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      Hey Adam,
      I've registered HilltopWatchtower.com for you.
      Rather than just point it mindlessly, where exactly would you like me to forward it to? Or shall I forward it to an IP so you can build something on it?
      Love the show!!! I'll donate as soon as I get my Student Loan (should be next week if all goes well)
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      Cheers,
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      In honor of what is arguably the best No Agenda clip ever, occupynoodles.org is now pointing to http://www.noagendashow.com/
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      When my wife and I are on a long drive, I¹ll sometimes play the latest No Agenda ... she¹s usually reading or snoozing, but the show is clearly sinking in on some level: For example, ³you¹ve got karma² has been popping up occasionally in her conversation. And now, when I turn on the podcast she¹ll exclaim, ³Oh! It¹s the douchebag boys!² ­ so in honor of the show¹s excellence of calling out the world¹s douchebags, douchebagboys.com is now pointing to NoAgendaShow.com
      ---Craig in Gitmo Nation Cheesesteak (the Philly end of PA)
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      In the morning Mr Curry,
      Monthly donor here. Just catching up on 347 and was inspired to forward this domain to No Agenda. Thedeathrowshow.com
      It sounds like your new home of Texas may be a great place to product a show like this. Seeing as they execute almost as many people a year as our "president" dictator.
      On a side note involving your coverage of the continuing money grab called vaccines. My daughter had her 6 year doctor's visit not too long ago. After a clean bill of health he informed us that, not only next year they want to start checking her cholesterol level, but that the flu shot was more kid friendly now as they administer it in a mist via blow by method. I declined both and told him to look up Finland for the reason. Scary stuff.
      Keep up the great work and good luck with the big move. Looking forward to Sunday.
      Christopher Mader
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      In The Morning Adam
      there has been lots of talk here in Gitmo nation east on the radio
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    FBI Listening in to internet news broadcasts
      If you call a radio talk show and get on the air, you might be recorded by the FBI.
      The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.
      The FBI says it is not playing big brother by policing the airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence.
    Uganda/Oil Caba;
      Land Destroyer: Obama Sends US Troops to Uganda
        Both the Ugandan government (with US assistance) and the rebels, known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), are accused of perpetrating heinous atrocities against their enemies and civilian populations in their decades long conflict. In particular, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has just recently presided over the mass murdering and displacement of 20,000 of his own people on behalf of British corporations who sought to construct tree plantations on their land. US and British military assistance and business deals with the Ugandan government have been a ubiquitous feature throughout Museveni's perpetual, unending term as president.
        While mutilated victims of the LRA are just now being paraded in front of the public to frame the recent US troop deployment as another "humanitarian intervention," it is more than likely that geopolitical aspirations, not humanitarian concerns, are driving this agenda. This is especially so considering just how equally abhorrent the Ugandan government's human rights record is.
      AP Uganda Propaganda piece
        Why is the U.S. sending its troops to finish off a fractured band of bush fighters in the middle of Africa? Political payback for the quiet sacrifices of Uganda's troops in Somalia could be one reason.
      Tullow Oil plc Corporate Responsibility Report
        We began a partnership with a social business
        enterprise, Hathay Bunano Proshikhan Society,
        following consultation with communities in the
        Comilla District of Bangladesh. The initiative
        generates sustainable income and economic
        opportunities for unskilled women and in 2009,
        the Clinton Global Initiative described the
        commitment of the project as "exemplary"
      Clinton due for Tullow signing - Business - Independent.ie
        By JIM AUGHNEY US President Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next month and on March 20 he is expected to officiate at the...
        US President Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next month and on March 20 he is expected to officiate at the signing of a production sharing agreement (PSA) between the Bangladesh government, Irish company Tullow Oil and US oil giants Texaco and Chevron.
      Ugandan president denies oil bribery claims - Yahoo! News
        The vote late Tuesday also saw MPs backing the suspension of authorisation granted to Anglo-Irish energy firm Tullow Oil to sell a part of its Ugandan operation to France's Total and China's CNOOC.
        Tullow Oil signed a deal with Kampala in March allowing it to sell one third of its assets in the east African country to Total and CNOOC, clearing the way for a $10-billion refinery in Uganda's oil rich Lake Albert region.
        Claiming to have supporting documents, MP Gerald Karuhanga accused Uganda's Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa and Interior Minister Hillary Onek, formerly minister of energy, of taking bribes from Tullow Oil.
        The three denied the claims.
      Tullow Oil PLC (TLW:LN) Stock Quote & Analysis - Bloomberg
      Museveni Likely to Win Ugandan Vote as Oil Boom Nears- Bloomberg
        Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will probably win an election this week, extending his 25-year- rule in the East African nation on the cusp of an oil boom. He hasn't explained how he plans to manage the bonanza.
        London-based Tullow Oil Plc will start pumping oil and gas next year from the Lake Albert Basin, with volumes expected to reach 200,000 barrels a day by 2015. The country has an estimated 2.5 billion barrels of oil, with about 1 billion barrels already discovered, according to the company's data.
        Uganda's economic growth averaged more than 8 percent for the seven fiscal years through June 30, 2008, the fastest in East Africa, according to the World Bank. That record is probably enough to ensure Museveni's victory, even as concern mounts that a policy of keeping oil contracts secret means the economy may not benefit as much as it could.
        "There is very little information on how those resources will be managed by the fiscal authorities or shared by the producers," Yvette Babb, an analyst with Standard Bank, said by phone from Johannesburg on Jan. 20. "The risk of having a lack of transparency is that those funds might be used for unproductive reasons or fall into the wrong hands."
      Radio Katwe
        Maximum exposure must be applied to the Godfather of genocide in Africa, Yoweri Museveni, less the incoming Barack Obama Administration continues the policy of business as usual, trading five million Congolese lives for gold, diamond, timber and coltane.
        Already the signs are not good: Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State will bring as shadow Secretary of State Bill Clinton. If any foreign player is as guilty as Museveni for the Rwanda and Congo genocide, then it is Bill Clinton.
        As president, this American master charmer armed and equipped Uganda's army in the 1990s and his Administration trained in the United States the officers who led the invasion of Rwanda from Uganda, including Paul Kagame, who is today Rwanda's supremo.
        This newspaper supported candidate Barack Obama from the very beginning. We condemned racist tactics against him by his political opponents when the so-called major media were pretending to be blind.
