UK banks have pulled billions of pounds of funding from the eurozone as fears grow about the impact of a “Lehman-style” event connected to a Greek default.
"OhmyGAWD, the banks are in trouble again! Somebody, quick; think of a way we can rob the people to save those poor bankers!!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse
From: FOREX.com Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM Subject: Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading To: xxx
Important Account Notice Re: Metals Trading
We wanted to make you aware of some upcoming changes to FOREX.com’s product offering. As a result of the Dodd-Frank Act enacted by US Congress, a new regulation prohibiting US residents from trading over the counter precious metals, including gold and silver, will go into effect on Friday, July 15, 2011.
In conjunction with this new regulation, FOREX.com must discontinue metals trading for US residents on Friday, July 15, 2011 at the close of trading at 5pm ET. As a result, all open metals positions must be closed by July 15, 2011 at 5pm ET.
If I read this correctly, this only affects precious metals contracts on margin/leverage for future delivery (i.e. "Paper" gold/silver) but not coin dealers whose transactions are cash and carry.
I suspect this will drive down the immediate price for gold and silver in order to keep people in the equities market and Federal Reserve Note.
As difficult as it may be to fathom, the current lousy economy may not be the worst case scenario. All I have to do is look around and be observant to see that there is a strong likelihood that another, more significant economic meltdown is imminent.
FBI Agents in Pittsburgh raid the wrong house without a search warrant, holding a man, his wife, and kids at gunpoint and face an steep uphill battle in suing the officers for their wrong-doing.
Christopher King considers the bubble of deception and lies that underpins the British political establishment and the ignorance and self-delusion that sustain public support for this establishment.
”My friends, you have not yet recognized that we are at war within our country. We are living on capital, on the fat accumulated by past generations of inventors, builders and social reformers. It will soon be gone and our war will become exactly like those of Tunisia, Egypt or Syria. Perhaps like Afghanistan. You don’t believe it? Just look at the speed of collapse in Greece.”
Richard Lightbown summarizes the situation ahead of the forthcoming Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human in plain language bereft of the doublespeak that the Israeli government would like us to hear.
”No Nobel Peace Laureate will be able to disguise the guilt if more Israeli hoods batter more human rights workers. No selectively edited whitewash report, with of without endorsement from professors of international law, will be able to conceal the truth this time from the people of the world.”
In Europe, Fiscal Insanity Erupts As Bankrupt Nations Scramble To Bailout Other Bankrupt Nations (Clarke Dawe) Hilarious is an understatement.From satire comes wisdom. This short clip perfectly encapsulates the madness of bailouts. Clarke & Dawe on the European debt-guarantee circle jerk.
Xenophobic Dynamic Duo Defeat Freedom — by Franklin Lamb Hanan is the Islamophobic Lebanese woman, Hanan Qahwaji who as a child lived in the South Lebanon village of Maryoun overlooking the Lebanon-Palestine border during three years of the on again off again Lebanese Civil War.
As has become typical at GOP cattle calls, Ron Paul captured the presidential straw poll at the Republican Leadership Conference here, easily besting his nearest competitor, Jon Huntsman.
... And, just as they have at recent CPACs, Paul's backers in the crowd here let out loud cheers when the results were announced from the stage while the regular Republicans in the audience booed the Libertarian-leaning Texas congressman's success.
Can you see the bias here? The implication is that Pau''s backers are not "regular Republicans", with the obvoous message that this victory is irrelevant to the process of making sure a "regular Republican" is given the GOP nomination.
Ron Paul overwhelmingly won the 2011 RLC Presidential Straw Poll, gaining 612 (39.69%) of a total of 1542 votes!
Jon Huntsman came in second with 382 votes (24.77%), Michele Bachmann was third with 191 votes (12.39%), while last year’s winner Mitt Romney slipped to fifth with only 74 votes (4.80%).
WOWT reports: [Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant's chief nuclear officer, Dave Bannister] said for the plant to get to a disaster level, floodwater would have to rise three and a half feet above where it stands now.
The entire world will soon depend on renewable energy so governments ought to start subsidizing these industries immediately. So said the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a report released Tuesday. The study’s conclusion was such a blockbuster that the panel issued a press release last month previewing the finding. “Close to 80 percent of the world’s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies a new report shows,” it proclaimed.
The first flotilla that was besieged by Israeli Defense Force soldiers, resulting in the murder of several activists and over 50 injuries.
Last year nine activists were slaughtered and over fifty other innocent individuals were injured by an Israeli attack on a ship filled with medical supplies and other much-needed necessities for the oppressed people of Gaza. While this is blatantly a violation of international law and basic human decency, the corrupt politicians of the world actually defended these actions.
n a release posted on PasteBin today, new information has come to light about a particular member of the shadowy group known as LulzSecurity which I have been covering in detail as of late.
After the first “just for kicks” hack of the Senate.gov website, I hypothesized that the group could be a government red team. This was reinforced by their DDoS attack on the CIA as well as their release of over 62,000 e-mails and passwords of random everyday people.
This combined with the information contained in the PasteBin, if it is indeed true, make for a pretty damning case. Unfortunately there is not enough proof provided in the PasteBin for me to conclusively say that this is a government red team or that this individual with the handle Nakomis is indeed military counter-intelligence.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama drove the cart and House Speaker John Boehner celebrated a short putt during their much anticipated golf outing Saturday at a military base outside the nation's capital.
Vice President Joe Biden earned the commander in chief's approval when he sank a 15-to-20 foot putt on the first hole, a par five, at Joint Base Andrews.
"Did you all catch that?" Obama shouted to reporters gathered near the green.
When it comes to measuring the combination of unemployment and inflation, it doesn’t get much more miserable than this. In fact, misery, as measured in the unofficial Misery Index that simply totals the unemployment and inflation rates, is at a 28-year high, reflective of how weak the economic recovery has been and how far there is to go.
President Obama is now exploring avenues for a faster withdrawal from Afghanistan. American is flat broke, busted and our allies in Afghanistan have proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they are far worse than our enemies. Karzai can’t bring his army up to speed because he is an American kleptocrat and oil company stooge making presidential noises nobody wants to hear.
The utility has been criticized for taking too long to release a buildup of vapor by opening vents at the No. 1 reactor, where a nuclear meltdown occurred faster than it did at the facility's other reactors.
At least 15 NATO fuel tankers have been torched in the latest wave of attacks by militants in conflict-riddled Afghanistan. Militants in Afghanistan targeted convoys carrying supplies to NATO troops, killing nine Afghan security guards and torching 15 fuel tankers on Saturday.
Two of the attacks targeted private guards escorting supply trucks to a base for Polish troops in the eastern Ghazni province. A third attack happened along the border between Herat and Farah provinces in the west. Afghan militants say their assaults are in retaliation for non-UN-sanctioned US strikes on Afghanistan's tribal regions.
