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  Saturday Evening - January 23, 2010 |
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"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people" - John Adams - Second President (1797 - 1801) |
TSA no longer interested in 'Al Qaeda' but will go after 'Anti-Abortionists', 'White Christians', and all 'Anti-Government' types January 23rd, 2010  |
Haiti aid effort 'could have saved more'
Call for halt to Haiti adoptions over child traffickers
January 23, 2010
Thousands of children unaccounted for since Haiti’s earthquake are at risk of falling prey to child traffickers, aid agencies have wearned, as fears were raised over at least 15 children who have vanished from hospitals within the past few days.
Unicef, the UN children’s agency, warned that "traffickers fish in pools of vulnerability. We know from past experience that trafficking happens in the chaos that usually follows emergencies." A Unicef adviser, Jean Luc Legrand, said he knew of at least 15 cases of children disappearing from hospitals.
Save the Children, World Vision and the British Red Cross have called for an immediate halt to adoptions of Haitian children not approved before the earthquake, warning that child traffickers could exploit the lack of regulation. There has been a surge in offers from well-meaning foreigners.
Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that child enslavement and trafficking was "an existing problem and could easily emerge as a serious issue over the coming weeks and months".
Haiti aid agency accused of rivalry tactics...
Number of deaths could be 3rd largest in past 100 yrs...
Latin American leaders say US occupying Haiti
Press TV | Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua say the US is using the international relief operation in Haiti as a cover-up for a military takeover.
More and more, it appears the relief effort in Haiti is a Pentagon and CIA operation.
Haiti: Bonanza for Foreign Mining CompaniesJanuary 23, 2010 "With the Coup D'etat now, though the people know where these resources are because this book exists, they don't know who these foreign companies are. What they're profit margins are. What the environmental protection rules and regulations to protect them are. Many folks, for instance, in the North talk about losing their property, having people come in with guns and taking over their property. So that's where we are."  |
Russia warns against new Iran sanctions
22 Jan 2010
Russia on Friday joined China in calling for more diplomacy on Iran, warning against imposing fresh sanctions against the country's nuclear energy section for delays over a fuel exchange deal. "If our logic is to punish Iran, or if we take up the posture of the offended ... this will not be a sober approach," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters.
Iraq Covered With High Level Nuclear (Depleted Uranium DP) Contamination Guardian.co.uk January 22, 2010 The Guardian reported in November claims by local doctors of a massive rise in birth defects in the city, particularly neural tube defects, which afflict the spinal cords and brains of newborns. "We are aware of the reports, but we must be cautious in reaching conclusions about causes," Othman said. "The general health of the city is not good. There is no sewerage system there and there is a lot of stagnant household waste, creating sickness that is directly affecting genetics. We do know, however, that a lot of depleted uranium was used there. READ MORE  Ron Paul: 300 Million Taxpayer Dollars Spent to Undermine Iranian Government
TN Sons of Liberty | “According to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources, Congress late last year “agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran.” For these operations, the President sought up to $400 million. |
Gaza: rescuers targeted, one year on
"The last Israeli attacks were the hardest, the most dangerous. It wasn’t a war, it was a massacre. They shot anyone walking, anyone outside of their home, in their home … it didn’t matter. And it didn’t matter if the victims were children or adults; there was no difference."
Lebanon: Tensions rise as Israeli Army stages maneuvers on border uruknet.info January 23, 2010 Media reports said Friday tensions rose on the Lebanese-Israeli border as the Israeli Army undertook military maneuvers on its northern border, while Hizbullah members were put on high alert, according to the pan-Arab daily Ash-Sharq al-Awsat. However, a high-ranking Israeli military official denied reports stating that Israel was considering launching a war against Lebanon, while stressing that military maneuvers were part of Israel’s routine defensive exercises, Ash-Sharq al-Awsat reported.  Israeli minister: Third war on Lebanon in sight 23 Jan 2010 An Israeli cabinet minister warns of the third Israeli war on Lebanon amid reports that Tel Aviv has mobilized its troops. "We are heading toward a new confrontation in the north," said minister without portfolio, Yossi Peled in remarks carried by military radio and the Israeli news website Ynet, the AFP reported. The London-based A-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Friday that the troops had been called to the northern the borders Lebanon to carry out "military maneuvers." |
Dangerous Crossroads: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border
But this month has brought even more dramatic and dangerous news.
