There is the CIA and their drones all over the globe ... and busy not only in Yemen but flying over Chavez ... the big guys need more wars to get the money moving ... and there is the moving of drugs out of Afghanistan and the CIA's involvement in the global drug business.
So much news .. so little time .. and, there are the scalar weapons owned by 10 nations on the globe that can screw around with weather and make earthquakes.
POLICE STATE USA
Are you an 'Enemy Combatant"?
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson's Handlers
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Top Contributors Ben Nelson Contributor
Total ... Indivs ... PACs
Berkshire Hathaway $75,550 $63,050 $12,500
Level 3 Communications $66,750 $51,750 $15,000
Union Pacific Corp $65,950 $37,950 $28,000
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $64,523 $18,650 $45,873
AT&T Inc $49,750 $11,750 $38,000
Nebraska Beef $49,400 $49,400 $0
NelNet Inc $49,100 $34,100 $15,000
Mutual of Omaha $48,100 $26,100 $22,000
Citigroup Inc $45,450 $16,950 $28,500
Werner Enterprises $42,550 $23,550 $19,000
ConAgra Foods $37,700 $7,700 $30,000
Omaha Steaks $36,100 $36,100 $0
National Assn of Letter Carriers $36,000 $0 $36,000
Prudential Financial $35,500 $24,000 $11,500
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance $35,450 $450 $35,000
Archer Daniels Midland $34,000 $2,000 $32,000
Deloitte & Touche $33,800 $12,800 $21,000
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp $32,900 $9,900 $23,000
Liberty Mutual Insurance $32,500 $4,000 $28,500
Credit Union National Assn $31,390 $950 $30,440
Here are the e-mail addresses for the senate staff of Nebraska's Ben Nelson. He's the one selling out on the healthcare bill by getting the other states to pay for Nebraskans' exemption. Some of you might like to let the senator know how you feel.
Do you honestly think Globalist State Nebraska will have lawmakers 'line up against the Feds tolling I80 through Nebraska ...
Obama Pledges Billions For Rural Broadband
UPDATE ON ITALY'S PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI ATTACK
From UrbanSurvival.com:
Why Behind Berlusconi
A reader sends in this interesting speculation as to why Italy's Silvio Berlusconi may have been attacked:
"George,
The reason that I am writing you is because it seems that on Dec, 11 an article came out on the MAINSTREAM ITALIAN news in the newspaper that is OWNED BY THE BERLUSCONI family. Well George you won't believe this but is seems that the article is explaining who controls the world basically.. The article is in Italian, translate it and read this!!!!
(link to translate page courtesy Google's Translate site)
THE names /banks /etc.. are all in the article!! this article was published on friday Dec., 11 th and and Sunday Dec 13 th ( notice the number dynamics there :-) ) Berlusconi was attacked during a public appearance. Now there is lots of information going around about this proposed fake attack.... maybe to have some time to hide from someone??? Believe me George that article tells people who are sleeping , some hard facts... If you ask me there is definitely some clash of titans going on!!!!
ciao"
This is not an endorsement of the writer's views, but rather a report, yet the kind of claim made in this article (machine translated) includes things like...
"The Bank of Italy is by no means' the Bank of Italy, "that is ours, the Italians, but a private bank, like other central banks including the European Union, which are owned by large banks, while taking deliberately misleading the people bearing the name of the State for which to produce the money. Ha cominciato la Federal Reserve (che si chiama così ma che non ha nulla di «federale»), banca centrale americana, i cui azionisti sono alcune delle più famose banche del mondo quali la Rothschild Bank di Londra, la Warburg Bank di Berlino, la Goldman Sachs di New York e poche altre. He started the Federal Reserve (which is called this but there is nothing "federal"), U.S. central bank, whose shareholders are some of the most famous banks in the world such as the Rothschild Bank of London Warburg Bank of Berlin, the Goldman Sachs in New York and a few others. "
Which is stuff that was covered in Conspiracy 105 in your freshman year of awakening. Still interesting to read something like this being fed to the [Italian] mass and then the attack, wot eh?
Just another data point if you've building your own home version of the "PowersThatBe Map" and sharpening your pitchfork.
$2.5 billion pay packet for fund manager
December 22, 2009 - Making billions of dollars is "not that hard", David Tepper tells people. Away from the pride and bluster of Wall Street, in a modest office in suburban New Jersey, Mr Tepper is closing out one of the most profitable years any hedge fund has ever had. His fund is up $7bn (£4.4bn), and he'll be taking a reported $2.5bn of that home personally.
The strategy: keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs.
The 52-year-old has managed to become one of the most successful investors in the world without becoming a household name, without attracting public opprobrium and without even having to skip dinner with his family.
