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GOOGLE SUCKS!"/>					</outline>				<outline text="AlqaedaIPO.com">					<outline text="I have registered the domains internetlicense.biz, internetlicense.me, alqaedaipo.com, bogusnews.tv, partyinthecia.com "/>					<outline text="and I was just wondering if there is anything else I can do with these domains besides forwarding them to noagendashow.com.  I know that you are working on setting up some system where we can do some cool stuff. Its gotta be hard doing everything on the road but if you have anything that would be great."/>					</outline>				<outline text="NoAgendaDonation.com">					<outline text=" "/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Hi John &amp; Adam,"/>					<outline text=" "/>					<outline text="This summer you could use some help; so I created"/>					<outline text="www.NoAgendaDonation.com"/>					<outline text="Clear buttons no text (all money is directed to your paypal links)"/>					<outline text=" "/>					<outline text="ITM,"/>					<outline text=" "/>					<outline text="The DonationDude"/>					<outline text=" "/>					<outline text="PS :"/>					<outline text="Last year I created the Google ads NA Banner campaign with more that 300K views helping you through the summer"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Urban Dictionary: Adios, Mofo">					<outline text="" type="link" url="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Adios%2C%20Mofo&amp;defid=5998719"/>					<outline text="A popular sign-off/closing for television interviews or podcasts. The phrase originally became an internet sensation after Texas Governor Rick Perry used the phrase as a sign-off closing goodbye to a television reporter."/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="During the hype for Perry's speculation of running for U.S. President in 2012, it was used by a popular podcast, No Agenda, with Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak."/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="The Phrase generally means &quot;Goodbye, Motherf*cker&quot;. This phrase is the exact opposite of In the Morning."/>					<outline text="Adios, Mofo!!"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="HotPockets Producers Credits">				<outline text="Patrick Coble $1000"/>				<outline text="Dave Seldon  $190	"/>				<outline text="Tory Hunter $100 (play obey}"/>				<outline text="Lone Squirrel - Water + Blankets from Paducha Kentucky"/>				<outline text="Phillip Welch $20"/>				<outline text="The only black listener in Nashville $20"/>				</outline>			<outline text="Art By: Thoren"/>			<outline text="ShowNotes Archive of links and Assets (clips etc) &lt;a href=&quot;http://328.nashownotes.com/&quot;&gt; 328.nashownotes.com&lt;/a&gt;" type="link" url="http://328.nashownotes.com/"/>			<outline text="New: Directory Archive of Shownotes (includes all audio and video assets used) &lt;a href=&quot;http://nashownotes.com&quot;&gt;nashownotes.com&lt;/a&gt;" type="link" url="http://nawol.curry.com/noAgenda/shownotes"/>			<outline text="The No Agenda News Network- &lt;a href=&quot;http://noagendanewsnetwork.com/&quot;&gt;noagendanewsnetwork.com&lt;/a&gt;" type="link" url="http://noagendanewsnetwork.com/"/>			</outline>		<outline text="NA-328-2011-08-07 Shownotes" created="Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:55:58 GMT" ctSaves="79" flLiveBlog="true" flNotInChronology="true" flPreview="false" id="2011.07.10.231" server="xmlrpc://ec2.curry.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="231" type="scripting2Post" url="http://blog.curry.com/stories/2011/07/10/na321showprep.html" username="adam" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:21:57 GMT">			<outline text="Expand All Topics" allLevels="true">				<outline text="FAA Reauthorization Bill Approved by Congress, Signed by Obama">					<outline text="As part of the agreement, the Senate agreed to the House-passed version of a temporary extension, which included a rider provision that would cut government subsidies to 13 rural airports. LaHood, however, can issue waivers to those airports, allowing the subsidies to continue." type="link" url="http://www.travelpulse.com/faa-reauthorization-bill-approved-by-congress-signed-by-obama.html"/>					</outline>				<outline text="PsyOps">					<outline text="Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan Reportedly Kills Members of SEAL Team 6 - FoxNews.com">						<outline text="The Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan." type="link" url="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/"/>						</outline>					<outline text="The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down -- Registan.net">						<outline text="The article was in fact so detailed that it left the unmistakable impression that Mr. Schmidle had interviewed at least a few of the SEALs involved in the raid. During an NPR interview, Steve Inskeep explains that indeed Schmidle had spent time with the SEALs who were on the mission to get Bin Laden. NPR subsequently issued a correction for reasons noted below." type="link" url="http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/08/04/the-schmidle-muddle-of-the-osama-bin-laden-take-down/"/>						</outline>					<outline text="The latter point references the fact that his father,  Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Robert E. Schmidle Jr., is the deputy commander of the U.S. Cyber Command."/>					<outline text="Catherine Herridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">						<outline text="Catherine Herridge (born May 18, 1964) is an American Homeland Security correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She had hosted the Saturday edition of Weekend Live." type="link" url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge"/>						<outline text="EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11 - FoxNews.com">							<outline text="Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military's outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.