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      Reeve,
      Our listeners have registered over 500 domain names that point to our show website (noagendashow.com)
      usually this is due to a conversation or topic on the show. We're no fans of Perry, so this is a nice blocking move
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      On Aug 12, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Reeve Hamilton wrote:
      Hi Adam,
      I'm a reporter with The Texas Tribune. I was looking up possible Perry-related domain names and noticed that perry2012.com took me to the No Agenda site. Could we talk about that? Please give me a call: 512-716-8623.
      -Reeve
      Reeve Hamilton
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    British Spring/Fal$e Flag
      Kroll Chairman William Bratton in talks with British government to become an advisor on preventing gang-related violence and creating safer communities
        Kroll Chairman William J. Bratton is in talks with the British government to become an advisor on preventing gang-related violence and creating safer communities. The discussions began today when Mr. Bratton had a private consultation with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
      British Police Were Ordered to "stand and observe" Rioters | Daily News Blog
        The decision to order police to stand down is being explained as a reaction to public outcry following the death of Ian Tomlinson, a newspaper seller who was killed by riot cops during the G20 summit in 2009. However, as we have exhaustively documented, authorities routinely allow chaos to spiral out of control, even to the extent of hiring their own provocateurs, in order to manipulate the public into demanding greater police state measures that ultimately only serve to oppress legitimate dissent against the state. The police's inadequate response quickly led to calls for martial law, curfews and the use of water cannons on streets in England for the first time, a power that Prime Minister David Cameron has now authorized. Britain's most widely-read newspaper The Sun ran a poll today which found that two thirds of Brits support the use of rubber bullets to deal with rioters, while 33 per cent supported the use of live bullets.
      were british riots a false flag? - Google Search
      aangirfan: FALSE FLAG LONDON RIOTS?
      Who Did It? - Conspirators
        Jules Kroll -- founder of Kroll Corporation, a "security services" company which was in charge of "security" at WTC on 9-11
      Democratic Underground - Whistleblower Andrew Grove blames Kroll for 9/11 - Democratic Underground
        This man, Richard Andrew Grove, a whistleblower who worked for the big boys and money people behind 9/11 has come out with information to set the 9/11 movement on fire. (...) To offer a little contextual History, AIG was founded by OSS operative Cornelius V. Starr (2 R's), the uncle of Clinton's friend Kenneth Starr. AIG was created for and is currently a front which provides cover for intelligence community illicit operations. In 2001, AIG owned a Risk Management firm called Kroll Associates. Kroll played a major role in the events of September 11th, and continues to this day to enable events like the 7-7 and 7-21 bombings in the London Tube system... they then go on TV and provide "expert" counterterrorism testimony to the goldfish at home tuned into FoxNews and the like. While Kroll provided the necessary operational capability, in part, for what was perpetrated; AIG and Marsh were focused on participating in both short and long-term money schemes. Kroll's Jerome Hauer (a long time personal friend of ex-FBI Counterterrorism & Osama bin Laden expert John O'Neill) hired O'Neill as head of security for the WTC. Kroll had also managed the bunker in WTC 7 for Guiliani, and Kroll's board of directors shared one peculiar member in common with AIG; that being Frank G. Wisner Jr., son of OSS co-Founder Frank Wisner. I won't go into the history of the OSS, Reinhard Gehlen, or the Council on Foreign Relations / Dulles affiliation with its creation, but I can recommend an excellent book, wherein its relevance is comprehensively documented; the title you're looking for is: The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA by Burton Hersh (and printed in 1992). (...) On July 8, 2004, Kroll Associates was sold to Marsh and McLennan. I would mention at this point that Kroll Associates also provides protection, I mean, Kidnap and Ransom coverage for major corporations and their executives- and employs ex- and-current Intelligence Operatives, as well as ex-Scotland Yard, and freelance mercenaries. Kroll is at the heart of 9-11, though it's but a sub-aspect of many other superimposed actions and operative details that took place on that day. (...)
      History - For 40 years, Kroll has helped clients make high-risk, high-value decisions
        In the 1980s, Kroll became known as "Wall Street's private eye" as a result of its high-profile investigative due diligence work in the financial sector. The company later gained worldwide renown for its success in searching for assets hidden by Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein.
