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Original_Intent wrote:What are the current yays and nays on SB 3217?
I don't know....just got a email from one of the tea party groups I subscribe to that those guys were undecided.

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Associated Press Warns Of Katla Eruption Danger

Recently we posted seismic readings of Iceland Katla volcano, which indicated the tremors around the area have increased in recent days.

Today, the Associated Press covers just how much of an imminent threat an eruption at Eyjafjallajokull's cousin, Katla, is.

For all the worldwide chaos that Iceland's volcano has already created, it may just be the opening act.

Scientists fear tremors at the Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH-lah-yer-kuhl) volcano could trigger an even more dangerous eruption at the nearby Katla volcano -- creating a worst-case scenario for the airline industry and travelers around the globe.

A Katla eruption would be 10 times stronger and shoot higher and larger plumes of ash into the air than its smaller neighbor, which has already brought European air travel to a standstill for five days and promises severe travel delays for days more.

The two volcanos are side by side in southern Iceland, about 12 miles (20 kilometers) apart and thought to be connected by a network of magma channels.

Expecting the current volcanic activity to not activate Katla would be an outlier based on empirical data:

Pall Einarsson, professor of geophysics at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland, said one volcanic eruption sometimes causes a nearby volcano to explode, and Katla and Eyjafjallajokull have been active in tandem in the past.

In fact, the last three times that Eyjafjallajokull erupted, Katla did as well.

Katla also typically awakens every 80 years or so, and having last exploded in 1918 is now slightly overdue.

The unique topography of Katla would result in a much bigger ash cloud, and thus a greater impact on Europe and travel.

Katla, however, is buried under ice 550 yards (500 meters) thick -- the massive Myrdalsjokull glacier, one of Iceland's largest. That means it has more than twice the amount of ice that the current eruption has burned through -- threatening a new and possibly longer aviation standstill across Europe.

Katla's substantial ice cap is a major worry because it's that mixture of melting cold water and lava that causes explosions and for ash to shoot into high altitudes. Strong winds can then carry it on over Europe.

So far there have been minor tremors at Katla, which scientists believe to be movements in the glacier ice, but the activity from Eyjafjallajokull is making measurements more difficult to read and an eruption more tricky to predict.

''It is more difficult to see inside Katla,'' said Kristin Vogfjord, geologist at the Icelandic Met Office.

Nobody knows when Katla will erupt. One thing we know - once Goldman starts selling Collateralized Volcano Obligations in which assorted earth strata play the role of structural subordination, with hedge funds shorting the lithosphere and going long the upper mantle, and mutual funds lining to bid up guaranteed "pro forma" cash flow positive molten magma, we will not be taking any transatlantic flights for a long time.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/associ ... ion-danger

My boss is still hanging out in Italy....

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Huge Eruptive Prominence (April 16, 2010)

The largest eruptive prominence observed in years blasted into space (April 13, 2010) and SOHO was lucky enough to have caught a key moment of it. As observed in extreme UV light, the plasma cloud was caught about mid-step in its liftoff above the Sun's surface. (Ground-based observers says the eruption took about two hours.) It was not obvious what triggered the breakaway, but it may have been associated with a coronal mass ejection (CME).
http://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/pickofthewe ... 16apr2010/

NWS American Samoa (American Samoa)
High Surf Advisory
http://www.weather.gov/alerts-beta/wwac ... 22050000AS

....at least its not another tsunami!

Dick Morris reveals the truth about Tim McVeigh and Clinton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHANum4f ... r_embedded
Cumberland County Now Tests DUI Suspects

Carlisle, Pa. - Cumberland County is now in a class of its own when it comes to testing the blood of suspected drunk drivers.

This past weekend, three men had their blood drawn at the county booking center. It was then analyzed at a county forensic lab. According to District Attorney Dave Freed all three were over the legal limit.

"In the long run we're not paying for outside lab tests, we're not paying for the time of the people who have been involved in the testing to have to come into court and testify," Freed said.

Freed said the process is unlike any other in the state. A part-time county phlebotomist will man the booking center during peak DUI hours, on Friday and Saturday nights. During those hours police won't have to take a suspect to the hospital for a blood test, meaning they can get back on patrol sooner.

"They're not sitting there and waiting in the hospital," Freed said. "One stop shop, gets them back out on the street doing their job."

But DUI defense attorneys believe the new process raises new issues.

"I worry about the qualifications," said attorney John Mancke of Harrisburg. "I worry about the chain of custody. And I worry about the supervision that's going to occur when you have what is a limited part-time lab."

Mancke said he expects more people will refuse to take the test because they'll be uncomfortable in the new setting. He said people might also not want their blood taken and analyzed by county employees, when it's the county that may be prosecuting them.

"No other such Pennsylvania county has seen the need, no other such Pennsylvania county has gone to the expense that we're doing as taxpayers in Cumberland County," Mancke said. "There's just no need for this."

Freed strongly disagreed. "Conspiracy theorists will never be satisfied," Freed said. "Blood is drawn in a specific manner, in a sterile environment, tested in a sterile environment.. We're extremely proud of it."

"I'm elected to insure that our processes and systems are honest, and they are," Freed continued. "I wouldn't have let it start if they were not."
http://www.whtm.com/news/stories/0410/727742.html
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Up to $ 4800 in Tax Credits Available to Employers who Hire Veterans
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/21 ... -veterans/

Bertha Lewis (ACORN CEO) Unleashed: Bashes Conservatives and the Tea Party, Promotes Socialism
http://biggovernment.com/mrichmond/2010 ... ernment%29
Transhumanism, PsyWar and B.E.P.’s “Imma Be”

The Black Eyed Peas “Imma Be / Rock that Body” video is a masterpiece of high tech computer-generated imagery and state of the art digital music production. It is also one of the most blatant examples of Psychological Warfare and deception that I have ever seen in modern mass media. This article will discuss

1) What Transhumanism actually is.

2) The massive use of Psychological Warfare techniques in this video and all forms of mass media.

3) Analysis of the video, itself – to show you how these psychological concepts, the occult and Transhumanist symbolism and the deceptive storyline are integrated in this video to promote the dangerous agenda of the cult known as Transhumanism.
http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=3563

The Shock Doctrine in Haiti: An Interview with Patrick Elie
http://towardfreedom.com/home/index.php ... 8&Itemid=0
California's ban on open carry bill passes.

Besides going through appropriations, the bill to ban open carry is a done deal - thus removing one more right from the people of the state, and just adding one more chain to the ankle of former citizens, now turned subjects.

Like I left in the comments of Books,Bones,Bricks, and Bullets - if you live in California, move out of the state if you can. If you can't afford too I understand, still do what you can and leave. The state doesn't respect your rights as a human-being, but only as a living working ATM to fund the moochers.

http://conservativescalawag.blogspot.co ... -bill.html
The Fix was in for the 2008 Election and The Cover Up is Still Going Strong! But cracks are starting to show. - By Charles Kerchner Commander USNR (Retired)
April 21st, 2010

The Fix was in for the 2008 Election and The Cover Up is Still Going Strong! But cracks are starting to show in their phony facade and teleprompters.

The Fix was in ….
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-bel ... ction.html

Cracks starting to show ….
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/court ... er-to.html

They know the truth in Kenya …
http://puzo1.blogspot.com/2010/04/curre ... nment.html
http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/

The Bottom Line on Natural Born Citizen
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/22262
Iranian S-300 SAMs, Or a Bunch of Oil Drums Welded Together?

Israel has let it be known that it regards Iran’s acquisition of the Russian built S-300 surface-to-air missile system, considered roughly equivalent to the Patriot missile, to be a red line that would likely prompt an Israeli aerial attack. Iran placed an order for the S-300 (NATO designation SA-20) way back in 2005, but Russia says the SAMs are on backorder and has no idea when or if they’ll become available.

Well, Aviation Week’s David Fulghum spotted something fishy in a photo from Iran’s Army Day parade in Tehran that took place on Sunday. The vehicle in the picture is a Bakr-series tank carrier with what looks to be 55-gal. drums welded together and painted to resemble S-300 launchers, he says.

Below the jump, the Moscow parade version. You make the call.
http://defensetech.org/2010/04/19/irani ... z0lltkZzsU

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BRIC must create a new world order: Lula

The BRIC group of the world's four biggest emerging powers has a fundamental role in creating a new world order, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday.

Lula was speaking at the end of a summit in Brasilia with the leaders of China, India and Russia. The countries reiterated their call for developing nations to have a bigger role in global economic and financial decision-making.

PM pitches for close cooperation among BRIC nations

Noting that India, Russia, China and Brazil are resource-rich, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday pitched for close cooperation among them in the fields of energy and food security besides tapping potential in other sectors like trade and investment, science and technology and infrastructure.

Addressing the Brazil-Russia-India-China (BRIC) Summit here, he said the four countries can benefit by sharing their experiences in the field of inclusive growth.
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/bric- ... a/607274/0

Angel Thunder 2010
http://publicintelligence.net/operation-angel-thunder/

Jordan confirms blast near Israeli border
http://www.alternet.org/rss/breaking_ne ... aking_news

Pentagon backtracks: Iran attack not ‘off the table
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0421/pentag ... off-table/

Iran Begins Large Scale War Games In Straits Of Hormuz
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/iran-b ... its-hormuz

CROWD CONFRONTATION OPERATIONS (CANADA)
http://info.publicintelligence.net/CanadianCrowdOps.pdf

Office of Infrastructure Protection’s BiosecurityAssessments and Activities (DHS)
http://info.publicintelligence.net/DHSbiosecurity.pdf

Intelligence-Led Policing: The New Intelligence Architecture (DOJ)
http://info.publicintelligence.net/IntelLedPolicing.pdf

US soldier took $1.4 million bribe from contractors
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0421/soldie ... ntractors/

Dependence on Government Growing in U.S.
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36648

COL EVGENEY KHRUSCHEV: AMERICA’S DRUG DETANTE IN AFGHANSITAN “FRIENDLY FIRE”
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/22 ... ndly-fire/

National Guard recruiters forged re-enlistment papers: report
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0420/guard- ... nt-papers/

Job-Killing Bailout Bill Rewards Obama’s Friends on Wall Street, Hurts Small Businesses
http://biggovernment.com/jboehner/2010/ ... ernment%29

IRS Refuses To Identify How Many New IRS Personnel Are Needed to Enforce Obamacare
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/04/ ... Unknown%29

Gore takes cash for water campaign from chemical firm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 47723.html

Claim That Goldman Probes are Politically Motivated
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/business ... ted/370756

Massive government corruption hidden by focus on Goldman-Sachs
http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conserv ... ldmanSachs

Greece Welcomes Its New IMF Overlords With Day Of Rioting And National Strikes
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/greece ... al-strikes

An American Phenomenon: The Widespread Psychiatric Drugging of Infants and Toddlers
The United States has become the psychiatric drugging capital of the world, medicating children at a younger and younger age.
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/146551

8 Invented Diseases Big Pharma Is Banking on
http://www.alternet.org/story/146471/8_ ... age=entire
(AFP) — An 84-year-old Brazilian priest caught on camera in a sex act with a choirboy has been arrested and put in detention.

Barbosa's case, which adds to a pedophile scandal tarnishing the Catholic Church, came to light a month ago when a Brazilian television channel broadcast video footage of the priest receiving oral sex from a choirboy in front of a local church altar.

The incident scandalised Brazil, where 74 per cent of the 190-million strong population is Catholic.

A parliamentary commission in Arapiraca held a three-day inquiry into pedophilia in the region, hearing from witnesses and alleged victims.

The video featuring Barbosa was shown during the hearings.

The priest asked for forgiveness before the inquiry, but stated: "I am not a pedophile," according to Globo television news.

Two other priests implicated in alleged pedophilia by three former choirboys speaking in the video have been ordered to not leave the town of Arapiraca.
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-wo ... -sps6.html

McAfee Antivirus Program Goes Berserk, Freezes PCs
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=10437730

US to launch secret 'space warplane'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12 ... id=3510203

The Fake Food Safety bills: Feeding America poison one law at a time
http://farmwars.info/?p=2803&utm_source ... rm+Wars%29

Common Plant Vector Injects Genes into Human Cells – A GMO Nightmare!
http://farmwars.info/?p=2793&utm_source ... rm+Wars%29
(NaturalNews) Drug and chemical giant Bayer AG has admitted that there is no way to stop the uncontrolled spread of its genetically modified crops.

"Even the best practices can't guarantee perfection," said Mark Ferguson, the company's defense lawyer in a recent trial.

Two Missouri farmers sued Bayer for contaminating their crop with modified genes from an experimental strain of rice engineered to be resistant to the company's Liberty-brand herbicide. The contamination occurred in 2006, during an open field test of the new rice, which was not approved for human consumption. According to the plaintiffs' lawyer, Don Downing, genetic material from the unapproved rice contaminated more than 30 percent of all rice cropland in the United States.

"Bayer was supposed to be careful," Downing said. "Bayer was not careful and that rice did escape into our commercial rice supplies."
http://www.naturalnews.com/028585_GMOs_Bayer.html
Exclusive: WellPoint routinely targets breast cancer patients

(Reuters) - One after another, shortly after a diagnosis of breast cancer, each of the women learned that her health insurance had been canceled. First there was Yenny Hsu, who lived and worked in Los Angeles. Later, Robin Beaton, a registered nurse from Texas. And then, most recently, there was Patricia Relling, a successful art gallery owner and interior designer from Louisville, Kentucky.