-" type="link" url="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/al-qaeda-terror-leader-dined-pentagon-months/"/>							</outline>						</outline>					</outline>				<outline text="North London's Tottenham Riots: Police 'had not anticipated' extreme violence. (Hush Hush News)">					<outline text="Commander Adrian Hanstock said a peaceful vigil by the family of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, who was fatally shot by officers in the area on Thursday, had been &quot;hijacked by mindless thugs&quot; and that the situation had &quot;escalated out of all proportion&quot;" title="North London's Tottenham Riots: Police 'had not anticipated' extreme violence." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/bbz7"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Drone Nation">					<outline text="Michael Tassey | LinkedIn">						<outline text="Director of IA &amp; Cyber Security Solutions at Engineering Systems Solutions" type="link" url="http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltassey"/>						<outline text="The next cyber attack could be from the air - Aug. 4, 2011">							<outline text="&quot;If we can do it, they can do it,&quot; Richard Perkins and Mike Tassey repeated several times throughout their presentation." type="link" url="http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/03/technology/aerial_cyber_attack/"/>							<outline text="Perkins is a security engineer supporting the U.S. government and Tassey is a security consultant for Wall Street firms. But after work, the long-time buddies would take off their cyber attack prevention hats, put on their evil hacker thinking caps, and build their airplane in Perkins' garage."/>							</outline>						<outline text="Engineering Systems &amp; Solutions">							<outline text="System and network security reviews, certification and accreditation (C&amp;A), independent validation and verification testing (IV&amp;V), vulnerability analysis, remediation recommendations, business continuity and contingency planning." type="link" url="http://www.essworld.net/services/cs/activities.html"/>							<outline text="IA policy development and actionable assessment reporting."/>							<outline text="Security evaluation and protection support for US Army systems worldwide."/>							<outline text="Certification and accreditation (C&amp;A) transformation guidance from DIACAP, DCID/JAFAN 6/3, and NIST to the new CNSS methodology."/>							</outline>						</outline>					<outline text="FAA probing News Corp.'s use of drones - Yahoo! Finance">						<outline text="Federal Administration Aviation spokeswoman Laura Brown says her agency is investigating whether The Daily's use of &quot;unmanned aerial systems&quot; violates FAA regulations." type="link" url="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/FAA-probing-News-Corps-use-of-apf-2845389661.html?.v=1&amp;x=0"/>						<outline text=""/>						<outline text="Commercial operators typically need a certificate in order to fly the unmanned aircraft, especially in populated areas."/>						<outline text=""/>						<outline text="The Daily's blog shows it used drones to capture aerial footage of floodwaters in North Dakota and Mississippi in May and June."/>						</outline>					</outline>				<outline text="Magic Numbers">					<outline text="Summary Box: MasterCard 2Q profit jumps 33 percent: Associated Press Business News - MSN Money">						<outline text="MasterCard Inc.'s second-quarter profit rose 33 percent, to $608 million, or $4.76 per share. Revenue rose 22 percent to $1.67 billion. The results topped Wall Street expectations." type="link" url="http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&amp;date=20110803&amp;id=14040703"/>						</outline>					<outline text="Justin Bieber saves Paramount - Home Entertainment Up 33% (robertleather news feed)">						<outline text="Home entertainment sales of True Grit and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never helped push Paramount Home Entertainment revenue up 33% to $331 million for the three months ended June 30, Paramount parent company Viacom reported Aug. 5." title="Justin Bieber saves Paramount - Home Entertainment Up 33%" type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/erau"/>						</outline>					<outline text="Great Plains 2Q Profit Drops 33% On Weaker Electric Segment (robertleather news feed)">						<outline text="Great Plains Energy Inc. (GXP) reported Friday its second-quarter profit fell a worse-than-expected 33% as weak retail sales and a prolonged plant outage hurt its bottom line." title="Great Plains 2Q Profit Drops 33% On Weaker Electric Segment" type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/x8gd"/>						</outline>					<outline text="[Stock Tip!] Goldman Sachs: Recession Is 33% Likely, QE3 Is Coming, GDP Will Grow Only 2% - Agustino Fontevecchia - Moral Hazard - Forbes">						<outline text="The Vampire Squid decided to downgrade its U.S real GDP outlook to an annualized 2% rate through the first quarter of 2011, and 2.5% thereafter.- " type="link" url="http://blogs.forbes.com/afontevecchia/2011/08/05/goldman-sachs-recession-is-33-likely-qe3-is-coming-gdp-will-grow-only-2/"/>						</outline>					</outline>				<outline text="Today, There's A Much Bigger Story Than The S&amp;P Downgrade. (WT news feed)">					<outline text="Worried about the Monday open? You probably should be, but really, the S&amp;P downgrade isn't the big worry. It's Italy. Italy has the third largest bond market in the world (after the US and Japan), and it's teetering on the brink of disaster." title="Today, There's A Much Bigger Story Than The S&amp;P Downgrade." