Saturday, May 23, 2009
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government | 22 May 2009
Obama's Preventive Detention Plans Face Scrutiny 22 May 2009 The Obama administration's efforts to craft what it calls a "preventive detention" plan for suspected terrorists will face constitutional challenges similar to those raised against the Bush regime's policies. A White House task force reviewing detention policy is set to make recommendations in late July. The administration has floated with Congress a possible plan that would seek legislation allowing the government to hold suspected terrorists without trial indefinitely on U.S. soil... Civil liberties and human rights groups who criticized the Bush administration's detention policies are definitive in their opposition to Mr. Obama's plans. "It's really crossing a constitutional Rubicon," said Jonathan Hafetz, American Civil Liberties Union attorney who represented Ali al Marri.
Mancow Waterboarded, Admits It's Torture --"It is way worse than I thought it would be" 22 May 2009 And so it went Friday morning when WLS radio host Erich "Mancow" Muller decided to subject himself to the controversial practice of waterboarding live on his show... Turns out the stunt wasn't so funny. Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop. He only lasted 6 or 7 seconds. "It is way worse than I thought it would be, and that's no joke," Mancow said. "It is such an odd feeling to have water poured down your nose with your head back...It was instantaneous...and I don't want to say this: absolutely torture."
The Obama-Cheney "debate" and the threat of dictatorship in America By Joe Kishore 22 May 2009 Whatever his criticisms of the Bush administration's policies, Obama defends its basic aims. On domestic policy, he is continuing the massive handouts to the banks and Wall Street investors. On military policy, he is continuing the occupation of Iraq, while expanding the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. His argument for legality is undermined by the fact that his administration has restarted military commissions, refused to publish torture photos, and in general maintained the anti-democratic measures of his predecessor. Whatever verbal warnings Obama may make about the erosion of democracy in the United States, the actions of his administration facilitate and accelerate its breakdown. It is impossible to combine imperialist war with democracy. The latter cannot survive without opposing the former.
Pelosi Says She Stands by Previous Statement on CIA 22 May 2009 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stood by her statement that the Central Intelligence Agency misled Congress about harsh interrogations torture of suspected terrorists and refused to discuss the political controversy triggered by her assertion. "I stand by my comment," Pelosi, a California Democrat, said today at a news conference in Washington.
CIA agents lose bid to halt trial over rendition 22 May 2009 The landmark trial of American and Italian spies accused of abducting an Egyptian cleric in Milan will continue, a judge has ruled, rejecting a defence bid to end the proceedings. The ruling was a victory for prosecutors in the first trial to examine the "rendition" process, in which the CIA allegedly abducted suspects abroad and sent them to other countries for harsh interrogation torture.
Satire: Obama: Gitmo Detainees to be Sent to AIG, Citibank and Bear Stearns By R J Shulman 22 May 2009 President Barack Obama announced today at a press conference that the detainees at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be transferred to AIG, Citibank, Bear Stearns and other troubled banks and financial firms starting June 1. "These detainees will need something to keep them out of trouble," Obama said. "So, sending them to these beleaguered firms will keep them completely occupied. Besides, they couldn’t mess things up any worse than the regular Wall Street gang did." (Satire)
Top US official warns that war in Afghanistan strengthens Taliban in Pakistan 22 May 2009 America's top military official warned that the US offensive in Afghanistan could end up fuelling the conflict in Pakistan by pushing more Taliban fighters across the border. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, said the surge of 21,000 additional US troops into Afghanistan had raised the prospect that Pakistan could face even greater turmoil in the months ahead. "They want Afghanistan back," he said.
Gag me with a chainsaw! Former UNOCAL/RAND Corporation - Bush/Rumsfeld troll rears ugly head: Former U.S. envoy eyed as Afghan 'CEO' 19 May 2009 Former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad is negotiating with President Hamid Karzai to take a role in his government, diplomatic sources say. Khalilzad, who served as U.S. envoy to Kabul under former President [sic] George W. Bush, has abandoned plans to challenge Karzai in Afghanistan's upcoming presidential elections and is instead looking to take on an unelected positioned described as the country's chief executive officer, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Senate Approves $91 Billion Funding Bill for Iraq, Afghan Wars --Total costs for both wars to top $900B 22 May 2009 The U.S. Senate approved a $91 billion spending bill that would fund President Barack Obama’s troop buildup in Afghanistan and block a lawsuit seeking to force the release of photos showing abuse of war prisoners. The vast majority of the money in the bill would fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, pushing total costs for the two wars to more than $900 billion.
