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    >> DHS: No Return to Pre-9/11 Freedom. Ever. - Big Government
      So what we take from that is this: Janet Napolitano (audio, click to play) telling us that we will never again have pre-9/11 freedom in the United States. (The clip comes from the-No Agenda Podcast, in which Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak-dissect-the modern media message.)
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    Gitmo Nation
      Executive Order--Developing an Integrated Strategic Counterterrorism Communications Initiative | The White House
        (iii) identifying current and emerging trends in extremist communications and communications by al-Qa'ida and its affiliates and adherents in order to coordinate and provide thematic guidance to U.S. Government communicators on how best to proactively promote the U.S. strategic counterterrorism narrative and policies and to respond to and rebut extremist messaging and narratives when communicating to audiences outside the United States, as informed by a wide variety of Government and non-government sources, including nongovernmental organizations, academic sources, and finished intelligence created by the intelligence community;
        (iv) facilitating the use of a wide range of communications technologies, including digital tools, by sharing expertise among agencies, seeking expertise from external sources, and extending best practices;
      National Emergencies Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        The perceived need for the law arose from the scope and number of laws granting special powers to the executive in times of national emergency (or public danger).
        At least two constitutional rights are subject to revocation during a state of emergency:
        The right of habeas corpus, under Article 1, Section 9;
        The right to a grand jury for members of the National Guard when in actual service, under Fifth Amendment.
        In addition, many provisions of statutory law are contingent on a state of national emergency, as many as 500 by one count.[1]
      Chatter-Defenition
        chatter |? ch at?r|
        verb [ intrans. ]
        talk rapidly or incessantly about trivial matters : the kids chattered and splashed at the edge of the lagoon.
        € (of a bird, monkey, or machine) make a series of quick high-pitched sounds.
        € (of a person's teeth) click repeatedly together, typically from cold or fear.
        noun
        incessant trivial talk : a stream of idle chatter.
        € a series of quick high-pitched sounds : the chatter of a typewriter.
        € undesirable vibration in a mechanism : the wipers should operate without chatter.
        PHRASES
        the chattering classes derogatory educated people, esp. those in academic, artistic, or media circles.
        DERIVATIVES
        chattery adjective
        ORIGIN Middle English : imitative.
      The criminalization of speech since 9/11 - War Room - Salon.com
        But Ahmad is not accused of sending money or weapons to LeT, or scouting out targets for the group. What had Ahmad allegedly done? Uploaded a "propaganda video to YouTube on behalf of LeT" that showed "so-called jihadi martyrs and armored trucks exploding after having been hit by improvised explosive devices," according to the Justice Department. Ahmad allegedly had spoken to the son of an LeT figure about making the video.
        The case is an example of prosecutors' aggressive use, in the decade after Sept. 11, of the preexisting law that bars providing "material support" to officially designated terrorist groups. In a landmark case last year, the Supreme Court endorsed the government's broad interpretation of the material-support law in a way that critics say criminalizes speech.
      United States Code: Title 18,2339B. Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations | LII / Legal Information Institute
        (1) Unlawful conduct.-- Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. To violate this paragraph, a person must have knowledge that the organization is a designated terrorist organization (as defined in subsection (g)(6)), that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorist activity (as defined in section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act), or that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorism (as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989).
      National Voter Registration Card - Elections - California Secretary of State
        Congratulations on your decision to register or re-register to vote in California!
    United $tates of EURO-pe
      This week, French banks impairment"; bank UBS warns of civil war Europe
        The Swiss banking giant UBS has now released a report stating that if the eurozone disintegrate, there is a high risk of outbreaks of violence and civil wars.
      Euro Monetary Union - Quotations on Europe
        "I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created." Romano Prodi, EU Commission President. Financial Times, 4 December 2001.
        "[European Monetary Union is] a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe ... [if you are prepared to give up Sovereignty to the EU] you might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler, frankly."
        Nicholas Ridley (1929 - 1993) Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under Margaret Thatcher, taking a career-ending dive into the swivel-eyed tendency, for which he was forced to resign. From an interview in Spectator magazine, July 1990.
      Italian Workers Strike Against Austerity Measures - NYTimes.com
        On Tuesday, Mr. Berlusconi's office said the measures would also raise the VAT, or value-added tax, to 21 percent from 20 percent; add a "solidarity tax" of 3 percent on Italians who earn more than 500,000 euros, or about $700,000, annually; and increase the retirement age for women in the private sector in 2014.
    Elite$
      Stem Cell Bank
        Elites
      [VIDEO] Hot mic catches chummy Boehner-Biden banter | TheBlaze.com
        A live mic on the House dais picked up some playful banter between Speaker of the House John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden Thursday night while they waited for President Obama to arrive and deliver his jobs speech.
    Libya
      Berlusconi says Libyans love Qaddafi: as Italians protest against NATO [Voltaire Network]
        Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hasn't been the victim of a popular uprising. That is the conviction of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has been a friend of Gaddafi till Italy became one of the leading countries behind NATO's war against Libya in March.
        "This has nothing to do with a popular uprising. The Libyan people love Gaddafi, as I was able to see when I went to Libya", Berlusconi said on Friday during a party meeting in Rome.
        He said he suspects there was a plot against Gaddafi.
        "Powerful people decided to give life to a new era by trying to oust Gaddafi," Berlusconi said, according to Italian news agency ANSA.
        In July Berlusconi already said he was against NATO intervention in Libya but "had to go along with it", therewith exposing the fragility of the alliance trying to murder Gaddafi.
        He added: "What choice did I have considering America's pressure, President Georgio Napolitano's stance, and the Parliament's decision?"
      INTERPOL-Gadahffi
        INTERPOL has issued Red Notices for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and former director of military intelligence Abdullah Al-Senussi after the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, requested the world police body to issue internationally wanted persons notices against the Libyan nationals for alleged crimes against humanity, including murder and persecution.
      Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home--Guess Who He Saw Doing the Killing | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.
        "Contrary to what is being reported in the press, from what I heard and observed, more than 90 percent of the Libyan people love Gaddafi," Fauntroy said. "We believe the true mission of the attacks on Gaddafi is to prevent all efforts by African leaders to stop the recolonization of Africa."
        Several months ago, Gaddafi's leadership faced its biggest challenge. In February, a radical protest movement called the Arab Spring spread across Libya. When Gaddafi responded by dispatching military and plainclothes paramilitary to the streets to attack demonstrators, it turned into a civil war with the assistance of NATO and the United Nations.
      U.S. Congressman Witnessed European Special Forces Beheading Libyans
        In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control.
        "'What the hell' I'm thinking to myself. I'm getting out of here. So I went in hiding," Fauntroy said.