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/bbxb"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors - GLG News. (tokyo26's linkblog feed)">					<outline text="Recognizing phantom revenue (dollars that are supposed to flow to their clients) and not actual revenue (their cut) and hiding $180 million of actual online marketing spend due to &quot;a metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI)&quot; is leading to..." title="Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors - GLG News." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/bbwr"/>					</outline>				<outline text="U.S. Will Roll Out QE3 After S&amp;P Rating Cut, Li Daokui Says. (WT news feed)">					<outline text="The U.S. Federal Reserve will extend its program to purchase the nation's debts and stabilize long- term interest rates after Standard &amp; Poor's downgraded its credit rating, according to an adviser to China's central bank." title="U.S. Will Roll Out QE3 After S&amp;P Rating Cut, Li Daokui Says." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/bbwd"/>					</outline>				<outline text="World leaders to confer on debt crises this weekend | Reuters">					<outline text="The European Central Bank's policy-setting council will hold a rare Sunday conference call to talk about the euro zone problems, ECB sources said." type="link" url="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-eurozone-idUSTRE7712HB20110806"/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Markets are anxiously looking for the central bank to start buying Italian and Spanish debt on Monday to stabilize prices, a move that has split the ECB governing council."/>					</outline>				<outline text="S&amp;P Full Report" created="Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:00:31 GMT" pgfnum="1444">					<outline text="The transfer and convertibility (T&amp;C) assessment of the U.S.--our assessment of the likelihood of official interference in the ability of U.S.-based public- and private sector issuers to secure foreign exchange for debt service--remains 'AAA'." type="link" url="http://www.standardandpoors.com/servlet/BlobServer?blobheadername3=MDT-Type&amp;blobcol=urldata&amp;blobtable=MungoBlobs&amp;blobheadervalue2=inline%3B+filename%3DUS_Downgraded_AA%2B.pdf&amp;blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&amp;blobheadervalue1=application%2Fpdf&amp;blobkey=id&amp;blobheadername1=content-type&amp;blobwhere=1243942957443&amp;blobheadervalue3=UTF-8"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Obama opens 'revolving door' for Defense nominee - Washington Times">					<outline text="When President Obama nominated former Raytheon lobbyist William J. Lynn III as deputy defense secretary early in his administration, critics railed that the move clashed with Mr. Obama's campaign pledge to close the revolving door between government and the defense industry." type="link" url="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/4/obama-opens-revolving-door-for-defense-nominee/"/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Now that Mr. Lynn is leaving, Mr. Obama wants to promote the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, Ashton Carter, to the job. But ethics forms show that despite his reputation as an academic, Mr. Carter earned significant income in recent years from the defense industry while teaching at Harvard University."/>					</outline>				<outline text="Monsanto to Sell Biotech Sweet Corn for U.S. Consumers. (WT news feed)">					<outline text="Monsanto Co., the world's biggest vegetable seed maker, said it will begin selling genetically modified sweet corn in the U.S. this year, the first product it has developed for the consumer market." title="Monsanto to Sell Biotech Sweet Corn for U.S. Consumers." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/cjsg"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Ruger Demonstrates Industry Leadership by Winning Both Handgun and Rifle of the Year - Yahoo! Finance">					<outline text="&quot;The industry has once again recognized Ruger for the high-quality, innovative product designs that we have produced in direct response to our Voice of the Customer program,&quot; said President and CEO Mike Fifer. &quot;Our top priority is to make the products our customers are asking for, and the LC9 and Gunsite Scout Rifle were designed on this premise. The fact that we have now won the Handgun of the Year award four consecutive years, and a record setting seven times total, demonstrates our transition to the leading American handgun manufacturer,&quot; Fifer concluded." type="link" url="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Ruger-Demonstrates-Industry-bw-656350228.html?x=0&amp;.v=1"/>					</outline>				<outline text="BNY Mellon Slaps Fee on Some Deposits Above $50 Million - WSJ.com">					<outline text="Bank of New York said that customers that have deposited more than $50 million into their accounts since the end of July will face an annual fee of at least 0.13% of the excess deposits. The fee would rise if the one-month Treasury yield dips below zero, according to the letter sent to customers." type="link" url="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576488123965468018.html?mod=business_newsreel"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Solar Storm Slams Into Earth, Auroras Visible - International Business Times">					<outline text="The solar flares caused some radio blackouts Wednesday and Thursday, and caused some disruptions of high-frequency communications with airplanes flying over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans." type="link" url="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/193460/20110806/solar-storm-solar-flare-auroras-power-grids-and-satellites-carrington-event-g3-strong-geomagnetic-st.htm"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Schneier