"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people"

- John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801)

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Tuesday afternoon - January 5, 2010


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




Morning - January 5, 2010






This is going to be an 'early afternoon' News Update .... been a busy morning for me - let alone the piles upon piles of news articles coming out today.

Turns out the former Department of Homeland Security Chertoff is one of the guys that is going to make the big profit out of the airline scanners that are going to 'have to be' installed due to the underwear bomber. Not too obvious set up and greed going on by our corrupt government! Stocks involving the airline scanners are up some 25% - feeding our casino economy. Americans' fear is driving profits not only into airline scanning machines but also the multinational prison business that is handling such a large percentage of our population. Plus, the perverts in the government and their agencies gets a bunch of free child porn via their scanners and bypassing laws.

There is little chatter out there 'yet' that I can find regarding the Executive Order that was signed by the Prez on his Hawaii vacation involving the delivery of antidotes by the Postal Service (with federal armed 'protection' to travel with the postal guys and gals during delivery) following
a 'large scale biological attack' in our country - sounds like that is another one of those 'planned' crisis events to look forward to ... and like every other 'crisis' - follow the money to who is making the big bucks off of these 'crisis' that are to make Americans 'afraid -very, very afraid'. A 'large scale biological attack' would work good to mess around with the banking system??

The 'missing trucks of explosives' in Yemen sound like a handy-dandy excuse being set up to start a real full blown war in that area of the Mideast ... more info on that later today.



"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people"


- John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801)



FOLLOW THE MONEY

FORMER DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF IS GOING TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE AIRLINE SCANNERS
$20 Million per machine- 150 machines ordered

Former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff Linked to Body Scanner Manufacturer

The Boston Globe


January 4, 2010

What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question.

An airport passengers’ rights group on Thursday criticized Chertoff’s use of his former government credentials to advocate for a product that benefits his clients.


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ARE WE TRYING TO START WWIII WITH CHINA?


Yemen - Behind The Al-Qaeda Scenarios A Geopolitical Oil Choke Point To Eurasia



Yemen and Somalia form the jaws of a vice that could choke off vital Chinese and other Asian oil flows

The Oil chokepoint and other oily affairs


The strategic significance of the region between Yemen and Somalia becomes the point of geopolitical interest. It is the site of Bab el-Mandab, one of what the US Government lists as seven strategic world oil shipping chokepoints. The US Government Energy Information Agency states that "closure of the Bab el-Mandab could keep tankers from the Persian Gulf from reaching the Suez Canal/Sumed pipeline complex, diverting them around the southern tip of Africa. The Strait of Bab el-Mandab is a chokepoint between the horn of Africa and the Middle East, and a strategic link between the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean."

Bab el-Mandab, between Yemen, Djibouti, and Eritrea connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. Oil and other exports from the Persian Gulf must pass through Bab el-Mandab before entering the Suez Canal. In 2006, the Energy Department in Washington reported that an estimated 3.3 million barrels a day of oil flowed through this narrow waterway to Europe, the United States, and Asia. Most oil, or some 2.1 million barrels a day, goes north through the Bab el-Mandab to the Suez/Sumed complex into the Mediterranean.

An excuse for a US or NATO militarization of the waters around Bab el-Mandab would give Washington another major link in its pursuit of control of the seven most critical oil chokepoints around the world, a major part of any future US strategy aimed at denying oil flows to China, the EU or any region or country that opposes US policy. Given that significant flows of Saudi oil pass through Bab el-Mandab, a US military control there would serve to deter the Saudi Kingdom from becoming serious about transacting future oil sales with China or others no longer in dollars, as was recently reported by UK Independent journalist Robert Fisk.

It would also be in a position to threaten China's oil transport from Port Sudan on the Red Sea just north of Bab el-Mandab, a major lifeline in China's national energy needs.

In addition to its geopolitical position as a major global oil transit chokepoint, Yemen is reported to hold some of the world's greatest untapped oil reserves. Yemen's Masila Basin and Shabwa Basin are reported by international oil companies to contain "world class discoveries." France's Total and several smaller international oil companies are engaged in developing Yemen's oil production. Some fifteen years ago I was told in a private meeting with a well-informed Washington insider that Yemen contained "enough undeveloped oil to fill the oil demand of the entire world for the next fifty years." Perhaps there is more to Washington's recent Yemen concern than a rag-tag al Qaeda whose very existence as a global terror organization has been doubted by seasoned Islamic experts.

