Subject: Fw: Senate and Obama ignore the Constitution to Socialize Healthcare



So!  What are we going to do about it?   Set on our collective butt's??
When Constitutional law is so blatantly violated; where is the nations
lead law enforcement agency that should be asking questions and or
perhaps some of its' inner élites should be filing charges and pushing
the issue as they also took the Oath?

Just more evidence that the U.S. government is a conglomeration
of crooked, back sliding slackers with government employees more
interested in a pay check and benefits that the civilian sector can not
appreciate.

The U.S. government is a bucket full of filth with a mold covering of
Pelosi, Reid, Holder, and Obama bacteria.



Probably should kill this poor damn eagle and put him out of his misery.





Impeach this communist bastard; along with Reid, and
Pelosi!

I am proud that our campaign for impeachment is growing stronger by the hour. We
have surpassed 100,000 signatures and are fast approaching 125,000 signatures.
This movement cannot be stopped by the corrupt deals in Washington. We will
succeed, and the socialist dreams of our president will end on the
       ash heap of history.





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       In an outrageous example of the abuse of near dictatorial power, the
leader of the United States Senate, Harry Reid, forced a vote on nationalized
health care. With total disregard for the will of the people and turning a blind
eye to the United States Constitution, Reid sought passage for this bill by
corrupting the legislative system.

       "This process is not legislation. This process is corruption," said Sen.
Tom Coburn, R-Okla., referring to the last-minute blitz of dirty deal making
that enabled Obama to lock in the 60 votes needed to pass the bill.

       The final hold out was Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson. But he hit the jackpot
when they bought his yes vote, scoring $45 million to completely cover
Nebraska's Medicaid bill every year into the indefinite future.

       Clearly this deal violates Article 1 Section 9 part 6 of the Constitution
which says: "No preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or
Revenue to the Ports of one state over another..." and Article 4 Section 2 which
says: "The Citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the Privileges and
Immunities of the Citizens in the several states."

       Citizens of Nebraska will now have state medical bills, other states must
pay, funded courtesy of the United States government (meaning you and me.)
Nebraskans are clearly receiving a special privilege. According to this
monstrosity, they are more equal than other Americans.

       Sitting on high, the President encouraged this corrupt, ugly spectacle.
Not only that, he broke the vow he took to uphold the US Constitution as he
raised his hand and recited his oath of office.

       While we all sleep, the U.S. Senate is stripping us of our freedom.
Clearly the time for impeachment is at hand. Reid and Pelosi deserve to be
removed right along with Obama.

       All these outrages only fuel our efforts. The citizenry is in full revolt.

       I am proud that our campaign for impeachment is growing stronger by the
hour. We have surpassed 100,000 signatures and are fast approaching 125,000
signatures. This movement cannot be stopped by the corrupt deals in Washington.
We will succeed, and the socialist dreams of our president will end on the ash
heap of history.

       Thank you for continuing to post the links to the impeachment petition.
Remember, most people will not sign until they have seen the link ten times or
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       With gratitude in our hearts from our unprecedented success, we approach
the celebration of our Saviors' birth on Christmas day. The New Year brings us
to the next mile-stone of this campaign. If we are to succeed, the 2010
elections must bring to office a pro-impeachment majority.

       Every day Barack Hussein Obama occupies the White House, America is in
grave danger.

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UFOs or Hoaxes? [12-21-09]
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm7YRCXFHVE&feature=player_embedded> UFO
Hessedalen Norway Clip 1 (Date Unknown)
_
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MySKr678zEM>
UFO Fleet Over Chile December 16, 2009
_
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCWGfhdTpKU> 12-09-09
UFOs IN PUERTO RICO - SEEN BY POLICE / Witnesses who VIDEOTAPED them.

*
Monster Fireballs
(Bible: There will be signs in the sky even though the US Media will NOT report
them!)
<http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/fireballreports_16dec09.htm?PHPSESSID=rq35\
1e0444n154eijfbo6vqsi1>
Nebraska Fireball: Dec. 16, 2009
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/6838751/Green-meteor-lights-up-night-s\
ky.html> 18 Dec 2009
A green meteor was seen over the Mojave Desert in California

*
George A. Filer - MUFON Eastern Region Director

<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Zetaheaven_Group/message/4892>


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The wicked ENDTIME - NOT the RIGHTEOUS.
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Where all the money goes. Two sets of books !!
The government take over of the US economy

This video was originally produced on January 8, 2000 by Walter Burien.

The government, at all levels, is running a very simple financial con game.

If something produces revenue - like bridges, highways, ports, or successful
investments etc - that revenue goes into off budget slush funds.

If it costs money, it's charged to the public via taxes.

This is being done at all levels of government - including state, county, city,
and school districts.

The total "off budget" funds held by the various governments amount to trillions
of dollars.

The real accounting is contained in what's called Comprehensive Annual Financial
Reports (CAFR) which are not only not made available to the public, their very
existence is never mentioned by the news media.

Why?

Trillions of dollars pays for a lot of corruption.

Every time an elected official stands before you and tells you the government is
out of money and they have to raise taxes, he or she is lying through their
teeth


Recently, the NYC District Attorneys Office was caught with "unregistered"
accounts of over $150 million dollars.

Since that revelation, a total of over $250 million in "unregistered" accounts
has been uncovered scattered throughout the city's agencies.

Note: This in only a preliminary, and very incomplete, calculation.  It's also
what is known as a "limited hang our."

In other words, it's just the tip of the iceberg. It's the part of the story
they're willing to share to "immunize" the public against the scope of real
story.

Keep in mind NYC's quarter of a billion dollar slush fund is just a *partial*
number for just ONE city in just ONE state.

How many states, counties and cities are there in the US? Over 54,000 cities,
counties, states, agencies etc.

Every single one of them has been playing this game (it started after WW II) and
so has the federal government.

Video:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/512.html


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     US banks failures hit 140:

     Seven more US banks have been shut down by regulators, bringing to 140 the
number of failed American banks this year.
     http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114118§ionid=3510213





































     Foreclose on the Banks

     How to Give America Its Best Christmas Ever

     By Ted RalL

     Citibank is suspending foreclosures and evictions for 30 days, until after
the holidays. Mighty white of them.
     http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24228.htm









































     2 million troops have deployed since 9/11:

     The numbers, as of October 2009, show that more than 2 million men and women
have shouldered those deployments, with 793,000 of them deploying more than
once.
     http://snipurl.com/trgyz





































Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,366,350"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In
America's War On Iraq:  4,689
icasualties.org/oif/

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan :
1,544
http://icasualties.org/oef/

Cost of War in Iraq
$710,150,093,888

Cost of War in Afghanistan
$234,288,727,070



Obama Approves $30 Billion in Military Aid to Israel Over Next Decade as US
states go broke:

http://america-hijacked.com/2009/12/19/obama-approves-30-billion-in-military-aid\
-to-israel-over-next-decade/


http://tinyurl.com/yzwjj9g

Additional at http://AMERICA-HIJACKED.COM

Incredable isn't it? The American Taxpayer paying to kill all other races and
religions, including other Jews, proving there actually isn't
anything like " Anti-semitism " except from Iran/Persia. You must remember,
Israel was created by Rothschilds for the Elite and Illuminati
types such as Clinton, The British Monarchy, Bush Family, King Faisal ( Jew
pretending to be Egyptian!) etc., etc., The Jew is wrongly hated
by other Nations. It's this Elite who use them and tell them they are the chosen
people, but they are just being used and deluded like the
rest of us. GJ (UK)


"what you gotta remember is that the usa and britain europe australia and most
of world are puppets of rothschilds and the global elite ...we send our kids to
die for the elites wars and foreign policies  policies ..we even pay out of our
taxes to kill our own kids ...we are nothing but dim shits wallowing in a sea of
ignorance ...the only way out is to eradicate politicians ,church people  and
all the global elite including  monarchy ...throw off your chains of ignorance 
or go live your walter mitty lives ."
len jukes  willywombat3@...

America's Growth Industry
When the surreal becomes the news

No job? No health care? Worried about your retirement? (i.e. ending up old, sick
and broke)

No worries

The Department of Defense is hiring.

Why?

Because endlessly expanding war is America's new growth industry.

Here's Fox News shilling for the military, gushing about what a great employer
it is:

* Confidential online mental health assessment.

* Free "stress reduction" programs for children at Fort Bliss?

* "If you love, travel this is definitely for you."

Is it just me...or is this the creepiest "news" story in the long time.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz82RdcVLtQ

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San Francisco, CA 94115

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Deforestation--biggest cause of global warming!--Real solution--PLANT TREES????


"global problem could be solved by putting massive numbers of workers to work
reforesting the planet,"

...and by replacing the millions of acres of the poisonous soybean with HEMP!

Most what modern mankind needs can be extracted from the Hemp plant...

~(Lord) Mark

          This is one comment from  the Lord Monkton take on Copenhagen  drama.


         The bottom line is this, the small increase in atmospheric CO2 is a
symptom of a more fundamental problem which is the true cause of global warming
(which is a fact).  The fundamental problem is DEFORESTATION.

         Forests absorb huge amounts of solar radiation and CO2 and convert it to
biomass and  stored energy.

         Deforestation is causing the deserts to increase which convert
         solar energy into heat energy, which in turn is melting the glaciers on
mountain tops (a primary source of fresh water for many nations) which
         leads to even more desertification.

         The financiers are trying to make a quick buck out of Global Warming
with their "cap and trade" scam.

         Meanwhile, the real problem of deforestation is lost from sight and the
         real solution "MASSIVE GOVERNMENT POLICIES TO HALT
         DEFORESTATION AND TO REFOREST AREAS THAT CAN BE
         REFORESTED.

         If the politicians followed the KISS formula, KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE,
this global problem could be solved by putting massive numbers of workers to
work reforesting the planet, as the Chinese are doing in China!


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Drug giant General Electric uses libel law to gag doctor
General Electric, one of the world's biggest corporations, is using the London
libel courts to gag a senior radiologist
after he raised the alarm over the potentially fatal risks of one of its drugs.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6962865.ece



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PROTECTION

The Great American Racket



Jim Kirwan

12-20-09






RISK & STABILITY



"Protection" despite the way many might see it, has always been the unseen major
industry that hides everything it does in plain site. But protection is no
longer just "an option," it's become a government requirement almost across the
board, in far too many ways. Government is not just a full partner in the
protection industry; it has actually taken control over everyone and virtually
everything, to provide this much "needed" 'PROTECTION' to everyone of course!
The only real problem that this government does not provide us with 'protection'
from-is that most basic protection-from the government itself that all of us
must have if we are to be able to live and prosper at the same time! This is
what is at issue between the fluidity and challenges of Risk and the frequently
rigid requirements that Stability often prefers to use, to guarantee continued
success.



For decades the health insurance industry and those few that want to direct the
lives of everyone else, having been trying to force the public to BUY protection
by creating some very special laws which they have written, because they fear
that their lives and their possessions might be endangered if there is no
legally guaranteed protection for them: from those of us that do not have
"insurance." This is such bullshit that it is almost unspeakable.



However this is how mandatory auto-insurance quietly made it into the lexicon of
life, and was soon followed by another massive income stream; The SEAT-BELT
industry that was soon joined by the helmet safety programs. These 'ideas' were
never about safety as much as they were about insurance: This has always been
about the power to dictate protection for a whole class of the worst people, to
be paid for by the rest of us-whether we as a nation need it or not.



Before you go ballistic about the saintliness of "the data" that disproves what
I just said, you might want to read a bit further. The proposition that
PROTECTION is something that can be purchased is an artificial construct. Life
is unpredictable, and always has been. Insurance was created to protect people,
in theory, from Life's most unexpected events. But that theory didn't make the
people that offered the policies enough money; because not everyone on the
planet was involved in buying what has become their bogus protection from life
in all its many forms. So the Insurance industry began to court the government
with ideas that could make them both far more influential.



Home Owners Insurance became a requirement, but the regulation of these
"insurance schemes" have never been as fairly regulated; when it comes to what
if anything shall be paid to policy-holders, when claims were filed to pay
policy-holders what they thought they had the right to expect. Ask anyone caught
up in a national disaster like a firestorm, a flood or a Katrina - just how well
did their required insurance 'protect" anyone except the insurance companies
themselves?  The same is true of every other area in which
insurance-of-some-kind is mandated.



When the payment of premiums is MANDATED, the insurance will be revoked the
second that payments are interrupted: And everything already paid in is kept by
the company. But when it's the Insurance Companies' turn to deliver on the
promises they made in their contracts-there is no defender of the rights of
those that routinely get the royal-purple-shaft from these supposedly legitimate
crooks that call themselves pillars of our society. This is because the
companies hide behind their armies of lawyers and the government for protection,
or they declare bankruptcy, rather than PAY what was agreed on, in many cases
several decades before.



Last week we just added the entire world of medical-insurance to the
requirements that people must now pay for or go to jail. And as it is in other
industries where the law forces citizens to buy what they do not believe in;
there are no strict requirements being forced upon the government or the medical
profession to provide the person with the insurance, or any real CARE of any
kind: in fact the industry is still free to disqualify anyone that they believe
might actually need to use the policy they have just forced millions of people
to buy!



There is no watchdog agency that insures that anyone gets the treatments that
might be needed in US hospitals or clinics. The way that this once worked was
that IF the insurance companies failed to provide the services they sold to
consumers-then the market would force them out of business. But that was before
the entire medical community climbed into bed with that whore of all whores: the
US Government! There is no reciprocal-responsibility involved in this latest
theft of the right of Americans to decide for themselves how to provide for
themselves and their families-in light of the now totally fraudulent fascism
that has overtaken this nation.



What is always overlooked is that this is PROTECTION at its finest, if you and
yours are the ones that know they NEED be protected from the great unwashed,
whether we are driving cars, or spreading germs in public places-the rich must
insure that the rest of us will provide them with a healthy settlement should
the rich ever need to sue any of the less fortunate.



"Protection" is a common requirement in almost every society, in some form. The
poorer the country the more brutal is the requirement for protection from the
powers that be. Whether you're a small shop owner in New York that needs
protection from street gangs and the cops; or you're in the rag-business or the
diamond trade - "rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief" everyone pretty much
needs some kind of protection for themselves and for what they do. But only the
rich can require the rest of us to pay for bogus insurance so that their
properties and persons can be protected from the common herd. How long will it
be before the lawyers begin demanding that the public have legal insurance, for
those times just ahead when so many will be arrested?  How superb would that be
to have prepaid legal insurance against the certainty of an arrest for something
that you did not do?



Whenever these philosophies have gotten out-of-control in the past, things like
the Guillotine began to get a lot of very public use; because these strong-armed
tactics whether by police thugs or blatantly illegal government decrees that
violate every tenant of American law and practice - all of it leads to failure
and directly to the total destruction of the society that chose this
particular-path to self-destruction.



This PROTECTION racket has been going on big-time in America since Madison
Avenue first began to realize that Americans are afraid of everything including
their own shadows: and soon 'The Great American Protection Racket' was born! Now
hundreds of trillions of dollars later the whole charade is being applied to
every phase of life in this country.



This does not involve just companies and the government it's become part of the
life of ordinary individuals. Why do lawyers exist? To PROTECT something that
someone wants to protect from harm or loss. Doctors exist to PROTECT people from
disease and to help them to recover should they become ill. Professions of all
kinds have been converted from creating things, such as better ways to live the
lives that each of us have been given; to PROTECTING people from things that no
one has any right to be protected from; in the normal course of living. Shrinks,
teachers, researchers - every profession must now consider how they can "assist
people" (while forcing the unwilling) with PROTECTION from things that are
mostly just another aspect of life.



The greatest protection from life is contained in the way one chooses to live
it. It is both that simple and that complex. And all of the folly that is being
pursued so avidly by this fascist government and their pirate-leaning private-
associates will not in the end profit them at all: Because everybody dies. The
question really is, how we choose to live the lives we have been given? Buying
into PROTECTION simply speaks to the failure of individuals to live openly and
well because they are not living in opposition to most of life, but are in sync
with the universe and themselves.



The government is now in the PROTECTION business and has been running on
overtime for the last nine years: Yet this countries' citizens have never lived
in a more dangerous world, thanks to our protectionist polices worldwide. All of
our PROTECTIONS (in the form of the rights we were all born with) are now gone;
because they have been stolen by the government in the name of
private-corporate-needs or just because it's far more profitable for those
providing the services that are now being managed, by the same government
agencies, that were supposed to be 'protecting us' from all this fascism and the
enforced obligations that neither government nor private industry has the right
to dictate to any citizen of this country.



This practice however is not limited to Americans; because we've forcefully
applied these same rules and totally arbitrary arrangements to other countries.
One example was when Cheney and Bechtel decided to privatize the entire water
supply for all of Bolivia; even claiming that they owned their rainwater as
well. However the citizens of Cochabamba kicked them out of the
country-forcefully-unlike the cowardly Americans that have not stopped a single
criminal act by their so-called government in the last nine years. (1)



This coercion has become common practice now because we must all be PROTECTED;
just not from those who are demanding that we BUY their bogus services, but for
every possible and usually idiotic distortion of any real threat to life & limb;
such as what TSA does to every possible passenger, except those that are flying
on private planes.



Never forget that PROTECTION is a Racket as old as organized crime; and that
when the government of any country adopts PROTECTION wholesale, as the preferred
method for dealing with its citizens then that nation is finished as anything
that could be worth saving.



The balance between RISK & STABILTY, as indicated in the illustration, has
always been with people since the beginning. How we choose or fail to choose to
deal with that equation now is what shall ultimately decide the immediate
future, not just for this country but for the world. Because this criminal-cabal
has become our government, and because we have failed to curb its worst
intentions toward the rest of the planet - it is our responsibility now to do
something NOW to stop these bastards that run this place from continuing to
brutalize, to torture and to murder the rest of the planet in the name of this
overzealous PROTECTION for the elites!



This is what is responsible for the idea that Americans are too dumbed-down, too
drugged-out and just too deeply affected by all the toxins in the air, the
water, the food and the land to think clearly. It is this artificial NEED for a
PROTECTION that cannot really exist that is at the bottom of the real fear that
has kept this nation paralyzed, in the face of annihilation by the monsters that
own us. Speak now or forever hold your piece!



kirwanstudios@...



1) Cochabamba: From War to Water Management

http://www.alternet.org/water/140393/cochabamba:_from_war_to_water_management/


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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government
20 Dec 2009
http://www.legitgov.org
All links are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Breaking: 'Health' Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60 Votes 21 Dec 2009
Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night procedural vote that proved
they had locked in the decisive margin needed to pass a far-reaching overhaul of
the nation's health care system corporaterrorist giveaway. The roll was called
shortly after 1 a.m., with Washington still snowbound after a weekend blizzard,
and the Senate voted on party lines to cut off a Republican filibuster of a
package of changes to the 'health care' bill by the majority leader, Harry Reid
of Nevada. The vote was 60 to 40 -- a tally that is expected to be repeated four
times as further procedural hurdles are cleared in the days ahead, and then once
more in a dramatic, if predictable, finale tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. on
Christmas Eve.

Sen. Coburn: 'People Ought to Pray' That a Senator 'Can't Make the Vote Tonight'
By Faiz Shakir 20 Dec 2009 The Senate is expected to vote very late
tonight/early Monday morning "on the first of three motions to close off debate"
on the health care bill and proceed to an expected Christmas Eve vote on final
passage. Speaking against the health care bill on the Senate floor just moments
ago, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) expressed his hope that a Senator of the majority
caucus would not be able to make the vote: "What the American people ought to
pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight. That's what they ought to
pray."  [Aren't people already busy praying for a polar bear to swallow Sarah
Palin whole?]

Mumbai-style false flag on tap for London - and boy are they (the govt) blatant
about it! Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London 20 Dec 2009
Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on
the capital. In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective
from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: "Mumbai is
coming to London." The detective said companies should anticipate [!] a shooting
and hostage-taking raid "involving a small number of gunmen with handguns and
improvised explosive devices". The warning -- the bluntest issued by police --
has underlined an assessment that a terrorist cell may be preparing an attack on
London early next year.

'The only explanation that fits is this: he was an American agent all along.'
Did America keep mum on 26/11? By Vir Sanghvi 20 Dec 2009 Did the Americans have
detailed advance information about the 26/11 plot which they did not share with
India, only passing on a watered-down warning? And was there an American spy
within the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba who kept Washington (or Langley) informed of terror
acts planned against India -- even if this information was never handed over to
us? It is certainly beginning to look that way... The terror suspect, we were
told, was a US citizen of Pakistani origin. He had some links with the LeT. He
had visited India. He may have been part of an advance team for 26/11... These
papers showed that Headley had been convicted and sent to jail. But after 9/11,
he had been set free and sent to Pakistan to work as an undercover agent for the
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). According to US journalists, Headley had
been given a new passport in the American name of David Headley (his American
mother's maiden name is Headley) rather than his original name of Daood Gilani.
He flew around the world, entering and leaving the US at will, avoiding the sort
of attention that a convicted drug criminal was certain to attract at US
airports. Further, suggested US journos, the DEA assignment may have been a
cover... Why would the US treat a 26/11 suspect with such consideration? The
only explanation that fits is this: he was an American agent all along. The US
arrested him only when it seemed that Indian investigators were on his trail. He
will be sentenced to jail, will vanish into the US jail system for a while and
will then be sprung again -- as he was the last time.

Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists --Cruise Missiles
Launched Thursday Hit Two Suspected al Qaeda Sites; Major Escalation of US
Efforts Against 'Terrorists' 19 Dec 2009 On orders from President Barack Obama,
the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected
al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News in a
report broadcast on ABC World News. One of the targeted sites was a suspected al
Qaeda training camp north of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a
location where officials said "an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being
planned."

Saudi air raids kill 54 civilians in northern Yemen 20 Dec 2009 Saudi warplanes
have carried out fresh airstrikes on northern Yemeni villages, killing more than
50 civilians, Houthi sources say. The Shia fighters said on Sunday that Saudi
jets fired more than one-thousand missiles at the region along its border with
Yemen, Arabic language Al-Menpar news website reported.

Saudi warplanes rain '1,011 missiles' on Yemen 19 Dec 2009 Houthi fighters say
Saudi warplanes have fired some 1,011 missiles on the borderline with Yemen
where the Shia population is already under heavy state-led and US-aided
bombardment. The fighters also said on Saturday that the warplanes had carried
out nearly 60 air assaults on the residential areas in the northern Al-Jabiri,
Al-Dukhan and Al-Malaheet districts.

Pakistan in crisis as 'creeping coup' unfolds 20 Dec 2009 The political crisis
in Pakistan has deepened after the Government's anti-corruption agency sought a
warrant for the arrest of the country's Interior Minister. Officials from the
National Accountability Bureau asked for permission to arrest Rehman Malik, the
minister in charge of law and order and the war on terrorism. The scale of the
crisis and the speed with which it has unfolded has prompted supporters of Mr
Zardari to question the role of the judiciary and speculate on whether the army
is behind the legal challenge to the Government. Some even spoke of a ''creeping
coup'' unfolding. [I am thinking *Blackwater.*]

U.S. prosecution links drugs to terrorism --The case -- the first of its kind --
portrays northwest Africa as a new danger [oil] zone. Three men are accused of
being Al Qaeda associates and conspiring to smuggle cocaine. 19 Dec 2009 Three
men alleged to be Al Qaeda [al-CIAduh] associates were charged Friday with
conspiring to smuggle cocaine through Africa -- the first U.S. prosecution
linking the terrorist group directly to drug trafficking. The three suspects,
who were charged in federal court in New York, are believed to be from Mali and
were arrested in Ghana during a Drug Enforcement Administration sting. Although
U.S. authorities have alleged that Al Qaeda and the Taliban profit from
Afghanistan's heroin trade, the case is the first in which suspects linked to Al
Qaeda have been charged under severe narco-terrorism laws, federal officials
said. [That's not who profits from Afghanistan's heroin trade. See: Trail of
Afghanistan's drug money exposed By Julien Mercille 16 Dec 2009 The total
revenue generated by opiates within Afghanistan is about $3.4 billion per year.
Of this figure, according to UNODC, the Taliban get only 4% of the sum... The
remaining 75% is captured by government officials, the police, local and
regional power brokers and traffickers - in short, many of the groups now
supported (or tolerated) by the United States and NATO are important actors in
the drug trade.]

Two-thirds of Afghan war veterans are suffering from hearing damage --The
intense noise of the battlefield is afflicting British troops 20 Dec 2009 More
than two-thirds of British troops returning from Afghanistan are suffering
severe and permanent hearing damage, according to the most comprehensive study
into one of the less well-known side-effects of the conflict in Helmand.
Internal defence documents reveal that of 1,250 Royal Marine commandos who
served in Afghanistan, 69% suffered hearing damage due to the intense noise of
combat.

British Army to get new uniforms -- turned down by the US and made in China 20
Dec 2009 The British Army is introducing a new camouflage design for all its
soldiers after tests showed that it made them less likely to be seen by the
enemy. Called "multi terrain pattern", or MTP, the camouflage will first be used
in Afghanistan, from March next year. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid the
US company an undisclosed sum for use of the new design and has secured
intellectual property rights over the MTP camouflage to prevent others from
using it without permission. The kit is to be produced by a Northern Irish
company, but will be made in China. [Works for me. China did such a nice job
with the drywall, milk and pet food. --LRP]

MoD names UK soldier killed in Afghanistan 20 Dec 2009 A British soldier who
died in an explosion in Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence.
Cpl Simon Hornby, 29, from 2nd Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, died
on Saturday. He was wounded while on foot patrol in the Nad-e-Ali area of
Helmand, and died later that day.

Oil well is on our side of border, Iran says 21 Dec 2009 Iran's armed forces
have rejected claims that they have taken control of an oil well within Iraqi
borders, stressing that the well in question is on Iranian soil. "Based on
internationally recognized borders, the disputed oil well belongs to Iran as it
is on Iranian soil," a spokesman for Iran's Armed Forces Headquarters told Press
TV on Sunday morning.

Hugo Chavez orders military to shoot at US aircraft --President Hugo Chavez has
accused the US of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane, and
ordered his military to shoot down any such aircraft in the future. 20 Dec 2009
Speaking during his weekly television and radio program, Mr Chavez said the
aircraft overflew a Venezuelan military base in the western state of Zulia after
taking off from neighbouring Colombia. He did not elaborate, but suggested the
plane was being used for espionage. "These are the Yankees. They are entering
Venezuela," he said. "I've ordered them to be shot down," Mr Chavez said of the
aircraft. "We cannot permit this." He has accused Colombia of allowing the
United States to use its military bases to prepare a possible attack against
Venezuela. [See: CIA 'plot to kill Hugo Chavez' --Hugo Chavez has claimed that
he avoided a US plot to kill him. 03 Jun 2009 The Venezuelan president said on
state television that he had eluded an assassination attempt in El Salvador
where he was due to attend the swearing in of its new leader, a Left-wing ally.]

Worse than the bank bailouts: Obama approves security aid to Israel, PA -- $100
million for the training of Palestinian security forces by American general
Keith Dayton. 19 Dec 2009 US President Barack Obama this week signed the 2010
foreign aid budget law which includes $2.775 billion in security aid to Israel.
This is the second year the budget is transferred to the Jewish state as part of
understandings that the American assistance to Israel in the coming decade will
total $30 billion. The approved budget comprises, for the first time, $500
million in aid to the Palestinian Authority, including $100 million for the
training of Palestinian security forces by American general Keith Dayton. [See:
CIA working with Palestinian security agents --US agency co-operating with
Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank 17
Dec 2009.]

CIA linked to Palestinian 'torture' 18 Dec 2009 Palestinian security agents who
have allegedly tortured Hamas supporters in the West Bank have been working
closely with the CIA, the UK's Guardian newspaper has reported. The US Central
Intelligence Agency has co-operated with the Preventive Security Force (PSF) and
General Intelligence Service (GI) in the Palestinian territory, the report on
Friday said. "The [Central Intelligence] Agency consider them as their property,
those two Palestinian services," a western official told the Guardian.

Iran rejects reports of oil well seizure in Iraq 19 Dec 2009 Iran rejects
reports that its forces have taken over an oil well within Iraqi borders, while
a Baghdad official admits the site is in a disputed border area. In a Saturday
phone interview with Press TV, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman described
reports about the country taking over an Iraqi oil well as an attempt to harm
the close relations between Tehran and Baghdad.

Lockerbie bomber had secret £1.8m 20 Dec 2009 The man convicted of the Lockerbie
bombing, Abdelbasset Ali al-Megrahi, had £1.8m in a Swiss bank account when he
was found guilty in 2001 of the murder of the 270 people aboard Pan Am flight
103, it has been claimed. A sum of this size in the bank account of a man
employed as head of security for an airline raises some big questions.

12 prisoners leave Guantanamo for home 20 Dec 2009 Twelve Guantanamo detainees
have departed the ominous detention facility for their homelands in Afghanistan,
Yemen and Somaliland, says the US Department of Justice. The Justice Department
announced in a statement on Sunday that six Yemenis, four Afghans and two Somali
prisoners have been transferred over the weekend to their home countries.

Man on terrorism articles charge 20 Dec 2009 A 20-year-old man has been charged
with possession of articles for use in terrorism. The charge is connected to an
attack in Londonderry's Hollymount Park in the Waterside when windows of a house
and a car were smashed on Friday morning. Two other men, aged 42 and 18, have
been charged with several offences.

States get 16-month reprieve from REAL ID 20 Dec 2009 Montana and 12 other
states that are resisting the provisions of the REAL ID law won a 16-month
reprieve when the federal government delayed implementation of the controversial
measure. The decision by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano means
that Montana driver's licenses will continue to be legitimate identification for
purposes such as traveling on commercial airliners.

National Guard Called Because of Storm --Governor calls National Guard to duty
19 Dec 2009 (WV) Gov. Joe Manchin (D) today ordered about 200 National Guard
members to state duty in response to heavy snowfall that closed major highways
and stranded travelers for hours during the storm. Guard wrecker crews have been
on duty since the early morning hours clearing primary roadways of wrecked or
abandoned vehicles.

Drug giant General Electric uses libel law to gag doctor 20 Dec 2009 General
Electric, one of the world's biggest corporations, is using the London libel
courts to gag a senior radiologist after he raised the alarm over the
potentially fatal risks of one of its drugs. The multinational [GE Healthcare, a
British subsidiary of General Electric] is suing Henrik Thomsen, a Danish
academic, after he described his experiences of one of the company's drugs as a
medical "nightmare". He said some kidney patients at his hospital contracted a
potentially deadly condition after being administered the drug Omniscan.

Nelson Accused of Selling Vote on Health Bill for Nebraska Pay-Off --What
started as Sen. Ben Nelson's personal stand against covering abortion with
taxpayer money translated, somehow, into millions of dollars in federal aid for
his home state -- drawing criticism that his vote was bought. 20 Dec 2009 The
Nebraska DemocRAT, following weeks of negotiations with his caucus, finally
agreed to back the Senate's health care reform bill insurance company giveaway
this weekend after Democratic leaders made a series of concessions. Nelson's
support gives Democrats the 60 votes they need to overcome a filibuster, barring
any last-minute defections. But critics by Sunday were heavily questioning
Nelson's motivations, given that the abortion restrictions he sought and won did
not satisfy several major anti-abortion lawmakers and groups and that it took a
major federal payoff to his state to seal the deal. Critics were calling it the
"cornhusker kickback" and the "Nebraska windfall," lobbing accusations of
political deal-making at Nelson.

Northeast digs out of monster snowstorm --Storm goes to sea after dumping 2 feet
(70 cm) of snow 20 Dec 2009 The U.S. Northeast began digging out on Sunday from
a massive snowstorm that buried cities from Washington to Boston under as much
as 2 feet of snow, creating travel chaos and hampering Christmas shopping.
Nearly 2 feet (70 cm) of snow piled up in the Baltimore-Washington area on
Saturday in the largest snowstorm to hit the region since February 2003, while
New York City saw totals of up to a foot (35 cm) before the monster storm
churned into New England.

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Previous lead stories: CIA working with Palestinian security agents --US agency
co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas
supporters in West Bank 17 Dec 2009 Palestinian security agents who have been
detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas
in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has
learned. ...Evidence is emerging the CIA is co-operating with security agents
whose continuing use of torture has been widely documented by human rights
groups. The relationship between the CIA and the two Palestinian agencies
involved - Preventive Security Organisation (PSO) and General Intelligence
Service (GI) - is said by some western diplomats and other officials in the
region to be so close that the American agency appears to be supervising the
Palestinians' work.

Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond 2011 17 Dec 2009 U.S.
Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry Thursday further signaled that a
strong American military presence will remain in Afghanistan long after July
2011, when President Obama plans to end his troop surge. Speaking at the Afghan
Ministry of Foreign Relations before a group of diplomats, non-governmental
organizations and Afghan citizens, Eikenberry drove home the Obama
administration's sometimes contradictory message lies.

Islamic insurgents hack into CIA state-of-the-art Predator drones 18 Dec 2009
Predator drones used by the CIA against Islamic militants have been hacked into
by insurgents using nothing more sophisticated than a $25.95 (£16) off-the-shelf
software, it was revealed last night. Although the insurgents were not able to
control the $20 million aircraft, typically armed with Hellfire missiles and
flown over the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they could watch
live video feeds beamed back to US control stations through their electronic
"eyeballs". The hackers' success raises the disturbing possibility of the
Predators being taken over and used to attack US or British forces, or perhaps
even domestic targets. [...as the next false flag. US military officials knew
about it for a year five years --and did *nothing* about it, of course.]


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             News You Won't Find On CNN
             December 19, 2009
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           We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of
discipline, intelligent courage and resolution, were most important, into that
more difficult time when it is a person's duty to understand the world rather
than simply fight for it. -- Ernest Hemingway

           "It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians
or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want."--
Harry Browne

           "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean
politics won't take an interest in you." -- Pericles, 430 B.C.

           "Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty." : Rutherford B.
Hayes




            US Attack Kills 120 In Yemen

           Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Suspected "Terrorists"

           By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE, LUIS MARTINEZ and KIRIT
RADIA

           As many as 120 people were killed in the three raids, according to
reports from Yemen, and opposition leaders said many of the dead were innocent
civilians.
           http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24225.htm

           U.S Kill 63 Civilians, 28 Children in Yemen Air Strikes

           By Press TV

           Yemen's Houthi fighters say scores of civilians, including many
children, have been killed in US air-raids in the southeast of the war-stricken
Arab country. The Shia fighters on Friday reported the deaths of 63 people,
including some 28 children, in the southeastern province of Abyan.
           http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24226.htm

           Deadly Intentions:

           The Truth Behind The Iran Rumors

           By bSoraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

           Saudi Arabia, in a change of tactic, spun a story about Iran invading
an Iraqi oilfield which led to an immediate hike in oil prices. Could this have
been intended as a punishment aimed at the Chinese for not cooperating while
projecting Iran as an extreme threat?
           http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24227.htm

           Obama ordered deadly blitz on Yemen: US media:

            US Nobel Peace Prize laureate President Barack Obama has signed the
order for a recent military strike on Yemen in which scores of civilians,
including children, have been killed, a report says.
           http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114119§ionid=351020206

           'US aided' deadly Yemen raids:

           Residents of Abyan said that there was no al-Qaeda training camp in
the area and that the raids had destroyed several homes. Abbas al-Assal, a local
human rights activist who was at the scene, said 64 people were killed,
including 23 children and 17 women.
          