In contrast to George Soros, known as the man who "broke the Bank of England" when he bet against the pound in 1992, or more recently John Paulson, whose bets against the US housing market turned him into a multi-billionaire when the crash came, Mr Tepper is an optimist, a buyer rather than a seller, a speculator who looks like he is building things up instead of tearing them down.
He buys things at the bottom, when no one else will. In the credit markets, they call these people distressed debt investors, folks who will buy the bonds of companies that everyone else thinks are going to disappear.
This year, he invested in Citigroup and Bank of America when many other people thought the two biggest US banks might be nationalised in the spring panic, and he has bought into Royal Bank of Scotland, too, as the British Government worked to repair that fallen titan. He's been doing his bit for what he calls "Mother England". READ MORE
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The California Valley Miwok Tribe sent a letter to Sazue voicing their support for him and his tribe as its leaders prepare to barricade themselves for the second time on the tribe's only real estate, one-and-a-half acres housing the tribal office in Stockton, Calif., that is in a bank foreclosure. "Please don't allow what is happening to us today to happen to you. Stay strong and fight for your land, your people and your future," the letter said.
Officials & experts warn of crash induced unrest -- Numerous high-level officials and experts warn that the economic crisis could lead to unrest world-wide - even in developed countries.
Microwave cooking, microwave convenience food a risk to your health -- Bottom line..."microwave oven radiation disrupts the electrical field of the body, which in turn affects functioning on biological, chemical and physiological levels. Being within just a three foot range of a microwave oven will expose you to these dangers."
How to avoid fluoride -- 'For instance, if one considers a condensed soup, the soup stock may likely have started with fluoridated water, when this water is boiled off to condense the soup, the fluoride remains in the unboiled off water and is only made more concentrated. If one then adds fluoridated tap water to reconstitute the soup, one is getting a double dose as it were of fluoride.'
Being frugal is back in fashion -- Hit hard by job losses, strapped with debt or just plain weary of shopping for shopping's sake, millions of Americans are changing their free -spending ways.
Montana history almanac: Sitting Bull shares his side of famous battle -- Readers of the Butte Miner wake up to a Christmas Day report that gives a glimpse of Sitting Bull’s version of the Battle of the Little Bighorn 18 months earlier.
Chavez accuses US of sending spy plane into Venezuelan airspace -- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said Sunday a U.S. unmanned spy plane violated Venezuela's airspace and he had ordered the military to shoot down similar aircraft in the future.
VIDEO: RFID Verichip commercial -- RFID VERICHIP COMMERCIAL STILL THINK IT'S NOT REAL?
Rumbling volcano could blow up soon; sees 2,000 earthquakes since Sunday -- The Philippines' Mayon volcano turned up the heat with lava fountains and loud rumbling sounds Monday, and officials said it was getting closer to a major eruption that could come at any time.
Fears that Eurostar train chaos could last weeks as thousands face being stranded over Christmas -- Eurostar tonight blamed 'fluffy' snow for bringing its cross-Channel services to a halt and plunging 100,000 people into chaos.
Founders understood necessity of firearms ownership -- it is evident that the Founding Fathers wanted to ensure that there was a prepared, armed militia to defend our newly sovereign nation. Read More...
Wachovia bank ought to be ashamed of themselves -- A soldier's story: wounded vet says Wachovia bank took away his customers. Remember: The law requires employers to protect employees' careers while they are on active military duty.
EPA, USDA push farmers to use coal waste on fields -- The federal government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil even as it considers regulating coal wastes for the first time. The material is produced by power plant "scrubbers" that remove acid rain causing sulfur dioxide from plant emissions. A synthetic form of the mineral gypsum, it also contains mercury, arsenic, lead and other heavy metals.
The next war? who is going to pay for all of these wars????? -- US military aggression against Venezuela escalating.
World's sole military superpower's 2 million troop, $1 trillion wars -- With a census of slightly over 300 million in a world of almost seven billion people, the U.S. accounts for over 40 percent of officially acknowledged worldwide government military spending with a population that is only 4 percent of that of the earth's. A 10-1 disparity.
Obama's bioweapons program -- The Obama administration's recent declaration on bioweapons would simply be another run-of-the-mill example of our "change" president's duplicity were it not such an unmitigated disaster.
Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times -- A blogger has released audio of Sprint's Electronic Surveillance Manager describing the carrier's cooperation with law enforcement. Among the revelations are that Sprint has so far filled over 8 million requests from LEOs for customer GPS data.
Yahoo is spying on you -- Yahoo.com is allegedly spying on its customers and acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Our toxic world: 9 year old diagnosed with dementia -- A 13-year-old girl living in the United Kingdom has been suffering from early-onset dementia since the age of nine, according to British news reports.
Another celebrity on prescription drugs dies -- Brittany Murphy had been taking flu drugs.