on Security: German Police Call Airport Full-Body Scanners Useless">					<outline text="The weekly Welt am Sonntag, quoting a police report, said 35 percent of the 730,000 passengers checked by the scanners set off the alarm more than once despite being innocent." type="link" url="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/german_police_c.html"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Mystery substance comes to shore of Alaskan village -- This Just In - CNN.com Blogs">					<outline text="Mitchell said the substance also was found in the Wulik River, which flows into the lagoon and is a source of the village's drinking water. She said the village would delay topping off its water storage tanks, which it does every summer so that it has enough water for the winter, until the substance is identified." type="link" url="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/05/mystery-substance-comes-to-shore-of-alaskan-village/"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Would it be news worthy if the CEO of S&amp;P's parent co was a Romney supporter? - Democratic Underground">					<outline text="I'm trying to track leads that McGraw Hill's CEO Harold McGraw III is a huge Romney supporter. How funny would it be that the one credit agency to downgrade us (with spotty math) was run by a Romney supporter, hoping this would hurt Obama and help the GOP &quot;frontrunner&quot;" type="link" url="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=439x1677440"/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="This coming out on the same day that his first 1million dollar mystery donor is the cofounder of Mitt's Bain Capital firm. "/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="I'm still researching the story that is exploding on the twitterverse, but I'm limited to an iPhone on a ship in the Gulf of Mex with a spotty cell/net signal. "/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Will update as I can, but if anyone is a good researcher, feel free to run with this and update. "/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Thus, no GOOD links as of yet, but interesting still"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities | The White House">					<outline text="Sixty six years since the Holocaust and 17 years after Rwanda, the United States still lacks a comprehensive policy framework and a corresponding interagency mechanism for preventing and responding to mass atrocities and genocide.- This has left us ill prepared to engage early, proactively, and decisively to prevent threats from evolving into large scale civilian atrocities." type="link" url="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/04/presidential-study-directive-mass-atrocities"/>					<outline text="Accordingly, I hereby direct the establishment of an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board within 120 days from the date of this Presidential Study Directive.- The primary purpose of the Atrocities Prevention Board shall be to coordinate a whole of government approach to preventing mass atrocities and genocide.- By institutionalizing the coordination of atrocity prevention, we can ensure:- (1) that our national security apparatus recognizes and is responsive to early indicators of potential atrocities; (2) that departments and agencies develop and implement comprehensive atrocity prevention and response strategies in a manner that allows &quot;red flags&quot; and dissent to be raised to decision makers; (3) that we increase the capacity and develop doctrine for our foreign service, armed services, development professionals, and other actors to engage in the full spectrum of smart prevention activities; and (4) that we are optimally positioned to work with our allies in order to ensure that the burdens of atrocity prevention and response are appropriately shared."/>					</outline>				<outline text="Human hair trade soars on celebrity hairdo envy. (WT news feed)">					<outline text="A growing desire for the glossy, long locks of celebrities is fuelling a multi-million pound (dollar) global trade in human hair, with demand for hair extensions surging in the past year, according to e-commerce website Alibaba.com." title="Human hair trade soars on celebrity hairdo envy." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/9zaa"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Chevy Volt Sales Still Embarrassingly Bad (WT news feed)">					<outline text="And the worst part? GM has been misleading about Volts being &quot;sold out&quot;" title="Chevy Volt Sales Still Embarrassingly Bad" type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/9ysb"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Agenda21: First announced stop on Obama's Midwest bus tour: Iowa - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room">					<outline text="&quot;[T]he President and members of his Cabinet will host the White House Rural Economic Forum at Northeast Iowa Community College,&quot; a White House statement read. &quot;The Forum will bring together small business owners, private sector leaders, rural organizations and government officials to discuss ideas and initiatives to promote economic growth, accelerate hiring, and spur innovation in rural communities and small towns across the nation.&quot;" type="link" url="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/175731-first-announced-stop-on-obamas-bus-tour-iowa"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Agency Expands 'Behavior Detection' to Spot Airport Threats - NYTimes.com">					<outline text="Under new management, Clear tiptoed back into operation last November. It is now operated by Alclear, a privately held company that bought Clear's assets from its previous owner, Verified Identity Pass, at bankruptcy auction. " type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/business/agency-expands-behavior-detection-to-spot-airport-threats.html?