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Recent Central States Earthquakes
MAG DATE LOCAL-TIME LAT LON DEPTH LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
map 2.3 2009/12/19 23:36:12 40.580N 75.191W 3.0 2 km ( 1 mi) S of Riegelsville, PA
MAP 3.0 2009/12/19 23:05:20 35.541N 97.298W 5.0 13 km ( 8 mi) E of Lake Aluma, OK
map 1.4 2009/12/18 15:09:55 36.450N 89.541W 8.2 10 km ( 6 mi) S of New Madrid, MO
map 2.0 2009/12/18 10:27:57 37.696N 77.640W 0.1 12 km ( 8 mi) WNW of Glen Allen, VA
MAP 3.1 2009/12/18 05:38:08 36.451N 89.540W 9.0 11 km ( 7 mi) NW of Tiptonville, TN
map 1.9 2009/12/18 01:13:39 35.836N 90.118W 8.3 7 km ( 4 mi) SE of Manila, AR
map 1.7 2009/12/18 01:10:58 35.831N 90.114W 7.9 7 km ( 4 mi) WSW of Dell, AR
map 2.8 2009/12/17 20:25:39 35.542N 97.271W 5.0 15 km ( 9 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
map 2.2 2009/12/17 17:52:01 35.566N 97.287W 5.0 12 km ( 7 mi) SSE of Arcadia, OK
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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government | 20 Dec 2009
Mumbai-style false flag on tap for London - and boy are they (the govt) blatant about it! Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London 20 Dec 2009 Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital. In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: "Mumbai is coming to London." The detective said companies should anticipate [!] a shooting and hostage-taking raid "involving a small number of gunmen with handguns and improvised explosive devices". The warning -- the bluntest issued by police -- has underlined an assessment that a terrorist cell may be preparing an attack on London early next year.
'The only explanation that fits is this: he was an American agent all along.' Did America keep mum on 26/11? By Vir Sanghvi 20 Dec 2009 Did the Americans have detailed advance information about the 26/11 plot which they did not share with India, only passing on a watered-down warning? And was there an American spy within the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba who kept Washington (or Langley) informed of terror acts planned against India -- even if this information was never handed over to us? It is certainly beginning to look that way... The terror suspect, we were told, was a US citizen of Pakistani origin. He had some links with the LeT. He had visited India. He may have been part of an advance team for 26/11... These papers showed that Headley had been convicted and sent to jail. But after 9/11, he had been set free and sent to Pakistan to work as an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). According to US journalists, Headley had been given a new passport in the American name of David Headley (his American mother’s maiden name is Headley) rather than his original name of Daood Gilani. He flew around the world, entering and leaving the US at will, avoiding the sort of attention that a convicted drug criminal was certain to attract at US airports. Further, suggested US journos, the DEA assignment may have been a cover... Why would the US treat a 26/11 suspect with such consideration? The only explanation that fits is this: he was an American agent all along. The US arrested him only when it seemed that Indian investigators were on his trail. He will be sentenced to jail, will vanish into the US jail system for a while and will then be sprung again -- as he was the last time.
Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists --Cruise Missiles Launched Thursday Hit Two Suspected al Qaeda Sites; Major Escalation of US Efforts Against 'Terrorists' 19 Dec 2009 On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World News. One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials said "an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned."
Saudi air raids kill 54 civilians in northern Yemen 20 Dec 2009 Saudi warplanes have carried out fresh airstrikes on northern Yemeni villages, killing more than 50 civilians, Houthi sources say. The Shia fighters said on Sunday that Saudi jets fired more than one-thousand missiles at the region along its border with Yemen, Arabic language Al-Menpar news website reported.
Saudi warplanes rain '1,011 missiles' on Yemen 19 Dec 2009 Houthi fighters say Saudi warplanes have fired some 1,011 missiles on the borderline with Yemen where the Shia population is already under heavy state-led and US-aided bombardment. The fighters also said on Saturday that the warplanes had carried out nearly 60 air assaults on the residential areas in the northern Al-Jabiri, Al-Dukhan and Al-Malaheet districts.
