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

- John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801)

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Wednesday Evening - February 3, 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



Wednesday Evening - February 3, 2010




2/3/2010 3:30 PM


Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm Summary as of 3 February 2010

As of February 3, 2010 9:00 AM MST there have been 1,719 located earthquakes in the recent Yellowstone National Park swarm that began January 17, 2010 around 1:00 PM MST.


Yellowstone Volcano Observatory
Recent Yellowstone Earthquakes Website


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

- John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801)



Bob Chapman 2-3-10

How can the US conceivably extricate itself from debt? That is $1 to $2 trillion deficits annually as far as the eye can see.



Why Is America In So Many Wars?

Uruknet | America is “a nation that seeks war” and if it doesn’t change it could end up destroying itself, a law school dean warns.

Given all the wars the United States has waged, “It is preposterous but true that we do not see ourselves as a nation that seeks war,” writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. “We see ourselves as a peace loving nation” and that message is constantly drummed into the public by government and media.


Mark Dice protests Super Bowl: We know more about football than politics

You Tube | CBS 4 in Florida mentions Mark Dice’s protest of the Super Bowl. Why? Because Americans have been consumed with entertainment and sports and forgot about issues that really matter– our Constitution, politics and so much more.







Transportation Sec. Made 'Misstatement' After Telling TOYOTA Owners To 'Stop Driving'...




What Cap and Trade Will Do to Your Utility Bills – calculator



U.S. Census Director Tour Assures Illegal Immigrants


Migrants Struggling for Work in Texas Return to Mexico as a Burden

Flawed Assumptions Encourage Flood of Low-Skilled Foreigners into U.S.




Verichip is now called PositiveID! Roll up your sleeve for the implantable human microchip, it’s now Positive?

Greg Nikolettos | As sure as the sun rises, so Verichip keeps spawning and shape shifting to gain market acceptance as people from across the globe unite and reject the IBM seed-funded, Raytheon-manufactured Human Implantable microchip company.





Journalist calls for euthanasia of disabled newborns

Russia Today | The article titled “Finish it off so it doesn’t suffer,” which calls for the euthanasia of disabled newborn children, has caused public outrage in Russia and has led to fierce debates in the blogging community.






Teen-On-Teen Girl Fight Videos Sweeping Internet ... More than 267,000 found on YOUTUBE alone!



A Threat to the Nation - Brain Hijacker (Pornography) Polydrug, Pathological effects

Hijacking the Brain - How Pornography Works




POLICE STATE

The IRS is buying shotguns!

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.



Getting Ready for Tax Day: IRS Puts Out Bid to Buy Sixty Police Shotguns

Kurt Nimmo | In order to enforce confiscatory taxation, the IRS and its Criminal Investigation Division will need more muscle in the coming months.


Budget-strapped states avoid the word ‘taxes’

Washington Times | State legislatures and governors are trying to raise money without raising taxes — at least not technically.


Imam killed in Detroit FBI sting was shot 21 times: report

Raw Story | A Detroit-area imam who died in a shootout with the FBI in October was shot 21 times — at least once in the back — and found by police lying down with his wrists in handcuffs behind him, says a local Detroit news report.


Microsoft give fusion tools to Miami-Dade Police to extend situational awareness for Super Bowl

Microsoft PR | The Miami-Dade Police and Microsoft Corp. are coordinating intelligence efforts surrounding Super Bowl XLIV by enhanced information sharing and intelligence gathering, made possible through a new fusion center collaboration solution.


Police want backdoor to Web users’ private data

CNet News | Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant.


U.S. agrees to timetable for UN Gun Ban

Nat’l Gun Rights Blog | The United Nations and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are moving forward with their plan to confiscate your guns.





Popular Mechanics - How to Fall 35,000 feet - And Survive



CYBERSPACE
Akamai Real-Time Web Monitor
Obama Surrendering Internet to Foreign Powers

U.S. cyber war policy needs new focus, experts say

The problem stems from the fact that anyone can get Internet access without training in best practices, the researchers say in their article "The Cybersecurity Triad: Government, Private Sector Partners and the Engaged Cybersecurity Citizen". Without knowing the rudiments of PC security, their machines can fall under the control of botnets that then carry out the plans of criminals or rival nations, they say.


Driver’s licenses for the Internet: A rebuttal

Corinne Dalelio | There is a notable absence in Barbara Kiviat’s article of one of the most important aspects of online access: freedom of expression.

Time Magazine Pushes Draconian Internet Licensing Plan

Paul Joseph Watson | Establishment mouthpiece calls for web ID system that would outstrip Communist Chinese style net censorship.


South Australia backs down on internet comment curb

ABC News | South Australia’s Attorney-General Michael Atkinson admits he misjudged public opinion on the state’s attempt to curb political comment on the internet.










LAYOFFS

U.S. May Lose 824,000 Jobs as Employment Data Revised: Analysis

Feb. 3 (Bloomberg Multimedia) -- The U.S. may lose 824,000 jobs when the government releases its annual revision to employment data on Feb. 5, showing the labor market was in worse shape during the recession than known at the time.