Stunning statistics about war every American should know -- From June 2009 to September 2009, there was a 40% increase in Defense Department contractors in Afghanistan. During the same period, the number of armed private security contractors working for the Defense Department in Afghanistan doubled, increasing from approximately 5,000 to more than 10,000.
Video: Happy Christmas, War is Over: John Lennon -- Warning: Graphic war footage.
The few, the proud , the forgotten -- Water contamination at Ft Lejeune.
Update on Greg Caton kidnapping from Ecuador by FDA -- 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.
Pennsylvania: Lawmakers line up against tolling Interstate 80 -- Federal and state lawmakers banded together last week in an attempt to block the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from allowing the state of Pennsylvania to turn Interstate 80 from a freeway into a 311-mile toll road.
Supreme Court gut due process protection -- American civil liberties were gutted last week, and the media failed to report it. Anyone who is arbitrarily declared a "suspected enemy combatant" by the president or his designated minions is no longer a "person."
Joyce Riley's POWER HOUR SHOW - TUESDAY DECEMBER 22Mind control, weather manipulation, HAARP and Climate-Gate will be topics to discuss with Dr. Nick Begich today as he joins The Power Hour for 2 hours today. Dr. Nick will be able to answer your questions and help us to understand what is really going on in these areas that the government doesn't want share any information on. Website: http://www.earthpulse.comThe Power Hour Website Show Schedule (7-10am CST) Listen Live
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Mr. Obama: Tear Down Your Wall of Secrecy
A normative democratic society cannot allow a president to continue to speak disingenuously about transparency while withholding basic information. More
In Pursuit of Death
Isn't it odd that a fascination with death has become fashionable in our politics and culture to the extent of informing policy? More
The Deflation Threat
Contrary to what you are hearing in the media, the worst economic news may still lie ahead: A deflationary depression is descending upon us. Could it help the conservative movement? More
Returning to the Moon
On December 24, 1968, three young Americans broadcast a Christmas message to the world from the loneliest location man has yet to visit. More
Other Consequences of Climategate
Serious environmental issues have been festering in spite of billions spent on murky models. More
A Christmas Message for American Samoa
The season of giving in a remote part of America. More
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- Global Warming's Forlorn Hope - J.R. Dunn
- Libs Scold Black Conservatives - Lloyd Marcus
- Obama Gives China a Free Pass to Emit CO2 - Howard Richman & Raymond Richman
- Jews Who Won't Support Their Allies - Pamela Geller
- iPhone, Therefore I Am - Judy Gruen
- Gullible's Travels - Harold Witkov
- A Climatology Conspiracy? - David H. Douglass and John R. Christy
- Merry Christmas from Harry - Randall Hoven
- Obama the Lightworker and the War in Afghanistan - James Lewis
- Terror Test-Runs on Airlines? - John Leonard
- The Childish Constitution and the Mature Constitution - Selwyn Duke
- Abolishing Marriage in Washington, D.C. - Ken Blackwell
- A Cracking of the Heart by David Horowitz - Richard Baehr
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Solar Flare
A C7.2 Solar flare occurred early Tuesday morning at 04:56 UTC. This flare took place around Sunspot 1036 in the southern hemisphere as you can see in the image captured by STEREO Ahead below.
Click HERE for a movie of the flare and what could be a small CME.
SOLAR ACTIVITY: The sun is showing signs of life. There are no fewer than five active regions on the sun's surface, shown here in an extreme ultraviolet photo taken this morning by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO):
Each circle contains a sunspot or proto-sunspot belonging to new Solar Cycle 24.After two years of record-low sunspot numbers and many month-long stretches of utter quiet, this is a notable outbreak. Whether it heralds a genuine trend or merely marks a temporary, statistical uptick in activity remains to be seen.
EARTHQUAKE NEWS
| MAP | 2.7 | 2009/12/21 23:26:31 | 43.425 | -78.664 | 8.0 | NEW YORK |
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 2.7 |
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| Location | 43.425°N, 78.664°W |
| Depth | 8 km (5.0 miles) |
| Region | NEW YORK |
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| MAG | UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s | LAT deg | LON deg | DEPTH km | Region | |
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| MAP | 5.1 | 2009/12/22 12:21:04 | 1.659 | 127.344 | 142.2 | HALMAHERA, INDONESIA |
| MAP | 4.8 | 2009/12/22 10:27:33 | 39.630 | 20.862 | 10.0 | GREECE |
| MAP | 5.3 | 2009/12/22 06:06:23 | 35.811 | 31.475 | 52.2 | CYPRUS REGION |
| MAP | 2.5 | 2009/12/22 05:14:46 | 63.054 | -151.010 | 129.3 | CENTRAL ALASKA |
| MAP | 2.7 | 2009/12/22 04:29:16 | 19.315 | -155.216 | 7.6 | ISLAND OF HAWAII, HAWAII |
| MAP | 5.1 | 2009/12/22 02:55:27 | -16.846 | -173.131 | 35.0 | TONGA |
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FROM KOLNKGIN - 1011 NOW: Last Updated: 7:54 AM 12/22/09 - The latest winter storm to hit Nebraska is causing delays, closings and cancellations across the state.