      Responsibility of Bill Clinton in the Rwanda and DR Congo Genocides | Rwandinfo_ENG
        There are some who will claim that Bill Clinton was the first African president of the United States. Those people clearly do not know that Bill Clinton is the one who established the stranglehold that the murderous gang of General Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda have on the people of central Africa. Those people clearly do not know that as American military satellites showed evidence of the millions of civilians being butchered by General Kagame's and Museveni's forces, Bill Clinton doubled down on his financial, political and military investment in this gang of murderers. Unless of course these people mean that Bill Clinton has the same cold-heartedness that many African presidents have when they order their troops to kill innocent African civilians. The kind of cold-heartedness where your troops come to report that today they butchered an entire village of unarmed civilians because they do not support your dictatorship and you respond "Great job! Other villages now got a good lesson that you're either behind me or you're dead."
      WPR Article | Museveni's Oil Victory a Loss for Uganda
        Then in July, apparently believing it had a government go-ahead, Tullow paid Heritage $1.5 billion for the assets. Days later, the Museveni administration informed a surprised Tullow that it did not recognize the sale because Heritage had not paid the $404 million in capital gains tax it claimed on the transaction.
        Rather than take Heritage to arbitration over its unpaid taxes, as the country's production-sharing agreements with international oil companies prescribe, the government held Tullow, a third party, responsible for the debt. The country repossessed Tullow's exploration block, saying its license had expired, and refused to approve the company's farm-down of its assets to two new partners -- France's Total and the China National Overseas Oil Corp. (CNOOC) -- until Heritage's outstanding taxes were cleared. The repossession itself was carried out according to the letter of the law, as Tullow had indeed failed to apply for a production license within the stipulated two years. But the Ugandan government had for all intents and purposes taken the oil field hostage in its fight with another party.
      Uganda's dangerous rebels: Lords of woe | The Economist
        But in May Mr Obama signed into law the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, making it American policy to kill or capture Mr Kony and to crush his rebellion once and for all. America has repeatedly said that peace in the region is in its own interest. It would free up thousands of Ugandan troops to redeploy them under the African Union's aegis in Somalia, where the rise of the jihadist Shabab militia has rattled the Americans.
      LRA: A Regional Strategy beyond Killing Kony - International Crisis Group
        7. Deploy a team to the theatre of operations to run an intelligence platform that centralises all operational information from the Ugandan and other armies, as well as the UN and civilian networks, and provides analysis to the Ugandans to better target military operations.
      Wikileaks/US embassy cables: China indifferent to Bashir's prosecution - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
        5. (C) Ocampo said China, as long as it continues to have oil concessions in Sudan, does not care what happens to Bashir, and would not oppose his arrest if its revenues were not interrupted. Ocampo suggested the United States give China assurances about its oil concessions.
        GETTING KONY NOW WILL "BRING THEM BEGGING" TO NEGOTIATE
        6. (C) Ocampo said arresting Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in the next month would send a strong signal to the Sudanese leaders and rebels, as well as Laurent Nkunda, leader of the DRC rebel group CNDP. Ocampo said quick action against Kony, under the legal framework of MONUC, would "bring them begging" to the table for negotiations, giving "two quick wins" -one in Sudan, one in the DRC-to the international community.
      Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN)
        As part of its enforcement efforts, OFAC publishes a list of individuals and companies owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries. It also lists individuals, groups, and entities, such as terrorists and narcotics traffickers designated under programs that are not country-specific. Collectively, such individuals and companies are called "Specially Designated Nationals" or "SDNs." Their assets are blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them.
      Resolve - LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009
        On May 24, 2010 President Barack Obama signed the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, legislation aimed at stopping Joseph Kony and helping the countless children whose lives are at risk as long as he roams free. After a year of hard work from thousands of activists and champions within Congress, this landmark legislation stands as the most significant action ever taken by our leaders to end this crisis.
      Lord's Resistance Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        The Lord's Resistance Army (also Lord's Resistance Movement or Lakwena Part Two) is a sectarian religious and military group, which operates in northern Uganda and Southern Sudan.
      Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate Regarding the Lord's Resistance Army | The White House
        TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
        TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
        AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE
    Drone Nation
      WLorD
        In the cross hairs tonite a contestant who's dumb enough to be the son of last weeks loser anwar al awlaki...and the chief media officer for al qaeda in the arabian penninsual...lets play. Win Lose or Drone!
      Al Qaeda official killed in Yemen, pipeline blown up
        The head of the media department of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and six other militants were killed in an air raid on militant outposts in Yemen, and gunmen retaliated by blowing up a gas export pipeline, Yemeni officials and residents said on Saturday.
        The Yemeni Defense Ministry said Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian national, died in a raid by Yemeni war planes on militant positions in Shabwa province in southern Yemen late on Friday.
      Official: Drone attack kills Al-Awlaki's son in Yemen - CNN.com
        Friday night's attack also killed Ibrahim al-Banna, the head media officer for AQAP, the Yemeni defense ministry said.
      Guard unit gets OK to use drone near Havana - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
        And that should save time and money for members of Detachment 1, Company B (Military Intelligence), 33rd Brigade Combat Team. Grove said the unit had gone out of state four times in the past year to train, for a total cost of $170,000.
      Army Eyes Bigger, Tougher Shadow Drone
        Thanks to the larger fuselage, the Army will be able to hang weapons and other equipment underneath the drone's wings, giving commanders a wider range of options on what the drone can be used for. Currently, the Army has not weaponized the Shadow drone.
        The M2's new engine will also allow the new drone fly up to 20 hours in a single flight, King said. The current Shadow can only fly a maximum of eight to 10 hours. he added.
      First FAA Approved Unmanned Flight in Civilian Airspace Set for Havana
        The Soldiers of Detachment 1, Company B, Military Intelligence will set up, launch and land the Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in civilian airspace over Havana, IL on Saturday Oct. 15. These Soldiers are highly trained professionals committed to the safety and privacy of the citizens in the Havana area. The fact that the FAA approved Illinois National Guard Soldiers to be the first in the nation to use civilian airspace for UAV training flights is a testament to Det. 1 Company B, Military Intelligence's professionalism.
      U.S. deaths in drone strike due to miscommunication, report says - latimes.com
        Infrared cameras on the Predator overhead had picked up heat signatures of the three men and detected muzzle flashes as they fired their weapons at insurgents.
        Air Force analysts who were watching the live video in Terre Haute, Indiana, noted that the gunfire appeared aimed away from the other Marines, who were behind the three. The analysts reported that gunshots were "oriented to the west, away from friendly forces," the Pentagon report says.