      Mixed messages from Twitter, Facebook and RIM over Cameron's riot block threat | FT Tech Hub | FTtechhub - Industry analysis -- FT.com
        Facebook, by contrast, tried to appear positively helpful. It said it had already put more people into its user operations team earlier this week to remove posts that explicitly incite violence or criminal behaviour, and would "look forward" to meeting the home secretary.
    Syria
      S. 1472: Syria Sanctions Act of 2011 (GovTrack.us)
        A bill to impose sanctions on persons making certain investments that directly and significantly contribute to the enhancement of the ability of Syria to develop its petroleum resources, and for other purposes.
        Details
          The President may, on a case-by-case basis, waive for one 12-month period the requirement under section 4 to impose sanctions with respect to a person, if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees not less than 30 days before the waiver is to take effect that the waiver is important to the national security interests of the United States.
          SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.
            (a) Sanctions With Respect to the Petroleum Resources and Sovereign Debt of Syria-
            (1) DEVELOPMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES OF SYRIA-
            (A) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in subsection (c), the President shall impose 3 or more of the sanctions described in section 5(a) with respect to a person if the President determines that the person knowingly, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act--
            (i) makes an investment described in subparagraph (B) of $20,000,000 or more;
            (ii) makes a combination of investments described in subparagraph (B) in a 12-month period if each such investment is of at least $5,000,000 and such investments equal or exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate; or
            (iii) sells, leases, or provides to Syria goods, services, technology, information, or support described in subparagraph (C)--
            (I) any of which has a fair market value of $1,000,000 or more; or
            (II) that, during a 12-month period, have an aggregate fair market value of $5,000,000 or more.
          SEC. 9. TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.
            (a) In General- The requirement to impose sanctions and any sanctions imposed under section 4 shall terminate on the date on which the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees--
            (1) the certification described in section 5(d) of the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-175; 22 U.S.C. 2151 note); and
              (d) CERTIFICATION- A certification under this subsection is a certification transmitted to the appropriate congressional committees of a determination made by the President that--
              (1) the Government of Syria has ceased providing support for international terrorist groups and does not allow terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hizballah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--General Command to maintain facilities in territory under Syrian control;
              (2) the Government of Syria ended its occupation of Lebanon described in section 2(7) of this Act;
                (7) Approximately 20,000 Syrian troops and security personnel occupy much of the sovereign territory of Lebanon exerting undue influence upon its government and undermining its political independence.
              (3) the Government of Syria has ceased the development and deployment of medium- and long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, is not pursuing or engaged in the research, development, acquisition, production, transfer, or deployment of biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons, has provided credible assurances that such behavior will not be undertaken in the future, and has agreed to allow United Nations and other international observers to verify such actions and assurances; and
              (4) the Government of Syria has ceased all support for, and facilitation of, all terrorist activities inside of Iraq, including preventing the use of territory under its control by any means whatsoever to support those engaged in terrorist activities inside of Iraq.
            (2) a certification that the Government of Syria is democratically elected and representative of the people of Syria.
      Ford: New congressional Syria sanctions probably won't have impact | The Cable
        When asked about the prospect of new congressional sanctions, Ford indicated that the bill introduced today by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), might not be the best way to put pressure on the Assad regime. Their bill would authorize President Barack Obama to close off the U.S. financial system, markets, and federal contracts to companies that invest in Syria's energy sector, purchase the country's oil, and sell gasoline to Syria.
        U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford told the single senator that attended his confirmation hearing today that while the administration's sanctions on the Syrian regime are working, newly proposed congressional sanctions probably won't do much good.
      The Associated Press: Clinton presses world to shut tap on Syrian oil
        Clinton didn't mention countries by name. But in an interview Thursday with CBS, she called for European governments to sanction Syria's oil and gas industry, and said India and China should re-evaluate their energy investments in the country. She also said Russia should stop selling weapons to Assad.
