Breaking: Secret Service probing Facebook poll on assassinating Obama --The poll asked respondents, 'should Obama be killed?' 28 Sep 2009 The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday. The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents are taking no chances. The poll asked respondents "Should Obama be killed?" The choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.
Saudis Will Let Israel Bomb Iran Nuclear Site 27 Sep 2009 Intelligence chief Sir John Scarlett has been told that Saudi Arabia is ready to allow Israel to bomb Iran’s new nuclear site. The head of MI6 discussed the issue in London with Mossad chief Meir Dagan and Saudi officials after British intelligence officers helped to uncover the plant, in the side of a mountain near the ancient city of Qom. The site is seen as a major threat by Tel Aviv and Riyadh. Details of the talks emerged after John Bolton, America’s former UN ambassador, told a meeting of intelligence analysts that "Riyadh certainly approves" of Israel’s use of Saudi airspace.
Israel urges West to stand firm against Iran --Israel's prime minister began an intensive round of telephone diplomacy to urge Western governments to stand firm against Iran in response to the latest revelations of its secret nuclear programme. 27 Sep 2009 Benjamin Netanyahu telephoned Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and other senators and congressmen to urge tougher sanctions. "Action must be taken in all areas to increase pressure on Iran and impose crippling sanctions on it," he said, according to the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz.
U.S. Is Seeking a Range of Sanctions Against Iran 28 Sep 2009 The Obama administration is scrambling to assemble a package of harsher economic sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program that could include a cutoff of investments to the country’s oil-and-gas industry and restrictions on many more Iranian banks than those currently blacklisted, senior administration officials said Sunday. The administration also is seeking to build a broader coalition of partners for sanctions so that it may still be able to act against Iran even if China and Russia were to veto harsher measures proposed in the United Nations Security Council.
U.S. calls Iran missile tests "provocative" 28 Sep 2009 The White House on Monday called Iran's latest missile test-firings "provocative" and urged it to agree to allow immediate, unfettered access to its newly disclosed nuclear fuel plant [it already has] at talks with world powers. Iran test-fired a new round of missiles on Monday, flexing its muscle before a rare meeting in Geneva on Thursday between Iran and six countries, including the United States.
'Iran plays by IAEA rules, West fails to score points' 27 Sep 2009 The head of Iran's nuclear program says the US and its allies labeled Tehran's newly-announced under-construction nuclear plant secretive while the themselves admit they knew about the plan. "The Americans say that they knew of the new plant prior to Iran's announcement and have presented aerial pictures of the location, so why are they claiming that the project was clandestine?" Ali Akbar Salehi said.
Iran: US, UK, France deceiving world on their nukes 27 Sep 2009 Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency has accused the US, Britain, and France of deceiving the international community over their nuclear programs. In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Ali Asghar Soltaniyeh rejected remarks by President Barack Obama of US, British Premier Gordon Brown, and Nicolas Sarkozy of France over Iran's nuclear program... IAEA Safeguards Agreements declared that Iran is only obliged to inform the UN nuclear watchdog of the existence of enrichment plants 180 days before the introduction of nuclear materials into the facility. The Iranian envoy noted that he gave a letter to the agency on September 21 and informed the deputy general, elaborating that its new plant would be operational in about 540 days.
Iran warns of 'Western stratagem' ahead of N-talks 28 Sep 2009 Iran says the sudden commotion over a nascent enrichment facility outside Tehran is a Western ploy to create high international tensions ahead of crucial nuclear talks. Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani said Sunday that Western powers seek to make an issue out of Iran's nuclear activities in order to "impose their will on the country during the upcoming negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 group."
Obama follows Bush's modus operandi on Iran By Peter Symonds 28 Sep 2009 In a manner chillingly reminiscent of the Bush administration’s buildup to the Iraq war, top White House officials yesterday intensified the US propaganda offensive against Iran, threatening heavy sanctions if Tehran does not provide unrestricted access to its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near the city of Qom and other nuclear facilities and personnel... Obama’s campaign bears an unmistakable resemblance to Bush’s use of the weapons of mass destruction allegations in the run-up to the war against Iraq. Like the Iraqi regime, Tehran is confronted with an impossible task--to prove a negative, namely, that it has no plans for a nuclear weapon.