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009121954017137936.html

           Yemen Opposition Says Govt Attacks Killed Civilians:

           "In a dangerous precedent, ... the Sanaa regime committed a brutal
massacre against our people," exiled southern leader Ali Salem al-Beidh said in
a statement, calling for an investigation by the United Nations, and by Arab and
Muslim countries.
           http://snipurl.com/trgvj

           11 militants killed in NW Pakistan tribal area:

           At least 11 militants were killed Saturday during military operations
in northwest Pakistan's tribal area, local TV channel reported.
           http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/19/content_12672689.htm

           US attacks in Pakistan kill at least 20 people:

           US drones launched missiles into North Waziristan in Pakistan in a
barrage of attacks Thursday and Friday. It was one of the largest such attacks
in the controversial program the Obama administration has continued and
intensified.
           http://snipurl.com/trgvy

           12 people killed, 30 injured in suicide attack in Pak's NWFP:

           Taliban militants on Friday hit Pakistan's lawless NWFP as a suicide
bomber detonated his explosive-laden car outside a mosque after Friday prayers
at Timergarah in Dir district, killing 12 people, mostly policemen.
           http://snipurl.com/trgw3

           Amnesty gone, Pak warrant for Malik, Defence Minister's China trip
stopped:

           Political turmoil deepened in Pakistan as the anti-corruption agency
barred Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar from leaving for China and banned
250 officials from going abroad while a court issued an arrest warrant against
Interior Minister Rehman Malik after the Supreme Court struck down a graft
amnesty.
           http://snipurl.com/trgwg

           10 Taliban militants killed in S. Afghanistan:

           Afghan National Army(ANA) backed by NATO-led forces eliminated 10
Taliban militants during a cleanup operation in Taliban's former stronghold
Helmand province, spokesman for local administration said on Saturday.
           http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/19/content_12672698.htm

           US occupation force soldier, six Taliban killed in Afghanistan:

           The US soldier waskilled by a roadside landmine in southern
Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in
a statement. It did not give more details. Separately, the Afghan police and
army killed six Taliban in the country's northern province of Kunduz.
           http://snipurl.com/trgwx

           'NATO air strike kills three Afghan civilians':

           A NATO air strike against suspected militants in occupied southern
Afghanistan killed three civilians and wounded one other, local government and
hospital officials said Friday.
          
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091218/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestnato

           British occupation force soldier killed in Afghanistan:

            Officials say the soldier was killed while on foot patrol in volatile
Helmand province. He was from the 2nd Battalion of The Duke of Lancaster's
Regiment
           http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3822091,00.html

           Up to 56,000 more contractors likely for Afghanistan, congressional
agency says:

           The surge of 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan could be accompanied
by a surge of up to 56,000 contractors, vastly expanding the presence of
personnel from the U.S. private sector in a war zone, according to a study by
the Congressional Research Service.
           http://snipurl.com/trgxf

           3 killed by bomb near Baghdad restaurant:

           A car bomb exploded outside a popular restaurant in central Baghdad
last evening, killing three people and wounding 16 as diners were out enjoying
the start to their weekend, police and hospital officials said.
           http://snipurl.com/trgxr

           Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

           Iraq demands withdrawal of Iranian troops:

           Iraq's deputy interior minister said earlier that 11 Iranian soldiers
had crossed the Iran-Iraq border on Friday afternoon, the latest in a series of
recent incursions, and taken position at an oil well in the remote desert border
area. Iran denied the incursion into Iraqi territory.
           http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091218/wl_nm/us_iraq_iran_spokesman

           Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:

           Iraq masses troops on Iran border amid oil well row:

           Iraqi troops massed Saturday near an oil well on the border in a
standoff with Iranian forces that seized control of the site in a sudden flare
up of tension between the two uneasy neighbors.
           http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1136132.html

           Iran rejects Iraqi incursion claim:

           Iran's Armed Forces Command issued a statement on Saturday making
clear that, in Tehran's view, there had been no incursion into Iraq as the oil
well is within Iranian borders. "Our forces are on our own soil and, based on
the known international borders, this well belongs to Iran," the statement said.
          
http://english.aljazeera.net//news/middleeast/2009/12/2009121912509819574.html

           Iran rejects reports of oil well seizure in Iraq:

           Iraq's Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji confirmed that
there has been no actual takeover. "This news is not true. This field is
disputed and now it is neglected by both sides. There was no storming of the
field, it's empty, it's abandoned, it is exactly on the border between Iraq and
Iran," he was quoted by Reuters as saying.
           http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114137§ionid=351020101

           The Truth Behind The Iran Rumors:

           Saudi Arabia, in a change of tactic, spun a story about Iran invading
an Iraqi oilfield which led to an immediate hike in oil prices. Could this have
been intended as a punishment aimed at the Chinese for not cooperating while
projecting Iran as an extreme threat?
           http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24227.htm

           US General: UAE's air force could take out Iran's:

            Speaking at a conference in Bahrain organized by the International
Institute for Strategic Studies, the American general said, "The Emirati Air
Force itself could take out the entire Iranian Air Force, I believe, given that
it's got ... somewhere around 70 Block 60 F-16 fighters, which are better than
the US F-16 fighters."
           http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3821879,00.html

           Iran to West: Stop threats if you want nuclear deal:

           Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday said Tehran is ready
to reach a deal over its contentious nuclear program if the United States and
other Western countries stop making threats, French news agency AFP reported.
           http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1136113.html

           Israeli pleads guilty to leaking classified U.S. documents:

            An Israeli lawyer and left-wing activist who worked as a linguist for
the FBI has pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents to a blogger who
posted the information online.
           http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1136114.html

           Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes:

           Militants have the ability to see through the eyes of all kinds of
combat aircraft - from traditional fighters and bombers to unmanned spy planes.
The problem is in the process of being addressed. But for now, an enormous
security breach is even larger than previously thought.
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When does Tyranny become Treason?



Jim Kirwan

12-19-09






The short answer is that Tyranny becomes Treason whenever the actions taken,
will irreversibly lead to the destruction of the nation.

The illustration depicts what has happened to the Great Seal of the United
States; namely that we no longer recognize the olive branch and our operating
FORCES in the field around the world, consist only of naked force. The
background for this eagle has been darkened and the highest point above the
eagle's head has been emphasized in the Zionist's Star of David that has been
there since this "seal" was created after we lost the right to print our own
money to the Federal Reserve, on December 23, 1913.

Outright slavery might seem a long way off to most people, but it is really very
close to becoming the single standard among the working people that will
increase accordingly, as the evils of Tyranny continue to expand.

The actions recently taken by Obama in conjunction with the UN, as described
below, will-If they are not stopped-strip the constitutional right of the people
of the United States to be represented in a new and so far secret-political
framework; in which US citizens will have no voice. This means that the
independent nation we once had is no more! Under the new terms of this
unofficial coup we shall be obligated to pay taxes and tribute to the UN under
penalty of The New World Order Police that will answer only to the United
Nations and to its 700 new official agencies that will be immune to complaints
from any US citizens. This qualifies as TREASON and in light of the secretive
nature of this end-run around the Constitution without a vote from the US
Congress: How can this not be a political Coup? This act will end any
representative form of government in the United States, but it should also
reignite that battle-cry from the Boston Tea Party:

"Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny,"

Which in this case is also TREASON!

'The final Copenhagen draft agreement which was hammered out in the early hours
of Friday morning includes provisions for a global tax on financial transactions
that will be paid directly to the World Bank, as President Obama prepares to
bypass Congress by approving a massive transfer of wealth from America into
globalist hands.

As Lord Monckton, Alex Jones and others warned, the notion that the globalists
would achieve nothing at Copenhagen has likely been a ruse all along. The elite
look set to ram through the lion's share of their agenda, which would include a
massive global government tax at a cost of at least $3,000 a year for American
families already laboring under a devastating recession, double digit
unemployment and a reduction in living standards.

Hillary Clinton arrived yesterday to rally global leaders around a resolution
and Barack Obama is set to be portrayed as the savior of the world by rescuing
what was pitched all along as a conference doomed to fail.

"The summit "hangs in the balance," said Obama this morning. "We are running out
of time. The time for talk is over. It is better for us to act than to talk. The
question is whether we move forward together or split apart."

The final agreement may not force countries to meet CO2 emission targets, but it
will grease the skids for the biggest tax hike in human history, a fact that
establishment media outlets have completely failed to emphasize.

Monckton told the Alex Jones Show last week that the initial secretive draft
version of the Copenhagen agreement represented a global government power grab
on an "unimaginable scale," and mandated the creation of 700 new bureaucracies
as well as a colossal raft of new taxes including 2 percent levies on both GDP
and every international financial transaction.

Monckton said that the new world government outlined in the treaty would be
handed powers to, "Tax the American economy to the extent of 2 percent GDP, to
impose a further tax of 2 percent on every financial transaction..and to close
down effectively the economies of the west, transfer your jobs to third world
countries."

As the leak of the Danish text outlined, such taxes, earmarked as "climate
financing," will go straight into the coffers of the IMF and the World Bank.
These funds will be used to bankroll the imposition of global governance that UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon promised would be achieved at Copenhagen.

According to the latest news out of Copenhagen, the taxes that were included in
the initial text are still in the final agreement which is set to be passed
later today or in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the final text, "Proposes a range of
innovative mechanisms for raising the money, ranging from a tax on air and sea
transports fuels to a tax on financial transfers."

This would form part of an initial commitment of $10 billion (US) a year from
2010 to 2012, climbing to $50 billion (US) annually by 2015 and $100 billion
(US) by 2020, although these figures will inevitably increase if the UN ramps up
its climate fear-mongering as it has done at each successive climate conference
since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

The treaty outlines, "Penalties or fines for non-compliance," in developed
countries and the creation of an international police force to "enforce its will
by imposing unlimited financial penalties on any countries whose performance
under this treaty they don't like," Monckton told the Alex Jones Show, saying
that it amounted to a total global government takeover on an "unimaginable
scale".

"We're looking at a grab for absolute power and absolute financial control
worldwide by the UN and its associated bureaucracies and 700 new bureaucratic
bodies," said Monckton, adding that if the agreement was signed by Obama, the
U.S. would be losing its freedom to a "sinister dictatorship" being formed under
the contrived pretext of global warming.'

Amerika is already becoming acclimated to accepting EXTORTION, which is what the
insurance industry here has finally turned to in order to illegally take what
they can't get any other way: The forced purchase of insurance backed up by
government promises of prison and heavy fines for anyone not in compliance with
their latest medical edicts. The title of this reference article ought to be The
Great American Extortion in Action (1)

The situation coming out of Copenhagen, namely the approval of the framework for
stealing US sovereignty from this nation, and pledging ourselves as a nation to
become subjects of the UN ought to have to go before the congress of the USA,
before any further actions are undertaken anywhere. If Obama decides to go
around the congress this time he should be arrested and jailed until he can be
impeached.

He has already approved the North American Union, and he's appointed a Chief of
Police for the New World Order; that will investigate, prosecute and imprison
those that fail to comply with the new UN Mandates: but he has not yet been able
to get-around the congress on this one-and if that situation can be forced to go
before this nation's congress then there still might be a chance to stop this
act of treason before it goes any further.

In just three days we will see the 96th anniversary of that black day when
Congress slipped the Federal Reserve past the public and into being: And we
should be prepared for Congress to try to shove this new UN status framework
past the pubic during the coming holiday; just as they did back in 1913, with
the criminal act of creation that brought the Federal Reserve into existence
then.

"Since different versions had been passed by both Houses, a Conference Committee
was established which was stacked with six Democrats and only two Republicans to
insure that certain portions of the original Bill would remain intact. It was
hastily prepared without any public hearings and on December 23, 1913, two days
before Christmas when many Congressmen and three particular Senators were away
from Washington, the Bill was sent to the House of Representatives where it
passed 298 to 60 and [was] then sent to the Senate where it passed with a vote
of 43 to 25 (with 27 absent or abstaining). An hour after the Senate vote,
Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act into law and the Illuminati had taken
control of the American economy. The gold and silver in the nation's vaults were
now owned by the Federal Reserve. Baron Alfred Charles Rothschild (1842-1918),
who [had] masterminded the entire scheme, then made plans to further weaken our
country's financial structure." (2)

Nothing lasts forever in this world, and just as governments come and go, this
dictatorship of the fascists will join all its predecessors around the world
very soon, in the ash-heaps of history. All that remains to be decided is: Whose
side are you on?

It's true that we have all been victimized by the continued shrinking of our
economy that has forced almost everyone to seek survival from the black-markets,
by skimming, by kickbacks or bribes, just to get by: But when you come from a
generally Victorian ideal that claimed a belief in outrageously strict
punishments for any deviation from the semi-religious norm-there will be real
problems as Amerika tries to return to a seriously single set of laws for
everyone in the country-and not simply to continue the current
two-country-system in which there are laws only for the poor and working people,
but get-out-of-jail free cards for the elites, that is currently in-place.

No nation can exist for long under tyranny or treason at the very top: And this
ought to be true for America as well. But until people recognize that what our
political class has done to us is unforgivable, and must be dealt with: then
there will be no one to stop the onslaught of Treason's grim and deadly grip
upon a silent nation that should be otherwise-if the courage were there among
the majority to change this for the future.

kirwanstudios@...

1) PROTECTION The Great American Racket

http://rense.com/general88/protect.htm



2) The Creation of the Federal Reserve

http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=FinalWarn02-2


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     This ought to give the bastards some real nightmares of their own for a
change!

kirwan


       I don't think - after reading this - that we have ANY problem with our
medical records being accessed! jm




         Islamic insurgents hack into CIA state-of-the-art Predator drones


         http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6961254.ece


         Predator drones used by the CIA against Islamic militants have been
hacked into by insurgents using nothing more sophisticated than a $25.95 (£16)
off-the-shelf software, it was revealed last night.

         Although te insurgents were not able to control the $20 million
aircraft, typically armed with Hellfire missiles and flown over the battlefields
of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they could watch live video feeds beamed back
to US control stations through their electronic "eyeballs".

         The hackers' success raises the disturbing possibility of the Predators
being taken over and used to attack US or British forces, or perhaps even
domestic targets.



         Pentagon plays down security breach with US drones


        
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Pentagon_plays_down_security_breach_12172009.html




         Even as officials insisted the problem had been rectified, a military
technology blog reported the vulnerability extended to video transmissions for
an array of other US aircraft -- both manned and unmanned..

         Video footage from US drones, fighter jets and bombers is transmitted to
receivers that use unencrypted signals, Wired magazine's Danger Room blog
reported, citing unnamed Air Force officials.





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Auschwitz yet Again by Gilad Atzmon
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Early on Friday the famous "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign that
hung over the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp, was stolen.



Commenting to the BBC on the theft of the Auschwitz sign, Rabbi Andrew Baker,
the Director of the International Jewish Affairs of the rabid Zionist American
Jewish Committee maintained that there should be no replicas to substitute the
entrance monument. "There can be no copies or reproductions; visitors must see
only what was real. In that way they will be bear witness to the very objects
and structures which in turn remain the mute eyewitness to what happened there".

Rabbi Baker wants the "real thing". However, every person who happens to be
brave enough to step into the muddy topic known as Holocaust history, is quick
to discover the embarrassing fact that lies at the heart of the Auschwitz museum
experience: the gas chamber on display is no less than a reconstruction built
after the war by the soviets. The original gas chambers were destroyed by the
Germans in October 1944 just before their evacuation.

To read more:
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/auschwitz-yet-again-by-gilad-atzmon.html

Vanunu Confirms Israel's Global Thermonuclear Blackmail

http://www.rense.com/general88/vanu.htm
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  http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/antiboycottcompliance.htm

      Boycotting Israel is ILLEGAL under US law. People who are working on a
boycott of Israeli products need to be aware of this. The legalities are
explained on this site.

Antiboycott Compliance
The Bureau is charged with administering and enforcing the Antiboycott Laws
under the Export Administration Act. Those laws discourage, and in some
circumstances, prohibit U.S. companies from furthering or supporting the boycott
of Israel sponsored by the Arab League, and certain Moslem countries, including
complying with certain requests for information designed to verify compliance
with the boycott. Compliance with such requests may be prohibited by the Export
Administration Regulations (EAR) and may be reportable to the Bureau.

How can it be illegal to boycott something or somewhere?  This is amazing! rb



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American Foreign Policy on Iran (Ilan Berman)


http://america-hijacked.com/2009/12/20/american-foreign-policy-on-iran-ilan-berm\
an/


http://tinyurl.com/yzhwpto


Additional at http://AMERICA-HIJACKED.COM

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                                 During the past year!!!



                                 Even if you aren't a sports fan this is very
interesting!



                                 36 have been accused of spousal abuse
                                 7 have been arrested for fraud
                                 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
                                 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at
least 2 businesses

                                 3 have done time for assault
                                 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

                                 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
                                 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
                                 21 currently are defendants in lawsuits,
                                 And,
                                 84 have been arrested for drunk driving
                                 In the last year


                                 Can
                                 You guess which organization this is?
                                 NBA Or NFL ?


                                 Give up yet? Scroll down,












                                 Neither,it's the 535 members of the
                                 United States Congress!

                                 The same group that cranks out
                                 Hundreds of new laws each year
                                 Designed to keep the rest of us in line.


                                 You Gotta pass this one on!

                                 Next year November 2nd, 2010,
                                 we need to replace all of them, 100%.
















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             Today's U.K. headlines

             http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
               a.. Tories' licence to kill a burglar: Citizens who use
self-defence should escape prosecution, says shadow minister
               b.. Road and runways seize in the freeze as heavy snow plunges
Britain into chaos
               c.. 50,000 stranded in Eurostar chaos: All trains are halted as
furious passengers call on boss to resign
               d.. Stolen Auschwitz sign Arbeit macht frei turns up hundreds of
miles away cut into three pieces
               e.. I'm untouchable: Boast of thug with 50 convictions who was set
free while householder was jailed
               f.. Parents faced with paying double for Lego kits as web stores
cash in on boom
               g.. Mrs Bossyboots law chief intimidated me in public: Now
housewife demands that Vera Baird apologises
               h.. Alan Johnson brands Cameron's inner circle 'public schoolboy
millionaires'
               i.. The great quangocracy? Elite making up to £5,000 a day on
public bodies
               j.. Toddler 'stolen' from police station is found safe and well
               k.. 'Low-ranking airline worker' al-Megrahi had £1.8m in Swiss
bank account before Lockerbie bomb conviction
               l.. British workers face second year of pay freezes, CBI warns
               m.. Dying man, 80, is denied care at home as health chiefs say
he's not ill enough for cash help
               n.. Pupils given the right to complain about their headteacher
               o.. Blair: It's only in Britain that people don't like me
               p.. British workers face second year of pay freezes, CBI warns
               q.. How Google avoided a British tax bill of £450m
               r.. German teacher stabbed to death by lovestruck former pupil who
tracked her with GPS device he attached to her car
               s.. Now Gerry Adams reveals his father sexually abused members of
his own family
               t.. Police to question Carphone Warehouse boss after 999 call from
Lithuanian blonde
               u.. Dutch teenager who wanted to sail the world solo goes missing
               v.. Was Berlusconi attack faked? Conspiracy theory video becomes
overnight YouTube sensation
               w.. Think we have it bad? Try Washington for a whole winter's snow
in one day
               x.. Switched-on Prince Charles wants solar panels on Clarence
House roof
               y.. MORE HEADLINES

       http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html


Monday's Newspaper Front Pages


http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/The-Papers---National-Newspaper-Front-P\
ages-On-Monday-December-21-2009/Media-Gallery/200912315505437?lpos=UK_News_Left_\
Promo_Region_0&lid=GALLERY_15505437_The_Papers_-_National_Newspaper_Front_Pages_\
On_Monday_December_21%2C_2009


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"Once a Government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of
opposition, it has only one way to go
and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until finally, it
becomes a source of terror to all
its citizens and creates a country, where everyone lives in fear" Trueman.
Transition from Globalization to World Government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ktQSLgu4n4
Galloway War Crimes Speech  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpp6V4Oho8
Michael Chossudovsky's outstanding video lecture  The Criminalization of War
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16150
The Rothschild Octopus http://www.dejanlucic.net/THE%20ROTHSCHILD%20OCTOPUS
  Fraud in Science http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7M4Hqwdbg
The Myth of Osma bin Laden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn61PJQGCUo
Full list of Brasscheck TV videos http://www.brasschecktv.com/index.php
David Icke website:- http://www.davidicke.com/index.php/
Unsubscribe:- grahamjukes@...  Re-distribute
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ZetaTalk: GLP Live [12-19-09]  
Russian separatists, Pedophiles, US prison population, Early Zeta, Hands of man,
Copenhagen, Stereo Ahead, 2010 predictions, Alien technology, Privacy, Google
Earth UFOs, Eclipses, Cancer, Miserable incarnations, Obama disappointment, Pole
Shift timeline, Sun white, Christmas hammer, Tail debris, Assisted precision,
WISE plan, Zeta contact, Chemtrails, Sudden STO, Earth orbit perturbations, STS
identification, Spiral synchronicity, Mind reading
*
Excerpts:
[Questioner]  I have read that USA has the highest prison population rate in the
world and this amount is even raising. Why?
_
[Zeta Response]   Availability of funding for prison's, private prisons making a
profit, laws that are such that even small non-violent crimes result in prison,
fear of minorities such as blacks or Hispanics such that judges and juries put
them away on a slight, and many other factors.
*
[Questioner]  Could the Zetas tell us to what extent Planet X was discussed
behind closed doors at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this past
week? Was there agreement regarding what to say, if anything, about the presence
of Planet X?
_
[Zeta Response]   Planet X is always discussed when heads of state can meet
face-to-face. As before, when we were asked similar questions, there is no
change in plans. All major players are terrified of alerting the public, and
their terror gets more extreme the more Planet X and its wafting tail make their
presence known. The Norway swirl, the continual presence on SOHO images, all
this is making the matter a white-knuckle affair for heads of state, NASA, the
military, and the very wealthy. They don't want the truth revealed, and fear
retaliation against themselves if it is revealed. In the near future, any
revelations will not come from this strata of society, but may come from the
Puppet Master, as Nancy has recently learned.
*
[Questioner]  Why was not Planet X seen during different kinds of eclipses since
2003 ?
_
[Zeta Response]   Due to the necessity of maintaining the Element of Doubt about
both the alien presence and Planet X, for those who would go insane if they
could not cling to denial, times such as eclipses are arranged such that the
Moon is in the right place and any dramatic appearance of Planet X diffused.
*
[Questioner]  This week we were treated to a spectacle that showed Obama and his
administration, together with the Democratic leadership in Congress, roll over
to the STS special interests, basically agreeing to coerce all citizens into
buying their over-priced product by mandating it without the so-called "public
option". Polls taken in the wake of this sell-out show mega-majorities (nearly 9
out of 10 Democrats, nearly 3 out of 4 independents, and even a slight majority
of Republicans) disappointed, dismayed, disgusted, shocked, and angry at this
new mandate to purchase from the insurance "industry". I know the Zetas have
touted Obama as a "star child", but he acts more like a caveman - caving in to
any special interest that raises the slightest objection, except of course the
aspirations of the people who actually put him into office. Without asking what
Obama's thinking on this is, since the Zetas will never do that, is this what we
are to expect of
  STO "leadership"? Or do the zetas know something we don't that would explain
this travesty? Surely these vast majorities of the people aren't all stupid
humans or are simply naive, with too-high expectations? Maybe the rationale
should be "don't let the perfect be the enemy of the crap we're forced to make
you swallow".
_
[Zeta Response]   We keep repeating, when asked this type of question weekly,
that Obama cannot make things happen from the Oval Office unless Congress passes
laws first! He is taking what he can get, and will use that as a base to lobby
for changes in the law as it is shown that the profit makers cannot restrain
themselves or comply with the law as written. Do you understand the
Constitution, what the separation of powers means? He could of course refuse any
bill that the Congress presents to him, and then there would be no opportunity
for change. Is that better, in your opinion?
*
[Questioner]  Have heard Clif High talking about the change in color of the sun
recently and I have to agree with him. In my long ago youth it was yellow and
now it seems white and turning blue at times. Would like to ask the Zeta's why
the sun is changing colors? Also, would sun spots at the north and south poles
of the sun be another sign of pole shift on earth?
_
[Zeta Response]   When light is shown through fog, it diffuses, and when
sunlight comes through the tail of Planet X is likewise diffuses, thus the Sun
appears more white. Many chemicals are in the atmosphere of Earth from the tail
of Planet X, and this puts halos around the Moon and Sun and causes neon clouds,
among other effects. The pole shift timeline cannot be inferred by the
appearance of the surface of the Sun, no.
*
[Questioner]  Do zetas talk to any other humans? If so, how may we contact them?
_
[Zeta Response]   We, the Zetas, have contactees within the N American
continent, which is our region. There are over 1,000 life forms, sorted into
over 40 working groups, attending Earth at this time. If you are a contactee,
you are put in contact with others who are likewise contactees. Many meetings
are being arranged.
*
[Questioner]  Can Zeta really read the minds of all people or only when the call
is put out? If Zeta knows all about who did what to whom.why can't they make a
list of all major missing persons and out the murderers and let us know which of
the missing are indeed alive? Not all in one burst, but 10 a week would be
brilliant help for us humans that do care and need relief from their misery.
_
[Zeta Response]   Yes, we read minds readily, and this is why protecting those
individuals the Council of Worlds allows us to protect is so readily done. We
know what is planed, and who is behind it. As we stated earlier in this chat, we
are not allowed to interfer with the will of man or with his environment,
without the express approval of the Council of Worlds. This is your schoolhouse,
where you are to learn how to help your fellow man and to take action. We are
not here as your parents.

*
<http://zetatalk.com/index/zeta553.htm> 
-
-
The ZetaTalk Newsletter  
Issue164, Sunday Dec 20, 2009 Spiral Warnings; Moscow Tetrahedron; SOHO
Downtime; (3) New Video Clips
-
<http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue164.htm>
-**********************************************
[According to the STO ZetaTalk space angels, planet earth can expect an increase
in many more UFO/ET sightings ] 
 <http://zetatalk.com/index/blog0928.htm> 


The wicked ENDTIME - NOT the RIGHTEOUS.
http://Zetaheaven.org  



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Dear Group,
Please watch these new three most important Zeta Report videos!
Do not say that you have not been warned!
New Video Clips (December 20, 2009)
The Zeta Report 35 - SOHO Says So - Planet X is appearing on SOHO and the Stero
Ahead satellites regularly.
Added December 18. On YouTube. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9SbQq70nhY>
-
The Zeta Report 36 - Signs in the Sky - are spirals and neon clouds the last of
it, or is there more?
Added December 18. On YouTube. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2vKVRNTQyM>
_
The Zeta Report 37 - ClimateGate - if the Global Warming is a fraud, then why is
Al Gore promoting it?
Added December 18. On YouTube. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1obpoyn1AE>   



The wicked ENDTIME - NOT the RIGHTEOUS.
http://Zetaheaven.org  



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*Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government*
21 Dec 2009
*http://www.legitgov.org* <http://www.legitgov.org/>
All links are here:
*http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news*<http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news>

*US forces mounted secret Pakistan
raids<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/21/us-forces-secret-pakistan-raid\
s>
**--Former Nato officer reveals secret night operations in border region
which America kept quiet *21 Dec 2009 American special forces have conducted
multiple clandestine raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a secret
war in the border region where *Washington is pressing to expand its drone
assassination programme*. A former Nato officer said the incursions, only
one of which has been previously reported, occurred between 2003 and 2008,
involved helicopter-borne elite soldiers stealing across the border at
night, and were never declared to the Pakistani government. "The Pakistanis
were kept entirely in the dark about it. It was one of those things we
wouldn't confirm officially with them," said the source, who had detailed
knowledge of the operations. Such operations are a matter of sensitivity in
Pakistan.

*Obusha opens new war front; lamestream media yawns: Mullen worried Yemen
becoming terrorist
'haven'<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hIbYFKVlWkpgw3ioOA_MAR\
sRMktwD9CNDN081>--Adm.
refused to discuss whether US played active role in recent operation *20 Dec
2009 Adm. Mike Mullen is applauding a military strike in Yemen against
suspected
members of the al-Qaida terrorist group civilians. The top U.S. military
officer said Sunday he has been concerned for some time that Yemen
*could*become "another safe haven" for terrorism. He applauded the
effort to go
after an al-Qaida cell which he said has grown significantly over the last
couple of years. *Mullen said the United States will continue to help Yemen
develop its ability to 'fight' terrorism*, but he refused to discuss whether
the United States played an active role in the recent operation. [*'Could'
become. We're bombing the sh*t out of civilians again, because of what
'could' happen. --LRP*]

*Saudi jets kill 18 civilians in
Yemen<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114305&sectionid=351020206>
* 21 Dec 2009 Fresh Saudi air strikes on northern villages of Yemen have
claimed the lives of 18 civilians, all women and children, the Houthi
fighters say. According to a statement released by the fighters, Saudi
forces carried out more than 40 air raids on al-Razih, al-Nazir, al
-Malaheet, and the district of Ghamra in northern Yemen on Monday.

*Police Headquarters Attacked in Southeastern
Afghanistan<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/world/asia/22afghan.html>
* 21 Dec 2009 An provincial government official said that Afghan security
forces and American troops killed five heavily armed men who attacked a
police headquarters in the center of Gardez, the capital of the southeastern
province of Paktia Province. Four police and three civilians were wounded,
said the official, Rahullah Samon, a spokesman for the governor’s office. A
Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that five suicide bombers entered
the Gardez police headquarters around 9 a.m. and attacked a class of police
recruits while foreign mentors were taking daily attendance. [*Gee, looks
like the US 'plan' for training Afghan police is a big ice cream cone in the
dirt, isn't it? No worries. US taxpayers will just build a new police HQ in
Afghanistan so Blackwater can blow it up
again<http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html>
.*]

*Soldier killed by friendly fire in
Afghanistan<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/6860093/\
Soldier-killed-by-friendly-fire-in-Afghanistan.html>--A
military policeman killed on patrol in Afghanistan is feared to have
been the victim of friendly fire*. 21 Dec 2009 The fatal shot is thought to
have come from a member of his own patrol but sources were unable to say
whether he was caught in cross fire during a firefight or was shot as a
result of the accidental discharge of a weapon. A spokesman for the Ministry
of Defence confirmed that there was a "possibility that the latest death in
Afghanistan was caused as a result of friendly fire."

*Sabotage cuts Iraqi oil
pipeline<http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/200912201316687852\
9.html>
* [*What a shame!*] 20 Dec 2009 Oil exports from northern Iraq have stopped
following an attack on a pipeline that leads to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Assem Jihad, an Iraqi oil ministry spokesman, told journalists on Sunday
that a 55km section of the pipeline was damaged, causing a large oil
spillage, around 325km north of Baghdad. "Exports have stopped and
technicians from the Northern Oil Company have gone to the site to survey
the damage", Jihad said.

*Iraq: Bombs kill 5 in northern city,
Baghdad<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hwK_CSpBxsNuVUEaDuOwmS\
SCiqGwD9CNOFSO2>
* 21 Dec 2009 A suicide [Blackwater?] bomber attacked the convoy of a city
council chief in northern Iraq on Monday, killing the official and three
guards, police and health officials said. The slain official, Hussein
Akrash, was affiliated with the country's largest Sunni political party, the
Iraqi Islamic Party, and was a member of the Turkoman minority.

*Obama signs $636.3 billion defense-spending
bill<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010564144_defense22.html\
>
* 21 Dec 2009 President Obama signed into law legislation that provides
$636.3 billion for the U.S. military in fiscal 2010, including $128.3
billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the White House announced
today. About $65 billion of the war funding is for operations in
Afghanistan. The administration says it will need about $30 billion more to
finance the addition of 30,000 more troops there that begins this month. *That
request is likely to come with the fiscal 2011 budget to be submitted in
February*.

*Obama Says New Contracting Rules Saved $19
Billion<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aSY.MrzNnSuA>
* 21 Dec 2009 President Barack Obama said changes in federal contracting
rules he ordered have saved the government about $19 billion, almost
half-way to a target of $40 billion in savings by Oct. 1, 2010. Waste costs
the taxpayers more each year than the budgets of the Departments of
Education and Homeland Security combined, Obama said today at the White
House.

*'US policy toward Iran is
duplicitous'<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114333&sectionid=351020101>
* 22 Dec 2009 Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has criticized the
United States over its 'failed' strategy towards Iran. "It seems that the
Americans have an internal problem in regard to their strategy toward Iran.
They have failed to adopt a unified and wise strategy on this issue,"
Larijani said in Cairo, where he travelled to attend the three-day meeting
of the Parliamentary Union of Organization of the Islamic Conference member
states (PUOICM), which opened on Monday.

*Israeli military admits harvesting
organs<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114324&sectionid=351020202>
* 21 Dec 2009 The Israeli military has admitted harvesting organs from dead
Palestinians after an interview conducted over the issue in 2000 was
broadcast again. Over the weekend, Israel's Channel 2 TV broadcast an
interview conducted in 2000 with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir
forensic institute, Dr. Jehuda Hiss who revealed that forensic pathologists
harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinian corpses in the
1990s, the Associated Press reported.

*Former Israeli premier Olmert pleads not
guilty<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8866736>
* 21 Dec 2009 Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is pleading not
guilty to charges of illegally accepting funds from an American supporter
and double-billing Jewish groups for trips abroad. Olmert spokesman Amir Dan
says Olmert and his office chief, Shula Zaken, denied all charges at the
Jerusalem district court Monday.

*'You were tied to a chair and they would tip you over on your back, put a
towel over your face and pour water over you.'* *British Army 'waterboarded'
suspects in
70s<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/21/british-army-northern-ireland-inter\
rogations>--Evidence
casts doubt on guilt of man sentenced to hang for killing soldier
* 21 Dec 2009 Evidence that the British army subjected prisoners in Northern
Ireland to waterboarding during interrogations in the 1970s is emerging
after one of the alleged victims launched an appeal against his conviction
for murder. ...The jury did not believe Liam Holden's insistence that he
made the confession only because he had been held down by members of the
Parachute Regiment, whom he says placed a towel over his face before pouring
water from a bucket over his nose and mouth, giving him the impression that
he was drowning. But now the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has
referred Holden's case to the court of appeal in Belfast after unearthing
new evidence, and because of doubts about "the admissibility and
reliability" of his confession.

*UK drops terrorism charges against
Libyan<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114311&sectionid=351020601>
* 21 Dec 2009 A Libyan national who has been under restriction for the past
six years in the United Kingdom on terrorism charges has won his long court
battle against the UK Home Office and Security Services. Faraj Hassan told
Press TV over phone on Monday that his solicitors tried hard and finally
succeed in convincing a High Court judge that he is not a terrorist threat
to the United Kingdom.

*David Headley Said to Have Helped Terrorists Target Nuclear
Plant<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/headley-target-nuclear-plant/story?id=937592\
9>--Authorities
Say Chicago Man Cased, Photographed Facility at Tombroy,
India, that Produces Plutonium for Nuke Weapons* 21 Dec 2009 The Chicago man
charged with helping plot the terror attacks one year ago in Mumbai also
photographed and conducted surveillance of a nuclear weapons fuel plant
[Bhabha Atomic Research Center] in Tromboy, India, according to Indian and
U.S. law enforcement authorities. The authorities say David Headley was sent
to Tromboy, a northwest suburb of Mumbai, by his [CIA] handlers in the
terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, an affiliate of al Qaeda. [See: *Did America
keep mum on
26/11?<http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/virsanghvi/Did-America-keep-mum-o\
n-26-11/Article1-488533.aspx>
* By Vir Sanghvi 20 Dec 2009 ...These papers showed that Headley had been
convicted and sent to jail. *But after 9/11, he had been set free and sent
to Pakistan to work as an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA)*. According to US journalists, Headley had been given a
new passport in the American name of David Headley (his American mother’s
maiden name is Headley) rather than his original name of Daood Gilani.]