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India is deliriously happy with the climate talks since they managed to skate on binding emissions limits.
"NASA Shows Quiet Sun Means Cooling of Earth's Upper Atmosphere"
"HAMPTON, Va., Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New measurements from a NASA satellite show a dramatic cooling in the upper atmosphere that correlates with the declining phase of the current solar cycle. For the first time, researchers can show a timely link between the Sun and the climate of Earth's thermosphere, the region above 100 km, an essential step in making accurate predictions of climate change in the high atmosphere.
Scientists from NASA's Langley Research Center and Hampton University in Hampton, Va., and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., will present these results at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco from Dec. 14 to 18.
Chavez accuses US of sending spy plane into Venezuelan airspace
Chavez Orders Military To Shoot At US Aircraft
SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE NEWS
British Army's New Uniforms Made In China
Obama Can't Qualify For REAL ID - That He Wants Imposed on Others
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Pentagon plays down security breach with US drones
Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula
Obama Has 189,000 US Personnel In Afghanistan NOW
In Afghanistan, the Obama administration blows the Bush administration out of the privatized water. According to a memo [PDF] released by McCaskill's staff, "From June 2009 to September 2009, there was a 40% increase in Defense Department contractors in Afghanistan. Â During the same period, the number of armed private security contractors working for the Defense Department in Afghanistan doubled, increasing from approximately 5,000 to more than 10,000."
At present, there are 104,000 Department of Defense contractors in Afghanistan. According to a report this week from the Congressional Research Service, as a result of the coming surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, there may be up to 56,000 additional contractors deployed. But here is another group of contractors that often goes unmentioned: 3,600 State Department contractors and 14,000 USAID contractors.
That means that the current total US force in Afghanistan is approximately 189,000 personnel (68,000 US troops and 121,000 contractors). And remember, that's right now. And that, according to McCaskill, is a conservative estimate. A year from now, we will likely see more than 220,000 US-funded personnel on the ground in Afghanistan.
The US has spent more than $23 billion on contracts in Afghanistan since 2002. By next year, the number of contractors will have doubled since 2008 when taxpayers funded over $8 billion in Afghanistan-related contracts.
Despite the massive number of contracts and contractors in Afghanistan, oversight is utterly lacking. "The increase in Afghanistan contracts has not seen a corresponding increase in contract management and oversight," according to McCaskill's briefing paper. "In May 2009, DCMA [Defense Contract Management Agency] Director Charlie Williams told the Commission on Wartime Contracting that as many as 362 positions for Contracting Officerâ¤s Representatives (CORs) in Afghanistan were currently vacant."
A former USAID official, Michael Walsh, the former director of USAID's Office of Acquisition and Assistance and Chief Acquisition Officer, told the Commission that many USAID staff are â¤administering huge awards with limited knowledge of or experience with the rules and regulations. According to one USAID official, the agency is sending too much money, too fast with too few people looking over how it is spent. As a result, the agency does not â¤know â¤S where the money is going.
The Obama administration is continuing the Bush-era policy of hiring contractors to oversee contractors. According to the McCaskill memo:
In Afghanistan, USAID is relying on contractors to provide oversight of its large reconstruction and development projects. Â According to information provided to the Subcommittee, International Relief and Development (IRD) was awarded a five-year contract in 2006 to oversee the $1.4 billion infrastructure contract awarded to a joint venture of the Louis Berger Group and Black and Veatch Special Projects. USAID has also awarded a contract Checci and Company to provide support for contracts in Afghanistan.
The private security industry and the US government have pointed to the Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker(SPOT) as evidence of greater government oversight of contractor activities. But McCaskill's subcommittee found that system utterly lacking, stating: "The Subcommittee obtained current SPOT data showing that there are currently 1,123 State Department contractors and no USAID contractors working in Afghanistan."
Remember, there are officially 14,000 USAID contractors and the official monitoring and tracking system found none of these people and less than half of the State Department contractors.
As for waste and abuse, the subcommittee says that the Defense Contract Audit Agency identified more than $950 million in questioned and unsupported costs submitted by Defense Department contracts for work in Afghanistan. That's 16% of the total contract dollars reviewed.