None of the women knew about the others. But besides their similar narratives, they had something else in common: Their health insurance carriers were subsidiaries of WellPoint, which has 33.7 million policyholders -- more than any other health insurance company in the United States.

The women all paid their premiums on time. Before they fell ill, none had any problems with their insurance. Initially, they believed their policies had been canceled by mistake.

They had no idea that WellPoint was using a computer algorithm that automatically targeted them and every other policyholder recently diagnosed with breast cancer. The software triggered an immediate fraud investigation, as the company searched for some pretext to drop their policies, according to government regulators and investigators.

Once the women were singled out, they say, the insurer then canceled their policies based on either erroneous or flimsy information. WellPoint declined to comment on the women's specific cases without a signed waiver from them, citing privacy laws.

That tens of thousands of Americans lost their health insurance shortly after being diagnosed with life-threatening, expensive medical conditions has been well documented by law enforcement agencies, state regulators and a congressional committee. Insurance companies have used the practice, known as "rescission," for years. And a congressional committee last year said WellPoint was one of the worst offenders.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63L2LS20100422
Airlines Gambling With People's Lives As Royal Air Force Suspends Fighter Jet Flights After Ash Deposits Found In Engine

If you ever needed confirmation that the airline industry is gambling with everyone's lives just so they can stop the profit bleed and resume flight, here is the Telegraph confirming that airspace over Europe is anything but safe: "Flight training on RAF Typhoon jets was ''temporarily suspended'' today after safety inspectors found deposits of ash in one of the fleet's engines." And yes, these are sturdy military jets: we wonder how fragile passenger jets with GE turbofan engines are faring in their flights.

Safety inspectors took the ''precautionary measure'' to check all of the jets based at RAF Coningsby, in Lincolnshire, after findings small deposits, the Ministry of Defence said.

However the Civil Aviation Authority said it was aware of the incident but would not be changing its guidance to airlines because passenger jets had already shown themselves capable of operating in the conditions.

Asked if there had been any ash-related reports from airlines, a CAA spokeswoman said today: "So far we have only a very few reports from airlines and, of these, all related to visual sightings.

"There have been no reports of damage to aircraft."

An MoD spokesman said the RAF was : ''being extra cautious.''

The ash was found on one of the jets which landed at the base yesterday, he said.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/airlin ... -ash-depos

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Iranian Military Conducts Offensive, Defensive Wargame at the Straits of Hormoz
http://defense-update.com/newscast/0410 ... +Update%29

Iran Begins Military Exercise “Great Prophet 5″
http://defensetech.org/2010/04/22/iran- ... z0lxDhIlKA

Air Force Launches Reusable X-37B Spaceship
http://defensetech.org/2010/04/23/air-f ... z0lxDiqNGN
Its Happening in Arizona

The very recent passage of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (SB1070) is raising the emotions of pro-immigration activists because of the appearance of profiling. Yet, without being a legal or Constitutional expert, it seems that the bill is an exercise of state's rights to enforce a law that is also part of the federal law enforcement tool kit. This comes under the premise of the exercise of concurrent powers and whether the States have any rights over the federal government when it comes to immigration.

Today, the Governor of Arizona faces a deadline on what could be a watershed piece of legislation that would make it a crime under state law to be in the country illegally

A Saturday deadline for Brewer, a Republican, to act on the bill was set on Monday when the legislation arrived on her desk. She can sign, veto or allow it to become law without her signature. Civil rights activists have said the bill would lead to racial profiling and deter Hispanics from reporting crimes. Hundreds of Hispanics protested the legislation at the State Capitol complex on Thursday.

It has often been argued that among the roles of the federal government are that of taxation, building highways and the defense of the Nation. It also has the power to protect the security of our international borders and the control of immigration into the United States. But the question now being raised by the passage of this bill in Arizona, a border state in the 21st Century sense of the term, is whether the States now have the right to identify and prosecute (and have deported) any person found to be an illegal immigrant. The bill enables Arizona police to detain anyone on "reasonable suspicion" if they aren't carrying " valid drivers' license or other form of identity papers"

Some see this as racial profiling while others see this as a way to force the issue of enforcement of existing measures to stem the flow of illegal immigration. It would be very interesting to see Governor Brewer sign the bill into law and watch the Constitutional challenges as they go to the Supreme Court, and as other states consider following suit. So much depends on where you live. If you're in a border state and you have at least the illusion that illegal immigrants are committing crimes in addition to being in this country illegally, Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (SB1070) is not only an issue of public safety, but also one of State's Rights.
http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2010 ... tsWatch%29

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Scouts must pay man $18.5M in punitive damages

PORTLAND, Ore. – A jury on Friday ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million to an Oregon man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in the early 1980s.

Lawyers for Kerry Lewis had asked the jury to award at least $25 million to punish the Boy Scouts for what the jury had already agreed in the first phase of the trial was reckless and outrageous conduct.

The jury decided on April 13 that the Boy Scouts were negligent for allowing former assistant Scoutmaster Timur Dykes to associate with Scouts, including Lewis, after Dykes admitted to a Scouts official in 1983 that he had molested 17 boys.

The jury awarded Lewis $1.4 million in compensatory damages with that verdict and agreed the Boy Scouts of America were liable for punitive damages to be determined in the second phase of the trial that ended Wednesday.

The case was the first of six filed against the Boy Scouts in the same court in Oregon, with at least one other separate case pending. If mediation fails to settle the next cases, they also could go to trial.

Kelly Clark and Paul Mones, the attorneys for Lewis, told the jury the Boy Scouts were nearly a $1 billion corporation that could well afford punitive damages intended to deter them from similar conduct in the future.

During the first phase of the trial, Clark and Mones introduced more than 1,000 files the Scouts kept on suspected child molesters from 1965-85 as evidence the organization should have put a sex abuse prevention program into place decades ago.

The Scouts executive now in charge of those files admitted they had never been evaluated or analyzed to help design or determine the effectiveness of a prevention program that is now in place.

A number of witnesses testified for the Scouts during the second phase of the trial that they participated in a training and prevention program since at least the late 1980s. None could say why the Scouts had not yet made the "youth protection training" program mandatory.

Under Oregon law, 60 percent of the punitive damages awarded by the jury will go to the state crime victim compensation fund.

Because the Boy Scouts have settled some lawsuits out of court, it is difficult to say where the total awards imposed by the Portland jury rank with those of the past.

In a 1987 sex abuse case, an Oregon jury awarded more than $4 million to the victim, including $2 million in punitive damages against the Scouts that were thrown out when the case was appealed. A jury in San Bernadino, Calif., awarded $3.75 million to three sex abuse victims in 1991.

From 1984 through 1992, the Scouts were sued at least 60 times for alleged sex abuse with settlements and judgments totaling more than $16 million, said Patrick Boyle, editor of the Youth Today newspaper and author of a book about sex abuse within the Scouts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100423/ap_ ... outs_abuse

....need another Friends of Scouting drive!

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2 Chicago state reps: Bring in the National Guard

Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago's streets.

Chicago Democrats John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford said they want Quinn, Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis to allow guardsmen to patrol streets and help quell violence. Weis said he did not support the idea because the military and police operate under different rules.

"Is this a drastic call to action? Of course it is," Fritchey said. "Is it warranted when we are losing residents to gun violence at such an alarming rate? Without question. We are not talking about rolling tanks down the street or having armed guards on each corner."

What he envisions, Fritchey said, is a "heightened presence on the streets," particularly on the roughly 9 percent of city blocks where most of the city's violent crimes occur.

Weis previously identified those "hot spots" and said he plans to create a 100-person team made up of selected and volunteer police personnel to respond to crime there. If guardsmen were to assist police, they could comprise or contribute to that force, Fritchey said.

So far this year, 113 people have been killed across Chicago, the same number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined in the same period, Fritchey said.

"As we speak, National Guard members are working side-by-side with our troops to fight a war halfway around the world," Fritchey said. "The unfortunate reality is that we have another war that is just as deadly taking place right in our backyard." While the National Guard has been deployed in other states to prevent violence related to specific events and protests, the Chicago legislators said they are unaware of guardsmen being deployed to assist with general urban unrest.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010 ... -help.html
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The request comes amid a recent surge in violent crime, including a night last week that saw seven people killed and 18 wounded, mostly by gunfire.

Fritchey says Chicago has had 113 homicide victims this year. He says the police department has done a commendable job, but its resources are stretched thin.

Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis says he appreciates the lawmakers' frustration and willingness to help, but doubts the National Guard is the best answer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03518.html

Glenn Beck
http://publicintelligence.net/glenn-beck/

Glenn Beck’s Home Address
http://publicintelligence.net/glenn-becks-home-address/
In a recent article written by JB Williams entitled, “DC Knows that Obama is Ineligible for Office,”[1] Williams highlights some facts signaling that the federal government, the main-stream media and those closely related to both know that Barak Obama is ineligible to be the President of the United States of America under the U.S. Constitution.

Williams cites these facts in support of his assertion:

- Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party did not certify that Obama qualified to run as a candidate for President of the U.S., but only that Obama was the Democratic Party candidate;

- the news media previously and numerously referred to Obama as “Kenya-born” before he ran for President. Afterwards, “Kenya-born” was dropped;

- Obama has spent over 2 million dollars in hiding what they say exists (his birth certificate) and supposedly have in hand;

- the Justice Department is doing everything they possibly can to keep Americans from pursing Obama’s eligibility in court;

- federal judges have dismissed over 400 hundred court cases on Obama’s eligibility, ruling that these citizens do not have standing to know who is acting as President of the U.S.;

- Michelle Obama has described Barak’s home as being the country of Kenya;

Williams is not alone, of course, in the conclusion that Obama is an illegitimate President and that his illegitimacy is being covered up by Congress, the federal courts, those in the Republican and Democratic national parties and others. Ever since Obama campaigned for U.S. President, millions in America have raised his eligibility as a fundamental concern for the integrity of the U.S. Constitution and rule of law, all to no avail.

It is not only “average Joe” who believes Obama is illegitimate, but state governments are expressing the same notion. The state of Arizona has recently passed a law, expected to be signed by the governor, which declares that Barak Obama must prove his U.S. citizenship before being permitted to be on the ballot in 2012.[2] Many states are expected to follow Arizona’s lead of resistance to unlawful federal actions, just as so many states are doing lately on many different fronts (thankfully!).

Given these serious insinuations believed by many millions of Americans concerning Obama’s illegitimacy and concerning its cover up, that more serious deductions and conclusions are not being raised--at least publicly--surprises me.

Consider what is really implied about Obama’s ineligibility and the cover up by those in the federal government, the main-stream media and the two major political parties. The cut-to-the-chase conclusion underlying this whole ordeal is that the United States government is completely and utterly illegitimate and reeks of bad faith and intent. Any other conclusion is very difficult to believe, using logic and reason.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Timothy/baldwin133.htm

United States Central Command - Monitoring the Tactical Network
http://info.publicintelligence.net/CENTCOMnetops.pdf

Drone aircraft are patrolling U.S. Cities
http://publicintelligence.net/drone-air ... -s-cities/
The Obama administration is spending billions of dollars to develop new weapons systems, including powerful conventional warhead missiles capable of striking any target in the world within less than an hour.

The US Air Force carried out two separate test launches April 22—one at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and the other at Cape Canaveral, Florida—designed to further the development of these weapons systems.

The first system, known as Conventional Prompt Global Strike, or CPGS, would be capable of striking anywhere across the globe within under an hour of a launch order, using intercontinental ballistic missiles fired from the US to deliver conventional warheads against targets in other countries.

Capable of striking a target with an impact speed of up to 4,000 feet per second and a payload of up to 8,000 pounds, these warheads would be able to obliterate everything within a 3,000-foot radius.

The Obama administration has requested $240 million in appropriations by Congress to pay for developing CPGS in 2011, an increase of 45 percent over this year’s budget. The total cost of the program is expected to mount to over $2 billion by 2015, by which time the Pentagon hopes to have deployed the first elements of the weapons system.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) carried out a test launch Thursday of a space plane known as the Falcon, or Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV-2), a suborbital vehicle that is the prototype for the CPGS delivery system.

It was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base on a decommissioned ballistic missile, from which the plane separated just outside of the atmosphere, hurtling back to the Earth at a speed of more than 13,000 miles per hour, more than 20 times the speed of sound. The plane was supposed to crash into the Pacific Ocean near a US military test site on the Kwajalein Atoll.

The other unmanned space vehicle launched Thursday from Cape Canaveral was the X-37B. The Pentagon remained tight-lipped about the highly classified program, refusing to say even when the 29-foot plane—which resembles a smaller version of the space shuttle—would return to earth, much less specify what it was carrying or give any detailed explanation of its mission.

While it is estimated that the cost of developing the X-37B will run into the billions, the precise amount also remains classified, included as part of the Pentagon’s “black” budget.

Gary Payton, the deputy undersecretary for Air Force space programs, would say only that the test flight was designed to further “development programs that will provide capabilities for our warfighters in the future.”

It is widely believed that the vehicle is being developed as part of a US effort to militarize space, providing a weapons platform and launch pad for smaller spy satellites. There is also speculation that it is being developed as part of the Prompt Global Strike system.