Pakistan in crisis as 'creeping coup' unfolds 20 Dec 2009 The political crisis in Pakistan has deepened after the Government's anti-corruption agency sought a warrant for the arrest of the country's Interior Minister. Officials from the National Accountability Bureau asked for permission to arrest Rehman Malik, the minister in charge of law and order and the war on terrorism. The scale of the crisis and the speed with which it has unfolded has prompted supporters of Mr Zardari to question the role of the judiciary and speculate on whether the army is behind the legal challenge to the Government. Some even spoke of a ''creeping coup'' unfolding. [I am thinking *Blackwater.*]
U.S. prosecution links drugs to terrorism --The case -- the first of its kind -- portrays northwest Africa as a new danger [oil] zone. Three men are accused of being Al Qaeda associates and conspiring to smuggle cocaine. 19 Dec 2009 Three men alleged to be Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] associates were charged Friday with conspiring to smuggle cocaine through Africa -- the first U.S. prosecution linking the terrorist group directly to drug trafficking. The three suspects, who were charged in federal court in New York, are believed to be from Mali and were arrested in Ghana during a Drug Enforcement Administration sting. Although U.S. authorities have alleged that Al Qaeda and the Taliban profit from Afghanistan's heroin trade, the case is the first in which suspects linked to Al Qaeda have been charged under severe narco-terrorism laws, federal officials said. [That's not who profits from Afghanistan's heroin trade. See: Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed By Julien Mercille 16 Dec 2009 The total revenue generated by opiates within Afghanistan is about $3.4 billion per year. Of this figure, according to UNODC, the Taliban get only 4% of the sum... The remaining 75% is captured by government officials, the police, local and regional power brokers and traffickers - in short, many of the groups now supported (or tolerated) by the United States and NATO are important actors in the drug trade.]
Two-thirds of Afghan war veterans are suffering from hearing damage --The intense noise of the battlefield is afflicting British troops 20 Dec 2009 More than two-thirds of British troops returning from Afghanistan are suffering severe and permanent hearing damage, according to the most comprehensive study into one of the less well-known side-effects of the conflict in Helmand. Internal defence documents reveal that of 1,250 Royal Marine commandos who served in Afghanistan, 69% suffered hearing damage due to the intense noise of combat.
British Army to get new uniforms -- turned down by the US and made in China 20 Dec 2009 The British Army is introducing a new camouflage design for all its soldiers after tests showed that it made them less likely to be seen by the enemy. Called "multi terrain pattern", or MTP, the camouflage will first be used in Afghanistan, from March next year. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid the US company an undisclosed sum for use of the new design and has secured intellectual property rights over the MTP camouflage to prevent others from using it without permission. The kit is to be produced by a Northern Irish company, but will be made in China. [Works for me. China did such a nice job with the drywall, milk and pet food. --LRP]
MoD names UK soldier killed in Afghanistan 20 Dec 2009 A British soldier who died in an explosion in Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence. Cpl Simon Hornby, 29, from 2nd Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, died on Saturday. He was wounded while on foot patrol in the Nad-e-Ali area of Helmand, and died later that day.
Oil well is on our side of border, Iran says 21 Dec 2009 Iran's armed forces have rejected claims that they have taken control of an oil well within Iraqi borders, stressing that the well in question is on Iranian soil. "Based on internationally recognized borders, the disputed oil well belongs to Iran as it is on Iranian soil," a spokesman for Iran's Armed Forces Headquarters told Press TV on Sunday morning.
Hugo Chavez orders military to shoot at US aircraft --President Hugo Chavez has accused the US of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane, and ordered his military to shoot down any such aircraft in the future. 20 Dec 2009 Speaking during his weekly television and radio program, Mr Chavez said the aircraft overflew a Venezuelan military base in the western state of Zulia after taking off from neighbouring Colombia. He did not elaborate, but suggested the plane was being used for espionage. "These are the Yankees. They are entering Venezuela," he said. "I've ordered them to be shot down," Mr Chavez said of the aircraft. "We cannot permit this." He has accused Colombia of allowing the United States to use its military bases to prepare a possible attack against Venezuela. [See: CIA 'plot to kill Hugo Chavez' --Hugo Chavez has claimed that he avoided a US plot to kill him. 03 Jun 2009 The Venezuelan president said on state television that he had eluded an assassination attempt in El Salvador where he was due to attend the swearing in of its new leader, a Left-wing ally.]
Worse than the bank bailouts: Obama approves security aid to Israel, PA -- $100 million for the training of Palestinian security forces by American general Keith Dayton. 19 Dec 2009 US President Barack Obama this week signed the 2010 foreign aid budget law which includes $2.775 billion in security aid to Israel. This is the second year the budget is transferred to the Jewish state as part of understandings that the American assistance to Israel in the coming decade will total $30 billion. The approved budget comprises, for the first time, $500 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority, including $100 million for the training of Palestinian security forces by American general Keith Dayton. [See: CIA working with Palestinian security agents --US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank 17 Dec 2009.]