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U.S.A. is NOT among the three quarters of the world’s nations — including most of the U.S.'s closest military allies — that have signed the Mine Ban Treaty
GUARDIAN.CO.UK - December 21, 2009 - When friends of mine learn that I have broken my deal with Barack Obama, and no longer support the "light of the world" (as one English friend calls him), they passionately rally around his presidency, almost pleading with me to give him more time, to keep the faith, and asking, moreover: what choice do we have?
A calling to account is not the same as "a lazy cry of betrayal". There's nothing lazy about it: since day one of the inauguration, many of us have been shocked to see Obama going into reverse on his campaign pledges faster than Lewis Hamilton in an F1 car.
The president may have failed to protect low- and middle-income Americans from the Wall Street predators who created our financial mess – indeed, they are his closest advisers.
He may have brusquely fired or exiled some of his most progressive staff as unwanted baggage. And his attorney general is starting to act like one of George Bush's henchmen: attempting to protect the previous administration's torture enablers, such as the infamous lawyer John Yoo. Obama's most recent Oslo speech, accepting the Nobel peace prize, on the heels of his caving in to his captor generals in sending 30,000 more soldiers into the Afghan bloodbath, was chilling in its implications, extending a long tradition, going back to Woodrow Wilson, of war-making for liberal, "humanitarian" reasons. No wonder politicians such as Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and a whole museum-load of neocons welcomed his Oslo "pragmatism" as "hardheaded and pro-American".
Where Obama is succeeding is in dividing what remains of the American left between a majority of Obama-no-matter-what-he-does partisans and a minority of undeniers like myself.
As I write, Obama is desperate to rally support for the corpse of the health bill he emasculated with the help of pharmaceutical and insurance lobbyists. He's been dreadful on jobs, neurotically passive where he should be pounding the pulpit, Roosevelt-style, and pouring money into shovel-in-the-ground work.
As president he's got enormous leverage to whip Congressional "centrists" into line – an off-year election is coming up, and candidates need his party's money. But Obama in office has turned out to be strangely aloof and distant from people's real anxieties. We thought we were electing a community organiser in the Saul Alinsky mould and what we have is a Harvard law professor in the line of John Kennedy's "best and brightest" who dragged us into Vietnam.
My personal breaking point, after months of jaw-dropping astonishment at Obama's betrayals, was his refusal almost alone of the world's leaders to ban child-killing landmines and cluster bombs. His state department announced this shameful policy on Thanksgiving eve, as if to hide it from public notice. Obama is continuing Bush's policy of refusing to honour an international antipersonnel landmine ban – the Ottawa treaty – signed by 158 nations.
It's so cruel and pointless. Mostly the victims are the rural poor, many of them children of the same age as the president's two daughters. They die from shock or blood loss far from any hospital; and the survivors suffer amputations and blinding. READ MORE:
Why The Mine Ban Treaty Is So Important:
Prior to the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT), there were more than 25,000 new landmine casualties every year. But after the treaty was created, new landmine use was drastically curbed.
As a result, last year only 6,000 new casualties were reported, and the rate is still dropping. Yet the U.S. is not among the three quarters of the world’s nations — including most of the U.S.'s closest military allies — that have signed the MBT. U.S. participation is crucial to the ultimate effectiveness of the treaty. Learn more!
Citizens For Legitimate Government | BREAKING NEWS and COMMENTARY | Last updated: 12/21/2009 23:00:16
 US forces mounted secret Pakistan raids --Former Nato officer reveals secret night operations in border region which America kept quiet 21 Dec 2009 American special forces have conducted multiple clandestine raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a secret war in the border region where Washington is pressing to expand its drone assassination programme. A former Nato officer said the incursions, only one of which has been previously reported, occurred between 2003 and 2008, involved helicopter-borne elite soldiers stealing across the border at night, and were never declared to the Pakistani government. "The Pakistanis were kept entirely in the dark about it. It was one of those things we wouldn't confirm officially with them," said the source, who had detailed knowledge of the operations. Obusha opens new war front; lamestream media yawns: Mullen worried Yemen becoming terrorist 'haven' --Adm. refused to discuss whether US played active role in recent operation 20 Dec 2009 Adm. Mike Mullen is applauding a military strike in Yemen against
Saudi jets kill 18 civilians in Yemen 21 Dec 2009 Fresh Saudi air strikes on northern villages of Yemen have claimed the lives of 18 civilians, all women and children, the Houthi fighters say. According to a statement released by the fighters, Saudi forces carried out more than 40 air raids on al-Razih, al-Nazir, al -Malaheet, and the district of Ghamra in northern Yemen on Monday.