Advocates of Prompt Global Strike have promoted the weapons system as a means to respond instantaneously to intelligence on the location of alleged terrorists or supposed threats of an imminent launch of weapons of mass destruction. They have also argued that the deployment of the new weapons would reduce the dependence of the US military on its nuclear arsenal.

Critics, including Russian officials, have pointed out, however, that the launching of intercontinental ballistic missiles, even if they were carrying conventional warheads, could easily trigger a nuclear war.

“World states will hardly accept a situation in which nuclear weapons disappear, but weapons that are no less destabilizing emerge in the hands of certain members of the international community,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters earlier this month in Moscow.

In a state of the nation address following the announcement of the proposed weapons system under the Bush administration, then-Russian President Vladimir Putin warned, “The launch of such a missile could provoke a full-scale counterattack using strategic nuclear forces.”

Largely as a result of such warnings, Congress previously failed to provide funding for the program. The proposal “really hadn’t gone anywhere in the Bush administration,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview on the ABC news program “This Week.” Gates, who was held over in his post by incoming President Barack Obama, noted that the weapons system had been “embraced by the new administration.”

The New York Times reported Friday that in an interview Obama had defended the weapons system as a “move towards less emphasis on nuclear weapons” and argued that it would insure “that our conventional weapons capability is an effective deterrent in all but the most extreme circumstances.”

In a separate interview with the Times, Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, the head of the Strategic Command, argued that the weapons system was needed to give the White House more military options.

“Today we can present some conventional options to the President to strike a target anywhere on the globe that range from 96 hours, to several hours maybe, 4, 5, 6 hours,” Chilton told the Times.

“That would simply not be fast enough, he noted, if intelligence arrived about a movement by Al Qaeda terrorists or the imminent launching of a missile,” the newspaper said. “‘If the president wants to act on a particular target faster than that, the only thing we have that goes faster is a nuclear response,’ he said.”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? ... &aid=18867

Nevada’s Approach to Critical Infrastructure Protection
http://info.publicintelligence.net/neva ... shield.pdf
Lucifer Instrument Helps Astronomers See Through Darkness to Most Distant Observable Objects

A new instrument with an evil-sounding name is helping scientists see how stars are born. Lucifer, which stands for (deep breath) "Large Binocular Telescope Near-infrared Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research," is a chilled instrument attached to a telescope in Arizona. And yes, it's named for the Devil, whose name itself means "morning star." But it wasn't meant to evoke him, according to a spokesman for the University of Arizona, where it is housed.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2 ... h-darkness

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Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA Full Length
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqv9t1z ... r_embedded
Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago's streets.

Chicago Democrats John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford said they want Quinn, Mayor Richard Daley and Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis to allow guardsmen to patrol streets and help quell violence. Weis said he did not support the idea because the military and police operate under different rules.

"Is this a drastic call to action? Of course it is," Fritchey said. "Is it warranted when we are losing residents to gun violence at such an alarming rate? Without question. We are not talking about rolling tanks down the street or having armed guards on each corner."

Of course this problem has showed up in Chicago primarily because law abiding citizens are barred from possessing and carrying their own defensive weapons.

You know, these things called pistols, which the Chicago Police seem to think they need to defend themsevles.

But that's only for them. You? If you're assaulted (or worse) by some common thug, you're just supposed to lay there and take it - whatever "it" might be, including rape or even murder.

Of course these criminals have the best of respect for the law, and as a consequence because it is illegal none of them have guns, right?

Oh wait...

Time to leave folks. Chicago is headed for Detroitsville, as the city disintegrates due to lack of funding and a government that abuses the Constitutional Right of the citizens there to keep and bear arms for lawful defensive purposes.

May Daley wind up presiding over an empty, burned out shell.

It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
http://market-ticker.org/archives/2236- ... l-Law.html

Lawsuits Involving Local Police Working For DHS Highlighted By The Identity Project
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Fre ... &From=News

Hyperfast missile to hit anywhere in an hour
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 107179.ece

Greek meltdown in danger of spreading
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 107208.ece

GM Crops Go to US High Court, Environmental Laws on the Line
http://www.truthout.org/genetically-mod ... court58876

For $10 Billion of "Promises" Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18847
The MoD, the arms deal and a 30-year-old bill for £400m

In the 1970s Iran paid Britain for thousands of tanks, but when the Shah fell they were sold on to Iraq. Now Tehran wants its money back.

For Britain's hard-pressed armaments industry, it was a lucrative deal with a trusted ally. Between 1971 and 1976, the increasingly despotic Shah of Iran had signed on the dotted line for 1,500 state-of-the-art Chieftain battle tanks and 250 repair vehicles costing £650 million. Even better, Persia’s King of Kings paid the British government for his new weaponry up front.

The problem came in 1979 when, with just 185 tanks delivered to Tehran, the Iranian Revolution deposed Shah Pahlavi and installed an Islamic Republic with a somewhat less warm stance towards the United Kingdom. The massive deal, fully sanctioned by the Ministry of Defence, foundered and the Iranians, perhaps understandably, asked for their money back.

London refused and - after flogging a number of its suddenly surplus tanks to Iran’s most bitter enemy in the shape of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq - the British government has for 30 years fought a little-noticed but bitter legal wrangle in an obscure international trade
court based in the Netherlands to hold onto what remains of the Shah’s money.

Until now.

The Independent can reveal that Britain is to pay back nearly £400m to Iran’s defence ministry after finally admitting defeat in the dispute in a move that will be heralded by Tehran as a major diplomatic triumph while it continues its international brinkmanship with the West over its nuclear ambitions.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 52972.html
California Scheming: killing public pensions for workers

With their so-called concern for the fiscal responsibility of California, the front and center of their demolition policies, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday, the 22ndd of April, that they supported controversial plans to rein in the costs of retirement benefits for public employees. They say the costs are escalating out of control while they give the state over to their corporate friends.
http://dailycensored.com/2010/04/25/cal ... ensored%29

Facebook steps up lobbying, deepens ties with intelligence agencies, FTC
http://social.venturebeat.com/2010/04/2 ... -lobbying/

Flu shot fatality - toddler dies 12 hours after having vaccination
http://www.news.com.au/national/flu-sho ... 5857872979

Costly IRS Mandate Slipped into Health Bill
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/04/ ... Liberty%29

India Heading For A Bloodbath
http://www.countercurrents.org/hensman250410.htm
Hybrid War at Sea: Iran’s Great Prophet 5 Exercises (II)

More photos from Iran’s Great Prophet 5 war games. Iran’s navy will employ “asymmetric and highly irregular tactics that exploit the constricted geographic character of the Gulf,” said strategist Frank Hoffman, now with SecNav, at a Naval War College conference last year.

“This doctrine applies a hybrid combination of conventional and irregular tactics and weapons to posit a significant anti-access threat to both military and commercial shipping,” using “swarming” tactics employing a combination of heavily armed fast attack craft and low signature boats along with shore launched anti-ship missiles.
http://defensetech.org/2010/04/26/hybri ... z0mFG5qQLw

First Primary Casualty Of 2010: Bob Bennett?
http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/04/26/ ... b-bennett/

A Bankstocks.com Classic: Why The Proposed Consumer Protection Agency Is A Terrible Idea
http://www.bankstocks.com/ArticleViewer ... leTypeID=2
Learning How to Fight the Collector

Among debt collectors, Steven Katz is known as a “credit terrorist.” For years, he has run what he calls the Steven Katz School of Bill Collector Education, otherwise known as the “credit terrorist training camp.”

Mr. Katz, a 58-year-old accountant in suburban Tucson, spends his free time schooling debtors on the finer points of consumer protection law to help them turn the tables on debt collectors. On occasion, he thumbs his own nose at them too.

“How many times can I sue you? Let me count the ways,” he wrote under his pseudonym, Dr. Tax, in a March posting on Inside ARM, a debt collectors’ Web site.

A former bill collector himself, Mr. Katz rebelled after a debt buyer damaged his credit score with what he says was a bogus bill. Mr. Katz sued, and in 2003 he collected his first damage award, a $1,000 check that he now keeps framed behind his desk.

“The bill collectors, when they call, make you feel like the only option you have is to lay down and play dead. That’s not true,” said Mr. Katz said, who does not charge for his advice. “Nothing validates this more than getting a check.”

Call this movement revenge of the (alleged) deadbeats. Even as collectors try to recoup debts from millions of Americans struggling to pay their bills, a small but growing number of lawyers and consumers are fighting back against what they describe as harassment, unscrupulous practices — and, most important to their litigiousness, violations of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.

In fact, 8,287 federal lawsuits were filed citing violations of the act in 2009, a 60 percent rise over the previous year, according to WebRecon, a site that tracks collection-related litigation and the most litigious consumers and lawyers on behalf of debt collectors.

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court made it even easier for consumers to use the courts to fight debt collectors, ruling that collectors cannot be shielded from suits by claiming they made a mistake in interpreting the law.

When a consumer stops paying a bill, creditors often try to collect on their own for a few months. In many instances, the creditor hires another company to collect the debt. In other cases, they may dispose of the debt by selling it to a debt buyer for a steep discount.

Debt collectors and debt buyers are the targets of litigious consumers, since the debt collection law primarily applies to third-party collectors.

Peter Barry, a Minneapolis trial lawyer, is so bullish on the future of debt collection litigation that he holds several “boot camps” each year to share his secrets with other lawyers who want in on the action. If the debtor wins a court case under the act, the debt collector must pay the lawyer’s fees.

The next boot camp is being held in early May in San Francisco, at a cost of $2,495 a person for two and a half days of instruction.

“I can’t sue every illegal debt collector in America, although I’d like to try,” Mr. Barry said.

Mr. Katz can also claim some credit for the increase in lawsuits. For six years, he has run a free Web site called Debtorboards.com, where people share tips on topics like keeping a paper trail and recording calls from collectors.

He said the site received two million hits in 2009, a 60 percent increase over the previous year.

“Debtorboards is geared to help people use the laws as they are on the books as both a shield and a sword,” said Mr. Katz, who says he has won $36,000 from his own litigation against collection agencies. (Since many of the settlements are confidential, it is difficult to prove the claims of Mr. Katz and others).

Of course, debt collectors are hardly pleased with the litigation trend.

Rozanne M. Andersen, chief executive of ACA International, a trade association for the debt collection industry, said she was “extremely concerned” about the increase in lawsuits, which she said cost her industry hundreds of millions of dollars a year. She said much of the increase was the result of ambiguous language in the Fair Debt Collection Act.

Debt collectors are required, for example, to identify themselves on a voice message left for a consumer, she said. But they are also prohibited from telling a third party — including someone who might overhear a phone message — about a consumer’s debt.

“We are between a rock and a hard place,” Ms. Andersen said.

Ms. Andersen said she had little patience for Web sites that encouraged consumers to thwart debt collectors.

“We believe those types of Web sites are encouraging people to not take responsibility for just debt,” she said.

Jack Gordon, who runs the fee-based WebRecon site, said it was no wonder lawsuits were increasing, because consumers were being bombarded with ads from lawyers when they searched online for information on debt collection. He said the proliferation of discussion sites like Mr. Katz’s had, to a lesser extent, also contributed to the trend.

On the boards, he said, “There’s a lot of hot air, a lot of people who overinflate their accomplishments.”

Regardless, Mr. Gordon’s database has become a badge of honor among the devotees of Debtorboards.com. As Brandon Scroggin, a 37-year-old from Little Rock, Ark., puts it, “That’s one list I’m a proud card-carrying member of.”

Mr. Scroggin, who provides price estimates at a body shop, said he was the type of person who refused to be taken advantage of, even for petty offenses. For instance, years ago, he said he joined in the class-action suit against the pop group Milli Vanilli, accused of lip synching, and collected a $1.25 check.

After a messy divorce, Mr. Scroggin was stuck with a $7,000 bill that he said belonged to his ex-wife. Instead of paying it, he began researching the law and stumbled on Debtorboards.com.

Armed with lessons he learned on the site, he demanded proof of the debt from the collection agency, and the calls stopped. But two and a half years later, they started up again so he sued the collection agency, National Loan Recoveries, for failing to provide proof of the debt, among other things.

The case was settled in 2008. The terms were confidential, but he says he never paid National Loan a dime. “Let’s just say I’m a very happy person,” he said. A lawyer for National Loan, Kathryn Bridges, did not return messages seeking comment.

Mr. Katz said his Web site was not intended to help people avoid paying legitimate debts. But if they do so, so be it — he feels no need to apologize.

He said Congress gave consumers certain rights, and he is simply making people aware of them, sometimes colorfully.

As Mr. Katz says at the bottom of each Dr. Tax posting, “A telephone in the hands of a collector is like a crowbar — it can be used to pry a mouth open wide enough to insert a foot.”

Barbara Thompson, 46, of Atlanta, said she challenged $11,000 in credit card debt using online research about collection laws. She does not dispute the debts but reasons that the credit card company wrote off her charges long ago. By her account, she owes the credit card company, not the debt collector.

“The credit card company, they sell it off, they charge it off, it’s just business as usual,” she said, adding, “I’m adamant about not paying a collection agency.”
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I think I'm going INSANE!

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durangout wrote:I think I'm going INSANE!
LOL Don't do that! Just signs of the times!

