authorities say five people have been found slain in a home in southeast Texas. Sgt. Paul Faircloth with the Austin County Sheriff's Department says in a news release that deputies found the bodies of four adults and one child Sunday at a Bellville home. Faircloth says one person is in custody and is being questioned in connection with the homicides.

When is Looting "not looting' but instead 'survival'?

Apathy Is Allowing The Death Of America....Dear Friends, Yes, you have our permission to be angry with Washington....I'MAD AND YOU WILL BE TOO...when you read what else they are doing.....(with YOUR MONEY!)

Met Office admits they botched snow warning (england) The Met Office has admitted that it failed to warn the public of the heavy snow that brought swaths of Britain to a standstill on Wednesday. Forecasters conceded that they did not spot the widespread snow storms that caused transport disruption and a surge of weather-related accidents until it was too late. Up to six inches fell in parts of the South West, with drifts of 7ft in Wales. Even when the full extent of the threat was realised, flaws in the Met Office’s bad weather warning system meant that the public were not adequately informed, officials said. The system will now be reviewed.

Pictures of Earthquake in Haiti (warning....graphic)

1/16/10

Satellite image of Port-au-Prince earthquake damage

The U.S. Military in Haiti: A Compassionate Invasion

Analysis: Voter ire evident in Mass. Senate race

SD Given back to sioux nation- accidently by congress

Insurance Group Says Stolen E-Mails Show Risk in Accepting Climate Science

For emergency medical teams, time and coordination are of the essence in Haiti

Evidence of Ancient Amazon Civilization Uncovered

More on John Coleman’s Special tonight – KUSI press release says NASA improperly manipulated data

Ex-UN Inspector Faces Child-Sex Charges

Slug the Obama Story 'Disconnect' The first thing I learned in journalism is that every story has a name. At WEEI News Radio in Boston, the editor would label each story with one word, called a "slug," and assign a writer to write it for air. This week's devastating earthquake would be slugged "Haiti." A story about a gruesome murder might be "Nightmare."We're at the first anniversary of the inauguration of President Barack Obama, and the slug, the word that captures its essence, is "Disconnect."This is, still, a surprising word to use about the canny operatives who so perfectly judged the public mood in 2008. But they haven't connected since. There is a disconnect, a detachment, a distance between the president's preoccupations and the concerns of the people. There's a disconnect between his policy proposals and the people's sense, as expressed in polls, of what the immediate problems are.

Spanish lawmaker's photo used for bin Laden poster

Exiled Haiti president 'ready to return'

Obama Grants Haitians Illegally in U.S. 'Protected Status' for 18 Months

Analysis: Voter ire evident in Mass. Senate race

Obama, Bush, Clinton stand 'united' for Haiti President Barack Obama on Saturday brought together his White House predecessors, Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton, for a joint appeal for victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake."By coming together in this way, these two leaders send an unmistakable message to the people of Haiti and to the people of the world," Obama said in the Rose Garden, flanked by the two former leaders.

Inhofe: Hey, I'm the Planet's Worst Enemy!

1/15/10

PROMISES, PROMISES: Many Obama pledges unkept President Barack Obama ends his first year in office with his to-do list still long and his unfulfilled campaign promises stacked high. From winding down the war in Iraq to limiting lobbyists, Obama has made some progress. But the president has faced political reality and accepted — sometimes grudgingly — compromises that leave him exposed to criticism. Promises that have proven difficult include pledges not to raise taxes, to curb earmarks and to shut down theGuantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba by the end of his first year.

"We are moving systematically to bring about change, but change is hard," Obama told a town hall crowd in California. "Change doesn't happen overnight."That was in March.

1/14/10

The Icon of the Mother of God “The Softening of Evil Hearts” Arrives in Kamchatka One of the holiest items of the Orthodox Church in Russia, the icon of the Mother of God “Semistrelnaya” (“The Softening of Evil Hearts”) shall come on Friday to Kamchatka, RIA-Novosti learned from a spokesman of the Diocese of Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka. “The image shall arrive here on a scheduled flight from the capital. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all the Russias gave his blessing to this trip”, our source told us. He went on to say, once it is in Kamchatka, the icon shall be carried in procession to the church of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, where it will rest for about a day, then, it shall be taken to churches all over the Kamchatka region.

Snow brings more chaos to UK Commuters were delayed, schools closed and flights suspended again today as the cold snap's possibly final flurry of snow swept across parts of the UK.The government told local authorities to cut back further on the use of salt to conserve stocks, while business leaders called for urgent talks between local authorities, transport and salt mining companies, schools and businesses, to improve emergency responses.

HEARTLESS: Army charges single mom who refused deployment

Bankers apologize for actions that led to crisis

Britain apologizes 50 years after Thalidomide scandal

War is theft videos Golden Lily & the M Fund ... It's hard to imagine, but the Japanese elites killed more people, stole more efficiently, and inflicted more suffering than the Nazis by a large degree.  But we never hear about that, do we? 

Tourist killed by 'dinosaur-sized' shark off South African beach

First wave of international aid arrives in Haiti

NASA Probe Snaps Mars 'Trees' A Nasa probe has sent back photographs of what appears to be trees on the planet's surface.The images appear to show rows of dark "conifers" sprouting from dunes and hills on the planet surface. But the scene is actually an optical illusion. The photographs actually show sand dunes coated with a thin layer of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice, less than 240 miles from the planet's north pole.

Mesquite ISD planning to send long-haired 4-year-old to in-school suspension

Mystery object whizzes past Earth harmlessly Scientists debate its origins but conclude it was likely an asteroid. If the object had been on a collision course with Earth, it wouldn't have done any damage anyway. But planetary scientists said the asteroid, or whatever it was, set a new standard: A 10-meter-wide (33-foot-wide) asteroid can be detected two days before it potentially hits Earth.

1/13/10

Oregon Coast 6.5 Earthquake videos

1/12/10

UPDATE ON HAITI QUAKE: Major quake hits Haiti; many casualties expected

U.S. justices question sex offender confinement law

2 dead in Ga. shooting; suspect was ex-employee disgruntled ex-employee stormed a truck rental business in camouflage and opened fire with a handgun, killing two people and critically wounding three others at his former workplace, police said.The lone gunman fled the scene in a pickup truck and was arrested after police stopped him about a mile from the Penske Truck Rental facility, said Cobb County Police Officer Joe Hernandez. The names of the suspect and victims were not immediately released."He wasn't here for very long and it wasn't long before he was taken into custody," Hernandez said.

Who Are Their Prey? All Of Us- From The Left And The Right Our knee-jerk, tunnel-visioned, democratic and republican voters must develop some peripheral vision, or they will be taught some lessons of life that could more more easily be learned by viewing outside of the central areas of corporate media focus. And perhaps, the best place to begin seeing on the edges of one's usual visual field is the corporate media itself. Let us begin by asking ourselves, "Who owns the corporate-mainstream media?"

Businessman is arrested in front of wife and son... for ‘anti-gipsy’ email that he didn’t even write

Google to end China censorship after e-mail breach Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computers hackers had tricked human rights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders.The change-of-heart announced Tuesday heralds a major shift for Google, which has repeatedly said it will obey Chinese laws that require some politically and socially sensitive issues to be blocked from search results that are available in other countries

Regain a poem by Deepak Sarkar. It’s a fight for Truth & justice against Lies & injustice which is the law of causation! This is a decisive moment in history and all humans must strive to fight for truth with their Heavenly power inside so that they can live heavenly life on Earth with peaceful possessions and truthful vocations! God (universal loving expression) bless our beloved world and all sentient being.J Kolki

Thousands of fish die in cold Southwest Florida waters Southwest Florida's record-low temperatures are taking a toll on more than agriculture.
Over the past few days, cold water has killed thousands of snook, one of the state's most popular game fish. Many other fish species are going belly up as well. "There's a reason snook's general distribution doesn't go north of Tampa," said Aaron Adams, head of Mote Marine Laboratory's Charlotte Harbor Field Station. "This kind of cold can put a hurt on the snook population. A lot of people are reporting large fish, and that could affect the spawning stock."

Intravenous Vitamin C Saves NZ Man with Flu Damaged Lung

Publisher's killing stuns divided island of Cyprus Political leaders expressed shock Tuesday at the slaying of a powerful publisher, puzzling over possible motives for a killing that stirred feelings of insecurity on this war-divided island.Andy Hadjicostis, the 41-year-old director of the Dias publishing group, was fatally shot late Monday outside his home in central Nicosia, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a contract killing.Police spokesman Michalis Kastounotos said the victim was shot twice — in the back and chest — as he stepped out of his car. He died at the scene, in an upscale area of the Cypriot capital that includes several embassy compounds and is heavily policed.

CENSORSHIP AT NEWS WITH VIEWS For generations, most evangelical Christians have looked on as Israel bludgeoned the Palestinians. They have done nothing but bless and support Israel's reign of terror in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. Now thousands of their brethren—Jewish Christians in Israel and the Occupied Territories—endure constant discrimination and harassment from ultra-Orthodox Jews. (See http://kingsmenarad.com/) The Israeli government and local authorities do nothing to defend them. And evangelicals in western nations remain largely oblivious. Why?

It's partly because evangelical American media will not report persecution of Christians in Israel! It is quick to publicize persecution of believers in Moslem or Communist countries such as China; but virtually no account of Israeli persecution of Christians is seen or spoken of on Christian internet, publishing or airwaves. Christian leaders fear offending Israel or seeming "anti-Semitic." I witnessed such censorship in action this week.

US investigating 38 cases of reconstruction abuse The U.S. agency overseeing the multibillion dollar Afghanistan reconstruction effort is investigating 38 criminal cases ranging from contract fraud to theft — most involving non-Afghans, officials said Tuesday.The reconstruction effort has come under increased scrutiny as Defense Department contractors pour into Afghanistan to support the U.S. military surge. But the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, headed by retired Marine Corps Gen. Arnold Fields, was only established by Congress in 2008, nearly seven years after the U.S. invasion to oust the Taliban.Just 10 of the criminal cases under the microscope involve Afghans only, while the rest involve U.S. and other foreigners, according to Raymond DiNunzio, the agency's assistant inspector general for inspections. He would not elaborate since the cases are under investigation. (so..that is MORE of American tax dollars just siphoned off for greed and coruption......thrown down the drain????.......how about it folks...ARE YOU MAD YET?)

HELEN THOMAS ' WHY ' QUESTION ANSWERED Helen Thomas ~ the Watchdog of Democracy asks why are we hated in the Muslim world ?

White House Press correspondent Helen Thomas asked  the pertinent question as to the motive of terrorists which the Obama administration avoids answering ~ but the answer is obvious to the world. The  so called War on terror is a War of terror and we are the principle perpetrators of this ongoing Middle East criminal action against Iraq, Afghanistan and now Pakistan: Allen L Roland  

US businessman visits Iran video...Lecture by Rick Steves ........in another talk, Steve's made the following observation: "It's a good idea to get to know people before you start bombing them." That would have saved us a lot of problems over the years, wouldn't it? 

Some facts: 

1. Iran has a population of 66 million people - twice of Iraq's
2. Unlike Iraq, Iran has not had its military beat up for the last twenty years as Iraq did before we invaded it 
3. Iran is not three separate people - Sunni, Shiite, and Kurds. It's one people and they are Persians, not Arabs. 

1/11/10

Antarctic sea water shows 'no sign' of warming

Skewed China birth rate to leave 24 mln men single

"It's The People's Seat." Scott Brown at the Massachusetts Senate debate. "With all due respect, it's not the Kennedy's seat, it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat."

N.J. lawmakers approve medical marijuana legislation New Jersey lawmakers approved a bill that would make it the 14th U.S. state to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana for patients suffering from cancer and other debilitating diseases.
The legislation passed the Assembly 48-16 with one abstention. The measure already cleared the state Senate, which voted 25-13 to approve restrictions in the Assembly version, including a list of ailments for which the drug can be prescribed and a prohibition on the growing of marijuana by patients.

Feds Probe Cadmium in Kids' Jewelry From China

The Recession Is Over - The Depression Just Beginning .....or you think its bad now?.......just wait!

Increase in suicide rate of vets The suicide rate among 18- to 29-year-old men who've left the military has gone up significantly, the government said Monday.The rate for these veterans went up 26 percent from 2005 to 2007, according to preliminary data from the Veterans Affairs Department. It's assumed that most of the veterans in this age group served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Nurse Outduels IRS Over M.B.A. Tuition A Maryland nurse accomplished two rare feats in her battle with the Internal Revenue Service: She defended herself against the agency's lawyers and won, and she got a ruling that could help tens of thousands of students deduct the cost of an M.B.A. degree on their taxes.The U.S. Tax Court handed Lori Singleton-Clarke her victory last month, saying the 47-year-old Bryantown, Md., woman had properly deducted nearly $15,000 in business school tuition. The Tax Court ruling should make it easier for many other professionals to deduct the expense of a Master in Business Administration degree.The IRS's rules on deducting work-related tuition are complicated and onerous, ultimately preventing most students from deducting their tuition. But this case clarifies the rules and will likely lead to more taxpayers taking the deduction, tax experts say.

Where is Obama’s Socialism Taking Us? Argentina’s Fall May Be Our Future

The Swine Flu “Pandemic”: From Pigs or Out-of-Control Scientists?

Married Couples Pay More Than Unmarried Under Health Bill

Coming Soon: A Global Central Bank, Global Currency & World Government

1/10/10

UK reporter, US Marine killed in Afghan blast

Egypt discovers new workers' tombs near pyramids

Heavy snow halts planes, trains and cars in Europe Europeans were struggling to restore roads and railways Sunday after heavy snow caused hundreds of traffic accidents, halted flights from Germany and France, downed power lines in Poland and trapped more than 160 people overnight on a frozen German highway. (uh.....global 'what'???)

1/9/10

TWITPICS OF EUREKA EARTHQUAKE DAMAGEBREAKING: 6.5 earthquake reported off of Eureka, Calif.  Evacuating Residences due to a Huge Gas Leak via the POLICE SCANNER-Humboldt County CA ( result of 6.7 quake) damage in stores, moved and broken items.

Passenger in Oregon to Hawaii air incident faces charges Federal authorities filed a criminal complaint Friday against a 56-year-old man whose scrawled note invoking "Gilligan's Island" led a Hawaiian Airlines pilot to turn around a Maui-bound flight and return Wednesday to Portland, Oregon.Joseph Hedlund Johnson, of Salem, Oregon, was charged with the federal crime of interference with the performance and duties of a flight crew member or attendant. He is expected to surrender to authorities on Monday. Johnson told authorities that he had flown only about four times in his life and that the Maui-bound flight was his first over water; that he had occupied himself first by reading in-flight magazines and then by filling out comment cards provided by the airline. He said he had lifted the phrase for the card "I thought I was going to die" from comedian Mike Myers, the affidavit said. (this comes under the category of ......paranoia???)