A group of lawyers are set to take the United Kingdom to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague over its role in the brutal crackdown of Bahrainis.
The lawyers from Lebanon, Spain, France and Italy accuse Britain of selling arms, including sniper rifles, to the Manama regime and training Bahraini police forces, who are accused of using heavy-handed tactics against anti-government protesters in the Persian Gulf sheikdom.
"Look, we can either repair the flood control, or give more cash to Wall Street and Israel. We cannot do both! I am the President, and I get to decide what is important! So quit whining and I am sure your homes will dry out by next year's election!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Before the end of June, the Canadian ship Tahrir will join the Freedom Flotilla 2 – Stay Human, carrying civil society delegates from coast to coast, international partners and journalists from a range of media organizations.
The delegates on board the Tahrir include politicians; Jewish, Muslim and Christian Canadians; artists, peace and human rights activists; small business owners; some of whom have taken part in previous flotillas.
A new system aimed at decontaminating highly radioactive water at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was halted only 5 hours after a full-fledged operation started on Friday night.
The plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company says the suspension may affect the entire cleanup plan.
The new system began operating at around 8PM on Friday to clean the huge amount of radioactive water that had accumulated in the plant and to recycle it to cool the reactors.
However, the operation was manually stopped shortly before 1 AM on Saturday, as the radiation level on the surface of a US-made absorption device reached 4 millisieverts per hour, the level at which it needs to be replaced.
Obviously, there is a lot more radiation down there than expected (or we have been told).l Equally obviously, the equipment supplied by the American company was designed to deal with the radiation levels announced in the media, rather than with the reality of the situation on the ground.
So how much time and money has been wasted building a system which a priori was not going to b able to deal with the situation? Was this entire water cleaner merely a public relations exercises, a "Hey, at least we are doing something " dance in the dark?
A system to clean massive amounts of contaminated water at the site of Japan's nuclear disaster was shut down Saturday, just hours after it began full operations, because a component filled with radioactivity much more quickly than expected.
In the last few decades, the population of our national prisons has nearly tripled. This phenomenon can be attributed to many factors ranging from the increasing economic insecurity to the War on Drugs. Statistics tell us that 1 in 18 American men are now incarcerated or being monitored.
Although this number could be reasonably justified as a reflection of our social morality breakdown; America still leads the world in per capita imprisonment, and the privatization of the our corrections system calls into question the motives behind tougher sentencing and the ever-increasing American police state...
In the last year thousands of alleged copyright infringers have fallen prey to the dubious litigation practices of a handful of lawyers. Many of the accused are not guilty, but the cleverly constructed scheme leads them to believe that they have no other option than to pay up. One desperate defendant is now threatened with a $150,00 fine for allegedly downloading an adult film concealed as classical music.
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas called upon European Union nations on Friday to recognize a Palestinian state, according to an AFP report.
According to the report, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Abbas had held a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, during which he “affirmed that the Palestinian position was to resume the peace process” with Israel and expected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resume negotiations and stop settlement construction, especially in Jerusalem.
There is nothing left of the thousands of “hit songs” from the 1950s, almost all have simply gone away, not worth stealing, not illegally downloaded even.
The same people who “did” our music, built the rest of our culture too, a culture built on mythology, a hokey form of phony patriotism and totalitarian ”brain washing” based on the carryover of cheap wartime propaganda. Think tanks with unpleasant globalist political agenda’s reinvented America by controlling our education and culture.
We became slaves and today have awakened, some of us at least, an in Orwellian nightmare. Most, however, are still asleep, watching the evening news, looking “left” or “right” for direction in the world of “tweedle dumber” politics.
Numerous radioactive hotspots have been found in Japan at distances up to 200 kilometers from Fukushima exceeding the 20 millisieverts of radiation per year evacuation limit. “Elevated” levels of radiation are being detected up to 300 kilometers away.
US District court has dismissed over 100,000 lawsuits brought against BP And Transocean to pay for oil spill clean up costs and environmental damages caused to the Gulf of Mexico from the BP Gulf Oil Spill.
The court ruled that injury stopped the moment the well was sealed and the Federal Government, aka The US Taxpayer, is now liable for clean up costs along with any damages caused by deficiencies of the cleanup of the Gulf Of Mexico.
According to a report which has flown almost completely under the radar, last year an ISP sent out around 300 “first strike” warning letters wrongfully accusing innocent subscribers of Internet piracy. ISP Eircom implemented the scheme in partnership with the recording industry and is now being investigated by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.
Virtually every article about the flooding mentions that the Fort Calhoun plant was shut down on April 9. On May 27, the Omaha World-Herald reported, "The Omaha Public Power District said its nuclear plant at Fort Calhoun, which is shut down for maintenance, is safe from flooding." The implication is that being shut down makes a plant safe. But as the ongoing crisis in Fukushima demonstrates, nuclear fuel remains hot long after a reactor is shut down. When Fort Calhoun is shut down for maintenance and refueling, only one-third of the fuel in the reactor core is removed. Besides the hot fuel remaining in the core, there is even more fuel stored in the spent-fuel pool, which is not shut down.
If you have wondered why Facebook, Twitter, Google, Dell, and Paypal dominate the internet, researching the founder and their Zionist relations may answer the question.
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook
Christopher Isaac “Biz” Stone co-founder of Twitter. Most sources give Jack Dorsey credit as the founder of Twitter, however Jack Dorsey is a co-founder.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google
Google also owns “Blogger” and YouTube
Peter Thiel Founder of Paypal, and original founder for Facebook
Moody’s rating service is considering lowering the credit ratings of First Hawaiian Bank, the state’s largest financial institution, due to reverberations of the Greek debt crisis.
FHB and its sister bank, Bancwest, are owned by Bancwest Corporation. It, in turn, is a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, one of three large French banks most heavily impacted by the crisis in Greece.
Although FHB has strong ratings, Moody’s is reviewing those credit ratings because of concerns that losses on Greek investments could would make it more difficult for PNP Paribas to backstop its subsidiaries.
Three hundred miles southwest of Fukushima, at a nuclear reactor perched on the slopes of this rustic peninsula, engineers are engaged in another precarious struggle.
The Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor — a long-troubled national project — has been in a precarious state of shutdown since a 3.3-ton device crashed into the reactor’s inner vessel, cutting off access to the plutonium and uranium fuel rods at its core.
Engineers have tried repeatedly since the accident last August to recover the device, which appears to have gotten stuck. They will make another attempt as early as next week.