Click here for a Bloomberg Multimedia interactive visual analysis of the economy’s job losses.


Planned layoffs rise for first time since July

MarketWatch - Rex Nutting - ‎7 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Planned layoff announcements at major U.S. corporations increased 59% in January, reaching 71,482 from a nine-year low of 45,094 seen in December, according to the latest job-cut tally by Challenger Gray & Christmas.

It was the first month-to-month increase in layoffs since July, the outplacement firm reported Wednesday. The figures are not seasonally adjusted.

Layoff plans ran 70% lower than the 241,749 announced in January 2009, which was a seven-year high.

Planned reductions for last month were led by retail companies, which announced 16,737 job cuts, and telecommunications companies, which cut 14,010 jobs.

Challenger's monthly tally covers only a small fraction of those who lose their jobs each month. Most layoffs are not announced in press releases.

According to the government's most recent report, 2.05 million people lost their jobs via layoffs or terminations in November. Through the first 11 months of the 2009, the government counted 25.6 million layoffs.

By Challenger's count, companies announced 1.288 million job cuts during 2009.




Unemployment rises in most metro areas...

Have degrees, will work


(Tribune photo by Heather Charles / February 3, 2010)
Unemployed Chicagoan Del Phillips passes out business cards while wearing a sandwich board in hopes of finding a job at Daley Plaza in Chicago. Phillips has a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts and speaks French. He has been unemployed for a year and was forced to sell his condo. The sandwich board reads "Valentines Day is Coming... Will you be my employer?" The back reads, " Have: 2 degrees, 15 years experience Need: 1 job."






New groups mobilize as Indians embrace the right to bear arms

Washington Post | In the land of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian gun owners are coming out of the shadows for the first time to mobilize, U.S.-style, against proposed new curbs on bearing arms.





Tax court rules sex-change operation costs deductible...



StanDeyo.com cartoon of the day:





BANKSTER NEWS


Senior US Treasury Official openly serves on council of Rothschild-founded “Earth” bank

Infowars.com | Isn’t it illegal for a senior member of the Treasury Department to openly sit as a member of a huge foreign bank?





Yoda Bets on Strategic Deception to Save the Empire

Webster G. Tarpley
www.tarpley.net
February 2, 2010

Andrew Marshall, the Pentagon’s legendary Yoda, is at it again. The resident futurologist and gray eminence of the US Department of Defense is now 89 years old and has been running Office of Net Assessment for 37 years, since he founded it in 1973. Now comes word that a gaggle of Strangeloves operating under Yoda’s sponsorship is recommending a new array of utopian psychological warfare strategies to try to shore up the sagging US-UK world empire in extremis. These schemes are contained in a report entitled Capability Surprises, which has just been issued under the auspices of the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board. The core recommendation of the assembled Strangeloves is that United States should create and conduct a robust and permanent inter-agency Office of Strategic Deception, to be assembled by a “Tiger team” of utopian think tankers, consultants, and academics, as soon as possible.

Capability surprises refer to sudden scientific, technological, or organizational breakthroughs that give one nation a sudden potential strategic advantage over another. They can represent secret weapons, or new ways of organizing existing capabilities, such as the German Blitzkrieg of World War II. Capability surprises, in the opinion of the DSB panel, can be expected for the United States in such areas as cyber warfare, space warfare, military operations, and technology, special emphasis on nuclear and biological capabilities. The report lists the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957 as a capability surprise inflicted by the Soviet Union on the United States. Another shocking surprise for the US came with the Tet offensive in Vietnam of January. Yet another surprise was the widespread use of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq. The panel thinks that the US attack on Iraq in the form of operation Desert Storm in 1991 represented a capability surprise based on effective deception against Saddam Hussein, whom they however dismiss as an “incompetent victim.” Continue reading Yoda Bets on Strategic Deception to Save the Empire





HILLARY CLINTON
U.S. Department of State



Nuclear-Armed Iran Would Harm China's Interests, Clinton Argues Global Security Newswire

China should weigh its immediate interest in buying Iranian petroleum against the proliferation threat created by a nuclear-armed Iran, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday (see GSN, Jan. 29).




Video: Activists Sneak into Nuke Base





CIA
NSA


"The CIA, Mind Control and Children" Testimony to Congress Committee on radiation confirms O'Brien charges. Hundred of children involved. Talk by Jon Rappoport.