        The rebels told Fauntroy they had been told by the European forces to stay inside. According to Fauntroy, the European forces would tell the rebels, "'Look at what you did.' In other words, the French and Danish were ordering the bombings and killings, and giving credit to the rebels.
      [VIDEO]- Ex-congressman trapped in Libya hotel
        Former U.S. Congressman Walter Edward Fauntroy is one of many people held by pro-Gadhafi forces in a Tripoli hotel.
      aangirfan: LIBYA BREAKS UP
        "Misurata's rebels have set up a security cordon around their city and reorganised their brigades to exclude them from taking orders from the council.
    Poppie$tan
      [VIDEO] UK poppy-growing program kept hush-hush -- RT
        The "War on Drugs" that came soon after the "War on Terror" is being decisively lost. Ten years after the US invasion Afghanistan remains the world's biggest opium poppy producer. Meanwhile, the UK is making inroads to the market.
    Techno Experts
      After hacking claims, second firm pulls digital certificates | Security - InfoWorld
        A country that has control over its Internet service providers and has access to fake digital certificates could create a website that would be almost impossible to distinguish from, for example, Gmail.com. That's what some experts think happened in Iran last month.
        A forensics report commissioned by DigiNotar found someone had hacked into DigiNotar and set up a fake Google.com site that was used in late July and August to spy on as many as 300,000 Iranians.
      FBI probes hacking of NBC News' Twitter account - TODAY News - TODAY.com
        The postings were swiftly taken down minutes after they appeared on the main NBC News Twitter account -- a tightly controlled account for which only three NBC News executives have the password. Anchor Brian Williams read a statement on the NBC Nightly News Friday night disclosing the attack, adding that the network was "working with Twitter to correct the situation" and apologizing "for the scare that could have been caused by such a reckless and irresponsible act."
      BBC News - Supercomputer predicts revolution
        Data was fed into an SGI Altix supercomputer, known as Nautilus, based at the University of Tennessee.
        The machine's 1024 Intel Nehalem cores have a total processing power of 8.2 teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second).
        Based on specific queries, Nautilus generated graphs for different countries which experienced the "Arab Spring".
        In each case, the aggregated results of thousands of news stories showed a notable dip in sentiment ahead of time - both inside the country, and as reported from outside.
    Arab Spring
      Marines in Horn Of Africa with Massive Super Stallion Helicopter (It's Not News Yet)
        Marines in Horn Of Africa with Massive Super Stallion Helicopter
        Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, being unloaded at Djibouti, Camp Lemonnier. Gives US 600 mile radius of attach with as many as 55 marines.
      EU countries propose military headquarters - UPI.com
        France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain say they want to develop a plan for a European Union military headquarters, the EUobserver reported Friday.
      Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney Aboard Air Force One en route Richmond, VA | The White House
        Q--- Do you know, or have you heard any of the reports about a few of Muammar Qaddafi's close group have shown up in Niger?
        ----
        MR. CARNEY:- I actually did see a report this morning, not internally but externally, a press report that -- in Niger that they -- someone, a high-ranking official -- I'm not sure who it was -- I just glanced at this before we took off -- saying that they would comply with international obligations related to the travel ban on Colonel Qaddafi and his family.- And obviously, if that's the case, that would be consistent with our position and the international community's position.
    Ministry of Truth
      Israeli news channel shaken up following clash with U.S. billionaire - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
        During the profile piece's weeks-long preparation, Adelson's attorney warned Channel 10 officials against airing it, a warning which, a few months following the piece's publication, into a threat to sue the news channel.
        That threat spurned Channel 10 into negotiations with the billionaire's representatives, talks which culminated with an agreement to air an apology on the show "HaShavua" show, one reportedly drafted by Adelson himself.
        Channel 10's news chief, Reudor Benziman reportedly resisted the move, subsequently resigning earlier this week over the channel's decision to air the apology. He was later joined by "HaShavua" editor Ruthie Yovel.
        However, the latest development in the ongoing conflict was the on-air resignation of the show's presenter, Guy Zohar, who announced that he would not be returning to "HaShavua" just minutes after Adelson's requested apology was finally aired.
    Vaccine$
      Christina's review of Contagion
        Swine+Bird+Bat
        Hand washing
        Fighting for vaccine
      New drug may treat virtually all viral infections - Wikinews, the free news source
        In a recently published article in the journal PLoS One, researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory claim to have developed a new drug that has the potential to cure nearly all types of viral infections ranging from the common cold to highly deadly hemorrhagic fevers.
        The new drug, known as DRACO (double-stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer), is able to discriminate between healthy cells and those infected by viruses. It essentially signals the infected cells to die, preventing the virus from replicating and moving into other cells, all while leaving adjacent healthy cells completely unaffected. Furthermore, scientists believe that it would be difficult for viruses to develop a resistance to this kind of treatment.
      Cuba releases world's first lung cancer vaccine
        As the most common and deadliest form of cancer, lung cancer kills 1.4 million people per year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. While current treatments may improve the survival rate when the cancer is caught in its early stages, the five-year survival rate for late-stage lung cancer can be less than 1%. Now some patients with advanced lung cancer may have another tool to combat the disease, as Cuban medical authorities announced on Tuesday that they will begin selling the world's first therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer.
      Dr. Sanjay Gupta shares insights on "Contagion" | The Buzz
        "It's very real," Gupta said. "It's a real insight into what we can do to protect ourselves. When people get sick, social structure falls apart. Our compassion toward one another is the first thing to fall apart. Are we prepared for a disaster like this? I don't think we've answered that. How prepared can we be? I don't know. It's unsettling."
    9/11
      9/11/11: 'Accidental witness' - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
        Maj. Heather "Lucky" Penney, then a rookie lieutenant, was rushed into the cockpit of an F-16 the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Her orders were to take down United Air Flight 93, using her own jet.
        "We wouldn't be shooting it down. We'd be ramming the aircraft," Penney told the Washington Post, speaking publicly for the first time about that fateful morning. "I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot."
        The unexpected terrorist hijackings left those at Andrews Air Force Base scrambling. Without an armed fighter jet ready to fly, Air Force leaders sent Penney -- along with Col. Mark Sasseville -- on a one-way mission.
      United in Remembrance, Divided over Policies | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
        Yet the public continues to be divided over many of the anti-terrorism policies that arose in the wake of Sept. 11, and these differences extend to opinions about whether U.S. wrongdoing prior to 9/11 may have motivated the attacks: 43% say yes, while 45% disagree. In late September 2001, 33% said U.S. wrongdoing might have motivated the attacks, compared with 55% who said it did not.