Yes, and he's exceeding Bush's modus operandi in Pakistan. Obama is out-Bushing Bush in every operandi. US threatens airstrikes in Pakistan 27 Sep 2009 The United States is threatening to launch airstrikes on Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership in the Pakistani city of Quetta as frustration mounts about the ease with which they find sanctuary across the border from Afghanistan. The threat comes amid growing divisions in Washington about whether to deal with the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan by sending more troops or by reducing them and targeting the terrorists.
US braced for surge of protest over war in Afghanistan --The conflict in Afghanistan used to be called the 'forgotten war'. But with the number of soldiers dying there outstripping casualties in Iraq, support -- for the fighting and for President Obama -- is melting away. 27 Sep 2009 As Barack Obama appears likely to increase America's already greatly enlarged troop commitment to the Afghan war, the war itself is becoming increasingly disliked... As casualties have spiked, so has hatred for the war: a solid 57% of Americans now oppose it. That has seen the anti-war movement in America prepare to turn its attentions from Iraq to Afghanistan, gearing up for an autumn campaign of marches and civil disobedience. They hope to emulate the anti-Vietnam war protests, using highly visible public campaigns to force the hand of the White House to pull out of the country, not escalate the conflict.
No 10 asked Army to delay Afghan attack until after Gordon Brown's visit --Major-General Andrew MacKay claims that he was asked whether he could delay an attack on a Taliban stronghold until after Gordon Brown had visited the country. 26 Sep 2009 Gen Mackay, who is believed to have resigned over the Government's handling of the Afghan war, said before he quit that Britain's contribution to the war was being undermined by a "tragic failure of leadership". In interviews with the British Army Review and the book, Operation Snakebite, before he resigned, the 52-year-old said there was a "growing realisation that what we had taken on was in excess of what we had anticipated".
7 US-led troops slain in deadly Afghan weekend 28 Sep 2009 Seven NATO soldiers including four French troops have been killed across Afghanistan, marking yet another deadly weekend for the foreign forces there. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement on Sunday that three of its members were killed in southern Afghanistan during 'enemy attacks', while another three died in the east from 'non-combat incidents' in the past 24 hours.
U.S. drone crashes into Iraq political party office 26 Sep 2009 An unmanned U.S. reconnaissance drone crashed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul early on Saturday, hitting the offices of one of Iraq's biggest political parties, the U.S. military said. No injuries were reported, and there was no indication the aircraft was shot down, said Major Derrick Cheng, a military spokesman in northern Iraq. Cheng said it was a coincidence that the drone struck the local offices of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Iraq's biggest Sunni Arab political group, the military said.
Xe is a busy little bee! Eighteen killed, dozens wounded in Iraq attacks 28 Sep 2009 At least 18 people, most of them members of Iraq's security forces, were killed and dozens wounded in bomb attacks on Monday, the worst violence to hit the country in more than two weeks. In the deadliest incident, a suicide attacker killed seven police and wounded 10 when he blew up a water tanker packed with explosives at a quick response unit's headquarters on the highway from the western city of Ramadi towards Jordan and Syria.
Pittsburgh Iraq War soldier sues KBR 27 Sep 2009 Veterans Affairs lawyers representing Glen Bootay, a retired active duty soldier for the U.S. military in the Iraqi war, filed a lawsuit in federal court on Friday, September 11, 2009, against KBR Inc., as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Lawyers representing the retired soldier in his injury claim assert KBR subjected him to sodium dichromate, a dangerous chemical, while he guarded a water treatment facility in 2003.
Honduras restricts liberties to prevent rebellion 28 Sep 2009 Interim government leaders have suspended constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties in a pre-emptive strike against widespread rebellion. Monday, three months to the day since they ousted President Manuel Zelaya in a military-backed coup. Zelaya supporters said they would ignore the decree issued late Sunday and march in the streets as planned. Some already had arrived in the capital, Tegucigalpa, from outlying provinces.
