It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -Samuel Adams New Year Eve - December 31, 2009 | |||||||
 Another year is about to come to an end ... and the clock is ready to start ticking in another. Personally, I do a 'winter count' - making it through another winter is worthy of counting. Changing the calendar by the then ruling authorities in Europe to make a year end in the dead of the winter months ... and starting a new year the next day - still in the dead of winter ... sounds like something humans attempting to manipulate the natural world would do. This link provides some input on the whole Gregorian Calendar we follow. HAWAII NEWS UPDATE
A 3.7 magnitude earthquake hit the 'Maui Region' of Hawaii today - and can't find out if Palin had secret knowledge of this quake since Palin shortened her Maui vacation after fuss over her 'McCain' visor Today, the Prez and Pelosi are still currently both over in Hawaii (flown there at the public's expense) partying over the holidays ... both in Hawaii when US TODAY carries the headline US is in fiscal peril with $12.1 Trillion debt. On the other hand, Rush Limbaugh is in a Honolulu hospital (now resting comfortably). Don't know if our country's 'fiscal peril' was the cause of his heart pain and subsequent hospitalization. Out of Hawaii's news tonight: KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) - President Barack Obama's family is watching the movie "Avatar." The Obamas visited a movie theater near their rented vacation home in Hawaii on Thursday morning for a screening of the sci-fi spectacular. Officials say the first family had the theater to themselves to watch director James Cameron's tech-heavy film. The Obamas, including first daughters Sasha and Malia, left their compound before noon on New Year's Eve. Before the screening, Obama, a self-described movie buff, worked out at the Marine Corps base nearby. The Obamas are set to return to Washington in the new year. Taxpayers pay for scanners and then you read tonight that US scanners went unused at Nigeria airport. But then, there is an underwear terrorist that has an expired passport, buys a one-way ticket with cash ... and over a million American taxpayers on the "No Fly List" and can't get themselves off this terrorist watch list. What can you say? Watch the government run the medical system? | |||||||
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801) | |||||||
Northwest Bomb Plot 'Oddities'
Bogosity reaches critical mass!
In 2008, the ACLU estimated the US 'No Fly List' to have grown to over 1,000,000 names -- heck, even Cat Stevens and the late Senator Ted Kennedy were on it -- and it continues to expand. But, suspected terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was curiously able to obtain military-grade high explosives --80 grams of PETN (Gee, where'd he get that?) -- managed to escape airport security and detonate his underwear bomb!
In April 2009, American authorities reportedly refused an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico entry into US airspace because a left-wing journalist writing a book on the CIA was on board. Hernando Calvo Ospina, who works for Le Monde Diplomatique and has written on revolutionary movements in Cuba and Colombia, figured on the US authorities' 'no-fly list.' Air France said the April 18 flight was forced to divert to the French Caribbean island of Martinique before continuing its journey (telegraph.co.uk).
Got it?
Write a book critical of the CIA -- you cannot fly. Carry explosives (allegedly from Yemen) on board when the US is trolling for an excuse to invade and occupy Yemen for its oil -- yes you can! The US needs false flags to provide cover for illegal invasions and occupations. The 9/11 terrorist attacks (aka inside job, six ways to Sunday) worked well for the US government; the security-industrial complex made billions and US corporaterrorists were able to negotiate the wholesale theft of Iraq's oil.
According to CNN, the terror suspect's father tried to warn authorities. CNN reported: The father of a man suspected in a botched terror attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight contacted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria recently with concerns his son was planning something, a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday. The father -- identified by a family source as Umaru Abdul Mutallab -- contacted the U.S. Embassy "a few weeks ago" saying his son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had "become radicalized," the senior administration official, who is familiar with the case, told CNN.
And yet, Abdulmutallab was not obliged to undergo any additional airport screening layers, prior to boarding for the last leg of his journey to Detroit.
Also, lest we forget: Three key provisions of the Patriot Act are scheduled to expire 31 December 2009. Hmm. I wonder if post-Abdulmutallab they will get renewed?
Abdulmutallab was thwarted by a quote, unquote vacationing movie producer, Jasper Schuringa, who, within seconds, asserted that he not only tackled the suspect and put him in a headlock but also tried 'to search his body for any explosives' (CNN). Unless one was a bona-fide law enforcement professional or a military agent, who on earth would think of searching a man who had just set himself on fire, in a matter of seconds, for more explosives?
The goal is Yemeni oil. Hence the reason for the destabilization and the purported need for the US to stop al-Qaeda (literally, 'the database'). The Yemeni national security chief has declared that the country is receiving assistance from the US in the crackdown on what he called 'al-Qaeda operatives' in southern Yemen (Press TV). Translation:
US corporaterrorists want Yemen's oil and they want it NOW.
The Conservative vs Liberal Tail Chase
Jeff Matthews | It is time to stop thinking about politics and start thinking about society. |
Officials Claim Second Man Unrelated To Christmas Attack
Paul Joseph Watson | Bomber’s accomplice being protected? Multiple eyewitness accounts contradicted.