    Chiner
      French wines fall victim to Chinese counterfeiting - CHINA - FRANCE 24
        "A bottle of wine is very easy to replicate," Sheng Wen*, a wine seller from Shanghai, told FRANCE 24. "The counterfeiters search for original bottles in restaurant trash. Once they've got hold of one, they reproduce the label and replicate the bottle. They then buy mid-range bottles of wine from the supermarket, pour them into the fake bottles, and sell them."
    Pedobear
      Pornography and National Security (article)
        The frequency with which terrorists are found with pornography raises important questions about the possible effects of pornography on our national security.
    Oil Cabal
      Noble Energy brings forward Cypriot drilling - Globes
        The Cypriot media report that Noble Energy Inc. (NYSE: NBL) will begin drilling an offshore exploratory well at Block 12 on September 21. The well is located in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone, just 12 kilometers from Israel's Leviathan gas field, and previously Noble Energy had reported that it would not begin drilling until October.
    Bank$ters
      FBI wants businesses watching for customers paying with cash
        Government calls buying 'night flashlights,' making 'extreme religious statements' indicators of terrorism
      A Bank That Can Get Americans on the Road and on the Job: View - Bloomberg
        Enter the infrastructure bank, which would provide loans or loan guarantees for big projects deemed to be in the public interest -- and attract private investment by offering cheap access to capital and a path to profit from tolls, fares and other charges. The bank could leverage the government's outlay to lend more. An initial $5 billion a year for five years could result in $50 billion or more in loans. And because these loans would be paid back with interest, the institution could become self- sustaining. Financing for such a bank should be seen as an investment, not "spending."
    Squirrel!
      Qaeda Trying to Harness Toxin, Ricin, for Bombs, U.S. Says - REBRANDING ALERT
        Intelligence officials say they have collected evidence that Qaeda operatives are trying to move castor beans and processing agents to a hideaway in Shabwa Province, in one of Yemen's rugged tribal areas controlled by insurgents.
    Ministry of Truth
      C-SPAN | Campaign 2012, The Latest From Congress, American History, Nonfiction Books
        Bachmann Wins in Iowa, Rick Perry Enters the Race
      Did A New Taliban Weapon Kill A Chopper Full Of Navy SEALs? | Gizmodo Australia
        The cause of the CH-47 crash is still under investigation. "The helicopter was reportedly fired on by an insurgent rocket-propelled grenade," according to a coalition press release. Which weapon -- or weapons -- were actually responsible for the copter coming down is not yet known. Several publications claim an insurgent Rocket-Propelled Grenade struck the helicopter. One Army insider who spoke to Danger Room went a step further, saying the rocket may have been a special improvised model. A chopper-killer, if you will.
    Out There
      Milton Police Find Shark In Woods - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR New Hampshire
        There is a local pond in Milton but the nearest salt water is nearly an hour away, and local residents are surprised.
      Test of hypersonic aircraft fails over Pacific Ocean - latimes.com
        The plan was for the Falcon to speed westward for 30 minutes before plunging into the ocean near Kwajalein Atoll, about 4,000 miles from Vandenberg.
    Israeli Spring
      BBC News - Israel's 'social protests' rattle Netanyahu government
        Belatedly, Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu has acted. He has promised to reassess his government's priorities. But whether that means, for example, diverting funds away from the bloated defence budget towards social policy, remains to be seen. Mr Netanyahu has also appointed a "panel of experts" to meet protest leaders and assess their demands. The panel is led by Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, from Tel Aviv University.
    2TTH
      Family divided over plans for Michael Jackson tribute concert in Wales
        Mother announces show will take place in Cardiff but brothers Jermaine and Randy Jackson call it 'inappropriate and ill-timed'
    Techno Experts
      Are Syrian Rebels Really Charging Their Phones With Batteries and Water?
        As you can see, it very much didn't work.
      Brian Whitaker's blog, August 2011
        Liliane Khalil, the Middle East's mystery journalist, has disappeared from Twitter -- presumably having closed her account.
        Meanwhile, the interviews she promised to give to "some newspapers and other news orgs" giving her side of the story haven't materialised, so perhaps that's the last we shall hear from her ...
    Elite$
      Former judge gets 28 years for scheme to unjustly jail youth - CNN.com
        Ciavarella was found guilty in February of 12 of 39 racketeering and fraud charges for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from friends who owned detention centers to which he sent juveniles.
