Syria, Turkey Seek Strategic Alliance with Iran, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon

Syrian Information Minister Muhsin Bilal praised the excellent and strategic relations between Syria and Turkey, and said that the two countries were seeking to expand their strategic alliance to include Iran, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.

Bilal also said that a people whose land has been occupied may use any means to liberate it, because resistance is a sacred right recognized by all international charters.

Source: Al-Thawra (Syria), January 1, 2010

Posted at: 2010-01-01
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/23439.htm

Galeras Volcano erupts in Colombia; no reports of injuries

BOGOTA - January 2, 2010 - The Galeras volcano in southeastern Colombia erupted Saturday night, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries, authorities said.

Carlos Ivan Marquez, national aid director for the Red Cross, said officials might need to evacuate 8,000 people as a precaution. He said temporary shelters and aid supplies were available.

The volcano erupted at 7:43 p.m., according to the Volcanology and Seismological Observatory in Pasto, the provincial capital of 500,000 people that is just over 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Galeras.

Hackable Drones, Crumbling Empire

January 1, 2010

On the eve of the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, historian Chalmers Johnson observed in The Sorrows of Empire: "At this late date ... it is difficult to imagine how Congress, much like the Roman senate in the last days of the republic, could be brought back to life and cleansed of its endemic corruption."

Drawing striking analogies between the fall of the Roman republic and America's decline as a global capitalist power, Johnson wrote: "Failing such a reform, Nemesis, the goddess of retribution and vengeance, the punisher of pride and hubris, waits impatiently for her meeting with us."

Judging by the fragile state of American sociopolitical life, that meeting may not be as far off as most of us think.

America's Hackable Drones

In this light, it was hardly surprising to read in The Wall Street Journal last week that "Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations."

The Journal revealed that the Pentagon's "potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control." Investigative journalists Siobhan Gorman, Yochi Dreazen and August Cole disclosed that the "U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s."

But since feeding the corporatist beast, in this case General Atomics Inc., is priority number one for grifters in Congress, the problem was allowed to fester until the boil finally popped.

Considering that the Obama administration "has come to rely heavily on the unmanned drones" for imperial machinations across the entire Eurasian "Arc of Crisis" or any number of other "theaters" where the U.S. military and the corporate masters they serve, steal other people's resources (known as "Keeping America Safe" in our debased political lexicon), this news will probably come as quite a shock.

After all, we've been to led to believe that the heimat's occupying armies, like ancient Roman legionnaires, are "invincible."

But as the Journal reported "the stolen video feeds also indicate that U.S. adversaries continue to find simple ways of counteracting sophisticated American military technologies." (emphasis added) READ MORE

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BUR20100101&articleId=16724

CaveNews YouTube Channel | Animated Magnetosphere Update - REVERSAL - January 2, 2010

OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE

About Real-Time Magnetosphere Simulation http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html CaveNews YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gos_LepQolQ JANUARY 2, 2010 AT 6:00 PM CDT

For Some in Japan, Home Is a Tiny Plastic Bunk

TOKYO — For Atsushi Nakanishi, jobless since Christmas, home is a cubicle barely bigger than a coffin — one of dozens of berths stacked two units high in one of central Tokyo’s decrepit “capsule” hotels.

Atsushi Nakanishi has condensed his possessions to two suitcases, which he stores in lockers at the capsule hotel where he lives. More Photos >

“It’s just a place to crawl into and sleep,” he said, rolling his neck and stroking his black suit — one of just two he owns after discarding the rest of his wardrobe for lack of space. “You get used to it.”

When Capsule Hotel Shinjuku 510 opened nearly two decades ago, Japan was just beginning to pull back from its bubble economy, and the hotel’s tiny plastic cubicles offered a night’s refuge to salarymen who had missed the last train home.

Now, Hotel Shinjuku 510’s capsules, no larger than 6 1/2 feet long by 5 feet wide, and not tall enough to stand up in, have become an affordable option for some people with nowhere else to go as Japan endures its worst recession since World War II.

Once-booming exporters laid off workers en masse in 2009 as the global economic crisis pushed down demand. Many of the newly unemployed, forced from their company-sponsored housing or unable to make rent, have become homeless.

