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NA-325-2011-07-28 Credits
  Axis of Abuse
  Executive Producers: Baron Steven Pelsmaekers, James FreeHollowBooks.com, Jennifer Buchanan, Paul Schneider, Susan L. Brigham, Andrew Harms
  Associate Executive Producers: David Romagosa
  Executive Producers and 325 Club member: Andrew Harms
  333 Club Members: James FreeHollowBooks.com, Jennifer Buchanan, Paul Schneider, Susan L. Brigham,
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    amatterofdaysnotweeks.com
      Adam, just wanted to send a quick note, I just bought a podcast license, and am forwarding the following to noagendashow.com;
      compromisedmedia.com
      amatterofdaysnotweeks.com
      australiacarbontax.com
      Keep up the good work.
      --
      Joe Amory
    thescienceis.in
      I forwarded thescienceis.in to the show
      I wasnt able to get thescienceisin.com because it looks like Tim Flannery (the aussie wanker pushing for climate tax ) is pimping his new book on there called "the weathermakers" at
      theweathermakers.org
      Maybe he listens to the show and decided to co opt the meme ?
      --
      Dave
    justgettingby.com
      From the Ozarks Bumkin in Southwest Missouri.
      justgettinby.com and .net
      justgettingby.net
      obamasamericandream.com
    killingbrownpeople.com
      Hi Adam,
      I have the following domains forwarded to noagendashow.com
      woodinthemorning.com
      killingbrownpeople.com
      Thanks for the great show!
      Tim English
    partyinthecia.com
      I just recently viewed the new Weird Al Parody music video called Party in the CIA and after seeing it I decided to register the domain http://partyinthecia.com/ and point it to noagnedashow.com
      here's a link to the video, I think you'll enjoy it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-CG5w4YwOI&ob=av2n
    Itanimulli.com
      I love the domain name forwards to no agenda and wondered if you knew
      about this interesting tid bit, try it yourself....
      have you ever typed in illuminati.com on a web browser? If not then
      check it out and see what page it forwards to. Adam will find it
      extremely interesting and John will get a nice chuckle out of it.
      http://www.itanimulli.com
      here is a who is on it...
      http://www.who.is/whois/itanimulli.com/
    Bat Signal for Windows
      Hey Adam and In The Morning,
      I'm am pleased to report that NABS - No Agenda Bat Signal for Windows is finished and is now available to download.
      http://nabs.skowler.com/
      NABS follows the value for value model so it is open source freeware available to all No Agenda producers and citizens of the interwebs alike.
      Hopefully you have access to a Windows box so you can chuck it on, check it out and share your thoughts and feedback.
      We would also appreciate you giving a shoutout and some karma to NABS, our other Windows app Skowler, the brains of the Op DK1 oh & me, NeraStudios.
      Cheers
      Nik
    noagendacannon.com
      The Cannon has been polished, wheeled into place and unveiled:
      http://noagendacannon.com
      The feed for Doug to read on the Stream is: http://twitter.com/noagendacannon
      Maybe a short intro like, "This is Doug with your No Agenda Cannon update from
      noagendacannon.com . . ."
      I may have to tweak the micro-donation price points. They're currently set at
      $6.66 for a semi-canned message, and $11.11 for a custom message.
      The Cannon will either be a big hit or the trolls will attack it. But should be
      fun!
      ----- Original Message ----
      From: Adam Curry
      To: Brian S. King
    Hotpockets Producers
      Tampa
        Josh Araya 60
        Aaron Pattersson 101
      Pensacola
        Brian & Candice
          Picked us up and $50 gas
      NOLA
        David Romagosa & Daughters
          Adam,
          Thanks for coming through New Orleans on your Hot Pocket tour, we enjoyed the meet up! Your girl Micky is a keeper! I saw this story on our evening news and thought I would send to you for evaluation: I¹d rather wear an ankle bracelet.
          http://thelensnola.org/2011/07/27/jailedjuvenilesanddrugs/
          Just getting by,
          David Romagosa
        Andy Kirby
          100 gas
          2 bibles
  Knighthoods: Paul Schneider, Melissa Symmons
  Art By: Thoren
  ShowNotes Archive of links and Assets (clips etc) 325.nashownotes.com
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NA-325-2011-07-28 Shownotes
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    System Administrator Appreciation Day
    Oil Cabal
      MinnPost - Don Shelby: Remember BP's Tony Hayward? He's trying to get his life back in northern Minnesota
        Wait a minute! Wasn't that what British Petroleum's Tony Hayward said to the press as he surveyed the ruin caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the largest oil spill in U.S. history? Tony just wanted his life back. Gaffes like that ended his leadership of BP. So they gave him about $4 million to go away. Maybe he will end up in Minnesota's north country. You think I'm kidding? Read on.
        Tony Hayward has been recently hired by a company called Glencore. Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it. It has been trying for years to be invisible to the naked eye. It was briefly in the news back in the Clinton years when its founder, Marc Rich, violated federal law by trading oil with Iran and went on the FBI's most wanted list. Things cooled off fairly quickly because President Clinton pardoned Rich as Bill was on the way out of the White House door. Rich was, well, rich. He gave money to the Clinton campaign. I'm not saying. I'm just saying.
    Bank$ters
      Cyprus
        (Please quote me as an anonymous source if you mention anything
        Fed-related on a show.)
        A bit behind on episodes. Just listened 323 and the bit about
        Cyprus/Turkey/Russia, etc. First off, Paul Sarbanes is of Greek
        extraction, that's why he has something to say about the matter, and is in
        direct opposition to Lucifer Clinton.
        Also, Anastasios Orphanides might be worth looking into a bit. He is the
        head of the Cypriot Central Bank. His resume ought to tell you everything
        you need to know about how high up the elite food chain he is:
        Professional career
        1990-1996
        Economist, Federal Reserve Board
        1996-2003
        Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board
        2003-2006
        Adviser, Federal Reserve Board
        2006-2007
        Senior Adviser, Federal Reserve Board
        (from: http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=6656)
        I worked for his group directly when I was at the Fed and before I jumped
        ship to the sys admin side of things (I double majored in finance and econ
        and was on track to full-on elitism before I got educated). I'll fill you
        in on some of what I worked on while at the Fed later.