NEW AGE MONOPOLY  / OBAMANOMICS Our founding fathers would roll over in their graves if they became aware of the extent of our runaway indebtedness and lack of foresight ~ which has accelerated with the advent of Obamanomics : Allen L Roland 

Soda fountains dispersing gastric distress

1/8/10

Washington Will Turn to the Bankers To Finance U.S. Debt; T-Bills in Trouble

Kenyan tribe slowly driven off its ancestral lands Mau Forest, Kenya - For centuries, the little-known Ogiek people foraged wild honey and used bows and arrows to hunt gazelles in the Mau Forest of Kenya.  But recently, for the second time in 16 years, they were driven from their homes and are now living in makeshift bamboo-and-plastic tents at the side of the road in a valley that long ago was part of the forest. Their plight casts a focus on Kenya's endemic corruption and its potentially catastrophic effect on a small, powerless tribe, and the rest of the nation.

Pressure builds against mountaintop coal mining

Study bolsters concerns that disinfectants create superbugs

Food labelling 'to lead farming revolution' A shake-up in food labelling that could transform the British farming landscape was announced today.Hilary Benn, the Rural Affairs Secretary, promised a new approach to labelling that would give consumers more information about carbon emissions, rovenance and animal welfare.Mr Benn said that shoppers should be given the information they need to choose the healthiest and most nutritious diet for themselves and their families.He predicted that changes in consumer habits, prompted by better information on packaging, would bring about large-scale change in farming and retail practices.

Egypt-Gaza border riot leaves Egyptian guard dead Reporting from Jerusalem - Gunfire broke out Wednesday during a Palestinian protest over Egypt's blockade of the Gaza Strip, leaving an Egyptian border guard dead and a dozen Palestinians injured.
The riot along the border came a day after several hundred international activists clashed with police in the Egyptian port city of El Arish when they were told that a portion of their aid convoy would be allowed to enter Gaza only through Israel.

t's a fruit! It's a mushroom! It's a ... crab? New, strawberry-like species is found in Taiwan

Women who wear burkas and niqabs on the street in France face fines of £700 Women who wear Islamic veils in public in France face a £700 fine under strict new laws being proposed.The amount could be doubled for Muslim men who force female members of their family to cover their faces. Jean-Francois Cope, president of Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP Party, said the legislation was intended to protect the ‘dignity’ and ‘security’ of women. (now this could get interesting....??)

Insurance Pays Off for Companies With Occult Logos This is a story about the occult symbolism in the logos of two prominent real estate companies, Westfield Group and Marriott Hotels, and how both have been the target of "terrorist" attacks from which they profited handsomely, thanks to their insurance.

1/7/10

Geithner's New York Fed Pushed AIG To Keep Sweetheart Deals Secret

Care homes forcing elderly to have feeding tubes fitted

H&M & Walmart Trashing Unsold Clothes That Could be Donated to Charity We just came upon some news that got us boiling mad – according to the New York Times, H&M and Walmart have been using box cutters and other sharp objects to slash and mutilate their unsold clothing stock(including brand new coats, jackets and shoes) to ribbons before stuffing it into trash bags and kicking it to the curb. If the Manhattan retailers’ wasteful behavior breaks your heart, imagine what it must feel like to hear about it as one of the New York City’s 16,000 homeless people desperately in need of a coat to keep them warm this winter. Why go through all of the trouble to destroy these perfectly wearable clothes when there are tons of people who could use them (literally right in front of the storefronts) and plenty of places that are more than willing to help organize and distribute them? The stores may have a business-oriented reason for this heinous practice but we’re having a lot of trouble swallowing it as an excuse for such senseless waste.

America Rising An Open Letter to Democrat Politicians video

Human sacrifices 'on the rise in Uganda' as witch doctors admit to rituals Witch doctors in Uganda have admitted their part in human sacrifice amid concerns that the practice is spreading in the African country. One man said he had clients who had captured children and taken their blood and body parts to his shrine, while another confessed to killing at least 70 people including his own son. The latter has now given up the ritual and is campaigning to stamp it out, according to BBC News.

2010 bug hits millions of Germans Many in country unable to pay bills or get cash because of software problem in credit and debit cards. (so the YK2 scare failed to manifest but it is happening now and no one had any forsight about this one?.....interesting)

Former Bush lawyer charged with attempted murder A former top attorney for President George W. Bush was charged in Connecticut on Thursday with attempted murder after he allegedly attacked his wife with a long flashlight. John Michael Farren, 57, of New Canaan, was arrested after police received a panic alarm from his home shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, local media reported. Mary Farren, 43, a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, suffered a broken jaw, facial fractures and lacerations to the back of her head from the attack. She had delivered divorce papers earlier this week, according to the arrest affidavit.

Officials: Anti-Muslim images are protected speech

Geithner's New York Fed Pushed AIG To Keep Sweetheart Deals Secret

Twirling Battery Provides Instant Energy for a Dead Cellphone

BREAKING: 1 dead, 4 hurt in St. Louis plant shootingA fire department spokesman says one person was killed and four others wounded when a man with an assault rifle walked into aSt. Louis plant and began shooting.Fire Department spokesman Bob Keuss says authorities believe the shooter is still in the building.Names of the victims were not released. Two were hospitalized incritical condition, one in serious condition. The other had minor injuries.

Jack Cafferty Rips Obama on Failed Openness Pledge: 'Just Another Lie Told for Political Expediency'

Egyptians riot after 7 killed in church attack Thousands clashed with police during a funeral processionThursday for the seven people killed in an attack on churchgoers leaving a midnight Mass for Coptic Christians, security officials said. The protesters pelted cars with stones. Earlier, they smashed ambulances at the hospital in frustration over delays in turning over the bodies for burial. A security official says police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

Is Dick Cheney really that bad?

Here is a sample of headlines about Dick Cheney from the last 24 hours:

• Ron Paul slams Cheney: US ‘doing exactly what bin Laden planned’

• Olbermann: Cheney 'nothing more, nothing less' than traitor

• [Congressman] Grayson: Did Satan write Cheney's book introduction?

• Dick Cheney's Role in Al Qaeda's Yemeni Resurgence
  

Is Cheney really that bad?

Are AIDS / HIV tests a hoax? Documentary footage features conversations with Drs. Niel Constantine and Robin Weiss

1/6/10

US drone missiles slaughtered 700 Pakistani civilians in 2009 US drone missile attacks have claimed the lives of over 700 Pakistani civilians since Barack Obama took office a year ago, according to figures released this week by officials in Islamabad. The escalation of Washington’s AfPak war, now in full swing, will mean the slaughter of thousands more men, women and children in 2010. The grim death toll was announced in the Pakistani English-language dailyDawn Monday, just as news of the latest strike by a Hellfire missile made its way from an impoverished village near the Afghanistan border. The missile strike left dead and buried in the rubble of their home a Pakistani teacher and his nine-year-old son. According to media accounts citing unnamed US intelligence officials, the teacher’s home had been targeted for a Predator drone attack because of reports that militants had frequented the house.

Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat (NaturalNews) If you're in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to make into hamburgers.
That's what's been happening all across the USA with beef sold to McDonald's, Burger King, school lunches and other fast food restaurants, according to a New York Times article. The beef is injected with ammonia, a chemical commonly used in glass cleaning and window cleaning products.

MORTGAGES: The second leg down Where it will come from and when/ video, wait till you hear what's coming!

Deep Freeze Has Town Covered in 55 Inches of Snow video more then 50 inches and counting, upper new york...people dying....nuclear power plant shut down, florida crops freezing.. Fulton, New York has snowed for 9 straight days, another cold front coming in and it may snow in the deep south! (so much for global warming)

Curves ahead! The plus-size models that prove fashion is finally ready to embrace larger women (finally!) But could 2010 be the year that curves finally come of age? V Magazine certainly believes that is the case, so much so that it has dedicated an entire issue to women of different shapes and sizes.'The Size Issue', which hits news stands on January 14, features a high-fashion photo shoot starring no less than five curvaceous bombshells.

A Cautionary Tale

1/5/10

The Airport Scanner Scam/ Scan, baby Scan!

Schwarzenegger to propose spending $500 million for worker training Reporting from Sacramento - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today will lay out plans to spend $500 million on worker training in an effort to create 100,000 jobs, along with other measures to stimulate the economy, as a centerpiece of his policy agenda for his final year in office. Schwarzenegger is set to announce the proposal this morning in his last State of the State address to lawmakers, in an attempt to stem the bleeding of jobs in a state that had a November unemployment rate of 12.3%. (umm....say Arnie, how about just hiring back all those who were let go, and stopping the furlough?)

Buffalo's Debt Collectors Accused of Bullying When Tobias ''Bags of Money'' Boyland went looking for a new career after serving 13 years in prison for armed robbery and drug dealing, he quickly found something that suited his sensibilities: He opened a collection agency. It was, in some ways, a natural move for a young man in Buffalo. Desperate for jobs, this chronically depressed Rust Belt city has become home to one of the biggest concentrations of debt collection businesses in the U.S. ''Collections is the Bethlehem Steel of Buffalo,'' said Boyland, 44, recalling the industrial giant that once employed 20,000 people in the region. ''You can make a decent living in a town where there isn't a lot of opportunity.''

Dems Intend to Bypass GOP on Health Compromise

Obama Flubs First Bay Of Pigs Moment

States battered with record lows face more frigid weather Another band of frigid weather will blanket the eastern two-thirds of the nation Wednesday, battering states already dealing with record-low temperatures that have been blamed for at least five deaths. The system will bring blistering cold weather and winds across the country, including many states not used to such temperatures. In Florida, Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency because of the threat to the state's lucrative crop industry. His order aims to help farmers across the state salvage what they can by lifting weight limits on trucks and allowing them to get already harvested crops out of the cold.

U.S. diplomacy stumbles in Latin America

Climategate Scandal Prompts Scientific Housecleaning

Obama vows changes to prevent future terrorism intelligence lapses (and that is one thing our president is good at......promising 'changes'...as if he is personally filtering/checking/friskingevery person coming in or going out...uh huh!)

More Toddlers, Young Children Given Antipsychotics

Blacks No Longer Majority in Harlem

New quakes rock Solomon Islands after tsunami A string of fresh earthquakes rocked the western Solomon Islands late Tuesday and early Wednesday but there were no early reports of damage or casualties, officials said.

Obamacare - A Runaway Fascistic Train

Chopper crashes in remote Calif. forest; 4 men die Three California Department of Fish and Game biologists and a pilot were killed Tuesday afternoon when their helicopter crashed in a craggy stretch of the Sierra National Forest where they were surveying wildlife.Killed in the accident were two longtime state scientists, 48-year-old Clu Cotter and 40-year-old Kevin O'Connor, as well as a scientists' aide, 31-year-old Tom Stolberg, all of Fresno. Pilot Dennis Donovan also died, but his hometown and age were not released.

Jet crashes near Chicago Executive Airport, CNN reports.Authorities say a Royal Air cargo jet that was cleared for landing has crashed in a forest preserve near Chicago Executive Airport in the suburb of Wheeling.Airport spokeswoman says Laura Witlox says the plane went down around 2 p.m. Tuesday and local fire departments were at the scene.Witlox did not immediately know how many people were aboard and if there were injuries.

Another BofA Debtor Revolts, Threatens to Sue A California lawyer inspired by the rumblings of debtor revolt last year informed Bank of America he won't be making his credit card payments until the bank lowers his rate—and if they try any funny business, he’ll sue. Ben Pavone requested that his limit be raised in October. Instead, BofA lowered his limit to just above his balance. “I consider your action an anticipatory repudiation of the contract,” he writes.(and how many others are experiencing their strings being pulled/pushed/shoved by the credit card people....for help...go here!)

Ships Take Up Arms Against Pirates The maritime tradition of commercial shipping going unarmed is being abandoned in the face of the threat from Somali pirates. Shipping firms are hiring teams of guards—from $25,000 up—for the passage through the Gulf of Aden. Insurers are offering steep discounts to ships packing heat and security firms are doing a brisk trade, the Wall Street Journal reports.

As an American, I refuse to buy mandatory health insurance that supports corrupt conventional medicine

South chilled by Arctic winds, record snow in East Bitter cold and snow sweeping into the eastern U.S left part of New England under record snowfall and hit Southerners with subfreezing temperatures that farmers fear could destroy strawberries and other crops. Four deaths were blamed on the cold in Tennessee. The deep freeze was expected to last for at least the rest of the week. The National Weather Service said the mercury could fall below zero in St. Louis later this week for the first time since 1999. The duration of the cold snap is unusual, especially in the South, where the weather is typically chilly for just a day or two before temperatures rebound into the 50s.

1,000 people homeless on Solomons after tsunami HONIARA, Solomon Islands – Landslides and a tsunami destroyed the homes of about one-third of the population on a Solomon Island, but lives were likely spared as residents with memories of previous disasters fled quickly to higher ground, officials said Tuesday. From the air, extensive damage could be seen on a remote western island after a 7.2-magnitude temblor triggered the landslides in the Pacific Solomon Islands on Monday, said disaster management officedirector Loti Yates.video of tsumani

Vegas Shooter Enraged Over Social Security Cutback Police have identified the culprit in yesterday’s Las Vegas courthouse shootout as Johnny Lee Wicks, a black 66-year-old retiree who, they believe, was enraged over a recent Social Security dispute. When Wicks moved from California to Nevada in January 2008, his Social Security check shrank, because he lost a $317 monthly “California State Supplement.” Wicks filed a lawsuit alleging that the Social Security Administration had racially discriminated against him.

Johnson & Johnson Heiress Found Dead The 30-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson business empire was pronounced dead this morning on Los Angeles' Westside, officials said. A preliminary investigation indicates that Johnson apparently died of natural causes, the LAPD said. A final report will be prepared by the Los Angeles County coroner.
Johnson was the daughter of New York Jets owner Woody Johnson. The family issued a statement tonight, asking for privacy "during this very difficult time," according to the Associated Press.

1/4/10

CIA secret weapon of assassination - Heart Attack Gun, Declassified 197

China Reports New Milk Scare Shanghai Panda Dairy was among 22 companies implicated in the 2008 scandal and was briefly closed then. But among the recent findings, state media reported, was that the producer was selling melamine-tainted condensed milk that had been recalled in 2008 and should have been destroyed.The latest recall, extending to seven Chinese provinces, was reported by state-run Xinhua news agency late on New Year's Eve and published in newspapers the following day. Shanghai Panda Dairy was shuttered and three of its top officials were detained by police, according to the reports. An affiliate company that may have supplied ingredients based in the province of Ningxia is being investigated, the reports said.

Record Snow Paralyzes Seoul. Seoul residents are facing paralyzed traffic and canceled flights after the heaviest snowfall in more than 70 years dumped 10 inches on the South Korean capital today. Gimpo International Airport canceled 224 flights before resuming service this afternoon, AP reports. China and Japan are also coping with snowstorms, with an eight-inch snowfall near the Great Wall of China and a heavy snow blanket on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

China Snowstorms Kill 38 The heaviest snow in northern China in at least 60 years has killed at least 38 people and caused half a billion dollars in damage. At least two deaths were caused by building collapses, according to state media. The unusually early winter storms have caused chaos in Beijing and the surrounding provinces, and have forced the evacuation of 150,000 people, AP reports.

Americans’ Role Seen in Uganda Anti-Gay Push Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family. .......(now that the country is trying to pass legislation to kill all homosexuals.....these 'christians' are seeing the real effects of spreading this type of fear and hate around.....and they act surprised, chagrined..........they should have remembered what it was like for the early Christians when they were hounded, tortured and killed for being 'christian')

Officer Dead After Shootout at Vegas Federal Building A gunman opened fire in the lobby of a federal building in downtown Las Vegas today, killing a court officer and wounding a second before he was shot to death. The victims included a 65-year-old court security officer, who was killed, and a 48-year-old deputy US marshal, who was hospitalized. Gunfire erupted moments after 8am at the start of the workweek and lasted several minutes. Shots echoed around tall buildings in the area, more than a mile north of the Las Vegas Strip.