CIA linked to Palestinian 'torture' 18 Dec 2009 Palestinian security agents who have allegedly tortured Hamas supporters in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the UK's Guardian newspaper has reported. The US Central Intelligence Agency has co-operated with the Preventive Security Force (PSF) and General Intelligence Service (GI) in the Palestinian territory, the report on Friday said. "The [Central Intelligence] Agency consider them as their property, those two Palestinian services," a western official told the Guardian.
Iran rejects reports of oil well seizure in Iraq 19 Dec 2009 Iran rejects reports that its forces have taken over an oil well within Iraqi borders, while a Baghdad official admits the site is in a disputed border area. In a Saturday phone interview with Press TV, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman described reports about the country taking over an Iraqi oil well as an attempt to harm the close relations between Tehran and Baghdad.
Lockerbie bomber had secret £1.8m 20 Dec 2009 The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, had £1.8m in a Swiss bank account when he was found guilty in 2001 of the murder of the 270 people aboard Pan Am flight 103, it has been claimed. A sum of this size in the bank account of a man employed as head of security for an airline raises some big questions.
12 prisoners leave Guantanamo for home 20 Dec 2009 Twelve Guantanamo detainees have departed the ominous detention facility for their homelands in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somaliland, says the US Department of Justice. The Justice Department announced in a statement on Sunday that six Yemenis, four Afghans and two Somali prisoners have been transferred over the weekend to their home countries.
Man on terrorism articles charge 20 Dec 2009 A 20-year-old man has been charged with possession of articles for use in terrorism. The charge is connected to an attack in Londonderry's Hollymount Park in the Waterside when windows of a house and a car were smashed on Friday morning. Two other men, aged 42 and 18, have been charged with several offences.
States get 16-month reprieve from REAL ID 20 Dec 2009 Montana and 12 other states that are resisting the provisions of the REAL ID law won a 16-month reprieve when the federal government delayed implementation of the controversial measure. The decision by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano means that Montana driver's licenses will continue to be legitimate identification for purposes such as traveling on commercial airliners.
National Guard Called Because of Storm --Governor calls National Guard to duty 19 Dec 2009 (WV) Gov. Joe Manchin (D) today ordered about 200 National Guard members to state duty in response to heavy snowfall that closed major highways and stranded travelers for hours during the storm. Guard wrecker crews have been on duty since the early morning hours clearing primary roadways of wrecked or abandoned vehicles.
Drug giant General Electric uses libel law to gag doctor 20 Dec 2009 General Electric, one of the world’s biggest corporations, is using the London libel courts to gag a senior radiologist after he raised the alarm over the potentially fatal risks of one of its drugs. The multinational [GE Healthcare, a British subsidiary of General Electric] is suing Henrik Thomsen, a Danish academic, after he described his experiences of one of the company’s drugs as a medical "nightmare". He said some kidney patients at his hospital contracted a potentially deadly condition after being administered the drug Omniscan.
Nelson Accused of Selling Vote on Health Bill for Nebraska Pay-Off --What started as Sen. Ben Nelson's personal stand against covering abortion with taxpayer money translated, somehow, into millions of dollars in federal aid for his home state -- drawing criticism that his vote was bought. 20 Dec 2009 The Nebraska DemocRAT, following weeks of negotiations with his caucus, finally agreed to back the Senate's health care reform bill insurance company giveaway this weekend after Democratic leaders made a series of concessions. Nelson's support gives Democrats the 60 votes they need to overcome a filibuster, barring any last-minute defections. But critics by Sunday were heavily questioning Nelson's motivations, given that the abortion restrictions he sought and won did not satisfy several major anti-abortion lawmakers and groups and that it took a major federal payoff to his state to seal the deal. Critics were calling it the "cornhusker kickback" and the "Nebraska windfall," lobbing accusations of political deal-making at Nelson.
Northeast digs out of monster snowstorm --Storm goes to sea after dumping 2 feet (70 cm) of snow 20 Dec 2009 The U.S. Northeast began digging out on Sunday from a massive snowstorm that buried cities from Washington to Boston under as much as 2 feet of snow, creating travel chaos and hampering Christmas shopping. Nearly 2 feet (70 cm) of snow piled up in the Baltimore-Washington area on Saturday in the largest snowstorm to hit the region since February 2003, while New York City saw totals of up to a foot (35 cm) before the monster storm churned into New England.