        Anyway, look into this guy. Pay very close attention to any news relative
        to the Cypriot Central Bank. He is the author of some very controversial
        papers while he was at the Fed. In particular this one:
        Orphanides, A., "Monetary policy in deflation: the liquidity trap in
        history and practice", The North American Journal of Economics and
        Finance, 2004, 15(1), 101-124. [PDF/EconPapers]
        More here:
        http://www.athanasiosorphanides.com/
        ITM, sir! I look forward to your excellent updates from the road.
        --John
      The Federal Reserve ADMITS That Its 12 Banks Are PRIVATE -- Not Government -- Entities :
        While the Fed's Washington-based Board of Governors is a federal agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act and other government rules, the New York Fed and other regional banks maintain they are separate institutions, owned by their member banks, and not subject to federal restrictions.
      The Fed Audit: "U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out US and foreign banks"
        Among the investigation's key findings is that the Fed unilaterally provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and corporations from South Korea to Scotland, according to the GAO report. "No agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the president," Sanders said.
    Out There
      Miniute Man III
        Air Force Global Strike Command
        MINUTEMAN III LAUNCH SCHEDULED JULY 27
        Press Release
        Office of Public Affairs
        Barksdale AFB, La. 71110-2279
        July 25, 2011
        Release 11-07-01
        BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. ­ An unarmed operational test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch between 3:01 and 9:01 a.m. July 27 from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
        The missile's single unarmed re-entry vehicle is expected to travel approximately 4,200 miles southwest to the Kwajalein Atoll.
        "The launch process requires tremendous teamwork and involves months of preparation," said Lt. Col. David W. Lair, 576th Flight Test Squadron commander. "The data gained from these launches allows us to maintain a high readiness capability and ensures operational effectiveness of the most powerful weapons in the nation's arsenal."
        Air Force Global Strike Command¹s launch team, under the direction of the 576th FLTS, includes crew members from the 341th Missile Wing, Malmstrom AFB, Mont., who will launch the missile from Missile Alert Facility 01A. Maintenance and operations task force members from the 341th Missile Wing have also conducted operational tasks in support of the launch.
        The 576 FLTS is responsible for installed tracking, telemetry and command destruct systems on the missile which collect data and ensure safety requirements are met.
        The 30 Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB provides range support for every ICBM test launch.
        The entire ICBM community, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, will use the data collected from this mission for continuing force development evaluation.
      Minute Man III Fail
        VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - An unarmed operational test
        Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was destroyed by
        Vandenberg's Western Range officials at 3:06 a.m. PDT after launching
        from Launch Facility 04 here July 27.
        Air Force controllers detected a flight anomaly and terminated the
        flight for safety reasons. When terminated, the vehicle was in the
        broad ocean area, northeast of Roi-Namur.
        "At all times public safety is paramount. We plan for situations like
        this and everything was executed according to the plan," said Col.
        Matthew Carroll, 30th Space Wing chief of safety. "Established
        parameters were exceeded and controllers sent destruct commands."
        The launch was an operational test to determine the weapon system's
        reliability and accuracy.
    CyberWar$
      Twitter censors #OpPayPal from the trending topics list (Hush Hush News)
      Walmart Reputation
        thought you would get a kick out of this!! - nothing like a slave trying to educate himself on the master's dime!!
        Sorry for being a boner, not a doner - but thanks to you and John for entertaining this poor father of twins!
        ---Blocked by Reputation----
        This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately.
        *** Walmart Confidential ***
      US cyber security chief quits after hacker attacks | Technology | guardian.co.uk
        The head of the US body responsible for combating cyber-attacks has resigned unexpectedly following a string of online assaults on the CIA and other government agencies.
        Randy Vickers, the director of the US computer emergency readiness team (CERT), stepped down on Friday, according to a Department of Homeland Security email obtained by the Reuters news agency.
    Biodiversitée
      UN security council to consider climate change peacekeeping | Environment | guardian.co.uk
        Special meeting to discuss 'green helmets' force to intervene in conflicts caused by rising seas levels and shrinking resources
      Memo to climate change pundits: Don't mention the weather (The Groupie)
        Memo to climate change pundits: Don't mention the weather
        At the peak of a hot summer, commentators are making links between heat waves and global warming. The weather, though, is an irredeemably lousy frame for talking about climate change.
      2010 climate report notes Antarctic sea ice grows while world warms
        2010 climate report notes Antarctic sea ice grows while world warms
        By Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor
        Posted July 15, 2011
        By all accounts, 2010 was a rough -- and hot -- year on the planet.
        In fact, last year was one of the two warmest years on record, matching the record year in 2005, according to the 2010 State of the Climate report released by NOAA last month. The last decade now accounts for the top ten hottest years on record with the exception of 1998, which ranks third. The year 2008 is 11th.
        The peer-reviewed report, issued in coordination with the American Meteorological Society , was compiled by 368 scientists from 45 countries. It provides a detailed, yearly update on global climate indicators, notable climate events and other climate information from every continent, including Antarctica.
    Gitmo Nation
      Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online 'Has To Go Away'
        Zuckerberg, who is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister, argued that putting an end to anonymity online could help curb bullying and harassment on the web.
        "I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away," she said during a panel discussion on social media hosted Tuesday evening by Marie Claire magazine. "People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. ... I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors."
      Nation & World | Unmanned Army blimp brought down in Pa. woods | Seattle Times Newspaper
        The HALE-D blimp was designed to float above the jet stream at 60,000 feet and can be used for reconnaissance, intelligence and other purposes often accomplished by satellites, but at lower cost. The blimp was being tested as a communications relay device as part of a contract Lockheed Martin has with the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, Ala., Lockheed spokesman Keith Little told The Associated Press.
      2 N.J. teens labeled sex offenders for life after horseplay incident (The Groupie)
        2 N.J. teens labeled sex offenders for life after horseplay incident
        [well i feel a lot safer] Call it bullying or call it horseplay. Either way, a state appellate court panel says roughhousing with a sexual connotation by a pair of 14-year-old Somerset County boys was a crime that requires them to register as sex offenders for the rest of their...
      DMV facial recognition mess up
        "The system looks at each driver's license photograph stored in the state's computers, mapping thousands of facial data points and generating algorithms that compare the images to others in the mathematical database...- The software then displays licenses with similar-looking photographs - those with two or more images that have a high score for being the same person. Registry analysts review the licenses and check biographical information, criminal records, and drivers' histories, in part to rule out cases with legitimate explanations, such as drivers who are identical twins."