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Obama Caught with His Pants Down (Again)
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36722

Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections (Update)
http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conserv ... is-article

Remember that ash cloud? It didn't exist, says new evidence
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z0mK9vRDYY

FTR #704 Interview with John Loftus
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ ... cord%27%29

The One Chart That Explains The Entire Stock Market Rally
http://www.safehaven.com/article/16570/ ... rket-rally

Illinois to Declare “Disarm Lawful Citizens Week”
http://www.infowars.com/illinois-to-dec ... zens-week/

Millions drink toxic water in the USA, but it's EPA-approved!
http://www.naturalnews.com/028638_EPA_water_supply.html

Holy Cow, The Treasury Is Taking Online Donations To Pay Down The Debt
http://www.businessinsider.com/holy-cow ... z0mKAlCmB5

Court: Wal-Mart to face massive class-action suit
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Mexico Issues Travel Warning for Arizona Over Law (Update2)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... 2TZkCU0SSg

Death Squads in Afghanistan
http://www.counterpunch.org/shor04272010.html

An illegal bank is the second-largest holder of U.S. treasury securities
http://fauxcapitalist.com/2010/04/27/an ... ecurities/

Hatred, Intolerance, Violence and the Southern Poverty Law Center
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/04/27/hat ... aw-center/

Is The CIA Behind Mexico’s Bloody Drug War?
http://www.infowars.com/is-the-cia-behi ... -drug-war/

Decency Takes Flight
http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/6225-d ... ws+Feed%29

(Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday he is committed to passing both climate-change and immigration-reform legislation this year.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63Q4TB20100427

‘What are you so afraid of?’ Reid taunts GOP
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0427/what-a ... olleagues/

Police State Toronto: Terror Drill Caught On Tape
http://www.infowars.com/police-state-to ... t-on-tape/

Blackwater trained our troops
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada ... id=2954716

The Mystery of Poland's Presidential Plane Crash Deepens
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-kolon ... 51223.html
Bunker mentality: the ultimate underground shelter

Abandon any notion of surviving the apocalypse by doing anything as boringly obvious as running for the highest hill, or eating cockroaches. The American firm Vivos is now offering you the chance to meet global catastrophe (caused by terrorism, tsunami, earthquake, volcano, pole shift, Iran, "social anarchy", solar flare – a staggering list of potential world-murderers are considered) in style.

Vivos is building 20 underground "assurance of life" resorts across the US, capable of sustaining up to 4,000 people for a year when the earth no longer can. The cost? A little over £32,000 a head, plus a demeaning-sounding screening test that determines whether you are able to offer meaningful contribution to the continuation of the human race. Company literature posits, gently, that "Vivos may prove to be the next Genesis", and they are understandably reluctant to flub the responsibility.

Should you have the credentials and the cash, the rewards of a berth in a Vivos shelter seem high. Each staffed complex has a decontamination shower and a jogging machine; a refrigerated vault for human DNA and a conference room with wheely chairs. There are TVs and radios, flat-screen computers, a hospital ward, even a dentist's surgery ready to serve those who forgot to pack a toothbrush in the hurry. "Virtually any meal" can be cooked from a stockpile of ingredients that includes "baked potato soup" but, strangely, no fish, tinned or otherwise. Framed pictures of mountain ranges should help ease the loss of a world left behind.

Vivos says it has already received 1,000 applications.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2 ... nd-shelter

The ultimate underground shelter solution for surviving these uncertain times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYNSL0a ... r_embedded
http://www.terravivos.com/

Of course.....do they just plan on living there indefinitely.....or somehow managing to escape the catastrophe and get there just in the nick of time???

Russia says genetically modified foods are harmful
http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/04/16/6524765.html

Oil well hit by fatal explosion produces slick the size of Hong Kong
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/e ... 107956.ece

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Coast Guard to set fire to oil leaking in the Gulf
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100428/ap_ ... _explosion

Admiral: Gulf drilling disaster ‘one of the most significant oil spills in US history’
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0427/admira ... s-history/

Growing concerns over Gulf of Mexico oil leak
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8648004.stm

Mexican Government Issues Arizona Travel Alert - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico
http://www.mexidata.info/id2644.html

Top Calif. Lawmaker: Cut Ties With Arizona
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/politics ... 07974.html

A Perfect Storm for Immigration Reform
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefie ... ion-reform

San Francisco bans city worker travel to Arizona
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0428/san-fr ... l-arizona/

Certainly see the seeds being sown to fulfill the prophecy of state vs. state, county vs. county, city vs. city....

Banks Bet Against U.S. Cities, States
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/2 ... 53891.html

Special Report: Rapid growth of militias feeds off politics
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100428/us_ ... a_militias

Noam Chomsky: Rise of Far-right Imperils U.S.
http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/6229-n ... ws+Feed%29

Interesting seeing those that have supposedly been so critical of the the PTB now get caught actually supporting them....

Aerial drone will fly on Texas border soon, Napolitano says
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 2da2f.html

SEND IN THE DRONES: PREDATORS TO FLY ABOVE TEX-MEX BORDER
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashhs.htm

Banks run eurozone crisis scenarios as S&P cuts Greece to junk
http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine/news/ ... reece-junk

Bank Reform: Setback in the Senate, Action in the Streets
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/ ... Stories%29

Another twist like the Noam Chomsky piece above but this time on banking...

Get magic keys that open the gates at 468 subway stations for only $27
http://www.federaljack.com/?p=15326

Glenn Beck has lost 1/3 of its TV audience since January
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201004280008

Government critics can be arrested with impunity under new Russian law
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2010/04 ... ssian-law/

America Is Losing Its Imperial Status, And Global Institutions Such As The IMF, G20 And BIS Are Filling The Void
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/04/ ... s-and.html

...and a little something pertinent to all the previous posts...

Gordon B. Hinckley Warns America; Prays for Her
http://www.awakeandarise.org/article/Hinckley.htm

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Visa Cuts Swipe Fees In Europe, Raises Them In America

Despite a recent study that found swipe fees are stalling the creation of nearly a quarter million U.S. jobs, Visa raised its debit card interchange rate for American retailers to .95 percent plus $.20 per transaction in April, according to the Retail Industry Leaders Association. In contrast, Visa Europe announced Monday that it would be capping transaction fees at 0.2 percent for the next four years.

A spokesperson for Visa, Inc. said the average Visa Debit transaction fee rose by less than 4 percent.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/201004 ... ost/555423

Dr. Rima E. Laibow on the Contamination of the Food Supply & Deadly Antibiotics
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/04/ ... Unknown%29

Oil spill from rig explosion at 5,000 barrels a day
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/28/louisi ... 1&iref=BN1
US subpoenas reporter who broke wiretapping story

As senator, Barack Obama called the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program illegal, and demanded greater transparency from government.

But as president, he's strongly defended large components of the program, which involved major telecommunications companies providing the government access to their networks without a warrant to allegedly thwart terrorist plots.

And now, his administration is subpoenaing the very reporter who broke the warrantless wiretapping story in 2005 for the New York Times.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0429/obama- ... y-sources/
Trichet Calls For Corrupt BIS To Boss Global Government In CFR Speech

ECB President tells insiders that secretive group of international bankers – responsible to no nation state – will become primary engine of world government
http://www.prisonplanet.com/trichet-cal ... peech.html

Washington to use Armenian territory to attack Iran - Azerbaijani MP
http://www.news.az/articles/14351

U.S. Prepares Non-Nuclear "Doomsday" Weapon
http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/113190-0/

US accuses Iran and Syria of arming Hizbollah with new rockets and missiles
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... siles.html

Iranian navy plane flies near USS Eisenhower in Gulf of Oman
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/ ... tml?hpt=T2
Report: Violence up nearly 90 percent in last year

WASHINGTON — Violence in Afghanistan is up nearly 90 percent from this time last year, according to a new Pentagon report submitted to Congress Wednesday.
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/0 ... last-year/

....so much for pulling out....
North adopts new war invasion strategy: source

The North Korean military has recently altered its wartime contingency plans against South Korea to concentrate on attacking the Seoul metropolitan region, a military source said yesterday. South Korean commanders will meet next month to discuss the change and their response to it.
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/ ... id=2919725
CIA to spend millions on improving spying techniques

The CIA will spend millions of dollars over the next five years to improve intelligence gathering, upgrade technologies and enable analysts to work more closely with spies in the field.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... iques.html

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Arizona immigration law: California leads call for boycotts

Los Angeles – Representatives at three levels of California government were quick to call for economic measures against neighboring Arizona this week in the wake of its passage of a tough new immigration law.

The effects of such sanctions – boycotts in most cases – could be huge, say analysts, but moving them forward could prove more difficult than would first appear.

On Tuesday, seven members of the Los Angles City Council signed a proposal for a boycott that urged the city to "refrain from conducting business" or participating in conventions in Arizona. Also on Tues, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom imposed an immediate moratorium on city employees traveling to Arizona.

And California Senate leader Darrell Steinberg said the state should consider a boycott of Arizona. He sent a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, asking which Arizona businesses and government agencies California does business with.

The root of the movement appears to be moral opposition to Arizona's new law. "We have a moral obligation to deliver an unequivocal message to lawmakers in Arizona that California does not condone its conduct," Mr. Steinberg wrote. The law (SB1070) allows police officers to question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant, and makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.

There's a feeling, proponents of the boycotts say, that acting against Arizona will be a wake up call to Arizona citizens and will discourage other states from enacting similar laws.

“This is a draconian enforcement approach that, if expanded [to] other states, would have a crippling effect on the entire national economy,” says Raul Hinjosa-Ojeda, an associate professor of Chicana/Chicano studies at UCLA who researches the economics of immigration.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100428/ts_csm/297622
Swine flu fears push seasonal shots to record high

ATLANTA – Fears of swine flu helped boost vaccination for ordinary seasonal flu last year, with a record 40 percent of adults and children getting the vaccine, federal health officials said Thursday.

The jump was most dramatic in children, but vaccinations also increased in healthy adults under 50, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers.

For all ages, the highest seasonal flu vaccination rate previously was about 33 percent, in the 2008-2009 season.

Flu shots have been around since the 1940s. But several things made last fall's campaign unusual:

• Swine flu appeared last spring and was unusually dangerous to children and young adults, prompting more interest in regular flu shots. "We do have the pandemic driving that," said Gary Euler, one of the study's authors.

• Government recommendations kicked in calling for seasonal flu vaccinations for all children.

• Seasonal vaccine was out earlier than usual so manufacturers could focus on the separate swine flu vaccine.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_ ... ccinations
Navy to allow women to serve on submarines

KINGS BAY NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE, Ga. – The first U.S. women to serve on submarines will report for undersea duty in less than two years, a top admiral said Thursday, as the Navy ended one of the military's few remaining gender barriers.

Rear Adm. Barry Bruner said the Navy hopes its first group of 24 female submarine officers will begin training by summer. They should be ready to join the sub fleet late next year or by early 2012.

The U.S. military's ban on women serving on submarines passed quietly into history after the Navy received no objections from Congress. Bruner announced the expected timeline at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in coastal Georgia.

Bruner said the first group of women will all be officers. The Navy has no timeline for integrating female enlisted sailors onto subs, which will require modifications to give them more privacy.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_ ... submarines

Couple of friends that were sub guys. Interesting things happen on subs....and since you're underwater for weeks at a time....things like guy locking himself in the torpedo room with a knife make for interesting voyages! This move by the Navy will be a disaster in my opinion. My number one complaint while in was women! Caused a whole variety of problems!!!

U.S. Army Trains to Take On Tea Party
http://www.infowars.com/u-s-army-trains ... tea-party/

Human rights observers killed in attack in Mexico
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 05382.html

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Oppose Statehood for Puerto Rico (HR 2499)
http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/ ... o-hr-2499/

....another midnight bill that will force Puerto Rico to statehood....and the Left is trying to label anyone who votes against the bill as a racist.