An upper bunk in the capsule hotel costs 59,000 yen a month -- about $640 -- for a space of 6.5 feet by 5 feet equipped with a light, a small TV and coat hooks. But that is far less than the cost of renting an apartment in Tokyo.

Long-term dwellers like Mr. Nakanishi have special permission from the local authorities to let them register their capsules as their official abode, which makes it easier to land job interviews.

The capsules have no doors, only screens that pull down. Every bump of the shoulder on the plastic walls, every muffled cough, echoes loudly through the rows.

READ MORE ....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/business/global/02capsule.html?em

SpaceWeather.com | Australian Amateur Astronomer Alan Watson's Sungrazing Comet - January 2, 2010

SUNGRAZING COMET ALERT: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking a comet that is about to make a perilous close approach to the sun: movie, labels. Will the icy visitor survive? Click here for the latest image. (Note: The comet was discovered by Australian amateur astronomer Alan Watson in images taken by NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft.)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCi5enrAo_E

Webster Tarpley - World Crisis Radio | January 2, 2010 mp3

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BlackListedNews.com | Headlines - January 2, 2010

World’s Sole Military Superpower’s 2 Million-Troop, $1 Trillion Wars

A lost decade for U.S. economy, workers For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. But since 2000, the story is starkly different.

Israel to issue gas masks to population No indication or threat has been made against Israel from any country that an attack is planned. No country in the Middle East is believed to be likely to engage in chemical or biological warfare with Israel, either.

Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports Neodymium is one of 17 metals crucial to green technology. There’s only one snag – China produces 97% of the world’s supply. And they’re not selling

Jordan asks Canada to seize Dead Sea scrolls 2,000-year-old Hebrew artifacts, which Jordan claims were illegally taken by Israel in 1967, are on display in Toronto

Goldman Sachs to Award Employees $23 Billion In Bonuses For all banks and Wall Street firms, “I’m sure we’re talking $200 billion total compensation, which would create a tax savings for the firms of $80 billion,” said Robert Willens, an accounting and tax analyst in New York who runs a consulting firm, Robert Willens LLC.

U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will top $400 billion, according to Peter Wallison, a former general counsel at the Treasury who is now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

UK Councils turn to Web-based satellite systems to check on pool safety Web-based satellite systems such as Google Earth, Google Street View and popular real estate websites are being used to by local councils to check that pool barriers meet national safety regulations.

Secession, the Second Amendment and Sun Tzu

January 2nd, 2010

by Russell D. Longcore
LewRockwell.com

In the 6th Century BC, Chinese warrior Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War. It has been the definitive treatise on waging war for 26 centuries now. Only thirteen chapters, it was translated first in 1782 when a French Jesuit priest living in China, Joseph Amiot, acquired a copy of it, and translated it into French. Subsequent translations have honed the text into English.

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U.S. Military Aid to Israel Averages $3 Billion a Year for Last 25 Years

Saturday, January 2, 2009

Washington’s generosity towards Israel has amounted to $3 billion a year in military aid since 1985, and extends even further back to the mid-20th century. According to a Congressional Research Service report, no other country has received more foreign assistance from the United States than Israel from World War II until now, and it was the largest annual recipient of U.S. foreign assistance for each year from 1976 to 2004, when Iraq became a high priority.

Israel also benefits from special treatment from Washington, such as the fact that all of its yearly aid is delivered within the first 30 days of the new fiscal year. Most other allies of the U.S. get their assistance through installments that are spread out over the year. Additionally, Israel gets to use some of its U.S. military assistance for research and development in the United States and for military purchases from Israeli manufacturers. But the Jewish state must spend 75% of its help from Washington on military hardware made in the USA, which aids American manufacturers, especially during recessionary times.

http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/US_Military_Aid_to_Israel_Averages_3_Billion_Dollars_a_Year_for_Last_25_Years_100102

House Bill Authorizes $4 Trillion for Next Bailout, but Tells Congress to Shut Up

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Legislation intended to reform Wall Street and protect consumers is currently waddling along in the House of Representatives, moving as best a 1,200-page document can. Bloomberg columnist David Reilly decided to read all of HR 4173 (the “Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act”) and found plenty of “gristle” among its provisions that could make any taxpayer ill.