      German Politicans call for clampdown on Internet websites
        In response to the attacks in Norway are to be tackled in future more extremist websites. Manfred Weber (CSU), Group Vice conservatives in the European Parliament urged against journalists a "European political offensive against extremists on the Internet." Possible measures he called a deletion of the pages as well as power locks.
    Vaccine$
      Long-term, universal flu shot on horizon [w vid] (The Groupie)
        Long-term, universal flu shot on horizon [w vid]
        Long-term, universal flu shot on horizon By Dan Vergano and Liz Szabo, USA TODAY Updated 21h 39m ago Comments 101 Reprints & Permissions A universal flu vaccine that protects against all strains may be within reach in the next five years, replacing annual shots developed for...
      Prescription Drug Prices May Plummet - ABC News
        Here's a look at the 10 blockbuster drugs coming off patent.
      Winehouse 'died of withdrawal'. (GitmoKiwi news feed)
        Winehouse 'died of withdrawal'.
        Amy Winehouse's family reportedly believe the singer died due to her body not being able to handle withdrawal symptoms from alcohol.
      Overmedicating young inmates called chemical restraint | TheLensNola.org : Investigative Journalism New Orleans
        Youths incarcerated across Louisiana and the New Orleans metropolitan area are getting dosed with potent antipsychotic drugs even when they have not been diagnosed with the conditions -- typically, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia -- that the drugs were developed to treat, records show.
    Ministry of Truth
      Clooney on the cover of Time as president. Nothing to see here. (Dr. Jones reports)
        Clooney on the cover of Time as president. Nothing to see here.
        Remember there is no such thing as predictive programming. It is not as if Clooney has ties to intelligence or the State Department. He is just a regular guy.
      Whitehouse Twitter Rick Roll, really??
        @wiggsd Sorry to hear that. Fiscal policy is important, but can be dry sometimes. Here's something more fun: tinyurl.com/y8ufsnp #WHChat
    Lone Wolf
      Norway attacks: The worrying rise of the lone-wolf terrorist - Yahoo! News
        "Breivik represents a new paradigm," says Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway's domestic intelligence, the Police Security Service. "He's not a solo terrorist. He's a lone wolf who has been very intent on staying under the radar of the security services by leading a lawful life." (See TIME's photos: "Explosion and Shooting Rock Norway.")
      Norway Premier "Begged" Putin To Stop Massacre Planned By "Elites"
        According to the FSB, Stoltenberg first learned of this plot against his country this past Wednesday after reading a "top secret" report prepared for him by the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) on the late March computer attack against Norway's top military leaders that showed them involved in a conspiracy with Britain's MI5 Security Service and the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to launch a "two-phase" attack upon Norway modeled after false-flag operations in both Australia and America in the mid-nineties.
      Norway Premier "Begged" Putin To Stop Massacre Planned By "Elites"
        In actions more reminiscent of the Cold War than modern times the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the Northern Fleet's Yekaterinburg nuclear powered submarine successfully fired a RSM-54 Sineva (SS-N-23 Skiff in NATO classification) ballistic missile from the Barents Sea across the North Pole into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean where upon its deploying of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) "device" succeeded in destroying an American Minuteman III ICBM fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
        United States Air Force Colonel Matthew Carroll in a statement to American propaganda media organs stated that the destruction of this Minuteman III ICBM was caused by an unexplained "flight anomaly" failing to mention the rapidly deteriorating relations between the US and Russia that in fact caused this incident to occur.
        The taking down of this American ICBM was in "direct retaliation" for the United States unprovoked actions in slapping International travel restrictions on over 60 high ranking Russian officials the Obama regime said was justified for their alleged involvement in the killing of a prisoner in 2009.
      DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: Who Are The Bankers That Benefit From The Norway Terror Attacks? : Deadline Live With Jack Blood
        Overall, the carbon tax pilot program was a failure and a major embarrassment for the Norwegian government, the international banks, and the government contractors-involved in that scam. Forget the money; they have all the money in the world. This was supposed to be their pilot program and it failed! As a result, the People's Progress Party became the-number one obstacle for the carbon tax promoters. The EU Police (Europol) began to label them as terrorists. Their Facebook page was hacked earlier this month. Then suddenly, last Friday, a terrorist (who happens to be a Progress Party supporter) by the name of Anders Behring Breivik bombs the government building and kills a bunch of socialist kids in an island. The news media outlets worldwide have been unleashed and they are accusing those who support the Progress Party of being extremists, racists, islamophobes and even terrorists. Using the media propaganda as a tool, these terror attacks have effectively neutralized the Progress Party and their supporters, those who 'deny' climate change, those who oppose illegal immigration, higher taxes and the outsourcing of jobs. In the eyes of the world, these people are now terrorists for agreeing with Anders Behring Breivik. So now they won't have any political leverage to oppose the carbon tax programs.
      aangirfan: BREIVIK IS INNOCENT
      Norway Notes -- More Murder Arrests/Suppressed Car Bomb Video | Veterans Today
      aangirfan: BREIVIK'S DOUBLE
      aangirfan: US AMBASSADOR'S MAY 2011 VISIT TO RENA, SITE OF BREIVIK'S FARM
        The US ambassador to Norway visited Rena in May 2011.
        "On May 20, 2011, Ambassador White traveled to Hedmark County on a visit hosted by Center Party Member of Parliament and Hedmark representative Trygve Slagsvold Vedum."
        White visited some farms.
        The afternoon was spent in Camp Rena visiting the Telemark Batallion and Norwegian Special Forces.
      Jonathan Kay on Anders Breivik: How a 2011 Norwegian massacre echoes a 1978 American novel | Full Comment | National Post
        Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old Norwegian man who slaughtered 76 people, is not only a terrorist and a murderer, but also a plagiarist: Sections from his 1,500-page manifesto were copied directly from that of the "Unabomber," Ted Kaczynski. And even the material he wrote himself is derivative: From the parts of the rambling and disjointed manifesto that I have been able to read thus far, his bigoted and paranoid worldview seems to have originated -- either directly or indirectly -- with The Turner Diaries, a hack science fiction novel written 33 years ago by an American white supremacist named William Luther Pierce. The Turner Diaries feature prominently on a Swedish Nazi Internet forum called Nordisk, of which Breivick was a member.