      Defense.gov News Article: Panetta Praises Nation's Unity on 9/11
        During the Cold War, he said, the primary threat was the world's other superpower, the Soviet Union, which "threatened everything that we stood for."
        That single-enemy focus simplified defense and national security concerns, the secretary noted. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, a series of threats and crises has complicated America's security strategy, he added.
        "In my 40 years in Washington, I've never seen as many different challenges," the secretary said.
        Among those challenges Panetta listed counter-terrorism operations, including involvement in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas, as well as in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa, the recent NATO mission in Libya, daily cyber attacks, and rising powers including China, Russia, Brazil and India, which "we've got to be able to work with, hopefully, but ultimately could have a huge impact in terms of the stability of the world."
        Iran and North Korea also are national security concerns, he said, as "rogue countries that are ... trying to develop nuclear capability and threaten the world."
        The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Panetta said, continue to place the nation's service members in harm's way.
        Every one of those areas is a major threat, the secretary said.
      [VIDEO] Possible Terrorist Attacks Investigated - C-SPAN Video Library
        Michael Scheuer talked about the potential al-Qaeda terror plot against New York City and Washington DC this 9/11 anniversary weekend, the overall state of the Al Qaeda network ten years after 9/11 and after the killing of Osama bin Laden earlier this year. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
      NYPD Scanners - packages everywhere!
      [VIDEO] "Do right by Free Planet," is the only rule.: Flight 93 in two places at once on 911?
        On the morning of 9/11 a little known Cincinnati television station ran a story saying Flight 93 landed at Cleveland International Airport instead of crashing in Pennsylvania as claimed in the official government story.
        Reporters at WCPO Channel 9 quoted then Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White as saying "a Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing due to a bomb threat," the airplane landing safely, moved to a secure location and evacuated.
      [VIDEO] aangirfan: FLIGHT 93 LANDED IN CLEVELAND
        The plan was to "simultaneously send up two airliners painted and numbered exactly the same, one from a civil airport in America, the other from a secret military airbase nearby.
        "The one from the airport would have military personnel on board who had checked in as ordinary passengers under false names.
        "The one from the airbase would be an empty drone, a remote-controlled unmanned aircraft.
        "Somewhere along their joint flight paths, the passenger-carrying plane would drop below radar height, and disappear, landing back at the airbase and unloading its occupants in secret.
        "Meanwhile, the drone would have taken up the other plane's designated course..."
      Military officials ignored Cheney's 9/11 shoot-down order - BlackListedNews.com
        That revelation is one of many in newly released audio recordings compiled by investigators for the 9/11 Commission, published this week by The Rutgers Law Review. Featuring voices from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and American Airlines, the newly released multimedia provides a glimpse at the chaos that emerged as the attack progressed.
      [VIDEO] Obama Jobs Speech: Michelle Obama unhappy? Dissatisfied? -
        First Lady Michelle Obama seemed a bit unhappy and discontented after her husband delivered a speech on job creation to a joint session of congress on Thursday.
      [VIDEO] Dick Cheney admits Flight 93 was shot down -
        Dick Cheney admits to having flight 93 shot out of the sky. The only hijacked plane that had a chance of returning at least some of it's passengers home and Dick destroys it. Why would he do that? The plane had been retaken by it's passengers....remember Todd Beamer's "Let's Roll"?
      Ben Sliney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        Ben Sliney was one of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's National Operation Managers. His first day in this position was September 11, 2001, and he was responsible for ordering a National Ground Stop across United States airspace in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.[1]
      Post-9/11 Technology Brings Exoskeletons, Laser Cannons to 21st-Century U.S. Military [Slide Show]: Scientific American
        Raytheon is also developing an active denial system that emits a focused beam of millimeter wave energy that travels at the speed of light, heating the water in a person's outer layers of skin and producing an intense burning sensation designed to stop crowds or combatants in their tracks without killing them. In another approach to directed energy, microwaves can also be used as a weapon by stimulating portions of the ear around the cochlea, creating extremely high and uncomfortable noise levels in the skulls of targeted individuals.
    Drone Nation
      Civilian Planes Fill Niche in World of Airborne Spying - NYTimes.com
        But after a mysterious buyer snapped up the plane in 2008, it ripped out the fancy appointments, painted it a dull gray and sent it on a more dangerous mission. Unknown to the doctor, his prized King Air 350 had become a spy plane, one of the first of a new military model that is now easing the load on the unmanned drones for the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    EQ Machine
      Small earthquake rattles the Netherlands-German border | Breaking News | Wire Update News | News Wires
        A small but unusual earthquake struck the eastern part of the Netherlands on Thursday evening, seismologists and witnesses said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
        The 4.6-magnitude earthquake at 9.02 p.m. local time was centered about 10 miles (17 kilometers) southeast of Nijmegen, a city in the east of the Netherlands, near the German border. It struck about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center.
    Nothing to see here!
      No, PBS Did Not Cover Up An "Error" in Obama's Speech |Gay News|Gay Blog Towleroad
        UPDATE: Was Obama even wrong to say that Lincoln founded the GOP? Well, not if you believe the GOP's-own website. It says this about Lincoln:-
        Abraham Lincoln helped establish the Republican Party with a speech denouncing an 1854 law, written by a Democrat Senator, that allowed slavery to expand into the western territories. Two years later, he co-founded the Illinois GOP.- Lincoln was runner-up for the 1856 Republican vice presidential nomination and then became a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate.
        (update via Little Green Footballs,-which also has a comprehensive list of Republicans who have called Abe the "founder" of their party.)
      Blog: PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe
        Barack Obama has gone to Congress asking for more money to spend. The President, in a rambling and tedious exercise mixing blame with demands, made quite a few dubious statements in laying out the case for Congress to vote for the plan which as yet does not exist. Much like Obamacare, Congress must ultimately vote for the bill to know what is in it.
        At one point Mr. Obama made a major gaffe; he identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party.
        Lincoln did not join the Republicans until 1856, over two years after the party was founded. The first Republican convention was held in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854.
    Dental
      Sir Birch and other DMD's-Thanks!
    Real News
      Steve Jobs death tweet costs Shira Lazar her CBS News gig - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
        Hours after a-false report-Friday that Apple's (AAPL) CEO had died set newsrooms around the world scrambling for confirmation, CBS News severed its relationship with both What's Trending, the site that issued the erroneous tweet, and the celebrity blogger who produced it, according to-The Hollywood Reporter.