_r=1"/>					</outline>				<outline text="'People are being slaughtered like sheep'">					<outline text="Gunmen in plainclothes are randomly shooting people in the streets of the besieged Syrian city of Hama and families are burying their loved ones in gardens at home for fear of being killed themselves if they venture out to cemeteries, a resident says." type="link" url="http://www.smh.com.au/world/people-are-being-slaughtered-like-sheep-20110805-1ie4r.html"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Government in Crisis 2">				<outline text="FAA Reauthorization Bill Approved by Congress, Signed by Obama">					<outline text="As part of the agreement, the Senate agreed to the House-passed version of a temporary extension, which included a rider provision that would cut government subsidies to 13 rural airports. LaHood, however, can issue waivers to those airports, allowing the subsidies to continue." type="link" url="http://www.travelpulse.com/faa-reauthorization-bill-approved-by-congress-signed-by-obama.html"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="PsyOps">				<outline text="Helicopter Crash in Afghanistan Reportedly Kills Members of SEAL Team 6 - FoxNews.com">					<outline text="The Associated Press has learned that more than 20 Navy SEALs from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those lost in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan." type="link" url="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/08/06/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-in-helicopter-crash/"/>					</outline>				<outline text="The Schmidle Muddle of the Osama Bin Laden Take Down -- Registan.net">					<outline text="The article was in fact so detailed that it left the unmistakable impression that Mr. Schmidle had interviewed at least a few of the SEALs involved in the raid. During an NPR interview, Steve Inskeep explains that indeed Schmidle had spent time with the SEALs who were on the mission to get Bin Laden. NPR subsequently issued a correction for reasons noted below." type="link" url="http://www.registan.net/index.php/2011/08/04/the-schmidle-muddle-of-the-osama-bin-laden-take-down/"/>					</outline>				<outline text="The latter point references the fact that his father,  Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Robert E. Schmidle Jr., is the deputy commander of the U.S. Cyber Command."/>				<outline text="Catherine Herridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">					<outline text="Catherine Herridge (born May 18, 1964) is an American Homeland Security correspondent for the Fox News Channel. She had hosted the Saturday edition of Weekend Live." type="link" url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge"/>					<outline text="EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda Leader Dined at the Pentagon Just Months After 9/11 - FoxNews.com">						<outline text="Documents exclusively obtained by Fox News, including an FBI interview conducted after the Fort Hood shooting in November 2009, state that Awlaki was taken to the Pentagon as part of the military's outreach to the Muslim community in the immediate aftermath of the attacks.-" type="link" url="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/20/al-qaeda-terror-leader-dined-pentagon-months/"/>						</outline>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Gitmo Nation">				<outline text="North London's Tottenham Riots: Police 'had not anticipated' extreme violence. (Hush Hush News)">					<outline text="Commander Adrian Hanstock said a peaceful vigil by the family of 29-year-old Mark Duggan, who was fatally shot by officers in the area on Thursday, had been &quot;hijacked by mindless thugs&quot; and that the situation had &quot;escalated out of all proportion&quot;" title="North London's Tottenham Riots: Police 'had not anticipated' extreme violence." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/bbz7"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Schneier on Security: German Police Call Airport Full-Body Scanners Useless">					<outline text="The weekly Welt am Sonntag, quoting a police report, said 35 percent of the 730,000 passengers checked by the scanners set off the alarm more than once despite being innocent." type="link" url="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/08/german_police_c.html"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Agency Expands 'Behavior Detection' to Spot Airport Threats - NYTimes.com">					<outline text="Under new management, Clear tiptoed back into operation last November. It is now operated by Alclear, a privately held company that bought Clear's assets from its previous owner, Verified Identity Pass, at bankruptcy auction. " type="link" url="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/business/agency-expands-behavior-detection-to-spot-airport-threats.html?_r=1"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Drone Nation">				<outline text="Michael Tassey | LinkedIn">					<outline text="Director of IA &amp; Cyber Security Solutions at Engineering Systems Solutions" type="link" url="http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltassey"/>					<outline text="The next cyber attack could be from the air - Aug. 4, 2011">						<outline text="&quot;If we can do it, they can do it,&quot; Richard Perkins and Mike Tassey repeated several times throughout their presentation." type="link" url="http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/03/technology/aerial_cyber_attack/"/>						<outline text="Perkins is a security engineer supporting the U.S. government and Tassey is a security consultant for Wall Street firms. But after work, the long-time buddies would take off their cyber attack prevention hats, put on their evil hacker thinking caps, and build their airplane in Perkins' garage."