For instance, the bill authorizes the Federal Reserve to provide up to $4 trillion in emergency funding if the financial sector collapses again. Representing more than twice as much that the federal government spent on the current crisis, the money would not be released unless “there is at least a 99% likelihood that all funds and interest will be paid back.”

Also, the legislation does not address the issue of institutions that have become “too big to fail,” although it does reference the issue of forbidding bonuses for Wall Street leaders.

“Best of all,” writes Reilly, “the bill contains a provision that, in the event of another government request for emergency aid to prop up the financial system, debate in Congress be limited to just 10 hours. Anything that can get Congress to shut up can’t be all bad.”

-Noel Brinkerhoff

Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank (by David Reilly, Bloomberg)

Billions in Recent Yememi Investments and The Underwear Bomber’s Daddy. It’s a Small World Ain’t It?

... That’s the “plan” that requires, as President Obama blusters, “every element of national power” to fight? I don’t think so. You gotta look a little closer than a singed pair of tightie-whities if you want to know why President Obama is going to kill more people in Yemen. I have. Take a look.

The other day I wrote about President Obama’s attempt to assassinate a witness in Yemen as well as the IMF and World Bank connections related to that nation as the probable reason the US feels compelled to invade. The premise was, that with all the free-market “reforms” being forced on the people of Yemen by these privately owned international banking institutions, the poor of that nation were rising up against the corrupt government and it looks like without our help, there will be a regime change. I wrote about the involvement of the Kuwait Energy company and their connections with the World Bank as it relates to the multiple ongoing oil and LNG pipelines running throughout the country. Basically, I estimated based on information from the websites and publications from the World Bank, IMF, and Kuwait Energy websites that there was about a quarter of a billion dollars at stake and that it was that money that was the reason President Obama chose to attack the people of Yemen.

Once again, Obama and his adminstration are serving the banks interests first.

Well, hold onto your hats folks… I was wrong. Yes, you heard that right. Scott Creighton (willyloman) is admitting he was wrong. My research was incomplete and I missed the mark by quite a bit.

Instead of having a quarter of a billion dollars of foreign investment on the line… it’s more like 5 billion dollars.

Yemen’s foreign debt has increased from $8.9 million to $5.9 billion since July 2009, according to the report on banking and currency developments issued by the Yemen Central Bank.

The IFC’s institutions topped Yemen creditors, with Yemen owing them about $3 billion, including $2.2 billion for the International Development Foundation.

The rest of the debt was for the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the International Fund for Agriculture Development IFAD, the Islamic Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the OPEC and the EU.

Yemen’s debt for the Paris Club Members came second by about $1.8 billion, with $1.3 billion in Russian loans.

Many outstanding loans come from Japanese, U.S., French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch and German sources.

The country’s debt for other creditors came in the third place with Yemen owing Saudi, Kuwaiti, Chinese, Algerian, Korean, Polish and Iraqi funds about $836 million. The debt for unidentified sources reached $195.7 million by July. YOB Sept. 2009

Since July of 2009, money has been pouring into Yemen fast and furious; money that may never be recovered were there to be a revolution and subsequent regime change in that nation. President Obama can’t allow that to happen. But how is he going to go to the American people and tell them that foreign investors and international banks are worried about their billions in investments in the “reforms” of Yemen’s socioeconomic system? That wouldn’t be an easy sell to a post TARP Bill nation now would it? READ MORE...

3.2 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE HITS OREGON - 8 mi ESE from Maupin, OR - Saturday, January 02, 2010 at 08:36:45 AM at epicenter

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• 12 km (8 miles) ESE (113°) from Maupin, OR
• 20 km (13 miles) NW (314°) from Shaniko, OR
• 22 km (14 miles) SE (125°) from Tygh Valley, OR
• 140 km (87 miles) ESE (108°) from Portland, OR

Bob Chapman's International Forecaster | Forward With Caution After Exposing The Fed

http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Forward_With_Caution_After_Exposing_The_Fed

How Goldman Sachs Made Tens Of Billions Of Dollars From The Economic Collapse Of America In Four Easy Steps

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/how-goldman-sachs-made-tens-of-billions-of-dollars-from-the-economic-collapse-of-america-in-four-easy-steps

The following is how Goldman Sachs made tens of billions of dollars from the economic collapse of America in four easy steps....