National ID Card Included In Democratic Immigration Bill
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/201004 ... ost/557721

Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/9523 ... al-id-card

Arizona Now ‘Dangerfield’ Country
http://www.jbs.org/jbs-news-feed/6232-a ... ws+Feed%29

Arizona Burning
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100517/e ... Stories%29

Arizona immigrant law energizes Hispanics, Democrats
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63R5HP20100428

A Perfect Storm for Immigration Reform
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefie ... ion-reform

Oil from leaking well ‘washes ashore’ in Louisiana
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0430/oil-le ... louisiana/

Oil spill could have broad impact on Gulf Coast
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/env ... date_N.htm

Oil slick just a few miles from Louisiana coast
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/04/29/louisi ... tml?hpt=T1

Los Angeles County Sheriff Active Shooter Response Tactics
http://info.publicintelligence.net/LAac ... actics.pdf

New Jersey students walk out of public schools
http://dailycensored.com/2010/04/29/new ... ensored%29

Kentucky... EXPOSED!... Whistleblowers Reveal U.S. Army Being Trained To Round Up American Citizens and Patriots!!!
http://www.knowthelies.com/?q=node/5700

Battle training preps Fort Knox soldiers for war on terror
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/ ... -on-terror

Intel Update - Tea Parties
http://static.infowars.com/2010/04/i/ar ... rcise3.png

Are Americans Going John Galt?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36761

Dr. Rima E. Laibow: The Globalist Depopulation Agenda
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/04/ ... Unknown%29

Dr. Rima E. Laibow on Codex Alimentarius and Food Nazification
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/04/ ... ification/

Dr. Rima E. Laibow on the Contamination of the Food Supply & Deadly Antibiotics
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2010/04/ ... Unknown%29

Private water suppliers poised to grow as demand set to surge
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... iers/print

Food and water drive Africa land grab
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resourc ... 272566080/

Three-year-old boy arrested as suspected terrorist in France
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... z0mbJssznU

(Reuters) - Gold hit a 2010 high above $1,180 an ounce in Europe on Friday, fueled by euro strength and investors continuing to embrace the metal's safe-haven properties on unease over euro zone sovereign debt levels.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63P02520100430

What Is The U.S. Airforce's Secret Space Mission About?
http://science.discovery.com/stories/we ... ssion.html

Trichet Calls For Corrupt BIS To Boss Global Government In CFR Speech
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8444-0-9-9--.html

More Obama DOJ attacks on whistle-blowers
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn ... index.html

MLK Assassinated by US government: King Family Civil Trial 1999 Decision. Why Didn’t You Know This?
http://www.reboottherepublic.com/blog/o ... epublic%29

Doctors sterilise Uzbek women by stealth
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 107200.ece

Russia is preparing for the biggest Red Square military parade in modern history in a Soviet-style celebration marking the 65th anniversary of the USSR defeating Nazi Germany.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... arade.html

China Opens Vast Underground Nuke Plant to Public
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/htm ... 00449.html

China vows to further military ties with Cuba
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/c ... 268350.htm

Cuban advisers bolster Venezuelan regime
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... an-regime/
Report: Iran buying uranium from Zimbabwe

Sunday Telegraph reports of secret deal struck between countries last week: In return for supplying oil to Harare, Tehran promised access to potentially huge deposits of uranium ore – which can be converted into basic fuel for nuclear power or enriched to make nuclear bomb.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340 ... 66,00.html

Mideast War Could Break Out Tomorrow!
http://prophecynewsstand.blogspot.com/2 ... orrow.html

Egypt: Lebanon in 'panic' over fear of Israeli attack
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1166124.html

Obama blasted, 13 nations cited on religious freedom
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010 ... gle+Reader
Economic development for Muslims

Unemployment in America is hovering at just below 10 percent, so President Obama hosted a “Summit on Entrepreneurship” in Washington, D.C., in an effort to boost economic development ... in Muslim nations. The president thinks more U.S. investment in Muslim lands and exchange programs that will bring Muslim women to America so they can work as interns will enhance U.S. prosperity and, thus, change Muslim attitudes about the United States. Pigs will fly first.
http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/artic ... p/Opinion/

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LA police hunt man with ‘Bourne-like’ identity
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0430/la-pol ... -identity/

10 suspects, and motives as to why the Gulf oil spill was an inside job
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/04/30/10- ... nside-job/

Levin: SWAT Team Response To Oil Spill Is Government Takeover Plot
http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-8474-0-22-22--.html

Oil Slick: Pentagon Approves Chemical Plan
The US Air Force has been given the go-ahead to dump chemicals on a giant oil spill that is threatening the Gulf Coast
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100430/twl ... d0ae9.html

Mexico Congress Urges Calderon to Break Trade Ties With Arizona
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-0 ... izona.html

Health freedom alert: Congressman Waxman sneaks anti-vitamin amendment into Wall Street reform bill
http://www.naturalnews.com/028687_Henry ... eedom.html

Obama on Econ Reform: “Through All the Noise and Lobbyists and Partisanship … a Simple Choice”
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/30 ... le-choice/

Pentagon Confirms It Gave $1.4 Billion in No-Bid Fuel Contracts to Mysterious Companies
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassi ... anies.aspx

“Policing for Profit” Report Documents the Nationwide Abuse of Civil Forfeiture
Each State & Feds Graded on Forfeiture Laws & Practice; Only Three States Earn Grades of B or Better
http://www.ij.org/index.php?option=com_ ... Itemid=165

The document (Utah is pg 94 if you are interested) -
http://www.ij.org/images/pdf_folder/oth ... oemail.pdf

New 'black box' plan for US cars
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/break ... html?r=RSS

Big Problems With Who Should Regulate
http://theinternationalforecaster.com/I ... d_Regulate

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One of Big Pharma's Biggest Operators Blows the Whistle

Dr John Rengen Virapen is a former scientist who after 35 years of work in the pharmaceutical industry, has left it to warn the public of the nefarious dealings and motives of the pharmaceutical industry.
http://salem-news.com/articles/april272 ... ust-tk.php
Teen girls bribed to get Gardasil vaccine with shopping vouchers

(NaturalNews) The British National Health Service (NHS) has begun bribing teenage girls between the ages of 16 and 18 to get Gardasil vaccines. Officials are giving shopping vouchers worth the equivalent of roughly $70 to girls who agree to get jabbed with the vaccine, which has been implicated in numerous cases of severe harm and death.

Officials from NHS Birmingham East and North have initiated the pilot program which is costing taxpayers the equivalent of about $35,000. No parental consent is required in order for young girls to participate in the program.
http://www.naturalnews.com/028685_Gardasil_bribery.html
Profitable Depopulation Plot Links JP Morgan-Chase and Goldman Sachs to Vaccination Contaminations and BigPharma Corruption

A medical investigation into suspicious outbreaks and propaganda used to sell drugs and vaccines has exposed investment bankers at JP Morgan-Chase (JPMC) and Goldman Sachs (GS) for plotting to shock/stress, frighten, poison, and kill billions of people most profitably–pharmaceutically–according to the Editor-in-Chief of Medical Veritas journal.

While researching a powerful Partnership for New York City (PFNYC), Wall Street’s wealthiest industrialists, Harvard-trained public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, and investigative journalist, Sherri Kane, discovered shocking evidence of a conspiracy to commit global genocide by generating diseases and death to advance profitable pharmaceutical depopulation.
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2010/ ... orruption/

Warning for Britain as financial chaos spreads to Spain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/fina ... Spain.html
The super-classified network that served as command and control for the 9/11 false flag attack on America

(WMR) -- Multiple U.S. intelligence sources have reported to WMR that a super-classified network with only some 70 terminals in select U.S. government locations handled the parallel command-and-control activities that permitted the 9/11 terrorist attacks to be successful.

The “above top secret” network bears the acronym “PDAS.” WMR has not yet discovered what the acronym stands for, however, the system is limited to only a few hundred people with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Special Access Program (SAP) need-to-know access, in addition to the president and vice president.

On September 11, 2001, PDAS was used to convey the information from the Air Force Chief of Staff to the White House, CIA, and other select agencies that the Air Force had successfully intercepted and downed a target over Pennsylvania. It is believed that the “target” in question was United flight 93, although there is no confirmation that the aircraft was in fact the one downed by Air Force interceptors.

The Air Force Chief of Staff on 9/11 was General John Jumper, who had become the top Air Force commander on September 6, 2001, just five days before the 9/11 attacks.

There is also reason to believe that the PDAS terminal at the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) at the White House was used to coordinate the activities related to the aerial attack on the Pentagon. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta claimed Vice President Dick Cheney was present at the PEOC at 9:25 am on the morning of 9/11, before the alleged impact of American Airlines flight 77 on the building.

Mineta testified before the 9/11 Commission that Cheney was aware of special orders concerning a plane heading toward Washington. Mineta said: “During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the vice president . . . the plane is 50 miles out . . . the plane is 30 miles out. . . . and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president ‘do the orders still stand?’ And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, ‘Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary?’”

PDAS terminals are reportedly located at the White House, on board Air Force One, the Pentagon, CIA headquarters, the National Security Agency, the Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post that was seen flying over Washington, DC, on 9/11 after the attacks, the Defense Intelligence Agency at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC, and the Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania where Cheney hid out after the 9/11 attacks.

Mineta later followed up with reporters and stated, “When I overheard something about ‘the orders still stand’ and so, what I thought of was that they had already made the decision to shoot something down.”

It now appears that PDAS was used by Cheney to implement on the morning of 9/11 a new policy issued on June 1, 2001 that provided for a ”stand down” protocol that replaced a long-standing shoot-down order for hijacked and suspected hijacked planes. The new order transferred the authority to shoot down aircraft from the Pentagon and NORAD military commanders to the president, vice president, or secretary of defense.
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish ... 5814.shtml
Dark Forces: Illegal Drugs

Nobody likes to deal with Dark Conspiracy Theories and yet with the Illegal Drug Business, we can be honest with ourselves and uncover the truth in our government, or we can choose to stay asleep and carry on as if our leaders are truthful. It becomes self evident, when one does their own research that something very sinister is being executed in our name and without our informed consent. It is time to unmask the Dark Side conspiracy theories and sort through what is theory and what is fact.

The modern illegal drug trade started many years ago when the British controlled the production and transportation of opium grown in India. They organized the trade to raise large sums of cash for the world economy and in the process set the stage for the current illegal drug business. They also smuggled their opium into China and dumbed down a whole generation of people as a way to exert their power and control.

In more recent times one must look at the western intelligence services to understand the organization behind the illegal drug trade in the world. They literally license who may operate and who may participate in the production, transportation, money laundering, and ultimate sale of the commodity. They control the business from the source to the street level dealers who ultimately distribute it to the end users.

The illegal drug business is the most lucrative business in the world and is used to fund the Shadow Governments black operations around the planet. In recent times we have uncovered their illegal operations and a clearer picture has emerged. The most vivid example is the Iran Contra scandal that broke in the early 1990’s implicating many in the Ronald Reagan White House.

George H.W. Bush was the key player in the Iran Contra CIA Cocaine Operation run out of the Reagan White House during the early and mid 1980’s. It is well documented that Vice President George H.W. Bush was in direct operational control of the secret team working to fund the Contra’s during the illegal Iran Contra operation. Ollie North, John Poindexter, Elliott Abrams, Thomas Clines, Clair George, Richard Secord and others were operationally up to their ears, with Vice President George H.W. Bush and were later Pardoned by him as a way to keep the truth from coming out.

Completed Trials and Pleas
Elliott Abrams - Pleaded guilty October 7, 1991, to two misdemeanor charges of withholding information from Congress about secret government efforts to support the Nicaraguan contra rebels during a ban on such aid. U.S. District Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., sentenced Abrams November 15, 1991, to two years probation and 100 hours community service. Abrams was pardoned December 24, 1992.

Carl R. Channell - Pleaded guilty April 29, 1987, to one felony count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. U.S. District Judge Stanley S. Harris sentenced Channell on July 7, 1989, to two years probation.

Thomas G. Clines - Indicted February 22, 1990, on four felony counts of underreporting his earnings to the IRS in the 1985 and 1986 tax years; and falsely stating on his 1985 and 1986 tax returns that he had no foreign financial accounts. On September 18, 1990, Clines was found guilty of all charges. U.S. District Judge Norman P. Ramsey in Baltimore, Md., on December 13, 1990, sentenced Clines to 16 months in prison and $40,000 in fines. He was ordered to pay the cost of the prosecution. The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., on February 27, 1992, upheld the convictions. Clines served his prison sentence.

Alan D. Fiers, Jr. - Pleaded guilty July 9, 1991, to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress about secret efforts to aid the Nicaraguan contras. U.S. District Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., sentenced Fiers January 31, 1992, to one year probation and 100 hours community service. Fiers was pardoned December 24, 1992.

Clair E. George - Indicted September 6, 1991, on 10 counts of perjury, false statements and obstruction in connection with congressional and Grand Jury investigations. George's trial on nine counts ended in a mistrial on August 26, 1992. Following a second trial on seven counts, George was found guilty December 9, 1992, of two felony charges of false statements and perjury before Congress. The maximum penalty for each count was five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth set sentencing for February 18, 1993. George was pardoned on December 24, 1992, before
sentencing occurred.

Albert Hakim - Pleaded guilty November 21, 1989, to a misdemeanor of supplementing the salary of Oliver L. North. Lake Resources Inc., in which Hakim was the principal shareholder, pleaded guilty to a corporate felony of theft of government property in diverting Iran arms sales proceeds to the Nicaraguan contras and other activities. Hakim was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell on February 1, 1990, to two years probation and a $5,000 fine; Lake Resources was ordered dissolved.

Robert C. McFarlane - Pleaded guilty March 11, 1988, to four misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress. U.S. District Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., sentenced McFarlane on March 3, 1989, to two years probation, $20,000 in fines and 200 hours community service. McFarlane was pardoned December 24, 1992.

Richard R. Miller - Pleaded guilty May 6, 1987, to one felony count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. U.S. District Judge Stanley S. Harris sentenced Miller on July 6, 1989, to two years probation and 120 hours of community service.

Oliver L. North - Indicted March 16, 1988, on 16 felony counts. After standing trial on 12, North was convicted May 4, 1989 of three charges: accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry, and destruction of documents. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell on July 5, 1989, to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. A three-judge appeals panel on July 20, 1990, vacated North's conviction for further proceedings to determine whether his immunized testimony
influenced witnesses in the trial. The Supreme Court declined to review the case. Judge Gesell dismissed the case September 16, 1991, after hearings on the immunity issue, on the motion of Independent Counsel.