*White House picks new cyber
coordinator<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hrxR3E2RTeyt6l_2mR\
eexvJrSxxwD9CO1UQ80>
* 21 Dec 2009 President Barack Obama has chosen a national cyber security
coordinator to take on the formidable task of organizing and managing the
nation's increasingly vulnerable digital networks. A senior White House
official says Obama has tapped Howard A. Schmidt, a longtime computer
security executive with extensive ties to the corporate world, to take the
job.

*Tarmac Delays Get Three Hour Limit in DOT Airline
Crackdown<http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTraveler/dot-imposes-limits-airpo\
rt-delays/story?id=9390492>--New
Rule Requires Airlines to Deplane Passengers, Provide Food and Water
* 21 Dec 2009 The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced it's
getting tough with airlines that keep passengers stuck in planes on airport
tarmacs for more than three hours, issuing a "hard time limit" after which
carriers must let the passengers off the plane or face fines. The rules also
require airlines to provide food and water to passengers within two hours of
a delay, keep the lavatories functional and provide medical attention to
passengers who may need it.

*President And First Lady Get H1N1
Shots<http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/21/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry60\
07720.shtml>
* 21 Dec 2009 Declaring that the H1N1 vaccine is safe [!?!], President Obama
says he and the First Lady got their swine flu shots on Sunday. If it wasn't
safe, he said he would not have allowed daughters Sasha and Malia, "the two
people that are most important in my life," to get the vaccinations for H1N1
several months ago.

*Walgreen 1Q profit rises 20 percent on drug
sales<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iALIvMyeKvmu00D7fzZjTTK8\
TsWwD9CNVB600>
* 21 Dec 2009 Concerned Brainwashed customers got more than 5 million flu
shots at Walgreen Co. stores in the fall, helping the company boost its
quarterly profit by 20 percent. The company administered 5.4 million
seasonal flu shots between Sept. 1 and Nov. 30, compared with 1.2 million in
last year's entire flu season, from October to February.

*How health lobbyists influenced reform
bill<http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/chi-health-lobbyists_bddec20,0,4862599\
.story>
* 20 Dec 2009 An analysis of public documents by Northwestern University's
Medill News Service in partnership with the Tribune Newspapers Washington
Bureau and the Center for Responsive Politics found a revolving door between
Capitol Hill staffers and lobbying jobs for companies with a stake in health
care legislation. At least 166 former aides from the nine congressional
leadership offices and five committees involved in shaping health overhaul
legislation -- along with at least 13 former lawmakers -- registered to
represent at least 338 health care clients since the beginning of last year,
according to the analysis. Their health care clients spent *$635 million* on
lobbying over the past two years, the study shows.

*Seeing Public Subsidy (Not Public Option) Investors Flock to Health
Insurers<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/21/seeing-public-subsidy-not_n_39\
9733.html>
* By Shahien Nasiripour 21 Dec 2009 Investors are seeing the Senate's
version of health care reform as a massive public subsidy for insurance
companies -- and as a result, are sending the sector's stock prices shooting
up, up, up. Stripped of a government-run insurance plan, the bill would give
tens of millions of Americans no option but to start paying hefty premiums
to private companies. The rise in stock prices has been particularly
striking in the period since Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn. Israel) said on
October 27 that he would filibuster a Senate health care reform bill if it
included a public option - a threat that caused Senate leaders to cave
without much of a fight.

*'Health' Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60
Votes<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/us/21vote.html>
* 21 Dec 2009 Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night
procedural vote that proved they had locked in the decisive margin needed to
pass a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health care
systemcorporaterrorist giveaway. The roll was called shortly after 1
a.m., with
Washington still snowbound after a weekend blizzard, and the Senate voted on
party lines to cut off a Republican filibuster of a package of changes to
the 'health care' bill by the majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada. The
vote was 60 to 40 -- a tally that is expected to be repeated four times as
further procedural hurdles are cleared in the days ahead, and then once more
in a dramatic, if predictable, finale tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. on
Christmas Eve.

*Sen. Coburn: 'People Ought to Pray' That a Senator 'Can't Make the Vote
Tonight' <http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/20/coburn-people-pray/>* By Faiz
Shakir 20 Dec 2009 The Senate is expected to vote very late tonight/early
Monday morning "on the first of three motions to close off debate" on the
health care bill and proceed to an expected Christmas Eve vote on final
passage. Speaking against the health care bill on the Senate floor just
moments ago, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) expressed his hope that a Senator of the
majority caucus would not be able to make the vote:* "What the American
people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight. That’s
what they ought to pray."* [*Aren't people already busy praying for a polar
bear to swallow Sarah Palin whole?*]

*Former speaker gets pricey
perks<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30846.html>
* 21 Dec 2009 U.S. taxpayers are spending more than $40,000 per month on
office space, staff, cell phones and a leased SUV for former House Speaker
Dennis Hastert (R), even as he works as a lobbyist for private corporations
and foreign governments... In addition to the office, the government pays
the salaries of three of Hastert’s assistants in his Illinois office -- each
more than $100,000 in 2008.

*Ford Offers Buyouts to All Factory
Workers<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/21/business/main6006691.shtml>--A\
utomaker
Also Offering Hourly Workers Early Retirement Packages in Effort
to Slash Factory Work Force* 21 Dec 2009 Ford Motor Co. says it is offering
buyout and early retirement incentives to all of its 41,000 U.S. hourly
workers to further reduce its factory work force. Company spokesman Mark
Truby said Ford still has too many factory workers for its current sales
levels.

*UK's only polar bear enjoys
snowfall<http://news.stv.tv/scotland/highlands-islands/145847-uks-only-polar-bea\
r-enjoys-snowfall/>--Mercedes
the polar bear played happily in the snow at her new enclosure at
the Highland Wildlife Park near Kingussie*. 21 Dec 2009 The UK’s only polar
bear has received a reminder of her former Arctic surroundings when heavy
snow fall turned her Highland home into a winter wonderland. Whilst heavy
snowfall caused traffic chaos across the north of Scotland on Sunday,
27-year-old Mercedes was enjoying her first sight of the white stuff since
her move north. Staff watched said she appeared to be delighted to frolic in
the deep snow, constantly burying her head and rolling about.

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Previous lead stories: *Mumbai-style false flag on tap for London - and boy
are they (the govt) blatant about it! **Police expect Mumbai-style terror
attack on City of
London<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6962867.ece>
* 20 Dec 2009 Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a
Mumbai-style attack on the capital. In a briefing in the City of London 12
days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police
counter-terrorism command, said: *"Mumbai is coming to London."* The
detective said *companies should anticipate** [!] a shooting and
hostage-taking raid "involving a small number of gunmen with handguns and
improvised explosive devices"*. The warning -- the bluntest issued by police
-- has underlined an assessment that a terrorist cell may be preparing an
attack on London early next year.

*'The only explanation that fits is this: he was an American agent all
along.' Did America keep mum on
26/11?<http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/virsanghvi/Did-America-keep-mum-o\
n-26-11/Article1-488533.aspx>
* By Vir Sanghvi 20 Dec 2009 Did the Americans have detailed advance
information about the 26/11 plot which they did not share with India, only
passing on a watered-down warning? And was there an American spy within the
Lashkar-e-Tayyeba who kept Washington (or Langley) informed of terror acts
planned against India -- even if this information was never handed over to
us? It is certainly beginning to look that way... The terror suspect, we
were told, was a US citizen of Pakistani origin. He had some links with the
LeT. He had visited India. He may have been part of an advance team for
26/11... These papers showed that Headley had been convicted and sent to
jail. *But after 9/11, he had been set free and sent to Pakistan to work as
an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)*.
According to US journalists, Headley had been given a new passport in the
American name of David Headley (his American mother’s maiden name is
Headley) rather than his original name of Daood Gilani. *He flew around the
world, entering and leaving the US at will, avoiding the sort of attention
that a convicted drug criminal was certain to attract at US airports*.
Further, suggested US journos, the DEA assignment may have been a cover...
Why would the US treat a 26/11 suspect with such consideration? The only
explanation that fits is this: he was an American agent all along. The US
arrested him only when it seemed that Indian investigators were on his
trail. He will be sentenced to jail, will vanish into the US jail system for
a while and will then be sprung again -- as he was the last time.

*Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen
Terrorists<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cruise-missiles-strike-yemen/story?id=9\
375236>--Cruise
Missiles Launched Thursday Hit Two Suspected al Qaeda Sites; Major
Escalation of US Efforts Against 'Terrorists'* 19 Dec 2009 On orders from
President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early
Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] sites in Yemen,
administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World
News. One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north
of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials
said "an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned."

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make the public curious about what is really happening in the world so
that they can recognize and associate the present with past events.
Internet news lists like our REAL NEWS and the millions of Internet web
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     It is my opinion that  fuel prices caused this recession
by making transportation and energy costs too high to support the
economy, resulting in business failures, job layoffs, and the nosedive of
money to pay shaky mortgages.  It is also my opinion that this was
planned by the "Global Elite", who are planning to soon collapse the
American economy to become part of a One-World Government by bribing
Congress to bankrupt the country as President   leads us from being a nation of
self-responsible proud citizens to being a nation of
unhappy slaves depending on meager hand-outs from the government.

     The  President  has had great successes in past
community welfare organizing, but so far seems to have had little success
in running the country as he tries to ignore our Constitution as he tries
to remake our cultural values with the hordes of Marxists and community
organizing radicals and  tax-dodging crooks flooding his
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From thenewsman@....

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My newsletters are my honest opinion about controversial subjects to
make the public curious about what is really happening in the world so
that they can recognize and associate the present with past events.
Internet news lists like our REAL NEWS and the millions of Internet web
sites are a great source of uncensored news.

     It is my opinion that exhorbitant fuel prices caused this recession
by making transportation and energy costs too high to support the
economy, resulting in business failures, job layoffs, and the nosedive of
money to pay shaky mortgages.  It is also my opinion that this was
planned by the "Global Elite", who are planning to soon collapse the
American economy to become part of a One-World Government by bribing
Congress to bankrupt the country as President Barack Obama leads us from being a
nation of self-responsible proud citizens to being a nation of
unhappy slaves depending on meager hand-outs from the government.

     The likeable President Obama has had great successes in past
community welfare organizing, but so far seems to have had little success
in running the country as he tries to ignore our Constitution as he tries
to remake our cultural values with the hordes of Marxists and community
organizing radicals and proven tax-dodging crooks flooding his
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From thenewsman@....

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My newsletters are my honest opinion about controversial subjects to
make the public curious about what is really happening in the world so
that they can recognize and associate the present with past events.
Internet news lists like our REAL NEWS and the millions of Internet web
sites are a great source of uncensored news.

     It is my opinion that exhorbitant fuel prices caused this recession
by making transportation and energy costs too high to support the
economy, resulting in business failures, job layoffs, and the nosedive of
money to pay shaky mortgages.  It is also my opinion that this was
planned by the "Global Elite", who are planning to soon collapse the
American economy to become part of a One-World Government by bribing
Congress to bankrupt the country as President Barack Obama leads us from being a
nation of self-responsible proud citizens to being a nation of
unhappy slaves depending on meager hand-outs from the government.

     The likeable President Obama has had great successes in past
community welfare organizing, but so far seems to have had little success
in running the country as he tries to ignore our Constitution as he tries
to remake our cultural values with the hordes of Marxists and community
organizing radicals and proven tax-dodging crooks flooding his
administration.
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THE TIME HAS COME
By Mark Alexander, Publisher, .US


     In my opinion (and it is ONLY my opinion), this is the most important
issue any of us will face in the rest of our lives.  As a nation, we are
very close to suffering a sudden transition to an irreversible oligarchy
of the elite, and in the process, losing our American sovereignty
forever.

     Will we be able to stave off liberalism/socialism/communism in the
next few months?  Will there be enough of us willing to make a stand and
be counted when the chips are down and the crunch comes?  Will we have
what it takes to remain free citizens if it appears it might require a
risk of major sacrifice? Or will we impotently watch our country slide
whimpering into the slavery -pit of world governance under the
mandates and auspices of the U.N.?

     I think, at this stage, it's a toss-up as to what will happen.  These
questions might even be too late by now, depending on how much American
self-determination  has signed away at Copenhagen this week.

     Totalitarianism, either fascist or communist, has never actually
championed the "great unwashed" anywhere it has ever come to power.  It
ALWAYS exploits them - every time - and it ALWAYS exclusively benefits
the oligarchy - those elite who are in power.  Only free, unfettered
capitalism has ever been fair and advantageous to the poor and the middle
class, giving them the opportunity - but NO guarantee - of success by
dint of hard work and ingenuity.

     The promise of the POSSIBILITY of success, embodied in- and protected
by the capitalist system, is what made the United States the greatest and
most successful country that has ever existed on the face of the planet.
Our decline can be measured from the date when capitalism began to be
restricted and controlled in the name of socialist, multicultural "fairness".

     We must all do everything we can to defeat the forces of
liberalism/socialism/communism that are now working hard to change our
country from a (mostly) free republic to a slave-nation within the North
American Union elitist "democracy."  It will be up to us to reverse the
damage done to our Constitutional way of life by finally chaining this
evil, utopian, un-American socialist threat and returning it to its cage,
allowing greed-driven capitalism to work its magic once again . . .

     The 2008 presidential election was much more than a referendum on the
two candidates; it was a referendum on the ability of a majority of
Americans voters to discern between one candidate who possessed the
character and integrity of a statesman, and one who did not.

     A year ago, a majority of our countrymen were hoodwinked into
electing a charlatan with dubious credentials to the highest
constitutional office in the land. Since then, millions of Americans who
had become complacent about the Leftist threat to our liberty have begun
to realize that our Constitution is now suffering an unprecedented
assault.

     The awakening that has occurred since November of '08 is like nothing
I have witnessed since the first election of President Ronald Reagan in
1980. After the economic and foreign policy disasters created by the
Carter administration, Americans were stirred to action. Yes, the
election of Bill Clinton in 1992 resulted in a conservative takeover of
the House two years later, but Clinton was far more moderate than ,
and his election didn't inspire millions of Americans to arm themselves
for the first time.

     That 's election inspired a wave of conservative activism is
good news. (Look at the Tea Parties).  The great news is that since last
November, millions of Americans have joined our ranks.  And the momentum
continues unabated.

     I knew we were turning a corner a few months back, when an
establishment Republican, typical of most such Republicans, told me that
Obama's health care proposal "amounts to socialism". This same fellow
told me a year earlier that calling Obama a Socialist was just too
severe. When I reminded him of his earlier admonishment, he said simply,
"My eyes are now open."

     If   has given us one thing of value, it is the
opportunity to clearly discern between Left and Right, between rule of
men and Rule of Law. He is the quintessential socialist, and his domestic
and foreign policies present a contrast between tyranny and liberty that
has rarely been so apparent. Many who have been hitherto reluctant to
rise on behalf of liberty or have been too comfortable to be concerned by
such conflict, are now making an ever-louder stand.


      is the personification of Leftist philosophy and dogma, and in
a turn of irony, for the clarity he has provided to that end we owe him a
debt of gratitude.

     Despite the fact that the Leftists in media and academia have had a
stranglehold on public opinion, seating one of their own as president,
which they believe is a great prize, may well be their undoing.

     The once noble Democrat Party is now led by those who have turned the
wisdom of their iconic leaders upside down.

     Then: "My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for
you -- ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961


     Now: "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country
can do for you."


     Today, Democrat Party Leftists deride the notion of individual rights.
Instead, they advocate the supplanting of individual liberty with .

     They promote the notion of a living constitution rather than the
authentic Constitution our Founders established.

     They despise free enterprise and advocate socialist redistribution of
wealth, the ultimate goal of which is to render all people equally poor
and dependent upon the state.

     They loathe our military and our national sovereignty, and they
propose to replace it with treaties that establish supranational
governmental legal and policing authorities.

     They detest traditional American values, and they support all manner
of behavior resulting in social entropy.

     Being debated right now is whether an additional 17 percent of the
U.S. economy is going to be nationalized under , and whether the rest of the
economy is going to be shackled by cap-and-trade taxes in
addition to a plethora of other job-eliminating taxes on private sector
employers.

     Would it surprise you to know that, while Democrat impositions on
lending practices are largely responsible for the fact that millions of
Americans are now out of work, the number of government "workers" making over
$100,000 per year has increased 30 percent since the beginning of the current
recession? There are more than 10,000 bureaucrats earning more than $150,000
annually, and the average federal salary is $71,206, not including generous
government benefits, while the average private sector salary is $40,331.

      and his Democrat Congress have endowed future generations,
unless soon reversed, not with liberty but with historically unprecedented
levels of debt, which will enslave them to hyperinflation.

     History provides us with repeated evidence that the terminus of
nations that are governed by men rather than laws is tyranny. In the last
century alone, hundreds of millions have been enslaved under
dictators such as Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Hitler, Mao, , Pol Pot, Ho
Chi,  , Castro, Hussein, Mugabe, Kim -Il, Chavez,   and others. Who might be
next? Surely not us?

      has clearly delineated the difference between individual rights
and , between free enterprise and socialism.

     I believe that a  of us are fully capable of
understanding the truth, if given the right information and opportunity.

     Of course,   and his liberal lawmaking brethren have done
us great harm this past year, and it may take several election cycles, or
a revolution, to turn that around. But, the fields are being plowed and
seeds sown.  Patriots, the time has come to choose.

     If Republicans want to regain majority status, the  must purge
those who have forsaken the first principles of conservatism for power.
In their stead they must lift up those who are devoted to the Rule of Law
and Essential Liberty, those who incorporate Reagan's charge, and that of
generations of Patriots before him. They must back real conservatives
instead of arrogant pretenders (see  v. Specter). Short of bold new
leadership, what remains of the Republican Party will end up on the trash
heap of political irrelevance.

     Patriots take heart: Do not wither during these difficult times. For as
George Washington advised, "We should never despair, our Situation
before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust,
it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new
Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times."


     Indeed, the next several years will be a vital test for Patriots and our
countrymen. Let us choose to persevere, to make our cause that of all
men, to make no peace with oppression.

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who probably should be Queen right now.. but instead, she was taken from her
parents, given to an American family and told nothing of who she really is.
Why was this done? How many other true royals are still in hiding, not
knowing who they really are?
It's going to be fascinating radio tomorrow!!
http://www.greghallett.com/
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
The authors' wake up each morning quite surprised they are still breathing.
The Spymaster has worked in a background of undeclared hostilities over many
years. He has gone undercover amongst Nazis, Communists, Marxists and some
of the most vicious gangs of criminals in New Zealand. Several times other
people have been killed in his place in cases of mistaken identity. The
Spymaster has been arrested more times than he can remember and by more
outfits than he can remember. He has been on both sides of enforcement
operations. He has an in-depth knowledge of offenders in New Zealand and is
often sought out by people in high places. Former Prime Minister Rob Muldoon
once said of him: "If St Peter ever made a mistake and let you into heaven,
there'd be a fistfight in the first five minutes".
Greg Hallett trained in various psychological models in parallel with his
architecture degree and training. He travelled widely behind the Iron
Curtain during the Cold War, hitchhiking on planes, making bunks out of
airmail bags, to party and report between cities. His contacts in Eastern
Europe led to deep penetration of the Soviet State, how it functioned and
how it was to colonise the West. It was these qualifications that led him to
buy buildings in Moscow immediately after the Berlin Wall fell. This led to
interviews with the KGB and their revelations about the planned
sex-communism and deconstruction of Westerners. What they had planned for
the West happened in the West. Equally all modern history can be dated back
to 1945. What Hitler planned for the world happened to the world over the
next sixty years.
When Hallett teamed up with the Spymaster they found they had many of the
insights and historical answers to many of the controversies of Europe from
WWII to the Cold War and the present . . . not completely disregarding
aspects of the future.
In listening to each other's stories they noticed a lot of common ground and
have attempted to lay this bare.
"Take of it what you will. We don't expect you to reject sixty years of
official history overnight, but we do expect you to view it with new-found
suspicion."
"Any serious attempt at the truth creates controversy and we expect Hitler
Was A British Agent
to be considered as the most expedient option of creating war."
The Spymaster says that he will often go on operations and end up in
entirely the wrong place with the wrong people at the wrong time, but always
much wiser. Through such coincidences, history is often more explicable to
the ordinary man than a lot of complicated analysis. We found
"filling-in-the-gaps analysis" to be a primary cause of ill-informed
history. As such, Hallett and the Spymaster have teamed up to give you
riveting insights into how the enemies of war are created and how enemies
work together to prolong and expand wars.
The authoritative and unique insider's look at Hitler outlines his missing
year, his British psychological training and financial support, his
British-linked minders, and the British sabotage of the Hitler assassination
attempts. It outlines in great detail, Operation WINNIE THE POOH, Hitler's
escape out of Berlin on 2 May 1945, who he flew with, what planes he caught,
their serial numbers, where he flew to, who greeted him, where he spent the
remainder of his life and what he eventually died of.
WWII has passed its 60-year suppression rule.
Despite this, information coming out about WWII is still controlled as it
reflects on how the current wars are carried out.
File theft is such common practise it is a forerunner to any elevation.
Two Intelligence agencies have regularly stolen Hitler was a British Agent
and "it has been read at the highest levels" during the final phases of
writing. As quickly as it was written it was stolen, and in August 2005 word
got back that they would let it out. This came with further inside
information and at least one historical act.
STOMPING ON OLD CHESTNUTS
This is a whole new and unique look at all the old chestnuts surrounding
Adolf Hitler's rise to power. The author uses the personal assistance of a
Spymaster in marshalling much new material surrounding Hitler's origins, his
sexuality, and his British Training, long hidden by a conspiracy of British
and American political leaders. He takes an in depth look at the British
Royal Family and finds them wanting, full of spies, perverts, and morons,
with the morons being the least dangerous.
He delves into the James Bond myths and finds the true James Bond was a lot
younger and more homicidal than anyone had previously thought. He interview
James Bond III on one of the last 'hits' on Adolf Hitler, well after his
official death.
He also provides a new take on the mystery surrounding Rudolph Hess. An
amazing thought-provoking study from the already detail history of Hess.
State secrets abound on nearly every page.
Greg Hallett: "I interviewed the KGB in Moscow in December 1989 at a point
when they were open, due to lack of pay. At the time you could buy
information for the price of a meal. This led to some psychological
information being supplied which led to international contacts and meeting
with a Spymaster. The Spymaster and other intelligence operatives have been
briefing me for the past three years resulting in ten books. This is book
five of ten (and just to confuse you) there are four books in this immediate
series."
Hitler was a British Agent covers Hitler's incestuous parentage, his
training in Britain, his sex with men, his bizarre sexual habits with women,
including fake suicides and murders made to look like suicides. It delves
into Hitler's psychiatric condition and how, during his missing year, he was
manipulated by 'deconstruction' to perform as a British Agent, that is, an
agent for the British war machine.
The book covers Hess and doppelgänger Hess' simultaneous flight to Britain,
Anthony Blunt's conception by a royal, Wallis Simpson's sexual practises
with King Edward VIII and how she leaked British secrets to Hitler.
Hitler was a British Agent covers Operation JAMES BOND to remove Martin
Bormann out of Berlin and exposes for the first time Operation WINNIE THE
POOH to remove Hitler out of Berlin. It reveals that the origins of the Cold
War were in the hunt for the missing Hitler from 1 May 1945 and this became
the excuse for surveillance in virtually every country in the world. Hitler
was a British Agent leaves an air that everything that happens now, happens
because of 1945.
In the 18 chapters it covers the masterful deceptions of war, the creation
of war, the training of top level double agents, the repeated faking of
their deaths and their escapes, making this book something of an
illusion-buster with applications to the analysis of war now and formulas
for the time in between wars. The book explains how the 'real' history
applies to the 'real' present.
Many intelligence officers were interviewed in writing this book and they
have given the low-down on what really happened in the many wars from 1936.
In some cases, they, or their fathers, were the main players in the
vignettes. These personal histories date back to the Spanish Civil War with
George Orwell and redefine the origins of Animal Farm.
Hitler Was A British Agent is full of Intelligence jokes.
On 2 July 2008 Greg Hallett lodged a Notice of General Appeal citing Helen
Clark's attempted murders and murder.


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*Breaking: 'Health' Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60
Votes<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/us/21vote.html>
* 21 Dec 2009 Democrats held ranks early Monday in a dead-of-night
procedural vote that proved they had locked in the decisive margin needed to
pass a far-reaching overhaul of the nation’s health care
systemcorporaterrorist giveaway. The roll was called shortly after 1
a.m., with
Washington still snowbound after a weekend blizzard, and the Senate voted on
party lines to cut off a Republican filibuster of a package of changes to
the 'health care' bill by the majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada. The
vote was 60 to 40 -- a tally that is expected to be repeated four times as
further procedural hurdles are cleared in the days ahead, and then once more
in a dramatic, if predictable, finale tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. on
Christmas Eve.

*Sen. Coburn: 'People Ought to Pray' That a Senator 'Can't Make the Vote
Tonight' <http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/20/coburn-people-pray/>* By Faiz
Shakir 20 Dec 2009 The Senate is expected to vote very late tonight/early
Monday morning "on the first of three motions to close off debate" on the
health care bill and proceed to an expected Christmas Eve vote on final
passage. Speaking against the health care bill on the Senate floor just
moments ago, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) expressed his hope that a Senator of the
majority caucus would not be able to make the vote:* "What the American
people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight. That’s
what they ought to pray."*  [*Aren't people already busy praying for a polar
bear to swallow Sarah Palin whole?*]

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____________________________________
  From: RugerGPC



Sent: 12/20/2009  7:58:24 P.M. Central Standard Time
Subj: Ft Benning sign suggests  unregistered gun owenrs are terrorists


_Ft Benning sign suggests unregistered gun owenrs  are terrorists_
(http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=970677)


Well, Fort Benning must think George Washington ,  Thomas Jefferson, Ben
Franklin, etc. are all terrorists because they sure as  hell didn't register
their guns with the  government.




Well and people wonder why they would stage shootings on campuses  and now
on a military base - people will foolishly clamor for gun control

There is a large minority who would surrender all rights for so called
'safety'

Nazi's, Soviets, North Korea, Khmer Rouge  - US Calvary  -  (versus Native
Americans )

Note -  it has happened in the USA before - -  it can happen  again
     *   20 years after "Thanksgiving " the Puritan settlers at Plymouth
disarmed the local Massachue indians before they massacred them and beheaded
their leader known as King Philip, the educated English speaking son  of the
leader who first welcomed the poor new settlers - they left  his  head on a
pike for 15 years in the town square .. so much for thanks for
"Thanksgiving " ;
     *       *   and the Cherokee and the other Five Civilized Tribes as
they were called,  were all disarmed before the infamous but often US forgotten
"trail of  tears"..which murdered thousands of defenseless women and
children and
     *   all the Japanese interned were disarmed before being put into
camps and while losing their homes and property
     *       *   and it was in New Orleans after Katrina and in Kansas after
the F4 tornado  that the so called authorities used gun registration lists
to go house to  house and seize legal weapons from US citizens ....in the
name of  'safety'
     *       *   and it was often illegal across the south and lower Midwest
for blacks to  own guns even after the civil war

it is key and paramount that you disarm the  people to control the people

keep them un/under-educated and dependent and in fear


Peace,  Hugs, and Purrs,
Carolyn Rose Goyda
Missouri, USA
_rosegojda@..._ (mailto:rosegojda@...)





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*Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government*
20 Dec 2009
*http://www.legitgov.org* <http://www.legitgov.org/>
All links are here:
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*Mumbai-style false flag on tap for London - and boy are they (the govt)
blatant about it! **Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of
London <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6962867.ece>*20
Dec 2009 Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a
Mumbai-style attack on the capital. In a briefing in the City of London 12
days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police
counter-terrorism command, said: *"Mumbai is coming to London."* The
detective said *companies should anticipate** [!] a shooting and
hostage-taking raid "involving a small number of gunmen with handguns and
improvised explosive devices"*. The warning -- the bluntest issued by police
-- has underlined an assessment that a terrorist cell may be preparing an
attack on London early next year.

*'The only explanation that fits is this: he was an American agent all
along.' Did America keep mum on
26/11?<http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/virsanghvi/Did-America-keep-mum-o\
n-26-11/Article1-488533.aspx>
* By Vir Sanghvi 20 Dec 2009 Did the Americans have detailed advance
information about the 26/11 plot which they did not share with India, only
passing on a watered-down warning? And was there an American spy within the
Lashkar-e-Tayyeba who kept Washington (or Langley) informed of terror acts
planned against India -- even if this information was never handed over to
us? It is certainly beginning to look that way... The terror suspect, we
were told, was a US citizen of Pakistani origin. He had some links with the
LeT. He had visited India. He may have been part of an advance team for
26/11... These papers showed that Headley had been convicted and sent to
jail. *But after 9/11, he had been set free and sent to Pakistan to work as
an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)*.
According to US journalists, Headley had been given a new passport in the
American name of David Headley (his American mother’s maiden name is
Headley) rather than his original name of Daood Gilani. *He flew around the
world, entering and leaving the US at will, avoiding the sort of attention
that a convicted drug criminal was certain to attract at US airports*.
Further, suggested US journos, the DEA assignment may have been a cover...
Why would the US treat a 26/11 suspect with such consideration? The only
explanation that fits is this: he was an American agent all along. The US
arrested him only when it seemed that Indian investigators were on his
trail. *He will be sentenced to jail, will vanish into the US jail system
for a while and will then be sprung again -- as he was the last time*.

*Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen
Terrorists<http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cruise-missiles-strike-yemen/story?id=9\
375236>--Cruise
Missiles Launched Thursday Hit Two Suspected al Qaeda Sites; Major
Escalation of US Efforts Against 'Terrorists'* 19 Dec 2009 *On orders from
President Barack Obama*, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early
Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh] sites in Yemen,
administration officials told ABC News in a report broadcast on ABC World
News. One of the targeted sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north
of the capitol, Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials
said "an imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned."

*Saudi air raids kill 54 civilians in northern
Yemen<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114220&sectionid=351020206>
* 20 Dec 2009 Saudi warplanes have carried out fresh airstrikes on northern
Yemeni villages, killing more than 50 civilians, Houthi sources say. The
Shia fighters said on Sunday that Saudi jets fired more than one-thousand
missiles at the region along its border with Yemen, Arabic language *
Al-Menpar* news website reported.

*Saudi warplanes rain '1,011 missiles' on
Yemen<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114162&sectionid=351020206>
* 19 Dec 2009 Houthi fighters say Saudi warplanes have fired some 1,011
missiles on the borderline with Yemen where the Shia population is already
under heavy state-led and US-aided bombardment. The fighters also said on
Saturday that the warplanes had carried out nearly 60 air assaults on the
residential areas in the northern Al-Jabiri, Al-Dukhan and Al-Malaheet
districts.

*Pakistan in crisis as 'creeping coup'
unfolds<http://www.theage.com.au/world/pakistan-in-crisis-as-creeping-coup-unfol\
ds-20091219-l6lf.html>
* 20 Dec 2009 The political crisis in Pakistan has deepened after the
Government's anti-corruption agency sought a warrant for the arrest of the
country's Interior Minister. Officials from the National Accountability
Bureau asked for permission to arrest Rehman Malik, the minister in charge
of law and order and the war on terrorism. The scale of the crisis and the
speed with which it has unfolded has prompted supporters of Mr Zardari to
question the role of the judiciary and speculate on *whether the army is
behind the legal challenge to the Government*. Some even spoke of a
''creeping coup'' unfolding. [*I am thinking *Blackwater.**]

*U.S. prosecution links drugs to
terrorism<http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-al-qaeda-cocaine19-\
2009dec19,0,1837370.story>--The
case -- the first of its kind -- portrays northwest Africa as a new
danger [oil] zone. Three men are accused of being Al Qaeda associates and
conspiring to smuggle cocaine*. 19 Dec 2009 Three men alleged to be Al Qaeda
[al-CIAduh] associates were charged Friday with conspiring to smuggle
cocaine through Africa -- the first U.S. prosecution linking the terrorist
group directly to drug trafficking. The three suspects, who were charged in
federal court in New York, are believed to be from Mali and were arrested in
Ghana during a Drug Enforcement Administration sting. Although U.S.
authorities have alleged that Al Qaeda and the Taliban profit from
Afghanistan's heroin trade, the case is the first in which suspects linked
to Al Qaeda have been charged under severe narco-terrorism laws, federal
officials said. [*That's not who profits from Afghanistan's heroin trade*.
See: *Trail of Afghanistan's drug money
exposed<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KL16Df01.html>
* By Julien Mercille 16 Dec 2009 The total revenue generated by opiates
within Afghanistan is about $3.4 billion per year. Of this figure, according
to UNODC, the Taliban get only 4% of the sum... The remaining 75% is
captured by government officials, the police, local and regional power
brokers and traffickers - *in short, many of the groups now supported (or
tolerated) by the United States and NATO are important actors in the drug
trade*.]

*Two-thirds of Afghan war veterans are suffering from hearing
damage<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/dec/20/afghan-veterans-hearing-damage>-\
-The
intense noise of the battlefield is afflicting British troops
* 20 Dec 2009 More than two-thirds of British troops returning from
Afghanistan are suffering severe and permanent hearing damage, according to
the most comprehensive study into one of the less well-known side-effects of
the conflict in Helmand. Internal defence documents reveal that of 1,250
Royal Marine commandos who served in Afghanistan, 69% suffered hearing
damage due to the intense noise of combat.

*British Army to get new uniforms -- turned down by the US and made in
China<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/6844734/British-\
Army-to-get-new-uniforms---turned-down-by-the-US-and-made-in-China.html>
* 20 Dec 2009 The British Army is introducing a new camouflage design for
all its soldiers after tests showed that it made them less likely to be seen
by the enemy. Called "multi terrain pattern", or MTP, the camouflage will
first be used in Afghanistan, from March next year. The Ministry of Defence
(MoD) has paid the US company an undisclosed sum for use of the new design
and has secured intellectual property rights over the MTP camouflage to
prevent others from using it without permission. The kit is to be produced
by a Northern Irish company, but will be made in China. [*Works for me.
China did such a nice job with the drywall, milk and pet food. --LRP*]

*MoD names UK soldier killed in
Afghanistan<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8423472.stm>
* 20 Dec 2009 A British soldier who died in an explosion in Afghanistan has
been named by the Ministry of Defence. Cpl Simon Hornby, 29, from 2nd
Battalion, the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, died on Saturday. He was
wounded while on foot patrol in the Nad-e-Ali area of Helmand, and died
later that day.

*Oil well is on our side of border, Iran
says<http://www.tehrantimes.com/Index_view.asp?code=210355>
* 21 Dec 2009 Iran's armed forces have rejected claims that they have taken
control of an oil well within Iraqi borders, stressing that the well in
question is on Iranian soil. "Based on internationally recognized borders,
the disputed oil well belongs to Iran as it is on Iranian soil," a spokesman
for Iran's Armed Forces Headquarters told Press TV on Sunday morning.

*Hugo Chavez orders military to shoot at US
aircraft<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/685383\
6/Hugo-Chavez-orders-military-to-shoot-at-US-aircraft.html>--President
Hugo Chavez has accused the US of violating Venezuela's airspace
with an unmanned spy plane, and ordered his military to shoot down any such
aircraft in the future*. 20 Dec 2009 Speaking during his weekly television
and radio program, Mr Chavez said the aircraft overflew a Venezuelan
military base in the western state of Zulia after taking off from
neighbouring Colombia. He did not elaborate, but suggested the plane was
being used for espionage. "These are the Yankees. They are entering
Venezuela," he said. "I've ordered them to be shot down," Mr Chavez said of
the aircraft. *"We cannot permit this."* He has accused Colombia of allowing
the United States to use its military bases to prepare a possible attack
against Venezuela. [See: *CIA 'plot to kill Hugo
Chavez'<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/5437251\
/CIA-plot-to-kill-Hugo-Chavez.html>--Hugo
Chavez has claimed that he avoided a US plot to kill him
*. 03 Jun 2009 The Venezuelan president said on state television that he had
eluded an assassination attempt in El Salvador where he was due to attend
the swearing in of its new leader, a Left-wing ally.]