    Libya
      Libya: Britain using Celt mercenaries to suppress riots -- Boing Boing
        "The rebels of Britain approach Liverpool in hit-and-run battles with Cameron's brigades and mercenaries from Ireland and Scotland. God is Greatest," said a breaking news caption on Libyan TV's morning program.
    Shut Up Slave!
      SF transit blocks cellphones to hinder protest
        The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the tactic, saying on its blog that it was the "wrong response to political protests." BART officials were confident the cellphone disruptions were legal. They said in a statement that it's illegal to demonstrate on the platform or aboard the trains, and that it has set aside special areas for demonstrations. The demonstration planned Thursday failed to develop. "We had a commute that was safe and without disruption," said BART spokesman Jim Allison. The demonstrators were protesting the July 3 shooting of Charles Blair Hill by BART police, who claimed Hill came at them with a knife. Several people were arrested when a July 11 demonstration disrupted service during the rush-hour commute and prompted the closing of BART's Civic Center station.
    VIDEO
      An interview w/ Richard Andrew Grove, an AIG insider 1 of 4 - [VIDEO]
      Newsalert White Folks Will Riot Pastor Manning - [VIDEO]
      [VIDEO] US 'supercop' Bill Bratton says riot arrests not only answer
        "Arrest is certainly appropriate for the most violent, the incorrigible, but so much of it can be addressed in other ways and it's not just a police issue, it is in fact a societal issue."
      [VIDEO] The (Infrastructure) Bank That "Abandons the Bought Congress"
        Dylan Ratigan, formerly host of CNBC's Fast Money and now host of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show, created quite the spectacle yesterday... freaking out in a surreal, but sublime, fashion about the failures of the president and Congress. In a tirade where he refers to "10s of billions of dollars being extracted from the USA... an integrated entire system, financial system, trading system, taxing system... created by both parties over a period of two decades at work on the entire country."
      [VIDEO] Remarks With Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere After Their Meeting
      Mitt Romney- Corporations Are People! - [VIDEO]
      [VIDEO] Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No. 1 Problem for Child Actors, Contributed to Demise of Corey Haim - ABC News
        "I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That's the biggest problem for children in this industry. ... It's the big secret," Feldman said.
        The "casting couch," which is the old Hollywood reference to actors being expected to offer sex for roles, applied to children, Feldman said. "Oh, yeah. Not in the same way. It's all done under the radar," he said.
        "I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. ... Didn't even know it. It wasn't until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted ... till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere," Feldman, 40, said.
  British Spring/Fal$e Flag
    Kroll Chairman William Bratton in talks with British government to become an advisor on preventing gang-related violence and creating safer communities
      Kroll Chairman William J. Bratton is in talks with the British government to become an advisor on preventing gang-related violence and creating safer communities. The discussions began today when Mr. Bratton had a private consultation with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron.
    British Police Were Ordered to "stand and observe" Rioters | Daily News Blog
      The decision to order police to stand down is being explained as a reaction to public outcry following the death of Ian Tomlinson, a newspaper seller who was killed by riot cops during the G20 summit in 2009. However, as we have exhaustively documented, authorities routinely allow chaos to spiral out of control, even to the extent of hiring their own provocateurs, in order to manipulate the public into demanding greater police state measures that ultimately only serve to oppress legitimate dissent against the state. The police's inadequate response quickly led to calls for martial law, curfews and the use of water cannons on streets in England for the first time, a power that Prime Minister David Cameron has now authorized. Britain's most widely-read newspaper The Sun ran a poll today which found that two thirds of Brits support the use of rubber bullets to deal with rioters, while 33 per cent supported the use of live bullets.
    were british riots a false flag? - Google Search
    aangirfan: FALSE FLAG LONDON RIOTS?