Step 1: Sell mortgage-related securities that are absolute junk to trusting clients at vastly overinflated prices.

Step 2: Bet against those same mortgage-related securities and make massive bets against the U.S. housing market so that your firm will make massive profits when the U.S. economy collapses.

Step 3: Have ex-Goldman executives in key positions of power in the U.S. government so that bailout money can be funneled to entities such as AIG that Goldman has made these bets with so that they can get paid after they win their bets.

Step 4: Collect the profits - Goldman Sachs is having their "most successful year" and will end up reporting approximately $50 billion in revenue for 2009.

So is it right for the biggest fish on Wall Street to make tens of billions of dollars by betting that the U.S. housing market will collapse?

You see, when you are talking about a financial giant the size of Goldman Sachs, the line between "betting that something will happen" and "making something happen" gets blurred very quickly.

Not that Goldman Sachs was the only one betting against the housing market.

According to the New York Times, firms like Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley also created mortgage-related securities and then bet that they would fail.....

Goldman was not the only firm that peddled these complex securities — known as synthetic collateralized debt obligations, or C.D.O.’s — and then made financial bets against them, called selling short in Wall Street parlance. Others that created similar securities and then bet they would fail, according to Wall Street traders, include Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley, as well as smaller firms like Tricadia Inc.

But certainly Goldman Sachs was the most prominent financial player involved in this type of activity.

In fact, without mentioning specifics, Goldman has even admitted publicly to wrongdoing. On November 17th, 2008 Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein even issued a public apology....

"We participated in things that were clearly wrong and have reason to regret."

But complicated financial transactions are something that most Americans simply do not understand, so the public outrage towards Goldman Sachs and others has been somewhat limited. But that does not change the very serious nature of the activities that Goldman was involved in....

"The simultaneous selling of securities to customers and shorting them because they believed they were going to default is the most cynical use of credit information that I have ever seen," Sylvain Raynes, an expert in structured finance at R & R Consulting in New York, recently told The New York Times. "When you buy protection against an event that you have a hand in causing, you are buying fire insurance on someone else’s house and then committing arson."

READ MORE....

NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - January 2, 2010

NaturalNews asks: How can we serve you better in 2010? (NaturalNews) 2009 was a fantastic year for NaturalNews. Our readership steadily increased, we brought in several new reporters, and we've received many reader comments saying that our reporting has been really outstanding. Bringing you important news...

Children Need More Dirt to be Healthy (NaturalNews) Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have found that children who are too clean are at a higher risk of developing inflammation and disease. Normal skin bacteria that act to balance immune response protect the body from...

New Study Confirms: Organic Food is Far Healthier Than Conventional (NaturalNews) Organic produce is nutritionally superior to so-called "conventional" produce, according to a comprehensive review conducted by researchers from the University of Aix-Marseille for the French food agency (AFSSA) and published in the journal...

Most fruit juice is about as healthy as soda When it comes to healthy beverage options, most people would probably agree that fruit juice is a better choice than soda or coffee. After all, juice comes from fruit so it must be healthy, right? Many experts are now in agreement that because...

Enjoy an Antioxidant and Phytonutrient Powerhouse Recipe: Cranberry Melange, Part II You want to make the Cranberry Melange Recipe. The dilemma is you are wondering how to perform some of the culinary techniques to make it? Also, you may be wondering the answers to questions like why to use salt in this sweet recipe? Wonder...

2009 in review: A year of FDA censorship, Big Pharma crimes and celebrity drug deaths (NaturalNews) 2009 has been a crazy year for health and medicine. It was the year that Congress rammed through a mandatory health "reform" bill that violates the U.S. Constitution in forcing all Americans to buy government-mandated products and services...

