It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. -Samuel Adams  Thursday Morning - January 21, 2010 |
  I have a very high stress tolerance level ... I don't 'freak out' easily. I also DO NOT have the ostrich syndrome where I chose to put my head in a sand to not know what is going on around me.When children in a nation are regarded as property and placed on divorcing parent's 'Property Settlement Agreements' and corporations are seen as persons - such nation has a real moral problem with a legal system running amuck. Back in the late 1970's I gave up attempting to convince Christians that a BEAST is an unnatural creation and a CORPORATION is definitely an unnatural creation - and, Christians are feeding that beast by not confronting this legal creation and feeding corporations with their energies - by the dollars they hand them or their employment to gain wages. The 'Moms and Pops' that I saw all over in the 1970's are almost all gone. There is now the expression of WALL STREET and MAIN STREET and multinational corporations have their own armies of paid mercenaries. It's enough to make me want to vomit when I read about our nation via Hillary Clinton giving China lectures on 'internet freedom' when the U.S. has transformed into a police state and Christians, Ron Paul supporters, constitutionalists, etc., are put on lists as 'potential terrorists'. China now can be a conspiracy theorist with this article from the Financial Times (emphasis mine). Chinese media hit at ‘White House’s Google’ Financial Times By Kathrin Hille in Beijing January 20 2010 19:41 China has signalled a change of approach to the Google crisis, with state media describing the company’s threat to pull out of the country as a political conspiracy by the US government. Accusations in two newspapers that Washington was using Google as a foreign policy tool were echoed by Chinese government officials on Wednesday. This comes before a policy speech by Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, on internet freedom on Wednesday, raising the risk that the standoff will damage already testy relations between the two major powers. READ MORE This morning when I read on a Chinese news site about the U.S. continuing to sell weapons to Taiwan and the Chinese in this article using the expression 'it doesn't require a rocket scientist to figure out ...' accurately describes how our government is obviously hell bent to start a war with China - especially with the bombing the CIA is doing in Pakistan. Why is our nation dropping bombs in Pakistan - let alone Afghanistan. What is now going on with oil companies in Iran maybe assists in answering that question - along with the global industry of DRUGS! We have a military takeover in Haiti under the veil of a natural disaster ... the stealing of national resources by globalists once again using the U.S. Military. There is an ethnic cleansing taking place in Haiti that repulses me - our military keeping out aid is not a secret in this age of the internet. |
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801) |
United Nations hold vigil to mourn Haitian earthquake victims  Black rights activist T. West of AfriSynergy Productions warns that people need to be aware of the tragedy in Haiti being exploited by nefarious groups for their own gain, including Israel, who have admittedly stolen organs from dead Palestinians in the past. |
Soldiers in Haiti told to stop handing out food
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Food handouts were shut off Tuesday to thousands of people at a tent city here when the main U.S. aid agency said the Army should not be distributing the packages.
It was not known whether the action reflected a high-level policy decision at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or confusion in a city where dozens of entities are involved in aid efforts.
“We are not supposed to get rations unless approved by AID,” Maj. Larry Jordan said
Jordan said that approval was revoked; water was not included in the USAID decision, so the troops continued to hand out bottles of water. The State Department and USAID did not respond to requests for comment.
Jordan has been at the airport supervising distribution of individual food packages and bottled water since his arrival last week. Each package provides enough calories to sustain a person for a day.
The food is flown by helicopter to points throughout the capital and distributed by paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division. At the tent city, set up at a golf course, more than 10,000 people displaced by the Haitian earthquake lay under makeshift tents. Each day, hundreds of people, many young children, line up for a meal.
Tuesday morning, the helicopters came only with water. Soldiers carried boxes of water in the hot sun and supervised Haitian volunteers who handed the supplies out.
http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2010/01/gns_soldiers_food_handouts_haiti_012010/
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US to send 4,000 extra troops to Haiti
20 Jan 2010 BBC.co.uk
The US is sending another 4,000 sailors and marines to Haiti for the earthquake relief effort, diverting them from deployments in the Gulf and Africa. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and USS Nassau Amphibious Ready Group would "significantly" increase the ability to quickly provide aid, the navy said. The move will increase the number of US troops involved to about 16,000.