John M. Poindexter - Indicted March 16, 1988, on seven felony charges. After standing trial on five charges, Poindexter was found guilty April 7, 1990, on all counts: conspiracy (obstruction of inquiries and proceedings, false statements, falsification, destruction and removal of documents); two counts of obstruction of Congress and two counts of false statements. U.S. District Judge Harold H. Greene sentenced Poindexter June 11, 1990, to six months in prison on each count, to be served concurrently. A three-judge appeals panel on November 15, 1991, reversed the convictions on the ground that Poindexter's immunized testimony may have influenced the trial testimony of witnesses. The Supreme Court on December 7, 1992, declined to review the case. In 1993, the indictment was dismissed on the motion of Independent Counsel.
Richard V. Secord - Indicted March 16, 1988 on six felony charges. On May 11, 1989, a second indictment was issued charging nine counts of impeding and obstructing the Select Iran/contra Committees. Secord was scheduled to stand trial on 12 charges. He pleaded guilty November 8, 1989, to one felony count of false statements to Congress. Secord was sentenced by U.S. District Chief Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., on January 24, 1990, to two years probation.

Pre-trial Pardons
Duane R. Clarridge - Indicted November 26, 1991, on seven counts of perjury and false statements about a secret shipment of U.S. HAWK missiles to Iran. The maximum penalty for each count was five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. U.S. District Judge Harold H. Greene set a March 15, 1993, trial date. Clarridge was pardoned December 24, 1992.

Caspar W. Weinberger - Indicted June 16, 1992, on five counts of obstruction, perjury and false statements in connection with congressional and Independent Counsel Investigations of Iran/ contra. On September 29, the obstruction count was dismissed. On October 30, a second indictment was issued, charging one false statement count. The second indictment was dismissed December 11, leaving four counts remaining. The maximum penalty for each count was five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan set a January 5, 1993, trial date. Weinberger was pardoned December 24, 1992.

Dismissal
Joseph F. Fernandez - Indicted June 20, 1988 on five counts of conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstructing the inquiry of the Tower Commission and making false statements to government agencies. The case was dismissed in the District of Columbia for venue reasons on the motion of Independent Counsel. A four-count indictment was issued in the Eastern District of Virginia on April 24, 1989. U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton dismissed the four-count case November 24, 1989, after Attorney General Richard Thornburgh blocked the disclosure of classified information ruled relevant to the defense. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Va., on September 6, 1990, upheld Judge Hilton's rulings under the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA). On October 12, 1990, the Attorney General filed a final declaration that he would not disclose the classified information.

Do Your Own Research... DYOR
http://www.robertreckmeyer.com/dark-for ... drugs.html

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Police, protesters clash as unrest grips Athens over IMF cutbacks

Greek union leaders want the May Day protests to be a shot over the government's bow ahead of a May 5 nationwide general strike against a new round of budget cuts hitting the public sector particularly hard.

"It's the biggest attack on workers for centuries. They want to return us to the nineteenth century," said protestor Ericos Finalis, a printer.

"This is not going to be a battle but a war that will last for months or even years."

Clashes erupted when several dozen youths, some armed with sticks, charged a line of anti-riot forces protecting the finance ministry, prompting police to respond with tear gas.

But at the same time a second group also set fire to a van belonging to the public television with a molotov cocktail.

Police also fired tear gas when a group of anarchists got close to the entrance of a luxury hotel on Athens' central Syntagma square.

In the northern city of Thessaloniki, police also fired tear gas at youths attacking banks and businesses during a May Day protest using iron bars to smash up to cash machines and several store windows.

"In the next months there will be many demonstrations, nobody knows what really is going to happen. But people know that there is no other way than to come down into the streets and protest," said protestor Marina Yotis.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0501/police ... es-athens/

Canada - ELECTRONIC WARFARE (ENGLISH)
http://info.publicintelligence.net/Cana ... arfare.pdf

POLICE STATE 2010: SWAT Teams Sent By U.S. Dept. Of Interior To ALL Oil Platforms, Rigs In Gulf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKyDikHJ ... r_embedded

VETERANS ISSUES: 6000 Veterans Commited Suicide Last Year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CbJd-uh ... r_embedded
CLINTON WARNING OVER ISRAEL THREATS

The US government has warned Iran and Syria that America's commitment to Israel's security was unshakeable and they should understand the consequences of threats to the Jewish state.

In a speech, secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Syrian transfers of increasingly sophisticated weaponry, including rockets, to militants in southern Lebanon and Gaza could spark new conflict in the Middle East.

And she said a nuclear-armed Iran would profoundly destabilise the region.

"These threats to Israel's security are real, they are growing and they must be addressed," she told the American Jewish Committee.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/172 ... el-threats
ECB President Favors Global Governance

The President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told Forbes that global governance is extremely necessary if we want to prevent another financial crisis. In his prepared printed and spoken remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, Trichet emphasized that politicians, economists, and financiers must work across the Atlantic and collaborate on methods to create an international set of standards. It is his belief that through global governance, the resiliency of the global financial system can be assured, noting that ultimately it was governments’ use of taxpayer’s money, equivalent to around 25% of GDP on both sides of the Atlantic, that prevented another catastrophic great depression from occurring.
http://blogs.forbes.com/face-to-face/20 ... overnance/
American Meat Is Even Grosser Than You Thought

In the focus on E. coli and salmonella, meat contaminated by heavy metals, veterinary drugs and pesticides has been slipping through the bureaucratic cracks.

In 2008, Mexican authorities rejected a shipment of U.S. beef because the meat exceeded Mexico's regulatory tolerance for copper. The rejected meat was returned to the United States, where it was sold and consumed, because the U.S. has no regulatory threshold for copper in meat.

Incidents like this are why the food safety arm of USDA, known as the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), is under USDA scrutiny. While the public has gotten used to microbes like E. coli and salmonella threatening the nation's meat supply, and while food safety agencies make food-borne illness a high-profile priority, contamination of meat by heavy metals, veterinary drugs and pesticides has been slipping through the bureaucratic cracks.

Microbial contaminants can be killed by cooking, but chemical residues aren't destroyed by heat. In fact, some of these residues break down into more dangerous substances when heated, according to the FSIS National Residue Program for Cattle, a recent report by the USDA's Office of the Inspector General.

The report is full of bad news about the ineffectual attempts that are being made to keep chemical residues out of the food supply, but optimists might point to the report's tone as a sliver of good news. The report is sharply critical of the efforts to keep our meat free of chemical residues, and shows determination to shore up this gaping hole in food safety.
http://www.alternet.org/food/146684/ame ... age=entire

May Day surprise: Revolutionary Latin leader Simon Bolivar killed by arsenic, doctor claims
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0501/day-su ... or-claims/
Chemicals Meant To Break Up BP Oil Spill Present New Environmental Concerns

The chemicals BP is now relying on to break up the steady flow of leaking oil from deep below the Gulf of Mexico could create a new set of environmental problems.

Even if the materials, called dispersants, are effective, BP has already bought up more than a third of the world’s supply. If the leak from 5,000 feet beneath the surface continues for weeks, or months, that stockpile could run out.

On Thursday BP began using the chemical compounds to dissolve the crude oil, both on the surface and deep below, deploying an estimated 100,000 gallons. Dispersing the oil is considered one of the best ways to protect birds and keep the slick from making landfall. But the dispersants contain harmful toxins of their own and can concentrate leftover oil toxins in the water, where they can kill fish and migrate great distances.

The exact makeup of the dispersants is kept secret under competitive trade laws, but a worker safety sheet for one product, called Corexit, says it includes 2-butoxyethanol, a compound associated with headaches, vomiting and reproductive problems at high doses.

“There is a chemical toxicity to the dispersant compound that in many ways is worse than oil,” said Richard Charter, a foremost expert on marine biology and oil spills who is a senior policy advisor for Marine Programs for Defenders of Wildlife and is chairman of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. “It’s a trade off – you’re damned if you do damned if you don’t -- of trying to minimize the damage coming to shore, but in so doing you may be more seriously damaging the ecosystem offshore.”

BP did not respond to requests for comment for this article.

A version of Corexit was widely used after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill and, according to a literature review performed by the group the Alaska Community Action on Toxics, was later linked with health impacts in people including respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders. But the Academy report makes clear that the dispersants used today are less toxic than those used a decade ago.

Charter, the marine expert, cautioned the dispersants should be carefully considered for the right reasons.

“Right now there is a headlong rush to get this oil out of sight out of mind,” Charter said. “You can throw every resource we have at this spill. You can call out the Marine Corps and the National Guard. This is so big that it is unlikely that any amount of response is going to make much of a dent in the impacts. It’s going to be mostly watching it happen.”
http://www.propublica.org/article/bp-gu ... sants-0430
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....probably best not to eat any fish from the Gulf over the next 3 to 5 years!!!
Expert: Surface area of Gulf oil spill has tripled

VENICE, La. – The surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripled in size amid growing fears among experts that the slick could become vastly more devastating than it seemed just two days ago.

Frustrated fishermen eager to help contain the spill from a ruptured underwater well had to keep their boats idle Saturday as another day of rough seas kept crews away from the slick, and President Barack Obama planned a Sunday trip to the Gulf Coast.

Documents also emerged showing British Petroleum downplayed the possibility of a catastrophic accident at the offshore rig that exploded.

How far the spill will reach is unknown, but the sheen already has reached into precious shoreline habitat and remains unstopped, raising fears that the ruptured well could be pouring more oil into the Gulf than estimated.

The Coast Guard estimates now that at least 1.6 million gallons of oil have spilled since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers. The environmental mess could eclipse the Exxon Valdez disaster, when an oil tanker spilled 11 million gallons off Alaska's shores in 1989.

The slick nearly tripled in just a day or so, growing from a spill the size of Rhode Island to something closer to the size of Puerto Rico, according to images collected from mostly European satellites and analyzed by the University of Miami.

On Thursday, the size of the slick was about 1,150 square miles, but by Friday's end it was in the range of 3,850 square miles, said Hans Graber, executive director of the university's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing. That suggests the oil has started spilling from the well more quickly, Graber said.


"The spill and the spreading is getting so much faster and expanding much quicker than they estimated," Graber told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Ian R. MacDonald, an oceanography professor at Florida State University, said his examination of Coast Guard charts and satellite images indicated that 8 million to 9 million gallons had already spilled by April 28.

"I hope I'm wrong. I hope there's less oil out there than that. But that's what I get when I apply the numbers," he said.


Alabama's governor said his state was preparing for a worst-case scenario of 150,000 barrels, or more than 6 million gallons per day. At that rate the spill would amount to a Valdez-sized spill every two days, and the situation could last for months.

"I hope they can cap this and we talk about 'remember back when,'" Gov. Bob Riley said late Friday, "but we are taking that worst-case and building barriers against it."

Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry brushed off such fears, saying "I would caution you not to get fixated on an estimate of how much is out there."

"This is highly imprecise, highly imprecise," agreed Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production. "We continue to respond to a much more significant case so that we're prepared for that in the eventuality that the rate is higher."

BP suggested in a 2009 exploration plan and environmental impact analysis for the well that an accident leading to a giant crude oil spill — and serious damage to beaches, fish and mammals — was unlikely, or virtually impossible.

The plan for the Deepwater Horizon well, filed with the federal Minerals Management Service, said repeatedly that it was "unlikely that an accidental surface or subsurface oil spill would occur from the proposed activities."

The company conceded a spill would impact beaches, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas, but argued that "due to the distance to shore (48 miles) and the response capabilities that would be implemented, no significant adverse impacts are expected."

The spill — a slick more than 130 miles long and 70 miles wide — threatens hundreds of species of wildlife, including birds, dolphins, and the fish, shrimp, oysters and crabs that make the Gulf Coast one of the nation's most abundant sources of seafood.

Several miles out, the normally blue-green gulf waters were dotted with sticky, pea- to quarter-sized brown beads the consistency of tar. High seas were forecast through Sunday and could push oil deep into the inlets, ponds, creeks and lakes that line the boot of southeastern Louisiana. With the wind blowing from the south, the mess could reach the Mississippi, Alabama and Florida coasts by Monday.

"I feel sorry for the local people down here," said sport fisherman Ted Boddie, 67, of Shreveport, as he prepared to head out with his two sons and a few friends. "Sad deal. If all that stuff reaches shore, there's going to be a lot of people out of work."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_ ... _oil_spill
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Obama takes direct aim at anti-government rhetoric

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – President Barack Obama took aim Saturday at the angry rhetoric of those who denigrate government as "inherently bad" and said their off-base line of attack ignores the fact that in a democracy, "government is us."

Obama used his commencement speech at the University of Michigan to respond to foes who portray government as oppressive and tyrannical — and to warn that overheated language can signal extremists that "perhaps violence is ... justifiable."

Obama urged both sides in the political debate to tone it down. "Throwing around phrases like 'socialists' and 'Soviet-style takeover,' 'fascists' and 'right-wing nut' — that may grab headlines," he said. But it also "closes the door to the possibility of compromise...

"At its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is a justifiable response."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_ ... s/us_obama

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"In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free."
-Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
U.S. Subpoenas Times Reporter Over Book on C.I.A.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

The author, James Risen, who is a reporter for The New York Times, received a subpoena on Monday requiring him to provide documents and to testify May 4 before a grand jury in Alexandria, Va., about his sources for a chapter of his book, “State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration.” The chapter largely focuses on problems with a covert C.I.A. effort to disrupt alleged Iranian nuclear weapons research. ...

