US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan - an estimated 250,000 for every insurgent killed - that American ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is having to import supplies from Israel.
Webmaster's Commentary: If this is the best the Army has, then we have already won the revolution! :)
Roll Call is reporting that according to the D.C. Fire and Metropolitan Police departments, Turton’s car was discovered ablaze in a row house garage, presumably the Turton home, in the 800 block of A Street Southeast near Eastern Market.
Turton worked as a lobbyist for the Raleigh, N.C.-based utility giant Progress Energy.
She was the former chief of staff to Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.)
As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct.
In three reports delivered to Congress on Wednesday, the department’s inspector general, Earl E. Devaney, found wrongdoing by a dozen current and former employees of the Minerals Management Service, which collects about $10 billion in royalties annually and is one of the government’s largest sources of revenue other than taxes.
A special backup network that allows communications between government and military agencies to continue during emergencies was "miraculously" switched on the day before 9/11, and so was already operational when the terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon took place. The Special Routing Arrangement Service (SRAS) was, for reasons unknown, turned on for "exercise mode" on September 10, 2001, and was therefore ready to be utilized the following day, when there was a national emergency like that for which it was intended.
The SRAS is the responsibility of a little-known government agency called the National Communications System (NCS), which works to keep critical telecommunications functioning during emergencies and played a crucial role in the government's response to the 9/11 attacks, helping to maintain and restore communications networks. Furthermore, the SRAS is related to "Continuity of Government"--a plan that was activated for the first time during the attacks.
It was only a matter of time before the Gabrielle Giffords tragedy was turned into a rationale for the government to take more of our freedoms. This is how our government always responds to tragedy--it's almost formulaic:
* Step 1 - wait for tragedy to occur, or actually create the tragedy. * Step 2 - spread propaganda through the media, so everyone believes your story about the tragedy * Step 3 - pass laws, or institute policies, that take away people's freedoms. * Step 4 - justify the increased Tyranny by citing the propaganda in step 2.
Gilad Atzmon considers why British Zionists, notably, Israel's mouthpiece, the Jewish Chronicle, the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Community Security Trust, insist on acknowledging only Jewish suffering and deny the suffering of the Palestinians at the hand of Israel.
GATA today scored a small but perhaps auspicious victory over the Federal Reserve in our lawsuit seeking access to the Fed's secret gold files. The judge presiding over GATA's federal freedom-of-information lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Ellen Segal Huvelle, granted GATA's motion to order the Fed to produce in complete form for the judge's private review 20 gold-related documents the Fed has sought to keep secret. The judge ordered the Fed to deliver the documents by Friday.
The U.S. government is insolvent. Who says so? Timothy F. Geithner, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Geithner sent a letter to Congress on Jan. 6, 2011 asking for the debt limit to be raised. If it is not raised, he warned, the U.S. will default on its debt. In his words:
Never in our history has Congress failed to increase the debt limit when necessary. Failure to raise the limit would precipitate a default by the United States."
Webmaster's Commentary: I'll bet we could sell of those weapons and military bases and pick up some spare change from that!
FBI agents working on the Gabrielle Giffords shooting encountered trouble gaining entry to the suspect's family home Monday morning. Family members of Jared Loughner apparently had put on 4-by-4 double-thick plywood that blocked access to the front porch of their north Tucson home. At about 12:25 p.m., agents began banging on the blockade, yelling, "This is the FBI. Let us in."
Webmaster's Commentary: Proof positive to me that the family knew that this kid was in deep kim-chee.
“First, the global economy is in dire straits and riding the wave of a convoluted ‘recovery’ built on fiat and fantasy.
So to get to the point (as if it is not painfully obvious); there is no recovery! I don’t care how often CNBC, MSNBC, FOX, or CNN, pull skewed data and automaton analysts from their ghastly dungeon of disinformation, the fundamental dysfunctions of the American economy remain unchanged. The key here is the dollar and its inevitable demise, which the establishment is trying desperately to hide until the last possible moment.
And a potential nightmare situation has emerged that has spooked not only homeowners but lawyers, title insurance companies and their investors.
What would happen if scores of people who had lost their homes to foreclosure somehow persuaded a judge to overturn the proceedings? Could they somehow win back the rights to their homes, free and clear of any mortgage?
Very, very interesting story from the New York Times...
“The servicer won’t modify the second-lien loan because of what it means for their parent bank’s balance sheet, and the mortgage investors of the primary loan, in return, won’t want to modify the primary mortgage if the second lien is not being modified,” says Henry Sommer, director at the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.
Quick read plus a very, VERY cool, short video on unconventional housing.
If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Such as: How can the Americans remain so consistently brain-fucked? Much of the world, including plenty of Americans, asks that question as they watch U.S. culture go down like a thrashing mastodon giving itself up to some Pleistocene tar pit.