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Back from vacation



(Getty photo by Jewel Samad / January 5, 2010)
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia (left) and Sasha (second from left) disembark from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Monday upon their return from Hawaii.

I Know What Keeps Obama Awake at Night


01/04/2010
ZeroHedge.com

While Obama relaxes in Hawaii, sipping Mai Tai’s adorned with little umbrellas and hooking up with distant relatives, a potential nightmare is giving him sleepless nights. Let’s say we spend our $2 trillion in stimulus and get a couple of quarters of decent growth. The “V” is in. Then once the effects of record government spending wear off, we slip back into a deep recession, setting up a classic “W.” Unemployment never does stop climbing, reaching 15% by year end, and 25% when you throw in discouraged job seekers, jobless college graduates, and those with expired unemployment benefits. This afflicted Franklin D. Roosevelt in the thirties.


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OBAMACARE NEWS

Senate health-care bill would still leave as many as 23 million people uninsured


The legislation that the Senate passed Christmas Eve, which is expected to resemble closely the final bill that is hashed out between the House and Senate over the next month, would leave about 8 percent of the population under age 65 without health insurance, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101837.html




Attempted bank robbers win 2009's top Darwin Award


The people who compile the annual Darwin Awards say 2009 was a busy year for stupidity, and last week awarded the year's top prize for fatal poor judgment to two bank robbers in Belgium.

Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — The people who compile the annual Darwin Awards say 2009 was a busy year for stupidity, and last week awarded the year's top prize for fatal poor judgment.

For the uninitiated, the Darwin Awards are named in honor of Charles Darwin, father of evolution, to "commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it," its organizers say. It's usually posthumous.

The winner for 2009 was a rare Double Darwin, says Wendy Northcutt of the Darwin Awards, and is awarded for a crime gone awry in Belgium.

On Sept. 26, a pair of would-be thieves hatched a plan to withdraw cash from an ATM machine by using dynamite.

"They overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion," the citation notes dryly. "The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in."

Rescue workers rushed one bomb burglar to the hospital, where he died on arrival.

They assumed the second got away until finding his body in the rubble hours later.

No one else was in the building at the time of the blast.




'Tase the baby': Man accused of using infant as shield

Authorities in Florida say a man accused of using an infant to shield himself from a stun gun has been charged with child neglect.

DEBARY, Fla. — January 4, 2010

Authorities in Florida say a man accused of using an infant to shield himself from a stun gun has been charged with child neglect.

A Volusia County Sheriff's office charging affidavit says 39-year-old Jorge Garcia of Deltona held the infant in front of him and told a deputy to "Tase the baby" when the deputy pulled out a stun gun.

Garcia has been charged with child neglect without great harm and resisting an officer without violence. He was released from the Volusia County jail on $6,500 bond. He did not immediately return a phone message.

The affidavit says Garcia was in the road yelling profanities as deputies stopped another vehicle. He then got into his car when deputies tried to arrest him, which is when one deputy pulled out the stun gun.

The baby was not harmed.





The Next False Flag: An Attack On the U.S. Embassy in Yemen

Kurt Nimmo | It is awful suspicious that a truck laden with explosives and weapons managed to slip a surveillance team in Yemen.


RELATED:

6 trucks of explosives 'disappear' in Yemen







Russia Today | Man involved in CIA bombing may be related to Jordanian royalty – journalist

Published 05 January, 2010

The man allegedly involved in the suicide bombing that killed 7 CIA agents in Afghanistan last week may be affiliated with the royal family of Jordan, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen says.

We know that on December 30th – the day of the blast – a Jordanian army captain serving with the UN peacekeeping group in Afghanistan, named captain Sharif Ali bin Zaid, was killed. He received a royal welcome by the king and queen of Jordan,” Madsen said. “And the Pakistani Taliban at first implied that this Jordanian captain may have had something to do with this suicide blast.”

Nonetheless, although several sides have claimed responsibility for the incident, the exact details of the bombing still remain obscure. Answers to all the questions may not come any time soon, Madsen thinks.






Online Poll Says More Than 70% of Americans Favor Invasion of Yemen

Corporate media to sell an invasion of Yemen to the American people the same way they sold the invasion of Iraq.





Robert Rubin: All Hell Could Break Loose Because of the Huge Government Debt

Economic Policy Journal In a panic state, there will be a dramatic hike in taxes, including possibly a national sales tax or VAT.