    Who Did It? - Conspirators
      Jules Kroll -- founder of Kroll Corporation, a "security services" company which was in charge of "security" at WTC on 9-11
    Democratic Underground - Whistleblower Andrew Grove blames Kroll for 9/11 - Democratic Underground
      This man, Richard Andrew Grove, a whistleblower who worked for the big boys and money people behind 9/11 has come out with information to set the 9/11 movement on fire. (...) To offer a little contextual History, AIG was founded by OSS operative Cornelius V. Starr (2 R's), the uncle of Clinton's friend Kenneth Starr. AIG was created for and is currently a front which provides cover for intelligence community illicit operations. In 2001, AIG owned a Risk Management firm called Kroll Associates. Kroll played a major role in the events of September 11th, and continues to this day to enable events like the 7-7 and 7-21 bombings in the London Tube system... they then go on TV and provide "expert" counterterrorism testimony to the goldfish at home tuned into FoxNews and the like. While Kroll provided the necessary operational capability, in part, for what was perpetrated; AIG and Marsh were focused on participating in both short and long-term money schemes. Kroll's Jerome Hauer (a long time personal friend of ex-FBI Counterterrorism & Osama bin Laden expert John O'Neill) hired O'Neill as head of security for the WTC. Kroll had also managed the bunker in WTC 7 for Guiliani, and Kroll's board of directors shared one peculiar member in common with AIG; that being Frank G. Wisner Jr., son of OSS co-Founder Frank Wisner. I won't go into the history of the OSS, Reinhard Gehlen, or the Council on Foreign Relations / Dulles affiliation with its creation, but I can recommend an excellent book, wherein its relevance is comprehensively documented; the title you're looking for is: The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA by Burton Hersh (and printed in 1992). (...) On July 8, 2004, Kroll Associates was sold to Marsh and McLennan. I would mention at this point that Kroll Associates also provides protection, I mean, Kidnap and Ransom coverage for major corporations and their executives- and employs ex- and-current Intelligence Operatives, as well as ex-Scotland Yard, and freelance mercenaries. Kroll is at the heart of 9-11, though it's but a sub-aspect of many other superimposed actions and operative details that took place on that day. (...)
    History - For 40 years, Kroll has helped clients make high-risk, high-value decisions
      In the 1980s, Kroll became known as "Wall Street's private eye" as a result of its high-profile investigative due diligence work in the financial sector. The company later gained worldwide renown for its success in searching for assets hidden by Jean-Claude Duvalier, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Saddam Hussein.
    Mixed messages from Twitter, Facebook and RIM over Cameron's riot block threat | FT Tech Hub | FTtechhub - Industry analysis -- FT.com
      Facebook, by contrast, tried to appear positively helpful. It said it had already put more people into its user operations team earlier this week to remove posts that explicitly incite violence or criminal behaviour, and would "look forward" to meeting the home secretary.
  Syria
    S. 1472: Syria Sanctions Act of 2011 (GovTrack.us)
      A bill to impose sanctions on persons making certain investments that directly and significantly contribute to the enhancement of the ability of Syria to develop its petroleum resources, and for other purposes.
      Details
        The President may, on a case-by-case basis, waive for one 12-month period the requirement under section 4 to impose sanctions with respect to a person, if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees not less than 30 days before the waiver is to take effect that the waiver is important to the national security interests of the United States.
        SEC. 4. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS.
          (a) Sanctions With Respect to the Petroleum Resources and Sovereign Debt of Syria-
          (1) DEVELOPMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES OF SYRIA-
          (A) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in subsection (c), the President shall impose 3 or more of the sanctions described in section 5(a) with respect to a person if the President determines that the person knowingly, on or after the date of the enactment of this Act--
          (i) makes an investment described in subparagraph (B) of $20,000,000 or more;
          (ii) makes a combination of investments described in subparagraph (B) in a 12-month period if each such investment is of at least $5,000,000 and such investments equal or exceed $20,000,000 in the aggregate; or
          (iii) sells, leases, or provides to Syria goods, services, technology, information, or support described in subparagraph (C)--
          (I) any of which has a fair market value of $1,000,000 or more; or
          (II) that, during a 12-month period, have an aggregate fair market value of $5,000,000 or more.
        SEC. 9. TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS.