Bombings kill dozens in Iraq 3 Americans on foot patrol among dead 22 May 2009 Bombers struck in Baghdad and a northern city yesterday, killing three American soldiers and nearly two dozen Iraqis in a new spasm of violence that has taken at least 66 lives in two days. The deadliest blast yesterday occurred in an outdoor market in Baghdad's Dora district, when a bomb exploded near a US foot patrol, US and Iraqi officials said.
US soldiers charged over Spanish journalist's death 21 May 2009 A Spanish judge on Thursday revived murder charges against three US soldiers over the killing a Spanish television cameraman during the shelling of a Baghdad hotel in 2003. The same judge, Santiago Pedraz, had thrown out the charges one year ago, citing "insufficient evidence" of deliberate intent on the part of the three to target civilians inside the hotel where journalists were known to be staying.
Israeli toxic waste threatens Palestinian life 22 May 2009 Tel Aviv illegally dumps hazardous waste in the Palestinian West Bank, gifting cancer, sterility and mental disorders to the local population. In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Deputy Director of the Palestinian environmental authority, Jamil Mtoor, confirmed that Israel cuts disposal costs by discarding its waste on Palestinian territory at the expense of the population. "For several years, Israeli companies have been dumping solid and hazardous waste in different West Bank villages," Mtoor said.
White House: "Don’t Ask, Don't Tell" under review 22 May 2009 The White House is insisting that officials are working to overturn a policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, pushing back against Pentagon assessments a day earlier that such efforts were low priorities and Democratic activists’ complaint of slow progress.
Colorado plan to give police power to draw blood from 'uncooperative' suspects --'100 days of heat' crackdown will involve 150 sobriety checkpoints 22 may 2009 One Colorado police chief is preparing to launch a controversial practice in the fight against drunken driving by seeking search warrants that would give his officers the power to have blood drawn from uncooperative suspects. To Chief Bruce Kozak of the Avon Police Department, the blood in a suspected drunken driver's veins is no different than a gun next to a murder victim -- evidence that must be collected by investigators. Kozak's plan is part of the "100 days of heat" crackdown on drunken driving by law enforcement agencies across Colorado.
'Anything using RF energy -- we have the right to inspect it.' FCC's Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts By Ryan Singel 21 May 2009 ...[I]f you have a wireless router, a cordless phone, remote car-door opener, baby monitor or cellphone in your house, the FCC claims the right to enter your home without a warrant at any time of the day or night in order to inspect it... And the commission maintains the same policy applies to any licensed or unlicensed radio-frequency device. "Anything using RF energy -- we have the right to inspect it to make sure it is not causing interference," says FCC spokesman David Fiske. That includes devices like Wi-Fi routers that use unlicensed spectrum, Fiske says.
WHO chief warns H1N1 swine flu likely to worsen --Chan says H1N1 could mutate in "unpredictable [!] ways" 22 May 2009 The world must be ready for H1N1 swine flu to become more severe and kill more people, World Health Organization chief Dr. Margaret Chan said on Friday. The virus must be closely monitored in the southern hemisphere, as it could mix with ordinary seasonal influenza and change in unpredictable ways, Chan told the WHO annual congress in Geneva. An international team of researchers who analyzed all eight genes of the new virus confirmed its sneakiness, saying it was so different from its ancestral strains that it must have been circulating undetected for years created in a USAMRIID lab.
Australia's swine flu alert level raised 22 May 2009 Australia's swine flu alert level has been raised from delay to contain. The announcement by Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon this afternoon comes after after the first case of human to human transmission was confirmed at a school in Epping, in Melbourne's north.