Honduras regime gets tougher 28 Sep 2009 De facto leaders in Honduras took an increasingly hard line Sunday, expelling four members of the Organization of American States and threatening to revoke Brazil's diplomatic status. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya has been holed up in the Brazilian embassy since his surprise return to the country last week, almost three months after soldiers sent him away at gunpoint. "If the status of Zelaya is not defined within 10 days, the embassy will lose its diplomatic condition," the de facto foreign minister told a news conference. "Out of courtesy, an invasion of the site is not being considered," Carlos Lopez Contreras added.
Honduras Coup Leader Micheletti Decrees 45-Day Suspension of Constitution By Al Giordano 27 Sep 2009 Now they've really done it. On the same day that the Honduran coup regime detained six foreign diplomats from the Organization of American States (OAS) - two US officials, two Canadian, one Colombian and Chilean OAS chief Jose Miguel Insulza - for six hours in the Toncontin International Airport, barring their entrance into Honduras, it has made public the following decree, which bans freedom of assembly, transit, the press and orders National Police and the Armed Forces to arrest and detain any person suspected of exercising those rights.
Flights over Oktoberfest banned after Taliban video terror threat 27 Sep 2009 Germany has banned flights over the annual Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich after a series of terror threats aimed at the country. The ban was ordered by the state's interior minister, Joachim Herrmann, and will run until the end of Oktoberfest on 4 October. Photographs of German landmarks, including the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, the Oktoberfest in Munich and the Frankfurt skyline, had appeared on a Taliban video, as well as the country's defence minister, Franz Josef Jung, and interior minister, Wolfgang Schäuble.
Pharma-terrorists Already Racing to Cover Their Tracks By Lori Price 29 Sep 2009 Remember the role of The New York Times (as Bush media wh*re) in the run-up to the Iraq War? Now comes this gem. Don't Blame Flu Shots for All Ills, Officials Say Donald G. McNeil Jr. 28 Sep 2009 As soon as swine flu vaccinations start next month, some people getting them will drop dead of heart attacks or strokes, some children will have seizures and some pregnant women will miscarry. But those events will not necessarily have anything to do with the vaccine... This time they are making plans to respond rapidly to such events and to try to reassure a nervous public -- and headline-hunting journalists -- that the vaccine is not responsible... 'Sensational reports' of deaths. Oh, like the 'sensational reports' published by the New York Times on the already-stipulated nuclear plant construction in Iran? See: 'Iran plays by IAEA rules, West fails to score points' 27 Sep 2009... Gee, Don. Are you the new Judith Miller? The New York Times already had to issue a grand 'mea culpa' for its complicity in the run-up to the (illegal) Iraq War. Guess you're providing cover for the pharma-terrorists' squalene-laden, mercury-filled, Polysorbate 80-laced swine flu vaccine...
'We're talking physical force.' Retired Air Force Officer Sues Gov. Crist Over Forced Vaccination 19 Sep 2009 Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Carmen Reynolds has named Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL), Attorney General Bill McCollum and Florida Surgeon General Ana Viamonte Ros in a lawsuit in Santa Rosa County Circuit Court that challenges a state statute governing public health. Reynolds is opposed to a section of the statute that allows law enforcement to use any means necessary to vaccinate a resident in case if an emergency. Chapter 381.00315(1)(b)4 says a person can be forced to be tested, vaccinated, treated, examined or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to the public.
Study prompts provinces to rethink flu plan --Report suggests people who get vaccinated are more likely to catch H1N1 28 Sep 2009 A "perplexing" Canadian study linking H1N1 to seasonal flu shots is throwing national influenza plans into disarray and testing public faith in the government agencies responsible for protecting the nation's health. Distributed for peer review last week, the study confounded infectious-disease experts in suggesting that people vaccinated against seasonal flu are twice as likely to catch swine flu. The paper is under peer review, and lead researchers Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and Gaston De Serres of Laval University must stay mum until it's published.
Doctor Admits Vaccine Is More Deadly Than Swine Flu Itself & Will Not Give It to His Kids Posted by setokaiba22 24 Sep 2009 [Largest mass vaccination to begin in October --Dr. Kent Holtorf, an infectious disease expert, declares that the vaccine is 'too big of a risk.'] (Fox News video)
CLG in UPI: Some resistant to mandatory flu shots 26 Sep 2009 The trend toward mandatory H1N1 vaccinations for U.S. healthcare workers is meeting resistance from unions and anti-government groups, officials said. Hundreds of thousands of nurses, doctors and other healthcare workers are being ordered to become vaccinated as the second wave of the H1N1 pandemic spreads this fall.