As Wall Street hangs on the question “Will Greece default?,” the author heads for riot-stricken Athens, and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which brought down the last government, laying bare the country’s economic insanity. But beyond a $1.2 trillion debt (roughly a quarter-million dollars for each working adult), there is a more frightening deficit. After systematically looting their own treasury, in a breathtaking binge of tax evasion, bribery, and creative accounting spurred on by Goldman Sachs, Greeks are sure of one thing: they can’t trust their fellow Greeks.
Move Over AIPAC organizers made a strong effort to showcase Jewish opposition to AIPAC… as if protest is not an obligation of US citizens.”
The existence of such an official opposition allows critics to blow off steam without having any real impact; it creates the pretense of freedom without the reality.
Britain will see its biggest wave of industrial action since the 1926 general strike in the wake of the Government's pension reforms, the leader of the largest public sector union has warned.
Unions have branded plans for the retirement age of public sector workers to be increased to 66 in line with everyone else as 'plain barking mad'.
They have also threatened to walk away from the negotiating table as they were warned it would be a 'colossal mistake' to reject the deal.
Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison, has now vowed: 'It will be the biggest since the general strike. It won't be the miners' strike. We are going to win.'
"... because they have to pay for all the wars, bailing out the bankers, and of course, more money for Israel!"
A survey released by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says the number of Ontario adults that reported daily drinking increased to more than nine percent in 2009, up from 5.3 per cent in 2002.
Could you watch your government sell the nation out to a foreign power and stay entirely sober?
Destiny Mathis wrote to President Obama after she lost her job last year because of complications with her pregnancy. She’d been the top of her college class and had years of work under her belt as a surgical technologist, but after months of unemployment she was afraid that she and her three children were about to become victims of the economy.
Now she’s selling her handwritten letter from the President on an auction website in the hopes that the money she earns from the sale will help her keep her home. The Mathis family is weeks away from eviction, a future that Destiny foresaw in her letter to the president.
Discussing the economic situation with his Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
OBAMA to TIM GEITHNER : " I really hate to see a woman selling my letter to keep her home."
T.GEITHNER: " This is good news, Mr President. If you can write 50 letters a week, then we can have the mortgage situation under control".
House demolitions usually are carried out without warning, often at night, and the occupants are given little or no time to leave their homes. Often the only warning they get is the rumbling of the Israeli army’s Caterpillar bulldozers. They barely have time to flee as the bulldozers tear down the walls of their homes. Sometimes they are buried alive under the rubble.
An Israeli newspaper reported that an Israeli army D9 dozer operator said, and I quote:
Weiss had the following to say on the matter: “I believe all people act out of self-interest. And Jews who define themselves at some level as Jews -- like myself for instance -- are concerned with a Jewish self-interest. Which in my case is: an end to Zionism. A theory of political life based on altruism or concern for victims purely is doomed to fail.”
Openly and bluntly, Weiss confirmed what many of us have been saying for a very long time: it is not solely ‘altruism’ or concern for Palestinians victims that motivates some of the most prominent Jewish campaigners and organisations, but it is also, as Weiss freely admits, ‘Jewish self-interest.’
I do not find this as shocking as Gilad Atzmon does, and while I respect altruism and genuine concern for Palestine, I would be perfectly fine if the modern state of Palestine comes into existence because Israel sees it in their self interest to allow it to happen.
A report broadcasted on Al-Manar TV station Friday, revealed that a platoon of Israeli soldiers set up the ambush inside the Lebanese territories, 250 meters away from the borders, in the liberated Saddana hill in Shebaa.
“Clashes took place between the dogs accompanying the shepherd’s flock of sheep and the Israeli soldiers, where one of the dogs bit an Israeli soldier after he hit it with a rifle that deeply injured the dog’s head”, Al-Manar reporter Ali Shoaib stated.
Israel ambush set up inside Lebanon foiled by a dog. Impressive guys, really impressive! No wonder you lost the last time you invaded!
"This (9/11) was all planned. This was a government-ordered operation. Bush personally signed the order. He personally authorized the attacks. He is guilty of treason and mass murder." --Stanley Hilton
A Tucson mayoral candidate from a fringe political party has seized dozens of foreclosed homes in metro Phoenix, changing the locks, kicking out real-estate agents and posting "Do Not Trespass" signs.
Marshall Home, who claims many foreclosures are illegal, has filed documents in the past two weeks with the Maricopa County Recorder's Office showing he has supposedly taken ownership of at least 21 homes belonging to government-owned mortgage giant Fannie Mae. But none of the documents shows any money has changed hands, and Fannie Mae says it has not sold the houses.
This is really no surprise, but the same Senate Judiciary Committee that unanimously approved the PROTECT IP Act, despite worries from internet experts and major media about how it would break the internet, has now also unanimously approved the anti-internet streaming bill that makes it a felony to stream certain videos online -- potentially putting people in jail for embedding YouTube videos or just putting up YouTube lip synching videos...
South Korean troops have fired at a passenger airliner flying from China with 119 people on board after mistaking it for a North Korean aircraft, South Korean military and aviation officials say.
Soldiers manning a guard post on Gyodong island, off the western coast of South Korea, fired their K-2 rifles towards the jet, which was descending as it approached Seoul's Incheon International Airport, the officials said on Saturday.
"The firing continued about 10 minutes but the plane was too far off the rifle's range and it did not receive any damage," the South's Yonhap news agency quoted a Marine Corps official as saying.
Almost a quarter of high streets are said to be ‘failing’ as a gap grows between the best and worst town centres.
Empty shops have triggered a downward spiral on high streets in 83 out of 365 towns, according to a survey by property consultants Colliers International.
The armed forces have had an unexpected shock as the Army braces itself for a mass exodus of officers and soldiers.
One thousand of the Army’s brightest servicemen have applied for voluntary redundancy.
Army bosses originally asked for 500 servicemen to take voluntary redundancy, but have received more than 900 applications, according to figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post
Bangkok, Thailand June 18, 2011 - Out of either desperation, or immeasurable hubris, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just attempted to rewrite the last 3 months of history, contradicting her own department's statements made during the onset of the Syrian unrest...
NEW ORLEANS - Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant...?
The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.
A mixture of arrogance, over-confidence, and staggering ineptitude by the Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives [ATF] was outlined in a 51-page investigation by two Republican members of a House panel charged with getting to the bottom of what went wrong during a two-year operation called "Fast and Furious".
What went wrong was: an unconstitutional agency undertook an unconstitutional action and it went all pear shaped... big surprise. This is why we have a Constitution to begin with, to control the actions of our government. When the government creates agencies that operate outside of constitutional restrictions, The People are endangered in a myriad of different ways.
EFF Urges Court to Respect Judge's Ruling on Reasonable Bounds
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San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU Vermont, urged the Vermont Supreme Court today to reject prosecutors' demands to override a judge's instructions and allow a limitless warrant for a computer search...