Cops Bust Fla. Man in Thanksgiving Massacre of 4 A weekslong manhunt ended with the arrest of a Florida man accused of the carefully planned slayings of four relatives at Thanksgiving. Paul Merhige, 35, was arrested without a struggle last night at a motel in the Florida Keys, a Jupiter police spokesman said. He credited the TV show America's Most Wanted for the tip that led to Merhige's capture.

First Amendment Forum in Ashland focuses on shield law for journalists

1/3/2010

WE ARE PUT ON EARTH A LITTLE SPACE / TO BEAR THE BEAMS OF LOVE

Bruno Torfs wooden sculpture from his famous Art and Sculpture Garden in Marysville, Australia which was completely destroyed in a split second by raging fires in Victoria last year. 

It was William Blake who wrote ' We are put on earth a little space to bear the beams of love ' and it is imperative  during these difficult economic times to remember this  simple truth ~ that our deepest and most precious connection is with nature and it is through love that we maintain that bond: Allen L Roland 

Breaking With Obama? by Ralph Nader. Those long-hoping, long-enduring members of the liberal intelligentsia are starting to break away from the least-worst mindset that muted their criticisms of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign.

1/1/2010

Evidence Mounts for US Complicity in Terrorism: Mutallab's father is no ordinary 'banker' When nothing adds up, its time we starting looking at what we know. Our recent terrorist, now dubbed "the crotch bomber" is another dupe. He could have been working for anyone, drugged, brainwashed or simply influenced, maybe by crazy Arabs, maybe by the Mossad, maybe by the CIA. We only know the game is falling apart.We do know a couple of things. Dad, back in Nigeria, ran the national arms industry (DICON) in partnership with Israel, in particular, the Mossad. He was in daily contact with them. They run everything in Nigeria, from arms production to counter-terrorism. Though Islamic, Muttalab was a close associate of Israel. He has been misrepresented. His "banking" is a cover. Next, what do we know about the two Al Qaeda leaders Bush had released, the ones who planned this? .......much much more at the link!

Two more ships seized by Somali pirates Mogadishu - Somali pirates seized a chemical tanker and a cargo vessel on Monday, underlining the continued risk to shipping in some of the world's busiest maritime trade routes.Somalia has been mired in chaos with no effective central government since 1991 and pirate gangs operating from coastal havens have flourished over the past few years.They have made tens of millions of dollars from seizing ships for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, linking Europe to Asia, and are also hunting far into the Indian Ocean to evade foreign navies sent to protect commercial shipping. On Monday, pirates seized the British-flagged chemical tanker St James Park in the Gulf of Aden and the Panama-registered cargo ship Navios Apollon, taking the number of vessels they hold to more than 10, maritime officials said.

What was that streak off O.C.? posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor

I have now received photographs from five different email addresses (all cox.net accounts) showing what appears to be a rocket launch off Orange County on New Year’s Eve, about 5 p.m., although we still don’t know exactly what we’re looking at, as the reader Comment section points out.Vandenberg didn’t have any publicly scheduled launches on Thursday. And the Navy typically does not have missile shoots offshore during the last week of December.

All of which raises the question: Exactly what did these people photograph? Many readers say it was the contrail of a jet. Others disagree. Before you decide, read the comments attached to the emails. (I’m being careful here because I can’t prove that the emails came from five different people, although it’s likely. There were a lot of people outside last night to watch/photograph the ‘blue moon’ at sunset. And the images were taken from different vantage points, including one that clearly shows Crystal Cove.) Then check an archive image I added today (down at the very bottom). It’s from Steve Smestad, who photographed a contrail from Huntington Beach.

Dick Cheney's lies about President Obama It's pathetic to break a New Year's resolution before we even get to New Year's Day, but here I go. I had promised myself that I would do a better job of ignoring Dick Cheney's corrosive and nonsensical outbursts -- that I would treat them, more or less, like the pearls of wisdom one hears from homeless people sitting in bus shelters. But he is a former vice president, which gives him a big stage for his histrionic Rottweiler-in-Winter act. It is never a good idea to let widely disseminated lies and distortions go unchallenged. And the shrill screed that Cheney unloosed Wednesday is so full of outright mendacity that, well, my resolution will have to wait.

Obama's Terror Critics 'Hysterical' or Dead-On?If only we lived in a "mature nation," writes David Brooks in the New York Times. That way, President Obama could have gone on TV after the Detroit terror scare and said, “Listen, we’re doing the best we can, but some terrorists are bound to get through.” But no, our government must be omnipotent, and therefore we have to listen to "contemptuous and hysterical" criticism.

Goldman Sachs denies betting against its clients on CDOs In a rare statement of defence, the American investment bank has offered a detailed explanation of its dealings in mortgage-backed products, particularly regarding collateralised debt obligations (CDOs), in the years preceding the financial crisis. The explanation was prompted by an article in the New York Times in which former Goldman employees and debt experts claimed that the bank knew the CDOs it was designing and selling to clients were highly risky. The sources claimed that rather than warning clients of the dangers, Goldman spent millions of dollars "short-selling" the instruments, reaping vast rewards when they imploded.

Akiva Eldar / U.S. tax dollars fund rabbi who excused killing gentile babies The White House condemns the torching of a mosque, yet respectable Americans contribute to a yeshiva whose rabbi said it's okay to kill gentile babies. It is no surprise that the American administration tacitly, if unenthusiastically, accepted the excuse that the map of national priority zones the cabinet approved on Sunday does not violate the decision to freeze construction in the settlements. 

STAR TREK ACTOR STEWART KNIGHTED Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart said he was "very proud" to be awarded a knighthood for services to drama.The honour follows the return of the X-Men star to the British stage following many years living in Los Angeles. Stewart, 69, said: "I am very proud to receive this honour. The theatre is and has always been my great joy.

CLARKE URGES COUP TO OUST PM BROWN Former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke has called on the Cabinet to stage a New Year coup to remove Gordon Brown as Prime Minister.Mr Clarke claimed that "most senior Labour leaders" have lost faith in Mr Brown and said it was now time for them to discover their "killer instinct" and tell the Prime Minister he must stand down so that a new leader can take over.

TRAGEDY ON SCOTS MOUNTAINS AS DEADLY FREEZE HITS BRITAIN THREE climbers were killed and one other injured in a series of avalanches yesterday, just hours after an alert was issued over dangerous conditions.Two of the dead, believed to be men from Wiltshire and Wales, were on Ben Nevis, Scotland’s highest mountain. Another climber watched as the group of five experienced mountaineers were caught in hundreds of tons of snow which swept 400 yards down the Coire na Ciste number 3 gully on the 4,409ft (1,344m) peak. Meanwhile, a 54-year-old man from Derbyshire, who was swept away on Liathach in Torridon, Wester Ross, was found and airlifted to hospital, where he later died. 

Female suspect in 6 bank robberies is arrested A woman suspected in six bank robberies last week in southern New England has been arrested. State police arrested 34-year-old Heather Brown of Norwich, Conn., on Monday. She is a suspect in one robbery each day last week, beginning Sept. 21 in Montville. FBI statistics show women committed less than 6 percent of bank robberies in the U.S. in 2008

CRAFTSMAN SELLS MINIATURE VIOLIN FOR £600,000 A CROATIAN craftsman is offering miniature musical instruments for sale - at massive prices.Vladimir Kulic, 48, has put his unique violin - measuring 35x12x3 millimetres - on sale for £600,000.

Oregon bank-robbery suspect arrested in Illinois Police say a man wanted for three bank robberies in Eugene, Ore., has been arrested in Illinois — and it turns out he is a bit of a TV star. Police in East Peoria, Ill., say they arrested 23-year-old Joshua Tel Warner early Thursday on the Oregon bank-robbery warrant after a vehicle he was riding in was pulled over for a routine traffic stop. Eugene police say he is the same Josh Warner who appeared as a greenhorn deckhand on the king crab fishing boat Wizard in the Discovery Channel show "Deadliest Catch."

Dreamtime Meteor Impact Found with Google Earth Duane Hamacher a PhD student from Australia’s Macquarie University found an ancient meteor impact crater in a remote location of the Northern Territory by searching Google Earth and following clues from an ancient dreamtime legend told by the indigenous Arrernte people. Mr Hamacher reported to the Sydney Morning Herald and other Australian newspapers that the Arrernte people’s legend about a star that fell into a waterhole called Puka in the valley where Kulaia, the serpent, lived – has led to the discovery of the ancient crater, which the research team he is part of propose to name Puka.

U.S. - Israeli Complicity in Terror Plots Exposed, FBI, Media Cover-Up Flight 253 Plot High-level help in yet another terror plot is emerging, along with U.S. F.B.I. and D.O.J. cover-up of the facts and outright involvement. History is rife with examples of intelligence agencies setting up terror plots - sometimes with unintended victims and consequences - and the Delta 253 terror plot is the latest such plot to have gone wrong. Evidence is mounting of U.S. and Israeli complicity [link] in this latest plot. The father Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab of the young terrorist, is an accomplished Nigerian banker [link] and ran the national arms industry (DICON) in patnership with Israel, Nigeria has extensive intelligence links to Israel [link]. Mathaba urges any other witnesses at the airports at Amsterdam and Detroit as well as any passengers or crew from the Northwest Airlines flight, or anyone else with direct information to come forward via our secure contact form and to share that

12/31/09

AP sources: Suicide bomber invited on base The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and wounded six more at a remote outpost in southeasternAfghanistan had been invited onto the base and had not been searched, two former U.S. officials have told The Associated Press. A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp. (Sooooo you will search little old ladies in wheel chairs at air ports but NOT there?.....we feel so much better now)

Telling it like it is video The biggest threat to national security are the criminals in Washington DC

Judge dismisses all charges in Iraq Blackwater shooting A federal judge dismissed all charges today against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards accused of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians on a crowded Baghdad street in 2007.
U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Justice Department prosecutors improperly built their case on sworn statements that had been given under a promise of immunity. Urbina said the government's explanations were "contradictory, unbelievable and lacking in credibility."

To Fed: No Audit, No Confirmation Sen. Jim DeMint (R- S.C.) claimed he will keep the reappointment of Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Board chairman on hold until there is a Senate vote to audit the Federal Reserve, referring to S.604, which is the companion legislation to the House’s original “Audit the Fed” bill, HR 1207. 

North Magnetic Pole Moving Due to Core Flux Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core, new research says. The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field's movements by tracking how Earth's magnetic field has been changing at the surface and in space. Now, newly analyzed data suggest that there's a region of rapidly changing magnetism on the core's surface, possibly being created by a mysterious "plume" of magnetism arising from deeper in the core.

Danger Lurks in Ammonia-Treated School Lunch Beef Most school lunches and fast-food burgers contain processed beef, a product considered so safe from contamination that the USDA exempted it from meat testing—but that has in fact been found to include E. coli and salmonella, according to a lengthy expose in the New York Times. The product, made from low-quality fatty trimmings, is injected with ammonia to kill pathogens, a process little known to the public because ammonia isn't listed as an ingredient in the beef.

Washington Times Slashes Staff The Washington Times has slashed half of its 170 newsroom staff ahead of Monday's relaunch of its print edition. The sports and metro sections will cease to exist as separate sections and nearly all staff members of those sections have been laid off, sources tell the Washington Post. Managing editor David Jones is among several high-ranking editors losing their jobs.

Finnish Mall Shooter Believed Dead Ibrahim Shkupolli may have also killed his ex; toll stands at 6. The gunman who shot four shoppers at a Finnish mall today has been identified as Ibrahim Shkupolli, and two more bodies—believed to be that of Shkupolli and his ex-girlfriend—have been found. Police say Shkupolli, a 43-year-old immigrant, killed his ex in a nearby apartment before going to the mall in Espoo, Finland’s second largest city, where she worked. He appeared to target victims at random, AP reports.

 

Feds Threaten Bloggers Over Leaked Air Security Memo Two bloggers who posted details of new airport security directives online were visited at home by agents from the Transportation Security Administration demanding to know their sources. Armed agents vowed to obtain a criminal search warrant if travel writer Mike Frischling didn't identify his source and threatened to get him fired from his job blogging for KLM, said the writer. Frischling and Washington Post Christopher Elliott were both served with subpoenas.

Frischling says he put the document online to clear up confusion about the new procedures after receiving it from an anonymous source via Gmail. "They’re saying it’s a security document but it was sent to every airport and airline,” he tells Wired. “It was sent to Islamabad, to Riyadh and to Nigeria. So they’re looking for information about a security document sent to 10,000-plus people internationally. You can’t have a right to expect privacy after that.”

12/30/09

Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank: David Reilly Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- To close out 2009, I decided to do something I bet no member of Congress has done -- actually read from cover to cover one of the pieces of sweeping legislation bouncing around Capitol Hill.Hunkering down by the fire, I snuggled up with H.R. 4173, the financial-reform legislation passed earlier this month by the House of Representatives. The Senate has yet to pass its own reform plan. The baby of Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, the House bill is meant to address everything from too-big-to-fail banks to asleep-at-the-switch credit-ratings companies to the protection of consumers from greedy lenders........read on at the link if you have the stomach for it..

Red giant star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion is mysteriously shrinking The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, the bright reddish star in the constellation Orion, has steadily shrunk over the past 15 years, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.

Long-term monitoring by UC Berkeley's Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI) on the top of Mt. Wilson in Southern California shows that Betelgeuse (bet' el juz), which is so big that in our solar system it would reach to the orbit of Jupiter, has shrunk in diameter by more than 15 percent since 1993.

-5.8 earthquake felt over a large part of the Southwest; buildings sway in downtown San Diego [Updated]

Cao Cao: Chinese archaeologists uncover vast tomb of infamous 3rd century ruler

Rabbit ears make comeback in digital TV era On a recent winter night, while neighbors strung their Baldwin Park homes with Christmas lights, the Lams and their three children sat in front of a television set with rabbit ears sprouting out of the top. Wait a second -- rabbit ears? Is this 1950?
No, it's almost 2010, and the Lams are a modern Los Angeles family that, like many in the region, are rediscovering the convenience -- and economics -- of the old-fashioned TV antenna. In the wake of the transition to digital television, Southland viewers are finding they can get nearly three times as many channels as they once could with an antenna. And rather than the erratic, fuzzy reception of yesteryear, today's rabbit ears are capable of delivering a surprisingly clear high-definition picture.

Minister arrested on drug charges Anthony Martinez Garduno, a 51-year-old church leader who was shot three months ago during a burglary attempt at his church in Home Gardens, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of selling drugs from his church, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said. 

A remote part of Husker Nation Capt. Brad Morgan works inside a mud-brick castle. He spends his days fighting Afghan drug runners who smuggle poppy into Turkmenistan. He tells relatives he feels like he's living on the moon.

He is half a world away — stationed in a western Afghan province that's one of the most isolated places on the globe — but there is one thing here that reminds Morgan of his home state, binding him to farmers in Franklin and little old ladies in Loup City.