    PR Promotions/Movies
      Michael Aufhauser - Salzburgwiki
        Michael Aufhauser grew up in Munich, Monte Carlo and Florida, USA, on the son of an industrialist. After attending an acting school and appeared in several plays and films, he turned to cultural tourism and marketing. In 2000 founded Aufhauser estate in Henndorf Aiderbichl the sanctuary. The animal rights activists invested a considerable part of his personal fortune in the construction and maintenance of Aiderbichl and made [][]sure that it is protected in his will for 199 years.
      Chimpanzees see sunlight for first time in 30 years after being freed from Vienna laboratory - mirror.co.uk
        These heart-warming images mark the end of a 14-year battle to free the 38 chimps from a lab in Vienna by 59-year-old conservationist Michael Aufhauser. The animals had been used in HIV and hepatitis tests.
      Disneynature Chimpanzee | Disney
      Who Is Michael Aufhauser?
        German Article
        He appeared quite suddenly. In the society columns of the Austrian and German media. Surrounded by Michael Schumacher and MOIK, stars and starlets. Michael Aufhauser. The millionaire with the animal whimsy. But exactly what he wants to be.
        Michael Aufhauser is a pro. Businessman through and through and not a bit sentimental, as he says himself. Where it comes from, nobody really knows. That makes a part of his mysterious charisma. Leaves room for imagination and speculation. Growing up in the world, actors, managers, industrialists.
    Government forms
      My wife recently had a minor procedure in a doctor's office and was given the attached form to fill out. It requested personal information. After filling it out, she went back to the receptionist and asked what this is for. The receptionist gave her the explanation page (attached) and said they are required to do it for the government. My wife replied she hates the government. Apparently the government is paying the doctors to do this, and in future will be penalizing them if they don't.
      Note the explanation page confirms that the government continues its ongoing program, with full media support as we've all noted on TV programs and ads, that white people are being relegated to "non-person" status. Notice too on the back of the form that there is no classification for Caucasians to select. This is according to the CDC-defined ethnicity list.
      I can't wait for the Government to get all our personal medical records on line so they can be hacked and made public on the web, and used by anyone for their own purposes.
    Curry/Dvorak 2016
      BBall
        Adam,
        If you aren't steeped in the baseball tradition, you'll want to bone up on your pitching skill, because: "Every president since Taft, with the exception of Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for either Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare." (wikipedia).
        Bob Majors
      Ireland
        Adam,
        I think you should run in the Irish presidential election which is coming up in October as dry run for 2016. While the Irish presidential position is mainly ceremonial, he/she does have the power to:
          € refuse the dissolution of parliament
          € refer legislation to supreme court to test the constitutionality of legislation, and
          € hang out in tents and bunga bung parties with world leaders.
        The Irish race is wide open, people are sick of the political establishment. The previous favourite was an independent, Anglo-Irish, academic, gay, pro-Palestinian, human rights campaigner, Senator David Norris (Ireland has come along way baby!!). He pulled out due to a scandal about a letter of pardon he wrote for a former lover who had sex with a 16 year old boy. He still might re-enter though, he is appearing on a talk show next week.
        http://www.independent.ie/national-news/michael-d-leads-but-13-want-david-norris-for-president-2866201.html
        http://www.independent.ie/national-news/could-david-norris-still-become-the-next-president-2867246.html
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Norris_(politician)
        You don't have to be born in the country (I am sure you have some Irish ancestry), everybody from a talk show host, a sports commentator, a former eurovision winner have all been touted (we are getting desperate)- even Martin Sheen http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Support-for-Martin-Sheen-as-Irish-president-grows--127819948.html,
        Vincent,
        Limerick, Ireland
    VIDEO
      [VIDEO] UK poppy-growing program kept hush-hush -- RT
        The "War on Drugs" that came soon after the "War on Terror" is being decisively lost. Ten years after the US invasion Afghanistan remains the world's biggest opium poppy producer. Meanwhile, the UK is making inroads to the market.
      [VIDEO]- Ex-congressman trapped in Libya hotel
        Former U.S. Congressman Walter Edward Fauntroy is one of many people held by pro-Gadhafi forces in a Tripoli hotel.
      [VIDEO] Possible Terrorist Attacks Investigated - C-SPAN Video Library
        Michael Scheuer talked about the potential al-Qaeda terror plot against New York City and Washington DC this 9/11 anniversary weekend, the overall state of the Al Qaeda network ten years after 9/11 and after the killing of Osama bin Laden earlier this year. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
      [VIDEO] "Do right by Free Planet," is the only rule.: Flight 93 in two places at once on 911?
        On the morning of 9/11 a little known Cincinnati television station ran a story saying Flight 93 landed at Cleveland International Airport instead of crashing in Pennsylvania as claimed in the official government story.
        Reporters at WCPO Channel 9 quoted then Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White as saying "a Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing due to a bomb threat," the airplane landing safely, moved to a secure location and evacuated.
      [VIDEO] aangirfan: FLIGHT 93 LANDED IN CLEVELAND
        The plan was to "simultaneously send up two airliners painted and numbered exactly the same, one from a civil airport in America, the other from a secret military airbase nearby.
        "The one from the airport would have military personnel on board who had checked in as ordinary passengers under false names.
        "The one from the airbase would be an empty drone, a remote-controlled unmanned aircraft.
        "Somewhere along their joint flight paths, the passenger-carrying plane would drop below radar height, and disappear, landing back at the airbase and unloading its occupants in secret.
        "Meanwhile, the drone would have taken up the other plane's designated course..."
      [VIDEO] Obama Jobs Speech: Michelle Obama unhappy? Dissatisfied? -
        First Lady Michelle Obama seemed a bit unhappy and discontented after her husband delivered a speech on job creation to a joint session of congress on Thursday.
      [VIDEO] Dick Cheney admits Flight 93 was shot down -
        Dick Cheney admits to having flight 93 shot out of the sky. The only hijacked plane that had a chance of returning at least some of it's passengers home and Dick destroys it. Why would he do that? The plane had been retaken by it's passengers....remember Todd Beamer's "Let's Roll"?
      [VIDEO] Hot mic catches chummy Boehner-Biden banter | TheBlaze.com
        A live mic on the House dais picked up some playful banter between Speaker of the House John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden Thursday night while they waited for President Obama to arrive and deliver his jobs speech.