Verizon Willing to Let 62-Year-Old Man Die Unless Cops Pay $20 of His Overdue Bill 22 May 2009 Ohio police are pissed with Verizon after the company refused to help them find a missing 62-year-old man unless they paid his $20 of his overdue cellphone bill. The cops got a call that the man was rampaging around his house and breaking windows. When they arrived, the man had fled, taking bottles of pills with him. The sheriff contacted Verizon to ask them to turn the man's cellphone service on so they could track his signal, but the operator said the missing man's bill had to be paid first. After some back and forth, the sheriff started to make arrangements to pay his bill. Just as he was doing so, the search party... found the man, unconscious, after 11 hours of searching. "I was more concerned for the person's life," Sherrif Williams said. "It would have been nice if Verizon would have turned on his phone for five or 10 minutes, just long enough to try and find the guy. But they would only turn it on if we agreed to pay $20 of the unpaid bill. Ridiculous." [See: Unconscious Carroll man found after 11-hour search --Sheriff unhappy with Verizon's 'line' on emergency 21 May 2009.]
Obama Signs Credit-Card Consumers' 'Bill of Rights' 22 May 2009 President Barack Obama signed into law a credit-card consumers' "“Bill of Rights" that limits fees and curbs contract changes, saying it will give Americans "the strong and reliable protections they deserve."
Credit Card Bill Allows Guns In National Parks 20 May The U.S. House of Representatives followed the Senate's lead and passed the Credit Card Holders Bill of Rights -- but there's more. The bill contains an amendment that has nothing to do with credit cards. The bill allows concealed weapons to be carried in America's national parks.
TARP Warrants Show Banks May Reap 'Ruthless Bargain' 22 May 2009 Banks negotiating to reclaim stock warrants they granted in return for Troubled Asset Relief Program money may shortchange taxpayers by almost $10 billion if Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s first sale sets the pace, data compiled by Bloomberg show. While 17 financial institutions have repaid TARP funds, two have come to terms with the U.S. on the value of the rights to buy stock that taxpayers received for the risk of recapitalizing the industry.
'The executive branch will construe this subsection of the bill not to abrogate any constitutional privilege.' Obama Issues Signing Statement After Creating Financial Investigative Panel 20 May 2009 President Obama on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at curbing financial fraud in the mortgage and other industries, including a provision that created an independent panel to investigate the root causes of the nation’s economic downturn. This one would have subpoena power; its work would be independent of Congress. But after signing the bill, the White House issued what is called a signing statement by Mr. Obama, which includes this advisory to agencies about the financial panel’s potential reach... In other words, the president is reserving the right to claim executive privilege if the commission seeks information or documents that the White House considers to be beyond the bounds of public information and/or privileged communications and negotiations within the executive branch.
FDA: Calif. pistachio plant knew some nuts were tainted but kept shipping them for 6 months 22 May 2009 Food safety inspectors say a California plant at the center of a salmonella scare knew some of its pistachios were tainted but continued shipping nuts for another six months. The Food and Drug Administration issued a sweeping national warning in March for consumers to avoid eating pistachios after concerns surfaced about nuts from Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc.
Illinois Company Recalls 95,898 Pounds of Beef 22 May 2009 A Coal Valley, Illinois company is recalling 95,898 pounds of ground beef because of possible E. Coli contamination. The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture announced the recall Thursday morning. Valley Meats LLC makes ground beef products for several different brands, including J & B and Grillmaster. The USDA says the meat was produced on March 10th. The government calls this a Class One recall. That means there is a reasonable chance that eating this product will cause serious health problems.
U.S. appeals court finds tobacco companies lied 22 May 2009 Cigarette companies systematically lied for years in order to sell tobacco products they knew were dangerous, a U.S. appeals court said on Friday as it upheld a trial judge's racketeering verdict. But in a blow to anti-smoking groups, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia also upheld the lower court's decision to reject expensive remedies, like funding a smoking cessation program.
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Previous lead stories: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims --'Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist' 21 May 2009 Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas. They have made official complaints to the police, to the body which oversees the work of the Security Service and to their local MP Frank Dobson. Now they have decided to speak publicly about their experiences in the hope that publicity will stop similar tactics being used in the future.
Undercover Agents Supplied Missile and Explosives to NYC Plotters --The FBI and other agencies monitored the men and provided an inactive missile and inert C-4 to the informant for the defendants, a federal complaint said. 21 May 2009 Four men arrested after planting what they thought were explosives near two New York City synagogues were disappointed that the World Trade Center wasn't still around to attack, a federal prosecutor said Thursday as the men appeared in court for the first time. The suspects were arrested Wednesday night. Authorities said the men also plotted to shoot down a military plane. James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh, were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles.
Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention For Suspects Deemed 'National Security Threat' --'The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.' 21 May 2009 President Bush Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a "preventive detention" system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said. One participant said Mr. Obama did not seem to be thinking about preventive detention for terrorism suspects now held at Guantánamo Bay, but rather for those captured in the future, in settings other than a legitimate [?] battlefield like Afghanistan.
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Killer Chip Implant--Tracks and If Need Be --Kills
Although the patent has been denied in Germany; it has most likely already been placed into our air through a different form of science--nanotechnology. Do you breathe--than most likely you have been chipped.
http://b.mixx.com/mfuI?fpr=AwsOas&campid=SSN&ssns=41&
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Here is the link that suggests this may have already occurred:
While the US government disrspects states rights, they pass national soveriegnty on to international authorities
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98805
http://www.georgetownnews.com/articles/2009/05/21/opinion/doc4a148345d8104098596690.txt
Insideous politican uses skull drudgery to oppose majority vote on sovereignty
http://www.georgetownnews.com/articles/2009/05/21/opinion/doc4a148345d8104098596690.txt
Obama's appointment a One Worlder
http://www.courant.com/news/local/statewire/hc-ap-ct-yaledeanmay21,0,3355344.story
Friday, May 22, 2009
Tennessee gets hit with two earthquakes today - 22 May 2009 - 10:30pm CST
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
map 2.7 2009/05/22 20:03:31 35.588N 84.159W 6.5 7 km ( 5 mi) E of Vonore, TN
map 2.4 2009/05/22 06:20:58 35.773N 84.000W 9.8 3 km ( 2 mi) SW of Alcoa, TN
Operation Blackjack - Video
Part 2 YouTube
Part 3 YouTube
This is Operation Blackjack, its in the London telegraph.co.uk as a fictional story. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/4220575/Blackjack.html - A slide show story.
The events portrayed in this slide show are entirely fictitious - their claim) Im thinking...no... There is some SERIOUS truth to this, I was first told about it by someone In the US military - he said this slide show is causing a lot of controversy.
The link -
http://www.truvisiontube.com/video/92...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Yellowstone National Park Earthquake Update - 21 May 09 at 6:30pm CDT
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
1.3 2009/05/21 05:49:24 44.636N 109.986W 16.3 43 km (26 mi) S of Cooke City-
Silver Gate, MT
1.5 2009/05/21 02:38:36 44.619N 110.254W 2.2 51 km (32 mi) SSW of Cooke City-
Silver Gate, MT
1.0 2009/05/20 18:27:59 44.773N 111.410W 12.0 27 km (17 mi) WNW of West Yellowstone, MT
0.3 2009/05/20 15:47:11 44.821N 111.028W 4.2 19 km (12 mi) NNE of West Yellowstone, MT
0.8 2009/05/19 09:16:51 44.718N 111.088W 7.0 6 km ( 4 mi) NNE of West Yellowstone, MT
0.4 2009/05/19 05:38:03 44.710N 111.085W 6.7 6 km ( 3 mi) NNE of West Yellowstone, MT
0.1 2009/05/19 04:53:47 44.712N 111.092W 8.5 6 km ( 4 mi) N of West Yellowstone, MT
0.6 2009/05/19 01:13:06 44.713N 111.090W 6.9 6 km ( 4 mi) NNE of West Yellowstone, MT
0.7 2009/05/17 03:40:34 44.666N 110.951W 4.9 12 km ( 8 mi) E of West Yellowstone, MT
1.0 2009/05/15 11:12:32 44.418N 110.592W 1.5 49 km (30 mi) ESE of West Yellowstone, MT
0.2 2009/05/15 07:21:45 44.648N 110.965W 5.3 11 km ( 7 mi) E of West Yellowstone, MT
0.4 2009/05/15 00:31:38 44.703N 111.057W 9.7 6 km ( 4 mi) NE of West Yellowstone, MT
Rolling Thunder’s “Saluting the Troops” program in Washington, D.C., May 23
Rolling Thunder Plans ‘Saluting Our Troops’ Program
Related Link: Rolling Thunder 2009 - Motorcycle Rally in Washington, DC
Rolling Thunder Plans ‘Saluting Our Troops’ Program
American Forces Press Service
NESHANIK STATION, N.J., May 18, 2009 – Mike Corrado, the Marine recording artist whose 2005 hit song “On My Watch Tonight” was featured on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” and has become an anthem for servicemembers worldwide, is one of the headliners in Rolling Thunder’s “Saluting the Troops” program in Washington, D.C., May 23.