Today's health headlines from across the 'net
(Hand-picked by the Health Ranger for your education and amusement)

• Fast food burger meat injected with ammonia?
• Garlic prices soar in China as population protects themselves against swine flu
• Anti-cancer effects of cordyceps mushroom studied
• Man nearly dies after one spray of Lynx deodorant
• Washington D.C. slaps five-cent fee on plastic shopping bags
• Oops: Pfizer halts cancer drug experiments after too many people die
• Is forcing Americans to buy health insurance even Constitutional?
• Health care bill is a huge loss for the American people
• New documentary examines weather control: "Owning the Weather"
• U.S. government wants farmers to spread toxic powder from coal plant scrubbers on their food crop fields
• Missouri recovers $81 million from Medicaid fraud, including Pfizer fraud settlement
• Boycott mandatory for-profit health insurance

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Large 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Mariana Island Region - 330 km (205 miles) WSW of HAGATNA, Guam - Jan 02, 2010 at 06:45 PM at epicenter

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330 km (205 miles) WSW of HAGATNA, Guam
405 km (250 miles) WSW of Rota, Northern Mariana Islands
510 km (315 miles) SW of SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands
525 km (325 miles) NE of Yap, Micronesia

CaveNews YouTube Channel - Animated Magnetosphere - Reversal Today - January 1, 2010

OUR PLANET'S PROTECTIVE MAGNETOSPHERE UPDATE

About Real-Time Magnetosphere Simulation http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/index.html CaveNews YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANCIWFSxzdU JANUARY 1, 2010 AT 7:24 PM CDT JANUARY 1, 2010 AT 3:06 PM CDT

Conspiracy Theory with Jeese Ventura - Secret Societies (Videos)

Conspiracy Theory with Jeese Ventura - EPISODES

TruTV

Jesse Ventura and a team of expert investigators are on a mission to examine some of the most frightening and mysterious conspiracy allegations of our time. They examine available evidence as well as talking to experts and eyewitnesses to learn more about such topics as global warming, possible 9/11 cover-ups, secret government weapons and apocalyptic prophecies. "This is my personal journey," Ventura says, "to prove that there is more to these stories than you know about."

HAARP

December 2

Is it a communications research project or a doomsday weapon that can change the weather, shoot satellites out of orbit - and trigger mind control across the globe? Jesse Ventura and his team head north to a remote region of Alaska to confront the military installation called HAARP.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

9/11

December 9

Jesse Ventura steps into America's most controversial conspiracy by challenging the 9/11 Commission Report and searching for evidence that the September 11th attacks may have been an inside job. At the urging of victims' families, he finds witnesses who claim the towers were brought down by explosives, the missing black box flight recorders were actually recovered and ground control knew the hijackers were in the cockpits before the jets took off.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

Global Warming

December 16

Whether global warming is real or not, it's believed some people are using the issue to make billions of dollars, start a one-world government and control our lives, from the cars we drive to the foods we eat. Jesse Ventura starts with Al Gore and goes far beyond as he uncovers the evidence that leads to one man thought to be behind the global warming conspiracy.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

Big Brother

December 23

Big Brother is watching and it's not who you think. Jesse Ventura's investigation of government surveillance on its citizens tears the lid off a nationwide program that is thought to turn local businessmen and office workers into spies, snooping on their neighbors and ratting on their friends in exchange for information and special privileges from the FBI- including, some charge, a "license to kill."

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Secret Societies

Premiere On: Wed, December 30 at 10P

They're thought to be a group of the world's elite who meet once a year at a luxury hotel and decide how they will run the world. It's believed they plan to thin out the population through disease-and vaccines. Jesse Ventura infiltrates the Bilderberg Group.

Part 1 Part-2 Part-3 Part-4 Part-5 Part-6

Manchurian Candidate – NEW!

Premiere On: Wed, January 6 at 10P

Authors and experts warn that forces within the government have revived a program that uses mind control techniques to turn ordinary citizens into programmed assassins. This real-life Manchurian Candidate seems outlandish-until Jesse Ventura searches for the evidence and goes face-to-face with a man who claims he's one of the killers.

Apocalypse 2012 – NEW!