Source: Truthout - Benjamin Dangl  US corporations, private mercenaries, Washington and the International Monetary fund are using the crisis in Haiti to make a profit, promote unpopular neoliberal policies, and extend military and economic control over the Haitian people. In the aftermath of the earthquake, with much of the infrastructure and government services destroyed, Haitians have relied on each other for the relief efforts, working together to pull their neighbors, friends and loved ones from the rubble. One report from IPS News in Haiti explained, "In the day following the quake, there was no widespread violence. Guns, knives and theft weren't seen on the streets, lined only with family after family carrying their belongings. They voiced their anger and frustration with sad songs that echoed throughout the night, not their fists." Bob Moliere, an organizer within the popular political party Fanmi Lavalas was killed in the earthquake. His wife, Marianne Moliere, told IPS News after burying her husband, "There is no life for me because Bob was everything to me. I lost everything. Everything is destroyed," she said. "I'm sleeping in the street now because I'm homeless. But when I get some water, I share with others. Or if someone gives some spaghetti, I share with my family and others." It is not this type of solidarity that has emerged in the wake of the crisis – and the delayed and muddled response from the international community – that most corporate media in the US have focused on. Instead, echoing the coverage and calls for militarization of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina, major media outlets talk about the looting, and need for security to protect private property. One request from Erwin Berthold, the owner of Big Star Market in Petionville, Haiti, reflects this concern for profit over people. Berthold told the Washington Post about his supermarket, "We have everything cleaned up inside. We are ready to open. We just need some security. So send in the Marines, okay?" That militarization is already underway. This week the US is sending thousands of troops and soldiers to the country. The Haitian government has signed over control of its capital airport to the US. Brazil and France have already lodged complaints that US military planes are now being given priority over other flights at the international airport. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez responded to the US troop deployment. "I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send," Chavez said. "They are occupying Haiti undercover." The Venezuelan President pledged to send any necessary amount of gasoline needed to the country to aid with electricity and transport. A Heroic History in Washington's Backyard There is also little mention in the major news outlets' coverage of how the US government and corporations helped impoverish Haiti in the first place, creating the economic poverty that makes disasters like this so extensive. Nor is there mention of the country's heroic struggle against imperialism and slavery. Fidel Castro pointed out in a recent column, "Haiti was the first country in which 400,000 Africans, enslaved and trafficked by Europeans, rose up against 30,000 white slave masters on the sugar and coffee plantations, thus undertaking the first great social revolution in our hemisphere. … Napoleon's most eminent general was defeated there. Haiti is the net product of colonialism and imperialism, of more than one century of the employment of its human resources in the toughest forms of work, of military interventions and the extraction of its natural resources." |
Source: RawStory
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 -- 6:10 pm
US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a "coup" against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be "taken out."
Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said:
There's been a coup, have you heard? It's the CIA coup. The CIA runs everything, they run the military. They're the ones who are over there lobbing missiles and bombs on countries. ... And of course the CIA is every bit as secretive as the Federal Reserve. ... And yet think of the harm they have done since they were established [after] World War II. They are a government unto themselves. They're in businesses, in drug businesses, they take out dictators ... We need to take out the CIA.
Paul's comments, made last weekend, were met with a loud round of applause, but they didn't gather attention until bloggers noticed a clip of the event at YouTube.
Paul appeared to be referring to news reports that the CIA is deeply involved in air strikes against Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A suicide bombing late last year against Forward Operating Base Chapman in Afghanistan took the lives of seven of CIA operatives, including two contracted from Blackwater. The event highlighted the CIA's deep involvement in the war effort.
Paul's reference to the CIA being "in the drug business" refers to long-running allegations that the CIA has funded some of its covert operations with proceeds from drug-running. That claim was most famously made in a 1996 investigative report from the San Jose Mercury-News, which alleged that cocaine from the Contra-Sandinista civil war in Nicaragua was making its way to the streets of L.A. via the CIA.
The following video was uploaded to the Web by user TNSONSOFLIBERTY, Jan, 15, 2010.