*Worse than the bank bailouts: Obama approves security aid to Israel,
PA<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3821976,00.html>-- $100
million for the training of Palestinian security forces by American
general Keith Dayton*. 19 Dec 2009 US President Barack Obama this week
signed the 2010 foreign aid budget law which includes $2.775 billion in
security aid to Israel. This is the second year the budget is transferred to
the Jewish state as part of understandings that the American assistance to
Israel in the coming decade will total $30 billion. The approved budget
comprises, for the first time, $500 million in aid to the Palestinian
Authority, including $100 million for the training of Palestinian security
forces by American general Keith Dayton. [See: *CIA working with Palestinian
security
agents<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/cia-palestinian-security-agen\
ts>--US
agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly
torture
Hamas supporters in West Bank* 17 Dec 2009.]

*CIA linked to Palestinian
'torture'*<http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009121894764749\
27.html>18
Dec 2009 Palestinian security agents who have allegedly tortured Hamas
supporters in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the UK's
*Guardian* newspaper has
reported<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/cia-palestinian-security-ag\
ents>.
The US Central Intelligence Agency has co-operated with the Preventive
Security Force (PSF) and General Intelligence Service (GI) in the
Palestinian territory, the report on Friday said. *"The [Central
Intelligence] Agency consider them as their property, those two Palestinian
services,"* a western official told the *Guardian*.

*Iran rejects reports of oil well seizure in
Iraq<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114137&sectionid=351020101>
* 19 Dec 2009 Iran rejects reports that its forces have taken over an oil
well within Iraqi borders, while a Baghdad official admits the site is in a
disputed border area. In a Saturday phone interview with Press TV, Iran's
Foreign Ministry spokesman described reports about the country taking over
an Iraqi oil well as an attempt to harm the close relations between Tehran
and Baghdad.

*Lockerbie bomber had secret
£1.8m<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lockerbie-bomber-had-secret\
-16318m-1845972.html>
* 20 Dec 2009 The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdelbasset Ali
al-Megrahi, had £1.8m in a Swiss bank account when he was found guilty in
2001 of the murder of the 270 people aboard Pan Am flight 103, it has been
claimed. A sum of this size in the bank account of a man employed as head of
security for an airline raises some big questions.

*12 prisoners leave Guantanamo for
home<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114241&sectionid=3510203>
* 20 Dec 2009 Twelve Guantanamo detainees have departed the ominous
detention facility for their homelands in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somaliland,
says the US Department of Justice. The Justice Department announced in a
statement on Sunday that six Yemenis, four Afghans and two Somali prisoners
have been transferred over the weekend to their home countries.

*Man on terrorism articles
charge<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8423114.stm>
* 20 Dec 2009 A 20-year-old man has been charged with possession of articles
for use in terrorism. The charge is connected to an attack in Londonderry's
Hollymount Park in the Waterside when windows of a house and a car were
smashed on Friday morning. Two other men, aged 42 and 18, have been charged
with several offences.

*States get 16-month reprieve from REAL
ID<http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20091220/NEWS01/912200304/States-get\
-16-month-reprieve-from-REAL-ID>
* 20 Dec 2009 Montana and 12 other states that are resisting the provisions
of the REAL ID law won a 16-month reprieve when the federal government
delayed implementation of the controversial measure. The decision by
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano means that Montana driver's
licenses will continue to be legitimate identification for purposes such as
traveling on commercial airliners.

*National Guard Called Because of
Storm<http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=72257>--Governor
calls National Guard to duty
* 19 Dec 2009 (WV) Gov. Joe Manchin (D) today ordered about 200 National
Guard members to state duty in response to heavy snowfall that closed major
highways and stranded travelers for hours during the storm. Guard wrecker
crews have been on duty since the early morning hours clearing primary
roadways of wrecked or abandoned vehicles.

*Drug giant General Electric uses libel law to gag
doctor<http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6962865.ece>
* 20 Dec 2009 General Electric, one of the world’s biggest corporations, is
using the London libel courts to gag a senior radiologist after he raised
the alarm over the potentially fatal risks of one of its drugs. The
multinational [GE Healthcare, a British subsidiary of General Electric] is
suing Henrik Thomsen, a Danish academic, after he described his experiences
of one of the company’s drugs as a medical "nightmare". He said some kidney
patients at his hospital contracted a potentially deadly condition after
being administered the drug Omniscan.

*Nelson Accused of Selling Vote on Health Bill for Nebraska
Pay-Off<http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/20/nelson-accused-selling-vote-h\
ealth-nebraska-pay/>--What
started as Sen. Ben Nelson's personal stand against covering abortion
with taxpayer money translated, somehow, into millions of dollars in federal
aid for his home state -- drawing criticism that his vote was bought*. 20
Dec 2009 The Nebraska DemocRAT, following weeks of negotiations with his
caucus, finally agreed to back the Senate's health care reform
billinsurance company giveaway this weekend after Democratic leaders
made a
series of concessions. Nelson's support gives Democrats the 60 votes they
need to overcome a filibuster, barring any last-minute defections. But
critics by Sunday were heavily questioning Nelson's motivations, given that
the abortion restrictions he sought and won did not satisfy several major
anti-abortion lawmakers and groups and that it took a major federal payoff
to his state to seal the deal. Critics were calling it the "cornhusker
kickback" and the "Nebraska windfall," lobbing accusations of political
deal-making at Nelson.

*Northeast digs out of monster
snowstorm*<http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2021533520091220>
* --Storm goes to sea after dumping 2 feet (70 cm) of snow* 20 Dec 2009 The
U.S. Northeast began digging out on Sunday from a massive snowstorm that
buried cities from Washington to Boston under as much as 2 feet of snow,
creating travel chaos and hampering Christmas shopping. Nearly 2 feet (70
cm) of snow piled up in the Baltimore-Washington area on Saturday in the
largest snowstorm to hit the region since February 2003, while New York City
saw totals of up to a foot (35 cm) before the monster storm churned into New
England.

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Previous lead stories: *CIA working with Palestinian security
agents<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/cia-palestinian-security-agen\
ts>--US
agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture
Hamas supporters in West Bank* 17 Dec 2009 Palestinian security agents who
have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist
organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA,
the Guardian has learned. ...Evidence is emerging the CIA is co-operating
with security agents whose continuing use of torture has been widely
documented by human rights groups. The relationship between the CIA and the
two Palestinian agencies involved - Preventive Security Organisation (PSO)
and General Intelligence Service (GI) - is said by some western diplomats
and other officials in the region to be so close that the American agency
appears to be supervising the Palestinians' work.

*Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond
2011<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/80821.html>
* 17 Dec 2009 U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry Thursday
further signaled that a strong American military presence will remain in
Afghanistan long after July 2011, when President Obama plans to end his
troop surge. Speaking at the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Relations before a
group of diplomats, non-governmental organizations and Afghan citizens,
Eikenberry drove home the Obama administration's sometimes contradictory
message lies.

*Islamic insurgents hack into CIA state-of-the-art Predator
drones<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6961254.ece>
* 18 Dec 2009 Predator drones used by the CIA against Islamic militants have
been hacked into by insurgents using nothing more sophisticated than a
$25.95 (£16) off-the-shelf software, it was revealed last night. Although
the insurgents were not able to control the $20 million aircraft, typically
armed with Hellfire missiles and flown over the battlefields of Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, they could watch live video feeds beamed back to
US control stations through their electronic "eyeballs". The hackers'
success raises the disturbing possibility of the *Predators being taken over
and used to attack US or British forces, or perhaps even domestic targets*.
[*...as the next false flag. US military officials knew about it for a
year five
years <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126109611986796377.html> --and did
*nothing* about it, of course.*]

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*Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government*
18 Dec 2009
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*CIA working with Palestinian security
agents<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/17/cia-palestinian-security-agen\
ts>--US
agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture
Hamas supporters in West Bank* 17 Dec 2009 Palestinian security agents who
have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist
organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA,
the Guardian has learned. ...Evidence is emerging the CIA is co-operating
with security agents whose continuing use of torture has been widely
documented by human rights groups. The relationship between the CIA and the
two Palestinian agencies involved - Preventive Security Organisation (PSO)
and General Intelligence Service (GI) - is said by some western diplomats
and other officials in the region to be so close that the American agency
appears to be supervising the Palestinians' work.

*Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond
2011<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/80821.html>
* 17 Dec 2009 U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry Thursday
further signaled that a strong American military presence will remain in
Afghanistan long after July 2011, when President Obama plans to end his
troop surge. Speaking at the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Relations before a
group of diplomats, non-governmental organizations and Afghan citizens,
Eikenberry drove home the Obama administration's sometimes contradictory
message lies.

*Up to 56000 more contractors likely for Afghanistan, congressional agency
says <http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html> --Number
of mercenaries would rise to anywhere from 130,000 to 160,000* 16 Dec 2009
The surge of 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan could be accompanied by a
surge of up to 56,000 contractors mercenaries, vastly expanding the presence
of personnel from the U.S. private sector in a war zone, according to a
study by the Congressional Research Service. CRS, which provides background
information to members of Congress on a bipartisan basis, said it expects an
additional 26,000 to 56,000 contractors to be sent to Afghanistan.

*Auditors challenge $1 billion in Afghanistan
costs<http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html>
* 17 Dec 2009 A Senate subcommittee says Pentagon auditors have challenged
nearly $1 billion in charges by military contractors in Afghanistan. That's
raising concerns on Capitol Hill about wasteful spending as the Obama
administration expands the U.S. 'mission' in Afghanistan. According to a
memo distributed to subcommittee members before the [Thursday] hearing, the
Defense Contract Audit Agency examined $5.9 billion in Afghanistan troop
support contracts. The agency determined that $950 million of the costs were
unreasonable or lacked enough documentation to support them.

*U.S. spends $23 billion on Afghan contracts so
far<http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html>
* 17 Dec 2009 The United States has spent over $23 billion on reconstruction
and development contracts in Afghanistan since 2002, and auditors say *about
$1 billion of this is waste*, a U.S. senator said on Thursday. The contract
spending is expected to rise with President Barack Obama's planned [insane]
surge of 30,000 U.S. forces into Afghanistan in the coming months, Senator
Claire McCaskill said at a subcommittee hearing.

*Officers Warned of Flaw in U.S. Drones in
2004*<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126109611986796377.html>18 Dec
2009 Senior U.S. military officers working for the Joint Chiefs of
Staff discussed the danger of Russia and China intercepting and doctoring
video from drone aircraft in 2004, but the Pentagon didn't begin securing
the signals until this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
The disclosure came after The Wall Street Journal reported 'insurgents' in
Iraq had intercepted video feeds from drones, downloading unencrypted
communications from the unmanned planes.

*Islamic insurgents hack into CIA state-of-the-art Predator
drones<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6961254.ece>
* 18 Dec 2009 Predator drones used by the CIA against Islamic militants have
been hacked into by insurgents using nothing more sophisticated than a
$25.95 (£16) off-the-shelf software, it was revealed last night. Although
the insurgents were not able to control the $20 million aircraft, typically
armed with Hellfire missiles and flown over the battlefields of Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan, they could watch live video feeds beamed back to
US control stations through their electronic "eyeballs". The hackers'
success raises the disturbing possibility of the *Predators being taken over
and used to attack US or British forces, or perhaps even domestic targets*.
[*...as the next false flag. US military officials knew about it for a
year five
years <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126109611986796377.html> --and did
*nothing* about it, of course.*]

*Officials Say Iraq Fighters Intercepted Drone
Video<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/world/middleeast/18drones.html>--Militar\
y
officials confirmed that they had become aware of the intercepts
last year* 18 Dec 2009 Insurgents in Iraq have occasionally intercepted
video images sent from American military drones to troops in the field,
causing the Defense Department to increase its use of encryption over the
last year, military and intelligence officials said Thursday. The Wall
Street Journal
reported<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html>Thursday
that Iraqi insurgents had used a $26 commercial software package
called Sky Grabber to capture some of the video feeds from unmanned aerial
vehicles.

*US Senate passes massive 'defense'
bill<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114059&sectionid=3510203>
* 18 Dec 2009 A hefty US military spending bill has cleared a key procedural
hurdle in the Senate to fund the US overseas war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The bill, which was approved 63-33 in the Senate in the early hours on
Friday, will allocate $128 billion to fund the current US war in Iraq and
Afghanistan, reported Bloomberg. However, it fell short of earmarking funds
for the additional 30,000 troops US President Barack Obama has ordered to be
sent to Afghanistan.

*Iraq, Iran play cat-and-mouse game over oil
well<http://www.canada.com/news/Iraq+Iran+play+mouse+game+over+well/2360384/stor\
y.html>
* 18 Dec 2009 Iraq on Friday demanded Iran immediately withdraw its forces
from an Iraqi oil well, which it accused the Islamic republic of seizing
after crossing the border with tanks. Despite an Iranian agency report
denying there had been any incursion, Iraq's deputy interior minister said
that 11 Iranian soldiers had dug in at the well in the Fauqa Field after
raising the Iranian flag there. An Iraqi border general said the Iranians
"positioned tanks . . . and dug trenches" around the field's Well No. 4,
while other officials said the incursion was the latest of several like it
this week.

*Pakistan Government Dismisses Rumors of Military
Coup<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a6x0mohEpLk4>
* 18 Dec 2009 Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s spokesman denied rumors
of a coup after the defense minister was barred from leaving the country.
"There is no coup," spokesman Farhatullah Babar was quoted as saying by
Reuters. He confirmed the remark to Bloomberg News and declined further
comment. Opposition lawmaker Siddiq-ul-Farooq said there "is no chance at
all of a coup."

*Pakistan court summons 52 suspects on graft
charges<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114091&sectionid=351020401>
* 19 Dec 2009 Amid growing political turmoil, Pakistan's anti-corruption
court in the southern city of Karachi has summoned 52 suspects, including
high-ranking officials, a report says. Prosecutors say, among the top
officials are Interior Minister Rehman Malik and presidential secretary
Salman Farooqi. The Supreme Court on Thursday had also banned Defense
Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar and other top officials from leaving the
country.

*High court blocks Pakistani officials from exiting
country<http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/18/pakistan.politics.corrup\
tion/>--Nearly
280 government officials, including defense minister, are put on
'exit control list' *18 Dec 2009 Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed
Mukhtar was blocked from leaving the country Thursday after Pakistan's
Supreme Court struck down an amnesty that had protected politicians from
corruption charges, state media reported. Nearly 280 government officials
and ministers have been placed on an exit control list by the high court,
Wajid Hasan, Pakistan's high commissioner in Britain, told CNN.

*Officials: US missile barrage kills 17 in
Pakistan<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hkiMxbHNH0BqgpWA2ZG6V\
D6wVTmAD9CL88IO1>
* 17 Dec 2009 Two U.S. missile strikes pummeled targets inside the main
sanctuary used by al-Qaida [al-CIAduh] and the Taliban along Pakistan's
border with Afghanistan, killing 17 people Thursday, local intelligence
officials said. The missiles rained down Thursday on North Waziristan, a
haven for many militants including groups determined to push the U.S. and
NATO out of Afghanistan. The second, bloodier attack involved five drones
and 10 missiles -- an unusually intense bombardment, they said.

*US: Pakistan delaying hundreds of
visas<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114018&sectionid=351020401>
* 18 Dec 2009 The US says Pakistan is delaying hundreds of visas for US
officials and contractors mercenaries , a move that has added to tensions
between the two countries. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood
said the US has raised its "serious concerns" at very senior levels with
Pakistan. *Secretive US military operations in Pakistan's border regions
particularly the use of drones to target alleged 'Al-Qaeda' leaders has
angered many Pakistanis*.

*Pentagon nominee promises reporters won't be rated before
embeds<http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=66739>
* 18 Dec 2009 The nominee for the Pentagon’s top public affairs job promised
Thursday he will review Defense Department policies to ensure that
journalists are not being denied embeds with combat troops based on the
tenor of their reporting, a practice exposed by Stars and Stripes last
summer. Douglas Wilson, who is expected to be confirmed as the new assistant
secretary of defense for public affairs, told members of the Senate Armed
Services Committee that he was opposed to rating reporters as "friendly" or
"negative" when considering their applications to accompany U.S. combat
troops, and will look into the matter when he takes over the post. [*Yeah,
it's actually a news item when the Pentagon *doesn't* play favorites.*]

*U.S. personnel in Iraq could face court-martial for getting
pregnant<http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=66764>
* 19 Dec 2009 The Army general commanding U.S. forces in northern Iraq has
added pregnancy to the list of prohibitions for personnel under his command.
The policy, which went into effect Nov. 4, makes it possible to face
punishment, including a court-martial and jail time, for becoming pregnant
or impregnating a servicemember, according to the wording of the policy and
confirmations from Army officials.

*Judge considers newly released e-mails in KBR
case<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6776265.html>
* 17 Dec 2009 A Houston judge is in the spotlight as he has to decide who
could have stopped a military contractor truck convoy in Iraq before six
civilian truck drivers were killed and others injured in a 2004 ambush. U.S.
District Judge Gray Miller has made this call once before. He decided that
the U.S. Army had control over KBR. But an appellate court bounced the issue
back to him, and the legal landscape may look different after months of
pretrial information gathering.

*Ahmadinejad: Obama walking down Bush's
road<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114027&sectionid=351020101>
* [*He's *driving* down it.*] 18 Dec 2009 Iran's President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad says his US counterpart Barack Obama talks of change but in
reality is 'going down the same road' as his predecessor, George W. Bush.
More than a week after Obama defended US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in
accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Ahmadinejad said Obama's oft-stated
claims of change increasingly seem to be "just talk and nothing more."

*Chavez to Obama: Give back Nobel
Prize<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114023&sectionid=351020704>
* 18 Dec 2009 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his American counterpart
Barack Obama should give his Nobel Peace Prize back as he is sending more
soldiers to war-weary Afghanistan. "He [Obama] got the Nobel Peace Prize
almost the same day as he sent 30,000 soldiers to kill innocent people in
Afghanistan," he said during a speech at a climate change conference in
Denmark. "Obama should give back the prize," Chavez added on Thursday.

*Muslims Say F.B.I. Tactics Sow Anger and
Fear<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/us/18muslims.html>
* 18 Dec 2009 In March, a national coalition of Islamic organizations warned
that it would cease cooperating with the F.B.I. unless the agency stopped
infiltrating mosques and using "agents provocateurs to trap unsuspecting
Muslim youth." In September, a cleric in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, sued the
government, claiming that the F.B.I. had threatened to scuttle his
application for a green card unless he agreed to spy on relatives overseas
-- echoing similar claims made in recent court cases in California, Florida
and Massachusetts... Several high-profile cases in which informers have
infiltrated mosques and helped promote plots, Muslim leaders say, have sown
a corrosive fear among their people that F.B.I. informers are everywhere,
listening.

*FDIC unable to find institution to take over failed GA bank; will mail
checks to depositors for insured
funds<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/seven-us-banks-closed-2009-failures-at-14\
0-2009-12-18>
* *--Seven U.S. banks closed by regulators --failures at 140 *18 Dec 2009
Seven U.S. banks were closed by regulators on Friday, bring the total this
year to 140 as the effects of the credit crisis continued to be felt across
the country. What's more, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. established
temporary institutions to help close two of the failed banks. Atlanta-based
RockBridge Commercial Bank became the 25th Georgia-based bank to fail this
year. The FDIC was unable to find another institution to take over the
failed bank, and so will mail checks to retail depositors for insured funds.


*Natural swine flu defence
found<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/6834606/Natural-swine-flu-defe\
nce-found.html>
* 18 Dec 2009 A previously unknown natural defence [IFITM3] against swine
flu and other viruses has been discovered which could lead to new
treatments. Scientists found that the virus-fighting proteins protected
against swine flu when levels were increased. When the proteins were removed
the swine flu virus was able to multiply in the body unchecked.

*Flu pandemic may change US flu approach
forever<http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1719069220091217>--School-based
vaccinations a model for the future
* [*so pharmaterrorists can make a killing*] 17 Dec 2009 The swine flu
pandemic may have changed the U.S. approach to handling influenza forever,
and for the better, U.S. officials said on Thursday. While they said years
of work were needed before vaccine production was up to the desired
standard, some experiments such as vaccinating children in schools might
work to help control seasonal influenza.

*Penn. ready to deal with flu,
terrorism<http://www.centredaily.com/news/local/story/1684463.html>
* 17 Dec 2009 Funding cuts threaten the nation's ability to deal with
disease outbreaks and bioterrorism, but Pennsylvania is among the
better-prepared states, according to a report. Pennsylvania fulfills eight
of 10 key measures in the report, called "Ready or Not? Protecting the
Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism."

*Al Franken shuts up Joe Lieberman on Heath
Care<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/abraham/detail??blogid=95&entry_id=5377\
5>
* Summary of post by Zennie62 17 Dec 2009 Senator [Al] Franken [D-MN]
presided over the Senate when [Joe] Lieberman [I-Aetna] was speaking. But
Lieberman had so upset Democrats and Liberals with his heavy-handed blocking
of any version of the Health Care Bill with a "Public Option" earlier in the
week, that he made himself ripe for a political smack-down. He got one.
Lieberman had ran out of his 10 minutes of speaking time and asked Franken
for an extension of time. "In my capacity as the Senator from Minnesota, I
object", Franken calmly responded. Lieberman gave a small chuckle and said
"Ok".

*Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in
failure<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/18/copenhagen-deal>--Deal
thrashed out at talks condemned as climate change scepticism in
action* 19 Dec 2009 The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global
agreement last night in Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and
many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to
come. After eight draft texts and all-day talks between 115 world leaders,
it was left to Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to broker a
political agreement. The so-called Copenhagen accord "recognises" the
scientific case for keeping temperature rises to no more than 2C but did not
contain commitments to emissions reductions to achieve that goal.

*Gore at climate talks: Polar ice may go in five
years<http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2985>--New computer
modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in
the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the UN climate
conference.* 14 Dec 2009 Northern polar sea ice has been retreating
dramatically. These new projections suggest an almost-vanished summer ice
cap much earlier than foreseen by a US government agency just eight months
ago. "It is hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science
of ice felt when they saw this," former US Vice President Gore told
reporters and other conference participants at a joint briefing with
Scandinavian officials and scientists, his first appearance at the two-week
session.

*Sea level rising much faster than
predicted<http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2964>--New
estimates of sea level change including the dynamics of the big ice
sheets are way higher than the IPCC 2007 estimate*. 14 Dec 2009 In an epoch
report published in 2007, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) predicted that oceans would rise by 18-59 centimeters in 2100. In a
new report, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme estimates the
increase to be more than the double. According to the Danish daily
Politiken, the climate panel underlined that the estimate did not include
rises caused by the disintegration of Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets.

*Sea World's Polar Bears Celebrate Christmas
Early<http://www.zandavisitor.com/newsarticle-2730-Sea_Worlds_Polar_Bears_Celebr\
ate_Christmas_Early>
* 18 Dec 2009 (Gold Coast, AU) The Polar bears will celebrate in style with
their own Christmas tree fully stocked with everything a Polar bear needs
for the silly season including lots of gift wrapped presents. The Christmas
tree and gifts form part of the bear’s enrichment program by providing them
with toys and puzzles to help stimulate their senses. Sea World’s Polar
Bears are ambassadors for their species and play a vital role in raising
awareness of the effects of global warning. Current research indicates that
Polar Bear numbers in the wild are declining, with *just 22,000 bears
remaining worldwide*.

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Previous lead stories: *Insurgents Hack U.S.
Drones<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html>--$26
Software Is Used to Breach Key Weapons in Iraq
* 17 Dec 2009 Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to
intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing
them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military
operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed
[?] insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an
unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes'
systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber
-- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet [Cheaper at
Wal-Mart?]-- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person
familiar with reports on the matter. [*We've surely funded and trained the
hackers. If the enemy didn't exist, we'd create them. Wait, we did! --MDR*]

  *Rep.: US may be 'funding the very insurgents we are trying to
fight'<http://www.legitgov.org/price_obusha_afpak_war_031009.html>--Congress
investigating charges of 'protection racket' by Afghanistan
contractors* 17 Dec 2009 A House oversight subcommittee said Wednesday that
it has begun a wide-ranging investigation into allegations that private
security companies mercenaries hired to protect Defense Department convoys
in Afghanistan are paying off warlords and the Taliban to ensure safe
passage. "If shown to be true, it would mean that the United States is
unintentionally engaged in a vast protection racket and, as such, may be
indirectly funding the very insurgents we are trying to fight," said Rep.
John F. Tierney (D-Mass.), chairman of the House oversight subcommittee on
national security and foreign affairs.

*Trail of Afghanistan's drug money
exposed<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KL16Df01.html>
* By Julien Mercille 16 Dec 2009 The total revenue generated by opiates
within Afghanistan is about $3.4 billion per year. Of this figure, according
to UNODC, the Taliban get only 4% of the sum. Farmers, meanwhile, get 21%.
And the remaining 75%? Al-Qaeda? No: The report specifies that it "does not
appear to have a direct role in the Afghan opiates trade," although it may
participate in "low-level drugs and/or arms smuggling" along the Pakistani
border. Instead, the remaining 75% is captured by government officials, the
police, local and regional power brokers and traffickers - *in short, many
of the groups now supported (or tolerated) by the United States and NATO are
important actors in the drug trade*.

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News with Attitude -  URGENT: Nelson caves, Senate sets 1:00 a.m. vote!
From the desk of: Harold Poole
  An American Patriot in the Liberal State of Maryland!

"American By Birth, Patriot By Conviction, & Southron By The Grace of God!!!"

"Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito", Latin, which translated means "do
not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it."Publius Vergilius
Maro (Virgil)

Deo Vindice -- "God Will Vindicate"

Quote of the Day    "An Avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It
leads men to
stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that
would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;
"for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to
himself." -- Thomas Paine
   "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing
about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black
races — that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or
jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry
with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a
physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will
forever forbid the two races from living together on terms of social and
political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do
remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I,
as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position
assigned to the white race." -- Abraham Lincoln, September 18, 1858
"Send them (American slaves) to Liberia, to their own native land. But free
them and make them politically and socially our equals? My own feelings will not
admit this." -- Abraham Lincoln
*** URGENT: Nelson caves, Senate sets 1:00 a.m. vote!
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/11-122/
EagleForum
12/20/2009
This weekend, please call your two Senators at least once before the 1am
cloture vote which will occur very late Sunday night/Monday morning!
*** Judge Andrew Napolitano – Secession 10th Amendment (Video)
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/10-145/
YouTube
8/19/2009
*** Progressives Push To Revisit Amnesty For Illegal Aliens
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/09-164/
Jim Kouri
12/20/2009
US Lawmakers who continue to call for immigration reform claimed at press
conference and rally that the current economic debacle should not deter
legislation legalizing illegal immigrants. The Congressmen have been
actively talking to advocacy and civil rights groups, faith-based groups,
labor groups and their colleagues on the Hill ¬– ¬particularly members of
the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), the Congressional Black Caucus
(CBC) and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) — to identify
the most essential components of such a comprehensive bill.
*** Where all the money goes: Two sets of books (Video)
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/08-177/
Brasscheck TV
12/20/2009
The government take over of the US economy
*** UN Chief: We Will Impose Global Governance
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/05-213/
Paul Joseph Watson
12/16/2009
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has again publicly admitted
that the agenda behind the Copenhagen summit and the climate change fraud is
the imposition of a global government and the end of national sovereignty.
*** No ADL, No Hate Crime Laws
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/04-213/
Rev. Ted Pike
12/20/2009
The Anti-Defamation League is not backing down from its outrageous claim
that millions of Americans are conspiring against Obama! ADL’s recent
report, Rage in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies, claims millions of
anti-Obama Americans, consumed with “toxic rage,” will say almost anything
necessary to bring the President down.
*** America: Freedom to Fascism – Director’s Authorized Version
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/03-218/
Google Video
*** Not So Private Property?: Clean Water Restoration Act Raises Fears of
Land Grab
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/02-218/
FOX News
12/14/2009
Upwards of 40 percent of all land in the United States is already under some
form of government control or ownership — 800 million to 900 million acres
out of America’s total 2.2 billion acres.
The government now appears poised to wield greater control over private
property on a number of fronts. The battle over private property rights has
intensified since 2005, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Kelo v. City of
New London case that the government could take property from one group of
private landowners and give it to another.
*** Tamiflu anti-viral drug revealed as complete hoax; Roche studies based
on scientific fraud
http://a4cgr.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/01-221/
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
12/14/2009
When it comes to selling chemicals that claim to treat H1N1 swine flu, the
pharmaceutical industry’s options are limited to two: Vaccines and
anti-virals. The most popular anti-viral, by far, is Tamiflu, a drug that’s
actually derived from a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called star anise.
But Tamiflu is no herb. It’s a potentially fatal concentration of isolated
chemical components that have essentially been bio-pirated from Chinese
medicine. And when you isolate and concentrate specific chemicals in these
herbs, you lose the value (and safety) of full-spectrum herbal medicine.
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Seriously David Icke is mentally ill. 
Hypodermic syringes come in a variety of needle sizes and the size you use
depends among other things upon the viscosity of the material being injected and
the type of injection site. There are no nano devices or threads in the vaccines
- although I do not recommend the H1N1 vaccine for a number of other reasons
having to do with safety. But there are no RFID chips in the vaccine.
My wife is a school nurse, I'm an EMT and retired attorney. She gives out the
vaccine every day. I don't like this vaccine because of the rigid temperature
restrictions it must be stored under. You can't really tell (as far as I've
seen) if the vaccine was a some point too cold or too warm and then temperature
corrected. There are other problems with it. But my wife got talked into taking
it - against my wishes - I planned to take it first to be sure it was safe and
so far - 6 weeks in - she's fine. Its probably ok. 
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       DAVID ICKE MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER STORY "KILLED" AFTER LOU DOBBS OF CNN IS
FIRED



"Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Swine Flu, RFID, Striped Benjies and Big
Brother"?A write-up in ten parts on "The Fall of America and the Western World"



To READ this article with original graphics, please click the following link:



http://www.davidick e.com/foa/ 1/



"Doctors in Europe have been?complaining that the hypodermic?needles that are
being used for?Swine Flu vaccinations are much?blunter than the ones they
are?used to.  When questioned, the authorities said these needles?were made
especially for the?Swine Flu." David Icke

The Swine Flu Scare is just the latest in "herding through fear" moves made by
The Ruling Elite this past decade.   Beginning with the 1970s gasoline
shortages, and continuing with the Savings and Loans Crisis in the 80s, NAFTA in
the 90s, the contrived power shortages in 2000,  and the economic meltdown of
2008, America has been systematically led down the garden path by forces it
can't comprehend.



Sure, there was an earlier Swine Flu Scare back when Nixon was president, and we
seem to be none the worse for wear.  What's different this time around is the
technology.  Nano chips already exist...their size less than a human hair.  So
is it a co-incidence that the Swine Flu Shot Syringes are thicker than normal?



Why the hypodermic needle would need to be re-invented for the Swine Flu vaccine
is anyone's guess.  But the fact is that the current state of nano-technology
makes embedding RFID chips during the vaccination process possible.



And I guess that is the reason why it is considered so necessary to get Kids all
vaccinated!!



One other thing. I have been told that there is one more additional "
protection" in the Swine Flu



vaccination compared to normal seasonal flu vaccinations, but next year, that
the seasonal flu



jab will include the H1N1 protection.



So if they don't at first succeed, they will try and try again to trap you! Yes?
GJ (UK)



CDC Issues Nationwide Recall of 800,000 Kids Swine Flu Vaccine Doses 15 Dec 2009
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are recalling selected batches of Sanofi
Pasteur manufactured H1N1 vaccine for children. The 800,000 swine flu shots were
made for children aged six to 35 months. Today the CDC recalls 800,000 kids'
swine flu vaccine doses made by Sanofi Pasteur. The agency stresses that the
recall is not related to safety concerns. Instead, the manufacturer alerted
officials that the potency of the children's H1N1 vaccine was below acceptable
limits.



And this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Through GPS in cars and cells phones,
RFID devices in the products we buy, credit card chips and striped
benjies-magnetic stripes in hundred dollar bills, we are endlessly tracked and
our data, location, habits and tendencies stored away.



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Bob Chapman-US Dollar Will Collapse at end of 2010



http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=0MF8Wa4XrEI



US joblessness cripples Americans: poll:



With unemployment driving foreclosures nationwide, a quarter of those polled
said they had either lost their home or been threatened with foreclosure or
eviction for not paying their mortgage or rent.

     http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=113777§ionid=3510203



The Decline: The Geography of a Recession: .



Watch the deteriorating transformation of the U.S. economy from January 2007 --
approximately one year before the start of the recession -- to the most recent
unemployment data available today.

     http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=RrP9qJmjIsA



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Why Bees Vanish





Here's news to share. ISIS is one of the most respected London--based science
organizations.



www.i-sis.org. uk/WhyBeesVanish .php



What you need to know about bees

The UK bee economy is worth £165 million annually [3]. The British Beekeeping
Association (BBKA) estimates that it would require 30 million humans to take
over the job of pollinating British crops. DEFRA (The Department of Food and
Rural Affairs) claim that CCD has not yet hit the UK . However the BBKA's survey
says that thirty three percent or one in three of the UK 's 240 000 beehives
were lost in the winter and spring of 2008. This compares to a previous annual
average of five to ten percent losses.



Buglife - The English Conservation Trust - has published a report which says
that neonicotinoids do damage honeybee health. Buglife, ISIS, The Soil
Association and The Pesticides Action Network (PAN) have all called for a
suspension of all products containing neonicotinoids in outdoor environments
[4].



Worldwide bees pollinate some ninety commercial crops including fruits,
vegetables and alfalfa, a major food source for cattle. In China , in the
province of Sichuan , pear trees have been pollinated by hand after the overuse
of pesticides in the 1980's wiped out the honeybee population. In the USA
approximately one third of hives have collapsed over the last two years. These
losses are attributed to CCD and account for the loss of around 800 000 colonies
in 2007 and a staggering 1 million colonies in 2008. A Steering Committee has
been set up to monitor the progress of CCD [5]. Bee losses have also been
reported around the world in Argentina , Brazil , France , Italy , Germany ,
Greece and Spain .



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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government

16 Dec 2009

http://www.legitgov .org

All links are here:

http://www.legitgov .org/#breaking_ news

Mercenaries we can believe in: DOD: Obama's Afghan Surge Will Rely Heavily On
Private Contractors --DOD officials: contractors would make up 50-55 percent of
the total workforce -- troops plus contractors -- in the future 15 Dec 2009
Private contractors Mercenaries will make up at least half of the total military
workforce in Afghanistan going forward, according to Defense Department
officials cited in a new congressional study. As President Obama's escalation of
the war in Afghanistan unfolds, the number of contractors will likely jump by
between 16,000 and 56,000, adding up to a total of 120,000-160, 000, according
to an updated study from the Congressional Research Service.



Chilcot censors Iraq inquiry's live broadcast --Sir Jeremy Greenstock's evidence
on political mistakes after invasion is interrupted 16 Dec 2009 Sir John
Chilcot, chairman of the Iraq inquiry, cut the live video of today's hearings,
raising fears that he is suppressing evidence on grounds of embarrassment rather
that any damage to national security. "I interrupted the broadcast because of a
mention of sensitive information, " he said after hearing evidence from Sir
Jeremy Greenstock, Britain's UN ambassador before the invasion and special envoy
in Baghdad afterwards.