        But the Predator pilot in Nevada and the Marine commanders on the ground "were never made aware" of the analysts' assessment.
    GOLD!
      South Carolina mine sparks mini-gold rush to the Southeast | Reuters
        A Canadian mining company and a tiny South Carolina town are leading what could be a modern gold rush to the southeastern United States.
        Romarco Minerals Inc. reopened the historic Haile Gold Mine near Kershaw, S.C., this year and expects to pour its first gold bar there in early 2014, Chief Executive Diane Garrett told Reuters this week.
        Once environmental impact studies and permits are complete, Haile will be the only modern gold mine east of the Mississippi River, Garrett said, and the first since the Kennecott Minerals mine closed in Ridgeway, S.C., in 1999.
    Techno Experts
      Twitter / @acarvin: WiMAX in Tripoli? Didn't k ...
        WiMAX in Tripoli? Didn't know that. RT @ChangeInLibya: WiMAX seems to be petty good today #Libya #Tripoli
      Wendy Sherman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        From April 1996 until July 1997, Sherman was President and CEO of the newly recreated Fannie Mae Foundation, which developed to promote home ownership. She was also a member of the operating committee of Fannie Mae. At the Foundation, she set in place the groundwork for the newly-recreated foundation. She then returned to the State Department as Madeline Albright's counselor, with the rank of Ambassador, appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate. She advised United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on major issues of foreign policy, provided guidance to the Department and undertook special assignments.
        She has been a Vice Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, Albright's international strategic consulting firm, since the group's formation in 2009. She advised Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign, and she has served with Thomas Donilon as an agency review lead for the State Department in the Obama presidential transition. She has been mentioned as a likely candidate for a senior State Department position under Secretary Clinton in the Obama administration.[1]
      Breedbandonderzoek: doe mee - PC-Active
        De Europese Commissie heeft een pan-Europees project gelanceerd, waarbij de breedbandprestaties in verschillende EU-landen zal worden gemeten. Mensen die willen meedoen met dit onderzoek in Nederland en Belgiˆ´, kunnen gatis meetapparatuur aanvragen.
        Vrijwilligers krijgen een klein apparaat toegestuurd, dat thuis op de internetverbinding kan worden aangesloten. Wanneer de breedbandverbinding niet in gebruik is, wordt een aantal tests automatisch uitgevoerd op de internetlijn, om de snelheid en de prestaties van de verbinding te meten.
    Squirrel!
      Who We Are - FINTRAC - Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada
        FINTRAC's mandate is to facilitate the detection, prevention and deterrence of money laundering, terrorist activity financing and other threats to the security of Canada. The Centre fulfills its mandate through the following activities:
    Fal$e Flag
      2 Iranians Charged In Plot To Kill Saudi Envoy : NPR
        TAKEYH: Well, as I said, the unusual aspect of this is actually having a terrorist operation on American territory. I, you know, I don't know what the evidence about this it, but I'm not in position to doubt it.
    Elite$
      How Britain works: follow the money - UK Politics, UK - The Independent
        But the fatal problem for Mr Fox was that his misadventures had discomforted a group of individuals who ultimately proved even more influential that the Prime Minister. The well-connected and super-rich party donors, the lobbyists and defence contractors hauled into the open as the Werritty story developed prefer to do their business out of the spotlight; when they moved decisively to protect their privacy, Mr Fox had no choice but to leave the stage.
      Lady Gaga Drops F-Bomb at Bill Clinton Concert (Video) - The Hollywood Reporter
        At the piano before an amended version of "You and I," Gaga addressed the former President directly, raising her middle finger as she declared, "If someone had told me so many years ago that I'd be doing that right in front of you I just would not believe. I would have given a good American f**k you."
    Gitmo Nation
      We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies
        A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.
        The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens narc squads, which led to the arrests of eight cops and a massive shakeup.
        Anderson, testifying under a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, was busted for planting cocaine, a practice known as "flaking," on four men in a Queens bar in 2008 to help out fellow cop Henry Tavarez, whose buy-and-bust activity had been low.
      New EU gestapo spies on Britons
        Until January 1, Europol was a police office funded by various states to help tackle international organised crime. But it has been reborn as the official criminal intelligence-gathering arm of the EU and Brussels has vastly increased its powers.
        It can now target more than simply organised crime and the burden of proof required to begin monitoring an individual has been downgraded.
        Europol has also been absorbed into the EU superstructure, so it will be centrally funded, sweeping away a key check on its independence.
        Campaigners last night expressed concern over the vague list of "serious crimes" which the agency can help investigate, which include racism and xenophobia, environmental crime and corruption. Among personal details that can be gathered and stored are "behavioural data" including "lifestyle and routine; movements; places frequented", tax position and profiles of DNA and voice.
        Where relevant, Europol will also be able to keep data on a person's "political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership and data concerning health or sex life".
        Sean Gabb, director of the Libertarian Alliance, warned that it threatened our right to free speech.
        "It doesn't surprise me that Europol has been handed these rather frightening powers," he said. "We now live in a pan-European state so it was to be expected that it would have a federal police force with powers over us.
      FBI Listening in to internet news broadcasts
        If you call a radio talk show and get on the air, you might be recorded by the FBI.
        The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.
        The FBI says it is not playing big brother by policing the airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence.
      Geist: Lawful access legislation would reshape Canada's Internet - thestar.com
        The second prong requires Internet providers to dramatically re-work their networks to allow for real-time surveillance.
        The bill sets out detailed capability requirements that will eventually apply to all Canadian Internet providers. These include the power to intercept communications, to isolate the communications to a particular individual, and to engage in multiple simultaneous interceptions.
        Moreover, the bill establishes a comprehensive regulatory structure for Internet providers that would mandate their assistance with testing their surveillance capabilities and disclosing the names of all employees who may be involved in interceptions (and who may then be subject to RCMP background checks).
    $hadow Puppet Theatre
      Sir Richard Branson: The truth about my secret plan to get rid of Mugabe - Profiles, People - The Independent
        But Sir Richard claimed that the plan, revealed this week by Wikileaks, fell apart when he and his colleagues began to have serious reservations about whether Mr Moyo and his supporters were entirely suitable people to go into the business of nation-building with.
      US embassy cables: Richard Branson to fund plan to persuade Mugabe to quit | World news | guardian.co.uk
        The Elders would urge Mugabe to support a new constitution, which would include "watertight" provisions on Mugabe's immunity from prosecution and allow for a truth and reconciliation process.