It is a familiar black flag hanging in the Bravo company's headquarters. A grinning skull wearing a football helmet. Two crossbones. And, in large, block letters, the promise of serious violence.

BLACKSHIRTS.

ohio:Get ready to shiver A blast of arctic air will be flowing southward this week and into the Midlands, following a Christmas blizzard that meteorologists expect to study for years to come.So if you have some driveway or sidewalk shoveling to do, get it done by Wednesday night, before the slush in the snow piles starts to freeze solid.“We’ve got arctic air breaking loose out of Canada, and it’s going to plunge southward,” said Scott Dergan, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Valley

All aboard the polar express: Steam locomotive takes home passengers stranded by snow-delayed modern trains Passengers stranded when modern-day trains fell victim to the freezing weather have been rescued by the crew of a steam engine.About 100 passengers climbed aboard the first mainline steam locomotive to be built in Britain for almost half a century at London Victoria when electric trains were delayed.The 1940s technology used to power Tornado, a £3million Peppercorn class A1 Pacific, was able to withstand the snow and ice that brought much of the South East to a standstill on Monday night.

In rape cases, 'no' means 'no' to everyone except the British public

One mother's devastating revenge on the 52-year-old paedophile who groomed her child on Facebook

13 state AGs threaten suit over health care deal

So ... You Wanna Talk Pop Culture? Fine!

England: The proof that power corrupts (and no, it's not MPs' expenses)After a year of outrage at MPs' dodgy expenses and extortionate bank bonuses, it is a maxim few of us will need convincing about.But psychologists have proven the obvious - that nothing corrupts quite like power.Researchers found that those in authority are more likely to cheat, lie and feather their own nests than ordinary citizens at the bottom of the pile.

Detroit bomber: British university 'complicit' in radicalisation University College London, where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was recently president of the Islamic Society, has been accused of being “complicit” in the radicalisation of Muslim students by “failing grotesquely” to prevent extremists from giving lectures on campus.

BREAKING: Explosion rocks foundry in rural eastern Wis., killing 1 firefighter, injuring 9 others A trash bin outside a Wisconsin foundry exploded, killing one firefighter and injuring at least nine others. Calumet County Sheriff Gerald Pagel told The Post-Crescent of Appleton that the cause of the blast Tuesday night outside the Bremer Manufacturing plant near rural St. Anna was not immediately apparent. Company president Tom Dolack said the fire broke out between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., but he had no more information on what may have caused it. He said the trash bin that exploded contained scrap aluminum.

America's most wanted: doctor found living in tent on Mont Blanc

The False Hope of Hi-Tech“I don’t know if HAL is homicidal, suicidal, neurotic, psychotic, or just plain broken.”Arthur C. Clark, 2010: Odyssey Two

Sarkozy fights to save flagship carbon tax

ISRAEL'S INCREASING ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

An Iraqi Shiite looks back on the revolution that was Sadeq Sadr and his son Muqtada began to splinter, and notoriety replaced idealism.

News Corp.'s Chase Carey expects Fox signals to be pulled from Time Warner Cable In an internal memo to staff, News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey said he did  not think an agreement would be reached with Time Warner Cable regarding carrying Fox's local TV stations and several cable networks before the deadline of the current deal expired at midnight Thursday.

5.8 earthquake felt over a large part of the Southwest; buildings sway in downtown San Diego [Updated]

Many many aftershocks http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Maps/US10/27.37.-120.-110_eqs.php

the current eruptions at Soufriere Hills on Montserrat are prompting cancellations of over 40 flights today from Puerto Rico. This is due to the ash plumes from the current dome eruptions - the NASA Earth Observatory posted images of the recent activity showing the large, grey plume drifting to the west. What is impressive is that Puerto Rico is over 250 miles / 400 km to the west of Montserrat, so this ash must be significant enough to prompt these flight cancellations. The ash appears to be causing poor visibility at 10,000 feet / 3 km - along with being a threat to cause engine failure. Officials from Puerto Rico say regular flights will likely return tomorrow.

Sweat Lodge Guru Sat in Shade as Victims Roasted 'You are not going to die,' James Arthur Ray told those inside. James Arthur Ray sat outside a sweat lodge in a shaded chair as the guru’s adherents died inside, and even discouraged onlookers from aiding those struggling with the intense heat, say newly released police documents. It would be “sacrilegious” to disassemble the structure, he told one woman who had just pulled out an unconscious victim. She did so anyway. Three died and twenty were hospitalized in the October incident in Arizona. (Isn't this evidence of 'involuntary manslaughter charges?)

Field Notes Music Video......Nothing is as it Appears

OUR GALAXY / OUR SUN / OUR SELVES ...As 2009 winds to a close, let us never forget that we are a medium sized galaxy among billions of galaxies in the universe, our earth is rotating around a medium sized star among billions of stars in our galaxy and we are seven billion humans joined to this awesome vastness through a Unified Field of love and soul consciousness ~ which we resist at our peril : Allen L Roland

12/29/09

Fistgate XII: Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s GLSEN Conferences Included D*ld* Tips and Needle Instructions For Teens

Firestorm Over Oklahoma Abortion Information Law Set To Continue An Oklahoma district judge put off until Feb. 19 any decision about an anti-abortion law that would require doctors to submit information about women who have the procedure in the state. That information would then be published—with names omitted—on the website of the Oklahoma State Department of Health. The law includes more than 30 questions a woman seeking an abortion would have to answer, including details about whether she is having relationship problems or whether she can’t afford a child. Some critics have said it is "like undressing a woman in public, exposing their most personal issues on the internet," quoted by ABC News."This law is a profound intrusion on women’s privacy and a waste of taxpayers’ money," said Jennifer Mondino, staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is challenging the law, quoted by National Public Radio (NPR)

BREAKING: Man fired from gaming commission in San Diego County kills ex-coworker, takes his own life An employee fired last month from the gaming commission that runs the Barona Casino in eastern San Diego County stormed into the commission's office Tuesday morning and killed an employee before committing suicide, officials said. The gunman was identified as Donell Roberts, 38, of El Cajon, who was fired in November as an investigator for the commission. The victim was not identified, pending notification of his family.

Israeli nuclear whistleblower arrested again Mordechai Vanunu is suspected of violating parole by meeting with foreigners. He spent 18 years in prison after leaking information on an Israeli nuclear plant. Israeli police say that nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has been arrested. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Vanunu was detained on suspicion he met with several foreigners, in violation of the conditions of his 2004 release from prison. He's to appear in a Jerusalem court later today. Vanunu was a former low-level technician at an Israeli nuclear plant who leaked details and pictures of the operation to the Sunday Times of London in 1986. From the material, experts concluded that Israel had the world's sixth-largest nuclear arsenal.

Man unloads 58 guns at Compton weapons exchange Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies expected heavy business Tuesday during the department's "gift for guns" program in Compton.And sure enough, scores of people lined up to turn in various weapons in exchange for supermarket gift certificates. But they were surprised at the man who pulled up in an SUV with 58 guns -- mostly small handguns but also some assault weapons. Dressed in a sweatshirt and jeans, the mystery man offered his cache in a nonchalant fashion.

 

12/22/09

Pilgrims flock to Australian 'miracle house' with mysterious oil flowing down walls Hundreds of Roman Catholics have made a pilgrimage to a modest suburban house in Sydney in the hope that a mysterious oil weeping from its walls can cure illnesses.

Report says 225,000 Haiti children work as slaves PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday. The Pan American Development Foundation's report also said some of those children — mostly young girls — suffer sexual, psychological and physical abuse while toiling in extreme hardship.The report recommends Haiti's government and international donors focus efforts on educating the poor and expanding social services such as shelters for girls, who make up an estimated two-thirds of the child servant population.

Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks MexicoAssailants on Tuesday gunned down the mother, aunt and siblings of a marine killed in a raid that took out one of Mexico's most powerful cartel leaders — sending a chilling message to troops battling the drug war: You go after us, we wipe out your families.The brazen pre-dawn slayings came just hours after the navy honored Melquisedet Angulo as a national hero at a memorial service

Pork Applied Liberally to Grease Health Care Votes A close look at the health bill before the Senate reveals that there was no shortage of pork-barrel spending thrown in to get the Democrats the 60 votes they needed. The "cash-for-cloture" deals include one dubbed the "Louisiana Purchase"—$100 million in Medicare cash for the state. Another one labeled the "Cornhusker Kickback" provides $100 million for holdout Sen. Ben Nelson's Nebraska, the Washington Post reports. Chris Dodd threw in $100 million for a medical center in his state, quickly dubbed the "U Con." And the list goes on.

10 Ways Senate Health Reform Hurts You The Senate health reform bill is all fire and brimstone for the folks over at Firedoglake. The “con job” legislation “isn’t a ‘starter home,’ it’s a sink hole,” Jane Hamsher writes, and “it needs to die so something else can take its place.” Why, you ask? Ten reasons...at the link ......(pink slips to congress and senate anyone???!!)

Mechanic Offers a Nobel Prize for an Oil Change A Texas car mechanic has turned President Obama’s unlikely Nobel Peace Prize into an even unlikelier promotion, and his conservative customers are loving it. At Horizon Auto in Rockwall County, an oil change comes with a Nobel—well, a sticker with a picture of the prize. And these stirring words: “Conferred for the effort and peaceful intention of getting the oil and filter changed.”

Unemployment Programs Going Bust in 40 States (Newser) – The combination of high unemployment and bad planning means that the jobless compensation programs of all but 10 states are on course to go broke by 2011. Some 25 states are already borrowing federal money to issue benefit checks. State lawmakers are coming under intense pressure to either shrink payments or hike payroll taxes to fund the programs, the Washington Post reports.

Pine bark found to prevent inflammation

Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection

Teachers union files lawsuit over charter takeovers

The IRA boasted about shooting child abusers. How very odd that they ignored the vile crimes of Gerry Adams' father and brother

If Jesus Was Born Today Everything we know about biblical history after Jesus' birth could be quite different than it was if Jesus Christ was alive in our era. As we shall see, no wonder he was born when he was.

Now Democrats must sell health plan to voters Reporting from Washington - With a healthcare overhaul inching closer to reality, Democrats looking to next year's midterm elections plan to market the bill as a way to help voters who are focused more on unemployment and the economy.
The chances of passing healthcare legislation rose significantly Monday, with a Senate vote that put it on track to clear the chamber by Christmas. And so party strategists are shifting gears: "We can't just pass it," said pollster Celinda Lake. "We have to sell the plan."

House Democrat Introduces Controversial Immigration Reform Bill

In Iran, a blind musician leads the way for a women's orchestra Ali Jafarian teaches music to young women in Shiraz -- his blindness giving him access he couldn't have otherwise. Together they practice the slow, sad rhythms and searing melodies of Iranian music.

In Baghdad, more blasts near Iraq government center As six people are killed in attacks near government ministries, Iraqi soldiers speak of their frustration in trying to provide security. Reporting from Baghdad - As their superiors inspected a car mangled by one of three blasts that rocked Baghdad's government center Tuesday, two Iraqi soldiers nearby scoffed at the military's shortcomings in protecting the capital. For one thing, they said, checkpoints don't stop those who are -- or appear to be -- influential.

Iran's Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, prime defender of the protest movement, dies Reporting from Tehran - Thousands of supporters of Iran's most senior dissident cleric marched through streets in his hometown and descended upon the country's main theological center today to mourn his passing just days before the climax of a politically charged religious commemoration.
Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a pillar of the Islamic Revolution three decades ago who became a staunch defender of the nation's current opposition movement, died late Saturday of complications due to advanced age, diabetes and asthma, his doctor told state television. He was 87.

Egypt's barrier along Gaza border called 'wall of shame' Reporting from Cairo - An underground barrier to prevent tunneling by smugglers along Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip has been dubbed a "wall of shame" by Arab writers and politicians who charge that Cairo is siding with Israel in isolating the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the seaside enclave. Construction on the 100-foot-deep steel wall began a few weeks ago, but the Egyptian government didn't publicly acknowledge the project until the weekend. Officials defended the effort against accusations that it was an affront to Palestinians by the government of President Hosni Mubarak, which opposes Hamas, the militant group ruling Gaza.

More prime mortgages default in 3rd quarter Reporting from Washington - Troubled home loans continued to mount in the nation's banks in the third quarter as even once-solid borrowers increasingly fell behind on their mortgage payments. For the first quarter ever, the number of homes in foreclosure with mortgages serviced by U.S. national banks and savings and loans topped the 1-million mark, according to figures released Monday by the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. ("They" are never going to call this what it is 'A GREATER DEPRESSON/DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA'........Wake up people!)

12/21/09

FDA accused of international kidnapping, illegal detention of prominent Ecuadorian herbalist  Allegations of kidnapping and illegal detention by the US Food and Drug Administration are being made after its seizure of a prominent herbalist from Ecuador.
Greg Caton, owner of Alpha Omega Labs, was seized from Ecuador in a move outside of extradition procedures, and against the orders of an Ecuadorian Federal judge. The alleged kidnapping occurred three days prior to a pending hearing for Caton, having the appearance of an attempt to evade compliance with the court's expected ruling.

Obama Year One - Betrayal And Failure - Part 1

Talented art student 'stabbed to death after Facebook row A talented art student was stabbed to death on a basketball court after a row erupted on Facebook, it was claimed today.   The 18-year-old victim, named locally as Salum Kombo, staggered 400 yards before collapsing in a pool of blood after he was attacked near to his family home in East London.   Friends today claimed that the attack was triggered by an argument on Facebook.

Pictured: The moment an American police detective pulls out a HANDGUN after he's hit with SNOWBALLS 

WHY HAVEN'T THESE STATE LEGISLATORS BEEN INDICTED? The outlaws in Congress are gearing up for a new amnesty push to reward criminals for breaking our laws by smuggling themselves into our country, stealing our jobs and draining resources (medical, education, law enforcement). Ethically bankrupt individuals like Sens. Harry Reid, Juan McCain and Reps. Joe Baca and Luis Gutierrez will be the ring leaders in this upcoming battle.

Pennsylvania’s Shame — Live Pigeon Shoots

There Is No Way Out Of This Box....

Hot Dogs Need Anti-Cancer Warning: Group Sues Hot Dog Makers to Force Honest Labeling

US Commander in Iraq Threatens Court-Martial for Pregnancy

-Big Box Mart

America Under Barack Obama An Interview with Nat Hentoff .. "I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had."—Nat Hentoff

Wave of sickness and disease now striking Baby Boomers

Yellowstone's Plumbing Exposed

America's Growth Industry video Fox News recruiting for the military????...............Is this true?.....OMG, say it isn't so!

Why require people to buy health insurance? Reporting from Washington - Any final healthcare bill is likely to require that virtually all Americans obtain insurance. This "individual mandate" has stirred some controversy and confusion. Here are some questions and answers.(our question is:....if people could afford to buy health insurance in the first place....then wouldn't we be already doing it....isn't the point being that most can't AFFORD TO BUY IT?......Helllllooooo?)

12/20/09

Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty.  It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice and took little time. In fact, our most august defenders of the Constitution did not have to exert themselves in the slightest to eviscerate not merely 220 years of Constitutional jurisprudence but also centuries of agonizing effort to lift civilization a few inches out of the blood-soaked mire that is our common human legacy. They just had to write a single sentence.