Justice Department was seeking information only about Mr. Risen’s sources for the ninth chapter, which centers on the C.I.A.’s effort to disrupt Iranian nuclear research. That material did not appear in The Times.

The book describes how the agency sent a Russian nuclear scientist — who had defected to the United States and was secretly working for the C.I.A. — to Vienna in February 2000 to give plans for a nuclear bomb triggering device to an Iranian official under the pretext that he would provide further assistance in exchange for money. The C.I.A. had hidden a technical flaw in the designs.

http://cryptome.org/0001/cia-merlin.htm

New investigation into Obama background spells trouble ahead
http://www.examiner.com/x-37620-Conserv ... uble-ahead

Communist Filmmaker Joins Unions in NYC to Push Obama-Dodd Financial Takeover Bill
http://biggovernment.com/capitolconfide ... ernment%29

Pakistani Taliban Videos Threaten Attacks on U.S. Cities
http://publicintelligence.net/pakistani ... -s-cities/

Taliban leader vows attacks on the US
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/05/03/tal ... on-the-us/

Al-Qaeda Terror Tape Proven Fraudulent Once Again
http://www.infowars.com/al-qaeda-terror ... nce-again/

Operation Partnership: Law Enforcement and Private Security Collaborations
http://info.publicintelligence.net/Publ ... licing.pdf

NYPD Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat
http://info.publicintelligence.net/NYPD ... zation.pdf

Police may have video of possible car bomb suspect
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/02/tim ... tml?hpt=T1

Police Seek Man Taped Near Times Sq. Bomb Scene
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/nyreg ... quare.html

Times SQ Car IED Contained Propane Tanks, Black Powder & Timing Device
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/05/02/tim ... ng-device/

NYPD: Fertilizer – and a white man in his 40’s, point to homegorwn Terror
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/05/02/nyp ... wn-terror/

Pakistani Taliban claims NYC car bomb
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/ ... 21-ap.html

The Police State Is Here
http://www.federaljack.com/?p=15357

Orwellian Big Brother Tax Collection Commercial Airs in Pennsylvania
http://www.infowars.com/orwellian-big-b ... nsylvania/

Washington, D.C. Fusion Center: Officer Safety Issues, March 2009
http://info.publicintelligence.net/WRTACmarch2009.pdf

Why Cities Are Broke (They Spend Too Much!), Chapter XXVIII (in an Infinite Series)
http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/03/why-c ... -they-spen

Fears for crops as shock figures from America show scale of bee catastrophe - The world may be on the brink of biological disaster after news that a third of US bee colonies did not survive the winter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2 ... s-collapse

The Food Safety Bill is NOT About Food Safety!... It Was Written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, Etc!
http://www.knowthelies.com/?q=node/5713

Obamacare Will Kill Medical Technology
http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2010/ ... ernment%29

New government pay-for-performance policies punish doctors who care for obese patients
http://www.physorg.com/print192026197.html

1099 Mandate from Hell Slipped into Health Bill; Global Warming Profiteering; Fannie Mae Owns Cap and Trade Patents; Shock and Pain Coming to UK, US
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

Obama's Border Breakdown
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36799

Arizona governor says illegal immigration is like ‘terrorist attacks’
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/arizon ... t-attacks/

Group hands out flyers to ‘Report an Illegal’ day
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/group- ... legal-day/
Arizona’s move will ease social woes

Arizona has a 9.5% unemployment rate. If all illegal immigrants were deported, Arizona would have a negative 5% unemployment rate. People from all over the country would go to Arizona to back fill those jobs. A huge disproportionate number of gang members are illegal immigrants and a huge disproportionate numbers of those incarcerated are illegal immigrants. By giving local and state police the power to easily check immigration status, gang crime will drop in Arizona. Potential gang members can now be deported before they become violent criminals. Arizona will also see a drop in people needing social services. School attendance will drop. Companies will fire employees who can’t prove their citizenship and thereby opening up new positions to the unemployed. Teenagers will have a chance to get after school jobs. The affects of this is already starting to happen as businesses that cater to the Hispanic/Latino communities are losing customers. All this improvement for Arizona will increase the strain on other states. The laws that Arizona implemented is the start of a chain reaction. Other states were already starting to consider similar laws.
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/news/article/13978/

Tornadoes, heavy rain sweep South
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/ ... outh_N.htm

Flooding worsens in Nashville, Middle Tennessee
http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2010/ ... iddle.html

A ‘catastrophic’ rupture hits region’s water system
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... er_system/

Pipe that interrupted Mass. water supply is fixed
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/art ... wD9FFA0RO2
Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher

A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.

"The following is not public," reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Emergency Response document dated April 28. "Two additional release points were found today in the tangled riser. If the riser pipe deteriorates further, the flow could become unchecked resulting in a release volume an order of magnitude higher than previously thought."

Asked Friday to comment on the document, NOAA spokesman Scott Smullen said that the additional leaks described were reported to the public late Wednesday night. Regarding the possibility of the spill becoming an order of magnitude larger, Smullen said, "I'm letting the document you have speak for itself."
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/deepwat ... _memo.html

Oil spill disaster is now 'out of control'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 113708.ece

Oil spill now the size of Puerto Rico
http://www.theskichannel.com/news/skine ... uerto-Rico

U.S. curtails fishing in stricken Gulf
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/02/gulf.o ... tml?hpt=C1

See my posts at this thread - "Half the life in the Sea" for more on the oil spill -
http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopi ... 20&t=11740

Bank of America Hit with Mark of the Beast Graffiti
http://www.infowars.com/bank-of-america ... -graffiti/

A Financial Conflagration Of Immense Proportions
http://theinternationalforecaster.com/I ... roportions

The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysi ... 531731&p=2

Greece Gets $146 Billion Rescue in EU, IMF Package (Update1)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... caFw&pos=1

Greece erupts as men from IMF prepare to wield axe
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 113941.ece

Rioting Greeks throw petrol bombs at police
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... olice.html

China May ‘Crash’ in Next 9 to 12 Months, Faber Says (Update3)
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-0 ... ate3-.html

Japan deflation goes into 13th month
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 112466.ece

Preparing Haiti For Exploitation And Plunder
http://www.rense.com/general90/prepar.htm

Mexican drug violence claims 24 lives in 24 hours
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/ ... tml?hpt=T2

Polish Plane crash Footage (with translation)
http://www.federaljack.com/?p=15352

Details of Gaza blockade revealed in court case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8654337.stm

Cyberattacks: Washington is hyping the threat to justify regulating the Internet
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opi ... e-Internet

Watchdog names 40 ‘predators of the press’
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/watchd ... ors-press/

Barbarian States Approaching Our Gates
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36786

American drones deployed to target Yemeni terrorist
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... orist.html

The rise of the robo-fighters: Britain's new pilotless air force
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive ... gle+Reader

LockMart Demos Future Of Net-Enabled Warfare At JEFX 10
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/LockMar ... 0_999.html

Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by Mass Media
http://vigilantcitizen.com/?p=3571

Foxnews - We Tolerate The Cultivation Of Opium Poppies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t372emhX ... r_embedded

Sexual Slavery on Main Street
Trafficking of teenagers in the U.S. is getting worse.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/art ... l?id=87611

Hidden Camera Investigation Shows on Duty LA Dept of Water and Power (DWP) employees Visiting Strip Clubs, Drinking While Driving, Picnicking
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot. ... nalysis%29

How Senate Republican contenders stack up against Boxer
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-new ... ck_check=1

Larry Summers' cat-nap at credit talks
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/polit ... redit.html

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Robert Gates Escalates Iran Tensions, As US Delegates Walk Out On Ahmedinejad Speech At UN

Just as the White House released a brief note saying the US delegation has walked out on Ahmedinejad's speech at the UN, so Robert Gates was quoted by Reuters saying that "Iran is taking steps to challenge U.S. naval power in the Middle East." The defense secretary added: "Iran is combining ballistic and cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, mines, and swarming speedboats in order to challenge our naval power in that region." What about weapons of mass destruction? Oh wait... Either way, the only thing from keeping liquidity overflow from taking the Dow to 36,000 is that risk that Oil would hit $1,000/bbl first. And geopolitical events are just what is preventing the JPMs of the world from using the same harsh tactics as they do with PMs. The last thing this administration needs is a middle-east war which would send a gallon of gas to $5, the stock market tumbling, and the clotheless Ponzi economy exposed, as even without paying one's mortgage, if the price of a refill doubles, there are only so many iPads one can buy.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/robert ... -speech-un

Iran wants US suspended from UN nuclear watchdog
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/iran-s ... -watchdog/

BP CEO: ‘It wasn’t our accident’ but we’ll clean spill; Liability waivers were ‘misstep’
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/bp-ceo ... our-spill/

BP Hopes Relief Well Will Stop Oil Leak
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 28492.html

‘Back from dead’ Pakistan Taliban leader threatens US cities
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/video- ... -militant/

Greece Offers to Repay Loans with Giant Horse
http://www.borowitzreport.com/2010/05/0 ... ant-horse/

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A decade ago, an American woman's waist, on average, was close to two inches smaller than. Eighteen year olds are 15 pounds heavier than they were in the 1970s.

One reason is federal subsidies for food production. Take a look at these numbers:

* Meat/Dairy -- 73.8 percent
* Grains -- 13.2 percent
* Sugar/Oil/Starch/Alcohol -- 10.7 percent
* Nuts/Legumes -- 1.9 percent
* Vegetables/Fruits -- 0.4 percent

That’s right – just 1.9 percent for nuts and legumes and 0.4 percent for fruits and vegetables. As a result, a salad often costs you more than a Big Mac.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... demic.aspx

Farmers Cope With Roundup-Resistant Weeds
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/busin ... 4weed.html
13 Plants That Could Kill You

Apples: Apple seeds contain cyanogenic glycosides. If you eat enough of the seeds, you could very well die.

Deadly Nightshade: The nightshade family includes plants such as potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants and chili peppers. While deadly nightshade is the most dangerous, all of these plants contain toxins, usually in their foliage.

Rosary Pea: Rosary peas are traditionally used as ornamental beads. Many jewelry makers have died after handling rosary peas, which contain abrin, a fatal toxin.

Oleander: Oleander is a common garden plant, but ingesting any part of it can be deadly. Even the smoke from a burning oleander can kill you.

European Yew: Nearly all parts of this tree are poisonous. The leaves and the seeds contain a poison called taxanes.

Daffodils: Daffodils are deer- and vermin-resistant, and no wonder -- they have a poisonous numbing effect.

Doll’s Eye: The fruit of a doll's eye plant contain cardiogenic toxins that can lead to cardiac arrest and death.

Hemlock: All parts of the plant contain the alkaloid coniine, which causes stomach pains, vomiting and progressive paralysis of the central nervous system.

Stinging Tree:This plant is the deadliest and most potent stinging nettle in the world. The nettles contain a potent toxin that has been known to kill humans.

Castor Beans: One castor bean contains enough ricin to kill an adult within a few minutes.

Angel’s Trumpet: All parts of these plants contain dangerous levels of poison. People sometimes die trying to create recreational drugs from the plant.

Monkshood: Monkshood was used by ancient warriors to poison the water of their enemies.

White Snakeroot: White snakeroot contains the toxin tremetol. Abraham Lincoln's mother reportedly died after swallowing snakeroot-contaminated milk.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... l-you.aspx

State of Texas Bartering For Baby Blood Samples – Hides DNA Database Agenda
http://deadlinelive.info/2010/05/04/sta ... se-agenda/

U. S. Military Training to Fight & Detain Tea Party Protesters
http://www.federaljack.com/?p=15380

Secret Erik Prince/Blackwater Tape Exposed
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/05/04 ... e-exposed/
Russia Reports Over 2 Million Dead In US As Mysterious Die-Off Accelerates

A most chilling report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Russian Academy of Medical and Technical Science for Prime Minister Putin states that a “mysterious die-off” in the United States has claimed over 2,000,000 lives since 2008 and is “more than likely” linked to a “crossover” plant disease linked to genetically modified grains and foods.

According to these reports this mysterious, and as yet unidentified, lung disease responsible for this mass die-off began during the spring of 2008 in the US agricultural State of Iowa where (very ironically) at least 36 people attending a Lung Association event at the Governors mansion were stricken.

Important to note about Iowa is that it is one of the largest corn producing regions in the World harvesting over 2 billon bushels of this valuable grain farmed on nearly 32 million acres of its farmland, over 99% of which are genetically modified varieties made by the US agricultural giant Monsanto and idententifeid by their trade names of Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603.

Not reported to the American people about these genetically modified corn varieties made by Monsanto was the study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences warning that they were linked to organ damage. Monsanto quickly responded to this study, stating that the research was “based on faulty analytical methods and reasoning and do not call into question the safety findings for these products.”

Russian scientists in these reports, however, call Monsanto’s claim of their genetically modified Mon 863 corn as being safe for human or animal consumption “totally without validation”, a finding supported by the French biomolecular engineering commission, the Commission du Génie Biomoléculaire (CGB) who stated in their report, “with the present data it cannot be concluded that GM corn MON 863 is a safe product.”

Further supporting the findings of Russian scientists was Greenpeace International, who in their report titled “MON 863: A chronicle of systematic deception” warned that the campaign to unearth and evaluate data about this most dangerous of genetically modified grains demonstrates, beyond all doubt, that MON863 is unfit for consumption.