See the video "Conspiracy of Silence" Illuminati Pedophiles in Washington

History of Mind Control Experiments

Iran Contra Drugs

CIA Present in Yemen Since 2008: Report

CIA Agents Assassinated in Afghanistan Worked for “Contractor” Active in Venezuela and Cuba

Ron Paul: We Need To Take Out The CIA

CIA Helicopters Aid Taliban

More CIA Drug Smuggling

CIA moonlights in corporate world



Intel Chief: Al-Qaida likely to attempt attack




Al-Qaida ‘Certain’ to Attack U.S. Feb 3 2010 Washington Post

Intelligence officials say terror group is intent on ‘a large-scale operation’


Underwear Bomber Provides Key Intel

Intel Chief: US at Risk of Crippling Cyber Attack


FOXNews
- ‎4 hours ago‎
From left, National Counterterrorism Center Directir Michael Leiter, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, and Homeland Security Secretary Janet ...
Video: Feinstein asks about chance of attempted terrorist attack C-SPAN




Homeland Security Budget Proposed at $56.3B

The Department of Homeland Security has now announced that it intends to shut down the Loran system on February 8, 2010. Never mind that other agencies have praised the system, that it works well, and that its continued operation has been deemed essential to national security. In order to save $190 million (a dubious figure, as it fails to account for shutdown, demolition, and site remediation costs) DHS will soon put the nation at risk.




INTERPOL

America's Sovereignty


Executive Order 12425g grants INTERPOL "blanket immunity from official and private efforts to assess its activities in the United States", so that this international agency will not be subject to American law and protections of American citizens while operating on American soil. The administration also supports the Law of the Sea (LOST) treaty, allowing international regulation of US airspace and waters.

http://www.interpol.int/default.asp


Panty Bomber Turned Over to INTERPOL, French Detective in Charge

TheRealityCheck.Org - Karl Munchausen - ‎35 minutes ago‎

WASHINGTON: Obama, citing his recent decision granting INTERPOL diplomatic immunity announced today that jurisdiction over the fizzled panty bomber Abdul Farouk Mutallab is now being handed over to INTERPOL. This is a stunning reversal from White House secretary Robert Gibbs’ statement on January 25th that the 50 minute interrogation of Mutallab was enough.

There has been harsh criticism of the administration over their handling of the incident. Serious charges have been leveled that the administration, by ignoring the Geneva Convention, has put the USA at risk. Three days after the bomber was captured he warned that there was more to follow. Charges of incompetence have been leveled against Director of Homeland Security who shortly after the failed bombing crowed, “The System Worked.”

Responding to these charges today Obama read this statement during his daily teleprompter briefing:

Our decision to try Abdul Farouk Mutallab in civilian courts was an admirable one. It was intended to show the international community that the US recognizes the rule of law and no longer will conduct “cowboy diplomacy” in handling man-made disasters.

While our intentions were admirable, we did not go far enough. Recent criticism of our actions have made us realize that the proper handling of internationals is best handled by INTERPOL. After all that is why the organization was created. It was for just such a case as this one that on December 17th I gave INTERPOL diplomatic immunity to operate here in the US. Little did we know just how wise and timely this decision that would prove to be.




People's Republic of China (PRC)


Legendary financier George Soros said Wednesday that China must accept its role as a leading global power and improve its relations with the United States by being more open to external criticism.


U.S. Tries to Ease Chinese Anger Over Taiwan Arms Sale


China's Taiwan Stance May Damage US Defense Firms

Forbes - Kelsey Swanekamp - ‎2 hours ago‎
China's threats to impose sanctions on US aerospace companies that sell weapons to Taiwan could be particularly damaging to an industry that has looked to ...





U.S. Army Imprisons Iraq War Veteran over Song

Dahr Jamail | Hall, (aka hip hop artist Marc Watercus), who is in the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, was placed in Liberty County Jail for the song, in which he angrily denounces the continuing policy that has barred him from exiting the military.





Colin Powell shifts stance on 'don't ask, don't tell' policy

Washington Post - Karen DeYoung - ‎1 hour ago‎
President Obama, who like Clinton received strong support from gay voters, made a similar promise during his own campaign. Like Clinton, too, he has delayed ...



Obama says US must address currency rates

Reuters | Obama said China and Asia would be a huge market for U.S. exports going forward but it would be important to address currency rates to ensure American goods were not facing a disadvantage.

President Obama cuts border security budget

Examiner | While telling the American people that national security is a priority, President Obama submitted a 2011 budget proposal that includes cuts to U.S. border security.


Jobs, jobs, jobs. Meet the new mantra, same as the old mantra


HAITI
The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti Global Research

Haiti, a new Saudi Arabia?

The remarkable geography of Haiti and Cuba and the discovery of world-class oil reserves in the waters off Cuba lend credence to anecdotal accounts of major oil discoveries in several parts of Haitian territory. It also could explain why two Bush Presidents and now special UN Haiti Envoy Bill Clinton have made Haiti such a priority. As well, it could explain why Washington and its NGOs moved so quickly to remove-- twice-- the democratically elected President Aristide, whose economic program for Haiti included, among other items, proposals for developing Haitian natural resources for the benefit of the Haitian people ... »





Former U.S. President and UN Special Envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton addresses delegates at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 28, 2010.
REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Bill Clinton to coordinate Haiti aid efforts


Washington Post
- ‎1 hour ago‎
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday assigned former US President Bill Clinton, now UN special envoy to Haiti, ...