GRRRRRRRRRR....! I'm MAD AND YOU WILL BE TOO!

Dozens of flights from LAX to East Coast are canceled At least 38 flights from Los Angeles International airport to East Coast destinations hit by winter storms were canceled Saturday, airport officials said late today. LAX spokeswoman Nancy Castles said airport operations began hearing about canceled flights sometime after noon. American Airlines canceled nine flights to New York’s JFK and two flights to Dulles near Washington, D.C. United Airlines officials reported 11 cancellations involving flights to Baltimore, Dulles, Philadelphia and JFK, Castles said. Other airlines canceling flights into JFK include Delta (five), Virgin America (seven) and Quantas (one).

Taliban attacks California Guard soldiers in eastern Afghanistan Reporting from Dubai, United Arab Emirates - A California Army National Guard group was attacked Saturday by a "complex double ambush" from Taliban fighters along a treacherous mountain road in eastern Afghanistan while the unit was returning from helping farmers in isolated villages, the Army reported today.

Strip-searched woman plans human rights complaint A woman who says she was thrown to the ground and strip-searched at the Ottawa International Airport on her way home from her grandmother's funeral plans to make an official human rights complaint. Charmaine Archer, 42, was returning from a four-day trip to Jamaica on Tuesday night when customs officials pulled her aside, searched her belongings and told her she would need to be strip searched because traces of heroin had been found on her toothbrush. Archer told the CBC that border officials threw her to the ground, knelt on her shoulder, then took her into a room to be strip-searched.

CIA linked to Palestinian 'torture' Palestinian security agents who have allegedly tortured Hamas supporters in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the UK'sGuardian newspaper has reported.

Where all the money goes...Two sets of books/ The government take over of the US economy. originally produced on January 8, 2000 by Walter Burien.  The real accounting is contained in what's called Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFR) which are not only not made available to the public, their very existence is never mentioned by the news media.  Why? Trillions of dollars pays for a lot of corruption.  Every time an elected official stands before you and tells you the government is out of money and they have to raise taxes, he or she is lying through their teeth. 

U.S. sends 12 Guantanamo detainees to home countries Twelve inmates have been transferred from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Afghanistan,Yemen and the breakaway Somali enclave of Somaliland, the U.S. Justice Department said on Sunday. Six Yemeni and four Afghan detainees were sent over the weekend to their home countries while two Somalis were transferred to regional authorities in Somaliland, an self-governing region within Somalia, the department said.

Major volcanic eruption feared in Philippines The Philippines' most active volcano could have a huge eruption within days, officials warned Sunday after detecting a drastic surge in earthquakes and eerie rumbling sounds in surrounding foothills. Tens of thousands of villagers have been evacuated as a precaution. Scientists raised the alert level for the Mayon volcano after 453volcanic earthquakes were detected in a five-hour span Sunday, compared to just over 200 Saturday, said Renato Solidum, chief of thePhilippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. The five-step warning system was raised to level four, meaning a hazardous eruption "is possible within days." Level five is when a major eruption has begun.

WARNING: Drug Cartel Exposed Creating, Releasing, Injecting, Infecting, and Depopulating Planet with Pandemic H1N1 Swine Flu Viruses and Vaccines World leading drug-industry investigators have uncovered stunning documents proving an international drug ring, operating from New York City, is behind the H1N1 swine flu fright and vaccination preparations.Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz, America’s leading consumer health expert, and Sherri Kane, an investigative journalist, have released shocking proof in legal affidavits that leaders of a private global biotechnology “trust” are behind everything you ever heard about pandemic flu, including its origin and alleged prevention via vaccination. Their documents, being sent through attorneys to the FBI today, evidence powerful industrialists operating a crime ring within “Partnership for New York City” are behind the pandemic’s creation, media persuasions, vaccination preparations, and health official promotions seen everywhere from supermarkets to health clinics.

12/19/09

Autism Numbers Are Rising. The Question is Why? One in 110 American children are considered to fall somewhere along the autism spectrum, according to the latest report released by the federal government. The new figure, which was released initially in October, comes from the most comprehensive set of data yet on the developmental health of eight-year-olds.....(notice they are still not addressing properly factors like mercury in the vaccinations/plastics/etc etc.......!!!)

Snow storm slams East Coast, knocks out powerA winter storm socked the East Coast on Saturday and dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas, creating treacherous conditions and misery for motorists on the weekend beforeChristmas. Officials urged residents to stay indoors, and many heeded the warning. Stores and malls usually bustling with shoppers were nearly deserted in some areas. Airports canceled flights or were operating with excessive delays. Drivers abandoned their cars as roads and highways became slick, and at times, impassable. Forecasts called for up to 20 inches of snow across the region and a blizzard warning was in effect for the nation's capital, which was virtually a sea of white. Tens of thousands of power outages were reported across the region.

Larry Summers Was a Total Financial Screw Up as President of Harvard

Iran tries to ease worries over missile test A top Iranian nuclear official sought Friday to ease international worries about his nation's nuclear program days after Tehran test-fired an upgraded medium-range missile that alarmed the West.
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the country's Atomic Energy Organization, said Iran won't have a new generation of more efficient centrifuges for the production of nuclear fuel until 2011 and won't have its heavy-water plant in Arak operational for "three or four years."

Foreign interpreters hurt in battle find U.S. insurance benefits wanting For Iraqis and Afghans killed or injured while working for the U.S. military, benefits have often fallen far short of what was promised to them and their families. After the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military discovered that rebuilding the country and confronting an insurgency required a weapon not in its arsenal: thousands of interpreters. To fill the gap, the Pentagon turned to Titan Corp., a San Diego defense contractor, which eventually hired more than 8,000 interpreters, most of them Iraqis. An insurance program funded by American taxpayers was supposed to provide a safety net for interpreters and their families in the event of injury or death. Yet for many, the benefits have fallen painfully short of what was promised, an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and ProPublica found.

12/17/09

Scientists Spot 'Super-Earth' Planet Nearby Astronomers announced this week they found a water-rich and relatively nearby planet that's similar in size to Earth. While the planet probably has too thick of an atmosphere and is too hot to support life similar to that found on Earth, the discovery is being heralded as a major breakthrough in humanity's search for life on other planets. (I know some politicians that might need a ride soon)

Insurgents in Iraq Hack Unmanned US Planes Insurgents in Iraq have used inexpensive computer software to capture live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, which may be helping them evade and monitor U.S. military operations, The Wall Street Journalreported.

Senior defense and intelligence officials told the newspaper that Iranian-supported insurgents used programs such as SkyGrabber, which costs about $26, to exploit an unsecured communications link in the unmanned planes. 

Army Again Turns to Depleted Uranium for New Weaponry For decades, depleted uranium (DU) has been the material of choice for anti-tank projectiles — despite a series of controversies about its potential health hazards. But for the near future, at least, the U.S. military will keep on using DU. Alternatives based on tungsten haven’t panned out. Now, the Army is upgrading to a new 120mm Advanced Kinetic Energy round, and about the only thing we know for sure is that it will be made of DU. The generation after that … may be an improved version of DU calledStakalloy.

THE POWER BEHIND SARAH PALIN Many conservatives and liberals alike will be astonished by the fact-filled series of articles in this special report on Sarah Palin, particularly the clear demonstration that the “liberal” Washington Post and its sister publication, Newsweek, have been—for a long time—promoting the political and personal fortunes of “right wing maverick” Sarah Palin.

Father charged with kidnapping son and forging documents....video

RETHINK AFGHANISTAN: Rep Graysons speech on the floor. Over 100,000 people signed the petition from Brave New Foundation, Credo Mobile and True Majority calling on Congress to vote against any bill to fund troop escalation in Afghanistan. On December 8th, Congressman Alan Grayson read the petition aloud from the House floor, asking his colleagues to vote NO.....sign the petition....please!

Liberals unhappy with healthcare overhaul bill Some liberals today continued to be unhappy about the healthcare overhaul bill, though it was unclear whether the discontent would have any effect on the bill slowly working its way through Congress.

Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, which strongly backed President Obama  during the election, posted an open letter to his 2.2 million members outlining the union’s frustration that it appears that meaningful healthcare reform was in jeopardy.

ARE YOU REALLY UNEMPLOYED  AND DOES ANYONE CARE ? 

The Unemployment Game Show: Are You *Really* Unemployed?

Russian Federation Council gives president green light to deploy troops abroad The upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday approved a bill allowing the use of Russian military forces in foreign countries, including pre-emptive strikes.

CNN Exclusive: Obama weighs ordering new debt commission CNN has learned President Obama is seriously considering an executive order to create a bipartisan commission that could weigh sweeping tax increases and spending cuts to popular programs like Social Security and Medicare in order to try slash the soaring federal deficit.

Documents obtained by CNN show that top advisers to the President have been privately weighing various versions of a commission and there are differing opinions about how to structure it. Officials say that some inside the administration are pushing for a narrow mandate because it's too complicated to tackle reform of the tax system and various popular federal spending programs all at once.

NEBRASKA FIREBALL "At approximately 9 p.m.Central Time on Dec. 16th, a very bright meteor lit up the entire overcast sky like lightning in southeast Nebraska," reports Trooper Jerry Chab of the Nebraska State Patrol. "It flashed for approximately 2 seconds and was followed by sonic booms and ground shaking, which prompted many calls by the public to law enforcement in a three county wide area." The USGS says there was a magnitude 3.5 earthquake near Auburn, Nebraska, at 8:53 pm Wednesday night, about the same time and place as the fireball. Coincidence? Readers in Nebraska with photos or more information are encouraged to submit a report.

Chris Henry, dead at 26, could have been a role model (excerpt) He was 26 when he lost his life this morning. Just 26 years old. For as many headlines as he had made, it seemed like he should be older. The fact was, though, that he was still a very young man. He was just entering his football prime, and considering his natural gifts and the signs he had been showing before being put on injured reserve this year, he could have gone on to have a great, great career.

Countries Overloaded with Massive Debt; Citibank Given a $38 Billion Dollar Tax Break from IRS That's a question many on Wall Street are asking as 2009 comes to a close. Just as many subprime borrowers were unable to make their mortgage payments in 2007 and 2008, investors now fear certain nations will be unable to pay their debts in the year ahead. (excerpt) tax break by the IRS. Seriously.
The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued an exception to long-standing tax rules for the benefit of Citigroup and a few other companies partially owned by the government. As a result, Citigroup will be allowed to retain billions of dollars worth of tax breaks that otherwise would decline in value when the government sells its stake to private investors. (Are you mad yet?)

Signs of Life Detected on the Moon? DNAIndia.com quoted Surendra Pal, associate director of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Satellite Centre as saying that Chandrayaan-1 picked up signatures of organic matter on parts of the Moon’s surface. “The findings are being analyzed and scrutinized for validation by ISRO scientists and peer reviewers,” Pal said. At a press conference Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union fall conference, scientists from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter also hinted at possible organics locked away in the lunar regolith. When asked directly about the Chandrayaan-1 claim of finding life on the Moon, NASA’s chief lunar scientist, Mike Wargo, certainly did not dismiss the idea but said, “It is an intriguing suggestion, and we are certainly very interested in learning more of their results.”

Metrolink got a waiver to not post simple safety signs More than a decade ago, Metrolink and other commuter rail services throughout California sought and received permission to bypass a federal requirement to install simple safety signs intended to help avoid accidents like last year's Chatsworth disaster.
The action was disclosed this week in a technical and financial analysis of high-tech train collision avoidance systems prepared by the staff of the state Public Utilities Commission, which shares some oversight responsibilities for commuter rail systems.

Mexico drug cartel leader killed in shootout with authorities Reporting from Mexico City - The leader of one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels was killed during a shootout with Mexican forces Wednesday, authorities said.
Arturo Beltran Leyva, who heads a Sinaloa-based gang, died along with four gunmen during a gunfight with Mexican navy forces in the city of Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, the navy said in a statement. One of the gunmen committed suicide during the clash.

12/16/09

 

How can the US be fascist if we have elections and the US Constitution? Ok, I'll explain… US policy is fascist in unlawful Wars of Aggression, obvious torture, paper-thin propaganda to expand US war to Iran, blatant violation of international treaties with WMD, transfer of TRILLIONS of our tax dollars to financial elites, and corporate media prostitution service to propagandize the above facts to an awakening American public.

Martial law in southern Philippines MANILA // Citing the threat of rebellion and a breakdown in law and order, the Philippine president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, yesterday declared martial law in the southern province of Maguindanao, where 57 people, including 30 journalists, were killed in a bloody massacre.  Hours before the declaration was read on national television, hundred of troops supported by light armoured vehicles fanned out across the province securing local government buildings, including the provincial government offices in the capital, Shariff Aguak, and making arrest

BLM human resources manager accused of trying to lure 14-year-old girl into sex The government has accused the human resources manager for Portland's U.S. Bureau of Land Management office of trying to lure a 14-year-old girl he met online into having sex with him. Kyle D. Worley's plan was foiled by the girl's stepfather, who learned she had been contacted on the teen dating site www.tagged.com by a man using the screen name "Magical Tongue," according to government court  papers.

Brazilian court rules boy should return to U.S A Brazilian court on Wednesday ordered a 9-year-old boy at the center of a custody dispute handed over to U.S. authorities so he could return with his father to the United States, a lawyer for the father said.New Jersey resident David Goldman has been fighting for custody of his son, Sean, since his then-wife took the boy on vacation to her native Brazil in 2004, then divorced him and stayed there in what Goldman calls a case of child abduction.

China stretches the imagination with world's longest sea bridge China today announced it had begun construction of the world's longest sea bridge – barely 18 months after opening the current record-holder.The Y-shaped link between Hong Kong, Macau and China will be around 50km (31 miles) long in total, 35km of which will span the sea, said the state news agency Xinhua. Due to be completed by 2015, the 73bn yuan (£6.75bn) cost of the bridge will be shared by the authorities in the three territories.

White Americans' majority to end by mid-century The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years — to 2050 — because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S.

WHY LIEBERMAN RULES THE SENATE / AIPAC.. Joe Lieberman is AIPAC's Senate minder like Emanuel is Obama's AIPAC minder. Lieberman bucks the Democratic party leaders because no one has the courage to buck AIPAC ~ who pushed the Iraq War and greatly influences  both houses through their political influence and financial donations: Allen L Roland

FDA dupes Interpol to achieve illegal kidnapping and deportation of herbal formulator Greg Caton (NaturalNews) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today stands accused of taking part in the kidnapping and illegal extradition of a permanent resident of Ecuador, in violation of both international law and Ecuadorian law.

Victory in two major class-action civil liberties lawsuits. After nearly seven years of class action litigation, the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund is pleased to announce a victorious $8.25 million settlement on behalf of a class of nearly 400 persons who were arrested in Pershing Park in Washington, D.C., in September 2002, Barham, et al. v Ramsey, et al.

This settlement follows directly on the heels of the historic $13.7 million settlement involving the class action lawsuit on behalf of nearly 700 persons arrested in April 2000 in Washington, D.C, Becker, et al. v District of Columbia, et al. Both settlements with the District of Columbia also include equitable relief provisions requiring changes in police practices and procedures as well as expungement of arrest records. In both settlements, eligible arrestees will receive about $18,000 each.