    Vaccine$
      VaccinateLA.com About Us
        For media requests, contact Amy DuFour at Edelman,
      Swine flu resistance=uppity slaves!
        Comparative analysis carried out by researcher Dr. Baruch Len Policy Unit genetic and bio - ethics, suggests that the public response to swine flu vaccine was low in many countries have experienced social uprising last summer, including Israel.
      Scientists Recover Black Death RNA From Exhumed Victims - Slashdot
        "Scientists have recovered the RNA of the virus that caused the plague by digging through an English mass grave, and compiling [from several partial examples] the genetics of the virus. Though the plague still persists, scientists have believe the ancient strain was different due to a different onset of symptoms."
    Eugenic$
      Fears hundreds of women aborting healthy babies after scan blunders | Mail Online
        Hundreds of mothers-to-be a year are being wrongly told they have lost their baby because of mistakes in reading ultrasound scans, doctors fear.
        Some of the 400 women given a wrong diagnosis each year will choose to wait to see if they go on to miscarry naturally but others will take the option of terminating the pregnancy.
        Last night the researchers said that the possibility of an 'inadvertent termination' was the 'worst possible outcome for any woman' and called for the guidelines used to determine miscarriages to be changed immediately.
    Devil Weed
      Feds to target newspapers, radio for marijuana ads | Starbudz
        U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy, whose district includes Imperial and San Diego counties, said marijuana advertising is the next area she's "going to be moving onto as part of the enforcement efforts in Southern California." Duffy said she could not speak for the three other U.S. attorneys covering the state but noted their efforts have been coordinated so far.
    Bank$ters
      OPINIE. Zesduizend euro? Ge meent dat toch niet? - De Standaard
        Een slordige zestig miljard, of bijna zesduizend euro per Belg, dat zal ongeveer de omvang zijn van de Belgische borgstelling op leningen aan Dexia. Economieredacteur Wim De Preter krijgt er kippenvel van. Waarom is onze aftredende regering bereid om die gigantische risico's in onze naam te nemen?
    Real News
      Hackerazzi zijn de nieuwe paparazzi - De Standaard
        Hij hackte de mail van beroemdheden en bemachtigde zo de beruchte naaktfoto's van Scarlett Johansson. Nu riskeert hij 121 jaar gevangenis. De FBI zet de strijd in tegen 'hackerazzi' zoals Christopher Chaney.
    OWS
      Occupy is GLOBAL. Map inside of planned events. Occupy website registrant linked to UN address NY!!! Global economic governance in progress!!!
        Wife of Ecuadorian foreign minister behind www.15October.net
        Ecuadorian mission to UN in full support of UN stance on climate change
        [link to www.google.com.au]
      Topless Protesters Prove Occupy Wall Street Not All Bad - Get Off Wall Street
        After scouring the internet for information or some resemblance of unity with the protesters, other than whiny liberalism, I came across the first hint of positive to come out of all this. -Watch the video.
    Out There
      BBC News - 'First Irish case' of death by spontaneous combustion
        A man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled.
        West Galway coroner Dr Ciaran McLoughlin said it was the first time in 25 years of investigating deaths that he had recorded such a verdict.
        Michael Faherty, 76, died at his home in Galway on 22 December 2010.
        Deaths attributed by some to "spontaneous combustion" occur when a living human body is burned without an apparent external source of ignition.
        Typically police or fire investigators find burned corpses but no burned furniture.
    Trains Good, Planes Bad (Whoo Hoo!)
      So many near misses!
        Mishaps and close calls around the nation's airports have more than doubled in the past three years, raising fear of "catastrophic" mishaps involving passenger terminals, a government watchdog agency warned yesterday.
        The Government Accountability Office report concludes that the Federal Aviation Administration needs to beef up its efforts to prevent a host of safety lapses that occur around airports. The incidents range from near-collisions on the ground to inadequate separation between craft in the air, and are caused by air traffic controllers who allow planes to fly too close to each other as they take off or land.
        The rate of these errors increased from 8.5 per million flights to 22.6 over the past three years, the agency said. The survey examined safety lapses within 40 miles of airports horizontally and up to 10,000 feet vertically.
        "While few of these incidents result in accidents or the loss of life, the risk of catastrophic accidents in the [airport] terminal area remains, particularly during takeoff and landing," the GAO said in a letter to lawmakers on House and Senate transportation committees.
    Shut Up Slave!
      "The Student Loan Racket" - The Complete Infographic | ZeroHedge
        As the following infographic from HealthcareAdministration.com shows, student loan debt, now at $830 billion, has surpassed credit card debt--a statement not likely to have been heard 20 years ago.
      >> House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
        In other words, if you print a t-shirt or produce a publication with a TSA logo, the government may soon be able to arrest and prosecute you.
        The language states that it would be illegal to "convey the impression" that you are representing the TSA, but this interpretation would likely be left to federal prosecutors.
        In the past, satire was protected under the First Amendment, but it may soon be illegal to poke fun at the TSA or use its logo or even utter its name. Notice there is no exception in the above language for parody.
    ACTA
      Copyright czar cozied up to Big Content, e-mails show
        "These kind of backroom voluntary deals are quite scary, particularly because they are not subject to judicial review. I wanted to find out what role the White House has played in the negotiation, but unfortunately, the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) withheld key documents that would shed further light on it," Soghoian said when asked why he sought the documents. He is appealing to OMB to disclose more e-mails.
        The e-mails, some of which had the subject line "counteroffer," show off what seems to be a cordial and friendly two-way relationship between industry and the administration.
  FBI Listening in to internet news broadcasts
    If you call a radio talk show and get on the air, you might be recorded by the FBI.
    The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.
    The FBI says it is not playing big brother by policing the airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence.
  Uganda/Oil Caba;
    Land Destroyer: Obama Sends US Troops to Uganda
      Both the Ugandan government (with US assistance) and the rebels, known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), are accused of perpetrating heinous atrocities against their enemies and civilian populations in their decades long conflict. In particular, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has just recently presided over the mass murdering and displacement of 20,000 of his own people on behalf of British corporations who sought to construct tree plantations on their land. US and British military assistance and business deals with the Ugandan government have been a ubiquitous feature throughout Museveni's perpetual, unending term as president.
      While mutilated victims of the LRA are just now being paraded in front of the public to frame the recent US troop deployment as another "humanitarian intervention," it is more than likely that geopolitical aspirations, not humanitarian concerns, are driving this agenda. This is especially so considering just how equally abhorrent the Ugandan government's human rights record is.