Wearechange Schools Pittsburgh Police On Constitution at G20 Posted by wearechange 25 Sep 2009 Luke Rudkowski of wearechange.org schools Pittsburgh police on their duty to the Constitution and their oath. Police used LRAD sound cannons and tear gas on peaceful protesters.
All dogs to be microchipped with owner's details to 'help track pets' --All dogs in Britain will be fitted with microchips which contain their owner’s details, under cross party plans designed to track 'family pets.' [Yeah, but it's the *owners* that Police State UK really wants to track.] 28 Sep 2009 Owners will be forced to install the [cancer-causing] microchip containing a barcode that can store their pet's name, breed, age and health along with their own address and phone number. The barcode's details would then be stored on a national database which local councils could access in a bid to easily identify an owner’s pet.
Gag me with a chain saw! Obama would add to school day, curtail summer break 27 Sep 2009 President Barack Obama is among those making the case that American kids aren't spending enough [corpora-terrorist propaganda, historical lies, forced vaccination] time in 'school.' The president says that puts them at a disadvantage compared to other students around the globe. He's pushing for schools to add time to classes, to stay open later and to let kids in on weekends so they have a 'safe place to go.'
In Some States, a Push to Ban Mandate on Insurance 29 Sep 2009 In more than a dozen statehouses across the country, a small but growing group of lawmakers are pressing for state constitutional amendments that would outlaw a crucial element of the health care plans under discussion in Washington: the requirement that everyone buy insurance or pay a penalty. Approval of the measures, the lawmakers suggest, would set off a legal battle over the rights of states versus the reach of federal power -- an issue that is, for some, central to the current health care debate but also one that has tentacles stretching into a broad range of other matters, including education and drug policy.
Warmer weather threatens moose in Minnesota --A special advisory committee warned last month that climate change threatens moose in Minnesota and recommended several steps to help them. 28 Sep 2009 The moose calf didn't seem to want to get out of the water. But its mother, perhaps concerned about approaching boats, decided it was time to leave. She waded back into the reeds along the Sea Gull River and nudged her light brown offspring. Then she bounded through the thick brush into the forest, her calf struggling to keep up. In moments, both were gone. Researchers say such sightings of moose, an icon in Minnesota's northwoods, are likely to become more rare.
National Wolf Awareness Week (Defenders of Wildlife) National Wolf Awareness Week is a time to dispel misconceptions about wolves and to teach about the important role these predators play in maintaining healthy ecosystems. It takes place the 3rd week of October every year. Wolf Awareness Week 2009 will take place October 11-17, 2009.
Previous lead stories: CLG in Washington Post: Mandatory Flu Shots Hit Resistance --Many Health-Care Workers Required to Get Vaccines By Rob Stein 26 Sep 2009 With the H1N1 pandemic spreading rapidly, hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, orderlies and other U.S. health-care workers for the first time are being required to get flu shots, drawing praise from many public-health authorities but condemnation from some employees, unions and other critics who object to mandatory vaccination... "You start with health-care workers but then expand that umbrella to make it mandatory for everybody," said Lori Price of Citizens for Legitimate Government, a Bristol, Conn.-based group that opposes government expansion. "It's all part of an encroachment on our liberties."
GOP Senators Pull Out of Inquiry Into CIA Program 26 Sep 2009 Republicans on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said Friday that they will no longer participate in an investigation into the Bush administration's interrogation policies, arguing that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s decision to reexamine allegations of detainee abuse prisoner torture by the CIA would hobble any inquiry. The intelligence committee launched a review in March of CIA interrogations of 'high-value' detainees.
UK says 'no sane person' thinks about attacking Iran [Makes sense --Joe Lieberman thinks about it 24/7.] 26 Sep 2009 As revelations about Iran's new under-construction nuclear enrichment facility surface, Britain reaffirms commitment to finding a diplomatic solution to the nuclear row. In an interview with the BBC, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said "no sane person" would look to attack Iran over its nuclear program "without real concern." Britain is "100 percent committed" to finding a diplomatic solution, Miliband said.
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