          (a) In General- The requirement to impose sanctions and any sanctions imposed under section 4 shall terminate on the date on which the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees--
          (1) the certification described in section 5(d) of the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-175; 22 U.S.C. 2151 note); and
            (d) CERTIFICATION- A certification under this subsection is a certification transmitted to the appropriate congressional committees of a determination made by the President that--
            (1) the Government of Syria has ceased providing support for international terrorist groups and does not allow terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hizballah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--General Command to maintain facilities in territory under Syrian control;
            (2) the Government of Syria ended its occupation of Lebanon described in section 2(7) of this Act;
              (7) Approximately 20,000 Syrian troops and security personnel occupy much of the sovereign territory of Lebanon exerting undue influence upon its government and undermining its political independence.
            (3) the Government of Syria has ceased the development and deployment of medium- and long-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, is not pursuing or engaged in the research, development, acquisition, production, transfer, or deployment of biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons, has provided credible assurances that such behavior will not be undertaken in the future, and has agreed to allow United Nations and other international observers to verify such actions and assurances; and
            (4) the Government of Syria has ceased all support for, and facilitation of, all terrorist activities inside of Iraq, including preventing the use of territory under its control by any means whatsoever to support those engaged in terrorist activities inside of Iraq.
          (2) a certification that the Government of Syria is democratically elected and representative of the people of Syria.
    Ford: New congressional Syria sanctions probably won't have impact | The Cable
      When asked about the prospect of new congressional sanctions, Ford indicated that the bill introduced today by Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Mark Kirk (R-IL), and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), might not be the best way to put pressure on the Assad regime. Their bill would authorize President Barack Obama to close off the U.S. financial system, markets, and federal contracts to companies that invest in Syria's energy sector, purchase the country's oil, and sell gasoline to Syria.
      U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford told the single senator that attended his confirmation hearing today that while the administration's sanctions on the Syrian regime are working, newly proposed congressional sanctions probably won't do much good.
    The Associated Press: Clinton presses world to shut tap on Syrian oil
      Clinton didn't mention countries by name. But in an interview Thursday with CBS, she called for European governments to sanction Syria's oil and gas industry, and said India and China should re-evaluate their energy investments in the country. She also said Russia should stop selling weapons to Assad.
  Chiner
    French wines fall victim to Chinese counterfeiting - CHINA - FRANCE 24
      "A bottle of wine is very easy to replicate," Sheng Wen*, a wine seller from Shanghai, told FRANCE 24. "The counterfeiters search for original bottles in restaurant trash. Once they've got hold of one, they reproduce the label and replicate the bottle. They then buy mid-range bottles of wine from the supermarket, pour them into the fake bottles, and sell them."
  Pedobear
    Pornography and National Security (article)
      The frequency with which terrorists are found with pornography raises important questions about the possible effects of pornography on our national security.
  Oil Cabal
    Noble Energy brings forward Cypriot drilling - Globes
      The Cypriot media report that Noble Energy Inc. (NYSE: NBL) will begin drilling an offshore exploratory well at Block 12 on September 21. The well is located in Cyprus' Exclusive Economic Zone, just 12 kilometers from Israel's Leviathan gas field, and previously Noble Energy had reported that it would not begin drilling until October.
  Bank$ters
    FBI wants businesses watching for customers paying with cash
      Government calls buying 'night flashlights,' making 'extreme religious statements' indicators of terrorism
    A Bank That Can Get Americans on the Road and on the Job: View - Bloomberg
      Enter the infrastructure bank, which would provide loans or loan guarantees for big projects deemed to be in the public interest -- and attract private investment by offering cheap access to capital and a path to profit from tolls, fares and other charges. The bank could leverage the government's outlay to lend more. An initial $5 billion a year for five years could result in $50 billion or more in loans. And because these loans would be paid back with interest, the institution could become self- sustaining. Financing for such a bank should be seen as an investment, not "spending."
  Squirrel!
    Qaeda Trying to Harness Toxin, Ricin, for Bombs, U.S. Says - REBRANDING ALERT
      Intelligence officials say they have collected evidence that Qaeda operatives are trying to move castor beans and processing agents to a hideaway in Shabwa Province, in one of Yemen's rugged tribal areas controlled by insurgents.