      Anders Behring Breivik Facebook Profile A Fake? | Solid Principles
        The 3 Big Questions About Anders Behring Breivik's Facebook Profile
        1: Why is there a version of Anders Behring Breivik's Facebook profile not showing Christian / Conservative? Even Google's cache of the Facebook profile retrieved on Jul 22, 2011 23:52:36 GMT supports this factor.
        2: How was Christian / Conservative added prior to the profile being removed from Facebook? If our PDF was printed out/saved at Jul 23 01:39 GMT, and the profile was deleted soon afterwards by Facebook, how was a detained Anders Behring Breivik able to change it?
        3: Which then needs to be asked, Who had access to in changing the Profile before it was removed? Or is this theory a possible explanation?
    Squirrel!
      Washingtonpost.com: AQ's #2 guy worked for them, see this article
        Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki of the Falls Church Dar Al-hijrah Islamic Center, answered questions and comments on Monday, Nov.19 at 3 p.m. EST about Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting.
    Cold War$
      Executive Order--Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations | The White House
        any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State:
      US slaps travel restrictions on Russian officials
        Sergey Magnitsky died of an untreated illness in late 2009 after spending almost a year in a Russian jail. Investors working in Russia have said the lawyer's death and allegations of torture highlight corruption in the judicial system and presents a litmus test for President Dmitry Medvedev's pledge to cement the rule of law in the country.
        Magnitsky worked for Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund owned and run by U.S.-born investor William Browder. The lawyer had accused Interior Ministry officers of seizing ownership documents of three of its subsidiaries in 2007, then using those documents to register their own people as owners.
        He was arrested for tax evasion by the same police officials he had accused of the tax fraud. Family and supporters say he was never properly examined by a doctor despite pleas for medical assistance and surgery for three months.
      US takes on the Russian organized crime 'Brothers' Circle'. Who? - In Moscow's Shadows
        The 'Brothers' Circle' is not a term Russian law enforcement would recognize either, and like 'the Family of Eleven' and 'The Twenty' seems rather to reflect pop culture representations of Russian OC. There is, after all, a pervasive and pernicious trend towards seeing the mafiya as a much more organized structure than it really is. I sometimes feel that there are those who believe that there must ultimately be a boss or a ruling council, ideally meeting around a large mahogany table in an extinct volcano somewhere. References to 'The Twenty' also often may conflate it with a rather nasty 1990s myth about the 'Jewish conspiracy' and the claim that the twenty richest men in Russia were all Jews. I'm not for a minute thinking this is in any way behind the US use of the term, just that this may be part of its pedigree.
      Axis of Abuse: U.S. Human Rights Policy Toward Iran and Syria - Part 1
    Debt Show
      Moody's Profit Advances 56% as Bond Sales Spur Demand for Credit Ratings. (DaDenMan news feed)
        Moody's Profit Advances 56% as Bond Sales Spur Demand for Credit Ratings.
        Net income climbed to $189 million, or 82 cents a share, from $121 million, or 51 cents, a year earlier, New York-based Moody's said today in a statement distributed by Business Wire. Excluding a tax benefit, earnings were 79 cents a share for the three months ended June...
      Moody's Corporation - Moody's Investor Relations
        Q2 2011 Earnings Conference Call
        Moody's Corporation discussed its second quarter 2011 results in a teleconference on Wednesday, July 27th at 11:30AM ET
        Press Release - View Presentation
      Credit Rating Hoax | MontereyCountyWeekly.com
        The dereliction of Standard & Poor was spelled out in detail by the blistering report recently issued by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). Levin's hearings last year established why the supposedly disinterested analysts at S&P handed out inflated ratings for toxic assets. They did it for the money, as witnesses acknowledged. The rating agencies are paid by the banks to do their ratings. If they refuse to stamp newly issued securities with AAA labels, the bank will take its business elsewhere. ’Ä©
      S&P Wants Some QE3
        Just another report from our nearly daily QE3-watch.
        It now appears that S&P is threatening to downgrade U.S. debt if the United States doesn't use its "monetary flexibility" to address the debt problem. That's another way of saying they want QE3.
        The risk of a downgrade to the credit rating of the United States has increased due to a lack of political consensus on how to employ the country's balance sheet flexibility, Standard and Poors' said on Tuesday.
        "Theoretically, there's a lot of flexibility on the fiscal and the monetary side: you have a central bank that can expand its balance sheet, and that's a real boon," Moritz Kraemer, head of sovereign credit ratings for Europe at Standard & Poor's, said on Tuesday.
        "But the problem is this flexibility needs to be employed and for that you need political consensus. That's not very visible right now."
      Cut, Cap, and Balance | Republican Study Committee [Collusion]
      Investors: The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against The United States (NYSE:SLV, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:TBT, NYSE:TLT, NYSE:SPY) | ETF DAILY NEWS
        Jack Barnes:- Someone dropped a bomb on the bond market Thursday -- a $1 billion Armageddon trade betting the United States will lose its AAA credit rating.
        In one moment, an invisible trader placed a single trade that moved the most liquid debt market in the world.
        The massive trade wasn't placed in bonds themselves; it was placed in the futures market.
      'Super Congress': Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body
        House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has made a Super Congress a central part of his last-minute proposal, multiple news reports and people familiar with his plan say. A picture of Boehner's proposal began to come into focus Saturday evening: The debt ceiling would be raised for a short-term period and coupled with an equal dollar figure of cuts, somewhere in the vicinity of a trillion dollars over ten years. A second increase in the debt ceiling would be tied to the creation of a Super Congress that would be required to find a minimum amount of spending cuts. Because the elevated panel would need at least one Democratic vote, its plan would presumably include at least some revenue, though if it's anything like the deals on the table today, it would likely be heavily slanted toward spending cuts. Or, as Obama said of the deal he was offering Republicans before Boehner walked out, "If it was unbalanced, it was unbalanced in the direction of not enough revenue."
      'Super Congress': Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body
        This "Super Congress," composed of members of both chambers and both parties, isn't mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, but would be granted extraordinary new powers. Under a plan put forth by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his counterpart Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation to lift the debt ceiling would be accompanied by the creation of a 12-member panel made up of 12 lawmakers -- six from each chamber and six from each party.
      You can't have it both ways on war spending - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
        Included in Harry Reid's proposal to cut $2.7 trillion from the deficit is a trillion or so dollars in savings from winding down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But Lori Montgomery reports that "counting money not spent on wars that the nation is already planning to end is widely viewed as a budget gimmick, and House GOP leaders have been reluctant to include it as savings."