Previous lead stories: CIA working with Palestinian security agents --US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank 17 Dec 2009 Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned. ...Evidence is emerging the CIA is co-operating with security agents whose continuing use of torture has been widely documented by human rights groups. The relationship between the CIA and the two Palestinian agencies involved - Preventive Security Organisation (PSO) and General Intelligence Service (GI) - is said by some western diplomats and other officials in the region to be so close that the American agency appears to be supervising the Palestinians' work.
Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond 2011 17 Dec 2009 U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry Thursday further signaled that a strong American military presence will remain in Afghanistan long after July 2011, when President Obama plans to end his troop surge. Speaking at the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Relations before a group of diplomats, non-governmental organizations and Afghan citizens, Eikenberry drove home the Obama administration's sometimes contradictory message lies.
Islamic insurgents hack into CIA state-of-the-art Predator drones 18 Dec 2009 Predator drones used by the CIA against Islamic militants have been hacked into by insurgents using nothing more sophisticated than a $25.95 (£16) off-the-shelf software, it was revealed last night. Although the insurgents were not able to control the $20 million aircraft, typically armed with Hellfire missiles and flown over the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they could watch live video feeds beamed back to US control stations through their electronic "eyeballs". The hackers' success raises the disturbing possibility of the Predators being taken over and used to attack US or British forces, or perhaps even domestic targets. [...as the next false flag. US military officials knew about it for a year five years --and did *nothing* about it, of course.]
TimesOnlineUK | Sucking The Life Out Of Britain Continues…
Brussels rules cost UK £18bn a year
December 20, 2009
The cost of European Union regulations — ranging from restrictions on working hours to limits on the noise at which orchestras can play — is costing Britain more than £18 billion a year, a report has found.
NakedCapitalism.com | Supreme Court Guts Due Process Protection
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Reader Walter passed along this distressing sighting from Chris Floyd’s blog. American civil liberties were gutted last week, and the media failed to take note of it.
The development? If the president or one of his subordinates declares someone to be an “enemy combatant” (the 21st century version of “enemy of the state”) he is denied any protection of the law. So any trouble-maker (which means anyone) can be whisked away, incarcerated, tortured, “disappeared,” you name it. Floyd’s commentary:
After hearing passionate arguments from the Obama Administration, the Supreme Court acquiesced to the president’s fervent request and, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision that declared torture an ordinary, expected consequence of military detention, while introducing a shocking new precedent for all future courts to follow: anyone who is arbitrarily declared a “suspected enemy combatant” by the president or his designated minions is no longer a “person.” They will simply cease to exist as a legal entity. They will have no inherent rights, no human rights, no legal standing whatsoever — save whatever modicum of process the government arbitrarily deigns to grant them from time to time, with its ever-shifting tribunals and show trials.
It is hard to overstate the significance of this horrid decision. The fact that the Supreme Court authorized this land grab says we no longer have an independent judiciary, that the Supreme Court itself is gutting the protections supposedly provided by the legal system. Per Floyd:
In fact, our most august defenders of the Constitution did not have to exert themselves in the slightest to eviscerate not merely 220 years of Constitutional jurisprudence but also centuries of agonizing effort to lift civilization a few inches out of the blood-soaked mire that is our common human legacy. They just had to write a single sentence.
Now Floyd saw this mainly as an issue of the treatment of enemy combatants and Obama hypocrisy about torture, which is bad enough:
The Constitution is clear: no person can be held without due process; no person can be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. And the U.S. law on torture of any kind is crystal clear: it is forbidden, categorically, even in time of “national emergency.” And the instigation of torture is, under U.S. law, a capital crime. No person can be tortured, at any time, for any reason, and there are no immunities whatsoever for torture offered anywhere in the law.
And yet this is what Barack Obama — who, we are told incessantly, is a super-brilliant Constitutional lawyer — has been arguing in case after case since becoming president: Torturers are immune from prosecution; those who ordered torture are immune from prosecution….let’s be absolutely clear: Barack Obama has taken the freely chosen, public, formal stand — in court — that there is nothing wrong with any of these activities.
Yves here. The implications are FAR worse. Anyone can be stripped, with NO RECOURSE, of all their legal rights on a Presidential say so. Readers in the US no longer have any security under the law.