Premiere On: Wed, January 13 at 10P

It's believed that the world is heading for disaster in 2012 and the government is preparing to save and protect the elite - while leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves. Jesse Ventura investigates claims of top secret underground bunkers being built in places ranging from the Nevada desert to the White House, including the largest, now under construction beneath a major metropolitan airport.

http://www.trutv.com/shows/conspiracy_theory/episodes/index.html

2.8 Magnitude earthquake hit Oklahome - 22 mi ENE from Oklahoma City, OK - Friday, January 01, 2010 at 12:45:51 PM at epicenter

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Location	35.634°N, 97.184°W
Depth	5 km (3.1 miles) set by location program
Region	OKLAHOMA
Distances	3 km (2 miles) SSE (167°) from Luther, OK 12 km (8 miles) NE (51°) from Jones, OK 13 km (8 miles) ESE (105°) from Arcadia, OK 36 km (22 miles) ENE (62°) from Oklahoma City, OK 317 km (197 miles) N (354°) from Dallas, TX

BlackListedNews.com | Headlines - January 1, 2010

UK Councils turn to Web-based satellite systems to check on pool safety Web-based satellite systems such as Google Earth, Google Street View and popular real estate websites are being used to by local councils to check that pool barriers meet national safety regulations.

Obama's War: Afghan Death Toll More Than Doubles In 2009 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan doubled in 2009 compared with a year ago as 30,000 additional troops began pouring in for a stepped-up offensive and the Taliban fought back with powerful improvised bombs.

Your Cyborg Eye Will Talk to You Just as many of us are getting used to augmented reality applications for cellphones and digital cameras, Babak Amir Parviz and his University of Washington students are taking it one step further. The group is working on a human machine interface where LEDs are embedded into contact lenses in order to display information to the wearer.

Nuclear Powered Nanorobots To Replace Food? Robert Freitas on How Nuclear-Powered Nanobots Will Allow Us to Forgo Eating a Square Meal for a Century

C.I.A. Takes On Expanded Paramilitary Role on Front Lines The deaths of seven Central Intelligence Agency operatives at a remote base in the mountains of Afghanistan are a pointed example of the civilian spy agency’s transformation in recent years into a paramilitary organization at the vanguard of America’s far-flung wars

Obama has announced the partition of Pakistan President Obamas West point speech of December 2 is a thinly veiled declaration of war against Pakistan in the sense that it announces the intent of the US to promote the dismemberment, the partition of Pakistan along ethnic lines and in order to do that you have to create trouble on the ground. VoltaireNet: Obama Declares War on Pakistan.

Israel Rules On Christmas eve when Christians were celebrating the Prince of Peace, the New York Times delivered forth a call for war. “There’s only one way to stop Iran,” declared Alan J. Kuperman, and that is “military air strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

Anti-terror drill by Mumbai police triggers panic

Blackwater off the hook for manslaughter In a rebuke to government prosecutors, a federal judge dismissed criminal charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of fatally shooting 14 people in Baghdad in September 2007.

Obama positioning for immigration reform (Instant Citizenship For Illegals) With the health-care battle still unfinished, the Obama administration has been laying plans to take up an issue that could prove even more divisive — a major overhaul of the nation's immigration system.

European Parliament to Investigate WHO and “Pandemic” Scandal The parliament motion was introduced by Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, former SPD Member of the German Bundestag and now Chairman of the European Parliament Health Committee.

TSA agents raid blogger’s home, confiscate laptop, demand sources for secret Christmas security directive

Hal Turner is a “National Security Intelligence” Asset In an effort to save former blogger and radio talk show host Hal Turner from years in prison, the Family of Hal Turner blog has posted pages from a heavily redacted trial transcript.