Miami Herald - Aid Plan cause doubts


World Bank and other organizations have organized a damage review based on aerial photographs and infrared images of Port-au-Prince and areas southwest of the capital city




Coupons for rice like gold in Haiti

Looking for scraps


(AFP/Getty photo by Roberto Schmidt / February 3, 2010)
A haitian boy looking for scraps of wood, tin and metal climbs up stairs in a partially destroyed store in downtown Port-au-Prince. The January 12 earthquake that hit Haiti killed around 170,000 people and left one million homeless and short of medicine, food and water in the impoverished Caribbean nation of nine million people.


IRAQ


The Reign of Terror Continues in Iraq

Uruknet | It is not only suicide bombers that make up the problem of terror in today’s Iraq. Also the new republic itself is looking more Jacobin by the day.


Will Iraq’s Oil Ever Flow?

Uruknet | Americans have largely stopped thinking about Iraq, even though we still have approximately 110,000 troops there, as well as the largest “embassy” on the planet (and still growing).


Documents: Plan to oust Saddam drawn up two years before the invasion

London Independent | Secret document signalled support for Iraqi dissidents and promised aid, oil and trade deals in return for regime change




YEMEN

$5 Billion Dollar IMF Swing Behind Attack on Flight 253?

Bruce Sargent
February 3, 2010

Was a $5 billion dollar swing for the IMF facilitated by the attack on Flight 253? Yes.

Flash Back to Early Last December: A $5 billion dollar IMF investment is threaten by revolution in Yemen. Umaru Mutallab, who heads the Jaiz Bank, with links to the Islamic Development Bank, banks that are also heavily invested in Yemen, faces major losses along with the IMF. Revolution and the loss of billions is imminent. Umaru son, the Detroit Bomber, sparks a fire on Flight 253. This sparks a US intervention. Investments of Umaru and of the IMF are saved.

The following from American Everyman:

“Now, here is what we have learned;

• Yemen increased its national debt to the tune of 5 billion dollars from July to September of this year. The IMF, World Bank, and Paris Club members are on the hook [for the loss] for that money if the revolution in Yemen is successful.

• A World Bank and IMF indebted super wealthy “free-market” reformer in Nigeria [Abdulmuttab's Father] goes to the State Department and then to the CIA in Nigeria to talk about his son.

• That same son, for reasons unknown decides “out of the blue” to sit on a small amount of explosives in a plane in Detroit. The CIA somehow misses the warning signs.

• The FBI announces immediately that the son “confessed’ that it was all Yemen’s fault.

• After the attack, all the banking controlled congressmen and the Obama administration announce we will attack “the terrorists” in Yemen and thus help “stabilize” the current corrupt government of that nation.”

Maybe with a plea bargain, short sentence, good behavior and cooperation, Adbdulmutallab will return to Nigeria and assist his family fortunes more directly.



DEPLETED URANIUM - WHITE PHOSPHOROUS

Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke

Depleted Uranium Ammunition in Afghan War: New Evidence
German Bundeswehr manual challenges US and UK denials over DU in Afghanistan
Israel admits dropping phosphorous bombs on Gaza - Serious violations of international law and human rights
Israeli officers get 'slap on wrist' for white phosphorus use in Gaza
Iraq to sue US, Britain over depleted uranium bombs

Afghanistan


Al-Qaeda, Taliban no longer seen in same light

The Associated Press
February 3, 2010

WASHINGTON – Once considered so entwined that they were twin targets of a U.S. invasion, al-Qaeda and elements of Afghanistan's Taliban are now being surgically separated – one careful stitch at a time.

The move by the U.N. last week to remove five former Taliban members from its official sanctions list reflects a growing belief by U.S. and international officials that some less-active leaders of the Afghan Taliban are no longer tightly linked to the al-Qaeda network they sheltered before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The decision anchors an Obama administration policy shift that would transform the Afghanistan war from a broad international conflict into an internal political struggle largely handled by the Afghans themselves. Key to that change would be an effort to negotiate with midlevel Taliban figures willing to renounce violence and abandon their fight.

A few other Taliban figures have been dropped from the target list in recent years, but the latest round signals a more comprehensive approach.

U.S. officials say that the decoupling is limited and proceeding carefully. Some Taliban leaders, they say, may never come off the list – such as Mullah Mohammed Omar or the leaders of the Haqqani network, which directs the fight against U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan from the Waziristan tribal region in Pakistan.

The driving concern of those opposing the move focuses on what would happen if the Taliban are allowed to regain any power in Afghanistan. Opponents fear that al-Qaeda, including its leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, who are believed hiding along the Pakistan border, would be welcomed back.

The U.N. Security Council first imposed sanctions against the Taliban in November 1999 for refusing to send Osama bin Laden to stand trial on terrorism charges in connection with the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

Those sanctions – a travel ban, arms embargo and assets freeze – were later extended to al-Qaeda. In January 2001, the U.N. assembled its first target list of 10 al-Qaeda leaders and 74 top Taliban officials. The list has grown to 268 al-Qaeda and 137 Taliban figures.

U.S. officials see a similar move as a key turning point in the Iraq conflict. U.S. forces teamed up with former Sunni insurgents to fight al-Qaeda and began an effort to absorb them into national security and other civilian jobs.