Defence Minister urged to quit over air strike 'lies' 15 Dec 2009 Chancellor
Angela Merkel's Defence Minister was under mounting pressure to resign yesterday
over accusations that he lied over a German-ordered air strike in Afghanistan
which killed dozens of civilians. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, one of the
country's most popular politicians, was appointed Defence Minister in October
and given a mandate to be more honest about Germany's military role in
Afghanistan - a deeply unpopular subject largely avoided by politicians.



US military warned Iraq of possible Baghdad blasts [i.e., an inside job] 14 Dec
2009 The U.S. military confirmed Monday it had warned Iraqi officials about
possible attacks in Baghdad the same day bombers struck government sites in the
country's capital. The U.S. military stopped short, though, of saying the
intelligence provided to the Iraqis gave any insight into specific details of
last week's attacks that killed 127 people and wounded more than 500.



Four blasts rock Baghdad's Green Zone 15 Dec 2009 A series bomb attacks in close
proximity to Baghdad's Green Zone has killed at least four Iraqi people and
injured fourteen others including Press TV's cameraman. "Four explosions rocked
the heavily fortified [not so much] Green Zone in central Baghdad on Tuesday
morning," Press TV correspondent reported. Three of the blasts were caused by
car bombs and the other by a mortar shell, the report added.



NATO urges Russian help in Afghan war 16 Dec 2009 NATO's Secretary General
Anders Fogh Rasmussen has demanded more Russian help in overcoming the common
security threats in Afghanistan. Rasmussen's visit to Moscow is the first by the
NATO chief since between the Western military alliance and Moscow soured on the
heels of the August 2008 military conflict between Russia and Georgia.



Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan 16 Dec 2009 A suicide bomber has
killed two British soldiers who were on a "hearts on a mind" mission to meet
members of the local community in Helmand. The men, from the 3rd Battalion, The
Rifles, were on a foot patrol near the town of Sangin with Afghan forces two of
whom also died in the explosion.



Kabul suicide bomber kills at least eight people 15 Dec 2009 At least eight
people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital, Kabul,
officials say. The blast happened near a hotel in Wazir Akbar Khan district,
home to several aid agencies and embassies. Two bodyguards of former
vice-president Ahmed Zia Massoud were among the dead, Afghan President Hamid
Karzai said.



US to drill Iranian attack scenario --The test, scheduled for January, is
expected to cost about $150 million. 15 Dec 2009 A top Pentagon official said
Monday that a US missile defense drill would simulate an Iranian attack - a
departure from the usual scenario of a North Korean attack - according to
Reuters. "Previously, we have been testing the [Ground-Based Midcourse Defense]
GMD system against a North Korean-type scenario. This next test... is more of a
head-on shot like you would use defending against an Iranian shot into the
United States. So that's the first time that we're now testing in a different
scenario," Lt.-Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, head of the US Missile Defense Agency,
said at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington.



Iran tests new Sejjil-2 missile with success 16 Dec 2009 Iran has successfully
tested an optimized version of the solid-fuel Sejjil-2 deterrent missile as part
of its long-term plans to defend the country's borders. The high-speed
surface-to-surface, which was launched on Wednesday morning, has been designed
and built by the Iranian Ministry of Defense.



British court issued Gaza arrest warrant for former Israeli minister Tzipi Livni
--Warrant issued over war crimes accusations was withdrawn when it emerged
former minister had cancelled plan to visit 14 Dec 2009 A British court issued
an arrest warrant for Israel's former foreign minister over war crimes allegedly
committed in Gaza this year -- only to withdraw it when it was discovered that
she was not in the UK, it emerged today. Tzipi Livni, a member of the war
cabinet during Operation Cast Lead, had been due to address a meeting in London
on Sunday but cancelled her attendance in advance. The Guardian has established
that Westminster magistrates' court issued the warrant at the request of lawyers
acting for some of the Palestinian victims of the fighting but it was later
dropped.



A Professional Surgeon Arrived Gaza 15 Dec 2009 A professional surgeon [Dr.
Christopher] arrived Gaza to train surgery medical staffs on the techniques of
work in war and accident surgery. World Doctors Organization in France explained
that the course will keep on for a week; the training which will be held in
Naser Hospital, in Khan Younis. A number of patients in Gaza Strip will benefit
from this course.



Police shoot U.S. student's laptop upon entry to Israel 16 Dec 2009 Israel
Border Police officers shot at an American student's laptop as she entered
Israel via Taba, Egypt, two weeks ago. Lily Sussman, 21, wrote on her blog that
border police subjected her to two hours of questioning and searches prior to
shooting her Apple Macbook three times.



Guantánamo Bay war court moving to Illinois prison 16 Dec 2009 The White House
said Tuesday that it will move its war court from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to an
underused prison in Illinois, but officials couldn't say how soon or at what
cost. Administration officials declined to estimate how many of the 210
detainees prisoners at Guantánamo would move to the Thomson Correctional
Center, but White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said he wouldn't dispute an
estimate by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., of about 100 detainees.



Creating a 'Gitmo North' an Alarming Step, Says ACLU --Comment by Anthony D.
Romero 15 Dec 2009 "The creation of a 'Gitmo North' in Illinois is hardly a
meaningful step forward. Shutting down Guantánamo will be nothing more than a
symbolic gesture if we continue its lawless policies onshore. Alarmingly, all
indications are that the administration plans to continue its predecessor' s
policy of indefinite detention without charge or trial for some detainees, with
only a change of location... In fact, while the Obama administration inherited
the Guantánamo debacle, this current move is its own affirmative adoption of
those policies. It is unimaginable that the Obama administration is using the
same justification as the Bush administration used to undercut centuries of
legal jurisprudence and the principle of innocent until proven guilty and the
right to confront one's accusers. It is also greatly disturbing that the
administration will continue the use of
  military commissions, which are no more acceptable in Illinois or any other
U.S. state than in Guantánamo."



Task force: Adopt single policy for handling sensitive info 15 Dec 2009 The
federal government should establish a single policy for designating so-called
sensitive but unclassified information, a presidential task force concluded in a
report released today. Current procedures vary widely across agencies...
according to the Task Force on Controlled Unclassified Information, which was
led by the Homeland Security and Justice departments. Across the executive
branch alone, such information is identified by more than 100 unique markings
and at least 130 different labeling or handling regimes, such as Law Enforcement
Sensitive, For Official Use Only, Sensitive Security Information, and Limited
Official Use.



Dems, GOP Compromise On Health Care: Don't Get Sick, But If You Do, Die Quickly
--"This is change I can believe in," said President Obama. "Now I can move on to
other pressing issues, like how to get another peace prize for escalating the
war in Afghanistan and for starting some new ones." Satire by R J Shulman 16 Dec
2009 After months of bickering and finger pointing, the Democrats and
Republicans announced a compromise on health care reform they could both live
with. "The Democrats want Americans to be well to get credit for reform and the
GOP wants to save on costs and preserve health care industry profits, which
makes this a win-win situation," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-NV)... The Republicans have responded well to the call for people who get
sick to die quickly as it saves money on treatment and preserves health
insurance CEO bonuses. (Satire)



Dean: Health Bill 'Not Worth Passing' By George Stephanopoulos 16 Dec 2009
Former DNC Chairman, presidential contender and doctor, Howard Dean continued
his assault on the Senate health reform bill this morning, telling me on "Good
Morning America" the bill in present form is "not worth passing." Dean is
leading a liberal revolt over health care reform, telling Vermont Public Radio
Tuesday Democrats should just kill the health care bill and start over. "A very
small number of people will get insurance, if at all, until 2014," Dean told me
this morning, "This is the insurance companies' dream, this bill."



Mega barf alert! Obama thanked Lieberman privately for statement 15 Dec 2009
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Aetna), the focus of mostly private condemnation from Hill
Democrats, told President Barack Obama and the Senate Democratic caucus Tuesday
that he "understood how people were upset with the position I took." ...Obama
thanked Lieberman privately for his statement issued earlier Tuesday pledging
support for the bill as long as the Medicare expansion and public option were
eliminated from the bill, Lieberman said.



Connecticut Democrat calls for Joe Lieberman recall 15 Dec 2009 A House Democrat
from Connecticut said Tuesday that Sen. Joe Lieberman should be recalled from
office over his opposition to the Senate health care bill. "No individual should
hold health care hostage, including Joe Lieberman, and I'll say it flat out, I
think he ought to be recalled," Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) told POLITICO. She
said that millions of people die because they lack health insurance.



Senate rejects low-cost drug imports 15 Dec 2009 The Senate has narrowly
rejected a plan to allow Americans to import low-cost prescription drugs from
Canada and other countries. The amendment by North Dakota Democrat Byron Dorgan
failed on a 51-48 vote. Sixty votes were needed to prevail. Importing
prescription drugs for personal use is a violation of federal law. Dorgan's
amendment would have lifted the ban, allowing access to low-cost medicines from
developed countries where the government limits drug prices.



Drug data mining ban unlikely in Senate health bill --No vote seen for
'prescription mining' proposal 14 Dec 2009 A Democratic proposal to ban the
collection of doctors' prescription records for marketing purposes is unlikely
to be included as part of the Senate's overall health reform bill, a Senate
staff member said on Monday. A member of the staff of Senator Herb Kohl, a main
sponsor of the amendment, said the change was not likely to come up for a vote
or be included as part of a package of changes to be offered later by Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid.



Democrats Drop Plan to Expand Medicare 15 Dec 2009 Senate DemocRATs on Monday
evening dropped a plan to expand Medicare, winning the support of moderates and
the reluctant acquiescence of liberals, in another major step toward building
enough support to pass a health-care overhaul corporaterrorist giveaway. At an
evening caucus of all 58 Democrats and the two independents who sit with the
party, including Sen. Lieberman, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) and other
party leaders made clear they wanted to head off the dispute.



U.S. gave up billions in tax money in deal for Citigroup's bailout repayment
--Deal made to recover bailout firms exempted from rule when U.S. sells its
stake 16 Dec 2009 The federal government quietly agreed to forgo billions of
dollars in potential tax payments from Citigroup as part of the deal announced
this week to wean the company from the massive taxpayer bailout that helped it
survive the financial crisis. The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued an
exception to long-standing tax rules for the benefit of Citigroup and a few
other companies partially owned by the government. As a result, Citigroup will
be allowed to retain billions of dollars worth of tax breaks that otherwise
would decline in value when the government sells its stake to private investors.
While the Obama administration has said taxpayers are likely to profit from the
sale of the Citigroup shares, accounting experts said the lost tax revenue could
easily outstrip those
  profits.



Obama holds stage-managed meeting with Wall Street bankers By Tom Eley 15 Dec
2009 The stated aim of the gathering of Wall Street bankers at a private White
House meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday was to cajole the nation's
largest financial institutions into offering loans to cash-starved businesses
and consumers. In reality, the event was a media exercise designed to placate
growing popular anger toward the Obama administration. The true nature of the
event was not lost on its attendees. "It's a PR [public relations] stunt," an
unnamed CEO flatly told Time magazine prior to the meeting.



Pittsburgh Sets Vote on Adding Tax on Tuition --Tax would be first of its kind
in nation 16 Dec 2009 The mayor of Pittsburgh calls it the "Fair Share Tax." But
to officials at the city's 10 colleges and universities and many of their
100,000 students, it is anything but. On Wednesday, the City Council is expected
to give preliminary approval to Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's proposal for a 1 percent
tuition tax on students attending college in Pittsburgh, which he says will
raise $16.2 million in annual revenue that is needed to pay pensions for retired
city employees.



F.T.C. Accuses Intel of Trying to Stifle Competition 17 Dec 2009 The Federal
Trade Commission on Wednesday sued the chip maker Intel, accusing it of using
its dominant market position "to stifle competition and strengthen its
monopoly." In its complaint, the F.T.C. accused the chip maker of a systematic
campaign to block rivals from selling their microchips by cutting off access to
the market.



Gag me with a chainsaw! TIME: Person of the Year 2009 Ben Bernanke --The story
of the year was a weak economy that could have been much, much weaker. Thank the
man who runs the Federal Reserve, our mild-mannered economic overlord 16 Dec
2009



AP: Monsanto role in cornering seed biz revealed 14 Dec 2009 Confidential
contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's
biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed
companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion- dollar market for
genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found. With
Monsanto's [deadly] patented genes being inserted into roughly 95 percent of all
soybeans and 80 percent of all corn grown in the U.S., the company also is using
its wide reach to control the ability of new biotech firms to get wide
distribution for their products, according to a review of several Monsanto
licensing agreements and dozens of interviews with seed industry participants,
agriculture and legal experts.



Danish police hold 240 climate protesters 16 Dec 2009 Danish police detained 240
people on Wednesday when protesters stormed barricades around a global climate
summit and briefly broke through a police cordon, witnesses and a police
spokesman said. Green Business Police, some with dogs, used truncheons and
pepper spray to keep back the hundreds of protesters who gathered outside
Copenhagen's Bella Center, where world leaders are meeting to try to broker a
new deal on global warming.



Koalas, penguins at risk of extinction: study 14 Dec 2009 Climate change
threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor penguin to
Australian koalas, according to a report released Monday at the UN climate
summit. Rising sea levels, ocean acidification and shrinking polar ice are
taking a heavy toll on species already struggling to cope with pollution and
shrinking habitats, said the study from the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an intergovernmental group.



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amid crisis 14 Dec 2009 US special forces have reportedly been sent to Yemen to
train its army, as the Yemeni military backed by the Saudi Arabian army has been
fighting local Houthi fighters in the north of the country. The development
comes amid fears that foreign military intervention in the country has put
Yemeni civilians in dire condition. American officials told The Daily Telegraph
on Sunday that US forces have been sent to Yemen to prevent the country from
turning into a "reserve base" for al-Qaeda.



US to expand drone attacks into Pakistani cities 14 Dec 2009 After confirmation
that the CIA has been operating drone strikes in Pakistani territory, a new
report says the US is seeking to expand the attacks into the country's cities.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday that top US officials were pushing to
expand the air strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into the major city
of Quetta to allegedly target the Taliban.



Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo torture case --Lawsuit named then-Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and 10 military commanders 14 Dec 2009 The U.S.
Supreme Court said on Monday that it rejected an appeal by four former
Guantanamo Bay prisoners arguing that they should be able to proceed with their
lawsuit against top Pentagon officials for torture and religious abuse. The
justices refused to review a U.S. appeals court ruling that dismissed the
lawsuit by the four British citizens over their treatment at the U.S. military
base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on the grounds the officials enjoyed immunity.



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             Information Clearing House Newsletter

             News You Won't Find On CNN

             December 16, 2009

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is
always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties
arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier
needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them:
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop
refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how
young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash, your
picture in the paper nor money in the bank, neither. Just refuse to bear them:
William Faulkner



"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." ~Harry S.
Truman



An Act Of War?

           U.S. House Passes Iran Gasoline Sanctions Bill By Tom Doggett



The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation to impose
sanctions on foreign companies that help supply gasoline to Iran, a move
lawmakers hope will deter Tehran from pursuing its nuclear program.

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 92.htm



Emperors of Silent Wars Propaganda, Destruction, and Madness By Ali Jawad



As soon as the greatest military force in history stepped foot on Arabia -
adamant to grab the will of Providence by the collar - flashpoints began to
spark up left, right and centre. The scars and pains of millions were not to
distract the emblem of freedom from its historic mission.

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 87.htm



"Walk the Talk" Holocaust Survivor Heads to Gaza By Hedy Epstein



As President Obama accepts a Peace Prize he does not deserve, it's a good time
to model what real peacemaking looks like. That's why-at the ripe age of 85-I'll
be joining the Gaza Freedom March on December 31

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 86.htm



Is Joe Lieberman Protecting Israel? By Robert Parry



Is it possible that Lieberman's obstructionist behavior doesn't relate to
Connecticut' s insurance industry or to his political ego - the two most cited
explanations - but rather to a calculation that he can use his leverage on
health care to limit the pressure that President Barack Obama can put on Israel
to make concessions on a Mideast peace plan?

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 95.htm



Copenhagen: Only the Numbers Count - and They Add up to Hell on Earth By Bill
McKibben



Climate Interactive' s software speaks numbers, not spin - which is where the
true understanding of the Copenhagen summit lies.

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 88.htm



135,000 Uninsured Americans Will Die Before Health Reform Takes Effect



Over 6,600 Uninsured Veterans Will Die by 2013: Estimate By Brad Jacobson



Even more shocking is that these are modest estimates.

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 89.htm



Miraculous Organ Blair, Obama and the Narcissist's Defense  By Chris Floyd



Since leaving office, Tony Blair has dipped his blood-smeared snout into various
corporate troughs, amassing millions, while simultaneously becoming one of the
great whited sepulchres of our day, making a great show of his conversion to
Catholicism, his "faith foundation," and so on.

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 94.htm



Dubya: The Surreal Afterlife of an Ex-President By Alex Hannaford



What has the most unpopular US President of all time been doing during his first
year of retirement?

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 90.htm



Gallup Poll: 44 Percent Of Americans Want Bush Back  By Dan Carter



A new Gallup poll found that President Obama's approval rating continues to dip.
But the poll also uncovered a much more disturbing fact: 44 percent of Americans
would be happier with George W. Bush back in the White House. My, how quickly we
forget.

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 91.htm



Unbearable Lightness of Obama The Audacity of Retrenchment  By Robert S. Becker



How can the Obama who won the election, and the Peace Prize, by being not-Bush,
match W.'s impulse to detach, delegate and default? And the final puzzle: how
did a dense, inarticulate bully command his bully pulpit while the infinitely
more articulate, tolerant newcomer fails to frame, let alone command key
debates?

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 93.htm



Untold History - Things We Forgot to Remember  The Bengal Famine



The Partition of India was the last act of the British Raj. It led to the deaths
of hundreds of thousands: but it was not the worst disaster to hit India in the
1940s. That was the Bengal Famine of 1942-4, which left around a million dead.

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 96.htm



Yemen rebels say air raid kills 120, accuse U.S.:



Yemeni Shi'ite rebels accused the U.S. air force Tuesday of joining attacks
against them, and killing at least 120 people in a raid in the north of the poor
Arab state.

           http://uk.news. yahoo.com/ 22/20091215/ tts-uk-yemen- rights-ca02f96.
html



US jets continue raids in north Yemen:



The US military continues its air raids on Yemen's northern beleaguered regions,
which have already been the target of joint Saudi-Yemen offensive against the
Houthi fighters.

           http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=113812§ionid=351020206



UN urges humanitarian aid for Yemen:



The United Nations called for a "humanitarian truce" in Yemen on Tuesday and
appealed for 177 million dollars in aid to help vulnerable people in the
troubled Middle Eastern state.

           http://news. yahoo.com/ s/afp/20091215/ wl_mideast_ afp/unyemenunres
taid



The Yemeni government's brutal response to Southern Movement protests: (HRW): :



A grave human rights crisis is unfolding in southern Yemen, where government
security forces have responded to calls for secession with the brutal repression
of the so-called Southern Movement.

           http://www.reliefwe b.int/rw/ rwb.nsf/db900SID /ASAZ-7YRCDJ?
OpenDocument



Gulf Arabs agree on joint military force:



The US-allied six-nation bloc is located across the Gulf from Iran and includes
the world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia. They share Washington's concerns over
Iran's nuclear plans. reuters

           http://snipurl. com/tpl77



Somalia: 24 killed in clashes:



At least 24 people, mostly civilians, have been killed during heavy fighting
between Somali forces and rebels group in Mogadishu, officials said on Tuesday.
The battle, which started on Sunday and continued through part on Monday, also
wounded more than 30 others.

           http://www.africane ws.com/site/ Somalia_24_ killed_in_ clashes/list_
messages/ 28573



Roadside bomb kills 3 troops in Somalia's Puntland:



The bomb hit a vehicle carrying troops on a routine patrol on Monday night on
the main street of Bossaso, a port in the northern region.

           http://snipurl. com/tpl7b



Blast kills 33 near lawmaker's home in Pakistan:



The blast came shortly before the top-ranked U.S. military officer arrived in
the Pakistani capital for previously scheduled talks with the country's powerful
army chief about the ongoing military offensive against the militants in the
northwestern region near the Afghan border

           http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20091215/ ap_on_re_ as/as_pakistan



Pakistan concerns conveyed to US over any drone attacks extension::



Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told a private channel Tuesday. The United
States can better understand the implications of extension of drone attacks and
it is hoped that the US will not only avoid it but also stop such attacks in
FATA areas, he said while talking to Samaa TV.

           http://snipurl. com/tpl7j



Headley worked as US agency informant for a decade:



Pakistani-American terror suspect David Coleman Headley, charged with scouting
targets for Mumbai terror attacks, worked as a confidential informant with the
Drug Enforcement Administration for more than a decade, according to a US media
report.

           http://snipurl. com/tpl7p



14 killed in Kabul suicide blasts:



At least 14 Afghans were killed and dozens wounded on Tuesday in separate
bombings near a hotel frequented by foreigners in Kabul and a compound used by a
US contractor in the southeast of the country.

           http://snipurl. com/tpl7t



U.S. occupation force soldier killed, Taliban commander nabbed in S.
Afghanistan:



Continued resistance to occupation in Afghanistan claimed the life of one
American soldier in south Afghanistan on Tuesday, a press release of the
NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

           http://news. xinhuanet. com/english/ 2009-12/15/ content_12652704 .htm



Britons killed as more join Afghan occupation:



Alleged bomb attacks kill two British soldiers south of Afghanistan, as hundreds
of new recruits land in the war-torn country on the so-called counterinsurgency
mission.

           http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=113808§ionid=351020403



Three British occupation force soldiers killed by U.S. 500lb bomb in
Afghanistan:



Three British soldiers were killed by a 500lb bomb dropped by a U.S. aircraft
after a mix-up over map co-ordinates passed between an air controller and an
American weapons officer, an inquest has heard.

           http://snipurl. com/tpl80



Obama's Afghan Surge Will Rely Heavily On Private Contractors Mercenaries:



As President Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan unfolds, the number of
contractors will likely jump by between 16,000 and 56,000, adding up to a total
of 120,000-160, 000, according to an updated study from the Congressional
Research Service.

           http://tpmmuckraker .talkingpointsme mo.com/2009/ 12/afghanistan_
contractors_ new_congressiona l_study.php



Congressman Grayson and Afghanistan Veterans Urge Congress Not to Fund Troop
Surge:



Congressman Grayson said, "The goals of expelling al-Qaeda and overthrowing the
Taliban were accomplished years ago. The notion that an increase of 30,000
troops is necessary to ensure America's security is absurd.

           http://www.commondr eams.org/ newswire/ 2009/12/15- 9



Rep. Alan Grayson Reads Petition from 100,000 People: 1 Minute Video:



End the War Now

           http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=-ka55UikRrU& feature=player_
embedded#



DoD to add $100B to 2011-15 spending:



The Pentagon's 2010 budget request called for $534 billion, plus $130 billion to
cover the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It did not include the estimated $30
billion that will be needed to fund President Barack Obama's recent decision to
send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 85.htm



Baby among five killed in Iraq attacks:



An eight-day-old baby was among five people killed in separate attacks Tuesday
in Iraq, including car bombs in Baghdad and bombings that struck two churches in
the main northern city of Mosul.

           http://uk.news. yahoo.com/ 18/20091215/ twl-baby- among-five-
killed-in- iraq-attac- ba734b9.html



Iraqi soldier killed in eastern Mosul:



"Unknown gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi soldier in al-Nabi Younes market in
eastern Mosul, killing him on the spot," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news
agency.

           http://en.aswatalir aq.info/? p=123560



Chilcot inquiry censored for more than a minute:



The openness of the Iraq inquiry has been thrown into doubt again after its
chairman, Sir John Chilcot, censored its public proceedings for the first time
yesterday.

           http://snipurl. com/tpla2



In case you missed it:



David King: Iraq was the first 'resource war' of the century:



UK government's former chief scientific adviser says Iraq war was about oil, not
weapons of mass destruction - and warns there will be more 'resource wars' to
come

           http://www.guardian .co.uk/environme nt/2009/feb/ 12/king-iraq-
resources- war



Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:  MI chief: Iran has enough nuclear
material for bomb:



Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin said Tuesday that Iran has over the last
year accumulated enough materials to create a nuclear bomb and warned: "The
technological clock has almost finished winding."

           http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1135228. html



Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:  Secret document exposes Iran's
nuclear trigger:



Confidential intelligence documents obtained by The Times show that Iran is
working on testing a key final component of a nuclear bomb.

           http://www.timesonl ine.co.uk/ tol/news/ world/middle_
east/article6955 351.ece



Least we forget:  Faith-Based Intelligence: :



Talk by Ray McGovern, 27-year Veteran of the CIA and co-founder of Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

           http://www.informat ionclearinghouse .info/article241 85.htm



Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:  US to drill Iranian attack scenario:



A top Pentagon official said Monday that a US missile defense drill would
simulate an Iranian attack - a departure from the usual scenario of a North
Korean attack - according to Reuters.

           http://snipurl. com/tplbd



Syria will defend Iran if Israel attacks:



If Israel does attack Iran's nuclear facilities, it will undoubtedly result in a
regional war after Iran and Syria signed a mutual defense agreement on Sunday.

           http://www.israelto day.co.il/ default.aspx? tabid=178& nid=20166



Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:  "Christian" leaders urge tough
sanctions by US:



"Christian" leaders -- including Bill Donohue, Richard Land and Pat Robertson --
representing millions of evangelicals, Roman Catholics, and other Christians
have sent a letter to leaders in the US House of Representatives today urging
immediate passage of tough sanctions on Iran intended to prevent that rogue
regime from obtaining nuclear weapons

           http://snipurl. com/tplbq



Credit Suisse faces $536m US fine over Iran:



Credit Suisse expects to pay $536 million for violating US economic sanctions,
the Swiss bank revealed.

           http://business. timesonline. co.uk/tol/ business/ industry_
sectors/banking_ and_finance/ article6958111. ece



Leader warns Israel of heavy blow in any war on Gaza:



"If Iran had backtracked about the Palestinian issue, much of such hostilities
would have ceased to exist; however, regarding this matter we stand fast,"
Ayatollah Khamenei added.

           http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=113809§ionid=351020101



Israeli occupation troops attack refugee camp in W. Bank:



The troops boarding armored vehicles rumbled into the camp from several axes,
opening fire at inhabitants of the shanty town and wounding two of them, the
radio said, adding that the injured were whisked to hospital.

           http://snipurl. com/tplc9



Absent elections, PLO expected to extend Palestinian president's term:



Delegates to the roughly 120-member body, representing a collection of political
parties, labor unions and other organizations, said that with little hope of
elections soon, they would authorize Abbas to stay in office indefinitely.

           http://snipurl. com/tplch



Israel summons British ambassador to protest Livni's arrest warrant:



Gilon also called on the ambassador to urge his government to change the law
that allows for arrest warrants to be issued against senior Israeli officials
over alleged war crimes perpetrated in the Gaza Strip during last winter's
conflict between Israel and Hamas.

           http://news. xinhuanet. com/english/ 2009-12/15/ content_12652919 .htm



Israel demands Britain change law on war crimes:



Israel demanded Britain change its law on Tuesday after reports that ex-foreign
minister Tzipi Livni would have risked arrest on war crimes charges over last
year's Gaza offensive, had she not cancelled a visit to London.

           http://snipurl. com/tpld3



UK ponders law change after Tzipi Livni arrest warrant:



Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Israel was a "close friend" of the UK's
and stressed he was keen to "avoid this sort of situation arising again".

           http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8415161. stm



We're all Tzipi Livni:



Brown twice promised to propose legislation that would hamper lawfare by
requiring Her Majesty's Attorney General for England and Wales to approve the
issuance of any war crimes warrant.

           http://snipurl. com/tplhf



Spymaster sees Israel as world cyberwar leader:



Using computer networks for espionage -- by hacking into databases -- or to
carry out sabotage through so-called "malicious software" planted in sensitive
control systems has been quietly

           http://snipurl. com/tplip



UN-Backed Congo Troops Killed More Civilians Than Rebels, Says Human Rights
Watch:



A U.N.-backed Congolese military operation to oust rebels from eastern Congo has
caused more civilian casualties than damage to rebels, with more than 1,400
people deliberately killed over a nine-month period, human rights groups said
Monday.

           http://www.huffingt onpost.com/ 2009/12/14/ un-backed- congo-troops-
ki_n_391635. html



Australia: Internet censorship plan gets the green light:



The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to
censor the internet after Government-commissi oned trials found filtering a
blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.

           http://snipurl. com/tplk0



Castro says US on offensive in LatAm despite Obama:



Fidel Castro says President Barack Obama's "friendly smile and African-American
face" are hiding Washington's sinister intentions for Latin America - more
evidence of a new cooling in U.S.-Cuba relations after a thaw had seemed
possible just months ago.

           http://news. yahoo.com/ s/ap/20091215/ ap_on_re_ la_am_ca/
cb_cuba_fidel_ castro



CIA Agent Captured In Cuba:



An employee of a CIA front organization working in Venezuela was detained in
Cuba this week

           http://www.chavezco de.com/2009/ 12/cia-agent- captured-
in-cuba-employee -of.html



US jail to hold Guantanamo inmates:



A number of inmates from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba are set to
be transferred to a jail in the US state of Illinois.

           http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ americas/ 2009/12/20091215
19517710389. html



ALBA alliance forgoes US dollar:



The member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas, ALBA, have
decided to give up the US dollar in trading between them. They will instead use
the sucre conventional monetary unit.

           http://english. ruvr.ru/2009/ 12/14/3024295. html



Gulf nations sign monetary pact:



Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia signed and ratified the pact on Tuesday,
which will see them work towards setting up a joint central bank and
implementing a single currency.

           http://english. aljazeera. net/news/ middleeast/ 2009/12/20091215
165750877447. html



Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,366,350"

           www.justforeignpoli cy.org/iraq/ iraqdeaths. html



Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In
America's War On Iraq:  4,689

           icasualties. org/oif/



Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan :
1,541

           http://icasualties. org/oef/



Cost of War in Iraq

           $709,094,134, 674



Cost of War in Afghanistan

           $234,001,875, 564



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Ron Paul: Sanctioning Iran a Dangerous, Illegal Move



http://america- hijacked. com/2009/ 12/16/ron- paul-sanctioning -iran-a-dangerou
s-illegal- move/



http://tinyurl. com/yhvbq7l



Iraq war was for Israel (not for Iraqi oil!)



http://america- hijacked. com/2009/ 12/15/iraq- war-was-for- israel-not-
for-iraqi- oil/



http://tinyurl. com/y8v3mop



Additional at http://AMERICA- HIJACKED. COM



1. Israel's Leaders on the Run by Gilad Atzmon

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Senior officials in Israel confirmed reports on Monday that a British court
issued a warrant against opposition leader Mrs. Tzipi Livni for her role in
orchestrating Israel's military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last
December.



...As many of us predicted for more than a while the tide is changing. Now
Israeli political and military leaders are finally being chased.



To read more



http://www.gilad. co.uk/writings/ israels-leaders- on-the-run- by-gilad-
atzmon.html

  2. Ramzy Baroud's new book-a promotional film



To watch:

http://www.gilad. co.uk/writings/ ramzy-barouds- new-book- a-promotional-
film.html



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Mike Ruppert has a film coming out



http://prophecykeep ers.tv/collapse. htm



Mike disappeared twice before; the question is will the third time be the charm
for him?



For anyone that might want more information about Mike's Newsletter (as
mentioned in the promo)

Here are some of the things that happened in 2005.



http://www.kirwanes que.com/politics /articles/ 2005/art5. htm

http://www.kirwanes que.com/politics /articles/ 2005/art6. htm



kirwan

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Today's U.K. headlines



http://www.dailymai l.co.uk/home/ index.html



a.. BREAKING NEWS: Two boys, aged 10, charged with raping eight-year-old

   b.. Travel chaos warning as weathermen warn south could be hit by up to 8ins
of snow

   c.. Coroner warns of dangers of ice after death of six-year-old who fell into
frozen pond

   d.. 'I still love her' says husband whose wife slit his throat before driving
to meet internet lover

   e.. Patient who claims she was abused by gynaecologist wanted him because 'she
could not have sex with her husband'

   f.. 'Canal boy' sent on three-month boat trip to help rehabilitate him is
locked up for five years for burglaries

   g.. Alistair Darling accused of not revealing full extent of Britain's debt

   h.. Eurostar drivers join BA cabin staff in Christmas walkouts

   i.. Serial killer Peter Tobin convicted of murdering teenager Dinah McNicol...
but how many more did he kill?

   j.. Child killer Robert Black charged with murder of fourth schoolgirl

   k.. Police officer arranged for disabled neighbour to be arrested after
parking dispute

   l.. 'Campaign of abuse' forces vicar's family out

   m.. Convicted killer jailed for life after re-enacting brutal rape he
committed 22 years ago

   n.. Christmas gifts galore for the family of six on £23,000 benefits

   o.. Drivers face speed-camera blitz as more road limits are reduced to 20mph

   p.. Tiger Woods: Golfer followed in his father's footsteps when he cheated on
wife Elin Nordegren

   q.. Children eat up to 6,000 calories on Xmas Day

   r.. Gang convicted of murdering postmaster's son during shot gun raid on
village Post Office

   s.. Double decker bus overturns leaving 20 injured after collision with lorry

   t.. Female armed robber stripped, beaten and set alight by lynch mob

   u.. 230 Copenhagen climate change protesters held

   v.. 6.6million 'half-timers' now working reduced hours

   w.. France to outlaw burkas in public buildings

   x.. Cheques to be phased out within a decade

   y.. Microsoft ends fight with EU over web browsers

   z.. 4,000 prisoners given satellite TV in cells

   aa.. Air force officers face jail over 14 deaths in Nimrod explosion

   ab.. Accountant murdered girlfriend and kept body in freezer for seven months
so he could go back to ex-wife

   ac.. MORE HEADLINES



http://www.dailymai l.co.uk/home/ index.html



Thursday's Newspaper Front Pages



http://news. sky.com/skynews/ Home/UK-News/ The-Papers- National- Newspaper-
Front-Pages- On-Thursday- December- 17-2009/Media- Gallery/20091231
5502153?lpos= UK_News_Left_ Promo_Region_ 0&lid=GALLERY_ 15502153_ The_Papers%
3A_National_ Newspaper_ Front_Pages_ On_Thursday_ December_ 17_2009



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"Once a Government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of
opposition, it has only one way to go

and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until finally, it
becomes a source of terror to all

its citizens and creates a country, where everyone lives in fear" Trueman.

Transition from Globalization to World Government http://www.youtube. com/watch?
v=8ktQSLgu4n4

Galloway War Crimes Speech  http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=zXpp6V4Oho8

Michael Chossudovsky' s outstanding video lecture  The Criminalization of War
http://www.globalre search.ca/ index.php? context=va& aid=16150

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UN Chief: We Will Impose Global Governance / This Is Bigger Than Climate Change.
It Is A Battle To Redefine Humanity / TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION IS
TYRANNY!" / Climate Skeptics Give Greenpeace a Dose of Their Own Medicine in
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UN Chief: We Will Impose Global Governance


http://www.prisonplanet.com/un-chief-we-will-impose-global-governance.html

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has again publicly admitted that
the agenda behind the Copenhagen summit and the climate change fraud is the
imposition of a global government and the end of national sovereignty.