The Pentagon has authorized the completion of a $6.5 billion arms deal with Taiwan with an agreement to deliver 200 Patriot Advanced Capability anti-ballistic missiles. The People’s Republic of China is infuriated, as Washington would be if the situation were reversed and Beijing provided a comparable arsenal of weapons to, for example, an independent Puerto Rico.
With the START talks delayed until February, this completely bone-headed move is not likely to win any concessions - or inspire any confidence- from Russia.
In fact, this appears to be an act of sheer insanity on the part of the US government.
The First Amendment has been abridged and may soon be criminalized. Protests against, and criticisms of, the U.S. government's illegal invasions of Muslim countries and war crimes against civilian populations have been construed by executive branch officials as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy." As American citizens have been imprisoned for giving aid to Muslim charities that the executive branch has decreed, without proof in a court of law, to be under the control of "terrorists," any form of opposition to the government's wars and criminal actions can also be construed as aiding terrorists and be cause for arrest and indefinite detention. Commentary: And if you think for a second that the concept of "indefinite detentions" will only be allowed to be applied to "foreign enemy combatants", you'd better think again!  |
Fake Al Qaeda
"The Toilet"
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ."
- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
"Ana raicha Al Qaeda" is colloquial for "I'm going to the toilet". A very common and widespread use of the word "Al-Qaeda" in different Arab countries in the public language is for the toilet bowl. This name comes from the Arabic verb "Qa'ada" which mean "to sit", pertinently, on the "Toilet Bowl". In most Arabs homes there are two kinds of toilets: "Al-Qaeda" also called the "Hamam Franji" or foreign toilet, and "Hamam Arabi" or "Arab toilet" which is a hole in the ground. Lest we forget it, the potty used by small children is called "Ma Qa'adia" or "Little Qaeda".
So, if you were forming a terrorist group, would you call yourself, "The Toilet"?
DRONES  "Every one of these dead non-combatants represents an alienated family, a new revenge feud, and more recruits for a militant movement that has grown exponentially even as drone strikes have increased." - David Kilcullen (Counterinsurgency Expert) Center for New American Security |
C.I.A. Deaths Prompt Surge in U.S. Drone Strikes NY Times January 23, 2010 Since a suicide bombing that killed seven Americans in Afghanistan, the Central Intelligence Agency has employed an intensive series of strikes against militants in Pakistan. The strikes, carried out from a secret base in Pakistan and controlled by satellite link from C.I.A. headquarters in Virginia, have been expanded by President Obama and praised by both parties in Congress as a potent weapon against terrorism that puts no American lives at risk. Despite the consensus in Washington behind the drone program, some experts are dissenters. John Arquilla, a professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School who frequently advises the military, said, “The more the drone campaign works, the more it fails — as increased attacks only make the Pakistanis angrier at the collateral damage and sustained violation of their sovereignty.” “Has the situation stabilized in the past two years?” asked the general, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Are the tribal areas more stable?” Yes, he said, Baitullah Mehsud, founder of the Pakistani Taliban, was killed by a missile last August. “But he’s been replaced and the number of fighters is increasing,” the general said. 'Israel seeks more involvement in Afghan war' 22 Jan 2010 Foreign forces in Afghanistan will use unmanned Israeli drones more extensively in the US-led war, an Israeli paper said, citing the regime's desire to be more involved in the war. The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that Germany will become the fifth country whose troops in Afghanistan will operate Israeli drones as of next week. Israeli drones take over skies of Afghanistan 21 Jan 2010 While Israeli soldiers can't fight in the war in Afghanistan, Israeli drones can. Starting next week, five NATO member countries will be operating unmanned aerial vehicles produced in the Jewish state in anti-Taliban operations in the Central Asian country. Next week, officials from the German military will arrive to take delivery of an undisclosed number of Heron UAVs, made by Israel Aerospace Industries. |
MERCENARIES
Biden vows the US will appeal in Iraq Blackwater case
23 Jan 2010
US Vice-President Joe Biden says the US government will appeal against a court ruling dismissing manslaughter charges in the Blackwater shootings case. Mr Biden was speaking after meeting Iraqi politicians in Baghdad. Iraqis were furious when a US judge threw out charges against five Blackwater security guards over the 2007 killing of 17 Iraqis in Baghdad.