Several of the Taliban members dropped from the list last week were senior leaders. Among them were Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, a former foreign minister who has recently been involved in helping negotiations, and Abdul Hakim Monib, a former deputy minister of frontier affairs who later renounced the Taliban and became a provincial governor.


Afghanistan: US and British to launch biggest offensive since 2001




DRONES

"Every one of these dead non-combatants represents an alienated family, a new revenge feud,

and more recruits for a militant movement that has grown exponentially

even as drone strikes have increased."

- David Kilcullen (Counterinsurgency Expert) Center for New American Security

US drones killed 123 civilians, 3 'al-Qaeda' in January
Pentagon budget calls for more drones February 2010

Obama ups Pakistan drone strikes in assassination campaign

CS Monitor | News reports said a volley of missile strikes from US drones killed 16 alleged militants in Pakistan on Tuesday. The use of drones to assassinate Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan has soared under President Barack Obama.




Laboring children - India



(Getty photo by Daniel Berehulak / February 3, 2010)
A girl plays at a construction project in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India. The children accompany their parents to the work site, where if they are prepared to work, they will receive money for bread an milk and be provided with dinner by the contractor.


KEEP LEARNING WORLD GEOGRAPHY!
The PowersThatBe wants you dumbed down
!

Belarus

THE GLOBALISTS AND BELARUS:

U.S. State Department
More info at:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5371.htm


"The United States has encouraged Belarus to conclude and adhere to agreements with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on macroeconomic stabilization and related reform measures, as well as to undertake increased privatization and to create a favorable climate for business and investment.

Although there has been some American direct private investment in Belarus, its development has been relatively slow. An Overseas Private Investment Corporation agreement was signed in June 1992 but has been suspended since 1995 because Belarus did not fulfill its obligations under the agreement. Belarus is eligible for Export-Import Bank short-term financing insurance for U.S. investments, but because of the adverse business climate, no projects have been initiated. The IMF granted Belarus standby credit in September 1995, but it fell off the program and did not receive the second tranche of funding, which had been scheduled for regular intervals throughout 1996. Since that time, Belarus has had an ongoing discussion to relaunch IMF-backed reforms, including an IMF Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) in 2001, which ended in September of that year with relatively disappointing results. In early 2004, Belarus halted negotiations on a follow-on stand-by arrangement due to disagreements with the IMF on macroeconomic policy and the claim that it did not require IMF funding.

Because of the unpredictable, and at times hostile, environment for investors, the U.S. Government currently does not encourage U.S. companies to invest in Belarus. Belarus' continuing problems with an opaque, arbitrary legal system, a confiscatory tax regime, cumbersome licensing system, price controls, and lack of an independent judiciary create a business environment not conducive to prosperous, profitable investment. In fact, several U.S. investors have left Belarus, including the Ford Motor Company.

For FY 2008, the U.S. provided $11 million to Belarus. Assistance is provided to Belarus under the Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets (FREEDOM) Support Act (FSA) enacted in October 1992.
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HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS
While archeological evidence points to settlement in today's Belarus at least 10,000 years ago, recorded history begins with settlement by Baltic and Slavic tribes in the early centuries A.D. With distinctive features by the ninth century, the emerging Belarusian state was then absorbed by Kievan Rus' in the ninth century. Belarus was later an integral part of what was called Litva, which included today's Belarus as well as today's Lithuania.

GOVERNMENT
The constitution provides for a directly elected president who serves a 5-year term. The bicameral parliament consists of the 64-seat Council of the Republic and the 110-seat House of Representatives

POLITICAL CONDITIONS
Since his election in July 1994 as the country's first President, Alyaksander Lukashenka has consolidated power steadily in the executive branch through authoritarian means and has dominated all branches of government. He used a non-democratic referendum in November 1996 to amend the 1994 constitution to broaden his powers and illegally extend his term in office.

On December 17, 2007, President Lukashenka abolished exit stamps in favor of a computerized system that verifies the validity of passports. At the same time, however, he authorized the Interior Ministry to ban travel by individuals who had access to state secrets, who were facing criminal prosecution or civil suits, and who had outstanding financial commitments. The travel ban list allegedly has 100,000 names. Several opposition leaders and activists are subject to this travel ban and have been prevented from temporary travel abroad.

The U.S. State Department's report on human rights practices in Belarus is located at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119069.htm.

Environmental Issues
Belarus has established ministries of energy, forestry, land reclamation, and water resources, as well as state committees to deal with ecology and safety procedures in the nuclear power industry.

The most serious environmental issue in Belarus results from the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. About 70% of the nuclear fallout from the plant landed on Belarusian territory and about 20% of the land remains contaminated. Government restrictions on residence and use of contaminated land are not strictly enforced, and the government even announced plans in 2004 to increase agricultural production in the contaminated regions. The government receives U.S. assistance in its efforts to deal with the consequences of the radiation. Belarus also faces growing air, land, and water pollution levels from potash mining in the south of the country.