      [VIDEO] West Wing Week: 9/9/11 or "American Jobs Act" | The White House
        Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President visited New Jersey communities recovering from Hurricane Irene, celebrated Labor Day in Detroit, welcomed NASCAR Champions to the White House, and unveiled the American Jobs Act before a Joint Session of Congress. That's September 2nd to September 8th or "American Jobs Act"
  Gitmo Nation
    Executive Order--Developing an Integrated Strategic Counterterrorism Communications Initiative | The White House
      (iii) identifying current and emerging trends in extremist communications and communications by al-Qa'ida and its affiliates and adherents in order to coordinate and provide thematic guidance to U.S. Government communicators on how best to proactively promote the U.S. strategic counterterrorism narrative and policies and to respond to and rebut extremist messaging and narratives when communicating to audiences outside the United States, as informed by a wide variety of Government and non-government sources, including nongovernmental organizations, academic sources, and finished intelligence created by the intelligence community;
      (iv) facilitating the use of a wide range of communications technologies, including digital tools, by sharing expertise among agencies, seeking expertise from external sources, and extending best practices;
    National Emergencies Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The perceived need for the law arose from the scope and number of laws granting special powers to the executive in times of national emergency (or public danger).
      At least two constitutional rights are subject to revocation during a state of emergency:
      The right of habeas corpus, under Article 1, Section 9;
      The right to a grand jury for members of the National Guard when in actual service, under Fifth Amendment.
      In addition, many provisions of statutory law are contingent on a state of national emergency, as many as 500 by one count.[1]
    Chatter-Defenition
      chatter |? ch at?r|
      verb [ intrans. ]
      talk rapidly or incessantly about trivial matters : the kids chattered and splashed at the edge of the lagoon.
      € (of a bird, monkey, or machine) make a series of quick high-pitched sounds.
      € (of a person's teeth) click repeatedly together, typically from cold or fear.
      noun
      incessant trivial talk : a stream of idle chatter.
      € a series of quick high-pitched sounds : the chatter of a typewriter.
      € undesirable vibration in a mechanism : the wipers should operate without chatter.
      PHRASES
      the chattering classes derogatory educated people, esp. those in academic, artistic, or media circles.
      DERIVATIVES
      chattery adjective
      ORIGIN Middle English : imitative.
    The criminalization of speech since 9/11 - War Room - Salon.com
      But Ahmad is not accused of sending money or weapons to LeT, or scouting out targets for the group. What had Ahmad allegedly done? Uploaded a "propaganda video to YouTube on behalf of LeT" that showed "so-called jihadi martyrs and armored trucks exploding after having been hit by improvised explosive devices," according to the Justice Department. Ahmad allegedly had spoken to the son of an LeT figure about making the video.
      The case is an example of prosecutors' aggressive use, in the decade after Sept. 11, of the preexisting law that bars providing "material support" to officially designated terrorist groups. In a landmark case last year, the Supreme Court endorsed the government's broad interpretation of the material-support law in a way that critics say criminalizes speech.
    United States Code: Title 18,2339B. Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations | LII / Legal Information Institute
      (1) Unlawful conduct.-- Whoever knowingly provides material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life. To violate this paragraph, a person must have knowledge that the organization is a designated terrorist organization (as defined in subsection (g)(6)), that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorist activity (as defined in section 212(a)(3)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act), or that the organization has engaged or engages in terrorism (as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989).
    National Voter Registration Card - Elections - California Secretary of State
      Congratulations on your decision to register or re-register to vote in California!
  United $tates of EURO-pe
    This week, French banks impairment"; bank UBS warns of civil war Europe
      The Swiss banking giant UBS has now released a report stating that if the eurozone disintegrate, there is a high risk of outbreaks of violence and civil wars.
    Euro Monetary Union - Quotations on Europe
      "I am sure the euro will oblige us to introduce a new set of economic policy instruments. It is politically impossible to propose that now. But some day there will be a crisis and new instruments will be created." Romano Prodi, EU Commission President. Financial Times, 4 December 2001.
      "[European Monetary Union is] a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe ... [if you are prepared to give up Sovereignty to the EU] you might just as well give it to Adolf Hitler, frankly."
      Nicholas Ridley (1929 - 1993) Secretary of State for Trade and Industry under Margaret Thatcher, taking a career-ending dive into the swivel-eyed tendency, for which he was forced to resign. From an interview in Spectator magazine, July 1990.
    Italian Workers Strike Against Austerity Measures - NYTimes.com
      On Tuesday, Mr. Berlusconi's office said the measures would also raise the VAT, or value-added tax, to 21 percent from 20 percent; add a "solidarity tax" of 3 percent on Italians who earn more than 500,000 euros, or about $700,000, annually; and increase the retirement age for women in the private sector in 2014.
  Elite$
    Stem Cell Bank
      Elites
    [VIDEO] Hot mic catches chummy Boehner-Biden banter | TheBlaze.com
      A live mic on the House dais picked up some playful banter between Speaker of the House John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden Thursday night while they waited for President Obama to arrive and deliver his jobs speech.
  Libya
    Berlusconi says Libyans love Qaddafi: as Italians protest against NATO [Voltaire Network]
      Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hasn't been the victim of a popular uprising. That is the conviction of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has been a friend of Gaddafi till Italy became one of the leading countries behind NATO's war against Libya in March.
      "This has nothing to do with a popular uprising. The Libyan people love Gaddafi, as I was able to see when I went to Libya", Berlusconi said on Friday during a party meeting in Rome.
      He said he suspects there was a plot against Gaddafi.
      "Powerful people decided to give life to a new era by trying to oust Gaddafi," Berlusconi said, according to Italian news agency ANSA.
      In July Berlusconi already said he was against NATO intervention in Libya but "had to go along with it", therewith exposing the fragility of the alliance trying to murder Gaddafi.
      He added: "What choice did I have considering America's pressure, President Georgio Napolitano's stance, and the Parliament's decision?"
    INTERPOL-Gadahffi
      INTERPOL has issued Red Notices for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, his son Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi and former director of military intelligence Abdullah Al-Senussi after the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, requested the world police body to issue internationally wanted persons notices against the Libyan nationals for alleged crimes against humanity, including murder and persecution.
    Walter Fauntroy, Feared Dead in Libya, Returns Home--Guess Who He Saw Doing the Killing | The Afro-American Newspapers | Your Community. Your History. Your News.
      "Contrary to what is being reported in the press, from what I heard and observed, more than 90 percent of the Libyan people love Gaddafi," Fauntroy said. "We believe the true mission of the attacks on Gaddafi is to prevent all efforts by African leaders to stop the recolonization of Africa."
      Several months ago, Gaddafi's leadership faced its biggest challenge. In February, a radical protest movement called the Arab Spring spread across Libya. When Gaddafi responded by dispatching military and plainclothes paramilitary to the streets to attack demonstrators, it turned into a civil war with the assistance of NATO and the United Nations.
    U.S. Congressman Witnessed European Special Forces Beheading Libyans
      In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control.
      "'What the hell' I'm thinking to myself. I'm getting out of here. So I went in hiding," Fauntroy said.