When the world figures out that the UN is a secular agency and will not tolerate
the needs of christians, jews or muslims, or their more extrme belief systems -
this could all shatter like a Faberge Egg when dropped from atop the UN
Building.

Speaking about the agenda to impose targets on CO2 emissions, as well as a
global tax on financial transactions and a direct tax on GDP, Ban Ki-moon told
the Los Angeles Times in an interview, "We will establish a global governance
structure to monitor and manage the implementation of this."

This might work if the planet were populated by herds of wandering cabbbages;
but unfortuantely for the New Worlder's this planet's problems are the result of
people-oriented problems that involve trust and deception on a planetary scale.
There can be NO SOLUTION under the cloak of stealth which the UN now seeks to
impose over the entire planet. Ban Ki-moon is about to run smack into his own
Waterloo on this point, and it will be a more than  deserved  but colossal
FAILURE of the Powers that be!

"We need to have a very strong, robust, binding political deal that will have an
immediate operational effect. This is not going to be a political declaration,
just for the sake of declaration. It is going to be a binding political deal,
which will lead to a legally binding treaty next year," he told the Times' Bruce
Wallace, adding that a formal treaty would be signed by mid-2010.

While the world was sleeping apparently everyone on the planet that mattered
died - and Ban Ki-moon was appointed as both god and dictator?!

Ki-moon also hinted that the arrival of President Barack Obama could grasp
victory from the jaws of defeat for the globalists, who up until now have looked
like failing in their efforts to secure a multilateral agreement at Copenhagen
that includes China, India and the United States.

Apparently no one has informed our new world leader that Obamanation has NO
SKILL AT ALL, especially as 'a CLOSER.' His job is to mutter and mumble (other
people's phrases and promises) until all that's left is a anther clutter of
contradctory warninsgs coupled with zero actual action: compounded by his
NON-EXISTANT TRACK RECORD of even his own existence.

This BLACK FRIDAY will probably be remembered but not for the MANDATORY
SUCCESSES of either Ban Ki-Moon or the LIES of Barack Huessein Obama.

This piece of drivel, masquarading as a press release, was meant to assure by
assuming facts-not-in-evidence: As to events that no one [especially not Bon
Ki-Moon or Obama his chosen puppet-for-this-occassion] can or could foresee as
to the true outcome - especially NOT before these deeply-darkening threats have
even come to pass.

"Realities" cannot be reported BEFORE they happen; that must wait for the actual
events to occur!

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This Is Bigger Than Climate Change. It Is A Battle To Redefine Humanity



http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/14/climate-change-bat\
tle-redefine-humanity


This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic
corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures,
humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to
continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or
to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This
is about us.



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Here is what was planned for us all along - having zip to do with global
warmning, or much of anything else, except to provide the framework to STEAL yet
another BOGUS income stream from an already besieged poplulation! If this does
NOT AFFECT the PEOPLE WHO WILL PAY THESE Obscene and currently illegal TAXES -
then those people should not think of themselves as men or women that still have
the right to live in the world any longer.
Participation is required if we are to have a viable society: and in this case

                                         PARTICIPATION MEANS:
"TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
                          IS TYRANNY!"
KIRWAN



The final Copenhagen draft agreement which was hammered out in the early hours
of Friday morning includes provisions for a global tax on financial transactions
that will be paid directly to the World Bank, as President Obama prepares to
bypass Congress by approving a massive transfer of wealth from America into
globalist hands.

As Lord Monckton, Alex Jones and others warned, the notion that the globalists
would achieve nothing at Copenhagen has likely been a ruse all along. The elite
look set to ram through the lion's share of their agenda, which would include a
massive global government tax at a cost of at least $3,000 a year for American
families already laboring under a devastating recession, double digit
unemployment and a reduction in living standards.

Hillary Clinton arrived yesterday to rally global leaders around a resolution
and Barack Obama is set to be portrayed as the savior of the world by rescuing
what was pitched all along as a conference doomed to fail.

"The summit "hangs in the balance," said Obama this morning. "We are running out
of time. The time for talk is over. It is better for us to act than to talk. The
question is whether we move forward together or split apart."

The final agreement may not force countries to meet CO2 emission targets, but it
will grease the skids for the biggest tax hike in human history, a fact that
establishment media outlets have completely failed to emphasize.

Monckton told the Alex Jones Show last week that the initial secretive draft
version of the Copenhagen agreement represented a global government power grab
on an "unimaginable scale," and mandated the creation of 700 new bureaucracies
as well as a colossal raft of new taxes including 2 percent levies on both GDP
and every international financial transaction.

Monckton said that the new world government outlined in the treaty would be
handed powers to, "Tax the American economy to the extent of 2 percent GDP, to
impose a further tax of 2 percent on every financial transaction..and to close
down effectively the economies of the west, transfer your jobs to third world
countries."


As the leak of the Danish text outlined, such taxes, earmarked as "climate
financing," will go straight into the coffers of the IMF and the World Bank.
These funds will be used to bankroll the imposition of global governance that UN
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon promised would be achieved at Copenhagen.

According to the latest news out of Copenhagen, the taxes that were included in
the initial text are still in the final agreement which is set to be passed
later today or in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the final text, "Proposes a range of
innovative mechanisms for raising the money, ranging from a tax on air and sea
transports fuels to a tax on financial transfers."

This would form part of an initial commitment of $US10 billion a year from 2010
to 2012, climbing to $US50 billion annually by 2015 and $US100 billion by 2020,
although these figures will inevitably increase if the UN ramps up its climate
fearmongering as it has done at each successive climate conference since the Rio
Earth Summit in 1992.

The treaty outlines, "Penalties or fines for non-compliance," in developed
countries and the creation of an international police force to "enforce its will
by imposing unlimited financial penalties on any countries whose performance
under this treaty they don't like," Monckton told the Alex Jones Show, saying
that it amounted to a total global government takeover on an "unimaginable
scale".

"We're looking at a grab for absolute power and absolute financial control
worldwide by the UN and its associated bureaucracies and 700 new bureaucratic
bodies," said Monckton, adding that if the agreement was signed by Obama, the
U.S. would be losing its freedom to a "sinister dictatorship" being formed under
the contrived pretext of global warming.



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Venezuela's Chavez 'Still' Smells Sulfur After Obama Speech LOL I love it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580503,00.html
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Climate Skeptics Give Greenpeace a Dose of Their Own Medicine in Copenhagen

http://www.infowars.com/climate-skeptics-give-greenpeace-a-dose-of-their-own-med\
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Cutting-a-Deal with Nature



Jim Kirwan

12-18-09






When someone fails repeatedly in business; then prudent fiscal policies require
that 'results' must determine who can get another chance or a loan to continue
in business: this is not what is happening around the Countdown to Copenhagen.
Those few that have driven this planet and its people into a suicide pact over
conditions for development and the emissions controls through which "The Few"
have made their fortunes by the willful trashing of every possible regulation,
and by destroying all impediments to outright theft of the valuable resources
possessed by populations that could not fight back against this global crime.
This practice must cease or the world itself will collapse.



We need to get all of those agreements that Cheney sanctioned back in 2001, and
overturn everything he approved of in 2001 if we are to be seen as being serious
about changing the way business is done on the global stage. This would
eliminate the use of filthy-coal and would override the excessive and illegal
licenses that were granted to energy corporations; to destroy the forests and to
literally destroy our mountains to provide huge profits at an artificially low
cost which have never taken the survival of the environment into consideration.
Cheney's arrangements for oil and gas exploration and development must also be
reversed - immediately.



Over 80 percent of the planet (134 nations in the Group of 77) are opposed to
everything that is being agreed to in-secret, inside Copenhagen's summit, where
they have silenced, and locked out, all the voices of all those that disagree
with them.




Agribusiness is not farming - it is a huge and totally voracious machine that
eats the earth, the water and the air to produce their contaminated and poisoned
crops that are harmful to anyone or to any animal that consumes what they
produce. Agribusiness serves the needs of fascist-slave-state monopolies that
are slated to replace the world as it was in 1999. Traditional subsistence
farming needs to be reconstituted; along with a renewed-respect and adherence to
the national laws of countries around the world.



The excuse being used this time is the 'Climate Crisis' to justify steamrolling
the development and the survival of the remaining developing nations that have
clearly been cut off from any profits from the development of their own
resources.  The people that have come to Copenhagen to be heard, but who have
been locked out of the meetings being held today, ought to put up CRIME SCENE
tape and should keep the hundred plus leaders of the criminal-world inside the
building until they allow the everyone that wants to be heard to confront these
traitors to their own people that are acting as delegates in Copenhagen.



The US led the way in crushing hundreds of counties and economies in order to
guarantee costs so low as to amount to less than a slave-wage for those that
made their massive profits a reality, in the global economic scheme that
overbalances their global participation, in irrational development for the
corporations and that bought the support of nearly all of those who were
supposed to protect the people and the planet from the greed and specifically
from the massive-criminal-enterprises which have dominated all these malevolent
crimes against the peoples of the world.



Under the New World Order, the first casualty was the artificial-national
borders around the world. The second casualty will be the belief systems of the
peoples of the world, in order to lock-in every person, regardless of their
belief-systems into something that has surrendered or will soon surrender to
global fascism. The unseen and unspoken point behind all the slavery and
domination unfortunately does not stop with slavery: because their goal is to
murder most of the current population so as to have the whole planet, or what's
left of it, pretty much to themselves!



The "fault lines" which Obama mentioned today - have indeed "been in place for
years" but what he fails to mention is that those fault lines made this massive
crime against the world more than just possible: This provided the privatized
world with the excuse they needed to run unchecked over all human and social
constrictions, as well as most of the financial and military restrictions that
would normally have blocked this global takeover of the world. 'Reality' must
finally be faced in this showdown between the vast majority of the poor and
developing peoples of the world; and those that have blocked all access to any
change in this imbalance, since the so-called Dawn of the Industrial Age began.



The farce of this whole conference can be summed up in this simple paragraph:
Carbon trading... what insanity! It's another Zionist invention of something
from nothing a kind of cabalistic alchemy... It's the next trendy media hype
that nature herself will utterly destroy when the fact of global destruction is
finally felt by those that actually think they can "cut a deal" with nature
herself. By that time it will be too late to stop the carnage and the
worldwide-deaths of so many millions of those that never shared in any of the
obscene profits that were stolen from them by this international act of piracy
committed by the privatized monsters of irrational-industrial-over-development.



We have to chose sides as individuals and begin to demand real changes here in
the way corporations are allowed to do business, We must also begin to force
government back into their rightful place-which is on their knees and in-service
'to the people' that are their owners and their masters.



But most of all we must first WAKE UP! Once all the natural elements of the
planet have been destroyed then this world will DIE a very final death as far as
humanity goes. The planet will come back, but only after thousands of years and
a total makeover of the chemical and biological composition of what shall be
able to live in that rejuvenated world, without us to screw it all up - again!



Imagine if you can the arrogance of the kind of creatures that actually believe
that they can cut-deals with nature which would actually allow them to triumph
over the incontrovertible laws of nature herself - INCREDIBLE!



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Lord Monckton was assaulted by Danish police


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7dZLOn6bNk&feature

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  Why no one invades Switzerland

  Why Switzerland has the lowest crime rate in the world.

During WW II a Japanese admiral was once asked about invading the US.

He said the Japanese equivalent of saying: "'No way! There'd be a sniper behind
every blade of grass."

Then there's Switzerland...

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U.K. House of Lords follow China & Australia to propose internet censorship bill

http://www.prisonplanet.com/uk-house-of-lords-follow-china-and-australia-propose\
-internet-censorship-bill.html

"Once a Government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of
opposition, it has only one way to go
and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until finally, it
becomes a source of terror to all
its citizens and creates a country, where everyone lives in fear" Trueman.

The Truth in any situtation has always been THE ENEMY of almost all those in any
governnment today: This fact must NEVER BE FORGOTTEN by those of us who exist at
the mercy of so much corruption and tyranny worldwide.

IF these Draconian measures are passed by the puppet regimes that are proposing
them; then the world will have just one huge Wikipedia [a thoroughly alterable
and totally unreliable mess of self-serving sites] instead of an actual
information tool that must compete with all other points of view in order to be
credible. This measure will also end any real opportunity for the people of the
world to actually have ANY VOICE or CHOICE whatever ANYWHERE - in everything
that continues to be thrown at all the rest of us!

Maybe these puppets think that populations everywhere are sufficiently sound
asleep - to get away with this final murder of what is left of actual
information everywhere, that is so vital to the planet and its people! But of
course if we continue to slumber and DO NOT ACT to stop these insiders and their
latest
Folly - then we shall - like the Fool below, have only oursleves to blame!


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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government
18 Dec 2009
http://www.legitgov.org
All links are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
CIA working with Palestinian security agents --US agency co-operating with
Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank 17
Dec 2009 Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly
torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have
been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned. ...Evidence is
emerging the CIA is co-operating with security agents whose continuing use of
torture has been widely documented by human rights groups. The relationship
between the CIA and the two Palestinian agencies involved - Preventive Security
Organisation (PSO) and General Intelligence Service (GI) - is said by some
western diplomats and other officials in the region to be so close that the
American agency appears to be supervising the Palestinians' work.

Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond 2011 17 Dec 2009 U.S.
Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry Thursday further signaled that a
strong American military presence will remain in Afghanistan long after July
2011, when President Obama plans to end his troop surge. Speaking at the Afghan
Ministry of Foreign Relations before a group of diplomats, non-governmental
organizations and Afghan citizens, Eikenberry drove home the Obama
administration's sometimes contradictory message lies.

Up to 56000 more contractors likely for Afghanistan, congressional agency says
--Number of mercenaries would rise to anywhere from 130,000 to 160,000 16 Dec
2009 The surge of 30,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan could be accompanied by a
surge of up to 56,000 contractors mercenaries, vastly expanding the presence of
personnel from the U.S. private sector in a war zone, according to a study by
the Congressional Research Service. CRS, which provides background information
to members of Congress on a bipartisan basis, said it expects an additional
26,000 to 56,000 contractors to be sent to Afghanistan.

Auditors challenge $1 billion in Afghanistan costs 17 Dec 2009 A Senate
subcommittee says Pentagon auditors have challenged nearly $1 billion in charges
by military contractors in Afghanistan. That's raising concerns on Capitol Hill
about wasteful spending as the Obama administration expands the U.S. 'mission'
in Afghanistan. According to a memo distributed to subcommittee members before
the [Thursday] hearing, the Defense Contract Audit Agency examined $5.9 billion
in Afghanistan troop support contracts. The agency determined that $950 million
of the costs were unreasonable or lacked enough documentation to support them.

U.S. spends $23 billion on Afghan contracts so far 17 Dec 2009 The United States
has spent over $23 billion on reconstruction and development contracts in
Afghanistan since 2002, and auditors say about $1 billion of this is waste, a
U.S. senator said on Thursday. The contract spending is expected to rise with
President Barack Obama's planned [insane] surge of 30,000 U.S. forces into
Afghanistan in the coming months, Senator Claire McCaskill said at a
subcommittee hearing.

Officers Warned of Flaw in U.S. Drones in 2004 18 Dec 2009 Senior U.S. military
officers working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussed the danger of Russia
and China intercepting and doctoring video from drone aircraft in 2004, but the
Pentagon didn't begin securing the signals until this year, according to people
familiar with the matter. The disclosure came after The Wall Street Journal
reported 'insurgents' in Iraq had intercepted video feeds from drones,
downloading unencrypted communications from the unmanned planes.

Islamic insurgents hack into CIA state-of-the-art Predator drones 18 Dec 2009
Predator drones used by the CIA against Islamic militants have been hacked into
by insurgents using nothing more sophisticated than a $25.95 (£16) off-the-shelf
software, it was revealed last night. Although the insurgents were not able to
control the $20 million aircraft, typically armed with Hellfire missiles and
flown over the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, they could watch
live video feeds beamed back to US control stations through their electronic
"eyeballs". The hackers' success raises the disturbing possibility of the
Predators being taken over and used to attack US or British forces, or perhaps
even domestic targets. [...as the next false flag. US military officials knew
about it for a year five years --and did *nothing* about it, of course.]

Officials Say Iraq Fighters Intercepted Drone Video --Military officials
confirmed that they had become aware of the intercepts last year 18 Dec 2009
Insurgents in Iraq have occasionally intercepted video images sent from American
military drones to troops in the field, causing the Defense Department to
increase its use of encryption over the last year, military and intelligence
officials said Thursday. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Iraqi
insurgents had used a $26 commercial software package called Sky Grabber to
capture some of the video feeds from unmanned aerial vehicles.

US Senate passes massive 'defense' bill 18 Dec 2009 A hefty US military spending
bill has cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate to fund the US overseas
war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill, which was approved 63-33 in the Senate in
the early hours on Friday, will allocate $128 billion to fund the current US war
in Iraq and Afghanistan, reported Bloomberg. However, it fell short of
earmarking funds for the additional 30,000 troops US President Barack Obama has
ordered to be sent to Afghanistan.

Iraq, Iran play cat-and-mouse game over oil well 18 Dec 2009 Iraq on Friday
demanded Iran immediately withdraw its forces from an Iraqi oil well, which it
accused the Islamic republic of seizing after crossing the border with tanks.
Despite an Iranian agency report denying there had been any incursion, Iraq's
deputy interior minister said that 11 Iranian soldiers had dug in at the well in
the Fauqa Field after raising the Iranian flag there. An Iraqi border general
said the Iranians "positioned tanks . . . and dug trenches" around the field's
Well No. 4, while other officials said the incursion was the latest of several
like it this week.

Pakistan Government Dismisses Rumors of Military Coup 18 Dec 2009 Pakistan
President Asif Ali Zardari's spokesman denied rumors of a coup after the defense
minister was barred from leaving the country. "There is no coup," spokesman
Farhatullah Babar was quoted as saying by Reuters. He confirmed the remark to
Bloomberg News and declined further comment. Opposition lawmaker
Siddiq-ul-Farooq said there "is no chance at all of a coup."

Pakistan court summons 52 suspects on graft charges 19 Dec 2009 Amid growing
political turmoil, Pakistan's anti-corruption court in the southern city of
Karachi has summoned 52 suspects, including high-ranking officials, a report
says. Prosecutors say, among the top officials are Interior Minister Rehman
Malik and presidential secretary Salman Farooqi. The Supreme Court on Thursday
had also banned Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar and other top officials
from leaving the country.

High court blocks Pakistani officials from exiting country --Nearly 280
government officials, including defense minister, are put on 'exit control list'
18 Dec 2009 Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar was blocked from
leaving the country Thursday after Pakistan's Supreme Court struck down an
amnesty that had protected politicians from corruption charges, state media
reported. Nearly 280 government officials and ministers have been placed on an
exit control list by the high court, Wajid Hasan, Pakistan's high commissioner
in Britain, told CNN.

Officials: US missile barrage kills 17 in Pakistan 17 Dec 2009 Two U.S. missile
strikes pummeled targets inside the main sanctuary used by al-Qaida [al-CIAduh]
and the Taliban along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, killing 17 people
Thursday, local intelligence officials said. The missiles rained down Thursday
on North Waziristan, a haven for many militants including groups determined to
push the U.S. and NATO out of Afghanistan. The second, bloodier attack involved
five drones and 10 missiles -- an unusually intense bombardment, they said.

US: Pakistan delaying hundreds of visas 18 Dec 2009 The US says Pakistan is
delaying hundreds of visas for US officials and contractors mercenaries , a move
that has added to tensions between the two countries. State Department deputy
spokesman Robert Wood said the US has raised its "serious concerns" at very
senior levels with Pakistan. Secretive US military operations in Pakistan's
border regions particularly the use of drones to target alleged 'Al-Qaeda'
leaders has angered many Pakistanis.

Pentagon nominee promises reporters won't be rated before embeds 18 Dec 2009 The
nominee for the Pentagon's top public affairs job promised Thursday he will
review Defense Department policies to ensure that journalists are not being
denied embeds with combat troops based on the tenor of their reporting, a
practice exposed by Stars and Stripes last summer. Douglas Wilson, who is
expected to be confirmed as the new assistant secretary of defense for public
affairs, told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee that he was opposed
to rating reporters as "friendly" or "negative" when considering their
applications to accompany U.S. combat troops, and will look into the matter when
he takes over the post. [Yeah, it's actually a news item when the Pentagon
*doesn't* play favorites.]

U.S. personnel in Iraq could face court-martial for getting pregnant 19 Dec 2009
The Army general commanding U.S. forces in northern Iraq has added pregnancy to
the list of prohibitions for personnel under his command. The policy, which went
into effect Nov. 4, makes it possible to face punishment, including a
court-martial and jail time, for becoming pregnant or impregnating a
servicemember, according to the wording of the policy and confirmations from
Army officials.

Judge considers newly released e-mails in KBR case 17 Dec 2009 A Houston judge
is in the spotlight as he has to decide who could have stopped a military
contractor truck convoy in Iraq before six civilian truck drivers were killed
and others injured in a 2004 ambush. U.S. District Judge Gray Miller has made
this call once before. He decided that the U.S. Army had control over KBR. But
an appellate court bounced the issue back to him, and the legal landscape may
look different after months of pretrial information gathering.

Ahmadinejad: Obama walking down Bush's road [He's *driving* down it.] 18 Dec
2009 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his US counterpart Barack Obama
talks of change but in reality is 'going down the same road' as his predecessor,
George W. Bush. More than a week after Obama defended US wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq in accepting his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Ahmadinejad said Obama's
oft-stated claims of change increasingly seem to be "just talk and nothing
more."

Chavez to Obama: Give back Nobel Prize 18 Dec 2009 Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez says his American counterpart Barack Obama should give his Nobel Peace
Prize back as he is sending more soldiers to war-weary Afghanistan. "He [Obama]
got the Nobel Peace Prize almost the same day as he sent 30,000 soldiers to kill
innocent people in Afghanistan," he said during a speech at a climate change
conference in Denmark. "Obama should give back the prize," Chavez added on
Thursday.

Muslims Say F.B.I. Tactics Sow Anger and Fear 18 Dec 2009 In March, a national
coalition of Islamic organizations warned that it would cease cooperating with
the F.B.I. unless the agency stopped infiltrating mosques and using "agents
provocateurs to trap unsuspecting Muslim youth." In September, a cleric in Bay
Ridge, Brooklyn, sued the government, claiming that the F.B.I. had threatened to
scuttle his application for a green card unless he agreed to spy on relatives
overseas -- echoing similar claims made in recent court cases in California,
Florida and Massachusetts... Several high-profile cases in which informers have
infiltrated mosques and helped promote plots, Muslim leaders say, have sown a
corrosive fear among their people that F.B.I. informers are everywhere,
listening.

FDIC unable to find institution to take over failed GA bank; will mail checks to
depositors for insured funds --Seven U.S. banks closed by regulators --failures
at 140 18 Dec 2009 Seven U.S. banks were closed by regulators on Friday, bring
the total this year to 140 as the effects of the credit crisis continued to be
felt across the country. What's more, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
established temporary institutions to help close two of the failed banks.
Atlanta-based RockBridge Commercial Bank became the 25th Georgia-based bank to
fail this year. The FDIC was unable to find another institution to take over the
failed bank, and so will mail checks to retail depositors for insured funds.

Natural swine flu defence found 18 Dec 2009 A previously unknown natural defence
[IFITM3] against swine flu and other viruses has been discovered which could
lead to new treatments. Scientists found that the virus-fighting proteins
protected against swine flu when levels were increased. When the proteins were
removed the swine flu virus was able to multiply in the body unchecked.

Flu pandemic may change US flu approach forever --School-based vaccinations a
model for the future [so pharmaterrorists can make a killing] 17 Dec 2009 The
swine flu pandemic may have changed the U.S. approach to handling influenza
forever, and for the better, U.S. officials said on Thursday. While they said
years of work were needed before vaccine production was up to the desired
standard, some experiments such as vaccinating children in schools might work to
help control seasonal influenza.

Penn. ready to deal with flu, terrorism 17 Dec 2009 Funding cuts threaten the
nation's ability to deal with disease outbreaks and bioterrorism, but
Pennsylvania is among the better-prepared states, according to a report.
Pennsylvania fulfills eight of 10 key measures in the report, called "Ready or
Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters and Bioterrorism."

Al Franken shuts up Joe Lieberman on Heath Care Summary of post by Zennie62 17
Dec 2009 Senator [Al] Franken [D-MN] presided over the Senate when [Joe]
Lieberman [I-Aetna] was speaking. But Lieberman had so upset Democrats and
Liberals with his heavy-handed blocking of any version of the Health Care Bill
with a "Public Option" earlier in the week, that he made himself ripe for a
political smack-down. He got one. Lieberman had ran out of his 10 minutes of
speaking time and asked Franken for an extension of time. "In my capacity as the
Senator from Minnesota, I object", Franken calmly responded. Lieberman gave a
small chuckle and said "Ok".

Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure --Deal thrashed out at
talks condemned as climate change scepticism in action 19 Dec 2009 The UN
climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last night in
Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were
seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to come. After eight draft
texts and all-day talks between 115 world leaders, it was left to Barack Obama
and Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to broker a political agreement. The
so-called Copenhagen accord "recognises" the scientific case for keeping
temperature rises to no more than 2C but did not contain commitments to
emissions reductions to achieve that goal.

Gore at climate talks: Polar ice may go in five years --New computer modeling
suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as
2014, Al Gore said Monday at the UN climate conference. 14 Dec 2009 Northern
polar sea ice has been retreating dramatically. These new projections suggest an
almost-vanished summer ice cap much earlier than foreseen by a US government
agency just eight months ago. "It is hard to capture the astonishment that the
experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this," former US Vice President
Gore told reporters and other conference participants at a joint briefing with
Scandinavian officials and scientists, his first appearance at the two-week
session.

Sea level rising much faster than predicted --New estimates of sea level change
including the dynamics of the big ice sheets are way higher than the IPCC 2007
estimate. 14 Dec 2009 In an epoch report published in 2007, the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that oceans would
rise by 18-59 centimeters in 2100. In a new report, the Arctic Monitoring and
Assessment Programme estimates the increase to be more than the double.
According to the Danish daily Politiken, the climate panel underlined that the
estimate did not include rises caused by the disintegration of Greenland and
Antarctica ice sheets.

Sea World's Polar Bears Celebrate Christmas Early 18 Dec 2009 (Gold Coast, AU)
The Polar bears will celebrate in style with their own Christmas tree fully
stocked with everything a Polar bear needs for the silly season including lots
of gift wrapped presents. The Christmas tree and gifts form part of the bear's
enrichment program by providing them with toys and puzzles to help stimulate
their senses. Sea World's Polar Bears are ambassadors for their species and play
a vital role in raising awareness of the effects of global warning. Current
research indicates that Polar Bear numbers in the wild are declining, with just
22,000 bears remaining worldwide.

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Previous lead stories: Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones --$26 Software Is Used to
Breach Key Weapons in Iraq 17 Dec 2009 Militants in Iraq have used $26
off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones,
potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S.
military operations. Senior defense and intelligence officials said
Iranian-backed [?] insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of
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available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet [Cheaper at Wal-Mart?]-- to
regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports
on the matter. [We've surely funded and trained the hackers. If the enemy didn't
exist, we'd create them. Wait, we did! --MDR]



Rep.: US may be 'funding the very insurgents we are trying to fight' --Congress
investigating charges of 'protection racket' by Afghanistan contractors 17 Dec
2009 A House oversight subcommittee said Wednesday that it has begun a
wide-ranging investigation into allegations that private security companies
mercenaries hired to protect Defense Department convoys in Afghanistan are
paying off warlords and the Taliban to ensure safe passage. "If shown to be
true, it would mean that the United States is unintentionally engaged in a vast
protection racket and, as such, may be indirectly funding the very insurgents we
are trying to fight," said Rep. John F. Tierney (D-Mass.), chairman of the House
oversight subcommittee on national security and foreign affairs.
Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed By Julien Mercille 16 Dec 2009 The
total revenue generated by opiates within Afghanistan is about $3.4 billion per
year. Of this figure, according to UNODC, the Taliban get only 4% of the sum.
Farmers, meanwhile, get 21%. And the remaining 75%? Al-Qaeda? No: The report
specifies that it "does not appear to have a direct role in the Afghan opiates
trade," although it may participate in "low-level drugs and/or arms smuggling"
along the Pakistani border. Instead, the remaining 75% is captured by government
officials, the police, local and regional power brokers and traffickers - in
short, many of the groups now supported (or tolerated) by the United States and
NATO are important actors in the drug trade.




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Today's U.K. headlines

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   p.. Government plan to ban logos on cigarette packets is put on hold as
Mandelson intervenes
   q.. 'Parasitic' career criminals who shot dead postmaster's son to serve at
least 34 years
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violence
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Transition from Globalization to World Government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ktQSLgu4n4
Galloway War Crimes Speech  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpp6V4Oho8
Michael Chossudovsky's outstanding video lecture  The Criminalization of War
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16150
The Rothschild Octopus http://www.dejanlucic.net/THE%20ROTHSCHILD%20OCTOPUS
  Fraud in Science http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd7M4Hqwdbg
The Myth of Osma bin Laden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn61PJQGCUo
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MRC Alert Special: Worst New York Times Bias of the Year
Subject: MRC Alert Special: Worst New York Times Bias of the Year








Media Research Center CyberAlert Newsletter
December 16, 2009 14:41 ET


The Times Watch Quotes of Note: 2009 Worst Quotes of the Year

New York Times bias often came with a smile in the early part of 2009, with the
paper falling hard for Obama's "historic" presidency and limitless intellect.
But by late summer that smile had curdled into a snarl, as Times reporters
seethed at "angry," "bitter," and, above all, "white" tea party protesters who
challenged the President on his attempted takeover of health care and his
massive spending proposals.

For the worst bias the Times had to offer in 2009 in five categories, as
compiled by Clay Waters for the MRC's TimesWatch site:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/timeswatch/articles/2009/20091216112245.aspx

But first, the worst three New York Times quotes of the year as selected by
three expert observers of the New York Times: This year Times Watch welcomes
first-time judge Scott Johnson to join Thomas Lifson and Don Luskin to choose
the most biased quotes as their "favorite" from the Times in 2009.

# Scott Johnson of the Powerline blog went beyond the call of duty and may
qualify for hazard pay, picking favorites in each category. But he found this
quote from Thomas Friedman's September 9 column in praise of Communist China the
worst of all:

"Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is
hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than
one-party autocracy, and that is one-party democracy, which is what we have in
America today. One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. But when it is
led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also
have great advantages."

Johnson observed: "Given the esteem in which he is held by 'right' (as in left)
thinkers, Tom Friedman deserves special recognition for this quote. It sheds
light on Friedman, the Times, and Times readers."


# Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher of American Thinker, picked this September
13 quote from columnist Maureen Dowd:

"Surrounded by middle-aged white guys -- a sepia snapshot of the days when such
pols ran Washington like their own men's club -- Joe Wilson yelled 'You lie!' at
a president who didn't. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in
the air: You lie, boy!"

Lifson commented: "Maureen Dowd's imputing of racism to Rep. Joe Wilson, in her
infamous 'You lie, boy!' fantasy is not merely repulsive, it reveals a mind
alarmingly detached from reality. The sheer meanness and casual flinging of a
scurrilous charge plumb a moral low."


# Don Luskin, chief investment officer of Trend Macrolytics LLC and publisher of
The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid, picked the paper's double standards
on unions, which are vital institutions -- for other businesses. For the New
York Times itself? Not so much:

"The argument against unions -- that they unduly burden employers with
unreasonable demands -- is one that corporate America makes in good times and
bad....The real issue is whether enhanced unionizing would worsen the recession,
and there is no evidence that it would. There is a strong argument that the
slack labor market of a recession actually makes unions all the more important."
-- Editorial from Dec. 29, 2008.

vs.

"The New York Times News Service will lay off at least 25 editorial employees
next year and will move the editing of the service to a Florida newspaper owned
by The New York Times Company....The plan for the news service calls for The
Gainesville Sun, whose newsroom is not unionized and has lower salaries, to take
over editing and page design." -- Richard Perez-Pena, Nov. 13, 2009.

Luskin said this double standard "expresses the fundamental hypocrisy of the
Times as an elite institution that tries to establish its institutional
legitimacy by attacking elite institutions."


For all the quotes, check online where you can read the worst bias in five
categories:

- WE LOVE OBAMA...

- ...AND WE HATE CONSERVATIVES

- SAM TANENHAUS, UNDERTAKER FOR CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT

- PRO-DEMOCRATIC DOUBLE STANDARDS

- JUST PLAIN WACKY

For all the quotes:
http://www.mediaresearch.org/timeswatch/articles/2009/20091216112245.aspx


- Brent Baker



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Subject: MRC Alert: CBS Relays Liberal Anger 'Their Agenda is Being Hijacked by
a Few'






       A daily compilation edited by Brent H. Baker, CyberAlert items are drawn
from daily BiasAlert posts and distributed by the Media Research Center's News
Analysis Division, the leader since 1987 in documenting, exposing and
neutralizing liberal media bias.





Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996
Wednesday December 16, 2009 @ 10:31 AM EST

1. CBS Relays Liberal Anger 'Their Agenda is Being Hijacked by a Few'
A night after MSNBC's Keith Olbermann demanded Senator Joe Lieberman "just
resign already" as he shrieked "you are embarrassing humanity!", CBS joined in
targeting Connecticut's "independent Democrat" for daring to oppose liberals on
health care. "He holds the 60th vote needed to get the health care reform bill
passed in the Senate," anchor Katie Couric intoned, "and Nancy Cordes tells us
supporters of reform are angry and confused about Lieberman's position." Cordes
soon expanded the exasperation to include "Democratic Senators Mary Landrieu,
Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson" who "successfully blocked the public option even
though the other 55 Democrats support it. Nelson is still holding out for
stricter anti-abortion language, leading some liberals to complain their agenda
is being hijacked by a few." She demanded of Lieberman: "Does it trouble you
that you're going against an overwhelming majority of your caucus?"

2. MSNBC Graphics Fret About Joe Lieberman, 'The Spoiler' Who Is 'Blowing'
Health Care Reform
Some of the clearest examples of MSNBC's liberal bias can be found in the
onscreen graphics selected for the network's programming. In the span of 20
minutes on Tuesday, three such Morning Meeting images stated a pretty clear
opinion about Joe Lieberman's opposition to parts of the health care bill. At
9:20am, one whined, "Joe Blowing Health Reform?"

3. CNN's Gergen Likens President Obama to Damsel in Distress
CNN's David Gergen played up the difficulties that President Obama has faced on
Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, underscored the importance of the coming week for
the executive, and compared him to an iconic movie damsel in distress: "For a
president who's had more trials than anybody I can remember in a long time, sort
of 'The Perils of Pauline' all year, this has become a climactic week for his
presidency." Host Anderson Cooper brought on the senior political analyst to
comment on the latest development on the health care debate, the Obama
presidency in his first months, and the President's upcoming trip to the UN's
climate change conference in Copenhagen. Cooper first asked Gergen about the
potential for congressional liberals to turn against the proposed health care
"reform" bill if the Obama administration cuts a deal with Senator Joe Lieberman
over his objections to a Medicare "buy-in" for people 55 and older: "So, David,
dropping the Medicare buy-in, could we be seeing- I mean, a liberal revolt in
the wake of this? Because, I mean, a lot of people haven't been following the
minutia of this, but, basically, that idea of expanding Medicare to 55 and
above, that was all for liberals, who were angered over the public option being
dropped out."

4. ABC's Martin Bashir Attacks 'Brutal Regime' of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Assails
'Racial Profiling'
On Monday's Nightline, co-host Martin Bashir conducted a one-sided, hostile
profile of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "brutal regime" and attacked his crackdown on
illegal immigration as "racial profiling." The 11 minute investigation of the
Maricopa County law enforcement official was almost totally negative.