Roman citizens enjoyed a right to a trial, a right of appeal, and could not be tortured, whipped, or executed except if found guilty of treason, and anyone charged with treason could demand a trial in Rome. We have regressed more than 2000 years with this appalling ruling.
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/12/supreme-court-guts-due-process-protection.html
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December 21, 2009
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Republic of Lakota | The United States continues to steal from Indians
December 20, 2009
BILL MEANS
With all due respect to Elouise Cobell, lead plaintiff in a recently settled lawsuit over American Indian trust funds (”U.S. to pay Indians $3.4B,” Dec. 9), I think the United States is continuing a policy of “Indians are not humans.”
During the course of this long-running, class-action litigation, it has been documented that the United States owes Indian people more than $137 billion for mismanagement of trust accounts. That was established just by the documents that were presented.
The original federal judge on this case was Royce Lamberth, who held at least three secretaries of the Interior in contempt for not producing thousands of additional documents. Also, during the course of this case, hundreds of relevant documents were found in the trash by Interior Department employees, who reported this to the court and to Interior Department officials.
Those of us who own Indian land, heirs and the American public do not know the total amount owed to Indian people, because the government has refused to turn over all the documents ordered by the federal court. Lamberth was removed from the case; officials in the Bush administration argued that he was biased in favor of Indians.
This has rarely happened in the history of U.S. jurisprudence. Lamberth was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan and is a Texas Republican.
So basically, now, the U.S. government is saying that it has identified the thief of Indian royalties and resources as itself. It has allowed the thief to determine the value of the settlement and mostly has allowed the thief to keep what has been stolen.
Only in America if you steal something and hold onto it long enough does it becomes yours.
To add insult to injury, the government is clearing its conscience by paying back 2.48 percent of the so-far known value of what the United States stole in the first place. Paying $3.4 billion on a known debt of $137 billion is a national disgrace; this needs to be known by all Americans. Cobell should have at least held out until all the documents were presented or a final calculation of the debt was determined.
In the words of a great Oglala Lakota statesman Chief Red Cloud: “The United States made us many promises, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they took it.”
Bill Means is a board member of the International Indian Treaty Council.
This article originally appeared in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
http://www.republicoflakotah.com/2009/the-united-states-continues-to-steal-from-indians/
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Chavez launches national police in violent Venezuela
20 Dec 2009 22:48:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
* High murder rate main concern in Venezuela
* Police blamed for 20 percent of all crimes
CARACAS, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Venezuela on Sunday launched the first part of a national police force intended to end widespread police corruption in the South American nation, which has one of the world's highest murder rates.
Polls show the high crime rate is the population's main concern in the oil exporting nation, where about 14,000 people are murdered each year.
The new uniformed police force will operate initially in one poor neighborhood in the capital Caracas, but will be rolled out nationally in coming months. It is expected to have 5,000 officers by the end of 2010.
"We are going to beat crime with prevention and also with action," Chavez, a self-proclaimed socialist revolutionary, said on his weekly television show, which he dedicated to the new police force and the prison system.
Chavez, who blames crime on capitalism, has failed to control soaring murder rates in his decade in power. He will defend a large legislative majority in September elections and risks losses if he cannot show progress on problems such as crime and deteriorating public services.
Venezuela's current police are divided into hundreds of municipal and state forces, along with a national investigative unit and a civil intelligence agency. The army's National Guard division also has crime fighting powers.
Rights groups say police officers are responsible for thousands of "extra-judicial" killings each year. Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami says up to 20 percent of crimes are committed by the police.
"This is a police force firm in its defense of human rights," Chavez said of the new force, which will have a 2010 budget of about $800 million paid by the president's office.
Critics say that the new police force, which is under the orders of the Interior Ministry, risks being politicized. Many government institutions are dominated by Chavez allies.
Police experts from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the United Kingdom advised Venezuela during the creation of the new national force. (Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel, editing by Anthony Boadle)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20165119.htm
Source: Reuters
* High murder rate main concern in Venezuela
* Police blamed for 20 percent of all crimes
CARACAS, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Venezuela on Sunday launched the first part of a national police force intended to end widespread police corruption in the South American nation, which has one of the world's highest murder rates.
Polls show the high crime rate is the population's main concern in the oil exporting nation, where about 14,000 people are murdered each year.
The new uniformed police force will operate initially in one poor neighborhood in the capital Caracas, but will be rolled out nationally in coming months. It is expected to have 5,000 officers by the end of 2010.