Oregon teen's remains may be Green River victim A possible Oregon link to the "Green River" serial killer in Seattle is under investigation after the remains of a 16-year-old Portland girl were identified 26 years after she was reported missing. The Washington County sheriff's office in Hillsboro announced Tuesday that the Oregon State Medical Examiner's Office had identified the remains of Angela Marie Girdner

12/15/09

Veterans and active-duty service members respond to Obama's speech on Afghanistan war escalation statement: The statement below was issued on Dec. 3 by March Forward!, an organization of veterans and active-duty service members affiliated with the ANSWER Coalition.

On Dec. 1, we got a clear order from President Obama. For many more years, we will be sent to kill, to die, to be maimed and wounded, in a war where “victory” is impossible, against a people who are not our enemies. 

For over eight years, we have come home in coffins, in wheelchairs, with our skin burned and with our days and nights haunted by the trauma of war. We return home to a VA whose services are so inadequate that active duty soldiers who succumb to suicide outnumber those killed in combat. 

The suffering we and our families must cope with is shared by the people of Afghanistan, a people who did nothing except be born in one of the most impoverished countries on the planet, which Washington saw decades ago as a strategic region for trade, resources and the launching of future wars. 

The Afghanistan war is not a war to “help” the Afghan people, and it is certainly not a war for “national defense.” It is a colonial-type war. It is a war like every other war the U.S. has waged; a war based on lies and false rationales, serving only to expand the reach of U.S. corporate interests. 

Many of us joined the U.S. military because we believed we would be standing for something honorable and just; that we would be defending our families and helping those in need. But this is the great lie peddled by the military brass. And this is the great lie President Obama has just repeated to the world. 

We soldiers are the muscle used to colonize the world for the rich. This is why all of us—those currently serving in the U.S. military, and all those who have served—have common cause. 

Obama’s announcement to continue and vastly escalate the war in Afghanistan is a death sentence for us and our sisters and brothers in uniform. Why should we fight in this war? Why should we risk being killed, or our losing limbs, or being permanently disfigured, or enduring a lifetime of PTSD? Why should we leave our families and our children behind, why should we watch our friends die, why should we destroy the lives of innocent people who have done nothing to harm us? 

We should not! 

The Who and How they Own and Control it All!  will note that the most important fact the people need to know is that in collective totals government (thousands of individual government entities) owns by stock ownership; bond participation; and equity participation most of the large public traded companies such as technology; pharmaceuticals; energy; banks; insurance; and war industry groups through collective ownership (in many a case 71% to 83% ownership) There is no one individual government entity that will call the shots for these companies (even though some carry more clout than others) but there are private associations that network thousands of local and federal government accounts that have been assigned representative proxy vote rights for the thousands they represent and here is where the control rests.

32 accused of $60M in Medicare fraud in 3 states Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a major crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million in separate scams. Arrests in Miami, Brooklyn and Detroit included a Florida doctor accused of running a $40 million home health care scheme that falsely listed patients as blind diabetics so that he could bill for twice-daily nurse visits.

Federal workers owe more than $3B in back taxes Federal workers owed the government more than $3 billion in back income taxes in 2008, just as federal tax revenues started to suffer from the recession.More than 276,000 federal employees and retirees owed back income taxes as of Sept. 30, 2008, according to data from the Internal Revenue Service. The $3.04 billion owed was up from $2.7 billion owed by federal employees and retirees in 2007.Among cabinet agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development had the highest delinquency rate, at just over 4 percent. The Treasury Department, which includes the IRS, had the lowest delinquency rate, at 0.98 percent.Overall, the 9.7 million federal workers included in the data had a delinquency rate of about 2.9 percent.

2nd-grader sent home for crucifix drawing TAUNTON, Mass. - An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and sketched what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child's father said Tuesday. Chester Johnson said his son made the drawing on Dec. 2 after his second-grade teacher asked children to sketch something that reminded them of the holiday. The assignment came just days after the family had visited the holiday lights display at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro, where Johnson said his son seemed taken with the religious statues he saw there."When he seen the crucifixion of Jesus on the cross, that's what he drew," Johnson said. "He liked that. That drew his eye."

Bill would give legal status to undocumented immigrants Hispanic, black, Asian and other House lawmakers backing immigration overhaul called Tuesday for legalizing illegal immigrants in the U.S., despite a weakened economy and joblessness.The coalition of lawmakers said Tuesday immigration reform can protect American workers as well as bring into the mainstream economy productive immigrant workers who have lived in the shadows because of their illegal status."For those who say that given the state of our economy, given the unemployment rate, this is not the time, I would say to you there is no wrong or right time. There is a moral obligation," said Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.(moral obligation?.........compare our policies with other countries......compare it with Mexico's.!....sorry, but no banana!)

Harassment across Arab world drives women inside The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab world is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said activists at the first-ever regional conference addressing the once taboo topic. Activists from 17 countries across the region met in Cairo for a two-day conference ending Monday and concluded that harassment was unchecked across the region because laws don't punish it, women don't report it and the authorities ignore it. The harassment, including groping and verbal abuse, is a daily experience women in the region face and makes them wary of going into public spaces, whether it's the streets or jobs, the participants said. It happens regardless of what women are wearing. (which leads us to the question.......'Why are the men so afraid of women"?........maybe it is time for those men who aren't afraid and honor women as the sacred beings, givers of life, holders of the future...that they are.....to stand up and start teaching the others, to stand up and challenge the status quo.)

some native american women of note:

Dahteste - Mescalero Apache	Nancy Ward - Cherokee	Juana Maria - Chumash
Coosaponakeesa - Creek	Kateri Tekakwitha - Mohawk	Hanging Cloud - Ojibwa
Susan La Flesche - Omaha	Tocmetone - Paiute Cynthia Ann Parker - Comanche (Adopted)	Sacajawea - Shoshoni Medicine Women
Pocahontas - Powhatan Kaitchkona Winema - Modoc

 

12/14/09

Senators move to remove Medicare expansion, public option from healthcare bill Obama and the party's leadership work into the evening to pacify Lieberman and other centrists to solidify the 60-vote coalition needed to overcome an expected Republican filibuster. Reporting from Washington - Senate Democratic leaders, scrambling for the 60 votes they need to pass the healthcare overhaul, moved Monday to strike a controversial proposal for expanding Medicare and proceed without a new government insurance program. "It's a matter of getting 60 senators," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., told reporters after an evening meeting of the Democratic caucus at the Capitol.
Even several leading liberal lawmakers appeared resigned to the collapse of their dream of including either a new "public option" or an expansion of the existing Medicare program that would allow Americans ages 55 to 64 to buy into the popular government insurance plan.

AMERICAN WORKER IS OBSOLETE / PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT DEFANGED BY OBAMA.. Barack Obama has been bought by the corporate Wall Street oligarchy and is willingly doing their bidding. The American worker is obsolete, the middle class has virtually disappeared and the progressive movement has been defanged. The  world  evil that Obama supposedly seeks to eliminate is, in reality, ourselves and our voracious military industrial complex which is still fueled by power, world domination    and greed: Allen L Roland  

Kucinich - The truth about Afghanistan.. video... on the floor of the house

Husband of missing Utah woman retains attorney The husband of a 28-year-old woman who went missing a week ago without taking her purse or cell phone has retained an attorney. Well-known Salt Lake City defense attorney Scott Williams said Monday he has been retained by Josh Powell, whose wife Susan Powell was reported missing Dec. 7. Josh Powell told police last week that he left his wife and took his boys, ages 2 and 4, on a camping trip around 12:30 a.m. Dec. 7 in subfreezing temperatures. Authorities were notified the family was missing when neither Susan nor Josh reported to work and their children were not dropped off at daycare. (If anyone recognizes this woman or has seen her, please report this to the Utah police or your local police department)

Study: More Americans Receive Government Benefits than Do Not

Mr. Shilling's analysis found that about 1 in 5 Americans hold a government job or a job reliant on federal spending. A similar number receive Social Security or a government pension. About 19 million others get food stamps, 2 million get subsidized housing, and 5 million get education grants. For all these categories, Mr. Shilling counted dependents as well as the direct recipients of government income.

OPEN LETTER FROM A  CONCERNED VET TO PRESIDENT OBAMA President Obama's national approval poll numbers continue to tumble especially among veterans who increasing feel neglected, betrayed and sold out . Obama's political Afghanistan exit strategy may very well eventually result in his own one term exit : Allen L Roland 

CIA Terminates Blackwater Deal Security firm helped load killer drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan: The Central Intelligence Agency has severed ties with private security firm Blackwater, whose employees helped load the drone aircraft tasked with killing targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. CIA chief Leon Panetta killed the contract, a rep tells the New York Times, which was instrumental in revealing the firm’s ties to one of the agency’s most covert operations.

Medicaid Kids Given Antipsychotics 4X More

Obama, Beware: Afghanistan Is 'Another Vietnam'Domestic issues must trump unwinnable war: Dem elder statesman

Peace Prize: President Says Piss Off The president accepted his Peace Prize by arguing for war. It had really seemed like he would need to thread a needle in Oslo, having to graciously to accept an award for bringing peace to the world while he primes a battlefield. He had to mollify or triangulate his right-wing critics who might see any inclinations toward peace, poetic or policy-wise, ritualistic or real, as evidence of his lack of purpose, will, and fiber. At the same time, he had to deal, although perhaps less so, with his left-wing critics who could soon start to see him, in his military pursuits, as a quisling-like president

Berlusconi Punched in Face video....Silvio Berlusconi was rushed to the hospital tonight after being hit in the face and falling to the ground following a speech in Milan. The Italian PM appeared to have suffered a cut on his lip, and his mouth and cheek were smeared with blood. The alleged assailant is under arrest; it's not clear whether he punched Berlusconi or struck him with an object, the Guardian reports

Pro-government militiamen attack protesting students at two Tehran universities Reporting from Beirut - Pro-government Basiji militiamen stormed the campuses of two Tehran universities Tuesday and attacked hundreds of protesting students, and Iran's chief prosecutor vowed to come down harder than ever on peaceful demonstrators he described as a threat to the nation's security. Tehran University remained under lockdown a day after thousands of students across Iran defied tough security measures to stage anti-government demonstrations. Smaller protests continued Tuesday at that campus and at Shahid Beheshti University.

RETHINK AFGHANISTAN! Sign the Petition!video, petition

Israel funnels millions of dollars to settlements The Israeli Cabinet voted Sunday to pour millions of dollars of new funding into Jewish settlements in the West Bank, including several hardline communities that have put up fierce resistance to government-imposed construction restrictions.The vote caused an uncharacteristic rift in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet, with centrist members accusing the Israeli leader of caving in to pressure from Israeli extremists.Netanyahu announced his spending plan last week, saying it would grant funds for transportation, education and health care to distressed areas throughout the country. But the inclusion of some Jewish settlements, particularly isolated communities known for their hardline populations, drew accusations that he is trying to buy off settlers who are furious over the new limits on construction in their communities

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism.Clips from "Outfoxed". Behind the scenes at Fox News This is not the film itself. Instead, it's a reel of interviews from the film. Lots to learn here. "The revolutionary thing that Fox has done is that it's eliminated journalism from the TV news. There is no journalism at the Fox News Channel." - Bob McChensey  .

Senate to vote on $1.1 trillion spending bill Senate Democrats overcame a Republican filibuster to clear the way for a vote Sunday on a huge end-of-year $1.1 trillion spending bill that gives budget increases far exceeding inflation to much of the government.The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 60-34 on Saturday to end the GOP filibuster that threatened to hold up the legislation. The final vote would send the measure to President Barack Obama.

The 1,000-plus-page bill brings together six of the 12 annual spending bills that Congress had been unable to pass separately because of partisan

12/12/09

Sign at homeless camp: 'Welcome to Obamaville' 'I've had 100 calls today and not a single 1 of them was negative'

Missing Utah mom's family prays for her return Friends and family of a 28-year-old mother who disappeared nearly a week ago are fasting and praying for her safe return as volunteers post thousands of fliers with her image on it.Susan Powell was reported missing Monday under what police are calling suspicious circumstances. A prayer service attended by about 100 people was held for her Saturday in West Valley City.Since she was reported missing, authorities have questioned her husband and searched a desert area where he said he took the couple's two young children, ages 2 and 4, camping early Monday morning in freezing conditions.Josh Powell returned Monday night, after police had already received a call from relatives who had not heard from the Powell family.

Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World Video "The key to freedom is the ability to defend yourself"......

American Mercenaries?

A Palestinian Christian call to end the occupation A group of Palestinian Christians representing a variety of churches and church-related organizations have issued an animated and prayerful call for an end to occupation of Palestine by Israel. The call, issued at a 11 December meeting in Bethlehem, comes at a time when many Palestinians believe they have reached a dead end. It raises questions to the international community, political leaders in the region, and the churches worldwide about their contribution to the Palestinian people's pursuit of freedom. Even in the midst of "our catastrophe" the call is described as a word of faith, hope and love

FUNERAL MOTORCADE FOR THE DEER Urban deer massacre (“culling”), combined with unadulterated fun-killing (bow-hunting), is a national disgrace.

Through my last 6 Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE-1 – CARE-6, 2003-2008, each covering 25-42 states over 3-7 months), I have worked with activists in no less than 25 states whose by-and-large pro-culling and pro-hunting officials discharge their “deer management” duties by means of bullets and arrows.

The current hottest battle in the “Deer War” is at the Shawnee Mission Park, Kansas City, which local activists have dubbed “Death Park”. There were supposedly some 575 deer living in the 3.7 sq.mi. urban park. Local officials estimate the maximum deer population density to be 50 per sq.mi., which produces the maximum allowable total number of 185 in the park. Up to December 9, 313 deer had been culled by “Dr. Death” Anthony DeNicola. This yields a remaining population of about 260, about 75 higher than the limit of 185, and 75 is about what the Park Board has allocated to the bow-hunters, 15 of whom have been granted permits to do the dirty deed, with pleasure of course.

12/11/09

Former congressional candidate accused of stealing a Mercedes, writing bad checks and defrauding hotels A onetime congressional candidate accused of defrauding Orange County hotels, intentionally writing bad checks and stealing an expensive luxury car from a local dealership is scheduled to go on trial Monday, prosecutors said today. Delecia Holt, 48, is charged with nine felony counts for offenses spanning three years and amounting to more than $55,000, said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney’s office. The allegations include grand theft, unlawfully taking a vehicle and defrauding an innkeeper and a telephone company. She also faces charges of lying about her income status to fraudulently acquire goods and gain financial assistance.

1 million California children who qualify for free breakfast at school go without More than 1 million low-income California children who receive for free or reduced-price school lunches do not get breakfast at school even though they would qualify, and about a fifth of the schools in the state do not even offer breakfast, according to two reports from the Food Research and Action Center.

Yorba Linda man charged with drugging, raping women he met on MySpace A Yorba Linda man charged with drugging and raping at least two women he met on MySpace pleaded not guilty today to three counts of rape, Orange County authorities said. Jason Ara Erpinar, 20, is charged with two counts of using drugs to commit rape and one count of forcible rape with a sentencing enhancement for sex crimes against multiple victims, the Orange County district attorney's office said in a statement. (I know they are going to hate 'us'......but folks....don't 'do' social networks,or singles sites...the predators are just looking for the next victims....its not worth it!!)