    AP Uganda Propaganda piece
      Why is the U.S. sending its troops to finish off a fractured band of bush fighters in the middle of Africa? Political payback for the quiet sacrifices of Uganda's troops in Somalia could be one reason.
    Tullow Oil plc Corporate Responsibility Report
      We began a partnership with a social business
      enterprise, Hathay Bunano Proshikhan Society,
      following consultation with communities in the
      Comilla District of Bangladesh. The initiative
      generates sustainable income and economic
      opportunities for unskilled women and in 2009,
      the Clinton Global Initiative described the
      commitment of the project as "exemplary"
    Clinton due for Tullow signing - Business - Independent.ie
      By JIM AUGHNEY US President Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next month and on March 20 he is expected to officiate at the...
      US President Bill Clinton is scheduled to visit Bangladesh next month and on March 20 he is expected to officiate at the signing of a production sharing agreement (PSA) between the Bangladesh government, Irish company Tullow Oil and US oil giants Texaco and Chevron.
    Ugandan president denies oil bribery claims - Yahoo! News
      The vote late Tuesday also saw MPs backing the suspension of authorisation granted to Anglo-Irish energy firm Tullow Oil to sell a part of its Ugandan operation to France's Total and China's CNOOC.
      Tullow Oil signed a deal with Kampala in March allowing it to sell one third of its assets in the east African country to Total and CNOOC, clearing the way for a $10-billion refinery in Uganda's oil rich Lake Albert region.
      Claiming to have supporting documents, MP Gerald Karuhanga accused Uganda's Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Foreign Minister Sam Kutesa and Interior Minister Hillary Onek, formerly minister of energy, of taking bribes from Tullow Oil.
      The three denied the claims.
    Tullow Oil PLC (TLW:LN) Stock Quote & Analysis - Bloomberg
    Museveni Likely to Win Ugandan Vote as Oil Boom Nears- Bloomberg
      Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will probably win an election this week, extending his 25-year- rule in the East African nation on the cusp of an oil boom. He hasn't explained how he plans to manage the bonanza.
      London-based Tullow Oil Plc will start pumping oil and gas next year from the Lake Albert Basin, with volumes expected to reach 200,000 barrels a day by 2015. The country has an estimated 2.5 billion barrels of oil, with about 1 billion barrels already discovered, according to the company's data.
      Uganda's economic growth averaged more than 8 percent for the seven fiscal years through June 30, 2008, the fastest in East Africa, according to the World Bank. That record is probably enough to ensure Museveni's victory, even as concern mounts that a policy of keeping oil contracts secret means the economy may not benefit as much as it could.
      "There is very little information on how those resources will be managed by the fiscal authorities or shared by the producers," Yvette Babb, an analyst with Standard Bank, said by phone from Johannesburg on Jan. 20. "The risk of having a lack of transparency is that those funds might be used for unproductive reasons or fall into the wrong hands."
    Radio Katwe
      Maximum exposure must be applied to the Godfather of genocide in Africa, Yoweri Museveni, less the incoming Barack Obama Administration continues the policy of business as usual, trading five million Congolese lives for gold, diamond, timber and coltane.
      Already the signs are not good: Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State will bring as shadow Secretary of State Bill Clinton. If any foreign player is as guilty as Museveni for the Rwanda and Congo genocide, then it is Bill Clinton.
      As president, this American master charmer armed and equipped Uganda's army in the 1990s and his Administration trained in the United States the officers who led the invasion of Rwanda from Uganda, including Paul Kagame, who is today Rwanda's supremo.
      This newspaper supported candidate Barack Obama from the very beginning. We condemned racist tactics against him by his political opponents when the so-called major media were pretending to be blind.
    Responsibility of Bill Clinton in the Rwanda and DR Congo Genocides | Rwandinfo_ENG
      There are some who will claim that Bill Clinton was the first African president of the United States. Those people clearly do not know that Bill Clinton is the one who established the stranglehold that the murderous gang of General Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda have on the people of central Africa. Those people clearly do not know that as American military satellites showed evidence of the millions of civilians being butchered by General Kagame's and Museveni's forces, Bill Clinton doubled down on his financial, political and military investment in this gang of murderers. Unless of course these people mean that Bill Clinton has the same cold-heartedness that many African presidents have when they order their troops to kill innocent African civilians. The kind of cold-heartedness where your troops come to report that today they butchered an entire village of unarmed civilians because they do not support your dictatorship and you respond "Great job! Other villages now got a good lesson that you're either behind me or you're dead."
    WPR Article | Museveni's Oil Victory a Loss for Uganda
      Then in July, apparently believing it had a government go-ahead, Tullow paid Heritage $1.5 billion for the assets. Days later, the Museveni administration informed a surprised Tullow that it did not recognize the sale because Heritage had not paid the $404 million in capital gains tax it claimed on the transaction.
      Rather than take Heritage to arbitration over its unpaid taxes, as the country's production-sharing agreements with international oil companies prescribe, the government held Tullow, a third party, responsible for the debt. The country repossessed Tullow's exploration block, saying its license had expired, and refused to approve the company's farm-down of its assets to two new partners -- France's Total and the China National Overseas Oil Corp. (CNOOC) -- until Heritage's outstanding taxes were cleared. The repossession itself was carried out according to the letter of the law, as Tullow had indeed failed to apply for a production license within the stipulated two years. But the Ugandan government had for all intents and purposes taken the oil field hostage in its fight with another party.
    Uganda's dangerous rebels: Lords of woe | The Economist
      But in May Mr Obama signed into law the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, making it American policy to kill or capture Mr Kony and to crush his rebellion once and for all. America has repeatedly said that peace in the region is in its own interest. It would free up thousands of Ugandan troops to redeploy them under the African Union's aegis in Somalia, where the rise of the jihadist Shabab militia has rattled the Americans.
    LRA: A Regional Strategy beyond Killing Kony - International Crisis Group
      7. Deploy a team to the theatre of operations to run an intelligence platform that centralises all operational information from the Ugandan and other armies, as well as the UN and civilian networks, and provides analysis to the Ugandans to better target military operations.
    Wikileaks/US embassy cables: China indifferent to Bashir's prosecution - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
      5. (C) Ocampo said China, as long as it continues to have oil concessions in Sudan, does not care what happens to Bashir, and would not oppose his arrest if its revenues were not interrupted. Ocampo suggested the United States give China assurances about its oil concessions.