5. Ex-CBS Anchor Dan Rather Worried About 'Accountability' of Internet
Journalism
In a Monday interview on MediaBistro.com's weekly video series Media Beat,
disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather shared his concerns over the
credibility of internet journalism: "The difficulty with some of the things on
the internet...is transparency and accountability about who's responsible for
what's on."

6. Pelosi Finishes Last Among Today Viewers' Choice for Person of the Year
In advance of Time magazine's Person of the Year choice being revealed on
Wednesday's show, NBC's Today show brought on managing editor Richard Stengel
yesterday, to reveal the seven finalists, and on Tuesday's show NBC's Matt Lauer
and Meredith Vieira gave the results of an on-line poll of their viewer's picks
and it wasn't good news for Nancy Pelosi. The Speaker of the House finished dead
last among the seven candidates but Lauer pitied Pelosi as he cheered on: "C'mon
Nancy you can do better."








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  CBS Relays Liberal Anger 'Their Agenda is Being Hijacked by a Few'



A night after MSNBC's Keith Olbermann demanded Senator Joe Lieberman "just
resign already" as he shrieked "you are embarrassing humanity!", CBS joined in
targeting Connecticut's "independent Democrat" for daring to oppose liberals on
health care. "He holds the 60th vote needed to get the health care reform bill
passed in the Senate," anchor Katie Couric intoned, "and Nancy Cordes tells us
supporters of reform are angry and confused about Lieberman's position."

Cordes soon expanded the exasperation to include "Democratic Senators Mary
Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and Ben Nelson" who "successfully blocked the public
option even though the other 55 Democrats support it. Nelson is still holding
out for stricter anti-abortion language, leading some liberals to complain their
agenda is being hijacked by a few." She demanded of Lieberman: "Does it trouble
you that you're going against an overwhelming majority of your caucus?" (Hard to
imagine a CBS reporter ever scolding a more liberal Republican for defying the
party's conservative majority.)

A frustrated Cordes concluded: "So this small group of four or so Senators has
managed successfully to impose their will on the other 530 members of Congress
because the changes that they're demanding to the Senate bill will likely have
to be made to the House bill, too."

Earlier in the story, Cordes delivered the blogosphere/MSNBC attack line against
Lieberman:


   The proposal to allow younger Americans to buy into Medicare had been crafted
specifically as a compromise for Lieberman and other moderates who had opposed a
public option. The Connecticut Senator has championed the buy-in idea for nearly
a decade, and reiterated his support just three months ago....What's especially
mystifying, Senators say, is that Lieberman has historically sided with liberals
on domestic issues.


The MRC's Brad Wilmouth corrected the closed-captioning against the video to
provide this transcript of the story on the Tuesday, December 15 CBS Evening
News:


   KATIE COURIC: Now, more about the Senator Chip [Reid] mentioned in his report,
independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. As Chip said, he holds the 60th vote
needed to get the health care reform bill passed in the Senate, and Nancy Cordes
tells us supporters of reform are angry and confused about Lieberman's position.

   NANCY CORDES: Even close colleagues of Senator Joe Lieberman were at a loss
today to explain his apparent about-face.

   SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW (D-MI): I have no idea.

   CORDES: After all, the proposal to allow younger Americans to buy into
Medicare had been crafted specifically as a compromise for Lieberman and other
moderates who had opposed a public option. The Connecticut Senator has
championed the buy-in idea for nearly a decade, and reiterated his support just
three months ago.

   SENATOR JOSEPH LIEBERMAN (I-CT): What I was proposing was that they have an
option to buy into Medicare early.

   CORDES: But this week he suddenly threatened to block the health care bill if
it contains a Medicare buy-in, throwing the entire process into disarray yet
again.

   SENATOR SHERROD BROWN (D-OH): I'm very disappointed because I thought we had
Senator Lieberman's staff in the room, I thought we were gonna, during the
negotiations, I thought he would go along with it.

   CORDES: What's especially mystifying, Senators say, is that Lieberman has
historically sided with liberals on domestic issues, even though he became an
independent in 2006 after losing his Democratic primary.

   JIM SHEA, THE HARTFORD COURANT: No one can understand exactly what Joe's up to
with this. You know, there's some people that think he's, you know, that he's
grandstanding. There's some people who think he's, you know, kowtowing to the
insurance industry.

   CORDES: The industry does have a large presence in Connecticut and gives
generously to his campaigns. But Lieberman is hardly the only moderate putting
the brakes on the bill. Democratic Senators Mary Landrieu, Blanche Lincoln and
Ben Nelson - who come from conservative states - successfully blocked the public
option even though the other 55 Democrats support it. Nelson is still holding
out for stricter anti-abortion language, leading some liberals to complain their
agenda is being hijacked by a few.

   CORDES TO LIEBERMAN: Does it trouble you that you're going against an
overwhelming majority of your caucus?

   LIEBERMAN: Well, it's not fun. I said that to my colleagues at the White
House. I haven't enjoyed it. But you've got to do what you think is right.

   CORDES: So this small group of four or so Senators has managed successfully to
impose their will on the other 530 members of Congress because the changes that
they're demanding to the Senate bill will likely have to be made to the House
bill, too. Katie?

   COURIC: And, Nancy, how does Senator Lieberman explain that he supported
allowing people to buy into Medicare as recently as September?

   CORDES: Well, he insisted today that he hasn't flip-flopped, the that the
Medicare-buy in is something that he supported years ago back when the economy
was better than it is now before there was another health care reform bill that
does so many things to make health insurance affordable for older people.

   COURIC: Meanwhile, Nancy, as you mentioned, there are plenty of Senate
Democrats who feel very strongly about a public option. Could their support be
lost if there isn't one in the bill?

   CORDES: Well, there are a couple of Senators - Senator Roland Burris of
Illinois or Bernie Sanders of Vermont - who say it would be very difficult for
them to support a bill if it doesn't contain a public option? But they stopped
short of drawing a line in the sand the way that Senator Joe Lieberman did so it
does look like there is some wiggle room there.


- Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media
Research Center






  MSNBC Graphics Fret About Joe Lieberman, 'The Spoiler' Who Is 'Blowing' Health
Care Reform



Some of the clearest examples of MSNBC's liberal bias can be found in the
onscreen graphics selected for the network's programming. In the span of 20
minutes on Tuesday, three such Morning Meeting images stated a pretty clear
opinion about Joe Lieberman's opposition to parts of the health care bill. At
9:20am, one whined, "Joe Blowing Health Reform?"

At 9:01, another graphic actually used an exclamation point, not often seen in
supposedly objective reporting: "Say It Ain't So, Joe! Lieberman: No on Buy-In."
At 9:14, a picture of the senator appeared onscreen with the words "THE
SPOILER."

At 9:20, host Dylan Ratigan interviewed Ned Lamont, the Democratic candidate
that liberals supported in the 2006 primary against the Connecticut Senator.
Fellow guest Jonathan Capehart, the liberal editorial writer for the Washington
Post, mused about less honorable reasons as to why Lieberman might oppose
lowering the age of Medicare.

He speculated, "Mr. Lamont, can you put to rest one thing I've seen in the
press? and that is maybe one of the reasons why Senator Lieberman is
flip-flopping all over the place on this is because of the insurance interests
in Connecticut. Do you think that that is a valid point or a valid criticism?"

In an earlier tease for the segment, Ratigan wondered if this was "revenge" on
the part of Lieberman. Clearly, MSNBC is not happy with the possibility that
Lieberman could derail or water down the possibility of government-run health
care.

A transcript of the December 15 segment, which aired at 9:20am EST, follows:

   9:01 graphic: Say It Ain't So, Joe! Lieberman: No on Buy-In

   9:14 graphic [Over picture of Lieberman]: The Spoiler

   9:20 graphic: Joe Blowing Health Reform?

   9:20

   [Clips of Lieberman earlier saying he would reserve judgment on the expansion
of Medicare.]

   DYLAN RATIGAN: So you can see why many Democrats this morning are boiling with
rage, pondering Lieberman's sudden about-face. Some are even asking the
question, could it have anything to do with this man? Joining the Morning
Meeting is Ned Lamont, who challenged Lieberman in 2006 for the U.S. Senate, and
won, prompting Lieberman to leave the Democratic party. Lamont now exploring a
run for governor. Also with us, Jonathan Capehart, Washington Post editorial
writer. And Mr. Lamont, why do you think Senator Lieberman is making the
decisions he's making right now?

   NED LAMONT: Well, good morning, Dylan. Great to be with you. Look, I thought
enator Lieberman made sense about the Medicare buy-in in 2004. During our
campaign in 2006, he thought it was a good idea. You know, this is a state that
is dead last in job creation and has some of the highest health care costs in
the country. And the two are related. If you believe in job creation and growth,
you've got to work on the health care costs. And as you pointed out just a few
months ago, he reiterated his interest in this.

   RATIGAN: But, why, why do you think the decision now, because again, Senator
Klobuchar was just here, made a valid point. Listen, one of the issues of
expanding Medicare without reforming some aspect of the pricing mechanism, where
the pricing that you get as a doctor in Florida is very different than the
pricing you get in Minnesota. And I'm not even sure that that's Senator
Lieberman's issue, but my point is there could be valid reason to talk about how
you want to do this. I'm curious whether you feel like you have any insight as
to whether Senator Lieberman's motives are those or are they more political,
more gamesmanship?

   LAMONT: I think he loves being in the cat bird seat , he loves being the 60th
vote, loves having President Obama and others come to him. Look, there's no
question that Medicare needs reform. And, you know, Senator Klobuchar's point
that it's much more expensive in Miami than it is in Minnesota bears looking at.
But, we do have folks, 55 to 65, that desperately need health insurance. It
brings down costs for small businesses if they can buy in. We ought to support
it. And something else Senator Klobuchar said, we're getting closer to the goal
line. It's tough when Senator Lieberman keeps moving the goal line.

   RATIGAN: Jonathan Capehart?

   JONATHAN CAPEHART: Yeah. Mr. Lamont, can you put to rest one thing I've seen
in the press? and that is maybe one of the reasons why Senator Lieberman is
flip-flopping all over the place on this is because of the insurance interests
in Connecticut. Do you think that that is a valid point or a valid criticism?

   LAMONT: Look, I sure hope not. I would like to think that Senator Lieberman is
doing it for principled reasons. But there's no question that he's been all over
the map on this and we have a strong health care insurance industry here in the
state. But, I think he's got to listen to all the people of the state of
Connecticut, because most of us feel strongly that the Medicare buy-in is a
reasonable compromise that will bring down health care costs for all of us.

   RATIGAN: All right. Ned, a pleasure. Thanks for giving us a moment of your
morning. Ned Lamont talking health care out of Connecticut.


-Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.






  CNN's Gergen Likens President Obama to Damsel in Distress



CNN's David Gergen played up the difficulties that President Obama has faced on
Monday's Anderson Cooper 360, underscored the importance of the coming week for
the executive, and compared him to an iconic movie damsel in distress: "For a
president who's had more trials than anybody I can remember in a long time, sort
of 'The Perils of Pauline' all year, this has become a climactic week for his
presidency."

Host Anderson Cooper brought on the senior political analyst to comment on the
latest development on the health care debate, the Obama presidency in his first
months, and the President's upcoming trip to the UN's climate change conference
in Copenhagen. Cooper first asked Gergen about the potential for congressional
liberals to turn against the proposed health care "reform" bill if the Obama
administration cuts a deal with Senator Joe Lieberman over his objections to a
Medicare "buy-in" for people 55 and older: "So, David, dropping the Medicare
buy-in, could we be seeing- I mean, a liberal revolt in the wake of this?
Because, I mean, a lot of people haven't been following the minutia of this,
but, basically, that idea of expanding Medicare to 55 and above, that was all
for liberals, who were angered over the public option being dropped out."

The analyst immediately launched into his movie analogy about Obama:


   GERGEN: Let's put this in a larger context, first, Anderson. For a president
who's had more trials than anybody I can remember in a long time, sort of 'The
Perils of Pauline' all year, this has become a climactic week for his presidency
in his first year, because he has to deal with the bankers. He's got to- he's
desperately trying now to rescue health care and save that, and he's going to
Copenhagen at the end of the week and that potential treaty is also going south.
He has got to rescue that.


Gergen's line mirrors that of President Obama and his administration, that, as
he put it in his recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, "we have inherited the
biggest set of challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt."

Later in the segment, the CNN anchor played a clip from that recent Oprah
special, where the President also gave himself a "B-plus" grade for his
performance in his first year in office, and asked, "So, he gives himself a
B-plus, his approval ratings hitting a new low- I mean, is he trying to put a
game face on a bad situation, or- I mean, does the White House perceive that
there are successes on the brink?"

Gergen gave a more sober assessment, and brought up the results of CNN's "Second
100 Days" feature from earlier this year, where 300,000+ people online gave
Obama an overall "C-minus" grade (question #10 at the link):


   GERGEN: They perceive that they have done better than the public thinks. You
will remember, with the CNN- we had a big national vote here earlier this year,
and people gave him less than a B-plus. And, Anderson, it's really striking that
last week, when he went to Oslo to receive the most prestigious prize in the
world, the Nobel Peace Prize, at that very moment, his Gallup poll was at the
lowest level of any president since Harry Truman at that time in his- in office.
So, you know, he's got this odd paradoxical situation, where he's pulling off a
Nobel Prize, but his ratings are real low. But here's the deal: because this
week is so climactic, if he can pull off health care, and if he can pull off
Copenhagen at the end of the week, then the belief in the White House is, with
unemployment already peaking, that he will be on the comeback trail, and the
B-plus may be- or even an A-minus will be merited. But if either one of those or
both fall apart, and he can't get them, then B-plus is going to be way too
generous.


The full transcript of the Gergen segment, which began 12 minutes into the 10 pm
Eastern hour on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360 program:


   COOPER: Cracking down on Wall Street and passing health care reform were two
key promises President Obama made while campaigning. But, tonight, as we said,
big banks are poised to pay out huge bonuses once again, despite slashing their
lending, and Senator Joe Lieberman is threatening to derail the Senate health
care bill. It's fair to ask what all of this means for the President's agenda
and whether he's lost control of it, frankly.

   Many of our regular guests have unique access and inside knowledge about the
stories of the day. Starting tonight, with senior political analyst David
Gergen, we are going to be turning to them for an 'Insider's Briefing.' So,
David, dropping the Medicare buy-in, could we be seeing- I mean, a liberal
revolt in the wake of this? Because, I mean, a lot of people haven't been
following the minutia of this, but, basically, that idea of expanding Medicare
to 55 and above, that was all for liberals, who were angered over the public
option being dropped out.

   DAVID GERGEN: Yeah. Let's put this in a larger context, first, Anderson. For a
president who's had more trials than anybody I can remember in a long time, sort
of 'The Perils of Pauline' all year, this has become a climactic week for his
presidency in his first year, because he has to deal with the bankers. He's got
to- he's desperately trying now to rescue health care and save that, and he's
going to Copenhagen at the end of the week and that potential treaty is also
going south. He has got to rescue that.

   Now, on this issue of health care, there's no question that the liberal part
of the Democratic Party is increasingly frustrated, angry at the process,
because they thought they were going to get a public option. That was- became
very central to them, but never central to Barack Obama- central to them. The
moderates and centrists said, we don't want to buy into this. So, the Senate
came up and said- okay, instead of doing that, let's have this Medicare buy-in.
Look, Joe Lieberman even supported it some time ago. Lieberman turns against it
over the weekend, very firmly. They're short of the 60 votes, and tonight,
they're doing anything they can at the White House to salvage this, and the
reports are they have been pushing Harry Reid to accept Lieberman's change of
heart, to drop Medicare, and I- there's no sign- there's nobody in the liberal
ranks yet who has said he will break ranks, like a Russ Feingold, but that is
potential. And Anderson, there's also a potential here that the liberals are
going to get angry at the President and the White House for not fighting harder
to keep people corralled and get more of their views through.

   COOPER: But, I mean- so, if he gets Lieberman on board by dropping this
expansion of Medicare, they still need- what, Ben Nelson, and they need to
figure out some language on abortion that Ben Nelson will support.

   GERGEN: That's right. They conceivably would- if they drop Medicare, could
pick up support from Olympia Snowe.

   COOPER: Okay.

   GERGEN: She's been very troubled by this Medicare proposal, and maybe they
could get Ben Nelson. But, Anderson, there's one more step in this. The liberals
may have to accept in the Senate some form of the Stupak anti-abortion amendment
before this over, in order to keep the House on board. So, there's a - there are
a lot of moving parts on this still, but it's clear the White House is desperate
to get to 60 votes this weekend. They are willing to drop darn near anything and
move this bill to the right and strip it down of whatever it takes-

   COOPER: And that's because it-

   GERGEN: In order to get those 60.

   COOPER: That's because it's so essential now for the President to be able to
say, I got health care reform, whether or not- almost no matter what it looks
like at this point?

   GERGEN: That's exactly right. Now, in fairness to the White House, when they
started this process, they never thought public option was very important. It's
not been part of the debate, frankly, about- the White House has been for
universal access, and people are losing sight of it. This bill does provide near
universal access. No president- seven presidents have tried this. None has
succeeded. Barack Obama may succeed- insurance reform, some other important
reforms. But, to the left, the public option, and, indeed the Medicare buy-in,
was a dramatic step toward a single-payer system, which has been- you know, is
very much an iconic proposal for a lot on the left-

   COOPER: Yeah.

   GERGEN: So, this is- the White House is sort of like trying to get a balloon
up in the air and just throwing things over the side until you get a little-
until you can get a little height on it.

   COOPER: I want to play something that President Obama said to Oprah Winfrey
last night in that special that aired last night. Let's watch.

   OPRAH WINFREY (from Christmas special with President Obama): What grade would
you give yourself for this year?

   PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Good, solid B-plus.

   WINFREY: A B-plus?

   OBAMA: Yeah. I mean, I think that we have inherited the biggest set of
challenges of any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

   COOPER (live): So, he gives himself a B-plus, his approval ratings hitting a
new low- I mean, is he trying to put a game face on a bad situation, or- I mean,
does the White House perceive that there are successes on the brink?

   GERGEN: They perceive that they have done better than the public thinks. You
will remember, with the CNN- we had a big national vote here earlier this year,
and people gave him less than a B-plus. And, Anderson, it's really striking that
last week, when he went to Oslo to receive the most prestigious prize in the
world, the Nobel Peace Prize, at that very moment, his Gallup poll was at the
lowest level of any president since Harry Truman at that time in his- in office.
So, you know, he's got this odd paradoxical situation, where he's pulling off a
Nobel Prize, but his ratings are real low. But here's the deal: because this
week is so climactic, if he can pull off health care, and if he can pull off
Copenhagen at the end of the week, then the belief in the White House is, with
unemployment already peaking, that he will be on the comeback trail, and the
B-plus may be- or even an A-minus will be merited. But if either one of those or
both fall apart, and he can't get them, then B-plus is going to be way too
generous.

   COOPER: Well, for me, that's the takeaway from this interview, that this is
the climactic week for the President on those three fronts-

   GERGEN: Yeah.

   COOPER: With the banks-

   GERGEN: Yeah.

   COOPER: With health care and Copenhagen. David Gergen, we will continue to
watch it. Thanks.


-Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.






  ABC's Martin Bashir Attacks 'Brutal Regime' of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Assails
'Racial Profiling'




View the Video HereOn Monday's Nightline, co-host Martin Bashir conducted a
one-sided, hostile profile of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "brutal regime" and attacked
his crackdown on illegal immigration as "racial profiling." The 11 minute
investigation of the Maricopa County law enforcement official was almost totally
negative. [Audio available here.]

After the Arizona sheriff asserted that his critics don't like him because they
oppose immigration endorsement, Bashir opined, "They don't like it because
stopping people on the streets because they look Hispanic is racial profiling."
In an interview with Newsmax, Arpaio claimed, "We've arrested and detained over
33,000 illegal aliens, 25 percent of the whole country..."

But rather than focus on successes, Bashir complained about the sheriff's
methods: "You're basically using minor misdemeanors, minor mistakes, perhaps
speeding, as an excuse to then pick these individuals up?" The Nightline co-host
aggressively focused on allegations of abuse. After bringing up claims of
brutality and a botched prostitution ring, Bashir derided, "Doesn't your brutal
regime lead to brutality by your staff?"

The sheriff denied the insult and pointed out, "But you don't talk about the
great things we do in this organization."

Ignoring these points, Bashir reiterated his description of brutality and,
almost incredulously, explained, "Brutal or not, the people of Maricopa County
continue to elect him as the sheriff." Indeed, Arpaio was reelected by 13 points
in 2008.

Certainly, it's the job of a journalist to bring up allegations of abuse, should
they exist. But Bashir seemed to have little interest in providing a balanced
look into this sheriff.

A partial transcript of the December 14 segment can be found below:


   11:48pm

   MARTIN BASHIR: Sheriff Joe has 13 sweeps that have netted him more than 300
illegal immigrants and a slew of criticism.

   SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO: They do not like me stopping illegal aliens on the
streets, enforcing the laws. They don't like it. They don't want that.

   MARTIN BASHIR: They don't like it because stopping people on the streets
because they look Hispanic is racial profiling.

   ARPAIO: That's what they said, but we don't do that.

   BASHIR: But, the United States government disagreed. This past October, the
Department of Homeland Security removed his deputy's right to enforce
immigration laws on the streets, due to complaints of racial profiling. And the
Department of Justice launched an investigation of his tactics. But, Sheriff Joe
remained defiant.

   ARPAIO: We are still going do what we have been doing in the last two, two and
a half years. Nothing changes.

   BASHIR: You're basically using minor misdemeanors, minor mistakes, perhaps
speeding, as an excuse to then pick these individuals up?

   ARPAIO: No. We use minor misdemeanors to lock up dope peddlers, seize drugs,
seize money, catch DUIs.

   ...

   11:57

   BASHIR: What do you think of the quality of your jail guards?

   ARPAIO: My jail officers are great. I have full confidence in my staff, my
deputy sheriffs.

   BASHIR: The family of one man was awarded $6 million after he was forced into
a restraint chair and died. And the suit was filed in federal court.

   ARPAIO: I'm saying that our officers did nothing wrong. There were no criminal
charges.

   BASHIR: Another man was killed in a restraint chair. Got $8.5 million in a
pre-trial settlement. What do think of the video that showed 14 guards beating,
shocking and suffocating the prisoners?

   ARPAIO: Well, I don't remember any eight million and six million. I do
remember that as sheriff after 18 years, we've only paid out $8 million.

   BASHIR: Did your office disguise vital evidence, including the crushed larynx
of the man.

   ARPAIO: That's not true because that's something the medical examiner has
control.

   BASHIR: There was a video beating him and shocking him. Are you proud of the
behavior of the guards?

   BASHIR: Are you proud of the behavior of those guards?

   ARPAIO: My officers do the right thing. They had no criminal liability.

   BASHIR: Where is the crushed larynx of the dead man?

   ARPAIO: Have no idea.

   BASHIR: His team of deputies and his so-called volunteer posse were also
involved in a clamp down on prostitution but that wasn't without difficulties.
Do you remember the 2003 drive to drive prostitution out of Maricopa County that
you led?

   ARPAIO: Yes.

   BASHIR: Didn't it backfire because some of your volunteers got naked on video
and ended up having sex with the prostitutes?

   ARPAIO: That is another, another erroneous report. That's not true.

   BASHIR: Isn't that what happened? The county attorney says the reason it was
impossible to press charges was because your volunteers were having sex with the
people they were supposed to be arresting.

   ARPAIO: Well, that's not true. They were naked because I allowed them to take
their clothes off to develop the case. That's not unusual in this country. Yes.

   BASHIR: So you allowed them to take their clothes off. Why did they end up
having intimate relations?

   ARPAIO: They had no sex. They had no sex. One time, one case that one of the
women accidentally put her hand on one of our officers. One time. And that was
it. Period. We did a great job.

   BASHIR: Accidentally? So you just gone from say they did a brilliant job, now,
you're admitting they got naked. And now you saying the prostitute touched the
genitals of one of your officers.

   ARPAIO: I never denied that they got naked.

   BASHIR: Some people say would suggest that when you're the toughest sheriff in
America and you lead by example in the way you have, it leads your officers to
behave in some of the ways they have. People killed in restraint chairs. People
having sex with prostitutes. Inmates abused and humiliated. Isn't that what's
really going on here?

   ARPAIO: That's ridiculous. We run a professional organization. I have been
around 48 years. I'm not going to listen to the garbage in the papers for
critics that you seem to be- I'm not blaming you- but you seem to be reading the
history. But you don't talk about the great things we do in this organization.

   BASHIR: Doesn't your brutal regime lead to brutality by your staff?

   ARPAIO: I don't have a brutal regime.

   BASHIR: Brutal or not, the people of Maricopa County continue to elect him as
the sheriff. He's now in his fifth term and there are no plans to retire and
enjoy the peace and quiet of his home just outside Phoenix.


-Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.






  Ex-CBS Anchor Dan Rather Worried About 'Accountability' of Internet Journalism



In a Monday interview on MediaBistro.com's weekly video series Media Beat,
disgraced former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather shared his concerns over the
credibility of internet journalism: "The difficulty with some of the things on
the internet...is transparency and accountability about who's responsible for
what's on."

TVNewser.com columnist Gail Shister sparked the discussion by asking Rather:
"Are you concerned at all that there is the absence of quality control when it
comes to so much of the modern platforms?" Rather went on to fret: "...you can
put something on the internet that's really terrible about your neighbor or
about a friend or a competitor and it's almost impossible to find out who the
source is. And you can say anything about them. That part of it troubles me."

Rather of course ended his tenure at CBS after using fraudulent documents to
smear President George W. Bush just days before the 2004 presidential election.
He showed little concern for accountability and proper sourcing as he used
fabricated memos to claim that Bush had gone AWOL while serving in the Texas Air
National Guard in the 1970s.

On the September 10, 2004 Evening News, as evidence against the story mounted, 
he lashed out at his critics: "Today, on the Internet and elsewhere, some
people, including many who are partisan political operatives, concentrated not
on the key questions of the overall story, but on the documents that were part
of the support of the story." It was internet journalists that held the
mainstream media accountable and demanded transparency during the Rather-gate
scandal.

Here is a transcript of the Media Beat exchange:


   GAIL SHISTER: Is there such a thing as mainstream media anymore? What does
that mean to you?

   DAN RATHER: You know, I don't know what it means anymore. If there is such a
thing, I don't what it is. I would love to have someone define it for me, but I
don't know what it is. Look, things change. And we've had great acceleration of
change in television news and in journalism in general. And no one's surprised
by that change. And definitions change. One can make an argument that what's on
the internet now is mainstream, as opposed to what's on the evening newscast.

   SHISTER: But are you concerned at all that there is the absence of quality
control when it comes to so much of the modern platforms? The so-called notion
of citizen journalists, does that concern you in any way?

   RATHER: Well, it does concern me, but overall, in the main, I think the
development of what's called citizen journalism is good, including that on the
internet. The difficulty with some of the things on the internet, and I
emphasize only some, some of the things, is transparency and accountability
about who's responsible for what's on. As you know, you can put something on the
internet that's really terrible about your neighbor or about a friend or a
competitor and it's almost impossible to find out who the source is. And you can
say anything about them. That part of it troubles me.

   But look, there's no question that we've moved into the internet age. And if
it isn't already, what's on the internet is going to become the dominant source
of news for most people. It's not going to completely replace television, radio,
and print, but it's becoming the dominant source of news. Whether you like it or
not, that's a fact. So naturally we have some concerns about - I stated one of
them - about accountability. But overall, in the main, I think it's a force for
good. I think it'll continue to be - to grow. I think we're no longer right on
the first edge of it, but we're not very far into what the internet is to
become.


-Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.






  Pelosi Finishes Last Among Today Viewers' Choice for Person of the Year



In advance of Time magazine's Person of the Year choice being revealed on
Wednesday's show, NBC's Today show brought on managing editor Richard Stengel
yesterday, to reveal the seven finalists, and on Tuesday's show NBC's Matt Lauer
and Meredith Vieira gave the results of an on-line poll of their viewer's picks
and it wasn't good news for Nancy Pelosi. The Speaker of the House finished dead
last among the seven candidates but Lauer pitied Pelosi as he cheered on: "C'mon
Nancy you can do better."

The following exchange was aired on the December 15 Today show:


   MEREDITH VIEIRA: So who had the biggest impact on 2009? We're gonna reveal
Time magazine's Person of the Year, live tomorrow on Today.

   MATT LAUER: We gave you the seven contenders on Monday, and asked you to weigh
in on-line. Here are the results as you can see. Steve Jobs leading the way with
49 percent. President Obama in second with 20 percent, followed by General
Stanley McChrystal with 11 percent. The rest of the top seven are there.

   (Graphic shows Usain Bolt at 10 percent, Chinese workers at 5.7 percent, Ben
Bernanke at 3.3 percent, Nancy Pelosi last at 1.8 percent)

   VIEIRA: Yeah my Ben Bernanke there, is way down at the bottom there.

   LAUER: Uh huh. Nancy Pelosi with 1.8 percent. C'mon Nancy you can do better.

   VIEIRA: It's interesting Jobs, I guess, because everybody, almost everybody
has an iPhone or an iPod so they might think of him, you know, pretty much every
day.

   LAUER: He was recently named CEO of the Decade.


-Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.








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Subject: Does Anyone Here Look Familiar????




See the guy in the white suit and blue shirt … see the blond with the white
dress … see the guy in the middle? This picture was taken a few years ago. It
seems Obama has known these two phonies for a while, at least when he was a
senator. They are getting all this press now as party crashers and the secret
service is taking heat.   Three Secret Service agents careers are now ruined
because of these two Long-Legged-MacDaddy Supporters (as Rev. Manning so
elequently describes him).  Funny how this has not come out in the press.


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I THINK IT IS REMARKABLE THAT THE PRESS CAN FIND EVERY WOMAN WITH WHOM TIGER HAS
HAD AN AFFAIR IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WITH PHOTOS, TEXT MESSAGES, RECORDED PHONE
CALLS, ETC. THEY KNOW NOT ONLY THE CAUSE OF THE  FAMILY FIGHT, BUT THEY EVEN
KNOW IT WAS A WEDGE FROM HIS GOLF BAG THAT SHE USED TO BREAK OUT THE WINDOWS IN
THE ESCALADE.  NOT ONLY THAT, THEY KNOW WHICH WEDGE!!!

THIS IS THE SAME PRESS (OR IS IT?) THAT CANNOT LOCATE OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE
... OR ANY OF HIS PAPERS WHILE IN COLLEGE.



TRULY REMARKABLE.

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Subject: [TheFinePrint] 20 Senators Demand Probe of Health-Care Vote Threat, WND



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       20 senators demand probe of health-care vote 'threat'



       Did White House say it would close Air Force base if Nelson didn't play?


       Posted: December 16, 2009
       8:16 pm Eastern

       By Joe Kovacs
       © 2009 WorldNetDaily


       Twenty senators are demanding an investigation into reports the Obama
administration threatened to close Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska if that
state's Democratic senator, Ben Nelson, didn't join other Democrats in voting
for health-care reform.

       The group of 20, all Republicans, today called for a hearing in a letter
to Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and the
committee's top Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

       The text of the letter states:

         It has been reported that the Obama Administration threatened the
closure of a U.S. military installation for political purposes, thereby bringing
into question the integrity of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process.
The BRAC process was established to remove political influence so that the
decision to close or not to close a military installation could be based upon
military utility.


         Specifically, various media reports have stated that the Obama
Administration would put Offutt AFB in southeastern Nebraska on a future BRAC
list because of a vote on healthcare reform. While we recognize the importance
of Offutt AFB as the headquarters of U.S. Strategic Command and the
approximately 10,000 individuals that work there, we feel that this installation
should remain open or be closed on its own merits.


         Therefore, we respectfully ask that a hearing be held as to whether the
BRAC process has been compromised. We do not want to see the name of a base from
our state on a BRAC list and think it has been put there to settle partisan
scores. We also do not want our bases to be more vulnerable to closure because
political arm-twisting has taken another installation off the table. National
security not partisanship should determine how BRAC decisions are made.


       (Story continues below)



       Weekly Standard columnist Michael Goldfarb was among those raising the
issue in a post in which he said: "According to a Senate aide, the White House
is now threatening to put Nebraska's Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if
Nelson doesn't fall into line" on health-care reform.

       For just $29.95, you can send every member of Congress a "pink slip" with
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       Both the White House and Nelson are denying any such threat ever existed.

       "This rumor is absolutely false, as the people spreading it well know,"
said Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. "This is nothing but
a cynical, crass political game that is designed to maintain the status quo.
Let's be clear: the people spreading these falsehoods think nothing is wrong
with a system under which families and businesses continue to bear the brunt of
skyrocketing costs, insurance companies are allowed to discriminate and drop at
will, and thousands of Americans lose their coverage every single day."

       Despite the denials, some WND readers have expressed outrage if a threat
were indeed made.

       "It is time for some spines on the Hill to impeach Obama and charge him
with treason," said Tom Bender.

       "This is simply amazing that we the people are permitting this type of
politics in our country," noted Mike Kovach. "Not that this hasn't been done
before, but this administration is on a course to destroy our nation. I am
beginning to wonder why there has not been calls of subversion, treason and
sedition against this administration. I'm am a Democrat and I would like to see
all of those in cohorts with this administration put in jail and charged
accordingly."

       The Republicans signing the letter were Sens. John Ensign of Nevada, Jim
DeMint of South Carolina, John Thune of South Dakota, Jim Bunning of Kentucky,
Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker of Tennessee, Richard Burr of North Carolina, Kit
Bond of Missouri, George LeMieux of Florida, Pat Roberts of Kansas, David Vitter
of Louisiana, Thad Cochran of Mississipi, John Cornyn of Texas, Judd Gregg of
New Hampshire, Mike Johanns of Nebraska, Bob Bennett of Utah, Johnny Isakson of
Georgia and Chuck Grassley of Iowa.