If US government says an American citizen is a “terrorist,” the Constitution is gone, torture is on

Examiner | In 2006 this American was arrested as a “terrorist.”






As Economy Declines, Time To Rein In The Banksters

January 4, 2010 at 10:49:24

While the media focused on the terror threat over Detroit, the terrifying reality in Detroit is ignored. AP reports, "DETROIT - One measure of how tough times are in the Motor City: Some of the offenders in jail don't want to be released; some who do get out promptly re-offend to head back where there's heat, health care and three meals a day ...

http://www.opednews.com/articles/AS-ECONOMY-DECLINES-TIME-by-Danny-Schechter-100104-707.html




The Origins of Modern Socialism

The specter of socialism is again haunting the minds of the corporate elite, from the Americas to Europe and beyond. This, after decades of pro-capitalist campaigning from the corporate media, which has always confused "capitalism" with "freedom." But of course freedom and democracy cannot exist alongside tremendous inequalities of wealth -- or next to corporations wielding absolute power over elections and governments.




Obama Post Imperial?

To invade countries that did nothing to it; to bomb and kill tens of thousands, to occupy and install puppets sounds pretty imperial to me.



Personal bankruptcy rose by nearly a third in 2009 - a surge largely driven by foreclosures and job losses.




http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126263231055415303.html?mod=rss_Deals_and_Deal_Makers




The United Nations suspends food aid to one million in Somalia


A child drinking water in the dilapidating and famine stricken Somalia


The United Nations World Food Program said Tuesday it was stopping aid distribution to about one million people in southern Somalia because of ''unacceptable'' demands and threats by armed groups.

The World Food Program (WFP) cited "rising threats and attacks on humanitarian operations", as well as "a string of unacceptable demands from armed groups" as the reasons behind the suspension.

According to WFP spokesman Peter Smerdon, those demands included removing women from all posts and a payment of over USD 20,000 every six months for security protection.

Smerdon said the Al-Shabab fighters — who control 95 percent of southern Somalia — later demanded that WFP and its contractors cease all their activities in the south of the war-torn country on January 1.

WFP took that deadline seriously.

"Staff safety is a key concern for WFP and recent attacks, threats, harassment and demands for payments by armed groups have decimated the humanitarian food lifeline," a statement by the food agency read.

Despite the suspension, the UN organization will however remain active in much of central and northern Somalia, including the capital Mogadishu, WFP said.

Some analysts estimate that close to half of Somalia's 10 million inhabitants are in need of humanitarian assistance.

Mired by almost two decades of civil strife following the ouster of former dictator Mohammad Siad Bare in 1991, Somalia has been considered as one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Years of fighting between rival warlords and an inability to deal with famine and disease have led to the deaths of thousands of civilians since the start of 2007 and driven over 1.5 million from their homes.





Taiwan bans import of US beef

Thousands of protesters demanded the Taiwan government continue to ban US beef in a demo on Nov. 14, 2009, in Taipei

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:16:39 GMT

In a reversal of a negotiated deal with Washington, Taiwanese lawmakers on Tuesday banned imports of some kinds of beefs from the United States, citing health concerns.

Taiwan's Parliament approved a bill, prohibiting the imports of the US-produced ground beef and cow offal, Reuters reported.

"To protect the health of the people is a huge responsibility of ours," said the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus. "There were hardly any opposition voices."






NEBRASKA NEWS
Lincoln Nebraska Live Traffic Cams

Two Lincoln, Nebraska Men Arrested for Siphoning Gas

Last Updated: 10:02 AM 01/05/10 - Lincoln police say they caught a city employee and one other man stealing gas from parks and rec vehicles overnight Tuesday. (Full Story)


TODAY'S LINCOLN, NEBRASKA WEATHER ALMANAC:




ARE GLOBALIST STATE NEBRASKANS SO HAPPY BECAUSE THEY ARE DRINKING TOO MUCH ?

Lincoln, Nebraska police set DUI arrest record in 2009






Senate Health Care Bill Has Several 'Goodies' for Nebraska

LINCOLN (AP) - Nebraska - never seen as a key player with special needs in the health care debate - stands to reap millions of dollars worth of financial goodies should the Senate version of the health care bill get final approval.