Police Headquarters Attacked in Southeastern Afghanistan 21 Dec 2009 An provincial government official said that Afghan security forces and American troops killed five heavily armed men who attacked a police headquarters in the center of Gardez, the capital of the southeastern province of Paktia Province. Four police and three civilians were wounded, said the official, Rahullah Samon, a spokesman for the governor’s office. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that five suicide bombers entered the Gardez police headquarters around 9 a.m. and attacked a class of police recruits while foreign mentors were taking daily attendance. [Gee, looks like the US 'plan' for training Afghan police is a big ice cream cone in the dirt, isn't it? No worries. US taxpayers will just build a new police HQ in Afghanistan so Blackwater can blow it up again.] White House picks new cyber coordinator 21 Dec 2009 President Barack Obama has chosen a national cyber security coordinator to take on the formidable task of organizing and managing the nation's increasingly vulnerable digital networks. A senior White House official says Obama has tapped Howard A. Schmidt, a longtime computer security executive with extensive ties to the corporate world, to take the job. Tarmac Delays Get Three Hour Limit in DOT Airline Crackdown --New Rule Requires Airlines to Deplane Passengers, Provide Food and Water 21 Dec 2009 The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced it's getting tough with airlines that keep passengers stuck in planes on airport tarmacs for more than three hours, issuing a "hard time limit" after which carriers must let the passengers off the plane or face fines. The rules also require airlines to provide food and water to passengers within two hours of a delay, keep the lavatories functional and provide medical attention to passengers who may need it. President And First Lady Get H1N1 Shots 21 Dec 2009 Declaring that the H1N1 vaccine is safe [!?!], President Obama says he and the First Lady got their swine flu shots on Sunday. If it wasn't safe, he said he would not have allowed daughters Sasha and Malia, "the two people that are most important in my life," to get the vaccinations for H1N1 several months ago. Walgreen 1Q profit rises 20 percent on drug sales 21 Dec 2009 How health lobbyists influenced reform bill 20 Dec 2009 An analysis of public documents by Northwestern University's Medill News Service in partnership with the Tribune Newspapers Washington Bureau and the Center for Responsive Politics found a revolving door between Capitol Hill staffers and lobbying jobs for companies with a stake in health care legislation. At least 166 former aides from the nine congressional leadership offices and five committees involved in shaping health overhaul legislation -- along with at least 13 former lawmakers -- registered to represent at least 338 health care clients since the beginning of last year, according to the analysis. Their health care clients spent $635 million on lobbying over the past two years, the study shows. Seeing Public Subsidy (Not Public Option) Investors Flock to Health Insurers By Shahien Nasiripour 21 Dec 2009 Investors are seeing the Senate's version of health care reform as a massive public subsidy for insurance companies -- and as a result, are sending the sector's stock prices shooting up, up, up. Stripped of a government-run insurance plan, the bill would give tens of millions of Americans no option but to start paying hefty premiums to private companies. The rise in stock prices has been particularly striking in the period since Sen. Joe Lieberman (I 'Health' Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60 Votes 21 Dec 2009 Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night procedural vote that proved they had locked in the decisive margin needed to pass a far-reaching Ford Offers Buyouts to All Factory Workers --Automaker Also Offering Hourly Workers Early Retirement Packages in Effort to Slash Factory Work Force 21 Dec 2009 Ford Motor Co. says it is offering buyout and early retirement incentives to all of its 41,000 U.S. hourly workers to further reduce its factory work force. Company spokesman Mark Truby said Ford still has too many factory workers for its current sales levels. | Soldier killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan --A military policeman killed on patrol in Afghanistan is feared to have been the victim of friendly fire. 21 Dec 2009 The fatal shot is thought to have come from a member of his own patrol but sources were unable to say whether he was caught in cross fire during a firefight or was shot as a result of the accidental discharge of a weapon. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence confirmed that there was a "possibility that the latest death in Afghanistan was caused as a result of friendly fire."
Sabotage cuts Iraqi oil pipeline [What a shame!] 20 Dec 2009 Oil exports from northern Iraq have stopped following an attack on a pipeline that leads to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Assem Jihad, an Iraqi oil ministry spokesman, told journalists on Sunday that a 55km section of the pipeline was damaged, causing a large oil spillage, around 325km north of Baghdad. "Exports have stopped and technicians from the Northern Oil Company have gone to the site to survey the damage", Jihad said.
Iraq: Bombs kill 5 in northern city, Baghdad 21 Dec 2009 A suicide [Blackwater?] bomber attacked the convoy of a city council chief in northern Iraq on Monday, killing the official and three guards, police and health officials said. The slain official, Hussein Akrash, was affiliated with the country's largest Sunni political party, the Iraqi Islamic Party, and was a member of the Turkoman minority.
Obama signs $636.3 billion defense-spending bill 21 Dec 2009 President Obama signed into law legislation that provides $636.3 billion for the U.S. military in fiscal 2010, including $128.3 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House announced today. About $65 billion of the war funding is for operations in Afghanistan. The administration says it will need about $30 billion more to finance the addition of 30,000 more troops there that begins this month. That request is likely to come with the fiscal 2011 budget to be submitted in February.