      GETTING KONY NOW WILL "BRING THEM BEGGING" TO NEGOTIATE
      6. (C) Ocampo said arresting Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony in the next month would send a strong signal to the Sudanese leaders and rebels, as well as Laurent Nkunda, leader of the DRC rebel group CNDP. Ocampo said quick action against Kony, under the legal framework of MONUC, would "bring them begging" to the table for negotiations, giving "two quick wins" -one in Sudan, one in the DRC-to the international community.
    Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN)
      As part of its enforcement efforts, OFAC publishes a list of individuals and companies owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries. It also lists individuals, groups, and entities, such as terrorists and narcotics traffickers designated under programs that are not country-specific. Collectively, such individuals and companies are called "Specially Designated Nationals" or "SDNs." Their assets are blocked and U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them.
    Resolve - LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009
      On May 24, 2010 President Barack Obama signed the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act, legislation aimed at stopping Joseph Kony and helping the countless children whose lives are at risk as long as he roams free. After a year of hard work from thousands of activists and champions within Congress, this landmark legislation stands as the most significant action ever taken by our leaders to end this crisis.
    Lord's Resistance Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The Lord's Resistance Army (also Lord's Resistance Movement or Lakwena Part Two) is a sectarian religious and military group, which operates in northern Uganda and Southern Sudan.
    Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate Regarding the Lord's Resistance Army | The White House
      TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
      TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
      AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE
  Drone Nation
    WLorD
      In the cross hairs tonite a contestant who's dumb enough to be the son of last weeks loser anwar al awlaki...and the chief media officer for al qaeda in the arabian penninsual...lets play. Win Lose or Drone!
    Al Qaeda official killed in Yemen, pipeline blown up
      The head of the media department of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and six other militants were killed in an air raid on militant outposts in Yemen, and gunmen retaliated by blowing up a gas export pipeline, Yemeni officials and residents said on Saturday.
      The Yemeni Defense Ministry said Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian national, died in a raid by Yemeni war planes on militant positions in Shabwa province in southern Yemen late on Friday.
    Official: Drone attack kills Al-Awlaki's son in Yemen - CNN.com
      Friday night's attack also killed Ibrahim al-Banna, the head media officer for AQAP, the Yemeni defense ministry said.
    Guard unit gets OK to use drone near Havana - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
      And that should save time and money for members of Detachment 1, Company B (Military Intelligence), 33rd Brigade Combat Team. Grove said the unit had gone out of state four times in the past year to train, for a total cost of $170,000.
    Army Eyes Bigger, Tougher Shadow Drone
      Thanks to the larger fuselage, the Army will be able to hang weapons and other equipment underneath the drone's wings, giving commanders a wider range of options on what the drone can be used for. Currently, the Army has not weaponized the Shadow drone.
      The M2's new engine will also allow the new drone fly up to 20 hours in a single flight, King said. The current Shadow can only fly a maximum of eight to 10 hours. he added.
    First FAA Approved Unmanned Flight in Civilian Airspace Set for Havana
      The Soldiers of Detachment 1, Company B, Military Intelligence will set up, launch and land the Shadow Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in civilian airspace over Havana, IL on Saturday Oct. 15. These Soldiers are highly trained professionals committed to the safety and privacy of the citizens in the Havana area. The fact that the FAA approved Illinois National Guard Soldiers to be the first in the nation to use civilian airspace for UAV training flights is a testament to Det. 1 Company B, Military Intelligence's professionalism.
    U.S. deaths in drone strike due to miscommunication, report says - latimes.com
      Infrared cameras on the Predator overhead had picked up heat signatures of the three men and detected muzzle flashes as they fired their weapons at insurgents.
      Air Force analysts who were watching the live video in Terre Haute, Indiana, noted that the gunfire appeared aimed away from the other Marines, who were behind the three. The analysts reported that gunshots were "oriented to the west, away from friendly forces," the Pentagon report says.
      But the Predator pilot in Nevada and the Marine commanders on the ground "were never made aware" of the analysts' assessment.
  GOLD!
    South Carolina mine sparks mini-gold rush to the Southeast | Reuters
      A Canadian mining company and a tiny South Carolina town are leading what could be a modern gold rush to the southeastern United States.
      Romarco Minerals Inc. reopened the historic Haile Gold Mine near Kershaw, S.C., this year and expects to pour its first gold bar there in early 2014, Chief Executive Diane Garrett told Reuters this week.
      Once environmental impact studies and permits are complete, Haile will be the only modern gold mine east of the Mississippi River, Garrett said, and the first since the Kennecott Minerals mine closed in Ridgeway, S.C., in 1999.
  Techno Experts
    Twitter / @acarvin: WiMAX in Tripoli? Didn't k ...
      WiMAX in Tripoli? Didn't know that. RT @ChangeInLibya: WiMAX seems to be petty good today #Libya #Tripoli
    Wendy Sherman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      From April 1996 until July 1997, Sherman was President and CEO of the newly recreated Fannie Mae Foundation, which developed to promote home ownership. She was also a member of the operating committee of Fannie Mae. At the Foundation, she set in place the groundwork for the newly-recreated foundation. She then returned to the State Department as Madeline Albright's counselor, with the rank of Ambassador, appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate. She advised United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on major issues of foreign policy, provided guidance to the Department and undertook special assignments.
      She has been a Vice Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, Albright's international strategic consulting firm, since the group's formation in 2009. She advised Hillary Clinton during the 2008 presidential campaign, and she has served with Thomas Donilon as an agency review lead for the State Department in the Obama presidential transition. She has been mentioned as a likely candidate for a senior State Department position under Secretary Clinton in the Obama administration.[1]
    Breedbandonderzoek: doe mee - PC-Active
      De Europese Commissie heeft een pan-Europees project gelanceerd, waarbij de breedbandprestaties in verschillende EU-landen zal worden gemeten. Mensen die willen meedoen met dit onderzoek in Nederland en Belgiˆ´, kunnen gatis meetapparatuur aanvragen.
      Vrijwilligers krijgen een klein apparaat toegestuurd, dat thuis op de internetverbinding kan worden aangesloten. Wanneer de breedbandverbinding niet in gebruik is, wordt een aantal tests automatisch uitgevoerd op de internetlijn, om de snelheid en de prestaties van de verbinding te meten.
  Squirrel!