Not only did Sen. Ben Nelson help cut a deal that covers the state's estimated $45 million annual cost of expanding Medicare coverage - all other states will have to share in the cost - insurance companies in Nebraska will get tax and fee breaks. Insurance giant Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska, for instance, would pay between $15 million and $20 million less in fees under the Senate bill than it would have without a change the Nebraska Democrat helped broker, according to Nelson's office.


Another insurer, Mutual of Omaha, won't have to pay taxes on so-called Medigap insurance that buttresses Medicare insurance used by the elderly. Unlike the Blue Cross/Blue Shield deal, that tax break will be extended to other companies. Mutual of Omaha spokesman Jim Nolan said he didn't "have a figure to share" about how much the company may save. A Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska spokesman estimated that the cost-savings figure released by Nelson's office was probably close to accurate and added that the company didn't ask for the break. The savings will go directly to consumers, said Pat Bourne, the company's vice president of commercial business and government affairs.


Republicans blasted the perks for Nebraska, saying they were a sign the health care bill couldn't stand on its own merits. "There should be no special deals, no carve-outs for anyone in this health care bill; not for states, not for insurance companies, not for individual senators," U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., said. Nebraska Democrats, meanwhile, defended Nelson, saying he did his job by protecting the state's interests. "Ben Nelson has done his job and if anyone has a problem with him, maybe they should take a lesson from him on how to protect ... your state," state Sen. Danielle Conrad said during a rally to support her fellow Democrat.


Should the Senate version get final approval, public perception of the plan over the next few could determine the political fate of Nelson, who constantly walks a political tightrope in his conservative, Republican-leaning home state. Nelson is up for re-election in 2012. The senator was only holding out for a compromise on abortion - not financial perks for Nebraska - as the overhaul debate dragged on, said Nelson spokesman Jake Thompson.


Nelson held out for weeks until giving Senate Democrats the 60th vote they need to advance a historic package of health care reforms. Under the abortion compromise, insurers participating in new insurance supermarkets called exchanges could cover the procedure. But in plans covering abortion, individuals would have to pay for it separately so government dollars wouldn't be used for it. Also, individual states would be able to pass laws prohibiting abortion coverage in the exchange plans.


Nelson is catching plenty of heat for the deal from both sides of the abortion debate. But it's the Medicaid and insurance-tax perks for Nebraska that are drawing either praise or political fire. The senator was an insurance lawyer and consultant before he entered politics and served as executive vice president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. He was also a former Nebraska insurance commissioner. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the insurance industry has contributed more money to Nelson than any other industry over the past five years - about $650,000.


The senator's spokesman contends there are good policy reasons behind the deals. Mutual of Omaha and other Medigap providers won't see a surge in customers and revenue because of health care reform, Thompson said. So if Medigap plans aren't exempted from the new, industrywide tax on health insurance companies, Medigap recipients would see their premiums rise, he said.


The change for Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska was negotiated because of a state law that inappropriately taxes the company although it is a not-for-profit, Thompson said. The exemption from paying $15 million to $20 million if the change is made wouldn't be automatic, he said - the company would have to keep spending on overhead at a minimum to obtain it


Nelson backers will likely talk less about the insurer deals and more about how state government won't have to pick up Medicaid expansion costs in Nebraska. Over the next decade, state officials estimate about 74,000 more Nebraskans will be covered by Medicaid because of health care reforms


Late last week before Nelson got the concessions, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman asked him to vote against the bill because it would increase Medicaid costs. After Nelson got assurances Nebraska wouldn't have to pay for the expansion, the Republican governor wasn't satisfied. Heineman said Monday the Medicaid expansion was one of several problems he has with the overhaul bill and that Nelson's deal doesn't allay his concerns because he believes all states should get the same treatment. In response to Heineman's opposition, Nelson fired off a letter to the governor saying he's prepared to ask that the provision covering Nebraska's Medicaid share be removed "if it is your desire."






120 to lose jobs in plant closing

Nashua Corp. specialty label and paper products company plans to close its plant in Omaha, putting about 120 people out of work.







How Visa, Using Card Fees, Dominates a Market

When you sign for a debit card at a big retailer, the store pays your bank more than twice as much as when you enter a PIN — a strategy hatched decades ago by Visa.







Editorial: Prisons and Budgets

Releasing nonviolent offenders early can not only save money, but can also be very sound social policy.