Pakistan govt. urged to explain Blackwater presence
23 Jan 2010
Pakistani lawmakers say the government must to come clean about the presence of the notorious American security firm Blackwater (now known as Xe Services LLC) in the country. The lawmakers, both pro-government and opposition parties, during a heated debate on Friday, urged Islamabad to break its silence and own up as there are strong evidences of the presence of Xe Services LLC in Pakistan. The call came after US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admitted that Xe Services and DynCorp have been operating in Pakistan.
Pentagon backtracks after Gates ‘admits’ Blackwater operating in Pakistan
Raw Story | The Pentagon has gone into damage control mode after Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared to confirm that security contractor Blackwater is operating in Pakistan.
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Webster G. Tarpley Mobilize to turn of the tide against Wall Street in the struggle to decide who will pay for the current depression — the people or the bankers and hedge fund hyenas. Tax and Spend: U.N.’s Rx for New World Medical Order
Fox News | WHO ponders new global taxes on e-mails, alcohol, tobacco, airline travel and consumer bank transactions. |
Most U.S. Union Members Are Working for the Government, New Data Shows
Paul Harvey in cahoots with J. Edgar Hoover? Records show broadcaster enjoyed 20-year friendship with FBI director Washington Post January 23, 2010 For the better part of six decades, Paul Harvey spun tales on the radio in his staccato baritone, entertaining up to 24 million listeners a day with folksy vignettes ending in unexpected twists. And now, the rest of the story. Previously confidential files show that Harvey, who died last February at 90, enjoyed a 20-year friendship with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, often submitting advance copies of his radio script for comment and approval. Harvey wrote Hoover and his deputies regularly. Hoover, in turn, helped Harvey with research, suggested changes in scripts and showered the broadcaster with effusive praise. |
THIS IS A VIDEO YOU MUST SEE!!
NASA Images Earth-Sized Objects Inside Corona Of SUN
Notice also that they are reflecting the suns light just like a metal constructed ship would do.
My best guess is that they are huge planet sized spacecraft either observing the sun, or could it be that disclosure is now happening. Either way, I await NASA's official explanation. Please help to make this viral so that we can get this out to the world. This could finally be the evidence that NASA can't cover-up or ignore.
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Cosmic Currents May Move Faster Than Light
The idea may sound heretical to one of most deeply held tenets in physics, which states that the speed of light is the ultimate speed limit. But the new proposal squeaks by on a loophole in that rule, which insists only that no mass or information exceeds the speed limit. In this case, a faster-than-light current would pass through certain rapidly spinning stars. This would cause positively charged atoms in the star to move in one direction and negatively charged atoms would move in another. Each individual particle would move slower than the speed of light, but the wave of movement would pass through the star at a rate more rapid than light speed. "No laws of physics were broken or harmed in this production," said researcher John Singleton of Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N. M. "This is not science fiction; it's real." read more |
Defense Secretary Cohen's 1997 Warning about Scalar EM Geotechnical Terrorism
“Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations…It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts.”
Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens,Apr. 28, 1997.
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  Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Yellowstone Earthquake Swarm Slows Down on Quiet Night Saturday, 23 January 2010 13:33 Yellowstone Insider The swarm of small earthquakes rocking the western part of Yellowstone National Park appears to be abating, with a series of small quakes reported yesterday and nothing since midnight. As of this writing -- 6:42 a.m. Mountain -- no earthquakes have been reported all night, with the last recorded quake coming at 10:41 p.m., a 3.0-magnitude rumble. It was the latest in more than 1,100 registered earthquakes in a very small area on the western side of the Park, about 10 miles from Old Faithful and nine miles from West Yellowstone. Given the geology of Yellowstone, every little rumble gets lots of attention: it's the most monitored area of the planet, and lots of energy is spent determining small and large changes in the Yellowstone caldera. A series of earthquakes, naturally, receives lots of attention. Ten of the earthquakes have been magnitude 3.0 or greater, with a 3.8 magnitude earthquake recorded late Wednesday evening. The larger quakes have been felt by people in Old Faithful, West Yellowstone, Canyon, Mammoth Hot Springs, Grant Village, Madison, and Gardiner. No damage or injuries have been reported. ECUADOR  Banos, Ecuador: Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews molten rock and clouds of gas and ash Photograph: Reuters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| National Severe Weather Map Surface Temperature Forecast Map www.511nebraska.org  Officials issue rare San Francisco Bay area tornado warning San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago AP SAN FRANCISCO— Posted: 01/23/2010 01:47:13 PM PST Updated: 01/23/2010 01:47:14 PM PST SAN FRANCISCO—The National Weather Service has issued a rare tornado warning for Contra Costa County after a trained weather spotter reported seeing a funnel cloud. The weather service says the cloud was seen about 9 miles south of Oakley and could touch down in a rural area of the east San Francisco Bay-area county. It's the second time in a week that a rare tornado warning was issued, after a tornado warning was issued Wednesday for Santa Clara county. The weather service urged people to go to a basement or interior hallway or room and lie down. Twister spotted in Contra Costa San Francisco Chronicle Cities Say New FEMA Flood Maps Are Full of Errors ABC News - - 3 hours ago AP More than a year and a half after a massive flood left a huge swath of eastern Iowa underwater, the tiny farming community ... Cities, residents say new FEMA flood plain maps are full of mistakes that ...CanadianBusiness.com Flash flood watch issued for most of the state of Massachusetts MetroWest Daily News - 5 minutes ago The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch for most of the Massachusetts late Sunday night and Monday as heavy ... Flash Flood Watch In Effect For Sunday Night Hartford Courant - 25 minutes ago The National Weather Service in Taunton, Mass., has issued a flash flood... watch for portions of northern Connecticut, Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire Flood Watch for NE Georgia 1340 WGAU Flash Flood WatchTwin County News - 56 minutes ago THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BLACKSBURG HAS EXPANDED THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE PORTIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA, AND SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA, ... National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications Emergency and Disaster Information Services (EDIS) Budapest Hungary |
 GLOBAL FASCISM NEWS"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." Benito Mussolini | ||
Senior UN climate change official hopes to forge rapid accord
UN News | The failure at Copenhagen to agree on ambitious and immediate global action to combat climate change means that the task has become more, not less urgent, a senior UN official said in an opinion piece published today. | ||
| The United Nations is just a debating society and a 'front' for banks |
U.S. Ignored U.N. Aid Agency’s Fraud and Mismanagement
FOX News | USAID apparently overlooked a growing stack of U.N. audits and investigations that pointed to fraud, mismanagement and lack of internal financial controls by UNOPS in Afghanistan, even as the U.S. agency continued to shovel money in UNOPS’s direction.
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Moscow's Stray Dogs - Financial Times (A very interesting article - worthy of your time to click the link and read) |
 UFO NEWS |
| Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) UFO Database New Zealand Readers respond with `UFO' photos  After requesting New Zealand's reports of UFO sightings last year, The Press asked its readers to send in their pictures of unusual craft. A number of readers throughout the country responded. Jonas of Wellington who asked for his full name not to be used, spotted a craft in the sky on July 17 2008. He wrote via email, ''My wife and I were drinking coffee on the veranda, when she spotted what looked like an unnaturally low flying aircraft travelling roughly along the Broken Hill Road at around 90 to 140km/h at an altitude of about 400 to 500 metres. ''When I took the first picture I realised that it was not in fact an aircraft. I tried to take as many pictures as possible of the object, but after the third or fourth one, it literally disappeared into thin air. No smoke, no trail, nothing. I wouldn't have believed it myself if it wasn't for the pictures.'' READ MORE |
CoastToCoastAM.com - In the News
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Widespread antibiotic use in 1960s sparked MRSA
Early use of antibiotics in the 1960s may have given birth to one of the most common strains of MRSA, a study has found.
— The Telegraph
Children's 'ghosts' haunt Australian cemetery
Does this photo show the figures of two children, born nearly a century apart, walking in their own paranormal playground?
— news.com.au
Earth Not Properly Protected from Asteroids
The U.S. must do more to safeguard Earth against destruction by an asteroid than merely prepping nuclear missiles, a new report has found.
— Space.com
Video: Japan's new ‘facial’ security
Japanese company Omron uses walk-through recognition of facial features to determine access.
— MSNBC
Electric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane
Could the Puffin, an electric-powered flying suit, change the way we use the sky in war and peace?
— Scientific American
My News blog: The Cave
"Defensive exercises"?!?!?
Israel is looking for some excuse, any excuse, to go back into Lebanon, and this time they will attempt to go all the way to the Litani river, because they desperately need the water.