"We are going to beat crime with prevention and also with action," Chavez, a self-proclaimed socialist revolutionary, said on his weekly television show, which he dedicated to the new police force and the prison system.
Chavez, who blames crime on capitalism, has failed to control soaring murder rates in his decade in power. He will defend a large legislative majority in September elections and risks losses if he cannot show progress on problems such as crime and deteriorating public services.
Venezuela's current police are divided into hundreds of municipal and state forces, along with a national investigative unit and a civil intelligence agency. The army's National Guard division also has crime fighting powers.
Rights groups say police officers are responsible for thousands of "extra-judicial" killings each year. Interior Minister Tarek El Aissami says up to 20 percent of crimes are committed by the police.
"This is a police force firm in its defense of human rights," Chavez said of the new force, which will have a 2010 budget of about $800 million paid by the president's office.
Critics say that the new police force, which is under the orders of the Interior Ministry, risks being politicized. Many government institutions are dominated by Chavez allies.
Police experts from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Mexico and the United Kingdom advised Venezuela during the creation of the new national force. (Reporting by Frank Jack Daniel, editing by Anthony Boadle)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20165119.htm
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Copenhagen summit veering towards farce, warns Ed Miliband
Guardian | With just two days remaining, the inability to overcome disagreements about the shape of a deal to combat global warming led to hours of inaction today.
NSA’s $1.9 billion cyber spy center a power grab
Deseret News | The National Security Agency plans to construct a colossal $1.9 billion information storage center at Camp Williams.
OpEdNews | If you want to know how the insurance companies are viewing the legislation, just follow their stock prices.
Government Health Care: The Next Step On the Road to Tyranny and Slavery
Kurt Nimmo | Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution does not say a word about health care.
Alex Jones: Copenhagen births World Gov’t framework despite fallout over science fraud
Aaron Dykes | Alex Jones breaks down the conclusion of the Copenhagen United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNFCC), including the foundations of a new era of Global Governance.
Dem Holdout Signs On to Healthcare Bill, Senate Expects Passage by Christmas
Washington Post | The Senate is expected to work its way through a series of procedural motions over the next few days, with a vote on the legislation scheduled the evening of Dec. 24th.
Copenhagen Accord Establishes Global Government Framework Paul Joseph Watson | “Governance structure” will be set up to control taxes on CO2 emissions.
AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and GMAC: “Long-Term Wards of the State”
Cryptogon | Even as the biggest banks repay their government debt, four troubled giants of the financial world remain on government life support.
2010 Food Crisis Means Financial Armageddon
Market Skeptics | If you read any economic, financial, or political analysis for 2010 that doesn’t mention the food shortage looming next year, throw it in the trash, as it is worthless.
The Dark Gray Swan: No More Foreign Dollars With Which To Buy US Treasuries
Zero Hedge | With the entire world embarking on an unprecedented spree of domestic bubble blowing to mask the collapse in global GDP, everyone forgot to trade.
Practice of Bowing His Way Around the World
Breitbart | What is it with our head of our state and Commander-in-Chief that sends him diving toward his shoes whenever a foreign dignitary hails into view?
Copenhagen climate summit: ‘most important paper in the world’ is a glorified UN press release
London Telegraph | When the data with which you have tried to terrify the world is daily exposed as ever more phoney– what do you do?
Copenhagen summit veering towards farce, warns Ed Miliband
Guardian | With just two days remaining, the inability to overcome disagreements about the shape of a deal to combat global warming led to hours of inaction today.
NSA’s $1.9 billion cyber spy center a power grab
Deseret News | The National Security Agency plans to construct a colossal $1.9 billion information storage center at Camp Williams.
BlackListedNews.com | Headlines - December 20, 2009
| The latest calculation of the National Debt as posted by the Treasury Department has - at least numerically - exceeded the statutory Debt Limit approved by Congress last February as part of the Recovery Act stimulus bill. | |
| While posting breathtaking profits in the last two quarters – Wells Fargo’s $3.2 billion, Citigroup’s $3 billion and Chase’s $2.7 billion – U.S. banks have figured out a way to squeeze some extra dollars from those who can least afford it, the unemployed. | |
| General Electric, one of the world’s biggest corporations, is using the London libel courts to gag a senior radiologist after he raised the alarm over the potentially fatal risks of one of its drugs. | |
| Colombia has announced it will build a new military base near its border with Venezuela, in a move likely to further strain its tense ties with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. | |
| Aaron sez, "This piece from the LA Times includes a stunning description of how an undercover cop lifted a DNA sample from Stephanie Lazarus, a police woman was under investigation for murdering her romantic rival." | |
| Two Russian Tu-95MS Bear strategic bombers that carried out a routine patrol flight over the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans were shadowed by 'regular' NATO fighters, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday. | |
RussiaToday | Plenty of finger pointing after pretty fruitless Copenhagen summit (video)
World leaders reached a deal of sorts to tackle global warming, but the summit in Copenhagen has been widely seen as a failure, especially by developing countries – and many blame the US and China for refusing to budge.