Joyce Riley's THE POWER HOUR NEWS | January 5, 2010





Joyce Riley was a Flight Nurse & Cardiovascular Heart Transplant Nurse - her radio program is always good and very informative. Check out archives if you can't listen when she comes on a 7am:

US Winter of 2009-2010 could be worst in 25 years -- Nearly the entire eastern half of the United States is enduring bitterly cold temperatures not experienced since 1985. Even Florida, which has been hovering around freezing levels overnight recently, is also feeling the almost-nationwide chill.

Vermont Snowstorm breaks record -- Burlington’s largest ever recorded snowstorm buried Vermont’s Champlain Valley region over the weekend.

Retired US General promises an airliner will be down within 100 days -- A retired U.S. General has called for strip searches of all muslim men at airports and “threat-based” profiling, declaring that “in the next 30-100 days,” there is “very high probability a US airliner will come down.”

9-11 Responders left with lung problems, asthma, cancer -- Research conducted during 2009 shows that first responders to the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attacks suffer from asthma at more than twice the rate of the general U.S. population. They also suffer other ongoing lung problems and may have a higher risk of cancer.

Federal Court blasts cop for Tasering man over seat belt -- A federal court last week handed down guidelines that limit the ability of police to use tasers at will. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made its decision in response to a 2005 incident where Coronado Police Officer Brian McPherson tasered and injured motorist Carl Bryan, then 21, over a minor seatbelt infraction.

10 Sci-Fi Weapons That Actually Exist -- Sure, the gear may look like it came straight out of Avatar or Battlestar Galactica. But all of the laser weapons, robots, sonic blasters and puke rays pictured here are real. Some of these weapons have already found their way onto the battlefield. If the rest of this sci-fi arsenal follows, war may soon be unrecognizable. Read on for a look at some of these futuristic weapons being tested today.

Airport backscatter x-rays destroy DNA...feeling lucky? -- A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather.

Third uninvited guest was at White House state dinner -- The Secret Service said Monday that a third uninvited guest gained entry to the dinner at the White House on Nov. 24. A review of video from the party, which was held to honor the prime minister of India, showed that a man wearing a tuxedo entered with members of the Indian delegation.

Drug side effects blamed for 20% of hospital readmissions -- One in every five patients readmitted to the hospital within a year of an inpatient treatment ends up there because of an adverse drug reaction, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Anti-flu drug flows into rivers during flu season -- Scientists report they found the anti-viral medication Tamiflu in rivers in Japanese cities during last year's flu season. The contamination raises serious public health safety concerns about the overuse of antiviral drugs that may lead to development of Tamiflu-resistant flu strains. The results highlight a need for enhanced treatment of wastewater, especially during periods of elevated flu risk.

An American refuses to buy health insurance that supports corrupt medicine -- Even if Obama's health care reform bill becomes law, mandating that all Americans buy health insurance policies for a failed system of "sick care", I will refuse to comply. I've read the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights, and nowhere in that document do I find that the federal government has the power to force consumers to purchase for-profit insurance products from private companies.

Health care nullification & interposition based on the 10th amendment -- Any act, order, law, statute, regulation or rule restricting the ability of New Hampshire citizens to contract with healthcare professionals or facilities for the provision healthcare services or to contract with corporations providing health insurance authorized by the State of New Hampshire for health insurance is unconstitutional, void and of no force. Any attempt to enforce such a law is an affront to the Sovereignty of the States and their Citizens.

Procedural issues lead to ban of Bayer pesticide -- Federal judge banned the sale of a Bayer CropScience pesticide that environmental groups and commercial beekeepers say is potentially toxic to the nation's threatened honeybee population.

Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law -- Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States - from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners - nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision.

Yummy! Ammonia treated pink slime now in most US ground beef -- According to today's New York Times, The "majority of hamburger" now sold in the U.S. now contains fatty slaughterhouse trimmings "the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil," "typically including most of the material from the outer surfaces of the carcass" that contains "larger microbiological populations."

China will soon have the power to switch off the lights in the west -- The year is 2050, and a diplomatic dispute between China and Britain risks escalating into all-out war. But rather than launching a barrage of ballistic missiles and jet fighters to destroy key British targets, Beijing has a far simpler plan for defeating its enemy. It simply turns off the lights.

PBOC Official Calls For Oil Purchases Using FX Reserves says Report -- China should set up a special entity to buy oil and other strategically important resources using funds from the country's foreign-exchange reserves, the central bank-run Financial News reported Monday.