 Domestic agents could be used in 'shaping an environment before a conflict' Posted: January 20, 2010 9:16 pm Eastern By Michael Carl
A newly released Rand Corporation report proposes the federal government create a rapid deployment "Stabilization Police Force" that would be tasked with "shaping an environment before a conflict" and restoring order in times of war, natural disaster or national emergency. But civil libertarians are worried just exactly what the force would do, domestically or overseas. Page 16 of the 213-page report says the new elite unit's purpose depends on where it is and who would be in command. "The answer to this question (about its purpose) depends on the situation into which an SPF might be inserted. The SPF could be used for missions such as: shaping an environment before a conflict; law enforcement duties in an active conflict environment; or security, stability, transition and reconstruction (SSTR) operations after a conflict. It could operate as an independent entity under a U.S. ambassador or a U.N. Senior Representative to the Secretary General (SRSG), or as a force element reporting to a Joint Task Force (JTF) commander," the report states. The purpose statement doesn't say where the new unit would be deployed. However, Rand Corporation report co-author Terry Kelly said the Army-commissioned study primarily focuses on a force that would be sent overseas. READ MORE |
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CHINA U.S. Weapons sales to Taiwan Sino-US relations have not taken off as many people originally wished for BEIJING, Jan. 21 -- One year into U. S. President Barack Obama's administration, Sino-US relations have not taken off as many people originally wished for. It doesn't require rocket science to figure out that when you ask for help, and significant and tremendous help on top of it, you need to demonstrate sincerity and a genuine willingness to work together and seek a win-win situation. Cooperation between China and the US across a whole range of issues requires incentives and commitments from each other, and nurturing and caring by both sides to work. Thus, when the US continues to sell weapons to Taiwan, and more advanced and sophisticated weapons in larger amounts than ever, it is inevitably going to upset China and make China second-guess what the US is really up to. Such acts by the US create tremendous disincentives for China to treat the US as a reliable and trustworthy partner in dealing with many urgent issues in the world. By inserting itself between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits and selling more advanced weapons to Taiwan at a time when Taiwan and the Chinese mainland are discussing to improve the relations between them, whatever benefits the US gets, if any, will be dramatically overwhelmed by the disincentives and suspicion it creates for China as far as its cooperation with the US is concerned. If the US believes that Taiwan is just Taiwan and the US can do whatever it wants without harming its overall relations with China, then such beliefs are completely off the mark, and the results could be dire. READ MORE RELATED: Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China's (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for next year compared to Russia spending less than $40 billion last year for the same, China and Russia are portrayed as threats to the U.S. and its allies. UPI - Global Security Industry News: U.S. defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. has released plans to acquire cybersecurity-solutions company CloudShield Technologies. British defense authorities have contracted Rolls-Royce to support air defense capabilities with the production of Typhoon aircraft engine technologies. |
AFGHANISTAN
UN: Afghan Corruption Matches Scale Of Opium Trade
U.S.-funded power plant too costly for Afghans
WASHINGTON -- A $300 million power plant in Afghanistan paid for with U.S. tax dollars was an ill-conceived and mismanaged project that the Afghan government can't afford to switch on now that it's almost finished, a watchdog agency has found.
The project in Kabul has ballooned $40 million over budget and is a year behind schedule because of missteps by the American contractors and the U.S. government, according to an audit released Wednesday by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
If the plant ever runs to full capacity, it could provide tens of thousands of Afghans in the Kabul region with electricity, which would be an achievement in a country in which only 10 percent of the population has it.
Even when the plant is completed in March, however, the Afghan government is unlikely to be able to pay the millions of dollars for diesel fuel that's needed to power the plant and maintain it, the auditors concluded. The U.S. Agency for International Development has agreed to pay for the fuel temporarily. READ MORE
Over 100 people took to the streets of a small bazaar in Qarabagh district in Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, to demonstrate, locals told Reuters by telephone.
Villagers who brought the bodies of four people to the hospital in the provincial capital of Ghazni city said three of the victims belonged to one family. Two were boys 11 and 15, villagers said.