    Who We Are - FINTRAC - Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada
      FINTRAC's mandate is to facilitate the detection, prevention and deterrence of money laundering, terrorist activity financing and other threats to the security of Canada. The Centre fulfills its mandate through the following activities:
  Fal$e Flag
    2 Iranians Charged In Plot To Kill Saudi Envoy : NPR
      TAKEYH: Well, as I said, the unusual aspect of this is actually having a terrorist operation on American territory. I, you know, I don't know what the evidence about this it, but I'm not in position to doubt it.
  Elite$
    How Britain works: follow the money - UK Politics, UK - The Independent
      But the fatal problem for Mr Fox was that his misadventures had discomforted a group of individuals who ultimately proved even more influential that the Prime Minister. The well-connected and super-rich party donors, the lobbyists and defence contractors hauled into the open as the Werritty story developed prefer to do their business out of the spotlight; when they moved decisively to protect their privacy, Mr Fox had no choice but to leave the stage.
    Lady Gaga Drops F-Bomb at Bill Clinton Concert (Video) - The Hollywood Reporter
      At the piano before an amended version of "You and I," Gaga addressed the former President directly, raising her middle finger as she declared, "If someone had told me so many years ago that I'd be doing that right in front of you I just would not believe. I would have given a good American f**k you."
  Gitmo Nation
    We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies
      A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas.
      The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens narc squads, which led to the arrests of eight cops and a massive shakeup.
      Anderson, testifying under a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, was busted for planting cocaine, a practice known as "flaking," on four men in a Queens bar in 2008 to help out fellow cop Henry Tavarez, whose buy-and-bust activity had been low.
    New EU gestapo spies on Britons
      Until January 1, Europol was a police office funded by various states to help tackle international organised crime. But it has been reborn as the official criminal intelligence-gathering arm of the EU and Brussels has vastly increased its powers.
      It can now target more than simply organised crime and the burden of proof required to begin monitoring an individual has been downgraded.
      Europol has also been absorbed into the EU superstructure, so it will be centrally funded, sweeping away a key check on its independence.
      Campaigners last night expressed concern over the vague list of "serious crimes" which the agency can help investigate, which include racism and xenophobia, environmental crime and corruption. Among personal details that can be gathered and stored are "behavioural data" including "lifestyle and routine; movements; places frequented", tax position and profiles of DNA and voice.
      Where relevant, Europol will also be able to keep data on a person's "political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or trade union membership and data concerning health or sex life".
      Sean Gabb, director of the Libertarian Alliance, warned that it threatened our right to free speech.
      "It doesn't surprise me that Europol has been handed these rather frightening powers," he said. "We now live in a pan-European state so it was to be expected that it would have a federal police force with powers over us.
    FBI Listening in to internet news broadcasts
      If you call a radio talk show and get on the air, you might be recorded by the FBI.
      The FBI has awarded a $524,927 contract to a Virginia company to record as much radio news and talk programming as it can find on the Internet.
      The FBI says it is not playing big brother by policing the airwaves, but rather seeking access to what airs as potential evidence.
    Geist: Lawful access legislation would reshape Canada's Internet - thestar.com
      The second prong requires Internet providers to dramatically re-work their networks to allow for real-time surveillance.
      The bill sets out detailed capability requirements that will eventually apply to all Canadian Internet providers. These include the power to intercept communications, to isolate the communications to a particular individual, and to engage in multiple simultaneous interceptions.
      Moreover, the bill establishes a comprehensive regulatory structure for Internet providers that would mandate their assistance with testing their surveillance capabilities and disclosing the names of all employees who may be involved in interceptions (and who may then be subject to RCMP background checks).
  $hadow Puppet Theatre
    Sir Richard Branson: The truth about my secret plan to get rid of Mugabe - Profiles, People - The Independent
      But Sir Richard claimed that the plan, revealed this week by Wikileaks, fell apart when he and his colleagues began to have serious reservations about whether Mr Moyo and his supporters were entirely suitable people to go into the business of nation-building with.
    US embassy cables: Richard Branson to fund plan to persuade Mugabe to quit | World news | guardian.co.uk
      The Elders would urge Mugabe to support a new constitution, which would include "watertight" provisions on Mugabe's immunity from prosecution and allow for a truth and reconciliation process.
  Vaccine$
    VaccinateLA.com About Us
      For media requests, contact Amy DuFour at Edelman,
    Swine flu resistance=uppity slaves!
      Comparative analysis carried out by researcher Dr. Baruch Len Policy Unit genetic and bio - ethics, suggests that the public response to swine flu vaccine was low in many countries have experienced social uprising last summer, including Israel.
    Scientists Recover Black Death RNA From Exhumed Victims - Slashdot
      "Scientists have recovered the RNA of the virus that caused the plague by digging through an English mass grave, and compiling [from several partial examples] the genetics of the virus. Though the plague still persists, scientists have believe the ancient strain was different due to a different onset of symptoms."
  Eugenic$
    Fears hundreds of women aborting healthy babies after scan blunders | Mail Online
      Hundreds of mothers-to-be a year are being wrongly told they have lost their baby because of mistakes in reading ultrasound scans, doctors fear.
      Some of the 400 women given a wrong diagnosis each year will choose to wait to see if they go on to miscarry naturally but others will take the option of terminating the pregnancy.
      Last night the researchers said that the possibility of an 'inadvertent termination' was the 'worst possible outcome for any woman' and called for the guidelines used to determine miscarriages to be changed immediately.
  Devil Weed
    Feds to target newspapers, radio for marijuana ads | Starbudz
      U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy, whose district includes Imperial and San Diego counties, said marijuana advertising is the next area she's "going to be moving onto as part of the enforcement efforts in Southern California." Duffy said she could not speak for the three other U.S. attorneys covering the state but noted their efforts have been coordinated so far.
  Bank$ters
    OPINIE. Zesduizend euro? Ge meent dat toch niet? - De Standaard
      Een slordige zestig miljard, of bijna zesduizend euro per Belg, dat zal ongeveer de omvang zijn van de Belgische borgstelling op leningen aan Dexia. Economieredacteur Wim De Preter krijgt er kippenvel van. Waarom is onze aftredende regering bereid om die gigantische risico's in onze naam te nemen?
  Real News
    Hackerazzi zijn de nieuwe paparazzi - De Standaard
      Hij hackte de mail van beroemdheden en bemachtigde zo de beruchte naaktfoto's van Scarlett Johansson. Nu riskeert hij 121 jaar gevangenis. De FBI zet de strijd in tegen 'hackerazzi' zoals Christopher Chaney.