      The rebels told Fauntroy they had been told by the European forces to stay inside. According to Fauntroy, the European forces would tell the rebels, "'Look at what you did.' In other words, the French and Danish were ordering the bombings and killings, and giving credit to the rebels.
    [VIDEO]- Ex-congressman trapped in Libya hotel
      Former U.S. Congressman Walter Edward Fauntroy is one of many people held by pro-Gadhafi forces in a Tripoli hotel.
    aangirfan: LIBYA BREAKS UP
      "Misurata's rebels have set up a security cordon around their city and reorganised their brigades to exclude them from taking orders from the council.
  Poppie$tan
    [VIDEO] UK poppy-growing program kept hush-hush -- RT
      The "War on Drugs" that came soon after the "War on Terror" is being decisively lost. Ten years after the US invasion Afghanistan remains the world's biggest opium poppy producer. Meanwhile, the UK is making inroads to the market.
  Techno Experts
    After hacking claims, second firm pulls digital certificates | Security - InfoWorld
      A country that has control over its Internet service providers and has access to fake digital certificates could create a website that would be almost impossible to distinguish from, for example, Gmail.com. That's what some experts think happened in Iran last month.
      A forensics report commissioned by DigiNotar found someone had hacked into DigiNotar and set up a fake Google.com site that was used in late July and August to spy on as many as 300,000 Iranians.
    FBI probes hacking of NBC News' Twitter account - TODAY News - TODAY.com
      The postings were swiftly taken down minutes after they appeared on the main NBC News Twitter account -- a tightly controlled account for which only three NBC News executives have the password. Anchor Brian Williams read a statement on the NBC Nightly News Friday night disclosing the attack, adding that the network was "working with Twitter to correct the situation" and apologizing "for the scare that could have been caused by such a reckless and irresponsible act."
    BBC News - Supercomputer predicts revolution
      Data was fed into an SGI Altix supercomputer, known as Nautilus, based at the University of Tennessee.
      The machine's 1024 Intel Nehalem cores have a total processing power of 8.2 teraflops (trillion floating point operations per second).
      Based on specific queries, Nautilus generated graphs for different countries which experienced the "Arab Spring".
      In each case, the aggregated results of thousands of news stories showed a notable dip in sentiment ahead of time - both inside the country, and as reported from outside.
  Arab Spring
    Marines in Horn Of Africa with Massive Super Stallion Helicopter (It's Not News Yet)
      Marines in Horn Of Africa with Massive Super Stallion Helicopter
      Marine CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter, being unloaded at Djibouti, Camp Lemonnier. Gives US 600 mile radius of attach with as many as 55 marines.
    EU countries propose military headquarters - UPI.com
      France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain say they want to develop a plan for a European Union military headquarters, the EUobserver reported Friday.
    Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney Aboard Air Force One en route Richmond, VA | The White House
      Q--- Do you know, or have you heard any of the reports about a few of Muammar Qaddafi's close group have shown up in Niger?
      ----
      MR. CARNEY:- I actually did see a report this morning, not internally but externally, a press report that -- in Niger that they -- someone, a high-ranking official -- I'm not sure who it was -- I just glanced at this before we took off -- saying that they would comply with international obligations related to the travel ban on Colonel Qaddafi and his family.- And obviously, if that's the case, that would be consistent with our position and the international community's position.
  Ministry of Truth
    Israeli news channel shaken up following clash with U.S. billionaire - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
      During the profile piece's weeks-long preparation, Adelson's attorney warned Channel 10 officials against airing it, a warning which, a few months following the piece's publication, into a threat to sue the news channel.
      That threat spurned Channel 10 into negotiations with the billionaire's representatives, talks which culminated with an agreement to air an apology on the show "HaShavua" show, one reportedly drafted by Adelson himself.
      Channel 10's news chief, Reudor Benziman reportedly resisted the move, subsequently resigning earlier this week over the channel's decision to air the apology. He was later joined by "HaShavua" editor Ruthie Yovel.
      However, the latest development in the ongoing conflict was the on-air resignation of the show's presenter, Guy Zohar, who announced that he would not be returning to "HaShavua" just minutes after Adelson's requested apology was finally aired.
  Vaccine$
    Christina's review of Contagion
      Swine+Bird+Bat
      Hand washing
      Fighting for vaccine
    New drug may treat virtually all viral infections - Wikinews, the free news source
      In a recently published article in the journal PLoS One, researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory claim to have developed a new drug that has the potential to cure nearly all types of viral infections ranging from the common cold to highly deadly hemorrhagic fevers.
      The new drug, known as DRACO (double-stranded RNA activated caspase oligomerizer), is able to discriminate between healthy cells and those infected by viruses. It essentially signals the infected cells to die, preventing the virus from replicating and moving into other cells, all while leaving adjacent healthy cells completely unaffected. Furthermore, scientists believe that it would be difficult for viruses to develop a resistance to this kind of treatment.
    Cuba releases world's first lung cancer vaccine
      As the most common and deadliest form of cancer, lung cancer kills 1.4 million people per year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. While current treatments may improve the survival rate when the cancer is caught in its early stages, the five-year survival rate for late-stage lung cancer can be less than 1%. Now some patients with advanced lung cancer may have another tool to combat the disease, as Cuban medical authorities announced on Tuesday that they will begin selling the world's first therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer.
    Dr. Sanjay Gupta shares insights on "Contagion" | The Buzz
      "It's very real," Gupta said. "It's a real insight into what we can do to protect ourselves. When people get sick, social structure falls apart. Our compassion toward one another is the first thing to fall apart. Are we prepared for a disaster like this? I don't think we've answered that. How prepared can we be? I don't know. It's unsettling."
  9/11
    9/11/11: 'Accidental witness' - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
      Maj. Heather "Lucky" Penney, then a rookie lieutenant, was rushed into the cockpit of an F-16 the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Her orders were to take down United Air Flight 93, using her own jet.
      "We wouldn't be shooting it down. We'd be ramming the aircraft," Penney told the Washington Post, speaking publicly for the first time about that fateful morning. "I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot."
      The unexpected terrorist hijackings left those at Andrews Air Force Base scrambling. Without an armed fighter jet ready to fly, Air Force leaders sent Penney -- along with Col. Mark Sasseville -- on a one-way mission.
    United in Remembrance, Divided over Policies | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
      Yet the public continues to be divided over many of the anti-terrorism policies that arose in the wake of Sept. 11, and these differences extend to opinions about whether U.S. wrongdoing prior to 9/11 may have motivated the attacks: 43% say yes, while 45% disagree. In late September 2001, 33% said U.S. wrongdoing might have motivated the attacks, compared with 55% who said it did not.