House approves massive overhaul of financial regulations The broadest reworking of the rules since the Great Depression would create a new consumer protection agency and give government added powers to dismantle firms in order to protect the economy. Reporting from Washington - The House voted 223 to 202 today to approve the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression, a sprawling measure that would create a new agency to protect consumers and give the government broad new powers to dismantle large firms that pose risks to the economy. (oh, another agency to deal with....are these these same people running the 'cash for clunkers' program???.....Oh I feel so much better ...don't you?..oh, and you who work for large firms or have them.......don't you feel all warm and cozy???....oye ve!)

The dark side of space about to be illuminated Making a better atlas is what Wright and his colleagues hope to do with NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, space mission. Scheduled to launch Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the $320-million spacecraft will photograph the entire night sky in infrared light. In the process, it will capture hundreds of thousands of previously unknown objects that are too cool and too dark to light up our nighttime sky.

John McCain, critic-in-chief....interesting....

Obama's Suddenly a Centrist President Obama must be worried about independents and moderates, because he’s made a dramatic shift to the center in recent days. In an economics speech Tuesday, Obama lavished praise on small businesses, promising tax cuts as incentives to grow. “This is how Republicans, moderates and centrists think, and talk,” writes Peggy Noonan for the Wall Street Journal. “It was as if he were waving his arms and saying, ‘Hey taxpayer, I’m not your enemy

12/10/09

Five young Americans arrested in Pakistan The men, all U.S. citizens about age 20 who recently disappeared from the Washington, D.C., area, were detained in the Punjab region for suspicious activities. Reporting from Washington - Five young students who recently vanished from the Washington, D.C., area have been arrested in Pakistan, authorities confirmed Wednesday, raising fears that they are part of a recent wave of U.S.-based Muslims traveling to South Asia and other extremist hot spots to engage in terrorist activities.

Authorities did not release the names of those arrested but said they were all men, U.S. citizens in their late teens or early 20s. One of them left behind a video -- still being analyzed by authorities -- that shows American casualties, officials said. On the video, he says Muslims need to stand up and fight to defend their fellow Muslims, according to several sources familiar with the case.

U.S. sends a parade of promises to Copenhagen Obama dispatches a slew of Cabinet-level secretaries, advisors and envoys to prove to world leaders that the U.S. is serious about combating climate change. His own assurances might carry more weight. Obama dispatches a slew of Cabinet-level secretaries, advisors and envoys to prove to world leaders that the U.S. is serious about combating climate change. His own assurances might carry more weight.

Obama's jobs package draws fire from left and right Reporting from Washington - As President Obama began selling his new jobs package, he was pressed Wednesday from both the left and the right, with Republicans warning about ballooning deficits and black lawmakers seeking bolder action on an unemployment rate that approaches 16% for African Americans.

12/9/09

Closed Chrysler dealers to drive Obama's eligibility Seeking damages for lost businesses, will question administration's 'authority .. Two lawyers have joined forces to assemble a case challenging in U.S. bankruptcy court  the federal government's use of Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to bail out Chrysler and in doing so may have created a scenario that finally will bring to a head the issue of Barack Obama's eligibility to be president. The attorneys are Leo Donofrio, who has launched cases directly challenging Obama's eligibility, and Stephen Pidgeon, who also has worked on the issue. Their new case questions the authority by which the federal government and administration officials intervened in the auto industry, specifically allocating some $8 billion-plus to Chrysler, which later was forgiven.

A new report questions "suicides" at Guantanamo

Records fall as temperatures plunge to single digits SEATTLE -- I think we've qualified for a 6-'R' Brrrrrr. Many low temperature records were broken Tuesday morning as temperatures plunged into the teens and, in some cases, single digits -- even colder than the cold snap of 1972 that hold (held) the records for this time of year. Among those rewriting record books: Olympia with a low of 6 (old record of 10), and Seattle at 18 (old record: 21). Even on the coast next to the relatively toasty Pacific Ocean, it was a frozen night, with Forks dropping to 17 and Hoquiam down to 15.

WWII veteran had Hitler's art book on bookshelf After fighting his way across Europe during World War II, John Pistone was among the U.S. soldiers who entered Adolf Hitler's home nestled in the Bavarian Alps as the war came to a close.Making his way through the Berghof, Hitler's home nearBerchtesgaden, Germany, Pistone noticed a table with shelves underneath. Exhilarated by the certainty of victory over the Nazis, Pistone took an album filled with photographs of paintings as a souvenir."It was really a great feeling to be there and we knew, by that time, he was on his last leg," Pistone told The Associated Press.Sixty-four years after Pistone brought the album home to Ohio, the 87-year-old has learned its full significance: It's part of a series compiled for Hitler featuring art he wanted for his "Fuhrermuseum," a planned museum in Linz, Austria, Hitler's hometown.

Liberation Psychology for the U.S.Are we too demoralized to protest? The term "liberation psychology" was popularized by Ignacio Martin-Baró (1942-1989), the psychologist, priest, and activist who was assassinated in El Salvador by government troops. Martin-Baró focused on the oppression of his fellow Salvadorans, Central Americans, and Latin Americans. It is increasingly apparent that U.S. citizens need Martin-Baró's insights along with their own special kind of liberation psychology. Why, in the United States, when the majority of people oppose the taxpayer bailout of the financial industry and the military occupation in Iraq, are the streets not regularly occupied with large numbers of protesters? Given 47 million people in the U.S. without health insurance and many millions more who are underinsured or a job layoff away from losing their coverage, and given the current sellout by their elected officials to the insurance industry, why are there not millions, rather than thousands in Washington, DC protesting this betrayal?

LARGEST IRS REFUND IN U.S. HISTORY Houston Lawyer Michael Minns beats IRS on a 30 year old case

Researcher to Dutch Government: Allow Euthanasia for Newborns Based on Foreseeable Suffering A Dutch health researcher has called on the nation's government to allow physicians to euthanize newborns based on foreseen suffering, rather than only actual suffering, reports the Dutch medical journal Zorgkrant.  Hilde Buiting, maintains that such an amendment would only conform the law to the current practice among physicians.  "The current guidelines state that there must be actual grave suffering on the part of the newborn," she said, as quoted in Zorgkrant.  "In practice, physicians look not only to the actual suffering of the sick newborn, but also to the grave suffering foreseen in the future.  This reality should be included in the considerations in adapting the guidelines." 

Doomed helicopter which crashed in Iraq killing two SAS soldiers had not had safety checks for 30 years A coroner today criticised the Ministry of Defence for failing to adequately maintain a helicopter which crashed and caught fire in Iraq, claiming the lives of two SAS soldiers.Herefordshire Coroner David Halpern said that the primary cause of the RAF Puma's crash-landing near Baghdad in November 2007 had been pilot error.But the coroner, who heard seven days of evidence about the deaths of Corporal Lee Fitzsimmons and Sergeant John Battersby, ruled that a faulty fuel valve had been a relevant factor in one of their deaths.

Iceberg half the size of the Isle of Wight spotted drifting south of Australia

Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above Norway A mysterious light display appearing over Norway last night has left thousands of residents in the north of the country baffled.Witnesses from Trøndelag to Finnmark compared the amazing sight to anything from a Russian rocket to a meteor or a shock wave - although no one appears to have mentioned UFOs yet. The phenomenon began when what appeared to be a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain. It stopped mid-air, then began to circulate.

12/8/09

Author Discusses His Decision to Write America’s Failure in Iraq Author Michael O’Brien shares his story of writing and publishing a book that is close to his heart.

Obama urges major new stimulus, jobs spending President Barack Obama called for a major new burst of federal spending Tuesday, perhaps $150 billion or more, aiming to jolt the wobbly economy into a stronger recovery and reduce painfully persistent double-digit unemployment. Despite Republican criticism concerning record federal deficits, Obama said the U.S. has had to "spend our way out of this recession" with so many people out of work but insisted he was still mindful of a need to confront soaring deficits. More than 7 million Americans have lost their jobs since the recession began two years ago, and the jobless rate stands at 10 percent, statistics Obama called "staggering."(perhaps Mr. Obama should read our article "Checkbook 101" to get a little bit of an idea of fiscal responsibility.....it shouldn't be any different on a governmental level as it is on a personal level. There is no way, now shape, no form, that ANYONE CAN SPEND THEMSELVES OUT OF DEBT!.....)

My friend the president

Dems agree to drop gov't-run insurance option Democratic senators say they have a tentative deal to drop a government-run insurance option from health care legislation. No further details were immediately available.But liberals and moderates have been discussing an alternative, including a private insurance arrangement to be supervised by the federal agency that oversees the system through which lawmakers purchase coverage. Additionally, talks centered on opening up Medicare to uninsured Americans beginning at age 55, a significant expansion of the large government health care program that currently serves the over-65 population.

China executes rogue trader, millions still missing China on Tuesday executed a former securities trader for embezzlement, the first person in the industry to be put to death, but millions of yuan are still missing, a state newspaper said.Yang Yanming was sentenced to death in late 2005 and took the secret of the whereabouts of 65 million yuan ($9.52 million) of the misappropriated funds to his grave, the Beijing Evening News said.

Sao Paulo swamped by floods, reports of 6 dead Brazil's largest city of Sao Paulo has been hit by severe floods for the second time in less than a week. Local media report that six people have died in mudslides caused by heavy rain.The floods paralyzed much of the city and stranded motorists on two major highways swamped with water after rivers overflowed. Many people couldn't make it to work because of the high water.The G1 Web site of Brazil's Globo TV reported Tuesday that six people died when their ramshackle homes were swept away by mudslides — including four children.

45-minute WMD claim 'may have come from an Iraqi taxi driver' An Iraqi taxi driver may have been the source of the discredited claim that Saddam Hussein could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, a Tory MP claimed today. Adam Holloway, a defence specialist, said MI6 obtained information indirectly from a taxi driver who had overheard two Iraqi militarycommanders talking about Saddam's weapons

Former MO. House Speaker charged with felony assault Longtime Republican politico allegedly punched, choked and had sex with woman when she blacked out after drinking glass of wine. Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton was charged with second-degree assault Monday stemming from a woman's claim that he hit her in the face several times and choked her.

Civilian deaths touch off anti-US protest in Laghman - Afghanistan 
Mehtarlam dwellers claimed US forces killed 15 ordinary people including women and children during an overnight operation in the Armal village. Hundreds of angry residents took to the streets against what they called the killing of 15 civilians by US forces in eastern Laghman province Tuesday morning. Mehtarlam dwellers claimed US forces killed 15 ordinary people including women and children during an overnight operation in the Armal village on the outskirts of the provincial capital. Hundreds of protesters from nearby villages brought the bodies to the city and placed them in front of the governor's house at 9am. Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers fired into the air as the demonstrators neared the entrance to the governor's house. Eyewitnesses alleged a man was killed and a child seriously wounded in the soldiers' firing. Shamshad TV reporter Tahir Safi alleged he and his photographer covering the protest were thrashed by soldiers.

High Desert deep freeze: La Pine hits 28 below, Bend -14 Michael Welcome of La Pine raises Labrador retrievers - and all seven of them were inside the house, not in their kennels Tuesday morning, as the temperature outside dropped to a near-record minus-27 degrees amid a dangerous arctic blast that cut power, closed schools and made things potentially deadly.

Big storm targets Midwest with snow, wind A fierce wintry storm moved into the nation's midsection Tuesday, covering roads with deep snow that was set to be followed by high winds, creating blizzard conditions. The storm already blanketed much of the mountain west and drenchedSouthern California with rain. In the Phoenix area, fierce wind brought down power lines, left four hospitals temporarily without power and created wide outages. Freezing temperatures in Oregon were being blamed for one death

Tacoma, Washington: Procession for fallen officers It was a solemn procession Tuesday as the bodies of the fallen officers were taken from the medical examiner's office to a Lakewood funeral home. Four medic units, one for each Lakewood officer - Mark Renninger, Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens and Greg Richards - were followed by dozens of emergency vehicles. video. A memorial service to honor the four Lakewood officers will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Tacoma Dome. More than 20,000 law officers, emergency responders, and members of the public are expected to attend.

Tiger, Barack, and the Law of Transitivity As a rule, the revelation that a married athlete (or actor, or rock star, or politician) has conducted extramarital affairs with bevy of  "party girls" may titillate, but rarely has the power to shock. In those realms, these things happen. Entitled men. Willing women. Deceived wives. What's new?So what is it about Tiger Woods that makes his cheating so different from the usual that ten days on, the nation is still discussing revelations of conquests, trysts, payoffs, and physical injuries inflicted by a golf club?

12/7/09

The fight's back in John McCain Reporting from Washington - Soon after the Senate opened its long-awaited debate on healthcare legislation last week, John McCain strode into the chamber to spearhead his party's opposition to the massive bill. He offered Republicans' first amendment and leveled the party's most politically stinging charge -- that cuts in Medicare spending would hurt the elderly.

U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat Reporting from Washington - The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism.(and, on the other hand....the 'other' countries that 'we' are in.......view 'us/USA' as the terrorists, as we bomb their countries out of extinction, guess it depends on which side the bread is buttered huh!)

12/6/09

Economy 101: Long-Term Unemployment Worsens

Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time

AirTran e-mail stirs up Internet firestorm The FAA is investigating an incident aboard an AirTran flight from Atlanta to Houston that touched off a firestorm of e-mails. AirTran Flight 297 was delayed on November 17 after a passenger refused to turn off his cell phone. An e-mail sent out by Houstonian Tedd Petruna, who was on the flight, said that wasn’t the whole story.  Petruna's e-mail said there were 11 Muslims traveling together on the plane and two of them ignored flight attendants' orders to turn off their cell phones. He said they shouted at the flight attendants, and he and another passenger had to intervene.

Obama Is Wrong On Both Counts Obama loves his rhetoric, and his speech on the Afghan surge was topped by a rhetorical flourish:"Our cause is just, our resolve unshaken".He is of course wrong on both counts.

Panic Erupts in Wake of New Anti-Immigrant Law Arizona community activists and religious leaders are trying to mitigate fears over a new law that would require state employees to denounce undocumented immigrants."There's panic in the community," said Pastor Magdalena Schwartz from the Disciples of the Kingdom Free United Methodist Church. Authorities should realise that the confusion is endangering public safety, said Schwartz, because parents are afraid to take their children to the doctor even when this law shouldn't affect them. HB 2008 – which took effect on Nov. 24 - requires state, city and any government employee in Arizona to report to immigration authorities any undocumented immigrants who request a public benefit. Government workers could face up to four months in jail if they fail to make a report.

Kirkuk, Iraq's simmering melting pot Reporting from Kirkuk, Iraq - Across a bleak desert landscape dotted with blazing oil fires on the northern edge of this ancient city, new houses are rising from the sands -- thousands of them in neat rows, mostly unfinished save for their gray cinder-block shells. Turkey, Syria and Iran are watching closely, fearful that their own Kurdish minorities might seek independence if Kirkuk is annexed to Kurdistan. U.S. Army Gen. Ray Odierno has identified Arab-Kurdish tensions as the "No. 1 driver of instability" in Iraq.

Strained Homeowners Flock to Charlotte for Help, Hope Nonprofit's program to extract better terms from lenders draws thousands from near and far. While NACA success stories are plentiful - and touted from a central stage during the event - it's not clear how many people will emerge with modified loans that allow them to make reduced payments and keep their homes. After past events, some borrowers have complained that their problems weren't resolved as quickly as expected or at all. ...read the story at the link

AFGHANISTAN: TELL CONGRESS TO VOTE NO! stand up and be counted!