Vietnam Memorial Founder and veterans’ activist Jan Scruggs also will be a featured speaker at the event, which will be held from noon to 5 p.m. at the reflecting pool at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.
In addition to Corrado, musical guests include national recording artist Spike Ivory and U.S. Army veteran and country music singer and songwriter Ted Painter.
The keynote speaker for this year’s program is Patrick Campbell, the chief legislative counsel for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Campbell also is a sergeant and combat medic in the District of Columbia National Guard who served in Iraq with the 256th Infantry Brigade. Campbell’s blog has been noted by the MSNBC television network, and he has made many network media appearances. He also has testified before the Senate and House veterans affairs committees on mental health, education benefits and appropriation issues.
Incorporated in 1995, Rolling Thunder is a nonprofit organization with more than 90 chartered chapters throughout the United States. Officials said 40 to 45 percent of the men and women in the group are nonveterans, with the balance being veterans from all wars and peacetime. Although many of its members ride motorcycles, they added, owning or riding a motorcycle is not a condition for membership; all that’s necessary is having the time and willingness to be an advocate for troops, veterans, and the nation’s prisoners of war and servicemembers missing in action.
(From a Rolling Thunder news release.)
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
OCEAN LEVELS WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE
Recent earthquakes Central United States - (Missouri, New York, Texas. Virginia) Updated May 20. 2009 at 10am CDT
Recent Earthquakes in Central US
Earthquakes recorded for the last six months. Times are local (CST or CDT). The most recent earthquakes are at the top of the list. Click on the word "map" or "MAP" to see a map displaying the earthquake. Click on an event "DATE" to get additional text information. Magnitude 3 and greater earthquakes are printed in bold type. The top three magnitudes greater than or equal to 3 are in red.
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
map 1.6 2009/05/20 04:27:29 36.511N 89.578W 10.3 9 km ( 6 mi) SSW of New Madrid, MO
map 1.9 2009/05/19 09:52:32 42.575N 74.113W 14.0 15 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 2.1 2009/05/18 02:21:57 42.567N 74.109W 6.0 16 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 1.6 2009/05/17 21:49:30 36.532N 89.598W 8.8 9 km ( 5 mi) SW of New Madrid, MO
MAP 3.0 2009/05/17 19:53:29 42.571N 74.112W 9.0 16 km (10 mi) SSW of Altamont, NY
map 2.0 2009/05/16 13:02:23 32.796N 97.091W 5.0 7 km ( 4 mi) SE of Bedford, TX
MAP 3.3 2009/05/16 11:24:06 32.796N 97.091W 5.0 7 km ( 4 mi) SE of Bedford, TX
MAP 3.0 2009/05/16 03:08:17 37.248N 80.002W 12.9 2 km ( 1 mi) NNE of Cave Spring, VA
Pravda Tells Us How Marxists Dumbed Down the U.S.A.
American capitalism gone with a whimper
Pravda
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Northern Territory - Australia | Embryonic waterspout
EERIE: The cloud formation in Darwin Harbour that had people wondering if a waterspout was forming. Picture: BRAD FLEET
Weather gets weird with sprout of a spout
STAFF WRITERS
May 20th, 2009
A STRANGE cloud formation over Darwin Harbour baffled experts and laymen yesterday with many thinking the long, black cloud was a waterspout.
But weather bureau forecaster Greg Browning said it wasn't a spout because the cloud didn't make contact with the water.
"But it may be a waterspout embryo, with the protruding cloud lowering from the main cloud base as a precursor to the formation of a waterspout proper," he said.
Waterspouts - mini-tornadoes that suck up masses of water - are not uncommon on the harbour.