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The government wants Americans to believe the greatest economic collapse in history was the result of ineptness and mistakes yet still have confidence in their financial institutions. Layers of money managers that don’t bear the brunt of losses but walk away with big payouts when things go well have turned the US economy to a type of “ersatz capitalism,” Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate, told CNBC Tuesday. 4 Reasons Why Bernanke Will Refuse to Fight Inflation January 20th, 2010 By Rocky Vega With recent news of inflation rising in Australia we turn an eye to the same eventuality at home in the US. Despite overwhelming growth in the monetary base, little inflation has yet to appear in government measures. Not that we’re one to trust those… |
POLICE STATE NEWS
Main Core is the code name of a database maintained since the 1980s by the federal government of the United States, which contains personal and financial data of millions of U.S. citizens believed to be threats to national security.[1] The data, which comes from the NSA, FBI, CIA, and other sources,[2] is collected and stored without warrants or court orders.[3] The database's name derives from the fact that it contains "copies of the 'main core' or essence of each item of intelligence information on Americans produced by the FBI and the other agencies of the U.S. intelligence community."[4]
The Main Core database is believed to have originated with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 1982, following Ronald Reagan's Continuity of Operations plan outlined in the National Security Directive (NSD) 69 / National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 55, entitled "Enduring National Leadership," implemented on September 14, 1982.[5]
As of 2008 there are reportedly eight million Americans listed in the database as possible threats,[6][not in citation given] often for trivial reasons,[7][not in citation given] whom the government may choose to track, question, or detain in a time of crisis.[8][not in citation given]
The existence of the database was first reported on in May 2008 by Christopher Ketcham and in July 2008 by Tim Shorrock.[9]
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 Scientist finding many negative impacts of Roundup Ready GM crops USDA doesn’t want to publicize studies showing negative impacts Robert Kremer is a microbiologist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and an adjunct professor in the Division of Plant Sciences at the University of Missouri. He is co-author of one of five papers published in the October 2009 issue of The European Journal of Agronomy that found negative impacts of Roundup herbicide, which is used extensively with Roundup Ready genetically modified crops. Kremer has been studying the impacts of glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, since 1997. The Organic & Non-GMO Report interviewed Mr. Kremer about his research and the reluctance of the USDA to publicize the findings of the five papers. Please give me an overview of your research What types of things are you seeing in the Roundup Ready system? What are glyphosate’s impacts on beneficial soil bacteria? Three types of Monsanto genetically modified corn are under scrutiny in the wake of a new study published by the International Journal Of Biological Sciences which found that rats ingesting the corn were subject to statistically significant amounts of organ toxicity |
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France prepares fresh carbon tax plans
AFP | France renewed efforts to become the first big economy to tax harmful carbon emissions, with the government due to thrash out new plans for the measure to curb climate change. First Climategate, now Glaciergate
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CoastToCoastAM.com - In the News - January 21, 2010
There's a 'Dark Disk of Material' Hovering Out in Space
Some kind of obstruction is blocking our view of a star in the constellation Auriga.
— io9.com
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Manufacturing robotic workers may be a hot new industry.
— Gadget Lab
NASA wants your Mars photo target ideas
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will take public photo suggestions.
— Layer 8
Tomb of the Saxon Queen: Discovered, Alfred's granddaughter
Crumbling remains have been unearthed more than 1,000 years after her death.
— Daily Mail
Dinosaur 'Death Pits' Created by Giant's Footprints?
Death pits might have been created by the wanderings of a massive sauropod dinosaur.