      FlightAware > Partisan dispute to partially shut down FAA
        Efforts to avert a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration failed Friday amid a disagreement over a $16.5 million cut in subsidies to 13 rural communities, ensuring that nearly 4,000 people will be temporarily out of work and federal airline ticket taxes will be suspended.
        Lawmakers were unable to resolve a partisan dispute over an extension of the agency's operating authority, which expired at midnight Friday.
        The subsidy cut was included by Republicans in a House bill extending operating authority for the FAA, which has a $16 billion budget. Senate Democrats refused to accept the House bill with the cuts, and Republican senators refused to accept a Democratic bill without it. Lawmakers then adjourned for the weekend.
        But under
    Trains Good, Planes Bad (Whoo Hoo)
      China blames lightning strike for deadly train crash. (Euronews Video) (WT news feed)
        China blames lightning strike for deadly train crash. (Euronews Video)
        Authorities in China claim a "severe flaw" in the design of signalling equipment was to blame for last weekend's deadly train crash.
      Wenzhou Train Crash Compensation & Rail Official Takes Plane (WT news feed)
        Wenzhou Train Crash Compensation & Rail Official Takes Plane
        Confirmed, Railway Ministry spokesperson Wang Yongping is taking a flight back to Beijing; first class. Why not take today's hurriedly restored train service to Shanghai and then take the high-speed train he says is "very technologically advanced and very confident...
  System Administrator Appreciation Day
  Oil Cabal
    MinnPost - Don Shelby: Remember BP's Tony Hayward? He's trying to get his life back in northern Minnesota
      Wait a minute! Wasn't that what British Petroleum's Tony Hayward said to the press as he surveyed the ruin caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the largest oil spill in U.S. history? Tony just wanted his life back. Gaffes like that ended his leadership of BP. So they gave him about $4 million to go away. Maybe he will end up in Minnesota's north country. You think I'm kidding? Read on.
      Tony Hayward has been recently hired by a company called Glencore. Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it. It has been trying for years to be invisible to the naked eye. It was briefly in the news back in the Clinton years when its founder, Marc Rich, violated federal law by trading oil with Iran and went on the FBI's most wanted list. Things cooled off fairly quickly because President Clinton pardoned Rich as Bill was on the way out of the White House door. Rich was, well, rich. He gave money to the Clinton campaign. I'm not saying. I'm just saying.
  Bank$ters
    Cyprus
      (Please quote me as an anonymous source if you mention anything
      Fed-related on a show.)
      A bit behind on episodes. Just listened 323 and the bit about
      Cyprus/Turkey/Russia, etc. First off, Paul Sarbanes is of Greek
      extraction, that's why he has something to say about the matter, and is in
      direct opposition to Lucifer Clinton.
      Also, Anastasios Orphanides might be worth looking into a bit. He is the
      head of the Cypriot Central Bank. His resume ought to tell you everything
      you need to know about how high up the elite food chain he is:
      Professional career
      1990-1996
      Economist, Federal Reserve Board
      1996-2003
      Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Board
      2003-2006
      Adviser, Federal Reserve Board
      2006-2007
      Senior Adviser, Federal Reserve Board
      (from: http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=6656)
      Anyway, look into this guy. Pay very close attention to any news relative
      to the Cypriot Central Bank. He is the author of some very controversial
      papers while he was at the Fed. In particular this one:
      Orphanides, A., "Monetary policy in deflation: the liquidity trap in
      history and practice", The North American Journal of Economics and
      Finance, 2004, 15(1), 101-124. [PDF/EconPapers]
      More here:
      http://www.athanasiosorphanides.com/
      ITM, sir! I look forward to your excellent updates from the road.
    The Federal Reserve ADMITS That Its 12 Banks Are PRIVATE -- Not Government -- Entities :
      While the Fed's Washington-based Board of Governors is a federal agency subject to the Freedom of Information Act and other government rules, the New York Fed and other regional banks maintain they are separate institutions, owned by their member banks, and not subject to federal restrictions.
    The Fed Audit: "U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out US and foreign banks"
      Among the investigation's key findings is that the Fed unilaterally provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and corporations from South Korea to Scotland, according to the GAO report. "No agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the president," Sanders said.
  Out There
    Miniute Man III
      Air Force Global Strike Command
      MINUTEMAN III LAUNCH SCHEDULED JULY 27
      Press Release
      Office of Public Affairs
      Barksdale AFB, La. 71110-2279
      July 25, 2011
      Release 11-07-01
      BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. ­ An unarmed operational test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile is scheduled to launch between 3:01 and 9:01 a.m. July 27 from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
      The missile's single unarmed re-entry vehicle is expected to travel approximately 4,200 miles southwest to the Kwajalein Atoll.
      "The launch process requires tremendous teamwork and involves months of preparation," said Lt. Col. David W. Lair, 576th Flight Test Squadron commander. "The data gained from these launches allows us to maintain a high readiness capability and ensures operational effectiveness of the most powerful weapons in the nation's arsenal."
      Air Force Global Strike Command¹s launch team, under the direction of the 576th FLTS, includes crew members from the 341th Missile Wing, Malmstrom AFB, Mont., who will launch the missile from Missile Alert Facility 01A. Maintenance and operations task force members from the 341th Missile Wing have also conducted operational tasks in support of the launch.
      The 576 FLTS is responsible for installed tracking, telemetry and command destruct systems on the missile which collect data and ensure safety requirements are met.
      The 30 Space Wing at Vandenberg AFB provides range support for every ICBM test launch.
      The entire ICBM community, including the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, will use the data collected from this mission for continuing force development evaluation.
    Minute Man III Fail
      VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - An unarmed operational test
      Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile was destroyed by
      Vandenberg's Western Range officials at 3:06 a.m. PDT after launching
      from Launch Facility 04 here July 27.
      Air Force controllers detected a flight anomaly and terminated the
      flight for safety reasons. When terminated, the vehicle was in the
      broad ocean area, northeast of Roi-Namur.
      "At all times public safety is paramount. We plan for situations like
      this and everything was executed according to the plan," said Col.
      Matthew Carroll, 30th Space Wing chief of safety. "Established
      parameters were exceeded and controllers sent destruct commands."