Obama Says New Contracting Rules Saved $19 Billion 21 Dec 2009 President Barack Obama said changes in federal contracting rules he ordered have saved the government about $19 billion, almost half-way to a target of $40 billion in savings by Oct. 1, 2010. Waste costs the taxpayers more each year than the budgets of the Departments of Education and Homeland Security combined, Obama said today at the White House.
'US policy toward Iran is duplicitous' 22 Dec 2009 Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has criticized the United States over its 'failed' strategy towards Iran. "It seems that the Americans have an internal problem in regard to their strategy toward Iran. They have failed to adopt a unified and wise strategy on this issue," Larijani said in Cairo, where he travelled to attend the three-day meeting of the Parliamentary Union of Organization of the Islamic Conference member states (PUOICM), which opened on Monday.
Israeli military admits harvesting organs 21 Dec 2009 The Israeli military has admitted harvesting organs from dead Palestinians after an interview conducted over the issue in 2000 was broadcast again. Over the weekend, Israel's Channel 2 TV broadcast an interview conducted in 2000 with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss who revealed that forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinian corpses in the 1990s, the Associated Press reported.
Former Israeli premier Olmert pleads not guilty 21 Dec 2009 Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is pleading not guilty to charges of illegally accepting funds from an American supporter and double-billing Jewish groups for trips abroad. Olmert spokesman Amir Dan says Olmert and his office chief, Shula Zaken, denied all charges at the Jerusalem district court Monday. 'You were tied to a chair and they would tip you over on your back, put a towel over your face and pour water over you.' British Army 'waterboarded' suspects in 70s --Evidence casts doubt on guilt of man sentenced to hang for killing soldier 21 Dec 2009 Evidence that the British army subjected prisoners in Northern Ireland to waterboarding during interrogations in the 1970s is emerging after one of the alleged victims launched an appeal against his conviction for murder. ...The jury did not believe Liam Holden's insistence that he made the confession only because he had been held down by members of the Parachute Regiment, whom he says placed a towel over his face before pouring water from a bucket over his nose and mouth, giving him the impression that he was drowning. But now the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred Holden's case to the court of appeal in Belfast after unearthing new evidence, and because of doubts about "the admissibility and reliability" of his confession.
UK drops terrorism charges against Libyan 21 Dec 2009 A Libyan national who has been under restriction for the past six years in the United Kingdom on terrorism charges has won his long court battle against the UK Home Office and Security Services. Faraj Hassan told Press TV over phone on Monday that his solicitors tried hard and finally succeed in convincing a High Court judge that he is not a terrorist threat to the United Kingdom.
David Headley Said to Have Helped Terrorists Target Nuclear Plant --Authorities Say Chicago Man Cased, Photographed Facility at Tombroy, India, that Produces Plutonium for Nuke Weapons 21 Dec 2009 The Chicago man charged with helping plot the terror attacks one year ago in Mumbai also photographed and conducted surveillance of a nuclear weapons fuel plant [Bhabha Atomic Research Center] in Tromboy, India, according to Indian and U.S. law enforcement authorities. The authorities say David Headley was sent to Tromboy, a northwest suburb of Mumbai, by his [CIA] handlers in the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, an affiliate of al Qaeda. [See: Did America keep mum on 26/11? By Vir Sanghvi 20 Dec 2009 ...These papers showed that Headley had been convicted and sent to jail. But after 9/11, he had been set free and sent to Pakistan to work as an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). According to US journalists, Headley had been given a new passport in the American name of David Headley (his American mother’s maiden name is Headley) rather than his original name of Daood Gilani.] Sen. Coburn: 'People Ought to Pray' That a Senator 'Can't Make the Vote Tonight' By Faiz Shakir 20 Dec 2009 The Senate is expected to vote very late tonight/early Monday morning "on the first of three motions to close off debate" on the health care bill and proceed to an expected Christmas Eve vote on final passage. Speaking against the health care bill on the Senate floor just moments ago, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) expressed his hope that a Senator of the majority caucus would not be able to make the vote: "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight. That’s what they ought to pray." [Aren't people already busy praying for a polar bear to swallow Sarah Palin whole?]
Former speaker gets pricey perks 21 Dec 2009 U.S. taxpayers are spending more than $40,000 per month on office space, staff, cell phones and a leased SUV for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R), even as he works as a lobbyist for private corporations and foreign governments... In addition to the office, the government pays the salaries of three of Hastert’s assistants in his Illinois office -- each more than $100,000 in 2008.
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Judicial Watch | TSA Clears Illegal Immigrants To Work At NY Airport
In the latest of many shameful lapses, the federal agency in charge of securing the nation’s transportation system approved background checks for a dozen illegal immigrants working in sensitive areas of a busy U.S. airport.