Minsk, Belarus Wikipedia
Minsk is the major industrial centre of Belarus. The city has over 250 factories and plants. Its industrial development started in the 1860s and was facilitated by the railways built in the 1870s. However, much of the industrial infrastructure was destroyed during World War I and especially during World War II. After the last war the development of the city was linked to the development of industry, especially of R&D-intensive sectors (heavy emphasis of R&D intensive industries in urban development in the USSR is known in Western geography as 'Minsk phenomenon'). Minsk was turned into a major production site for trucks, tractors, gears, optical equipment, refrigerators, television sets and radios, bicycles, motorcycles, watches, and metal-processing equipment. Outside machine-building and electronics, Minsk also had textiles, construction materials, food processing, and printing industries. During the Soviet period, development of the industries was linked to suppliers and markets within the USSR, and the break-up of the union in 1991 led to a serious economic meltdown in 1991-1994.


Major industrial employers include:

  • Minsk Tractor Plant - specialised in manufacturing tractors. Established in 1946 in eastern Minsk, is among major manufacturers of wheeled tractors in the CIS. Employs about 30,000 staff.
  • Minsk Automobile Plant - specialising in producing trucks, buses and mini-vans. Established in 1944 in south-eastern Minsk, is among major vehicle manufacturers in the CIS.
  • Minsk Refrigerator Plant (also known as Atlant) - specialised in manufacturing household goods, such as refrigerators, freezers, and recently also of washing machines. Established in 1959 in north-west of the city.
  • Horizont - specialised in producing TV-sets, audio and video electronics. Established in 1950 in north-central Minsk.

The average January temperature is -6.1 Celsius (21 °F), while the average July temperature is 17.8 °C (64 °F). Minsk receives annual precipitation of 646 mm (25.4 in), of which one third falls during the cold period (as snow and rain) and two thirds in the warm period. Throughout the year, most winds are westerly and northwesterly, bringing cool and moist air from the Atlantic.



(Viktor Drachev / AFP/Getty Images / February 2, 2010)
A woman walks with her dogs in deep snow in Minsk, Belarus.


FEBRUARY 3, 2010 BELARUS NEWS




Opposition attacks Belarus Internet crackdown

AFP - ‎21 hours ago‎

MINSK — Journalists and opposition figures Tuesday attacked an order signed by Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko to monitor Internet use as a fatal blow for the country's last independent media.

The order, signed by Lukashenko on Monday, forces Internet providers to store data on users and the sites they view and hand it to law enforcement agencies on request.

"It's complete control of information," said Andrei Bastunets, the deputy chairman of the Belarussian Association of Journalists. "After all, apart from the Internet, Belarus practically has no free media."

Lukashenko recently set up an "analysis centre" to distribute domain names in Belarus and define what information could be made available on the Internet.

Under the new decree, service providers must block access to a website within 24 hours if asked to do so by the centre.

Natalya Radina, the administrator of the former Soviet republic's most popular opposition website charter97, criticized the decree, which allows sites to be blocked on users' requests if they "promote extremism."

"They can block access to our site 'on the request of the workers' at absolutely any moment," she told AFP.

Lukashenko will be able to use the order to curb opposition activity in the run-up to the next presidential elections in 2011, Radina said

"In order to stop dissatisfied people joining forces and taking to the streets en masse, as happened in 2006, Lukashenko will be able to close down opposition sites."

Lukashenko was re-elected in 2006 in a much-disputed vote that sparked protests in the Belarussian capital Minsk and led to the arrests of hundreds of opposition activists.

The leader of the opposition United Civil Party, Anatoly Lebedko, also linked the crackdown to Lukashenko's upcoming campaign.

"People en masse are turning to the Internet for information, and the closer the elections, the more people will do this," Lebedko told AFP.

"I see this order as an interim stage on the way to a complete monopoly on information on the Internet."

In a December interview, Lukashenko had criticized the "dirt that flows from the Internet."

"The government needs to react to what is going on with the Internet and we will react to this," he told Belarussian journalists.

Most independent newspapers in Belarus have closed down and there are no independent television or radio stations, making the Internet a key source of information under the country's authoritarian regime.

Lukashenko -- once dubbed Europe's last dictator by the United States -- has ruled the ex-Soviet republic of 10 million people since 1994 but has now made attempts at greater openness.

He hired a western PR firm to improve his country's image and began cautious economic reforms.

The president has sought to reach out to the European Union, a switch in policy that has caused some irritation in Belarus' main economic backer Moscow.

Although he has over the last year fired a succession of barbs at Russia, analysts believe it will be impossible for Belarus to abandon its hitherto close partnership with Russia.









CITY OF DALLAS


Guilty plea ends Texas state Rep. Terri Hodge's political career


Hodge admitted today to lying on her tax returns in connection with the Dallas City Hall corruption case.

CITY OF MIAMI

Audit criticizes Miami officials' spending


Miami employees spent tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on DirectTV for a vehicle, and even on a pink metallic dog collar, a new audit found.