OBAMA'S SURGE / A HOLLOW ECHO OF BUSH SURGE..President Obama's announced 30,000 troop surge is a hollow echo of Bush's Iraq surge and it's being met with indifference and skepticism by the majority of Afghans who have fought and successfully defeated other ambitious foreign occupying powers such as the United States: Allen L Roland William Pitt nailed it when he wrote " On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama delivered the best speech George W. Bush ever gave in his life. Mr. Bush, if he was watching, would have recognized virtually every facet of Obama's speech, for it was the Bush administration that hammered out the template used by Mr. Obama to deliver the news that he is doubling down on the war in Afghanistan." 

PROMISES, PROMISES: A closed meeting on openness  It's hardly the image of transparency the Obama administration wants to project: A workshop on government openness is closed to the public.The event Monday for federal employees is a fitting symbol ofPresident Barack Obama's uneven record so far on the Freedom of Information Act, a big part of keeping his campaign promise to make his administration the most transparent ever. As Obama's first year in office ends, the government's actions when the public and press seek information are not yet matching up with the president's words.

A lost son returns to Iraq killing fields Six families nervously awaited the DNA tests on the young man who returned from Iran. They wondered: Could this be their son who was just an infant in 1988 and somehow lived through a deadly chemical attack by Saddam Hussein's regime? There was absolute silence as the judge announced the lab results. The man, who called himself Ali, was deemed to be the sole surviving child of 58-year-old Fatima Mohammed Salih, who had lost her husband and all her other six children in the poison gas clouds that covered the mostly Kurdish city of Halabja.

A trip dowm memory lane Lies and damn lies ..Video.... New president, same old scam : We're heading to Afghanistan, why?  Because of Al-Queda? Intelligence estimates are there are 100 Al-Queda fighters left in Afghanistan...and my guess is they're in pretty rough shape.  So we need 30,000 troops to deal with that?  This is a bonanza for somebody - but not for Afghanistan or Americans.  Watch for the coming war surtax... Hey, someone's got to pay for this. 

12/5/09

Obama and the Same Old Bush Lies, for the Same Reasons The war in Afghanistan is being escalated on false pretenses.  There is zero chance to “win” the war with the “new” (which is the same old failed) strategy and everybody involved with it knows it.   When Obama and McChrystal use the words “win” and “victory,” they are not using the same dictionary used by the rest of the human race.  “Victory” to them, means that the greater undefined mission can continue, not come to an end. Afghanistan, like Iraq, will never see the withdrawal of American/NATO forces; that’s why all the giant super-bases are needed in both countries.  That also applies to the massive super-embassy being built in Islamabad.  “Victory” is not winning, but is the point in the war when large numbers of troops fighting this war can be safely transferred to the next war.  This is what we are seeing in the so-called withdrawal from Iraq and will probably see in the anticipated withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2011.  There will never be a real American withdrawal from any of these countries, unless it is forced upon them by the people.

Temp firms a magnet for unfit nurses Firms that supply temporary nurses to the nation's hospitals are taking perilous shortcuts in their screening and supervision, sometimes putting seriously ill patients in the hands of incompetent or impaired caregivers. Emboldened by a chronic nursing shortage and scant regulation, the firms vie for their share of a free-wheeling, $4-billion industry. Some have become havens for nurses who hopscotch from place to place to avoid the consequences of their misconduct.

Giving tourists a look at gang culture A group of civic activists, united by faith and a belief that the poor economy in the interior of Los Angeles is a social injustice, is preparing to offer bus tours of some of the grittiest pockets of the city, including decayed public housing, sites of deadly shootouts and streets ravaged by racial unrest. After a VIP preview last weekend, L.A. Gang Tours expects to open to the public in January, giving tourists a look at the cradle of the nation's gang culture -- the birthplace of many of the city's gangs, including Crips and Bloods, Florencia 13 and 18th Street.

Conservatives Want Al Gore's Oscar Back “Hollywood conservative” might sound like an oxymoron, but there are some, and they’re calling on the Academy to take back Al Gore’s Oscar forAn Inconvenient Truth in light of the “Climategate” e-mails. Roger Simon and Lionel Chetwynd, both Academy members and unabashed right-wingers, say the emails, in which British academics appear to fudge climate change data, debunk an already “fictionally done film.”

Obama's War: Why is the Largest Military Machine on the Planet Unable to Defeat the Resistance in Afghanistan Part of U.S. imperialism’s problem is that its occupation forces are required to rely on the most corrupt, venal and discredited warlords. The only interest these competing military thugs have is in pocketing funds for reconstruction and development. Entire government ministries, their payrolls and their projects have been found to be total fiction. Billions allocated for schools, water and road construction have gone directly into the warlords’ pockets. Hundreds of news articles, congressional inquiries and U.N. reports have exposed just how all-pervasive corruption is.

$3M Ill. Fish Kill Yields 1 Carp  The 3-day, $3 million attempt to purge a canal leading to Lake Michigan of invasive Asian carp has so far yielded just a single dead specimen. Biologists are still sifting through the tens of thousands of other fish poisoned in the purge, the largest deliberate fish kill in Illinois history. They say they’ll be happy even if they don’t find many more of the invasive fish, taking it as a good sign the area’s clean. ...(gee, for three million dollars, i would have scooped all the water out by hand with a cup and run it all through a sieve to find that expensive carp....and wouldn't have killed all the rest of the fish that were in there...how about you?)

Marines Launch Large Attack in S. Afghanistan US Marines and Afghan troops today launched the first offensive since President Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold. In all, about 1,000 Marines as well as Afghan troops were taking part in the operation in Helmand provvince, known as "Cobra's Anger," designed to disrupt supply lines providing explosives for IEDs.

Obama Worshipers Lose Their Messiah CRITICS PILE ON AND DISCOVER HE'S A MERE MORTAL AFTER ALL .. The "Church of Obama" is losing parishioners quickly, writes Dana Milbank. These are the liberal supporters who saw him as a "transformational figure who would end war, save the Earth from global warming, restore the economy—and still be home for dinner." The Afghanistan descision seems to have been the last straw for many, with big names like Michael Moore and Arianna Huffington questioning his leadership.

Mounting Debilities and Deaths from H1N1 Vaccine video ..Jordan McFarland, a 14-year-old boy from Virginia, is weak and struggling to walk after coming down with a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) within hours after receiving the H1N1 vaccine for swine flu.McFarland left Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children in a wheelchair nearly a week after developing severe headaches, muscle spasms and weakness in his legs following a swine flu shot...more stories at the link.....DO NOT GET THE VACCINATIONS!.......they don't even know the long term affects yet!

Greenhouse Gas Observatories Downwind from Erupting Volcanoes Problems in the collection of atmospheric CO2 data parallel other absurdities in the global warming fraud. The Climategate scandal is exposing the massive and systematic fraud behind the fabrication of the worldwide temperature record necessary to make the case for global warming. But what about the record of atmospheric CO2?   The U.S. NOAA openly admits to producing a CO2 record which "contains no actual data." NOAA temperature stations sited in ways that artificially inflate temperatures have been exposed over the past two years. CO2 observatories have similar flaws. Two of the five NOAA "baseline" stations are downwind from erupting volcanoes. All five are subject to localized or regional CO2 sources.

12/4/09

Tell the Senate: Stop Ben Bernanke sign the petition!

World's Largest Milky Way Image Unveiled The world's largest picture of the Milky Way, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is being unveiled today at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.The new image is of galactic proportions, covering an area that is 120 feet (37 meters) long, 3 feet (1 meter) tall at its sides and 6 feet (2 meters) tall in the middle, where our galaxy's central bulge is depicted.The panorama represents the combined effort of two Spitzer survey teams, who used two of the telescope's onboard instruments, the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and the Multiband Imaging Photometer.

Tree hunters tell of two nights in snow Keith and Jennifer Lee were driving home on a remote mountain road, their prized Christmas tree strapped to the roof of their all-wheel-drive, when they rounded a backcountry corner and found themselves suddenly mired in snow. Out of cell phone range, and unaware a search was under way, the couple spent three days and two cold nights before Keith Lee finally freed the Subaru and drove home, the tree still tied on top.

Long-awaited residential care home for veterans opens in Ventura A 60-bed residential care home for veterans opens today in Ventura after nearly two decades on the drawing boards. Built with federal funds as well as a bond measure passed by California voters in 2000, the state-run home also features a day program for veterans who do not require more intensive help.

Washington speaks out on Comcast-NBC deal The marriage of the nation's largest cable and broadband provider with a Hollywood entertainment powerhouse has sent shock waves through Washington, D.C., as lawmakers and consumer activists are calling for an intense regulatory review of the deal.

Suicide bombing at graduation ceremony in Somalia kills 3 Cabinet ministers Reporting from Cairo and Mogadishu, Somalia - In a stunning attack on Somalia's shaky government, a suicide bombing Thursday at a graduation ceremony in Mogadishu killed three Cabinet ministers and least 12 others, government officials said.
The bomber sneaked in amid hundreds of guests and graduating medical students at the Shamo Hotel in the south of the capital. Government forces control only a sliver of Mogadishu, and the attack was another indication of the reach of Islamist militants and Al Qaeda operatives. The top-ranking officials killed in the explosion were Health Minister Qamar Aden Ali, Higher Education Minister Ibrahim Hassan Adow and Education Minister Ahmed Abdullahi Wayeel. News reports put the number of dead, including students, doctors and journalists, at 10 to 15.

Pakistani militants kill at least 37 inside mosque Reporting from Rawalpindi, Pakistan - In a daring midday raid that showed insurgents' ability to strike the Pakistani military virtually at will, militants stormed a Rawalpindi mosque filled with military officers and their children Friday, killing at least 37 people with a deadly combination of gunfire, grenades and suicide bomb blasts.

'I Did Not Anticipate a Crisis of This Magnitude' Ben Bernanke took some serious lumps today on Capitol Hill, but he still seems to have the support he'll need to get a second term as chief of the Federal Reserve. "I did not anticipate a crisis of this magnitude," he told members of a Senate panel during the sometimes contentious confirmation hearing. “In the area where we had responsibility, the bank holding companies, we should have done more. That is a mistake we won’t make again.”

BI Serves Search Warrants on Yahoo, Google FBI agents served search warrants at the offices of Google and Yahoo today, looking for evidence against an Illinois man accused of making "peephole" videos of Erin Andrews. Authorities want Yahoo to turn over a similar video allegedly made by suspect Michael Barrett of a second woman and posted briefly on Flickr in June.

Black Caucus Openly Feuds With Obama Long frustrated by President Obama's inaction on urban issues, the Congressional Black Caucus threw up its hands yesterday and walked out on a vote on financial reform following a heated meeting between Maxine Waters and Rahm Emanuel. The measure passed easily, but Waters said the CBC could side with the GOP next time if Obama doesn’t address its concerns. The caucus believes Obama, a former member, takes them for granted, and favors conservative Blue Dogs.

12/3/09

Senate passes first healthcare amendment, 61-39 [updated]

Search on for missing Ore. Christmas tree cutters Searchers combed icy mountain roads near the crest of the Cascade Range in southern Oregon, looking for a couple who told their kids they were off to cut down a special Christmas treebut did not return."We still don't know where they're at, but we're going to spend all night looking," Jackson County Sheriff's Lt. Pat Rowland said Wednesday night. "We'll saturate this area the rest of the night with Sno-Cats and ATVs." Police said Jennifer, 38, and Keith Lee, 36, of Medford set out Tuesday morning in their electric blue, all-wheel-drive Subaru but told no one where they were going. Keith Lee is diabetic, a relative said.

Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery NASA's robotic rover Spirit is bogged down on the Red Planet in a place the rover team named after the ancient city, Troy. So why aren't scientists lamenting? "The rover's spinning wheels have broken through a crust, and we've found something supremely interesting in the disturbed soil," says Ray Arvidson of the Washington University in St. Louis. ........the rest of the story at the link.

12/2/09

I, Psychopath Psychopaths… we usually only know them from Hollywood movies. We never expect them to enter our real life. But, the psychopath is closer than you think. Experts believe their number to be as high as one in a hundred. Most of them function incognito in high-powered professions…all the way to the very top. But… it takes one to truly know one. In this intriguing documentary, Sam Vaknin, a self-proclaimed psychopath, goes in search of a diagnosis. In a scientific first, he allows himself to undergo testing to find out if he was born without a conscience. He knows he’s narcissistic and cannot empathize with others. By his own admission, he’s pompous, grandiose, repulsive and contradictory, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable… but he believes, he’s not a bad person. What he is is indifferent…he couldn’t care less. Unless, of course, the topic is himself.

Protestors ask for jobs, not war Speakers at a rally in the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza called for President Obama to bring U.S. troops home from Afghanistan and spend dollars on fixing America's economy instead. Around 50 people attended the rally, organized by the Community Alliance of Lane County, Wednesday afternoon.  Lane County Commisioner Rob Handy was among those who addressed the crowd.  Other speakers included clergymen, business owners and college students. The rally was a response to President Obama's announcement he will send additional troops to Afghanistan

The Largest Known Star In The Universe. (We are so small..) Here on planet Earth, we're completely oblivious to the grand scale of things in the universe. Much the way we perceive dust particles as being insignifcant, universally speaking we are not much more than this. The scale of things is mind blowing! The last star is called VY Canis Majoris, a hypergiant star located 5,000 light years from earth and is considered to be the largest star discovered in the universe.Assuming the upper size limit of 2100 solar radii, light would take more than 8 hours to travel around the star's circumference

OBAMA IS A NATIONAL TRAGEDY / A SYMBOL OF OUR TRAGIC TIMES   President Obama is a national tragedy ~ a straw man without a spine. The perfect symbol for a Democratic party that refuses to act boldly and easy pickings for Republican Pit Bulls, like Sarah Palin, who has become a lightening rod for cross party anger towards both Obama and politicians in general: Allen L Roland In other words, It's time to take to the streets and, if necessary, shut the government down until the people's will is responded to by both the President and those in Congress. Want to have your voice heard. Call the White House at 202-456-1111 or email the President. Obama is betting his prestige and re-election on this War ( Occupation ) and he will eventually lose both.

12/1/09

Black Hole Caught Zapping Galaxy Into Existence? Which come first, the supermassive black holes that frantically devour matter or the enormous galaxies where they reside? A brand new scenario has emerged from a recent set of outstanding observations of a black hole without a home: black holes may be “building” their own host galaxy. This could be the long-sought missing link to understanding why the masses of black holes are larger in galaxies that contain more stars.

When construction fails in China, it fails big time!

Troops, families mixed over Obama's Afghan surge Battle-weary troops and their families braced for a wrenching round of new deployments to Afghanistan, but many said they support the surge announced Tuesday as long as it helps to end the 8-year-old conflict. As President Barack Obama outlined his plan to send 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan — while pledging to start bringing them home in 2011 — soldiers, Marines and their families interviewed by The Associated Press felt a tangle of fresh concerns and renewed hopes. Some took in the televised announcement as they played darts in a barroom near their base, while others watched from their living rooms.

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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.

 

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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.)

 

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