Chicago: School bills are due, but state won't pay -- Say the words out loud to get a feel for the size of it: Forty-five million, two hundred and six thousand, six hundred and fifty-four dollars, and sixty-one cents. That's how much the state is behind in payments to your local schools. When the quarterly payments came due at the end of the year, the state again missed its categorical and grant payments to all 871 Illinois school districts. Comment: This is Obama's "home state", right? (Thanks Jimm)

Obama's war on Yemen -- Besides waging direct or proxy wars on multiple fronts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, the Philippines, Sudan, Eastern Congo, elsewhere in Africa, and likely to erupt almost anywhere at any time, Yemen is now a new front in America's "war on terror" under a president, who as a candidate, promised diplomacy, not conflict, if elected.

Is attacking Yemen all about oil? -- Here several things stand out as peculiar when stacked against Washington's claims about a resurgent Al Qaeda organization in the Arabian Peninsula. Yemen straddles one of the world's most strategic oil passages, Bab el-Mandab.

White House probes mole network behind flight 595 terror incident by Webster Tarpley -- Officials in the Obama White House are considering the possibility that the Christmas day attempt by Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Mutallab to blow up an airliner about to land in Detroit was deliberately and intentionally facilitated by unnamed networks inside the US intelligence community.

Swine flu still running rampant in Ukraine -- Although the number of reported cases has declined in recent days, the jump of 38 deaths in 24 hours is the highest reported to date for Ukraine and raise concerns that sequences with D225G and D225N are becoming more common and are linked to the rise in deaths.

Last toll collector in Colorado laid off due to electronic tolling -- The last toll collector in Colorado handed in their coin tray for the last time 10pm Dec 31 as the Northwest Parkway went cashless with all-electronic tolling.

Man says judge arrested him on a "hunch" -- Benjamin Marchant claims that General Sessions Judge Durwood Moore admitted that he "routinely drug-screens 'spectators' in his courtroom if he 'thinks' they may be under the influence of drugs or alcohol."

Don't look at this! CIA drone protest -- Cindy Sheehan said Facebook deleted an invitation to the CIA Drone Protest in Langley, Virginia, scheduled for Jan. 16, 2010. Sheehan said "the CIA is becoming overly involved in terrorizing populations." Sheehan joins a powerhouse of women activists to lead the CIA Drone Protest, including Cynthia McKinney, Ann Wright, Kathy Kelly and Debra Sweet. "We had an event with over 250 confirmed guests and it was deleted by Facebook," Sheehan said.

CIA cryptonyms -- CIA documents are peppered with "cryptonyms" - This page provides a handy look-up chart for decoding crypts seen in CIA documents.

Toxic water facility in Iraq killing Us soldiers -- Hundreds of National Guardsmen potentially exposed to toxic chemical at Iraq water treatment plant in 2003.

Inside the military media industrial complex: impacts on movements for peace & social justice -- In the United States today, the rift between reality and reporting has peaked. There is no longer a mere credibility gap, but rather a literal Truth Emergency in which the most important information affecting people is concealed from view.

How constant TV viewing is giving children speech problems -- Nearly a quarter of boys - and one in seven girls - are struggling to learn to talk because thousands of households keep their TV sets on, constantly making it difficult for them to understand the speech of adults around them.

The UN & Interpol; How the UN will gain power -- It is interesting that the man who cast aside the US Constitution like a rag, and imposes his own laws without consent, has agreed to allow an international police authority to overrule the US government. Barack Obama signed an Executive Order giving express permission for Interpol to supersede the laws and police authorities of the USA.

IRS to regulate paid tax preparers -- The IRS plans to require tax preparers to pass a test and register with the government to better police a largely unregulated industry used by most taxpayers.

Courage to Resist-Support the troops who refuse to fight -- Although the efforts of Courage to Resist are primarily focused on supporting public GI resisters, the organization also strives to provide political, emotional, and material support to all military objectors critical of our government's current policies of empire.

Food for Maine's future -- Food for Maine's Future seeks to build a just, secure, and democratic food system which protects Maine farmers and the environment from corporate control.

Mexico's Electronic Vehicle Registration system-Rfid stickers to be read by cameras -- The combined data will be transmitted to a central database of the national vehicle registry agency which can find "vehicles of interest" for law enforcement. The system will enable the various regional enforcement agencies to pick up identified vehicles on a watch list as they travel along the highway.