BIG PHARMA


Sanofi Pasteur Hired RAND to Determine How to Vaccinate School Children

Infowars.com | RAND said parental consent laws create barriers to vaccinating children.



Kids in Haiti's tent cities getting vaccinated

Over the coming weeks, he United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF plans to set up immunization tents throughout Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas. The organization hoped to reach 5,000 children under the age of seven.

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The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything Mercola

NON-GMO Shopping Guide
Institute for Responsible Technology

Dangers of Genetically Engineered Foods
GMO Corn Linked to Liver, Kidney, Heart Damage: Research Shows

Brinjal a political hot potato in India

Asia Times Online - ‎10 hours ago‎

Opponents of GM crops also point out that the introduction of Bt Brinjal would adversely affect biodiversity and companies would have a monopoly over the seed varieties, which will have a multiplier effect on increasing their prices. "The traditional brinjal crop - of which we have over 2,000 varieties today - will vanish if the genetically modified variety is allowed," explains Shiva.

"The Bt toxin gene produces poison and when it can harm pests, where's the proof that it won't be harmful to humans?" Shiva asked. "The GM agenda is dictated by the profitability for multinational and Indian seed companies and not by concerns relating to food productivity, security or public safety."



Monsanto May Be an Evil Empire, But Its Employee Benefits Are Great

Village Voice (blog) 4 hours ago‎
In the latest issue of Fortune Magazine, agricultural mega-corp Monsanto is named among the "100 Best Companies to Work For," an annual ...





Pig-man transplants 'within 5 yrs'

The use of pig lungs in transplants into humans has moved a step closer with a medical breakthrough.



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Amazing youtube channel with 166 videos. How to cook on a rock, rocket stove out of rocks, tan a hide, build a shelter, wild edibles, how to skin a cow.

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US Debt Clock

FDIC:
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation


FDIC "insurance" is a Ponzi scheme, except in this case Mr. Ponzi has the power to create money and bail himself out indefinitely



Defense Secretary Cohen's 1997 Warning about Scalar EM Geotechnical Terrorism

“Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts.”

- Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.

Haiti: The U.S. Created the Earthquake in Haiti? Pravda.ru



OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE
About Real-Time Magnetosphere Simulation
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FEBRUARY 3, 2010 at 5:54 PM CDT










MOON UPDATE
Current Moon Phase
http://www.die.net/moon/

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SUN UPDATE
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
http://solarcycle24.com/

Classification of Solar Flares

Magnetic fields trigger solar wind


Sunspot 1043 consists of one sunspot and solar activity should remain at very low levels.

A CME was observed off the western limb within the past 24 hours. This will have no effect on geomagnetic activity.





NASA Images Earth-Sized Objects Inside Corona Of SUN



NASA Images Earth Sized Spherical Objects Inside Corona of SUN


EARTHQUAKE UPDATES


Earthquakes in Tennessee and Arkansas today: 03 Feb 10

map 1.5 2010/02/03 06:18:14 36.461N 89.526W 7.8 10 km ( 6 mi) NNW of Tiptonville, TN
map 1.5 2010/02/03 04:06:49 35.817N 90.060W 9.4 5 km ( 3 mi) SSW of Dell, AR



Latest Earthquakes Magnitude 2.5 or Greater in the United States and Adjacent Areas and Magnitude 4.5 or Greater in the Rest of the World


Update time = Thu Feb 4 0:17:09 UTC 2010

MAG UTC DATE-TIME
y/m/d h:m:s
LAT
deg
LON
deg
DEPTH
km
Region
MAP 4.5 2010/02/03 22:39:40 28.279 57.065 10.0 SOUTHERN IRAN
MAP 3.0 2010/02/03 18:12:16 18.210 -66.132 81.6 PUERTO RICO
MAP 2.5 2010/02/03 17:52:23 61.245 -147.775 62.4 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.9 2010/02/03 17:04:28 53.430 -162.700 25.6 SOUTH OF ALASKA
MAP 4.6 2010/02/03 16:55:01 2.418 128.605 238.4 HALMAHERA, INDONESIA
MAP 4.9 2010/02/03 10:52:59 -23.106 -112.279 10.0 EASTER ISLAND REGION
MAP 5.1 2010/02/03 10:16:16 -22.801 -112.182 10.0 EASTER ISLAND REGION
MAP 2.6 2010/02/03 09:59:11 18.654 -66.899 15.3 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.7 2010/02/03 07:26:37 -31.643 -66.366 129.1 LA RIOJA, ARGENTINA
MAP 4.8 2010/02/03 07:21:57 53.875 -163.019 31.8 UNIMAK ISLAND REGION, ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2010/02/03 06:20:50 31.846 -116.038 0.2 BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
MAP 3.4 2010/02/03 06:20:40 18.510 -69.089 110.3 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
MAP 4.8 2010/02/03 04:59:45 18.305 -97.884 92.4 PUEBLA, MEXICO
MAP 4.5 2010/02/03 03:59:49 6.314 123.793 546.6 MORO GULF, MINDANAO, PHILIPPINES
MAP 3.2 2010/02/03 03:49:42 60.680 -147.235 22.4 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.5 2010/02/03 03:25:17 44.557 -110.946 4.8 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 2.8 2010/02/03 02:44:13 44.561 -110.947 5.4 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 3.1 2010/02/03 02:31:47 44.556 -110.940 4.5 YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING
MAP 5.2 2010/02/03 02:18:27 -58.953 -25.695 35.0 SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS REGION
MAP 2.7 2010/02/03 02:13:14 19.863 -156.061 35.7 HAWAII REGION, HAWAII
MAP 3.3 2010/02/03 00:47:36 60.182 -153.210 151.4 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.8 2010/02/03 00:35:17 18.986 -67.628 5.2 PUERTO RICO REGION
MAP 4.9 2010/02/03 00:29:31 -8.815 130.594 35.0 KEPULAUAN TANIMBAR REGION, INDONESIA