Some have dropped fish as far south as Larrimah.
More pictures of our spectacular NT weather
The embryonic waterspout was followed by a short bout of heavy rain in Darwin.It also rained on Monday evening.
About 18mm was recorded in Berry Springs and 2.8mm in the city.
Mr Browning said rain was not unusual at this time of the year.
The average May rainfall is 20mm, but 300mm has been recorded.
The risks of believing that the Mayan calendar ends December 21, 2012!
This article by Dr. Carl Johan Calleman is published as part of an ongoing Exopolitics Forum on issues relating to exopolitics and Solar Cycle 24, 2009-2020. Other articles in this Solar Cycle 24 Examiner.com Exopolitics Forum series on include:
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5. 2012-13: NOAA predicts solar cycle 24 ”weakest since 1928” with $1 trillion damages in worst case
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field | Written by science.nasa.gov
Los Angeles area gets hit with more quakes - 4.1 magnitude - Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 03:49:11 PM at epicenter
Magnitude 4.1 - GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
2009 May 19 22:49:11 UTC
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 4.1 |
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| Location | 33.933°N, 118.331°W |
| Depth | 12.1 km (7.5 miles) |
| Region | GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA |
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| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 0.4 km (0.2 miles); depth +/- 1.1 km (0.7 miles) |
| Parameters | Nph=120, Dmin=7 km, Rmss=0.46 sec, Gp= 47°, M-type=local magnitude (ML), Version=C |
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| Event ID | ci10411545 |
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
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5.6 magnitude - Western Saudi Arabia - 160 km (100 miles) SE of Al Wajh - May 19, 2009 at 08:35:02 PM at epicenter
Magnitude 5.6 - WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA
2009 May 19 17:35:02 UTC
Earthquake Details
| Magnitude | 5.6 |
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| Location | 25.360°N, 37.684°E |
| Depth | 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program |
| Region | WESTERN SAUDI ARABIA |
| Distances | 145 km (90 miles) NNW of Yanbu` al Bahr, Saudi Arabia 160 km (100 miles) SE of Al Wajh, Saudi Arabia 215 km (135 miles) WNW of Al Madinah, Saudi Arabia 915 km (570 miles) W of RIYADH, Saudi Arabia |
| Location Uncertainty | horizontal +/- 5.4 km (3.4 miles); depth fixed by location program |
| Parameters | NST= 58, Nph= 58, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=0.77 sec, Gp= 83°, M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=6 |
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| Event ID | us2009gvba |
- This event has been reviewed by a seismologist.
ROSE-EDIS: Al-Ais, Saudi Arabia - Volcanic Activity (map) - 6,000 evacuated
Budapest, Hungary
Saudi authorities evacuated five western villages on Monday after tremors hit a volcanic region in the past weeks raising concerns of possible eruptions. "There was a large quake, the largest so far," Ahmed al-Attas, vice president of the Saudi Geological Survey (SGS), told Reuters after civil defence officials evacuated the villages near the town of al-Ais. Attas was referring to a 4.68 earthquake, which hit the region on Sunday. Al-Ais, 150 km (100 miles) northeast of the Yanbu on the Red Sea, is not close to the world's top oil exporter's oil and petrochemicals facilities. The region lies on a fault line, according to SGS, which declined to comment on current magma levels, but newspapers reported that in the past few days magma levels had risen to 4 km (2.5 miles) below the surface from 8 km. Fears of an eruption in dormant volcanoes in al-Ais have sent panic stricken residents voluntarily fleeing to the holy city of Medina and Yanbu last week. The population of al-Ais, an ancient resting place for caravans travelling between the western and southern cities of the Arabian Peninsula and Syria, is estimated at around 60,000 people.