/>						</outline>					<outline text="Engineering Systems &amp; Solutions">						<outline text="System and network security reviews, certification and accreditation (C&amp;A), independent validation and verification testing (IV&amp;V), vulnerability analysis, remediation recommendations, business continuity and contingency planning." type="link" url="http://www.essworld.net/services/cs/activities.html"/>						<outline text="IA policy development and actionable assessment reporting."/>						<outline text="Security evaluation and protection support for US Army systems worldwide."/>						<outline text="Certification and accreditation (C&amp;A) transformation guidance from DIACAP, DCID/JAFAN 6/3, and NIST to the new CNSS methodology."/>						</outline>					</outline>				<outline text="FAA probing News Corp.'s use of drones - Yahoo! Finance">					<outline text="Federal Administration Aviation spokeswoman Laura Brown says her agency is investigating whether The Daily's use of &quot;unmanned aerial systems&quot; violates FAA regulations." type="link" url="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/FAA-probing-News-Corps-use-of-apf-2845389661.html?.v=1&amp;x=0"/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Commercial operators typically need a certificate in order to fly the unmanned aircraft, especially in populated areas."/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="The Daily's blog shows it used drones to capture aerial footage of floodwaters in North Dakota and Mississippi in May and June."/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Magic Numbers">				<outline text="Summary Box: MasterCard 2Q profit jumps 33 percent: Associated Press Business News - MSN Money">					<outline text="MasterCard Inc.'s second-quarter profit rose 33 percent, to $608 million, or $4.76 per share. Revenue rose 22 percent to $1.67 billion. The results topped Wall Street expectations." type="link" url="http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&amp;date=20110803&amp;id=14040703"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Justin Bieber saves Paramount - Home Entertainment Up 33% (robertleather news feed)">					<outline text="Home entertainment sales of True Grit and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never helped push Paramount Home Entertainment revenue up 33% to $331 million for the three months ended June 30, Paramount parent company Viacom reported Aug. 5." title="Justin Bieber saves Paramount - Home Entertainment Up 33%" type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/erau"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Great Plains 2Q Profit Drops 33% On Weaker Electric Segment (robertleather news feed)">					<outline text="Great Plains Energy Inc. (GXP) reported Friday its second-quarter profit fell a worse-than-expected 33% as weak retail sales and a prolonged plant outage hurt its bottom line." title="Great Plains 2Q Profit Drops 33% On Weaker Electric Segment" type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/x8gd"/>					</outline>				<outline text="[Stock Tip!] Goldman Sachs: Recession Is 33% Likely, QE3 Is Coming, GDP Will Grow Only 2% - Agustino Fontevecchia - Moral Hazard - Forbes">					<outline text="The Vampire Squid decided to downgrade its U.S real GDP outlook to an annualized 2% rate through the first quarter of 2011, and 2.5% thereafter.- " type="link" url="http://blogs.forbes.com/afontevecchia/2011/08/05/goldman-sachs-recession-is-33-likely-qe3-is-coming-gdp-will-grow-only-2/"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Bank$ters">				<outline text="Today, There's A Much Bigger Story Than The S&amp;P Downgrade. (WT news feed)">					<outline text="Worried about the Monday open? You probably should be, but really, the S&amp;P downgrade isn't the big worry. It's Italy. Italy has the third largest bond market in the world (after the US and Japan), and it's teetering on the brink of disaster." title="Today, There's A Much Bigger Story Than The S&amp;P Downgrade." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/bbxb"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors - GLG News. (tokyo26's linkblog feed)">					<outline text="Recognizing phantom revenue (dollars that are supposed to flow to their clients) and not actual revenue (their cut) and hiding $180 million of actual online marketing spend due to &quot;a metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI)&quot; is leading to..." title="Groupon is the next Madoff, except big iBanks helped it rob investors - GLG News." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/bbwr"/>					</outline>				<outline text="U.S. Will Roll Out QE3 After S&amp;P Rating Cut, Li Daokui Says. (WT news feed)">					<outline text="The U.S. Federal Reserve will extend its program to purchase the nation's debts and stabilize long- term interest rates after Standard &amp; Poor's downgraded its credit rating, according to an adviser to China's central bank." title="U.S. Will Roll Out QE3 After S&amp;P Rating Cut, Li Daokui Says." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/bbwd"/>					</outline>				<outline text="World leaders to confer on debt crises this weekend | Reuters">					<outline text="The European Central Bank's policy-setting council will hold a rare Sunday conference call to talk about the euro zone problems, ECB sources said." type="link" url="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-eurozone-idUSTRE7712HB20110806"/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Markets are anxiously looking for the central bank to start buying Italian and Spanish debt on Monday to stabilize prices, a move that has split the ECB governing council."