$340 million blitz launches 2010 Census -- Anyone who doesn't know there is a Census this year will know after Monday. The government's unprecedented $340 million promotional blitz of the 2010 Census launches Monday with the debut of the Census Portrait of America Road Tour in New York City's Times Square. A 46-foot trailer, to be unveiled on NBC's Today show, and 12 smaller cargo vans with 14-foot trailers will crisscross more than 150,000 miles nationwide through April to promote the benefits of responding to the 10-question Census.

The criminalization of protest -- Police and politicians ignore the First Amendment when we need it the most.

DARPA funds spying beetles -- In what is being touted as the first time humans have remotely controlled insects, University of California at Berkeley engineers successfully implanted radio-equipped, “miniature neural stimulation” systems into flying beetles.

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.

Second whislteblower emerges to confirm reality of time travel -- A second whistle-blower, this one a physicist, has emerged to confirm the existence of U.S. government development of time travel technology and emphasize the importance of the real-world application of such technology for achieving planetary sustainability.




SteveQuayle.com | Hot Headlines - January 5, 2010

Gold and Guns

U.S. Treasuries Post Worst Performance Among Sovereign Markets

More Than 1 in 6 Tennesseans on Food Stamps

Personal Bankruptcy Filings Rising Fast

Robert Rubin: All Hell Could Break Loose Because of the Huge Government Debt

Learn from the Rich Man

Buyer Announced for First-Ever U.S. Platinum ETF

This Is the Government: Your Legal Right to Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied

Leading Article: An Elemental Challenge for China and the World


Obama Aide Defends Trial for Suspect in Christmas Day Attempt to Bomb Plane

Freed Guantánamo Inmates Are Heading for Yemen to Join Al-Qaeda Fight

No Smoking Gun?!

When Terrorism Hits You Are on Your Own

Bomber at CIA Base Was a Double Agent

Aftershocks Rattle Solomons Following Earthquakes and Tsunami

Operation Open Eyes - 5 Steps to Create Manchurian Candidate


Julie Gerberding Primed Big Pharma's Pump with Flu and HPV Vaccines

Something Evil This Way Comes

Sheriff's Department Patrols World of Warcraft

Businesses Stung by BOQ Computer Bug






GLOBAL FASCISM NEWS

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power."
Benito Mussolini

Chicago CO2 Carbon Trading Exchange

"When you ask who’s the biggest winner if the bill goes through, you’ll find the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), co-founded by Hank Paulson and Al Gore. Members include Amtrak, DuPont, Ford, Oakland, Chicago, and the Iowa Farm Bureau."
http://whiskeyandgunpowder.com/cap-and-trade-shenanigans-with-the-chicago-climate-exchange/

Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) is 10% owned by Goldman Sachs (GS) and 10% owned by Generation Investment Management (GIM), an investment firm founded & chaired by Al Gore. GIM was co-founded by the former Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush and former Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson.

(USA) http://www.chicagoclimatex.com/
(Europe) http://www.ecx.eu/
(China) http://www.climateexchangeplc.com/

C.I.A. Is Sharing Data With Climate Scientists

The C.I.A. is releasing intelligence data to top scientists for the study of environmental change.

The C.I.A. runs the program and arranges for the scientists to draw on federal surveillance equipment, including highly classified satellites of the National Reconnaissance Office.

Officials said the effort to restart the program originated on Capitol Hill in 2008 after former Vice President Al Gore argued for its importance with Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who was then a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee; she became its chairwoman in early 2009.

The Obama administration has said little about the effort publicly but has backed it internally, officials said. In November, the scientists met with Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director.

“Director Panetta believes it is crucial to examine the potential national security implications of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels and population shifts,” Paula Weiss, an agency spokeswoman, said.





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Today in History Tuesday January 5, 2010

1781 - Richmond, VA, was burned by a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold.
1885 - The Long Island Railroad Company became the first to offer piggy-back rail service which was the transportation of farm wagons on trains.
1896 - It was reported by The Austrian newspaper that Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered the type of radiation that became known as X-rays.
1903 - The general public could use the Pacific cable for the very first time.
1914 - Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday.
1925 - Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross was sworn in as the governor of Wyoming She was the first female governor in the U.S.
1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began.
1935 - Phil Spitalny’s All-Girl Orchestra was featured on CBS radio on the program, "The Hour of Charm."
1940 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first demonstration of FM radio.
1948 - Warner Brothers-Pathe showed the very first color newsreel. The footage was of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football classic.
1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle.
1998 - U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident.





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