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New amnesty bill meant to overwelm system   Tea Party calls for Guteirrez Stop
Amnesty Call YOUR Representatives and SAY NO to Rep. Gutierrez Amnesty
Legislation! http://www.meetup.com/VFP-TeaParty09/fr/messages/8537340/   More
http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/fight-amnesty-for-illegal-aliens-dont-forg\
et-there-are-also-illegal-terrorists-in-this-country/blog-215097/     He doesn’t
want to “save” the Internet. This legislation would bring it under govt control.
http://congress.savetheinternet.com/person/158-luis-gutierrez     Here’s a
better idea. Call your own Congressman.
http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=3269     Hey, I just got
an idea. I think I know how we can reduce the number of uninsured people in this
country by 12,000,000.   Maybe he didn't pay his taxes.    Paying off La Raza
(the Race)Good thing they've got the attny genl in their
pocket.http://townhall.com/columnists/BenShapiro/2009/12/16/paying_off_la_raza
My Dear Friend:I am outraged at the sham being played right n=w by the Obama
administration to stop my lawful enforcement of our immigra=ion laws. Please=– I
need your help today.Th= United State Justice Department just advertised late
last week that they =stablished a Sheriff Joe Arpaio ”Hotline" for the sole
purpose of solici=ing people (so-called victims) to call and report so-called
injustices and=wrongdoings that my deputies are allegedly conducting. This is a
blatant a=d transparent demonstration of the hollow shell of the Justice
Department=92s non-existent case against me. Further, it clearly shows the level
of o=tright fraud on their part to bring baseless allegations against the very
=eputies that THEY THEMSELVES trained to arrest illegal aliens. Ju=t last month,
the Obama White House through the Justice Department and Hom=land Security
Department under Janet Napolitano, took away my authority to =ake street arrests
and detain illegal immigrants and human smugglers. I ha=e defied that outrageous
and irresponsible federal policy that does nothin= but tie the hands of Sheriffs
and Police officers all across the country.=Si=ce October when my Deputy
Sheriffs had their federal authority pulled by t=e Obama White House, we have
continued crime suppression operations in acc=rdance with the Constitution of
the United States and the Laws of the Stat= of Arizona. My office, in this short
month-and-a-half time, has <=>arrested 54 felony smu=glers and caused the
deportation of over 1,400 illegal aliens</=TRONG>. This brings to a total of
illegal aliens captured and deported to =lmost 35,000=in the last two years.
This represents almost one-thir= of the total arrests and deportations in the
entire United States; and mo=e than all of the other 64 local law enforcement
agencies combined. < DIV> Th= Obama White House wants to put me out of business.
Why? Th= only reason they are doing this is to stop me from enforcing the laws
of =his state and our country. Why? Why would they try to prevent me from
arre=ting those who are breaking the law? It all comes down to AMNESTY. =hey
want to so badly weaken laws against illegal immigration that they can=establish
automatic citizenship for those who cross our borders illegally.=It is appalling
to think that the Obama administration wants to spend our =ax dollars in placing
these criminals in hospitals and hotels at our expen=e while they figure out a
way to con the citizens of the United States tha= this is good for our economy.
This is rubbish and insults the intelligenc= of hard working Americans.If=the
liberal politicians and media want me to stop arresting illegal immigr=nts and
human smugglers, then they need to change the law. For me to pick =nd choose
which laws I want to enforce would not only be a dereliction of =uty, it would
lead to anarchy and chaos. I am saddened that so few politic=ans will join this
fight and choose to ignore the laws and make empty excu=es as to why we cannot
secure our borders. That is why I need your help today .Th= DOJ knows full well
that by establishing a toll-free number, in English a=d in Spanish, that my
political opponents, left-wing open borders activist= and extremists can “stack
the deck” and make any open-ended allegatio= they want to. The Department of
Justice has already lied and openly viola=ed the rights of my Deputies.Th=
allegations against me and my office are already absurd. You can just ima=ine
what will happen now.Ne=er in my thirty years of working as a federal law
enforcement official did=we ever target a locally elected Sheriff the way this
Obama Administration=has. This is a fight that I cannot lose. This is the front
line in the bat=le on illegal immigration. This is a fight that WE cannot
lose.Th= same people who have called me a racist; depicted me as a KKK member
hang=ng a Hispanic man; burned me in effigy; beheaded me in effigy then
paraded=my severed head in a mob of cheering protesters; sued and picketed me
will=be calling that hotline on daily basis making more and more outrageous
and=false claims against me and my dedicated Deputies. This action by the
Justice Department is completely irresponsible,=reckless and provocative. In
fact, it’s so far out there th=y may have gotten the idea from the Reverend Al
Sharpton. (The Rev. Al Sha=pton came to Phoenix earlier this year just so he
could hold an Anti-Arpai= rally and label me a racist.)To=ay, I make you a
steadfast promise: No matter what political shenanigans t=ese people try, I will
never back down one inch. And, I’m not going to s=rrender.But I desperately need
your help.Th=se left-wing groups and their allies in the media need to know just
how st=ong the support is among law-abiding people like you for me and my
policie=. They are mounting an all out effort to remove me as Sheriff. For
months =ow, people have been bused in to protest in front of my headquarters.
Will=you please s=and with me and help me fight this fight? It=92s going to take
a lot of resources to combat these false allegations –=as well as the latest
talk about a recall campaign against me. We anticipa=e the hardest campaign in
Maricopa county history to remove me due to my u=yielding stance on illegal
immigration enforcement.Yo=r financial support today is so critical. Please log
on to http://www.reelectjoearpaio.com<=SPAN> right now and make a much needed
contribution. A=y amount you can offer today is tremendously appreciated. I
promise I will=not let you down. Our country's future depends on what we do now.
I  cannot thank you enough for joining me in this battle. I look forward to
he=ring from you soon.Sicerely,Sh=riff Joe Arpaio
Maricopa CountyP.=. In addition to making a contribution, please do me a favor
and forward this email to =our friends, family and other individuals who share
our views</=TRONG>. Together we can win this fight. Thank you.   For a Tea Party
near youGoogle: Tea Party [name of your town] What ever hapened tothe Home of
the Brave and Land of the Free?
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Copenhagen Circus Is this govt worth defending? Is it worth fighting for? Is it
worth dying for?     It may be spitting into the wind, but for myself, I choose
to go down fighting. God Bless America. Rich Martin         Copenhagen Circus

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Climategate – Russians confirm data fraud Hard to imagine some bone heads refuse
to admit they were wrong. They think it’s a game.
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   For a Tea Party near youGoogle: Tea Party [name of your town]  Americans for
Prosperityhttp://americansforprosperity.org/national-site  What ever hapened
tothe Home of the Brave and Land of the Free?
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Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Yemen Terrorists. Cruise
Missiles Launched Thursday Hit Two Suspected al Qaeda Sites; Major
Escalation of US Efforts Against Terrorists By BRIAN ROSS, et al.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cruise-missiles-strike-yemen/story?id=9375236
      On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched
cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in
Yemen, administration officials told ABC News. One of the targeted
sites was a suspected al Qaeda training camp north of the capitol,
Sanaa, and the second target was a location where officials said "an
imminent attack against a U.S. asset was being planned." The Yemen
attacks by the U.S. military represent a major escalation of the Obama
administration's campaign against al Qaeda.
      Steve's Note: Saudi Arabia is involved in a major military action
against Yemen at the present time, and the US is aiding in that
military action, so this claimed attack against 'al Qeada' may just be
an excuse to use cruise missiles against a nation that you are not
supposedly at war with. Related:
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Saudi (and U.S.) warplanes rain '1,011 missiles' on Yemen 19 Dec 2009
www.legitgov.org
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114162&sectionid=351020206
      Houthi fighters say Saudi warplanes have fired some 1,011
missiles on the borderline with Yemen where the Shia population is
already under heavy state-led and US-aided bombardment. The fighters
also said on Saturday that the warplanes had carried out nearly 60 air
assaults on the residential areas in the northern Al-Jabiri, Al-Dukhan
and Al-Malaheet districts.
      Saudi Arabia joined Sana'a's months-long fierce armed campaign
against the Shia fighters in November. The fighters denounce the
offensives as a discriminatory campaign against the Shia minority
under Riyadh's auspices.
      The offensives, meanwhile, have been taking their toll on the
locals with the Saudis reportedly venturing beyond the Houthi
positions, targeting civilian areas and using unconventional weaponry
including flesh-eating white phosphorus bombs.
      The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that since 2004,
the conflict has forced up to 175,000 people in the Shia-dominated
northwestern province of Sa'ada out of their homes and into
overcrowded camps set up by the United Nations.
      The US military equipment and intelligence have reportedly
entered the equation in the recent days.
The US special forces have reportedly been sent to Yemen to provide
the national army with training services. The US Air Force is also
said to have been sporadically pounding the northern areas since Monday.
      The Houthis said US attacks on Thursday killed 120 civilians,
among whom were women and children. Also on Saturday, a report on the
Houthis' website said that three civilians, including a woman and a
child, had been killed in fresh air raids carried out by US warplanes.
      Steve's Note: The Saudi government has been/is a close ally of
the US (Bush/Obama?) government, for decades, so since Saudi Arabia
opposes the Shia minority in Yemen, they are involving themselves in
military support of these attacks. If civilian areas are being
attacked, and with illegal white phosphorus, (like Fallujah was in
Iraq), then we have more war crimes being committed in our name.
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Petition Opposing Cap-and-Trade Sign the Petition : 169,091 signers
thus far!
http://www.rallycongress.com/minnesota-majority/2485/
      WHEREAS recently obtained emails and documents from the
University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit have revealed that
some of the world's foremost climate researchers have engaged in a
pattern of data manipulation, suppression of dissenting views,
undermining of the peer review process, destruction of documents
requested under Freedom of Information laws and outright fraud; and
      WHEREAS the proposed United Nations Global Climate Treaty intends
to establish an un-democratic world government which would undermine
our national sovereignty; and
      WHEREAS the Waxman-Markey Cap and Trade bill (HR 2454) will
essentially impose an 'energy tax' on all goods and services produced
in the United States; and
      WHEREAS gasoline and electricity prices will, in President
Obama's own words, "necessarily skyrocket" under a cap-and-trade
scheme; and.. clip..
      Steve's Note: The above petition may not stop this cap and trade
bill, but the message of large opposition will make a difference to
letting the people stealing from us know that we do not agree with
their actions, and are paying attention.
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EPA Determines Greenhouse Gases Harmful to People and Environment.
Ruling Paves Way for EPA to Act Without Approval From Congress By
DAVID WRIGHT Dec. 7, 2009
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/epa-declares-greenhouse-gases-hazardous-peoples-health-\
environment/story?id=9272194
        The Environmental Protection Agency declared today that carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases are harmful to people and the
environment. Government agency rules that six greenhouse gases create
toxic air pollution. The EPA administrator ruled that six greenhouse
gases constitute toxic air pollution and are therefore subject to
regulation under the Clean Air Act. "The Clean Air Act sets out a
simple premise, which is, once you know you have pollution and once
you know it's endangering human health and welfare, then EPA must
act," Jackson said... clip..
       Steve's Note: Whether the EPA realizes it or not, without CO2,
there is no life on this planet. All plants require CO2, (like people
require oxygen), so if we get rid of this 'toxin', then life will
cease to exist.
      Secondly, current CO2 levels are so small, (.03/100ths of 1%),
that it is not able to in an significant way influence global
temperatures. This 'fear mongering' is primarily being used by the
global elite to create a global carbon tax, and also force people to
accept global governance to 'save themselves'. It is all lies, and
these declarations, (by the EPA and others), should be called for what
they are, attempts to make a free people slaves.
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Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton: A 9/11 Convergence by Kevin
Ryan (Engineer, formerly with Underwriter's Laboratories) 12/12/2009
http://www.911blogger.com/node/22120
      Careful investigation leads one to notice that a number of
intriguing groups of people and organizations converged on the events
of September 11th, 2001. An example is the group of men who were
members of Cornell University’s 'Quill & Dagger' society. This
included Paul Wolfowitz, National Security Advisors Sandy Berger and
Stephen Hadley, Marsh & McLennan executive Stephen Friedman, and the
founder of Kroll Associates, Jules Kroll. Another interconnected group
of organizations is linked to these Cornell comrades, and is even more
interesting in terms of its members being integral to the events of
9/11, and having benefited from those events.
      After the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (WTC), a company
called Stratesec (or Securacom) was responsible for the overall
integration of the new security system designed by Kroll Associates.
Stratesec had a small board of directors that included retired Air
Force General James Abrahamson, Marvin Bush (the brother of George W.
Bush) and Wirt Walker III, a cousin of the Bush brothers. Other
directors included Charles Archer, former Assistant Director in charge
of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, and
Yousef Saud Al Sabah, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family.[1]
      Yousef Saud Al Sabah was also chairman of the Kuwait-American
Corporation (KuwAm), which between 1993 and 1999 held a controlling
share of Stratesec. The other owners of Stratesec were Walker and an
entity controlled by Walker and Al Sabah, called Special Situation
Investment Holdings (SSIH).[2] SSIH was said to form a group with
KuwAm, and the group owned several other companies, including
Commander Aircraft and Aviation General. In any case, the Kuwaiti
royal family can be said to have benefited from 9/11 due to “The War
on Terror” that removed Saddam Hussein from power. Of course, that was
the second consecutive US war that Kuwait benefited from, the first
being the 1991 Gulf War led by President George H.W. Bush.
      Stratesec director James Abrahamson was President of Hughes
Aircraft from 1989 to 1992, when Prescott Bush Jr. was helping Hughes
lobby Bush’s brother, the US President, to lift sanctions on the
Chinese government. Abrahamson became a director of Stratesec in
December 1997.[3] He also co-founded a company called Crescent
Investment Management (Crescent) with the Pakistani-American, Mansoor
Ijaz. Crescent’s board of advisors included James Woolsey, the CIA
Director for President Clinton who became a PNAC signatory and Booz
Allen Hamilton executive.[4]
       Mansoor Ijaz is the CEO of Crescent, and is a rare individual in
that he claimed to have the ability to persuade several governments to
extradite Osama bin Laden. After meetings with Clinton and his
National Security Advisor Sandy Berger (who first introduced Woolsey
to Clinton), Ijaz said that he could not convince them to work toward
the extradition.[5] Additionally, Ijaz introduced the journalist
Daniel Pearl, by way of a personal letter, to those in Pakistan who
are believed to have been involved in his death.[6] Ijaz went on to
become a Fox News correspondent, and he was a strong promoter of false
claims leading up to the Iraq War, including WMDs and ties between
Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.[7]
      Stratesec had contracts to provide security services for United
Airlines, and Dulles Airport, where American Airlines Flight 77 took
off on 9/11. Another client was Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL),
where scientists were working on the development of nanothermite, a
type of explosive material that has since been discovered in the WTC
dust.[8,9]
    The Carlyle Group
      In 1998, Barry McDaniel came to Stratesec to become its Chief
Operating Officer. McDaniel was therefore in charge of the security
operation at the WTC in terms of what he called a “completion
contract,” to provide services “up to the day the buildings fell
down.”[10] McDaniel had previously worked for the United States Army
Materiel Command (AMC), located at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. But
McDaniel came to Stratesec directly from BDM International, where he
had been Vice President for nine years. BDM was a major subsidiary of
The Carlyle Group for most of that time. When Barry McDaniel started
at BDM, the company began getting a large amount of government
business “in an area the Navy called Black Projects,” or budgets that
were kept secret.[11]
      BDM has had an interesting history. In 1990 it was a subsidiary
of Loral Corporation, a company owned by Bernard Schwartz that was
related to WTC security company Ensec, and Ensec director Terry
McAuliffe.[12] Loral sold BDM to The Carlyle Group in 1992, at which
time Frank Carlucci became chairman of BDM. Carlucci was a covert
operative in his early career, and got his start in national politics
through his old college roommate, Donald Rumsfeld, becoming Rumsfeld’s
assistant at the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1969. Carlucci went
on to be named Deputy Director of the CIA and Ronald Reagan’s
Secretary of Defense.
      During his first few years at Carlyle, Carlucci asked his friend
Norman Augustine, later CEO of Lockheed Martin, if Carlyle could be
included in a deal to buy the defense contractor LTV Corp.[13] That
deal did not happen, but LTV was among the companies whose stocks were
flagged for insider trading related to 9/11.[14,15] The FBI also
briefly considered investigating Stratesec for insider trading related
to 9/11, due to an SEC referral of suspicious accounts. But since the
people involved were considered to not have any “ties to terrorism or
other negative information,” an investigation into Stratesec was not
pursued.[16] Putnam Investments, a subsidiary of WTC impact zone
tenant Marsh & McLennan, was one of Stratesec’s investors.
      During the time that Stratesec executive McDaniel worked for
them, the Caryle Group began to add some very powerful people to their
leadership group. One such figure was James Baker, who went to
Princeton with Rumsfeld and Carlucci, and who was White House Chief of
Staff, and Secretary of the Treasury, for Reagan. Baker was also
George H.W. Bush’s campaign manager and Secretary of State, and Bush’s
White House Chief of Staff again in his last government position.
Baker became a partner at Carlyle just two weeks after the February
1993 bombing of the WTC.
      Earlier in his career, Baker had worked in President Ford’s
department of Commerce, along with WTC impact zone tenant Joseph
Kasputys. And Baker was a longtime, close friend of Raymond Hill, an
elite Texan who owned the mafia and CIA-connected Mainland Savings.
American taxpayers shelled out approximately $500 million when
Mainland failed in 1986. Investigators have since discovered that
Mainland, like a number of other savings and loans that failed in the
late 1980s, was a vehicle for CIA and mafia activities.[17]
      Baker is also remembered as the one person most responsible for
changing the outcome of the 2000 presidential election, in favor of
George W. Bush. As Congressman John Conyers wrote: “Mr. Baker will be
forever remembered for his ultimately successful efforts to shut down
the counting of votes in the 2000 Florida election.”[18]
      On September 11, 2001, Baker was at the Ritz-Carlton in
Washington DC, for the annual investor conference of the Carlyle
Group. Also present with Baker was Carlucci, "representatives of the
bin Laden family,” and George H. W. Bush.[19] Carlyle had been doing
business with the bin Laden family since the early 1990s.
      Baker’s grandfather started the law firm Baker Botts, which had
offices in Saudi Arabia and which, after 9/11, represented the Saudi
Arabian government in a lawsuit filed by families of those killed and
injured in the attacks. The Saudi connection is interesting
considering that Carlyle owned, through BDM International, the Vinnell
Corporation, a mercenary operation that had extensive contracts in the
Middle East since 1975, training the Saudi Arabian National Guard and
also training Turkish security forces.
      Vinnell was considered “by some experts to be a CIA front.”[20]
Of course Frank Carlucci was Deputy Director of the CIA, and George
H.W. Bush, who was Baker’s boss for many years, was in the CIA for a
majority of his career.[21] Perhaps as a result, in 1995 Vinnell was
reported to be one of the first targets of al Qaeda, in Saudi Arabia.
      BDM, Vinnell’s parent company, was sold to TRW in 1997. Directors
at BDM at the time included Carlyle Group executives and a former
assistant to Henry Kissinger, Philip Odeen, who went on to become the
CEO of TRW. Directors at TRW at the same time included Robert M.
Gates, former Director of Central Intelligence and current Secretary
of Defense. Arden Bement, who was appointed by George W. Bush to lead
the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) one month
after the 9/11 attacks, had left his position as TRW Vice President in
1992, moving to Purdue University in the interim.
      In 1998, at the time that Barry McDaniel moved to Stratesec, TRW
merged with Lockheed Martin, the company that sub-contracted the WTC
security job to Ensec.[22] Stratesec and Ensec, along with E.J.
Electric and Electronic Systems Associates, worked to build the
security system that was in place at the WTC when the buildings were
destroyed. All four of these companies had done significant work in
Saudi Arabia before working at the WTC.[23]
      Marvin Bush was a director of Stratesec from 1993 to 2000. It was
during that time that Kroll and Stratesec planned and executed the
extensive rebuilding of the security systems at the WTC complex. As
his stint with Stratesec ended, Marvin Bush became a principal in the
company HCC Insurance, one of the insurance carriers for the World
Trade Center.
    SAIC
      Marvin Bush was the cofounder of Winston Partners in 1993, a
company that benefited greatly from the War on Terror. In 2000,
Winston Partners invested heavily in a defense contractor called AMSEC
that was 55% owned by Science Applications International Corporation
(SAIC). It has been noted that SAIC was not only a major contributor
to the NIST WTC report, it was also a company that had expertise in
nanothermites, explosive materials which were found in the WTC dust as
mentioned earlier.[24]
      Founded by a scientist from Los Alamos National Laboratory, SAIC
had a long history at the WTC, having evaluated the basement levels of
the buildings as a potential terrorist target in 1986.[25]
Interestingly, the company was hired to investigate the 1993 bombing
of the WTC, an event that was “remarkably like the one which” they had
foreseen in 1986.[26] In fact, SAIC later boasted that -- “After the
1993 World Trade Center bombing, our blast analyses produced tangible
results that helped identify those responsible.”[27]
      After 9/11, SAIC supplied the largest contingent of non-
governmental investigators to the WTC investigation conducted NIST. At
the same time, “SAIC personnel were instrumental in pressing the case
that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq under Saddam Hussein,
and that war was the only way to get rid of them.”[28]
      SAIC was also a pioneer in the intelligence contracting business,
as a founding member of the Security Affairs Support Association in
1979, along with companies like TRW, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed and
Hughes Aircraft. A special taskforce of the Defense Science Board,
which was led in 1993 by BDM’s Philip Odeen, recommended a vast
increase in the outsourcing of intelligence, which all these companies
ended up benefiting from greatly.
      Today a majority of government intelligence work is outsourced,
and SAIC is known first and foremost as an intelligence contractor.
SAIC sells expertise about weapons, about homeland security, about
surveillance, about computer systems, about “information dominance”
and “information warfare,” and has been awarded more individual
government contracts than any other private company in America. In
fact, the company was paid huge sums to rebuild the NSA and FBI
systems that supposedly failed before 9/11.[29]
      SAIC is integral to the operations of all the major intelligence
collection agencies, particularly the National Security Agency (NSA),
the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the CIA. In
fact, the CIA relies on SAIC to spy in its own workforce.[30] But SAIC
has also played an integral role in the “War on Terror”, and was even
responsible for capturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It was SAIC staff
and technology that “tease[ed] out crucial clues about Mohammed's
activities from intercepted text messages that he sent to his al Qaeda
operatives using as many as 20 different cell phones.”[31]
      In an interesting coincidence, while the Carlyle/BDM subsidiary
Vinnell Corp was training the Saudi Arabian National Guard, SAIC was
training the Saudi Navy and bringing Saudi military personnel to
company headquarters in San Diego for further study. Simultaneously,
Booz Allen Hamilton was managing the Saudi Marine Corps and running
the Saudi Armed Forces Staff College.[32] Vinnell now works with SAIC
to train the Iraqi military.[33]
      SAIC employees or board members have included Secretary of
Defense Robert Gates, former Deputy Director of CIA Bobby Ray Inman,
former NYC OEM director Jerome Hauer, anthrax attack suspect Stephen
Hatfill, former CIA Director John Deutch, and Lawrence B. Prior, a
military intelligence officer and former TRW executive. Also formerly
with SAIC, during the time of the planning and implementation of the
9/11 attacks, was Dick Cheney’s undersecretary of defense, Duane
Andrews.
      Duane Andrews considered Dick Cheney to be his personal, lifelong
hero.[34] While he worked for Cheney, Andrews supervised Stephen
Cambone, who went on to become Donald Rumsfeld’s “special assistant.”
When Andrews left the Pentagon in 1993, he became chief operating
officer for SAIC, where he supervised “much of the company's work on
secret projects with defense and national security agencies.”[35]
Andrews and Cambone both later hired on to the British intelligence
firm Qinetiq, along with George Tenet. Coincidentally, The Carlyle
Group was a major shareholder in Qinetiq as of February 2003.
    Halliburton and BCCI
      When we examine who had the greatest motive for the attacks of
9/11, we need to look at who most benefited from those events.
Certainly SAIC and other companies like Maurice Greenberg’s American
International Group (AIG) are among those who profited the most after
9/11. But The Carlyle Group and oil companies like Halliburton led the
field in terms of profiting from 9/11.
      Dick Cheney was hired as CEO of Halliburton in 1995, despite
having no practical business leadership experience. He quickly went on
to add new directors that shared his political convictions, including
Lawrence Eagleburger, the former Secretary of State under the first
President George Bush. Eagleburger also served as a director of
Kissinger Associates, and on the board of Dresser Industries, where
George H.W. Bush got his start. Others Cheney added to his team
included Ray Hunt, of Dallas-based Hunt Oil, a longtime supporter of
the Bush clan.
      Cheney named Charles DiBona as one of his first appointees to the
board of Halliburton. DiBona had been the Deputy Director of the White
House Policy Office and Special Assistant to President Nixon in the
early 1970s. DiBona was also an associate of WTC south tower impact
zone tenant Joseph Kasputys, at the Logistics Management Institute,
and DiBona and Kasputys had previously worked together during the Arab
Oil Embargo as representatives of the emerging US Department of Energy
(DOE). In fact, DiBona was one of the first US “Energy Czars.”
      Like DiBona, Joseph Kasputys was in the US Navy for 20 years, and
both of them retired as Commanders. They then both worked for the
predecessor agencies of the DOE, and Kasputys worked for the
Department of Defense as well. In 1975, Kasputys was appointed by
President Ford to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce. As stated in the
review of tenants in the towers, Kasptuys went on to run a large
corporation called Primark that had offices in both towers on 9/11.
One of the subsidiaries of Primark, The Analytical Sciences
Corporation (TASC), worked with “so-called 'black' or top secret
programs.” TASC also worked closely with the National Institute of
Standards and Technology.[36]
      After his government service, DiBona went on to lead the American
Petroleum Institute, the petroleum industry's national trade
association, in a position he held for nineteen years. During that
time, DiBona was also a director of First American Bancshares, the
American bank secretly owned by the Bank of Credit and Commerce
International (BCCI).
      BCCI is significant relative to 9/11 because it was involved in
funding terrorists in the late 1980s and was linked to the Pakistani
intelligence network, from which several alleged 9/11 conspirators
came, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In fact, Time magazine
reported, relative to BCCI, that -- "You can't draw a line separating
the bank's black operatives and Pakistan's intelligence services."[37]
      BCCI was also clearly connected to the mafia. Munther Bilbeisi, a
notorious BCCI representative who was finally indicted for tax fraud
in 1991, was associated with several mafia families in New Jersey,
including the DeCavalcante and Luchese crime families.[38]
      More importantly, there were indications that the CIA was
involved in the founding of BCCI.[39] There were also connections
between George H. W. Bush, who was CIA director during BCCI’s heyday,
and George W. Bush, through Harken Energy. But other US government
representatives helped BCCI too, simply by not doing anything or
allowing BCCI to make acquisitions in the US when they should have
closed the operation down. For example, at the time that BCCI was
first publicly suspected of wrongdoing, in 1988, both the US
Department of Justice and the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) were hesitant
to investigate or prosecute, despite the fact that there were signs
that both of these organizations already knew of BCCI’s fraud. When
the Fed finally did take its first disciplinary action, it appeared
that BCCI had a friend at the top, in that one member abstained from a
critical vote. That member was the chairman, Alan Greenspan. Greenspan
later explained that he had socialized with BCCI attorney and First
American Bancshares President, Robert Altman.[40]
    Kissinger and his associates
      Henry Kissinger and his associates were also connected to BCCI in
several ways, although he refused to share documents with the related
Senate investigation. For example, Sergio Correa da Costa, who served
as Brazil’s Ambassador to the US in the mid-1980s (note that Ensec was
a Brazilian company), worked for Kissinger’s consulting company,
Kissinger Associates, and was also a nominee shareholder for BCCI. And
as early as 1971, Kissinger was linked to BCCI through the Pakistanis
that arranged for his first visit to China.[41] At the time,
Pakistrani agents who later became BCCI representatives were involved
in fooling journalists into thinking Kissinger was in Pakistan instead
of China. Kissinger returned to China many times and on occasion took
very close friends and business associates along with him, most
notably Maurice Greenberg of AIG, who traveled extensively with
Kissinger.[42]
      From 1985 to 1990, a client of Kissinger Associates, Banca
Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) provided $4 billion in unreported loans to
Saddam Hussein and his government in Iraq. Henry Kissinger was on the
International Advisory Board of BNL during that same time period.
Kissinger and his leading assistants Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence
Eagleburger were investigated in this matter by the House Banking
Committee just as the first Gulf War was ending.[43]
      But the numerous connections between assistants and associates of
Kissinger, and the most significant events of 9/11, are astounding. To
begin with, Kissinger, who is considered by some to be an
international terrorist due to his bombing of Cambodia, his role in
the 1973 coup in Chile, and other atrocities, was the Bush
Administration’s first choice to lead the 9/11 Commission. Although he
later resigned from the Commission to avoid exposing his client list,
Kissinger’s closest friends and aides played significant roles with
regard to 9/11.
    # L. Paul Bremer, the managing director at Kissinger Associates
from 1989 to 2000, left there to take a job with WTC impact zone
tenant Marsh & McLennan, and then played a leading role in
establishing the official myth of 9/11.
    # Peter Rodman, PNAC member and Assistant Secretary of Defense on
9/11, hosted meetings with Pakistani ISI General Ahmed the week before
9/11, and had previously been a Special Assistant to Kissinger for
eight years.[44]
    # Joseph Kasputys, south tower impact zone tenant, worked with
Kissinger in the Ford Administration (along with Cheney, Greenspan,
DiBona, and Rumsfeld).[45]
    # Kissinger is also closely associated with several 9/11
Commissioners, including his long-time National Security Council
assistant John Lehman, and his fellow Hollinger board member James R.
Thompson.
    # And Phillip Odeen of BDM, who was Barry McDaniel’s boss until
McDaniel left to lead WTC security company Stratesec, was a Kissinger
assistant for several years.
      There was also Renato Ruggiero of Kissinger Associates. Mr.
Ruggiero was present on 9/11 in the sense that he was on the
International Advisory Board for Salomon Smith Barney (SSB), the
company that occupied all but ten of the 47 floors in WTC building 7.
[46] SSB even shared the all-important 23rd floor with the New York
City OEM. More striking is the fact that Donald Rumsfeld was the
chairman of that SSB board, and Dick Cheney was a board member as
well. Rumsfeld served as chairman of the SSB International Advisory
Board since its inception in 1999, but had to resign in 2001 when he
was confirmed as George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense, and Cheney
resigned at the same time when he became Vice President.
      Another interesting coincidence is that Global Crossing was
brought public in 1998 by SSB. Global Crossing was the company that
Ensec director McAuliffe made a fortune on, when he purchased $100,000
in stock before the company went public and cashed out several years
later for $18 million. Richard Perle was a lobbyist for Global Crossing.
      On 9/11/01, Salomon Smith Barney’s parent company was Citigroup.
Citicorp was the nation’s largest bank in 1990, but dropped half of
its value from the summer to the winter of that year due to the S&L
scandal. The company was saved by Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia, who
pumped an initial $590 MM into the company in a deal brokered by The
Carlyle Group. It is believed that the money, and more, came from BCCI
as it was dissolving.[47]
      Therefore, when Salomon Smith Barney was taken over by Citigroup
in 1998, it was taken over in part by Saudi owners who were apparently
redistributing the funding and networks of BCCI. Rumsfeld and Cheney
entered the picture less than a year later, in May 1999. Jules Kroll,
the founder of the WTC security design firm, and Rudy Giuliani, who
was a former Department of Justice official, were responsible for
investigating organized crime and BCCI, and were well aware of the
extent of those networks ten years prior to that. Others like them,
who brought the late indictments against BCCI, were leaders of the US
Department of Justice.
      Stratesec was at the WTC, and therefore, through Barry McDaniel
and the Bush family, the influence of The Carlyle Group was present as
well. In a sense, Rumsfeld and Cheney were also present at the WTC,
because both of them were on the advisory board of Salomon Smith
Barney. And SAIC was at the WTC on 9/11 too, as it was one of the
first companies to show up at Ground Zero on that day. That fact will
be discussed in the third installment of the essay series entitled
Demolition Access to the WTC.
      As for Kissinger, within hours of the events of 9/11 he was
writing an opinion piece for the Washington Post. In it, he claimed to
have thorough knowledge of what would be required to pull off such a
coordinated set of attacks. Kissinger went on to inform the American
public of what must happen next: “the destruction of the system that
is responsible.”[48] No one can argue with that sentiment. But to this
day, no one can accurately describe the terrorist system that was
responsible for the 9/11 attacks, let alone destroy it.
      What we can say today, with certainty, is that if we are to
believe that al Qaeda orchestrated the events of 9/11 then we do not
know much about al Qaeda. Alternatively, there was a far more powerful
and highly connected system of intelligence and financial networks,
represented by organizations like Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and
Halliburton, that converged upon the events of 9/11. That other system
continues to profit from the 9/11 attacks, and uses the fear and rage
generated by al Qaeda-attributed terrorism to its own advantage.
Understanding and destroying terrorism might simply be a matter of
understanding and destroying the organizations that continue to profit
from 9/11.

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Obama's Self-evaluation is Delusional
By David Limbaugh
December 15, 2009 It's bad enough for America that President Barack Obama is a
committed far-left ideologue, but when you couple that with his narcissism,
you've got a recipe for a major disaster.He told Oprah Winfrey he deserves "a
good solid B-plus" for his first year in office. The only things standing in his
way for that coveted A are -- for the most part -- other people, such as evil
Republicans who oppose socialized medicine.It's obvious that Obama is as
self-absorbed as he is delusional. While most Americans are worried about the
financial destruction of our country and our resulting inability to bequeath our
heirs a land of liberty, Obama is fretting over the stresses the job is placing
on him."The biggest burden on me right now is that economic growth has happened,
but job growth has not happened." Note the "burden on me." Similarly, he said
his painfully belabored decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan
hit him "in the gut."Obama insists economic growth has returned and job recovery
is just a matter of time, but many are not so sure of either. But all are sure
that his unwavering debt path is unsustainable and suicidal.When the George W.
Bush economy was humming for almost eight years, Obama and his media friends
gave Bush no credit because, they said, we were experiencing "jobless growth."
These partisan charlatans characterized 4.5 percent unemployment as
"joblessness. " What does that make 10 percent -- especially in light of Obama's
promise to keep it less than 8 percent?Shouldn't Obama be held to the same
standard that he and his liberal friends set for President Bush? A June 10,
2007, editorial by George F. Will had it just right: "In 2002, when (Bush's) tax
cuts kicked in and the economy began 65 months -- so far -- of uninterrupted
growth, critics said: But it is a 'jobless recovery,' (even though) the
unemployment rate steadily declined (to) 4.5 percent."Lawrence Kudlow wrote in
2006 that Democrats who proclaimed a "jobless recovery" in 2003 and 2004 "had to
eat crow." "Right now," Kudlow wrote, "total employment in the U.S. stands at a
record high of 144 million. This is a big number, just as 4.6 percent
unemployment is a low number."But despite the objectively positive data,
liberals wouldn't permit any positive perspective on the Bush economy, to the
point that they had convinced 64 percent of Americans (according to a Gallup
Poll) that the economy was doing poorly.National Review Online's Victor Davis
Hanson affirmed the liberals' delusional naysaying on economic and foreign
policy issues. He wrote: "For some time, a large number of Americans have lived
in an alternate universe where everything is supposedly going to hell. If you
get up in the morning to read the New York Times or Washington Post, watch John
Murtha or Howard Dean on the morning talk shows, listen to National Public Radio
at noon, and go to bed reading Newsweek it surely seems that the administration
is incommunicado (cf. 'the bubble'), the war is lost ('unwinnable' ), the Great
Depression is back ('jobless recovery'), and America about as popular as Nazi
Germany abroad ('alone and isolated')."Yet Obama pats himself on the back
because "we are on our way out of Iraq," and he thinks "we've got the best
possible plan for Afghanistan. "How he can give himself credit for Iraq is
beyond comprehension. He vigorously opposed the surge, which everyone
acknowledges turned the war around, and he steadfastly refused to admit he was
wrong. Our withdrawal from Iraq is only possible because wiser heads prevailed.
As for Afghanistan, he ultimately made the right decision to listen to the
generals -- partially. He refused to send the number of troops they requested,
demoralized our forces and emboldened the enemy in needlessly delaying his
decision, and telegraphed our lukewarm commitment to the war by setting a
short-term withdrawal date just as he was increasing troop deployments.How about
Obama's restoration of America's image? Well, he's gone around the world telling
people how terrible we are -- not exactly the smartest PR move. He's
consistently insulted our greatest ally, Britain; a Wall Street Journal article
this week notes that he snubbed Britain by failing to mention its support in
Afghanistan while touting nations offering less support. He disses our ally
Israel, treating it as a terrorist nation and demanding that it unilaterally
cease settlements in a portion of its own land.And how about Obama's promotion
of cap and trade in the midst of ClimateGate, his refusal to back down on
Obamacare despite 56 percent public opposition, and his plan to spend the
billions of TARP repayments while the nation is on the brink of bankruptcy from
his spending?B-plus?"Delusional" is an understatement.
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