/>					</outline>				<outline text="S&amp;P Full Report" created="Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:00:31 GMT" pgfnum="1444">					<outline text="The transfer and convertibility (T&amp;C) assessment of the U.S.--our assessment of the likelihood of official interference in the ability of U.S.-based public- and private sector issuers to secure foreign exchange for debt service--remains 'AAA'." type="link" url="http://www.standardandpoors.com/servlet/BlobServer?blobheadername3=MDT-Type&amp;blobcol=urldata&amp;blobtable=MungoBlobs&amp;blobheadervalue2=inline%3B+filename%3DUS_Downgraded_AA%2B.pdf&amp;blobheadername2=Content-Disposition&amp;blobheadervalue1=application%2Fpdf&amp;blobkey=id&amp;blobheadername1=content-type&amp;blobwhere=1243942957443&amp;blobheadervalue3=UTF-8"/>					</outline>				<outline text="BNY Mellon Slaps Fee on Some Deposits Above $50 Million - WSJ.com">					<outline text="Bank of New York said that customers that have deposited more than $50 million into their accounts since the end of July will face an annual fee of at least 0.13% of the excess deposits. The fee would rise if the one-month Treasury yield dips below zero, according to the letter sent to customers." type="link" url="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576488123965468018.html?mod=business_newsreel"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Arab Spring">				<outline text="'People are being slaughtered like sheep'">					<outline text="Gunmen in plainclothes are randomly shooting people in the streets of the besieged Syrian city of Hama and families are burying their loved ones in gardens at home for fear of being killed themselves if they venture out to cemeteries, a resident says." type="link" url="http://www.smh.com.au/world/people-are-being-slaughtered-like-sheep-20110805-1ie4r.html"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="$hadow Puppet Theatre">				<outline text="Obama opens 'revolving door' for Defense nominee - Washington Times">					<outline text="When President Obama nominated former Raytheon lobbyist William J. Lynn III as deputy defense secretary early in his administration, critics railed that the move clashed with Mr. Obama's campaign pledge to close the revolving door between government and the defense industry." type="link" url="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/4/obama-opens-revolving-door-for-defense-nominee/"/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Now that Mr. Lynn is leaving, Mr. Obama wants to promote the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, Ashton Carter, to the job. But ethics forms show that despite his reputation as an academic, Mr. Carter earned significant income in recent years from the defense industry while teaching at Harvard University."/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Biodiversitée">				<outline text="Monsanto to Sell Biotech Sweet Corn for U.S. Consumers. (WT news feed)">					<outline text="Monsanto Co., the world's biggest vegetable seed maker, said it will begin selling genetically modified sweet corn in the U.S. this year, the first product it has developed for the consumer market." title="Monsanto to Sell Biotech Sweet Corn for U.S. Consumers." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/cjsg"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Chevy Volt Sales Still Embarrassingly Bad (WT news feed)">					<outline text="And the worst part? GM has been misleading about Volts being &quot;sold out&quot;" title="Chevy Volt Sales Still Embarrassingly Bad" type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/9ysb"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Sal$e Flag">				<outline text="Ruger Demonstrates Industry Leadership by Winning Both Handgun and Rifle of the Year - Yahoo! Finance">					<outline text="&quot;The industry has once again recognized Ruger for the high-quality, innovative product designs that we have produced in direct response to our Voice of the Customer program,&quot; said President and CEO Mike Fifer. &quot;Our top priority is to make the products our customers are asking for, and the LC9 and Gunsite Scout Rifle were designed on this premise. The fact that we have now won the Handgun of the Year award four consecutive years, and a record setting seven times total, demonstrates our transition to the leading American handgun manufacturer,&quot; Fifer concluded." type="link" url="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Ruger-Demonstrates-Industry-bw-656350228.html?x=0&amp;.v=1"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Out There">				<outline text="Solar Storm Slams Into Earth, Auroras Visible - International Business Times">					<outline text="The solar flares caused some radio blackouts Wednesday and Thursday, and caused some disruptions of high-frequency communications with airplanes flying over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans." type="link" url="http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/193460/20110806/solar-storm-solar-flare-auroras-power-grids-and-satellites-carrington-event-g3-strong-geomagnetic-st.htm"/>					</outline>				<outline text="Mystery substance comes to shore of Alaskan village -- This Just In - CNN.com Blogs">					<outline text="Mitchell said the substance also was found in the Wulik River, which flows into the lagoon and is a source of the village's drinking water. She said the village would delay topping off its water storage tanks, which it does every summer so that it has enough water for the winter, until the substance is identified." type="link" url="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/05/mystery-substance-comes-to-shore-of-alaskan-village/"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Ministry of Truth">				<outline text="Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities | The White House">					<outline text="Sixty six years since the Holocaust and 17 years after Rwanda, the United States still lacks a comprehensive policy framework and a corresponding interagency mechanism for preventing and responding to mass atrocities and genocide.