American and Israeli use of Depleted Uranium - the tiny victims

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/31/content_12737323.htm

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NewsWithViews.com | Morning Headlines - January 1, 2010

January 1, 2010

"Detroit bomber" incident: Playing the American people, again
Terrorism is serious. No question we're all deeply concerned about terrorists coming across our borders while Congress and the last five presidents have sat on their backsides, making half-baked efforts to seal up the borders, hunt down the illegals and get them out of our country. America has paid a terrible price from the slaughter of our citizens by illegal aliens. All we have seen is Band Aids since Ronald Reagan opened the flood gates and our brave U.S. Border Patrol agents treated as nothing but.........
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd478.htm
by Devvy Kidd

New Year’s Resolutions for Constitutionalists

As another year comes to a close and a new decade beckons I’m looking past my frivolous resolve to exercise more and eat less. Instead, I imagine a wish list compiled by Americans who yearn for a return to government bound by the limits of the Constitution. What would such a list look like? When a minority of colonists stood up to a tyrant king over two centuries ago they did so because they believed that freedom didn’t look.......
http://www.newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett213.htm
by Mary Starrett

The Christmas Debt Coolie and Telling the Truth

Since my recent articles many people have actually stopped by home to ask questions about PERS and Springfield School District. Unfortunately I had to tell them the ugly truth and destroy their delusion. If you want the documented proof about PERS please don’t be shy. Just knock on the door and I will also give you a Christmas Debt Cookie along with the correct information......
http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest167.htm
by Fred Starkey

Let's Wake Up and Make a Difference in 2010
America has always been and continues to be in the crosshairs of Dictators, i.e. socialists, communists, terrorists and “other controllers” due to one major, systemic clash. We view freedom for each individual a pre ordained gift and right from God. They view freedom as a borrowed and assigned privilege from Government. The two ideologies clash to the point of bloody wars because the God’s are different and don’t mix........
http://www.newswithviews.com/Roth/laurie196.htm
by Dr. Laurie Roth, Ph.D

Iraq Government to Appeal Blackwater verdict

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/201011101136634433.html

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NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - January 1, 2010

NaturalNews announces the "Dumb and Dumber and Dumberer" awards for 2009

(NaturalNews) Some of the health-related events that took place in 2009 were so stupid they deserve an award. So as a service to our comedy-minded readers, we've put together the "Dumb and Dumber and Dumberer" awards covering the dumbest things we've...we've seen in the health industry throughout 2009.

Let's begin with the American Cancer Society which qualifies for the Dumbest Cancer Fundraiser Award for taking part in a BBQ meat cook-off even to raise money for cancer research. (http://www.naturalnews.com/025794_m...) Why is this so dumb? Because BBQ'd meat causes cancer.

The Dumbest Health Claim of the Year award goes to Kellogg's for shipping boxes of Cocoa Krispies printed with large letters claiming that the sugary processed food cereal helps your child's "immunity." (http://www.naturalnews.com/027386_K...) They have since retracted the claim.

The Dumbest Denial of the Year award goes to SIGA Technologies which vehemently denied having anything to do with vaccines even though their own website boasted about their vaccine technologies (http://www.naturalnews.com/027483_S...).

The Dumbest Surgeon of the Year award goes to the doctor who misdiagnosed a patient with cancer and then unnecessarily amputated her leg. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027609_l...)

The Dumbest Medical Technology of the Year award goes to mammograms

which, the world learned this year, actually cause the very cancers they are supposed to detect.

The Dumbest Nutritionist of the Year award goes to Eileen T. Kennedy, dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, who led the fraudulent "Smart Choices" marketing gimmick that attempted to position sugary junk foods as healthy choices for children. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027077_n...)

The Dumbest Medical Researcher of the Year award goes to Dr. Scott Reuben, a Big Pharma clinical trial researcher who was caught fabricating 21 studies. (http://www.naturalnews.com/025852_a...) Second place for this award goes to all the other doctors and science writers who quoted Dr. Reuben's studies to support their own pill-pushing agendas.

The Dumbest News Service of the Year award goes to The Associated Presshttp://www.naturalnews.com/027424_m...)

which declared war on alternative medicine and commissioned a series of articles with the stated purpose of discrediting natural remedies. (

The Dumbest Legislation of the Year award goes to the Democrats in the U.S. Congress who have passed a health care reform bill that, if signed into law, will bankrupt American families and businesses while doing absolutely nothing to improve the overall health of the nation.

Although this isn't necessarily health related, the Dumbest Terrorist of the Year award goes to the exploding underwear bomber who thought he could bring down an airplane full of Americans by planting a wedgie bomb between his butt cheeks. (http://www.naturalnews.com/027825_t...)

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