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Today in History Thursday January 21, 2010 789 - W.H. Brown's "Power of Sympathy" was published. It was the first American novel to be published. 1812 - The Y-bridge in Zanesville, OH, was approved for construction. 1846 - The first issue of the "Daily News," edited by Charles Dickens, was published. 1853 - Dr. Russell L. Hawes patented the envelope folding machine. 1861 - The future president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, resigned from the U.S. Senate. Four other Southerners also resigned. 1865 - An oil well was drilled by torpedoes for the first time. 1908 - The Sullivan Ordinance was passed in New York City making smoking by women became illegal. The measure was vetoed by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr. 1915 - The first Kiwanis club was formed in Detroit, MI. 1927 - The first opera broadcast over a national radio network was presented in Chicago, IL. The opera was "Faust". . 1954 - The gas turbine automobile was introduced in New York City. 1970 - The Boeing 747 made its first commercial flight from New York to London for Pan American. 1977 - U.S. President Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders. 1980 - Gold was valued at $850 an ounce. 1997 - Newt Gingrich was fined as the U.S. House of Representatives voted for first time in history to discipline its leader for ethical misconduct. 1998 - A former White House intern said on tape that she had an affair with U.S. President Clinton. 2003 - It was announced by the U.S. Census Bureau that estimates showed that the Hispanic population had passed the black population for the first time. |
NaturalNews.com | Today's Featured Stories - January 21, 2010
Johnson & Johnson engaged in elaborate drug profit kickback scheme, says Dept. of Justice lawsuit (NaturalNews) Drug maker Johnson & Johnson paid tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks to nursing home companies in order to boost the sale of its drugs, says a Justice Department lawsuit. The payments were often disguised as grants or "educational... |
| Zero deaths caused by vitamins, minerals, amino acids or herbs (NaturalNews) To hear opponents of natural medicine say it, vitamins and herbs are extremely dangerous for your health. They should be regulated, we're told, because they're so dangerous! Statistics from the U.S. National Poison Data System prove otherwise... |
| New study: mango prevents and halts growth of colon and breast cancer cells (NaturalNews) Take a bite of a juicy, sweet mango and you are experiencing a delicious taste enjoyed by countless people from ancient times until today. According to the Orlando-based National Mango Board (NMG), a mango industry-sponsored research, promotion... |
| Help Haiti Victims in Five Minutes or Less Tuesday's 7.0 earthquake in Haiti has left millions of survivors without food, water or shelter. Although President Obama has pledged to send help, a catastrophe of this size needs all the help we can give. We can't even imagine the devastation... |
| Weight Loss Surgery Can Prove Fatal (NaturalNews) The desire to have a healthy weight has led many overweight people to undergo risky procedures in order to shed pounds quickly. Rather than altering their diets and exercising more, a growing segment of the extremely obese population is choosing weight... |
| Antibiotic Resistant Germs Threaten while Colloidal Silver is Banned in EU Here's breaking news that's a double barrel blast. A November 2009 Henry Ford hospital report claims dangerous Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacteria are approaching epidemic status, and so are other antibiotic resistant... |
| Teen abuse of ADHD drugs skyrockets (NaturalNews) Inquiries to poison control centers about teenage abuse of drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increased by 76 percent over the last eight years, indicating a surge in rates of the abuse itself, according to a study... |
| Use a Natural Home Remedy for Athlete's Foot It's estimated that 70 percent of the population will experience athlete's foot at one point in their lives. Athlete's foot is often treated topically, but most don't know that athlete's foot is often a symptom of a larger fungal overgrowth... |
| Alkalize Your Body to Get Healthy and Reach Your Ideal Weight If you are suffering from disease or weight problems, the problem may be an overly acidic body. According to the philosophy called New Biology, all disease is caused by an acidic body. If you alkalize your body through proper eating and healthy... |
| $10,000 reward offered for scientific proof of H1N1 vaccine safety and effectiveness (NaturalNews) In conjunction with NaturalNews, the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (www.ConsumerWellness.org) has publicly offered a reward for any person, company or institution who can provide trusted, scientific evidence proving that any... |
Today's health headlines from across the 'net
(Hand-picked by the Health Ranger for your education and amusement)- Criminals steal Red Bull energy drinks from U.S. Navy
- Pathetic, clueless obese population uninterested in health food advice
- South Korea does what USA refuses to do: Restrict junk food advertising to children
- Scientists find negative impact of Roundup Ready GM crops
- OCA files legal complaint with USDA over organic labeling fraud
- UN climate scientists admit "mistake" on glacier melting prediction
- 7,000 women a year given false positives due to breast cancer screening
- Omega-3s linked to longevity
- Elementary school children injected with insulin instead of swine flu vaccine
- Hospital band hiring of smokers
- Mammograms cause 7,000 women to receive false positives each year in the UK
- Stress really does cause heart attacks
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