This is the first installment in a series of chapter summaries from G. Edward Griffin's must-read book "The Creature From Jekyll Island."
G. Edward Griffin Activist Post
Chapter 1 Summary: The Journey to Jekyll Island
The basic plan for the Federal Reserve System was drafted at a secret meeting held in November of 1910 at the private resort of J.P. Morgan on Jekyll Island off the coast of Georgia. Those who attended represented the great financial institutions of Wall Street and, indirectly, Europe as well...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama overruled two senior government lawyers in deciding that he had the authority to continue US military operations in Libya without Congressional approval, The New York Times has reported.
In reaching his conclusion Obama rejected the opinions of Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon general counsel, and Caroline Krass, the acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, The Times reported late Friday, citing unnamed officials familiar with the deliberations.
Johnson and Krass both told the White House they believed that US military activity in the NATO-led air war over Libya amounted to "hostilities." ...
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Army tanks on Saturday entered a village bordering Turkey, where 10,000 Syrians have sought refuge, an activist said, as Washington warned Damascus over its "continued brutality" against protesters.
With the deadly revolt now in its fourth month, Britain urged its nationals to leave Syria "now" by commercial means, warning that its embassy in Damascus was unlikely to be able to help them in the event of a further deterioration.
As many as 19 people were killed in protests around the country on Friday, the Local Coordination Committee of anti-government activists said, although it added that it had collected only 12 names so far...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The 1,200 National Guard soldiers deployed to the US border with Mexico last year will remain on their jobs until late September, a US official said Friday.
The administration has now "extended the temporary deployment of National Guard personnel...
through September 30, 2011," Department of Homeland Security spokesman Matthew Chandler told AFP.
The extension keeps the soldiers three months beyond their original withdrawal date...
KABUL (AFP) - The United States is holding talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday, in the first official confirmation of such contacts after nearly ten years of war.
Although diplomats and officials say the talks are at a very early stage, Karzai's remarks highlight the increasing focus on finding a political settlement in Afghanistan as foreign combat troops prepare to pull out by 2014.
"Talks with the Taliban have started... the talks are going on well," Karzai said, addressing a conference in Kabul...
The Destabilization of Syria and the Broader Middle East War
General Wesley Clark states the following:
"As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.
...He said it with reproach--with disbelief, almost--at the breadth of the vision. I moved the conversation away, for this was not something I wanted to hear. And it was not something I wanted to see moving forward, either. ...I left the Pentagon that afternoon deeply concerned."
6/17/2011 Rep. King Says Stage Set To Investigate Pigford… "How is it possible that Secretary Vilsack can identify 94,000 ‘victims’ of USDA discrimination against black farmers from a total universe of only 18,000 black farmers? The original USDA estimate predicted that 3,000 of 18,000 black farmers would file a discrimination claim. Now, Tom Vilsack and Eric Holder have taken it upon themselves to negotiate a $1.15 billion agreement in Pigford II with the anonymous representatives of a universe of anonymous claimants that has swelled to 94,000. When added to the tab of the Pigford I settlement, this new $1.15 billion agreement brings the total taxpayer funded Pigford payout to $2.3 billion."
Babeu: Obama has failed to protect border Posted: May 26, 2011 President Obama led us to believe he would end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're no closer to leaving than when he made these false promises. He bombs Libya for humanitarian reasons and yet ignores the outcry of neighboring Mexico in their war against the drug cartels, which have claimed over 35,000 lives and nearly toppled their government. Mexico is America's second largest trading partner and we share nearly 2,000 miles of porous border, which presents a far graver national security threat than anything we face in the middle east. Mexico is not our enemy. The cartels are the enemy of Mexico and America. They have brought their violence here to America. Local Sheriffs can't fight them alone.
A few residents increasingly frustrated by federal agents driving through their property near the U.S.-Canada border chained, and in some cases, locked their gates Thursday, June 16, to stop the vehicles from coming on their land.
The incident, which led to an arm injury requiring 22 stitches, was the climax of a bizarre sequence of events that began when the couple's neighbor, Tamara Denise Whiteside, phoned in a false report accusing Travis Prespentt of pistol-whipping and strangling his wife and dumping her in the back of his car.
(NaturalNews) As annoying as many are, the steady stream of garbled, shaky video clips of musical concert performances that get uploaded to YouTube every day could become a thing of the past, at least for Apple iPhone users. According to a recent report from Business Insider, Apple has filed a patent for new technology that is capable of automatically disabling iPhones
Transit cop pepper-sprayed anti-war protesters on the steps of a downtown bank. Because the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's Police Department does not have an internal affairs division (I guess their cops have never screwed up before), they hired a state attorney, an NFTA bureaucrat and an account to undertake the "independent" review. Buffalo News
BUFFALO, N.Y.: One of the two individuals arrested with Buckley outside M&T Bank headquarters at Fountain Plaza on Main Street, where Metro Rail operates, questioned whether the report exonerating Brodsky was truly independent.
As Japan embarks on a campaign of cover up and censorship to hide the discovery of radioactive tea within its own borders, hundreds of miles from the Fukushima nuclear plant, tea with dangerous levels of Japan nuclear radiation are found in Paris, France।
Are you prepared to be yet again disappointed in and freaked out by the incompetence of TSA agents? Chicagoan Paul Kahan, a James Beard award winning chef and partner at the awesome restaurants Avec, Blackbird, Big Star and The Publican, managed to slip four of his massive chef knives through security at Chicago-O'Hare Airport. What happened then? Well, he took his flight like normal with four giant knives at easy reach.
These are the dams along one of the rivers leading to the two threatened nuclear power stations in Nebraska. Looking at the Fort Peck Dam, it appears that water is just 1 foot below the top of the earthen dam, and they are taking in substantially more water than they can release.
What can be more embarrassing than the tangle of global warming alarmists polluting any genuine struggle to clean our environment? How about the incredible number of people that remain deluded into accepting that the buildings fell because the planes hit them?
Is it this massive disconnect from reality that allows the FBI's continued use of Adam Pearlman as justification for their domestic agenda? You would have thought that the MOSSAD has squeezed every last drop of milk from this flaccid udder. Have they given up even trying to lie properly and deal with the fact that Pearlman been outed ad nauseam as the grandson of ADL board member Dr. Carl Pearlman?
In recent times, our expanding technology has confirmed that Galileo and Bruno were right, and Aristotle and the church were flat out wrong. The Earth does move. There are no deferents or epicycles, or even epicycles on the epicycles. The models of the universe which are based on a moving Earth are quite accurate and able to predict the behaviors of the planets as evidence by the fact that we send spacecraft to those planets on a regular basis.
The theory of a geocentric universe and the theory of epicycles were not science. It was religious doctrine masked as science.