Brookings Institution | Comparing the U.S. and Soviet Experiences in Afghanistan
Comparing the U.S. and Soviet Experiences in Afghanistan
Source: Brookings Institution
A country rarely fights the same war twice in one generation, especially from opposite sides. Yet that in many ways describes the U.S. role in Afghanistan today. In the 1980s, the Central Intelligence Agency, working from a safe haven in Pakistan, engineered the largest covert operation in its history to help defeat the Soviet 40th Red Army in Afghanistan. Today, the United States is fighting a Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan that operates from a safe haven in Pakistan. Many suggest that the outcome will be the same for the United States as it was for the Soviet Union—ultimate defeat at the hands of the insurgency. Pakistan’s role as a safe haven is remarkably consistent in both conflicts, but focusing exclusively on that similarity misses the fundamental differences between the two wars. This article will address those differences, and will also assess how Pakistan’s role is impacting the United States’ possibilities for success today.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Infowars.com | Bilderberg 2009 Attendee List (revised)
Note: The previous version of this list, translated from Greek via an automated translation device, has seriously distorted quite of a few of the names on this list. Infowars staff have gone over this list twice; if you have information on the people with question marks (?), please send an email to kurt@infowars.com.
Dutch Queen Beatrix
Queen Sofia of Spain
Prince Constantijn (Belgian Prince)
Prince Philippe Etienne Ntavinion, Belgium
Étienne, Viscount Davignon, Belgium (former vice-president of the European Commission)
Josef Ackermann (Swiss banker and CEO of Deutsche Bank)
Keith B. Alexander, United States (Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Director of the National Security Agency)
Roger Altman, United States (investment banker, former U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton)
Georgios A. Arapoglou, Greece (Governor of National Bank of Greece)
Ali Babaca , Turkey (Deputy Prime Minister responsible for economy)
Francisco Pinto Balsemão, Portugal (former Prime Minister of Portugal)
Nicholas Bavarez, France (economist and historian)
Franco Bernabè, Italy (Telecom Italia)
Xavier Bertrand, France (French politician connected to Nicolas Sarkozy)
Carl Bildt, Sweden (former Prime Minister of Sweden)
January Bgiorklount, Norway (?)
Christoph Blocher, Switzerland (industrialist, Vice President of the Swiss People’s Party)
Alexander Bompar, France (?)
Ana Patricia Botin, Spain, (President of Banco Banesto)
Henri de Castries, France (President of AXA, the French global insurance companies group)
Juan Luis Cebrián, Spain (journalist for Grupo PRISA; his father was a senior journalist in the fascist Franco regime)
W. Edmund Clark, Canada (CEO TD Bank Financial Group)
Kenneth Clarke, Great Britain (MP, Shadow Business Secretary)
Luc Cohen, Belgium (?)
George David, United States (Chairman and former CEO of United Technologies Corporation, board member of Citigroup)
Richard Dearlove, Great Britain (former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service)
Mario Draghi, Italy (economist, governor of the Bank of Italy)
Eldrup Anders, Denmark (CEO Dong Energy)
John Elkann, Italy (Italian industrialist, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli, and heir to the automaker Fiat)
Thomas Enders, Germany (CEO Airbus)
Jose Entrekanales, Spain (?)
Isintro phenomena casket, Spain (?)
Niall Ferguson, United States (Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor at Harvard Business School)
Timothy Geithner, United States (Secretary of the Treasury)
Ntermot convergence, Ireland (AIV Group) (?)
Donald Graham, United States (CEO and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company)
Victor Chalmperstant, Netherlands (Leiden University)
Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Netherlands (Dutch politician, minister of Justice in the fourth Balkenende cabinet, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal)
Richard Holbrooke, United States (Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan)
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, Netherlands (Dutch politician and the current NATO Secretary General)
James Jones, United States (National Security Advisor to the White House)
Vernon Jordan, United States (lawyer, close adviser to President Bill Clinton)
Robert Keigkan, United States (? - possibly Robert Kagan, neocon historian)
Girki Katainen, Finland (?)
John Kerr (aka Baron Kerr of Kinlochard), Britain (Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and an independent member of the House of Lords)
Mustafa Vehbi Koç, Turkey (President of industrial conglomerate Koç Holding)
Roland GT, Germany (?)
Sami Cohen, Turkey (Journalist) (?)
Henry Kissinger, United States
Marie Jose Kravis, United States (Hudson Institute)
Neelie Kroes, Netherlands (European Commissioner for Competition)
Odysseas Kyriakopoulos, Greece (Group S & B) (?)