    Defense.gov News Article: Panetta Praises Nation's Unity on 9/11
      During the Cold War, he said, the primary threat was the world's other superpower, the Soviet Union, which "threatened everything that we stood for."
      That single-enemy focus simplified defense and national security concerns, the secretary noted. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, a series of threats and crises has complicated America's security strategy, he added.
      "In my 40 years in Washington, I've never seen as many different challenges," the secretary said.
      Among those challenges Panetta listed counter-terrorism operations, including involvement in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas, as well as in Yemen, Somalia and North Africa, the recent NATO mission in Libya, daily cyber attacks, and rising powers including China, Russia, Brazil and India, which "we've got to be able to work with, hopefully, but ultimately could have a huge impact in terms of the stability of the world."
      Iran and North Korea also are national security concerns, he said, as "rogue countries that are ... trying to develop nuclear capability and threaten the world."
      The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Panetta said, continue to place the nation's service members in harm's way.
      Every one of those areas is a major threat, the secretary said.
    [VIDEO] Possible Terrorist Attacks Investigated - C-SPAN Video Library
      Michael Scheuer talked about the potential al-Qaeda terror plot against New York City and Washington DC this 9/11 anniversary weekend, the overall state of the Al Qaeda network ten years after 9/11 and after the killing of Osama bin Laden earlier this year. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
    NYPD Scanners - packages everywhere!
    [VIDEO] "Do right by Free Planet," is the only rule.: Flight 93 in two places at once on 911?
      On the morning of 9/11 a little known Cincinnati television station ran a story saying Flight 93 landed at Cleveland International Airport instead of crashing in Pennsylvania as claimed in the official government story.
      Reporters at WCPO Channel 9 quoted then Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White as saying "a Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing due to a bomb threat," the airplane landing safely, moved to a secure location and evacuated.
    [VIDEO] aangirfan: FLIGHT 93 LANDED IN CLEVELAND
      The plan was to "simultaneously send up two airliners painted and numbered exactly the same, one from a civil airport in America, the other from a secret military airbase nearby.
      "The one from the airport would have military personnel on board who had checked in as ordinary passengers under false names.
      "The one from the airbase would be an empty drone, a remote-controlled unmanned aircraft.
      "Somewhere along their joint flight paths, the passenger-carrying plane would drop below radar height, and disappear, landing back at the airbase and unloading its occupants in secret.
      "Meanwhile, the drone would have taken up the other plane's designated course..."
    Military officials ignored Cheney's 9/11 shoot-down order - BlackListedNews.com
      That revelation is one of many in newly released audio recordings compiled by investigators for the 9/11 Commission, published this week by The Rutgers Law Review. Featuring voices from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and American Airlines, the newly released multimedia provides a glimpse at the chaos that emerged as the attack progressed.
    [VIDEO] Obama Jobs Speech: Michelle Obama unhappy? Dissatisfied? -
      First Lady Michelle Obama seemed a bit unhappy and discontented after her husband delivered a speech on job creation to a joint session of congress on Thursday.
    [VIDEO] Dick Cheney admits Flight 93 was shot down -
      Dick Cheney admits to having flight 93 shot out of the sky. The only hijacked plane that had a chance of returning at least some of it's passengers home and Dick destroys it. Why would he do that? The plane had been retaken by it's passengers....remember Todd Beamer's "Let's Roll"?
    Ben Sliney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Ben Sliney was one of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's National Operation Managers. His first day in this position was September 11, 2001, and he was responsible for ordering a National Ground Stop across United States airspace in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.[1]
    Post-9/11 Technology Brings Exoskeletons, Laser Cannons to 21st-Century U.S. Military [Slide Show]: Scientific American
      Raytheon is also developing an active denial system that emits a focused beam of millimeter wave energy that travels at the speed of light, heating the water in a person's outer layers of skin and producing an intense burning sensation designed to stop crowds or combatants in their tracks without killing them. In another approach to directed energy, microwaves can also be used as a weapon by stimulating portions of the ear around the cochlea, creating extremely high and uncomfortable noise levels in the skulls of targeted individuals.
  Drone Nation
    Civilian Planes Fill Niche in World of Airborne Spying - NYTimes.com
      But after a mysterious buyer snapped up the plane in 2008, it ripped out the fancy appointments, painted it a dull gray and sent it on a more dangerous mission. Unknown to the doctor, his prized King Air 350 had become a spy plane, one of the first of a new military model that is now easing the load on the unmanned drones for the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  EQ Machine
    Small earthquake rattles the Netherlands-German border | Breaking News | Wire Update News | News Wires
      A small but unusual earthquake struck the eastern part of the Netherlands on Thursday evening, seismologists and witnesses said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
      The 4.6-magnitude earthquake at 9.02 p.m. local time was centered about 10 miles (17 kilometers) southeast of Nijmegen, a city in the east of the Netherlands, near the German border. It struck about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center.
  Nothing to see here!
    No, PBS Did Not Cover Up An "Error" in Obama's Speech |Gay News|Gay Blog Towleroad
      UPDATE: Was Obama even wrong to say that Lincoln founded the GOP? Well, not if you believe the GOP's-own website. It says this about Lincoln:-
      Abraham Lincoln helped establish the Republican Party with a speech denouncing an 1854 law, written by a Democrat Senator, that allowed slavery to expand into the western territories. Two years later, he co-founded the Illinois GOP.- Lincoln was runner-up for the 1856 Republican vice presidential nomination and then became a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate.
      (update via Little Green Footballs,-which also has a comprehensive list of Republicans who have called Abe the "founder" of their party.)
    Blog: PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe
      Barack Obama has gone to Congress asking for more money to spend. The President, in a rambling and tedious exercise mixing blame with demands, made quite a few dubious statements in laying out the case for Congress to vote for the plan which as yet does not exist. Much like Obamacare, Congress must ultimately vote for the bill to know what is in it.
      At one point Mr. Obama made a major gaffe; he identified Abraham Lincoln as the founder of the Republican Party.
      Lincoln did not join the Republicans until 1856, over two years after the party was founded. The first Republican convention was held in Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854.
  Dental
    Sir Birch and other DMD's-Thanks!
  Real News
    Steve Jobs death tweet costs Shira Lazar her CBS News gig - Apple 2.0 - Fortune Tech
      Hours after a-false report-Friday that Apple's (AAPL) CEO had died set newsrooms around the world scrambling for confirmation, CBS News severed its relationship with both What's Trending, the site that issued the erroneous tweet, and the celebrity blogger who produced it, according to-The Hollywood Reporter.