Thank you for treating our tourists like they are POWs.
Thank you for stealing from travelers' luggage.
Thank you for fondling our wives, daughters, and sisters, and reducing them to tears as they are publicly humiliated.
Thank you for our daily dose of X-rays and Terahertz radiation that MIT and Johns Hopkins both say will give us skin cancer.
Thank you for the devastation to tourism in our tourism-dependent economy.
Thank you for all the hotels and shops that have been driven out of business for lack of customers.
Thank you for the 4000 homeless people on Oahu who used to be the 4000 people who worked in our tourism industry before you "Blue shirts" showed up.
Thank you for dropping and ruining my laptop while you took time away from searching for terrorists (of which you have yet to find one) to make certain my mp3s were fully paid for.
Thank you for saving me from my Swiss Army Knife, my bottled water, and my vitamin pills.
Thank you for keeping that 15 year old girl as a sex slave (Orange, CA).
Thank you for the $400,000 worth of stolen electronics were were able to buy on eBay for pennies on the dollar. (Newark airport)
Thank you for treating our tourists the way the Israelis treat the Palestinians.
Thank you for reminding us all why the Germans (and the entire world) would have been better off had they killed the Gestapo instead of going along with them.
Thank you, TSA.
Osama Bin Laden couldn't have done anywhere near the damage to our islands that you "blue shirts" have.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - The US Senate voted Thursday to end a $6 billion subsidy for ethanol in a move that appeared largely symbolic but sends a message about the growing unease on support for the biofuel made mostly from corn.
In a 73-27 vote, the Senate approved an amendment to end a 45 cent per gallon credit given for blending ethanol into gasoline and scrap a hefty tariff on ethanol imports.
The outcome for the measure remains uncertain, since the broader bill would need to pass the Senate and the House of Representatives, but lawmakers said a broad coalition supports the move to help curb the massive budget deficit...
This is an epic film and rarely seen anywhere. Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium are to be executed because the opium is destroying the Empire. After the burning of 20,000 boxes of opium by the Chinese England declares war, because the burned opium was the property of the British commercial attache who had bought it from the British merchants. The events lead up to the infamous Treaty of Nanjing that gave control of Hong Kong to the British.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Officials in the George W. Bush administration may have tried to use the CIA to dig up information on an Iraq war critic in order to discredit him, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Glenn Carle, who served as a top counterterrorism official in the Central Intelligence Agency, told the Times that officials twice sought to investigate Juan Cole, a professor and widely read blogger.
Cole, a Middle East expert and history professor at the University of Michigan, was a strident critic of the Bush administration and the Iraq war, which he wrote about extensively on his "Informed Comment" blog...
Editor's Note: He's so evil he doesn't deserve charges or a fair trial. And forget about the intelligence that we could get if we captured him alive, he's a shoot-on-sight threat. Please, courageously send unmanned drones to get him and keep us safe from the bearded brown men.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - The United States Thursday dismissed new Al-Qaeda supremo Ayman al-Zawahiri as a pale imitation of Osama bin Laden and warned the Egyptian to expect a similar fate to his slain predecessor...
Tens of millions of acres in the US corn belt have flooded, which will spike the cost of gas and food over the next several months. Worse, several nuclear power plants sit in the flooded plains. Both nuclear plants in Nebraska are partly submerged and the FAA has issued a no-fly order over both of them...
We might all remember the Clinton Era mantra about a “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” targeting the first couple in the 1990?s. Of course Hitlary was correct. There likely was a conspiracy to take down these haters of Freedom, and marauders of this once great ‘Republic’. In the Oughts (2000?s) there was a “Vast Left Wing Conspiracy” run by George Soros, the Ford Foundation, The National Endowment for Democracy, or the Brookings Institute to attack and dethrone George Jr., who was also a hater of liberty, and raper of the Constitution.
Japan bans medical checkups and scientific research on radiation affected citizens without first getting government approval.
A doctor from the Tokyo University Institute of Medical Science reports that Tokyo hospital he works at has received a notice signed by the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Health and Welfare banning medical research and checkups on citizens affected by radiation without first getting permission from Government controlled organizations and associations.
Tens of millions of acres in the US corn belt have flooded, which will spike the cost of gas and food over the next several months. Worse, several nuclear power plants sit in the flooded plains. Both nuclear plants in Nebraska are partly submerged and the FAA has issued a no-fly order over both of them.
On June 7, the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant filed an Alert with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission after a fire broke out in the switchgear room. During the event, “spent fuel pool cooling was lost” when two fuel pumps failed for about 90 minutes.
After Spanish Police start shooting and beating peaceful protestors and journalists, the protests in Spain follow the way of Greece – who overthrew the Government yesterday – and become violent.
Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen tells Al Jazeera that the Fukushima nuclear disaster is potentially worse than 20 Chernobyl disasters as a series of scientific experts join him in chorus saying the that disaster in Japan is far worse than governments around the world are revealing to the public.
Greece is thinking of selling some islands. Austria is thinking of selling mountains to pay off their national debt. Cities throughout the U.S. are thinking of privatizing their parking meters.
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"Say, you haven't been using that Statue of Liberty since 9-11; what say we take it off of your hands for, oh, maybe five large?" -- Gold in mah Sacks
There was 'almost a patriotism police' after 9/11 and when the network showed [things critical of the administration's policies] it would get phone calls from advertisers and the administration and "big people in corporations were calling up and saying, 'You're being anti-American here.'
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As you read all these quotes it becomes obvious that corporate media people know the truth about 9-11, but choose not to mention it in order to preserve their position and wealth.
Seriously, does this guy even think before he opens his mouth. Mittens Muttney is lucky he wasn't shot by one of the real unemployed Americans in attendance today.
"Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind," Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.
In spite of the catastrophe at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors, the Tennessee Valley Authority plans to breathe new life into a half-built nuclear plant in Alabama that was shelved 23 years ago.
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"You will eat your radiation AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!" -- Official White Horse Souse
This has been debunked, Paypal accounts are safe. We’ve spoken in depth to Matt Langley, the person who discovered the supposed issue, and it’s clear why he assumed there was a serious security breach but the issue is far less serious than initially thought.
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The simple solution is to waterboard the hackers' computers.
Solid beatdown of Jamie Dimon's twisted logic in his now infamous public attack on Bernanke last week. I have included video of the Bernanke-Dimon exchange from last week in case you missed it.
Two Greek government lawmakers quit Thursday in protest at their party's austerity policies as unity government talks with Prime Minister George Papandreou collapsed. The parliamentarians, part of Greece's ruling Socialist Party, had criticized the government's wage cuts and tax hikes, which were mandated by the EU and the International Monetary Fund in return for a massive loan rescue last year. Papandreou will have to double previous austerity measures to $40 billion and intensify privatization schemes in exchange for yet another loan.