Muslims in the 21st Century: Start Discriminating For Our Lives In the State of Washington last month, Muslim Maurice Clemmons methodically killed four police officers in cold blood as they sat eating breakfast at a diner. Last month, in Detroit, Michigan, a dozen Islamic immigrants fired on FBI agents as they called for an Islamic State and Sharia Law to be enacted in Michigan. Another Muslim ran over his daughter (for wearing jeans) and killed her in Phoenix, Arizona in November: honor killing. At Fort Hood, a Muslim U.S. soldier, Major Nidal Hasan, killed 13 and wounded 28 Americans in a shooting spree...... http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty531.htm by Frosty Wooldridge |
Hillary Clinton's Agency Issued the Terrorist's Visa
http://www.newswithviews.com/Cutler/michael177.htm
by Former INS Agent Michael Cutler, Ret.
WHO chief yet to be vaccinated against swine flu
AFP | World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan revealed Tuesday that she has yet to be vaccinated against the swine flu virus The parliament motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member of the German Bundestag and now Chairman of the European Parliament Health Committee. |
Spain's airline Air Comet collapses |
Waste Station Protest in China
Welcome to Orwell’s World 2010
John Pilger | Obama’s most audacious lie is that Afghanistan today is a “safe haven” for al-Qaeda’s attacks on the West. |
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| With the health-care battle still unfinished, the Obama administration has been laying plans to take up an issue that could prove even more divisive — a major overhaul of the nation's immigration system. |
French Nuclear Waste ends up in Siberia parking lot |
Massacre of 16 sleeping people - 5 children - in Eastern India: Maoists Suspected after land was not turned over to them
The Pre-Ball-Dropping-New Year's Eve Bad News Dump begins: Judge Dismisses Charges in Blackwater Shooting 31 Dec 2009 3:49 P.M. ET A federal judge dismissed all charges against five Blackwater Worldwide security guards charged in a deadly Baghdad shooting. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said Thursday that the Justice Department overstepped its bounds and wrongly used evidence it wasn't allowed to see. He said the government's explanations have been contradictory, unbelievable and not credible. Blackwater contractors were hired to guard State Department diplomats in Iraq. Prosecutors say the guards fired on unarmed civilians in a busy intersection in 2007, killing innocent people.
Allegation: Blackwater hiring youths in Peshawar to carry out attacks and suicide bombings --Just as the CLG has asserted from the get-go. Wait until Blackwater gets hold of one of Pakistan's nukes, detonates it, blames 'al-Qaeda' and plunges the US into WWIII. I am thinking the lucrative contract for Xe to 'clean up' in the aftermath of the nuclear explosion has already been drafted. Blackwater needs to be eliminated before they become as big as Goldman Sachs and Citi - 'too big' to destroy. --Lori Price Mufti Usmani holds Blackwater responsible for blast 31 Dec 2009 Contrary to the claim and media reports by the media about Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan taking responsibility of the Ashura bomb blast, Mufti Mohammed Rafi Usmani held US agency Blackwater responsible for the gory incident that claimed more than 40 lives. Addressing a news conference along with Muhammed Taqi, Mufti Muhammed Naeem, Maulana Tanver-ul-Haq and others on Wednesday, Mufti Usmani said that Blackwater was involved in the killing of innocent people in the Muharram procession. He said that soon after the blast, shops in the city’s economic hub were set ablaze which proved that the attack was "pre-planned and organized". Mufti Usmani said that the incident was a conspiracy against Islam and the government totally failed to control the situation, as it was the responsibility of the government to provide security to the citizens and to protect the property... He alleged that Blackwater was hiring youths in Peshawar to carry out attacks and suicide bombings. |
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The partially covered Mayon volcano spews a column of ash during another mild eruption in Legazpi City, Albay province, south of Manila December 28, 2009. Mayon Volcano, known for its near-perfect cone shape in the coconut-growing central Bicol region, has been spewing ash and burning mud and rocks for more than a week. Officials have evacuated nearly 50,000 residents from around the base of the volcano. (Reuters /Erik de Castro) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." Benito Mussolini | ||
Top Norwegian diplomat admits attending Bilderberg Group
You Tube | Top Norwegian diplomat Thorvald Stoltenberg, and father of the current Prime Minister, admits his permanent seating from 1995 – 2007 at the Bilderberg group meetings. UN to produce bullion coins as world currency
Gold News Wire | The announcement by the United Nations this week that it will license the minting of silver and gold bullion coins bearing the UN logo may be the button that launches metal prices into orbit. | ||
| The United Nations is just a debating society and a 'front' for banks |
Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children
Times Online | American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead.
Number of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan doubles in 2009
Obama administration prepares public opinion for attack on Yemen
Patrick Martin | Yemen possesses, like Afghanistan and Iraq, is a highly strategic geographic location. |
Hamid Karzai demands US hand over gunmen who killed children
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A federal judge said the Justice Department overstepped its bounds. Prosecutors argued the security guards fired on unarmed civilians in Baghdad in 2007. |
Hummingbird bot could track crooks, explore Mars
CNet | Researchers at Japan’s Chiba University are developing a hummingbird-style flying robot. |
Pasaden A small army of volunteers are helping Phoenix Decorating Co.'s professional builders affix thousands of flowers to floats at the Rose Palace, where several floats are being built for the Rose Parade. |
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