  PR Promotions/Movies
    Michael Aufhauser - Salzburgwiki
      Michael Aufhauser grew up in Munich, Monte Carlo and Florida, USA, on the son of an industrialist. After attending an acting school and appeared in several plays and films, he turned to cultural tourism and marketing. In 2000 founded Aufhauser estate in Henndorf Aiderbichl the sanctuary. The animal rights activists invested a considerable part of his personal fortune in the construction and maintenance of Aiderbichl and made [][]sure that it is protected in his will for 199 years.
    Chimpanzees see sunlight for first time in 30 years after being freed from Vienna laboratory - mirror.co.uk
      These heart-warming images mark the end of a 14-year battle to free the 38 chimps from a lab in Vienna by 59-year-old conservationist Michael Aufhauser. The animals had been used in HIV and hepatitis tests.
    Disneynature Chimpanzee | Disney
    Who Is Michael Aufhauser?
      German Article
      He appeared quite suddenly. In the society columns of the Austrian and German media. Surrounded by Michael Schumacher and MOIK, stars and starlets. Michael Aufhauser. The millionaire with the animal whimsy. But exactly what he wants to be.
      Michael Aufhauser is a pro. Businessman through and through and not a bit sentimental, as he says himself. Where it comes from, nobody really knows. That makes a part of his mysterious charisma. Leaves room for imagination and speculation. Growing up in the world, actors, managers, industrialists.
  Government forms
    My wife recently had a minor procedure in a doctor's office and was given the attached form to fill out. It requested personal information. After filling it out, she went back to the receptionist and asked what this is for. The receptionist gave her the explanation page (attached) and said they are required to do it for the government. My wife replied she hates the government. Apparently the government is paying the doctors to do this, and in future will be penalizing them if they don't.
    Note the explanation page confirms that the government continues its ongoing program, with full media support as we've all noted on TV programs and ads, that white people are being relegated to "non-person" status. Notice too on the back of the form that there is no classification for Caucasians to select. This is according to the CDC-defined ethnicity list.
    I can't wait for the Government to get all our personal medical records on line so they can be hacked and made public on the web, and used by anyone for their own purposes.
  Curry/Dvorak 2016
    BBall
      Adam,
      If you aren't steeped in the baseball tradition, you'll want to bone up on your pitching skill, because: "Every president since Taft, with the exception of Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for either Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare." (wikipedia).
      Bob Majors
    Ireland
      Adam,
      I think you should run in the Irish presidential election which is coming up in October as dry run for 2016. While the Irish presidential position is mainly ceremonial, he/she does have the power to:
        € refuse the dissolution of parliament
        € refer legislation to supreme court to test the constitutionality of legislation, and
        € hang out in tents and bunga bung parties with world leaders.
      The Irish race is wide open, people are sick of the political establishment. The previous favourite was an independent, Anglo-Irish, academic, gay, pro-Palestinian, human rights campaigner, Senator David Norris (Ireland has come along way baby!!). He pulled out due to a scandal about a letter of pardon he wrote for a former lover who had sex with a 16 year old boy. He still might re-enter though, he is appearing on a talk show next week.
      http://www.independent.ie/national-news/michael-d-leads-but-13-want-david-norris-for-president-2866201.html
      http://www.independent.ie/national-news/could-david-norris-still-become-the-next-president-2867246.html
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Norris_(politician)
      You don't have to be born in the country (I am sure you have some Irish ancestry), everybody from a talk show host, a sports commentator, a former eurovision winner have all been touted (we are getting desperate)- even Martin Sheen http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Support-for-Martin-Sheen-as-Irish-president-grows--127819948.html,
      Vincent,
      Limerick, Ireland
  VIDEO
    [VIDEO] UK poppy-growing program kept hush-hush -- RT
      The "War on Drugs" that came soon after the "War on Terror" is being decisively lost. Ten years after the US invasion Afghanistan remains the world's biggest opium poppy producer. Meanwhile, the UK is making inroads to the market.
    [VIDEO]- Ex-congressman trapped in Libya hotel
      Former U.S. Congressman Walter Edward Fauntroy is one of many people held by pro-Gadhafi forces in a Tripoli hotel.
    [VIDEO] Possible Terrorist Attacks Investigated - C-SPAN Video Library
      Michael Scheuer talked about the potential al-Qaeda terror plot against New York City and Washington DC this 9/11 anniversary weekend, the overall state of the Al Qaeda network ten years after 9/11 and after the killing of Osama bin Laden earlier this year. He also responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.
    [VIDEO] "Do right by Free Planet," is the only rule.: Flight 93 in two places at once on 911?
      On the morning of 9/11 a little known Cincinnati television station ran a story saying Flight 93 landed at Cleveland International Airport instead of crashing in Pennsylvania as claimed in the official government story.
      Reporters at WCPO Channel 9 quoted then Cleveland Mayor Michael R. White as saying "a Boeing 767 out of Boston made an emergency landing due to a bomb threat," the airplane landing safely, moved to a secure location and evacuated.
    [VIDEO] aangirfan: FLIGHT 93 LANDED IN CLEVELAND
      The plan was to "simultaneously send up two airliners painted and numbered exactly the same, one from a civil airport in America, the other from a secret military airbase nearby.
      "The one from the airport would have military personnel on board who had checked in as ordinary passengers under false names.
      "The one from the airbase would be an empty drone, a remote-controlled unmanned aircraft.
      "Somewhere along their joint flight paths, the passenger-carrying plane would drop below radar height, and disappear, landing back at the airbase and unloading its occupants in secret.
      "Meanwhile, the drone would have taken up the other plane's designated course..."
    [VIDEO] Obama Jobs Speech: Michelle Obama unhappy? Dissatisfied? -
      First Lady Michelle Obama seemed a bit unhappy and discontented after her husband delivered a speech on job creation to a joint session of congress on Thursday.
    [VIDEO] Dick Cheney admits Flight 93 was shot down -
      Dick Cheney admits to having flight 93 shot out of the sky. The only hijacked plane that had a chance of returning at least some of it's passengers home and Dick destroys it. Why would he do that? The plane had been retaken by it's passengers....remember Todd Beamer's "Let's Roll"?
    [VIDEO] Hot mic catches chummy Boehner-Biden banter | TheBlaze.com
      A live mic on the House dais picked up some playful banter between Speaker of the House John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden Thursday night while they waited for President Obama to arrive and deliver his jobs speech.
    [VIDEO] West Wing Week: 9/9/11 or "American Jobs Act" | The White House
      Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President visited New Jersey communities recovering from Hurricane Irene, celebrated Labor Day in Detroit, welcomed NASCAR Champions to the White House, and unveiled the American Jobs Act before a Joint Session of Congress. That's September 2nd to September 8th or "American Jobs Act"