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Message from the Greek (Icelandic, Egyptian, Spanish, Yemeni, Tunisian, British, etc. etc. etc. and hopefully soon the American) people: "You borrowed that money without our permission. You can pay it back without our help!"
The push to create history's first global fascist dictatorship has set the stage for history's first global revolution. (Does that mean we have to use a standardized guillotine, or can we sorta improvise as we go along?)
Silver has been on fire over the last three years — substantially outperforming its spotlight-grabbing cousin, gold.
Because we believe this bull run is far from over, we advise investors to always maintain exposure to the precious metals markets. Even if you haven’t yet participated in the run-up of both gold and silver, I’m glad you’re ready to take a look at the investment potential of silver.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has urged Central Asian nations to create a new world order that ends the domination of what he called the "enslavers and colonizers of the past" - a reference to Western powers.
Since April 1, Canada had demanded documents to verify the safety of all products imported from 12 prefectures affected by the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, prohibiting any products from entering into the nation without acceptable documentation or test results.
However, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency removed the controls effective Monday, according to the ministry. “Following an assessment of the results of both domestic and international actions, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency no longer sees the need for routine testing imported food products,” the Canadian agency said on its Website, noting that all food products tested were found to be well below Canada’s radiation limits.
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. -- John F. Kennedy
John Galt Activist Post
A shadow has descended on freedom worldwide: Congress is in the dark; sovereign foreign nations are in the dark; and the average American can't imagine that a world of espionage, black ops, psy ops, and the apparatus of a surveillance-industrial complex run by globalists has them in the crosshairs.
When exiting CIA director, Leon Panetta, openly admitted that shadow wars and black ops should be a strategy employed through direct military control by the CIA, it marked a new Dark Age.
"If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched."
-- George Bush, cited in the June, 1992 Sarah McClendon Newsletter
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Following the loss of Vietnam, and the collapse of the supply route for Khun Sa's heroin through Vietnam, Hawaii, and to the US mainland via Air America, the CIA started funding unapproved covert operations with money raised through the importation and sale of cocaine from South and Central America. During Ira-Contra, CIA planes flew guns down and cocaine back up, ending (we are told) with the crash of of a CIA airplane and the subsequent capture and confession of Eugene Hassenfuss, which triggered the public Iran-Contra scandal.
Now, as revelations surface of a massive covert program send high-powered weapons to Mexican drug cartels fighting for control over the Juarez drug route into the US, one has to wonder if once again the CIA is up to their necks in drug money, and once again law enforcement being hamstrung to allow CIA insiders and their enablers to get rich.
PHOTOGRAPH OF COCAINE SMUGGLER JORGE CABRERA WITH AL GORE.
This is one of the two photographs that the Justice Department was confiscating after it was learned that Jorge, who had donated $20,000 to the Clintons, was a major cocaine smuggler. The woman to the right,unidentified, appears to be the same woman seen in the photo with Hillary below.
PHOTOGRAPH OF COCAINE SMUGGLER JORGE CABRERA WITH HILLARY CLINTON.
This is the second of the two photographs that the Justice Department was confiscating after it was learned that Jorge, who had donated $20,000 to the Clintons, was a major cocaine smuggler.
These two photographs appear to be taken on different occasions, suggesting that Jorge may have contributed on more than one occasion.
TEL AVIV — Israel made clear on Thursday that if a new flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists sought to break its naval blockade of Gazalike the one a year ago when its commandos killed nine people, the Israeli military would use force again, including by boarding the ships and confronting the activists.
“We will do anything we have to do to prevent a boat from breaking the blockade,” a top naval official said in a briefing for foreign journalists. “If there is the same violence against our forces on board, there is a pretty good chance there will be injuries.” The naval official spoke on condition of anonymity in accordance with Israeli military rules.
A billboard of a bikini-clad model is causing a stir in Auburn.
This morning someone covered the 12- by 24-foot billboard off Highway 49 with a black tarp and the words "no more porn in our town."
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Normally I would not bother with this sort of story, but this is such a perfect textbook case of public relations at work I decided to use it in the classroom. As you stare at the girl, it should be obvious this image is not pornographic. As bikinis go, this is rather modest. The point of the story is not to get people up in arms about the bikini but to get them to look at the billboard which advertises a tanning salon! Note that on the page is a link to another story expressing "shock and outrage" at the billboard, so of course people will click the link to see what all the fuss is about.
This is "make news" and not only is it not news, it's just a clever covert advertisement for the tanning salon, luring the suckers in with the 'Banned in Boston' (or in this case Auburn) effect.
Study this image carefully; there will be a quiz next week.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will conduct the first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The nationwide test will occur on Wednesday, November 9 at 2 p.m. eastern standard time and may last up to three and a half minutes.
The EAS is a national alert and warning system established to enable the President of the United States to address the American public during emergencies. NOAA’s National Weather Service, governors and state and local emergency authorities also use parts of the system to issue more localized emergency alerts.
The threat of a nuclear reactor meltdown in the United States is a real possibility and might be much closer on the horizon then you may think.
What would be the health implications to the general public?
To get a closer look at this we must first dive into previous meltdowns such as Chernobyl and Fukushima.
During Russia’s Chernobyl disaster that occurred in 1986, a massive governmental cover-up took place (surrounding the actual facts released to the public) by the Russians — just like the Japanese government covered up the actual facts and severity of the Fukushima disaster.
Much attention has been placed on Iran and their supposed nuclear weapons program by the United States and Israel.
What isn’t talked about on a regular basis in the corporate controlled media is the fact that Israel has an illegal, undeclared nuclear arsenal.
While many are already aware of the facts regarding the Israeli Nuclear Program, there is an absurd amount of people who still pretend Israel is a sitting duck surrounded by powerful enemies.
The reality is that our government knew, as far back as 1974, that Israel most likely possessed nuclear weapons.
It turns out that if Greece defaults on their debts it will be your duty as an American to pay for the Credit Default Swaps sold by New York banks to the European bond holders. The down payment is only 180 billion dollars. The balloon payment is five, six or maybe more trillion dollars.
Our suspicions about ill-designs of USA and its strategic allies Israel and India concerning Pakistan’s nuclear program are now turning into reality. President Ahmadinejad’s recent statement that USA has evil designs against our nuclear program has further heightened our anxieties. Psychological war on our nuclear program was ignited by US government and Jewish controlled think tanks and media sometime in 2004 and became more and more vicious with each passing year.
The hacker group Lulz Security has opened a telephone request line so its fans can suggest potential targets.
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Now this is DEFINITELY a publicity stunt! Lulz Security and Anonymous appear to be creating a "need" for tighter internet security ahead of Obama's call for a new cyber-security initiative as part of his 2012 re-election campaign (because he sure as heck cannot run on the economy, the wars, the Gulf, etc. etc., etc.)