Early on Saturday morning, world leaders finally reached a deal of sorts on reducing carbon emissions and financing developing countries in their battle against climate change.
Early on Saturday morning, world leaders finally reached a deal of sorts on reducing carbon emissions and financing developing countries in their battle against climate change.
Russian presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich shared some of the pain felt by negotiators.
“Many countries have made significant statements. Unfortunately, this summit was organized in such a way that the sides could not come to an agreement. The Russian President noted, among other things, that the documents which the leaders were expected to discuss were prepared very poorly. Negotiations have been really difficult,” Arkady Dvorkovich says.
The deal is one that includes none of the rhetoric of leaders going into the summit.
Many blamed the US and China for refusing to budge.
“Why would we in the United States give something to China to help them to meet certain goals when they own $800 billion of our debt? It just doesn't make sense,” believes US Senator James Inhofe.
But both countries eventually made small concessions, to enable the two superpowers, plus India, South Africa and Brazil, to broker a last-minute pledge to limit temperature rises to 2 degrees Celsius.
The five nations also promised $30 billion in aid to developing nations over the next three years, to help them cope with the impacts of climate change. The goal is to increase the sum to $100 billion a year by 2020.
The emerging deal still needs to be accepted by all 193 countries represented at the talks.
With the Copenhagen conference now over, many are left wondering what will happen next: will countries abide by the emissions cuts they’ve pledged, and will what was decided in Copenhagen ever become legally binding?
And the question on many people’s lips is: for so little achieved, was it really worth it?
But some say this summit was never about climate change and that the real goal was to force countries to act against their national interests in the name of preventing global warming.
The way forward, according to the Schiller Institute, is for the US, India, China and Russia, to join together to create a new global financial system.
“If those four come together, all the other nations represented here will say, we want to join in, because what we really want is development – we desperately need economic development for Africa, for South America, for Asia, and that’s actually what most of the countries that were here at the conference would have liked to discuss. Because that’s what they thought they could get out of it – money for development,” says Tom Gillesberg, Schiller Institute chairman.
The G77 group of developing nations reacted angrily to what they say was a deal done behind their backs.
And some environmental activists called the non-binding agreement a “crime”.
As it stands, this is a deal that leaves no one satisfied.
http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-12-20/climate-change-copenhagen-summit.html?fullstory
Telegraph UK | There’ll be nowhere to run from the new world government
December 19th, 2009
‘Global’ thinking won’t necessarily solve the world’s problems
TelegraphUK
19 Dec 2009
There is scope for debate – and innumerable newspaper quizzes – about who was the most influential public figure of the year, or which the most significant event. But there can be little doubt which word won the prize for most important adjective. 2009 was the year in which “global” swept the rest of the political lexicon into obscurity. There were “global crises” and “global challenges”, the only possible resolution to which lay in “global solutions” necessitating “global agreements”. Gordon Brown actually suggested something called a “global alliance” in response to climate change. (Would this be an alliance against the Axis of Extra-Terrestrials?)
WorldNetDaily.com | Headlines - Sunday Morning December 20, 2009
Teacher fired for 'bullying' by offering to pray
Sharing belief in miracles with mother of sick child leads to complaint, dismissal
--London Daily Mail
China warns Obama deficit spending must stop
Beijing reluctant to keep bankrolling president's belt-buster budget
--WND
Is Obama's $789 billion buying votes instead of jobs?