      The launch was an operational test to determine the weapon system's
      reliability and accuracy.
  CyberWar$
    Twitter censors #OpPayPal from the trending topics list (Hush Hush News)
    Walmart Reputation
      thought you would get a kick out of this!! - nothing like a slave trying to educate himself on the master's dime!!
      Sorry for being a boner, not a doner - but thanks to you and John for entertaining this poor father of twins!
      ---Blocked by Reputation----
      This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately.
      *** Walmart Confidential ***
    US cyber security chief quits after hacker attacks | Technology | guardian.co.uk
      The head of the US body responsible for combating cyber-attacks has resigned unexpectedly following a string of online assaults on the CIA and other government agencies.
      Randy Vickers, the director of the US computer emergency readiness team (CERT), stepped down on Friday, according to a Department of Homeland Security email obtained by the Reuters news agency.
  Biodiversitée
    UN security council to consider climate change peacekeeping | Environment | guardian.co.uk
      Special meeting to discuss 'green helmets' force to intervene in conflicts caused by rising seas levels and shrinking resources
    Memo to climate change pundits: Don't mention the weather (The Groupie)
      Memo to climate change pundits: Don't mention the weather
      At the peak of a hot summer, commentators are making links between heat waves and global warming. The weather, though, is an irredeemably lousy frame for talking about climate change.
    2010 climate report notes Antarctic sea ice grows while world warms
      2010 climate report notes Antarctic sea ice grows while world warms
      By Peter Rejcek, Antarctic Sun Editor
      Posted July 15, 2011
      By all accounts, 2010 was a rough -- and hot -- year on the planet.
      In fact, last year was one of the two warmest years on record, matching the record year in 2005, according to the 2010 State of the Climate report released by NOAA last month. The last decade now accounts for the top ten hottest years on record with the exception of 1998, which ranks third. The year 2008 is 11th.
      The peer-reviewed report, issued in coordination with the American Meteorological Society , was compiled by 368 scientists from 45 countries. It provides a detailed, yearly update on global climate indicators, notable climate events and other climate information from every continent, including Antarctica.
  Gitmo Nation
    Facebook's Randi Zuckerberg: Anonymity Online 'Has To Go Away'
      Zuckerberg, who is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's sister, argued that putting an end to anonymity online could help curb bullying and harassment on the web.
      "I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away," she said during a panel discussion on social media hosted Tuesday evening by Marie Claire magazine. "People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. ... I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors."
    Nation & World | Unmanned Army blimp brought down in Pa. woods | Seattle Times Newspaper
      The HALE-D blimp was designed to float above the jet stream at 60,000 feet and can be used for reconnaissance, intelligence and other purposes often accomplished by satellites, but at lower cost. The blimp was being tested as a communications relay device as part of a contract Lockheed Martin has with the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command in Huntsville, Ala., Lockheed spokesman Keith Little told The Associated Press.
    2 N.J. teens labeled sex offenders for life after horseplay incident (The Groupie)
      2 N.J. teens labeled sex offenders for life after horseplay incident
      [well i feel a lot safer] Call it bullying or call it horseplay. Either way, a state appellate court panel says roughhousing with a sexual connotation by a pair of 14-year-old Somerset County boys was a crime that requires them to register as sex offenders for the rest of their...
    DMV facial recognition mess up
      "The system looks at each driver's license photograph stored in the state's computers, mapping thousands of facial data points and generating algorithms that compare the images to others in the mathematical database...- The software then displays licenses with similar-looking photographs - those with two or more images that have a high score for being the same person. Registry analysts review the licenses and check biographical information, criminal records, and drivers' histories, in part to rule out cases with legitimate explanations, such as drivers who are identical twins."
    German Politicans call for clampdown on Internet websites
      In response to the attacks in Norway are to be tackled in future more extremist websites. Manfred Weber (CSU), Group Vice conservatives in the European Parliament urged against journalists a "European political offensive against extremists on the Internet." Possible measures he called a deletion of the pages as well as power locks.
  Vaccine$
    Long-term, universal flu shot on horizon [w vid] (The Groupie)
      Long-term, universal flu shot on horizon [w vid]
      Long-term, universal flu shot on horizon By Dan Vergano and Liz Szabo, USA TODAY Updated 21h 39m ago Comments 101 Reprints & Permissions A universal flu vaccine that protects against all strains may be within reach in the next five years, replacing annual shots developed for...
    Prescription Drug Prices May Plummet - ABC News
      Here's a look at the 10 blockbuster drugs coming off patent.
    Winehouse 'died of withdrawal'. (GitmoKiwi news feed)
      Winehouse 'died of withdrawal'.
      Amy Winehouse's family reportedly believe the singer died due to her body not being able to handle withdrawal symptoms from alcohol.
    Overmedicating young inmates called chemical restraint | TheLensNola.org : Investigative Journalism New Orleans
      Youths incarcerated across Louisiana and the New Orleans metropolitan area are getting dosed with potent antipsychotic drugs even when they have not been diagnosed with the conditions -- typically, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia -- that the drugs were developed to treat, records show.
  Ministry of Truth
    Clooney on the cover of Time as president. Nothing to see here. (Dr. Jones reports)
      Clooney on the cover of Time as president. Nothing to see here.
      Remember there is no such thing as predictive programming. It is not as if Clooney has ties to intelligence or the State Department. He is just a regular guy.
    Whitehouse Twitter Rick Roll, really??
      @wiggsd Sorry to hear that. Fiscal policy is important, but can be dry sometimes. Here's something more fun: tinyurl.com/y8ufsnp #WHChat
  Lone Wolf
    Norway attacks: The worrying rise of the lone-wolf terrorist - Yahoo! News
      "Breivik represents a new paradigm," says Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway's domestic intelligence, the Police Security Service. "He's not a solo terrorist. He's a lone wolf who has been very intent on staying under the radar of the security services by leading a lawful life." (See TIME's photos: "Explosion and Shooting Rock Norway.")
    Norway Premier "Begged" Putin To Stop Massacre Planned By "Elites"
      According to the FSB, Stoltenberg first learned of this plot against his country this past Wednesday after reading a "top secret" report prepared for him by the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) on the late March computer attack against Norway's top military leaders that showed them involved in a conspiracy with Britain's MI5 Security Service and the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to launch a "two-phase" attack upon Norway modeled after false-flag operations in both Australia and America in the mid-nineties.