A Polk County sheriff's deputy filmed herself strapping naked children to a desk and spanking them with sex toys, then sent the videos to a boyfriend she met on a fetish website, investigators said.
SEATTLE - Federal gun agents in Arizona - convinced that "someone was going to die" when their agency allowed weapons sales to suspected Mexican drug traffickers - made anguished pleas to be permitted to make arrests but were rebuffed, according to a new congressional report on the controversial law enforcement probe.
Agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives told congressional investigators that there was "a state of panic" that the guns used in the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in January and two U.S. agents in Mexico a month later might have been sold under the U.S. surveillance operation.
The usual line of lawyer BS to justify an assassination.
Two years before a former Marine was shot 22 times by a SWAT team during a May search of his Tucson home, he was arrested on drug and weapons charges and became the focus of multiple investigations.
If you have Wi-Fi turned on, the previous whereabouts of your computer or mobile device may be visible on the Web for anyone to see.
Google publishes the estimated location of millions of iPhones, laptops, and other devices with Wi-Fi connections, a practice that represents the latest twist in a series of revelations this year about wireless devices and privacy, CNET has learned.
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You can see if Google has mapped your device MAC address/BSSID by going to this page
The Department of Defense is looking to hire agriculture specialists to send to Afghanistan. That's nothing especially new -- Afghanistan's economy is heavily agricultural, the health of the country's economy is directly tied to the mission of rolling back Taliban influence, and the U.S. has been sending farming consultants there for years. But writer (and former civilian contractor in Afghanistan) Joshua Foust noticed something unusual in reading the job listing, which had been posted to recruitmilitary.com by a defense contractor. The job requires "secret" security clearance.
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Not really a surprise when you see what they are growing!
For starters, let’s see why the addition of these two seemingly innocent words, Arab and Jewish, causes such an uproar when used together. The knee-jerk reaction is that these two words are diametrically opposed. In reality this could not be further from the truth, not ideologically or practically.
Things had been pretty calm in Plaza Catalunya, epicenter of the Barcelona 15-M camp, since the incidents a couple of weeks ago when the riot cops failed to take the square. The popular assemblies continued their protest and their discussions, and finally voted to lift camp last Sunday and transfer the movement to the neighborhood committees. But first there was one last step to take, one last show of strength before moving on: to peacefully protest at the gates of the Catalan parliament yesterday, the day the politicos gathered to approve the austerity measures to be applied to the native slave stock.
The guidelines say sludge measuring over 8,000 to 100,000 becquerels of radiation can be buried in waste disposal sites, after steps are taken to limit nearby residents' annual exposure to 10 microsieverts or lower.
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Meaning they are going to dump it in the landfills and hope for the best.
The cosmos wants the motivations and conditions of our times expressed in dramas that showcase them, because the cosmos brought The Apocalypse. Both sides of human consciousness; self interest and ‘enlightened’ self interest are presented in acts that reveal what initiates and carries them out. In former times these things could be muddy to ordinary perception. What a person did could be seen in many lights according to surface interpretation and what one is told concerning the meaning of intent. Propaganda is the method by which events are made to seem other than what they are and it wouldn’t be employed if it didn’t work. It works just fine and in our time the means for dissemination are greater than at any time previous.
Less than a day after putting one its two nuclear reactors back on line following two un-planned shut-downs, the other nuclear reactor at Exelon's Limerick Generation station shut down unexpectedly Friday morning, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Prime Minister George Papandreou vowed Thursday to stay on and fight to pull his country out of a crippling debt crisis, facing down a revolt from within his governing Socialists over widely unpopular new austerity measures.
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Last night Papandreou was talking about resigning after firing his Cabinet. Today he says he refuses to leave.
Hundreds of thousands of public employees set to strike, with co-ordinated day of action on 30 June.
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Iceland, Egypt, Greece, and now Spain and Great Britain. In their lust to create a global fascist dictatorship, the money-junkies may have set the stage for a truly global revolution.
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday joined the Chinese and Russian leaders in a rare encounter at a summit in Kazakhstan, where he launched a new attack on the "slavers and colonisers" of the West.
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The message of this meeting is clear. War with Iran will mean war with Russia and China. For the US Government, who apparently believes a world war will make the other problems go away, that is a great thing. And certainly Israel, which pushes ever harder to send the US into Iran, would be perfectly happy to see the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and Americans all wipe each other out and leave more of the Earth for Israel to rule, this is also a great thing. And no question the bankers love a good war because everybody goes into debt, and they do not care which side wins.
But I think a new world war is a stupid idea, all the more so because the US will lose it. And I hope you all agree with me, and that you will join us in opposition in yet another war to make the world safe for private central banking.
Any questions Romney fans. If you want more Obama-Bush warmongering, deficit-building destruction and third-world pillaging, step right up and demonstrate your personal insanity by supporting the Wall-Street sucking, TARP-blowing useless pile of human excrement who goes by the name of Mitt Romney.
Ron Paul kicks Romney's ass in less than 2 minutes.
As the Obama administration readies plans for U.S. offices in Afghanistan, it's not just national office-holders who are demanding an expedited drawdown.
The $4 billion program to extend the life of the B61 bomb is part of a larger atomic weapons maintenance plan approved by President Barack Obama. The work is designed to ensure the reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent force without building new weapons or adding capabilities that might prompt Russia to do the same.
ELECTRIC cars could produce higher emissions over their lifetimes than petrol equivalents because of the energy consumed in making their batteries, a study has found.
An electric car owner would have to drive at least 129,000km before producing a net saving in CO2. Many electric cars will not travel that far in their lifetime because they typically have a range of less than 145km on a single charge and are unsuitable for long trips. Even those driven 160,000km would save only about a tonne of CO2 over their lifetimes.
Dozens of British Harrier jump jets are to be sold to the United States Marine Corps for £34 million after more than £1 billion has been spent on them in the last decade.
"A Bitcoin user allegedly has had $500,000 worth of Bitcoins stolen from him. A hacker supposedly gained access to the user's home computer and managed to get the user's wallet.dat file, which contained the cryptographic keys that allowed him to drain the user's balance."
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My question is how the hacker KNEW the BitCoins were there? Was some other part of the system penetrated to identify users?
And again, my concern is less the BitCoins than the BitCoin mining operation. The BitCoin mining software uses a LOT of computer power for what we are told is a simple peer-to-peer cash system. Peer-to-peer file sharing does not require that kind of raw compute power. Neither does the level of digital signing the peer-to-peer cash system claims to use. There is a huge amount of computer power being expended on other unknown tasks. Some articles on just how BitCoins are awarded speak of "solving blocks", and therein lies my concern. As a part of the mining for BitCoins, a huge amount of computer power is being spent on cryptographic processing of these blocks, and nobody really knows for certain what is inside those blocks.