- This has left us ill prepared to engage early, proactively, and decisively to prevent threats from evolving into large scale civilian atrocities." type="link" url="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/04/presidential-study-directive-mass-atrocities"/>					<outline text="Accordingly, I hereby direct the establishment of an interagency Atrocities Prevention Board within 120 days from the date of this Presidential Study Directive.- The primary purpose of the Atrocities Prevention Board shall be to coordinate a whole of government approach to preventing mass atrocities and genocide.- By institutionalizing the coordination of atrocity prevention, we can ensure:- (1) that our national security apparatus recognizes and is responsive to early indicators of potential atrocities; (2) that departments and agencies develop and implement comprehensive atrocity prevention and response strategies in a manner that allows &quot;red flags&quot; and dissent to be raised to decision makers; (3) that we increase the capacity and develop doctrine for our foreign service, armed services, development professionals, and other actors to engage in the full spectrum of smart prevention activities; and (4) that we are optimally positioned to work with our allies in order to ensure that the burdens of atrocity prevention and response are appropriately shared."/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Real News">				<outline text="Human hair trade soars on celebrity hairdo envy. (WT news feed)">					<outline text="A growing desire for the glossy, long locks of celebrities is fuelling a multi-million pound (dollar) global trade in human hair, with demand for hair extensions surging in the past year, according to e-commerce website Alibaba.com." title="Human hair trade soars on celebrity hairdo envy." type="link" url="http://my.butt.org/9zaa"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Agenda 21">				<outline text="Agenda21: First announced stop on Obama's Midwest bus tour: Iowa - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room">					<outline text="&quot;[T]he President and members of his Cabinet will host the White House Rural Economic Forum at Northeast Iowa Community College,&quot; a White House statement read. &quot;The Forum will bring together small business owners, private sector leaders, rural organizations and government officials to discuss ideas and initiatives to promote economic growth, accelerate hiring, and spur innovation in rural communities and small towns across the nation.&quot;" type="link" url="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/175731-first-announced-stop-on-obamas-bus-tour-iowa"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="VIDEO">				<outline text="[VIDEO] President Obama 50th Birthday Fundraiser in Chicago - C-SPAN Video Library">					<outline text="President Obama spoke at a Democrtic fundraiser organized to honor the president's 50th birthday. After acknowledging several dignitaries in the audience, he highlight his administration's economic achievements and outlined the economic challenges ahead. He also talked about his administration's achievements in other areas such as health care, civil rights, energy policy, and infrastructure improvements." type="link" url="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/300885-4"/>					<outline text=""/>					<outline text="Mayor Rham Emanuel's introduction of the president was joined in progress."/>					</outline>				<outline text="[VIDEO] How ALEC Turned Prisoners into Corporate America's Cheap Labor Force | The Nation">					<outline text="What do breaded chicken patties, office chairs and cruise missiles used in Libya have in common? They are all made by America's 100,000-strong secret workforce: prisoners." type="link" url="http://www.thenation.com/video/162587/how-alec-turned-prisoners-corporate-americas-cheap-labor-force"/>					<outline text="How ALEC Changed Policies To Allow Corporations To Use Prisoners As Coerced Slave Labor | Crooks and Liars">						<outline text="American Legislative Exchange Council " type="link" url="http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/how-alec-changed-policies-allow-corpo"/>						</outline>					</outline>				<outline text="[VIDEO] S&amp;P Downgrade: Ex-Obama Adviser Christina Romer Says U.S. 'Pretty Darn F**ked'">					<outline text="The U.S. is &quot;pretty darn f**ked,&quot; Romer said during a segment on Real Time with Bill Maher called &quot;How F**ked Are We?&quot;, after Maher asked what the new could mean for the U.S. economy." type="link" url="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/06/christina-romer-downgrade-standard-and-poors-bill-maher_n_920152.html"/>					</outline>				<outline text="[VIDEO] The No Excuses University Network -- TurnAround Schools">					<outline text="No Excuses University is a network of elementary, middle, and junior high schools across the United States. These schools actively promote a comprehensive model of college readiness to all students the moment they begin elementary school." type="link" url="http://turnaroundschools.com/neu-network/"/>					</outline>				<outline text="[VIDEO] BBC News - Disc shaped craft is spotted circling near Stansted">					<outline text="On his way in to work this morning, Radio 5 live's sports reporter spotted a disc shaped craft circling above a field in Hertfordshire. Was it a UFO? " type="link" url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14387365"/>					</outline>				</outline>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>