Studies show 'stimulus' spent on Democrats, not unemployment
--WND
African Christians fear own government on 'jihad'
Sudan on brink of civil war, as south seeks freedom from Islamic law
--WND
Pentagon delays new 'bunker buster' bomb
Precision-guided, 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator 10 times more powerful
--Reuters
U.S. Army major: Lose your evangelical beliefs
'American strategists incorrectly rely on generalizations cast as good, evil'
--WND
Congress probes alleged U.S. bribes to Afghan warlords
'If you don't pay for your security, you're on your own'
--Associated Press
Library group defends Jennings, dirty-books for kids
Accuses critics of 'undermining' tolerance, free inquiry, self-determination, democracy
--WND
Jennings 'credited' with 'heterosexism' questionnaire
Researchers cite appearance of document under 'safe schools' czar's byline
--WND
1 a.m. Monday vote set on Obamacare
If all goes according Reid's plan, sets up final passage late-night Christmas Eve
--Heritage.org
Budget Office: Democrats' bill covers 94%
It would leave 23 million people still uninsured in 2019
--ABC News
Last Democrat holdout swings to support Obamacare
Sen. Nelson's rumored payoff 'much more' than $300 million
--Fox News
Analysis: Senate compromise still funds abortions
'Reid's amendment absolutely fails to meet life protections in current federal law'
--LifeNews
Nelson nixed pro-life group's input on abortion funding deal
Anger from those who saw Nebraska senator as 'last man standing'
--Life News
Stupak knocks Senate abortion health care compromise
Pro-life Democrat says he will work to defeat it in House
--LifeNews
Planned Parenthood, NOW oppose abortion compromise
Groups upset states can cut off some funding
--LifeNews
Left-leaning evangelical leaders applaud abortion compromise
'We urge all other pro-life people of good will to give it careful consideration'
--Associated Baptist Press
Pink slips: Last chance to stop socialized medicine
'This is not the time to give up. This is the time to fight harder'
--WND
AFP | Head of UN panel of climate scientists said Copenhagen summit was only the start
Rajendra Pachauri said the accord agreement "will really not be the final word"December 20, 2009
NEW DELHI — The head of the Nobel-winning UN panel of climate scientists has said the outcome of the Copenhagen summit was a start but urged countries to work quickly towards a legally binding pact.
Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), described the Copenhagen Accord, passed Saturday after two weeks of frantic talks as "an agreement that will really not be the final word.
"We will have build on it, we will have to make sure it moves quickly towards the status of a legally binding agreement and therefore I think the task for the global community is cut out," he told the NDTV news channel.
"In the next few weeks and months we will have to work very hard to see that, before the end of 2010 if not earlier, we get a binding agreement that really moves action in the direction we need," he said in the interview broadcast Sunday ...
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HamWeather.com | 273 Records set for Rainfall, Snowfall, and Temperatures events on Saturday Dec 19, 2009
Source: http://mapcenter.hamweather.com/
| Record Events for Sat Dec 19, 2009 | |
| Total Records: | 273 |
| Rainfall: | 143 |
| Snowfall: | 119 |
| Low Temperatures: | 2 |
| Lowest Max Temperatures: | 3 |
| Highest Min Temperatures: | 6 |
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Large 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits MALAWI - 67.43 km (41.90 mi) S of Kyela, Tanzania, Africa - Sunday, December 20, 2009 at 01:19:18 AM at epicenter
| MAG | UTC DATE-TIME y/m/d h:m:s | LAT deg | LON deg | DEPTH km | Region | |
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| MAP | 6.2 | 2009/12/19 23:19:18 | -9.910 | 33.969 | 10.0 | MALAWI |
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ZeroHedge.com | The Dark Gray Swan: No More Foreign Dollars With Which To Buy US Treasuries
12/17/2009 21:31 -0500 Could the next black/green/dark gray swan be so obvious that it has avoided everyone? Well, except for the deputy governor of the Bank of China, who just gave the world a startling reminder of economics 101, when he said that it is "getting harder for governments to buy United States Treasuries because the US's shrinking current-account gap is reducing the supply of dollars overseas." Oops.
The funny thing about natural (and economic) systems: they can only be pushed so far before they snap back to default state. With the entire world embarking on an unprecedented spree of domestic bubble blowing to mask the collapse in global GDP, everyone forgot to trade. Zero Hedge has long emphasized that the drop in world trade can only sustain for so long before it brings the current destabilized system back to some form of equilibrium. Because with every country intent on merely printing more of its own currency, whether it is to build bridges or to make the stock of electronic book fads trade at 100x earnings, said countries ran out of non-domestic cash. Alas, this is most critical for the United States, now that Treasury monetization is over, as the US needs to constantly find foreign buyers of its debt to fund unsustainable deficits. Foreign buyers who have US dollars. And according to Shanghai Daily, this could be a big, big problem.
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