I am concerned that the BitCoin miner, along with passing BitCoins hither and yon, is actually a vast distributed code key-breaker. With enough raw computer power chained together in a few million BitCoin users, brute-force breaking of the keys of asymmetric encryption becomes achievable, even convenient. Great if the perps are reading Iran's government communications or congressional "Sexting" messages, but not so great if the target is banks, SSH transactions, https, utilities, your corporate server, and secured emails.
And just as BitCoin mining becomes widespread, all of a sudden, we are seeing hacking attacks against Sony, IMF, and other previously untouchable secure systems.
Hisao Nakamura still can't accept that his crisply cut field of deep green tea bushes south of Tokyo has been turned into a radioactive hazard by a crisis far beyond the horizon.
"I was more than shocked," said Nakamura, 74, who, like other tea farmers in Kanagawa has been forced to throw away an early harvest because of radiation being released by the Fukushima Daiichi plant 300 kilometers (180 miles) away.
"Throwing way what you've grown with great care is like killing your own children."
I have never been a fan of begging the powers that be to do the right thing,it never works. It is equivalent to a teenager crying to their parents for the car. The only way the parents truly respect the teenager is when they buy their own car. These guys at the CFTC are totally bought and paid for by the Elite. I prefer to take power by taking physical delivery of silver every chance we get. Sooner or later the market is going to blow up on these guys and they will be lucky to get away prison for the fraud that they did nothing about. Judging by the declining inventory at the CRIMEX it should not be too long. Needless to say here is a good email by Bix Weir. Pester them with this email. -Silver Shield
Once a malicious "baseless rumor" on the net, now it is written up in a regional newspaper with readership in Tokyo and Kanto area.
Tokyo Shinbun (paper edition only, 6/16/2011) reports that many children in Koriyama City in Fukushima Prefecture, 50 kilometers from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, are suffering inexplicable nosebleed, diarrhea, and lack of energy since the nuke plant accident.
A period of extremely low activity of solforskare called Maunder minimum occurred between the years 1645-1715. The low activity coincided with a minor ice age in Europe.
That was when the Swedish army under Charles X was able to march over the ice to Denmark in the Straits Little and Great Belt - and Londoners could skate on the Thames.
What lies in store for Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy, and, in short order, the United States, is the wholesale sell-off of public property to private corporations at bargain basement prices. What the despots who gather in their secretive lairs at Davos, Cernobbio, Bilderberg, and G8/G20 are bringing about is a world where no property is owned by the state, which by default means the people. Total corporate control over every facet of life equals extreme fascism.
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Before the globalists can drop the borders, all humans must work for the same low wages, and all currency be driven down to the same worthless level, and everyone must be a slave to the same global private central bank. This IS the New World Order.
Of course Weiner should go, as should anyone who engages in such behavior. This is not a moral condemnation but an issue of National Security. Foreign Intelligence operations like the Mossad search out such behaviors by US politicians, document them, then use them to blackmail US Politicians to vote not for the benefit of their constituents and the nation, but for the benefit of the foreign government whose spies uncovered the behavior. The report on Whitewater mentions that an unnamed foreign government (presumed to be Israel) succeeded in recording some of Bill Clinton's phone sex sessions with Monica Lewinski. Shortly after, Clinton ordered the FBI to cease their search for "Mega", Israel's top spy inside the Federal Government. Over 125 investigations into Israeli espionage in the USA have been stopped due to political pressure, suggesting that Israel has not only searched for but found other US politicians who behave as Weiner has done. For the sake of recovering control of our nation, every American with evidence of illegal, or immoral behavior by politicians should make that information public, to end the possibility of blackmail by foreign interests.
The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is under pressure to ensure the flawless operation of a system to decontaminate radioactive water, which threatens to overflow.
More than 110,000 tons of the highly radioactive water has accumulated in the nuclear complex.
The Iwate Prefectural Government has again detected a radioactive substance above the state limit in pasture grass in several areas in the prefecture. The prefecture asked farmers in the areas to refrain from feeding the grass to their livestock.
The overarching problem is the Israel lobby’s subversion of American governance through election fraud, the evasion of tax regulations and laws regulating foreign lobbies, and the systematized, ongoing infiltration of operatives into key government posts to advance the interests of a foreign state.
Last July, the defendant asked the victim to wait for him early in morning at a Netanya intersection. He picked her up in his car and drove her to the beach. There he told her that she is fated "to become the messiah's mother," and that she must "atone for all the bad deeds that she has done so far" by having sexual relations with him.
He then conducted a marriage ceremony with the girl while still in the car, and swore her to secrecy. At one point he asked her to take her clothes off, and assaulted her.
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Posted for those who claim I only pick on the Catholics.
The report says that “because U.S. military operations [in Libya] are distinct from the kind of ‘hostilities’ contemplated by the resolution,” the deadlines for congressional approval or force withdrawal do not apply.
“We’re not engaged in sustained fighting. There’s been no exchange of fire with hostile forces. We don’t have troops on the ground. We don’t risk casualties to those troops,” said one senior administration official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity during a conference call arranged by the White House. “None of the factors, frankly, speaking more broadly, has risked the sort of escalation that Congress was concerned would impinge on its war-making power.””
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Funny, when those planes hit the World Trade Towers the White House immediately called it a war, even though there was no sustained fighting, nor exchange of fire!
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said Thursday that water was found leaking from a newly installed radioactive water treatment system during its trial run, hampering the firm's plan to fully operate it from Friday.
The White House maintains that because the U.S. is principally in a support role – furnishing intelligence and conducting aerial refueling – that the mission does not meet the requirements of the War Powers Resolution, as it did when Obama first ordered American troops into the operation.
Michelle Obama wants to see more stories of military families on TV and in movies, so she came to Hollywood to do something about it.
The first lady met with members of the writers, producers, directors and actors unions at the Writers Guild Theater to discuss Joining Forces, an initiative aimed at increasing public consciousness and support of military families.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine claim to have determined the proper dose levels needed to create positive changes in attitudes, mood, life satisfaction, and behavior that persist for more than a year with the psychoactive substance in so-called "magic mushrooms."...
Last year Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old U।S.-born citizen, found a strange device attached to his car. When he posted a photo of it online, the FBI showed up at his home two days later. They wanted their GPS tracking device back. The FBI had been tracking Afifi’s movement for months without his knowing about it. Moreover, the agency did so without a warrant and apparently based on the flimsy rationale that his friend wrote a blog they felt was questionable. This type of warrantless tracking seems to be an increasingly common government practice...
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Remind you of Egypt last February?