Most unfortunately for the American people though, all of these warnings have been ignored by their government masters who have allowed the mass planting of these genetically modified crops to such an extent that in the United States today fully 80% of their corn and 93% of their soybeans are of these dangerous varieties and leading one Russian scientist in these reports to warn that our World is now on the verge of experiencing an ecological disaster of “Biblical proportions”.
http://www.federaljack.com/?p=15365

California files legal brief opposing Monsanto in US Supreme Court
http://caivn.org/article/2010/05/01/cal ... reme-court

Bee numbers plummet as billions of colonies die across the world
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... dwide.html

Sen. Mike Bennett Caught Looking at Porn on Senate Floor
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/print/472586

Out-of-control satellite threatens spacecraft
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36919374/ns ... ?gt1=43001

U.S. has 71 million unused flu vaccine doses
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN0318959620100503

Surprise! Obama Was Top Recipient of BP Donations in 2008
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2 ... of-bp.html

BP backs off ‘overbroad’ language in agreements with fishermen
http://www.theind.com/news/6161-bp-back ... -fishermen

Fishing banned in Gulf of Mexico for 10 days
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthn ... -days.html

The Worst Environmental Disaster In American History: The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill
http://thisistheendoftheworldasweknowit ... -oil-spill
BP: Stopping oil spill could take three months

In an admission that may spell further disaster for coastal areas and marine life surrounding the oil spill that erupted after a rig sunk off the Gulf Coast, British Petroleum said Tuesday that containing the spill may take three months.

TimesOnline reports that BP "launched a new front in its battle to contain the spill, as engineers began drilling a relief well designed to cut off the leaking oil permanently."

"The new well, which is in 5,000 feet of water, is planned to intercept the existing well at 13,000 feet — about two miles — below the seabed. It will be used to inject cement to cap the one that is leaking."
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/bp-sto ... ll-months/
Whistleblower: BP Risks More Massive Catastrophes in Gulf

British Petroleum (BP) has broken federal laws and violated its own internal procedures by failing to maintain crucial safety and engineering documents related to one of the firms other deepwater production projects in the Gulf of Mexico, a former contractor who worked for the oil behemoth claimed in internal emails and other documents obtained by Truthout.

The whistleblower, whose name has been withheld at the person's request because the whistleblower still works in the oil industry and fears retaliation, first raised concerns about safety issues related to BP Atlantis, the world's largest and deepest semi-submersible oil and natural gas platform, located about 200 miles south of New Orleans, in November 2008. Atlantis, which began production in October 2007, has the capacity to produce about 8.4 million gallons of oil and 180 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

It was then that the whistleblower, who was hired to supervise the company's databases, discovered that Atlantis had been operating without a majority of the engineer-approved documents it needed to run safely, leaving it vulnerable to a catastrophic disaster that would far surpass the massive oil spill that began last week following a deadly explosion on a BP-operated drilling rig.

BP's own internal communications show that company officials were aware of the issue and feared that the document shortfalls related to Atlantis "could lead to catastrophic operator error."
http://www.antemedius.com/content/whist ... ophes-gulf

BP has been running hard and fast (i.e. cowboy style) for some time now. Thunderhorse had multiple mishaps and then they quietly announced they were already pumping oil well before the official target date.....thus in all likelihood....cutting lots of corners. BP is awesome at exploration (finding oil) but they suck at production. This focus on closing the gap with Exxon....well they've closed the gap alright.....in fact they have or shortly will surpass the Exxon Valdez and will probably create a new gap ahead that will be the world record for quite some time.

Oceanographer "Cannot Think Of Any Scenario Where The Oil Doesn't Eventually Reach The Florida Keys"
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/ ... f-any.html

Texas City Disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster

BP Refinery Accident Pinned on Equipment, Staffing
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=6410203
BP refinery deaths top industry in U.S. - Fatalities 10 times those of Exxon Mobil

More than 10 times as many people have died in BP refineries as in those owned by Exxon Mobil Corp., considered the company's major U.S.-based peer.

BP has paid about $20,000 in federal and state fines in connection with five of those fatal accidents, and investigations of three others remain open.

But in the weeks before accidents at Cherry Point and Texas City, the oil giant's dismal record landed BP on an internal federal watch list of companies "indifferent" to their legal obligations to protect employee safety because of a fatal explosion in Texas City in September 2004 that killed two pipefitters and injured a third.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration accused BP of a "willful" violation of its rules, leading to the accident.

OSHA's Enhanced Enforcement program "zeroes in on employers with the gravest violations who have failed to take their safety and health responsibilities seriously," Jonathan Snare, acting assistant secretary of labor for OSHA, said in a recent speech.

BP is the only major oil company on that list, said John Miles, OSHA's regional director.
http://www.seattlepi.com/business/224394_bplede16.html
BP, the global oil giant responsible for the fast-spreading spill in the Gulf of Mexico that will soon make landfall, is no stranger to major accidents.

In fact, the company has found itself at the center of several of the nation’s worst oil and gas–related disasters in the last five years.

In March 2005, a massive explosion ripped through a tower at BP’s refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers and injuring 170 others. Investigators later determined that the company had ignored its own protocols on operating the tower, which was filled with gasoline, and that a warning system had been disabled.

The company pleaded guilty to federal felony charges and was fined more than $50 million by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Almost a year after the refinery explosion, technicians discovered that some 4,800 barrels of oil had spread into the Alaskan snow through a tiny hole in the company’s pipeline in Prudhoe Bay. BP had been warned to check the pipeline in 2002, but hadn’t, according to a report in Fortune. When it did inspect it, four years later, it found that a six-mile length of pipeline was corroded. The company temporarily shut down its operations in Prudhoe Bay, causing one of the largest disruptions in U.S. oil supply in recent history.

BP faced $12 million in fines for a misdemeanor violation of the federal Water Pollution Control Act. A congressional committee determined that BP had ignored opportunities to prevent the spill and that "draconian" cost-saving measures had led to shortcuts in its operation.

Other problems followed. There were more spills in Alaska. And BP was charged with manipulating the market price of propane. In that case, it settled with the U.S. Department of Justice and agreed to pay more than $300 million in fines.

At each step along the way, the company’s executives were contrite.

"This was a preventable incident. … It should be seen as a process failure, a cultural failure and a management failure," John Mogford, then BP’s senior group vice president for safety and operations, said in an April 2006 speech about the lessons learned in Texas City. "It’s not an easy story to tell. BP doesn’t come out of it well."

In a 2006 interview with this reporter after the Prudhoe Bay spill, published in Fortune, BP’s chief executive of American operations, Robert Malone, said, "There is no doubt in my mind, what happened may not have broken the law, but it broke our values."

Malone insisted at the time that there was no pattern of mismanagement that increased environmental risk.

"I cannot draw a systemic problem in BP America," he said. "What I’ve seen is refineries and facilities and plants that are operating to the highest level of safety and integrity standards."

Nonetheless, Malone, who spent three decades at BP and was promoted to the CEO of BP America shortly after the Texas refinery blast, promised to increase scrutiny over BP’s operations and invest in environmental and safety measures.

He told Congress that it was imperative BP management learn from its mistakes.

"The public’s faith has been tested recently," he said. "We have fallen short of the high standards we hold for ourselves and the expectations that others have for us."

Time will tell whether the accident that killed 11 workers and sent the Transocean Deepwater Horizon drilling rig — a $500 million platform as wide as a football field — floating to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico was simply an accident or something else.

Malone, who retired last year, declined to comment for this article. A spokesman for BP was not available for comment.

Families of workers who died in the accident have already filed lawsuits accusing BP of negligence. Congress, as well as the Minerals and Management Service, the federal agency that regulates drilling in the Gulf, were already separately investigating allegations that BP has failed to keep proper documents about how to perform an emergency shutdown of the Atlantis, another Gulf oil platform and one of the largest in the world.

There are also indications that BP and Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig that burned and sank, could have used backup safety gear — a remote acoustic switch that would stanch the flow of oil from a leaking well 5,000 feet underwater — to prevent the massive spill now floating like a slow-motion train wreck toward the Mississippi and Louisiana coastline. The switch isn’t required under U.S. law, but is well-known in the industry and mandated in other parts of the world where BP operates.

In the year before the accident, BP once again aggressively cut costs. A reorganization stripped 5,000 jobs from its payroll, saving BP more than $4 billion in operating costs, according to a report sent to ProPublica by Fadel Gheit, an investment analyst for Oppenheimer.

On April 27, as the U.S. Coast Guard worked with BP engineers to guide remote control submarines nearly a mile underwater in a futile effort to close a shut-off valve, BP told investors that its quarterly earnings were up more than 100 percent over the last year, beating expectations by a large margin. After underperforming its competition throughout the last decade, Gheit wrote, BP was the only major oil company to perform better than the S&P 500 last year.
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20100503/b ... gulf-spill

Oil Spill: Here's The Inside Scoop
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/oil-spill-how-bad#new

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Arizona’s new immigration law makes it a crime for illegal immigrants to be in the state — for any reason — but it also prohibits police from using racial profiling. The tension presents police with an almost insoluble dilemma, and many Latinos in law enforcement fear the law inevitably will lead to police treating all Latinos — whether or not they’re in the country legally — in a discriminatory way.

“The Arizona law,” Art Acevedo, president of the National Latino Peace Officers Association, recently wrote, “has, in essence, not only legalized racial profiling, it practically mandated it.”
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Is the Deepwater Horizon the Offshore Oil Industry’s Three Mile Island?

Besides developing some great gas wells costing $1/MCF when it was selling for $2, the fruit of my four years of wildcatting in the Barnet shale was many great relationships in the energy industry. Over the years, I have not been wanting for great steaks at Nick & Sam’s in Dallas (thanks Billy Bob), skyboxes at Dallas Cowboys games, (thanks Jim Bob), and personally signed 8 X 10 glossy photographs of George W. Bush (thanks Rufus). Not only have these good old boys kept me in touch with the goings on in the hydrocarbon industry, they have also provided insights that help me understand the world at large.

I have to tell you that the grumblings coming out of the oil patch these days are not happy ones. British Petroleum’s (BP) Gulf disaster could well do for the offshore oil industry what Three Mile Island did for nuclear energy. At the very least, regulations are going to get tougher, inspections more rigorous, and taxes higher. The Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which is funded by an eight cent per barrel tax, is going to have to be replenished with higher fees. It will also raise the production and insurance cost of what is already the world’s most expensive oil, now around $80/barrel. The Senate is almost certain to raise the liability limit for these projects from $75 million to as much as $10 billion.

A populist wave could revive cap & trade, until last week thought dead on arrival. It didn’t help that BP was a notorious “green washer,” its $300 million budget for alternative energy going entirely into advertising. The big oil companies themselves have to be asking themselves if these ultra high risk, high return projects are really worth it.

The massive oil spill could not have come at a worse time. Just as the Obama administration was finally opening up new offshore tracts for lease, this had to happen. All new licenses for deepwater wells have been frozen, pending an investigation into the causes of the current blow out.

The 5,000 barrels a day that is leaking is, so far, just a tiny fraction of the 75,000 barrels that washed ashore in Santa Barbara in 1969, which I personally helped clean up myself. But its magnitude will surpass the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in a matter of days. I haven’t heard Sarah Palin say “drill baby drill” since last week, possibly because four red states are about to see their tourism industries destroyed by fouled beaches just as summer vacations begin (see map below). Ooops! Maybe all those tourists are now headed for California? There goes my parking spot at the beach.

Today’s cleanup estimate is at $4.6 billion. No doubt (BP), the lease holder, and Transocean (RIG), the subcontractor, will get absolutely taken to the cleaners over this. The insurers for the rig, probably Lloyds of London, will take a multibillion dollar hit on claims. Shipping rates for Suezmax crude carriers are already climbing, as the prospects of greater offshore supplies recede into the future. Some one third of total US oil production is offshore.

It is clear that either a blowout preventer valve was missing from this site, an insane cost cutting risk at this depth, or malfunctioned. It has long been a dirty little secret that offshore drillers routinely ignore regulations that are strictly enforced by the states on the US mainland. Anyone who has worked closely with these wells, as I have, knows that they can blow up at any time, and that you can’t spend enough on safety.

Too bad for RIG, which is a first rate company, with about half of its offshore rigs on long term leases to Brazilian oil company. Petrobras (PBR). As for BP, may they roast in hell. Not only is their safety record deplorable, I am still smarting from the $75,000 I lost as my personal underwriting share when Morgan Stanley took them public in 1987. But for the rest of us, this will mean more expensive gas at the pump.
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/deepwa ... ile-island

Govt Agency: Offshore Drilling Regulator Understated Risks of Oil Spills in Plans to Expand Drilling
http://www.propublica.org/ion/blog/item ... ns-t#14934
Web Resources for tracking the Oil Spill

From NOAA: Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/to ... #downloads

From the Office of the Governor, Louisiana: Gulf Oil Spill 2010 Trajectory
http://gohsep.la.gov/oilspill.aspx

Click on map for larger image in new window.

Update: from Google: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (ht Jan)
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6444DM20100505
(Reuters) - Europe may be months, conceivably weeks away from an expanded debt crisis that cuts more countries off from access to the markets and forces fresh emergency action by rich governments or the European Central Bank.
Which 'rich' governments? :lol:

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