Manuela Ferreira Leite, Portugal (Portuguese economist and politician)
Bernardino Leon Gross, Spain (Secretary General of the Presidency)
Jessica Matthews, United States (President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Philippe Maystadt (President of the European Investment Bank)
Frank McKenna, Canada (Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank)
John Micklethwait, Great Britain (Editor-in-chief of The Economist)
Thierry de Montbrial, France (founded the Department of Economics of the École Polytechnique and heads the Institut français des relations internationales)
Mario Monti, Italy (Italian economist and politician, President of the Bocconi University of Milan)
Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spain (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Craig Mundie, United States (chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft)
Egil Myklebust, Norway (Chairman of the board of SAS Group, Scandinavian Airlines System)
Mathias Nass, Germany (Editor of the newspaper Die Zeit)
Denis Olivennes, France (director general of Nouvel Observateur)
Frederic Oudea, France (CEO of Société Générale bank)
Cem Özdemir, Germany (co-leader of the Green Party and Member of the European Parliament)
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy (Italian banker, economist, and former Minister of Economy and Finance)
Dimitrios Th.Papalexopoulo, Greece (Managing Director of Titan Cement Company SA)
Richard Perle, United States (American Enterprise Institute)
David Petraeus, United States (Commander, U.S. Central Command)
Manuel Pinho, Portugal (Minister of Economy and Innovation)
Robert S. Pritchard, Canada (Totstar Corporation) (?)
Romano Prodi, Italy (former Italian Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission)
Heather M. Reisman, Canada (co-founder of Indigo Books & Music Inc.).
Eivint Reitan, Norway (economist, corporate officer and politician for the Centre Party)
Michael Rintzier, Czech Republic (?)
David Rockefeller, United States
Dennis Ross, United States (special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton)
Barnett R. Rubin, United States (Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Cooperation)
Alberto Rouith-Gkalarthon, Spain (?)
Susan Sampantzi Ntintzer, Turkey (?) Guler Sabanci, President of Sabanci Holdings (?)
Indira Samarasekera, Canada (President of University of Alberta, Board of Directors Scotiabank)
Rountol Solten, Austria (?)
Jürgen E. Schrempp, Germany (CEO DaimlerChrysler)
Pedro Solbes Mira, Spain (economist, Socialist, Second Vice President and Minister of Economy and Finance)
Sampatzi Saraz, Turkey (banker) (?) possibly Süreyya Serdengeçti (former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey) http://arsiv.zaman.com.tr/2002/05/29/ekonomi/h6.htm
Sanata Seketa, Canada (University of Canada) (?)
Lawrence Summers, United States (economist, Director of the White House’s National Economic Council)
Peter Sutherland, Ireland (Chairman, BP and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International)
Martin Taylor, United Kingdom (former chief executive of Barclays Bank, currently Chairman of Syngenta AG)
Peter Thiel, United States (Clarium Capital Management LCC, PayPal co-founder, Board of Directors, Facebook)
Agan Ourgkout, Turkey (?)
Matti Taneli Vanhanen, Finland, (Prime Minister)
Daniel L. Vasella, Switzerland (Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at Novartis AG)
Jeroen van der Veer, Netherlands (CEO of Royal Dutch Shell)
Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium (former Prime Minister)
Paul Volcker, U.S. (former Federal Reserve director, Chair of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board)
Jacob Wallenberg, Sweden (chairman of Investor AB and former chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
Marcus Wallenberg, Sweden (CEO of Investor AB, former chairman of Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
Nout Wellink, Netherlands (Chairman of De Nederlandsche Bank, Board of Directors, the Bank of International Settlements)
Hans Wijers, Netherlands (CEO of the multinational corporation AkzoNobel)
Martin Wolf, Great Britain (associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times)
James Wolfensohn, United States (former president of the World Bank)
Paul Wolfowitz, United States (for U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, President of the World Bank, currently AEI scholar)
Fareed Zakaria, United States (journalist, author, and CNN host)
Robert Zoellick, United States (former managing director of Goldman Sachs, President the World Bank)
Dora Bakoyannis, Greece (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Anna Diamantopoulou, Greece (Member of Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement)
Yannis Papathanasiou, Greece (Minister of Finance)
George Alogoskoufis, Greece (former Minister)
George A. David, Greece (businessman, president of Coca-Cola)