  OWS
    Occupy is GLOBAL. Map inside of planned events. Occupy website registrant linked to UN address NY!!! Global economic governance in progress!!!
      Wife of Ecuadorian foreign minister behind www.15October.net
      Ecuadorian mission to UN in full support of UN stance on climate change
      [link to www.google.com.au]
    Topless Protesters Prove Occupy Wall Street Not All Bad - Get Off Wall Street
      After scouring the internet for information or some resemblance of unity with the protesters, other than whiny liberalism, I came across the first hint of positive to come out of all this. -Watch the video.
  Out There
    BBC News - 'First Irish case' of death by spontaneous combustion
      A man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled.
      West Galway coroner Dr Ciaran McLoughlin said it was the first time in 25 years of investigating deaths that he had recorded such a verdict.
      Michael Faherty, 76, died at his home in Galway on 22 December 2010.
      Deaths attributed by some to "spontaneous combustion" occur when a living human body is burned without an apparent external source of ignition.
      Typically police or fire investigators find burned corpses but no burned furniture.
  Trains Good, Planes Bad (Whoo Hoo!)
    So many near misses!
      Mishaps and close calls around the nation's airports have more than doubled in the past three years, raising fear of "catastrophic" mishaps involving passenger terminals, a government watchdog agency warned yesterday.
      The Government Accountability Office report concludes that the Federal Aviation Administration needs to beef up its efforts to prevent a host of safety lapses that occur around airports. The incidents range from near-collisions on the ground to inadequate separation between craft in the air, and are caused by air traffic controllers who allow planes to fly too close to each other as they take off or land.
      The rate of these errors increased from 8.5 per million flights to 22.6 over the past three years, the agency said. The survey examined safety lapses within 40 miles of airports horizontally and up to 10,000 feet vertically.
      "While few of these incidents result in accidents or the loss of life, the risk of catastrophic accidents in the [airport] terminal area remains, particularly during takeoff and landing," the GAO said in a letter to lawmakers on House and Senate transportation committees.
  Shut Up Slave!
    "The Student Loan Racket" - The Complete Infographic | ZeroHedge
      As the following infographic from HealthcareAdministration.com shows, student loan debt, now at $830 billion, has surpassed credit card debt--a statement not likely to have been heard 20 years ago.
    >> House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
      In other words, if you print a t-shirt or produce a publication with a TSA logo, the government may soon be able to arrest and prosecute you.
      The language states that it would be illegal to "convey the impression" that you are representing the TSA, but this interpretation would likely be left to federal prosecutors.
      In the past, satire was protected under the First Amendment, but it may soon be illegal to poke fun at the TSA or use its logo or even utter its name. Notice there is no exception in the above language for parody.
  ACTA
    Copyright czar cozied up to Big Content, e-mails show
      "These kind of backroom voluntary deals are quite scary, particularly because they are not subject to judicial review. I wanted to find out what role the White House has played in the negotiation, but unfortunately, the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) withheld key documents that would shed further light on it," Soghoian said when asked why he sought the documents. He is appealing to OMB to disclose more e-mails.
      The e-mails, some of which had the subject line "counteroffer," show off what seems to be a cordial and friendly two-way relationship between industry and the administration.
  Magic Numbers
    Three women arrested as detectives probe kidnappings and sex attacks on MALE hitchhikers in Zimbabwe | Mail Online
      Detectives in Gweru, Zimbabwe, seized 33 used condoms from a suspect vehicle following reports of attacks on men seeking lifts in the town, as well as Harare and Mashonaland West.
  VIDEO
    [VIDEO] Uh, Er, Um... The Most Eloquent, Uh... President, Er... In History?
    [VIDEO] : IMF official ducks eggs during student protest in Turkey - Telegraph
      Mark Lewis was delivering a keynote speech to economics students at UludaŸü University in the north west of Turkey when he was suddenly interrupted by a demonstration.
      One student shouted "IMF get out" as another hurled an egg, which Mr Lewis just managed to avoid.
      Showing quick reflexes, the terrified speaker briefly bobbed his head above his lectern before being forced to take evasive action for a second time.
    [VIDEO] vaccinatela's Channel
    [VIDEO] EU's Parlimentarium Opens
      European Parliament's new visitors' centre opens in Brussels
      VRT
      14/10/11 - The official opening has taken place of the European Parliament's Parlamentarium. It's the Parliament's brand new visitors' centre that has cost 21 million euros.
    [VIDEO] More Illegal US Drone Strikes In Yemen
    [VIDEO] Peanut butter banned at Knoxville elementary school
      District leaders banning peanut butter and any peanut products at the school after learning several students are allergic to peanuts.
    [VIDEO] Future of U.S. Policy on Iran and Syria, Part 1
      The House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on potential threats from Iran and Syria, focusing on sanctions already imposed and the future of U.S. policy toward both countries.
    [VIDEO] Nick Griffin MEP: Man-made climate change is the deadliest scam in history
      The second is the car park beneath us. Porsches, Mercs, BMWs, SUVs - a show-room of gas-guzzling luxury for the people who tut-tut in disapproval at men in white vans and plot to make their working lives even harder with speed limiters and financial penalties.
    [VIDEO] Lucifer speaks of 'statecraft'
      Oct. 14, 2011: Secretary Clinton delivered a major address on the role of economics in our foreign policy to the Economic Club of New York.
    [AUDIO] 'Hats Off' Or Get Out: Valley Stores, LAPD To Ban Headgear In Anti-Crime Effort
      The next time you visit a store in the San Fernando Valley, you may have to check your hat at the door or take your business elsewhere.
      KNX 1070’Ä¾s Vytas Safronikas reports it's part of a new anti-crime effort announced by the Los Angeles Police Department Wednesday to deter criminals from targeting businesses in Studio City and North Hollywood.
    [VIDEO] Occupy Movement : URGENT Message : Look out for Staged Riots
    "YOU'RE MURDERING PEOPLE! YOU ARE MURDERING PEOPLE!" Congressional Hearing Interrupted By Protesters (Uploads by MOXNEWSd0tCOM)
      "YOU'RE MURDERING PEOPLE! YOU ARE MURDERING PEOPLE!" Congressional Hearing Interrupted By Protesters
      "YOU'RE MURDERING PEOPLE! YOU ARE MURDERING PEOPLE!" Congressional Hearing Interrupted By Protesters October 13, 2011 C-SPAN MOXNews.com From: MOXNEWSd0tCOM Views: 26 2 ratings Time: 05:48 More in News & Politics