    Norway Premier "Begged" Putin To Stop Massacre Planned By "Elites"
      In actions more reminiscent of the Cold War than modern times the foreign military intelligence directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) is reporting today that the Northern Fleet's Yekaterinburg nuclear powered submarine successfully fired a RSM-54 Sineva (SS-N-23 Skiff in NATO classification) ballistic missile from the Barents Sea across the North Pole into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean where upon its deploying of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) "device" succeeded in destroying an American Minuteman III ICBM fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
      United States Air Force Colonel Matthew Carroll in a statement to American propaganda media organs stated that the destruction of this Minuteman III ICBM was caused by an unexplained "flight anomaly" failing to mention the rapidly deteriorating relations between the US and Russia that in fact caused this incident to occur.
      The taking down of this American ICBM was in "direct retaliation" for the United States unprovoked actions in slapping International travel restrictions on over 60 high ranking Russian officials the Obama regime said was justified for their alleged involvement in the killing of a prisoner in 2009.
    DEADLINE LIVE EXCLUSIVE: Who Are The Bankers That Benefit From The Norway Terror Attacks? : Deadline Live With Jack Blood
      Overall, the carbon tax pilot program was a failure and a major embarrassment for the Norwegian government, the international banks, and the government contractors-involved in that scam. Forget the money; they have all the money in the world. This was supposed to be their pilot program and it failed! As a result, the People's Progress Party became the-number one obstacle for the carbon tax promoters. The EU Police (Europol) began to label them as terrorists. Their Facebook page was hacked earlier this month. Then suddenly, last Friday, a terrorist (who happens to be a Progress Party supporter) by the name of Anders Behring Breivik bombs the government building and kills a bunch of socialist kids in an island. The news media outlets worldwide have been unleashed and they are accusing those who support the Progress Party of being extremists, racists, islamophobes and even terrorists. Using the media propaganda as a tool, these terror attacks have effectively neutralized the Progress Party and their supporters, those who 'deny' climate change, those who oppose illegal immigration, higher taxes and the outsourcing of jobs. In the eyes of the world, these people are now terrorists for agreeing with Anders Behring Breivik. So now they won't have any political leverage to oppose the carbon tax programs.
    aangirfan: BREIVIK IS INNOCENT
    Norway Notes -- More Murder Arrests/Suppressed Car Bomb Video | Veterans Today
    aangirfan: BREIVIK'S DOUBLE
    aangirfan: US AMBASSADOR'S MAY 2011 VISIT TO RENA, SITE OF BREIVIK'S FARM
      The US ambassador to Norway visited Rena in May 2011.
      "On May 20, 2011, Ambassador White traveled to Hedmark County on a visit hosted by Center Party Member of Parliament and Hedmark representative Trygve Slagsvold Vedum."
      White visited some farms.
      The afternoon was spent in Camp Rena visiting the Telemark Batallion and Norwegian Special Forces.
    Jonathan Kay on Anders Breivik: How a 2011 Norwegian massacre echoes a 1978 American novel | Full Comment | National Post
      Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old Norwegian man who slaughtered 76 people, is not only a terrorist and a murderer, but also a plagiarist: Sections from his 1,500-page manifesto were copied directly from that of the "Unabomber," Ted Kaczynski. And even the material he wrote himself is derivative: From the parts of the rambling and disjointed manifesto that I have been able to read thus far, his bigoted and paranoid worldview seems to have originated -- either directly or indirectly -- with The Turner Diaries, a hack science fiction novel written 33 years ago by an American white supremacist named William Luther Pierce. The Turner Diaries feature prominently on a Swedish Nazi Internet forum called Nordisk, of which Breivick was a member.
    Anders Behring Breivik Facebook Profile A Fake? | Solid Principles
      The 3 Big Questions About Anders Behring Breivik's Facebook Profile
      1: Why is there a version of Anders Behring Breivik's Facebook profile not showing Christian / Conservative? Even Google's cache of the Facebook profile retrieved on Jul 22, 2011 23:52:36 GMT supports this factor.
      2: How was Christian / Conservative added prior to the profile being removed from Facebook? If our PDF was printed out/saved at Jul 23 01:39 GMT, and the profile was deleted soon afterwards by Facebook, how was a detained Anders Behring Breivik able to change it?
      3: Which then needs to be asked, Who had access to in changing the Profile before it was removed? Or is this theory a possible explanation?
  Squirrel!
    Washingtonpost.com: AQ's #2 guy worked for them, see this article
      Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki of the Falls Church Dar Al-hijrah Islamic Center, answered questions and comments on Monday, Nov.19 at 3 p.m. EST about Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting.
  Cold War$
    Executive Order--Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations | The White House
      any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State:
    US slaps travel restrictions on Russian officials
      Sergey Magnitsky died of an untreated illness in late 2009 after spending almost a year in a Russian jail. Investors working in Russia have said the lawyer's death and allegations of torture highlight corruption in the judicial system and presents a litmus test for President Dmitry Medvedev's pledge to cement the rule of law in the country.
      Magnitsky worked for Hermitage Capital Management, an investment fund owned and run by U.S.-born investor William Browder. The lawyer had accused Interior Ministry officers of seizing ownership documents of three of its subsidiaries in 2007, then using those documents to register their own people as owners.
      He was arrested for tax evasion by the same police officials he had accused of the tax fraud. Family and supporters say he was never properly examined by a doctor despite pleas for medical assistance and surgery for three months.
    US takes on the Russian organized crime 'Brothers' Circle'. Who? - In Moscow's Shadows
      The 'Brothers' Circle' is not a term Russian law enforcement would recognize either, and like 'the Family of Eleven' and 'The Twenty' seems rather to reflect pop culture representations of Russian OC. There is, after all, a pervasive and pernicious trend towards seeing the mafiya as a much more organized structure than it really is. I sometimes feel that there are those who believe that there must ultimately be a boss or a ruling council, ideally meeting around a large mahogany table in an extinct volcano somewhere. References to 'The Twenty' also often may conflate it with a rather nasty 1990s myth about the 'Jewish conspiracy' and the claim that the twenty richest men in Russia were all Jews. I'm not for a minute thinking this is in any way behind the US use of the term, just that this may be part of its pedigree.