One explanation might be the effect of 40 years of deep fried industrial chicken pulp, and 44 ounce Big Gulp soft drinks. Another might be pop culture, which is not culture at all of course, but marketing. Or we could blame it on digital autism: Ever watch commuter monkeys on the subway poking at digital devices, stroking the touch screen for hours on end? That wrinkled Neolithic brows above the squinting red eyes?
Arizona has been celebrating recent improvements in its policy toward self defense and personal protection. It has become a model of freedom. Nature Abhors A Vacuum So Send In The Clowns.
As great as America is, we still have crazy people. We still have criminals. The tragic shooting will resurrect attempts of failed gun prohibitionist to use this time of sorrow for their own gain. Enemies of freedom that are both foreign and domestic will weigh in.
Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends Research Institute, believes that the Internet will empower the youth of the world to unite to start a revolution that will overthrow the existing deadlocked elitist establishment. He predicts that in 2011 every citizen is going to realize that the Great Recession the world has been living through is actually a Great Depression, because the American establishment is "running out of schemes."
I am glad Richard Mack a former Arizona Sheriff raised the same question on a radio appearance this afternoon about why there was no police presence as a security detail for the congresswoman. I find it very despicable for the establishment news media and the left wing politicians are using this sad day in our history to advance there agenda attacking our freedom. When we have an elected Sheriff of Pima county telling the country that the nations discontent was the reason for the unfortunate chain of events. Before this sheriff attacks our liberties again using this event.He should be asked why there was no Law Enforcement presence with Representative Giffords appearance before he shoots off his mouth again to the press attacking liberty.
The author sent this our way this morning. This is the best, most thorough piece I've read on the Massachusetts ruling. Take a couple minutes for this one....
A sinister shrine reveals a chilling occult dimension in the mind of the deranged gunman accused of shooting a member of Congress and 19 others.
Hidden within a camouflage tent behind Jared Lee Loughner's home sits an alarming altar with a skull sitting atop a pot filled with shriveled oranges. A row of ceremonial candles and a bag of potting soil lay nearby, photos reveal. Experts on Sunday said the elements are featured in the ceremonies of a number of occult groups.
Bank of America... Citigroup... JPMorgan Chase... Wells Fargo...
Details inside - This is a pretty big deal - Wait until you see the large coalition of states and municipalities involved in the drafting of these letters...
Observers are already claiming that the Arizona shooting of Congresswoman Giffords is Obama's "OK City." Fair enough, so let us recall that the OK City bombing was clearly a false-flag staged terror event.
Israel makes too many mistakes for them to be mistakes The brutal killing of an unarmed Palestinian as he lay asleep in his own bed has been "regretted" by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). I am sure that the IDF's statement gives the victim's widow and family some consolation in their period of mourning. At least it would if such occurrences were not depressingly frequent and Israel didn't have a long record of crimes against the rest of humanity which suggest either a history of enlisting extremely incompetent soldiers or a crass disregard for the value of non-Jewish life. Perhaps it's even a mixture of both.
Public defenders are asking that the attorney who defended Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Timothy McVeigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski defend Jared Loughner, who makes his first court appearance Monday at 2 p.m. MST (4 p.m. EST).
Webmaster's Commentary: Are we sure this is Jared's idea? I don't know about you. but I would NOT request a lawyer who LOST their two most famous cases!
When a university hires a football coach, the athletic director often declares that the new coach will take the team to “the next level.” What the director means is that he hopes the coach will lead State U’s team to a championship or a high-ranking bowl.
However, when Transportation Security Administration head John Pistole told USA Today he wanted to bring the TSA to “the next level,” he didn’t mean better service. No, Pistole meant something more sinister: He wants the TSA to be so completely ingrained in American life that weary people simply put up with it.
Webmaster's Commentary: Did TSA prevent the attack on Congresswoman Giffords? No? I rest my case.
The “Great Game” never ended. It is the “long war” that Mackinder talked about to establish a “World-Empire.” It has changed names from the “Cold War” and the “Great War” to the “Global War on Terror.” It may end with World War III.
Advocates cannot see any harm in gun control, but it has a nasty downside. Its victims number in the tens of millions. Its downside is genocide: the mass-murder of civilians on account of religion, language, or political views. Since 1900, at least seven major genocides have occurred worldwide involving 50-60 million victims
Citi may be liable for buying back as much as $35 billion of the loans. After recovering some through foreclosure sales, Citi may be looking at a loss of $22 billion. Quick Read - Details Inside...
I shudder at the thought at the state of affairs we would be in today if people blindly swallowed the corruption and evils that existed throughout history. Where would we be today if the institution of slavery was allowed to continue in the United States? Where would we be if the system of apartheid was allowed to continue in South Africa?
I was a witness to the destruction of a historic hotel in occupied East Jerusalem today, but activists bearing witness didn’t let the incident go on without making some noise. After meeting with members of the Rifka Al-Kurd family, who now live steps away from illegal settlers who evicted members of the family to take over their home in Sheikh Jarrah, the delegation I am with received news of the hotel demolition.
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