  Ministry of Truth
    C-SPAN | Campaign 2012, The Latest From Congress, American History, Nonfiction Books
      Bachmann Wins in Iowa, Rick Perry Enters the Race
    Did A New Taliban Weapon Kill A Chopper Full Of Navy SEALs? | Gizmodo Australia
      The cause of the CH-47 crash is still under investigation. "The helicopter was reportedly fired on by an insurgent rocket-propelled grenade," according to a coalition press release. Which weapon -- or weapons -- were actually responsible for the copter coming down is not yet known. Several publications claim an insurgent Rocket-Propelled Grenade struck the helicopter. One Army insider who spoke to Danger Room went a step further, saying the rocket may have been a special improvised model. A chopper-killer, if you will.
  Out There
    Milton Police Find Shark In Woods - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR New Hampshire
      There is a local pond in Milton but the nearest salt water is nearly an hour away, and local residents are surprised.
    Test of hypersonic aircraft fails over Pacific Ocean - latimes.com
      The plan was for the Falcon to speed westward for 30 minutes before plunging into the ocean near Kwajalein Atoll, about 4,000 miles from Vandenberg.
  Israeli Spring
    BBC News - Israel's 'social protests' rattle Netanyahu government
      Belatedly, Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu has acted. He has promised to reassess his government's priorities. But whether that means, for example, diverting funds away from the bloated defence budget towards social policy, remains to be seen. Mr Netanyahu has also appointed a "panel of experts" to meet protest leaders and assess their demands. The panel is led by Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, from Tel Aviv University.
  2TTH
    Family divided over plans for Michael Jackson tribute concert in Wales
      Mother announces show will take place in Cardiff but brothers Jermaine and Randy Jackson call it 'inappropriate and ill-timed'
  Techno Experts
    Are Syrian Rebels Really Charging Their Phones With Batteries and Water?
      As you can see, it very much didn't work.
    Brian Whitaker's blog, August 2011
      Liliane Khalil, the Middle East's mystery journalist, has disappeared from Twitter -- presumably having closed her account.
      Meanwhile, the interviews she promised to give to "some newspapers and other news orgs" giving her side of the story haven't materialised, so perhaps that's the last we shall hear from her ...
  Elite$
    Former judge gets 28 years for scheme to unjustly jail youth - CNN.com
      Ciavarella was found guilty in February of 12 of 39 racketeering and fraud charges for accepting millions of dollars in bribes from friends who owned detention centers to which he sent juveniles.
  Libya
    Libya: Britain using Celt mercenaries to suppress riots -- Boing Boing
      "The rebels of Britain approach Liverpool in hit-and-run battles with Cameron's brigades and mercenaries from Ireland and Scotland. God is Greatest," said a breaking news caption on Libyan TV's morning program.
  Shut Up Slave!
    SF transit blocks cellphones to hinder protest
      The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the tactic, saying on its blog that it was the "wrong response to political protests." BART officials were confident the cellphone disruptions were legal. They said in a statement that it's illegal to demonstrate on the platform or aboard the trains, and that it has set aside special areas for demonstrations. The demonstration planned Thursday failed to develop. "We had a commute that was safe and without disruption," said BART spokesman Jim Allison. The demonstrators were protesting the July 3 shooting of Charles Blair Hill by BART police, who claimed Hill came at them with a knife. Several people were arrested when a July 11 demonstration disrupted service during the rush-hour commute and prompted the closing of BART's Civic Center station.
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      "Arrest is certainly appropriate for the most violent, the incorrigible, but so much of it can be addressed in other ways and it's not just a police issue, it is in fact a societal issue."
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      Dylan Ratigan, formerly host of CNBC's Fast Money and now host of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show, created quite the spectacle yesterday... freaking out in a surreal, but sublime, fashion about the failures of the president and Congress. In a tirade where he refers to "10s of billions of dollars being extracted from the USA... an integrated entire system, financial system, trading system, taxing system... created by both parties over a period of two decades at work on the entire country."
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      "I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That's the biggest problem for children in this industry. ... It's the big secret," Feldman said.
      The "casting couch," which is the old Hollywood reference to actors being expected to offer sex for roles, applied to children, Feldman said. "Oh, yeah. Not in the same way. It's all done under the radar," he said.
      "I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. ... Didn't even know it. It wasn't until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted ... till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere," Feldman, 40, said.