The illegal aliens, from Central America and Mexico, worked in operational areas of Stewart International Airport, a 2,400-acre facility located about 60 miles north of New York City. Stewart is a major passenger airport for the state’s mid-Hudson region that also handles large quantities of cargo and serves as a military field.
The illegal aliens all had security badges approved by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency created after the 2001 terrorist attacks mainly to protect airlines. The TSA’s national background check failed to detect the fake Social Security numbers and other bogus documents provided by the illegal immigrants to obtain clearance.
So the embattled 43,000-member Homeland Security agency, which has received hundreds of millions of dollars from Congress to fulfill its mission, granted the undocumented aliens “trusted agent” security badges. This allowed them to work at an airport warehouse business and access key operational areas. An alert airport employee noticed the suspicious documents and reported the illegal aliens.
This sort of negligence is par for the course for the TSA, which has come under fire in recent years for leaving airplanes extremely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Just last month the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General revealed that the TSA is failing to ensure the security of tens of thousands of cargo packages transported daily in the bellies of passenger planes, leaving aircraft at risk of a terrorist attack.
That probe also found that workers who handle the cargo had not received the required background checks or training, further adding to the security crisis. Previous Inspector General probes have over the years revealed similar problems in the TSA’s dismal air cargo security system and exposed dozens of security failures in other crucial areas nationwide.
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2010 preview: Tooth-mounted hearing aid for the masses
Sonitus Medical of San Mateo in California has created a small device that wraps around the teeth.
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ASIAN CARP NEWS
Asian carp: Michigan asks Supreme Court to shut 2 corridors to Great Lakes
Great Lakes' $7 billion fishing industry threatened, Michigan says
December 22, 2009 - The fight to keep invasive Asian carp from the Great Lakes reached the nation's highest court Monday as Michigan's attorney general sued Illinois, asking for the closing of two shipping locks near Chicago in perhaps a last-ditch effort to save the region's $7 billion fishing industry.Contending that Illinois officials have been too lax in defending Lake Michigan from Asian carp, Attorney General Mike Cox asked the U.S. Supreme Court for immediate action in closing the O'Brien Lock and Dam in the Calumet-Sag Channel and the Chicago Controlling Works in the Illinois River -- hoping to seal off the most direct route for fish entering Lake Michigan ....
NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - December 22, 2009
| Former head of CDC lands lucrative job as president of Merck vaccine division (opinion) (NaturalNews) You've heard it before, how the drug industry has a giant "revolving door" through which corporations and government agencies frequently exchange key employees. That reality was driven home in a huge way today when news broke that... |
| Nearly 100 percent of women reject tamoxifen drug despite claims that it prevents breast cancer (NaturalNews) A study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment has found that women overwhelmingly reject the breast cancer prevention drug tamoxifen even when given a thorough, personalized analysis of its risks and benefits. University... |
| High-sugar diet alters intestinal bacteria, making losing weight more difficult (NaturalNews) A report published in the new journal Science Translational Medicine has made an interesting discovery concerning the relationship between sugar intake and the balance of intestinal flora. Researchers have discovered that a diet high... |
| Toothpaste Ingredients Your Dentist Will Not Warn You About One of the fastest ways to absorb anything into the body is through the mouth. This is why certain drugs such as heart medication nitroglycerin and some pain relief drugs are administered under the tongue. Because of this, you should be aware... |
| Dry Skin Brushing Improves Skin Health Our skin is often called our third kidney because of its role in detoxifying the body. Many toxins leave the skin through sweating, which is why aerobic exercise, saunas, and steam baths aid in detoxification. But a common problem is that... |
| Our Toxic World: Nine-Year-Old Girl Diagnosed With Dementia (NaturalNews) A 13-year-old girl living in the United Kingdom has been suffering from early-onset dementia since the age of nine, according to British news reports. Dementia refers to a cluster of roughly 100 different incurable diseases in which the... |
| New plasma device may soon be used to eliminate superbugs in hospitals (Natural News) The rise of the superbug MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) in hospitals may soon be a threat of the past. A new technology prototype is being tested in England that will kill drug resistant bacteria without drugs. The... |
| Newly Researched Soy Component could be Nutritional Cancer Treatment A little-known soy protein known as lunasin could become a novel nutritional cancer treatment, according to research carried out at the University of Illinois. Studies revealed that lunasin, a peptide discovered accidentally by scientists... |
| Big Pharma kills yet another celebrity: Brittany Murphy on multiple prescriptions at time of death (NaturalNews) It's not normal to die at age 32 of a heart attack. To make that happen, you normally have to be taking chemical substances of some kind. Actress Brittany Murphy, who died this last weekend... |
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