    Axis of Abuse: U.S. Human Rights Policy Toward Iran and Syria - Part 1
  Debt Show
    Moody's Profit Advances 56% as Bond Sales Spur Demand for Credit Ratings. (DaDenMan news feed)
      Moody's Profit Advances 56% as Bond Sales Spur Demand for Credit Ratings.
      Net income climbed to $189 million, or 82 cents a share, from $121 million, or 51 cents, a year earlier, New York-based Moody's said today in a statement distributed by Business Wire. Excluding a tax benefit, earnings were 79 cents a share for the three months ended June...
    Moody's Corporation - Moody's Investor Relations
      Q2 2011 Earnings Conference Call
      Moody's Corporation discussed its second quarter 2011 results in a teleconference on Wednesday, July 27th at 11:30AM ET
      Press Release - View Presentation
    Credit Rating Hoax | MontereyCountyWeekly.com
      The dereliction of Standard & Poor was spelled out in detail by the blistering report recently issued by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). Levin's hearings last year established why the supposedly disinterested analysts at S&P handed out inflated ratings for toxic assets. They did it for the money, as witnesses acknowledged. The rating agencies are paid by the banks to do their ratings. If they refuse to stamp newly issued securities with AAA labels, the bank will take its business elsewhere. ’Ä©
    S&P Wants Some QE3
      Just another report from our nearly daily QE3-watch.
      It now appears that S&P is threatening to downgrade U.S. debt if the United States doesn't use its "monetary flexibility" to address the debt problem. That's another way of saying they want QE3.
      The risk of a downgrade to the credit rating of the United States has increased due to a lack of political consensus on how to employ the country's balance sheet flexibility, Standard and Poors' said on Tuesday.
      "Theoretically, there's a lot of flexibility on the fiscal and the monetary side: you have a central bank that can expand its balance sheet, and that's a real boon," Moritz Kraemer, head of sovereign credit ratings for Europe at Standard & Poor's, said on Tuesday.
      "But the problem is this flexibility needs to be employed and for that you need political consensus. That's not very visible right now."
    Cut, Cap, and Balance | Republican Study Committee [Collusion]
    Investors: The $1 Billion Armageddon Trade Placed Against The United States (NYSE:SLV, NYSE:GLD, NYSE:TBT, NYSE:TLT, NYSE:SPY) | ETF DAILY NEWS
      Jack Barnes:- Someone dropped a bomb on the bond market Thursday -- a $1 billion Armageddon trade betting the United States will lose its AAA credit rating.
      In one moment, an invisible trader placed a single trade that moved the most liquid debt market in the world.
      The massive trade wasn't placed in bonds themselves; it was placed in the futures market.
    'Super Congress': Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body
      House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has made a Super Congress a central part of his last-minute proposal, multiple news reports and people familiar with his plan say. A picture of Boehner's proposal began to come into focus Saturday evening: The debt ceiling would be raised for a short-term period and coupled with an equal dollar figure of cuts, somewhere in the vicinity of a trillion dollars over ten years. A second increase in the debt ceiling would be tied to the creation of a Super Congress that would be required to find a minimum amount of spending cuts. Because the elevated panel would need at least one Democratic vote, its plan would presumably include at least some revenue, though if it's anything like the deals on the table today, it would likely be heavily slanted toward spending cuts. Or, as Obama said of the deal he was offering Republicans before Boehner walked out, "If it was unbalanced, it was unbalanced in the direction of not enough revenue."
    'Super Congress': Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body
      This "Super Congress," composed of members of both chambers and both parties, isn't mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, but would be granted extraordinary new powers. Under a plan put forth by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his counterpart Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation to lift the debt ceiling would be accompanied by the creation of a 12-member panel made up of 12 lawmakers -- six from each chamber and six from each party.
    You can't have it both ways on war spending - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
      Included in Harry Reid's proposal to cut $2.7 trillion from the deficit is a trillion or so dollars in savings from winding down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But Lori Montgomery reports that "counting money not spent on wars that the nation is already planning to end is widely viewed as a budget gimmick, and House GOP leaders have been reluctant to include it as savings."
    FlightAware > Partisan dispute to partially shut down FAA
      Efforts to avert a shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration failed Friday amid a disagreement over a $16.5 million cut in subsidies to 13 rural communities, ensuring that nearly 4,000 people will be temporarily out of work and federal airline ticket taxes will be suspended.
      Lawmakers were unable to resolve a partisan dispute over an extension of the agency's operating authority, which expired at midnight Friday.
      The subsidy cut was included by Republicans in a House bill extending operating authority for the FAA, which has a $16 billion budget. Senate Democrats refused to accept the House bill with the cuts, and Republican senators refused to accept a Democratic bill without it. Lawmakers then adjourned for the weekend.
      But under
  Trains Good, Planes Bad (Whoo Hoo)
    China blames lightning strike for deadly train crash. (Euronews Video) (WT news feed)
      China blames lightning strike for deadly train crash. (Euronews Video)
      Authorities in China claim a "severe flaw" in the design of signalling equipment was to blame for last weekend's deadly train crash.
    Wenzhou Train Crash Compensation & Rail Official Takes Plane (WT news feed)
      Wenzhou Train Crash Compensation & Rail Official Takes Plane
      Confirmed, Railway Ministry spokesperson Wang Yongping is taking a flight back to Beijing; first class. Why not take today's hurriedly restored train service to Shanghai and then take the high-speed train he says is "very technologically advanced and very confident...
  VIDEO
    [VIDEO] Safer Travel - Home page
      Below is a short video that talks about behaviour and helping you stay safe when travelling on public transport.
    [VIDEO] Bachmann almost calls herself 'President O'Bachmann' | Video Cafe
      "I know you're not used to seeing a president without teleprompters, but I'm just here to tell you President O'Bach -- President Bachmann will not have teleprompters in the White House."
    [VIDEO] Carney confuses GOP Sen. with Hendrix drummer - The Washington Post
      In his regular press briefing Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney confused Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for Jimi Hendrix's drummer Mitch Mitchell. (CBS News)
    [VIDEO] Obama's uncle liberated Auschwitz?
      But didn't the Soviets liberate Auschwitz? http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/auschwitz/
    [VIDEO] Party In The CIA (Parody of "Party In The U.S.A." by Mile
    [VIDEO] Shah of Iran About Media Manipulation
    Best prayer EVER! Pastor Joe Nelms - Nascar Nationwide - Nashville, TN