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NE State Auditor: Husker ticket deals 'cozy'

State Auditor Mike Foley today said the practice of giving free Nebraska football tickets to state agencies that advertise on the Husker Sports Network is an example of a "too cozy" relationship between state officials and vendors seeking state contracts.

Foley, in a press release today, said he'd found 2,500 tickets were given over the past three years to NU sports contests as incentives to state agencies to advertise during NU sports events.
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Moscow


(Mikhail Metzel / Associated Press / February 2, 2010)
A woman walks past snowmen in central Moscow. The snowmen are part of an annual installation that advertises a show and is built in a different part of Russia's capital city every year.




PET NEWS

Diving guide's special bond with sperm whales captured on camera



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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/7147994/The-whale-whisperer-Andrew-Armour-strokes-a-sperm-whale.html




A baby Phoenicopterus ruber


(AFP/Getty photo by Luis Robayo / February 2, 2010)
A six-day-old pink flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) walks at the zoo in Cali, Colombia. For the first time in eight years a pink flamingo has been born at the Cali Zoo, and more births are expected in the coming days since ten more eggs of this species are being incubated.



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Space UFO baffles scientists...






CoastToCoastAM.com in the NEWS:

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Giant squid invade California
Shoals of giant squid are invading the Californian coast, providing rich pickings for fishermen.
— The Telegraph

3 Neanderthal teeth found in Poland
It's believed the teeth may be from 100,000 to 80,000 years ago.
— Discovery Online

Labyrinths of the Mind: An excerpt from 'Magic, Mysticism & the Molecule'
Micah Hanks writes about Raymond Moody and the psychomanteum.
— Gralien Report

Future Soldiers May Get Brain Boosters and Digital Buddies
The soldiers of the future might controversially boost their brains with drugs and prosthetics.
— LiveScience

Animals on drugs: 11 unlikely highs
Whatever you do, don't give elephants LSD.
— New Scientist





NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - February 3, 2010



Fish oil supplements prevent mental illness; safe and effective alternative to antipsychotic drugs
(NaturalNews) An important new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry reveals that fish oil supplements beat mental illness. The study involved 81 people deemed to be at high risk for psychosis. The randomized, placebo-controlled...

Drugs for HIV Infection and AIDS Might Prematurely Age Brains
(NaturalNews) In a report just published online in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of California at San Diego say they've found a reduction of blood flow...

Mainstream Drugs are Neither Safe nor Effective, Part I
For generations we have been told by mainstream medicine that their drugs are safer and more effective than natural alternatives such as those man has used for healing for thousands of years. Similarly, we have been told that herbs and other...

Cheap B vitamin beats Big Pharma's cholesterol drug
(NaturalNews) A recent study found that niacin, a form of vitamin B, is far more beneficial to heart patients with high cholesterol than is the popular cholesterol drug. Dr. Anthony DeMaria, a leading cardiologist and editor-in-chief of the Journal...

Mainstream Drugs are Neither Safe nor Effective, Part II
Mainstream medicine assures us that their drugs are more effective than nature and that they have been scientifically proven to be both effective and safe. What mainstream medicine does not tell us is how they have rigged studies, withheld...

Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer, Scientists Warn
(NaturalNews) A report issued by the International Electromagnetic Field Collaborative and endorsed by 43 scientists from 13 countries has reviewed the evidence linking cell phone use to brain tumors, and refuting the methodology of a forthcoming industry...

Mainstream Drugs are Neither Safe nor Effective, Part III
Over 95% of the 24,000 plus FDA approved medicines have side effects. In many instance those side effects lead to further conditions requiring still more drugs with more side effects in a never ending cycle. Millions of serious adverse reactions...

How to Fight Candida Yeast Infections Naturally
A yeast-like fungus, Candida albicans usually lives in the intestines along with many other microorganisms known as intestinal flora. If these microorganisms are not carefully balanced, Candida can multiply unchecked, causing infection. The...

Heal yourself in 15 days by transforming your blood (part four)
(NaturalNews) This article continues part four of the 15-part article series called Heal Yourself in 15 Days. In part three, we explored how you are what you absorb, not merely what you eat...

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