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      Lucas Papademos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        Lucas Demetrios Papademos ( Greek pronunciation:-; born 11 October 1947 in Athens) is an economist, and former Vice President of the European Central Bank. In November 2011 it was widely reported[1] that he would head the interim provisional government that would take Greece out of a major political crisis caused by the country's debt crisis and EU, IMF and ECB proscribed austerity measures. He is currently serving as a visiting professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
        Papademos attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gaining a degree in physics in 1970, a masters degree in electrical engineering in 1972, and a doctorate in economics, in 1978.
        He followed an academic career at Columbia University where he taught economics from 1975 until 1984, and then at the University of Athens from 1988 to 1993.[2]
        He has served as Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1980. He joined the Bank of Greece in 1985 as Chief Economist, rising to Deputy Governor in 1993 and Governor in 1994. During his time as Governor of the national bank, Mr Papademos was involved in Greece's transition from the drachma to the euro as its national currency.[3]
        After leaving the Bank of Greece in 2002, Papademas became the Vice President to Jean-Claude Trichet at the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010. In 2010 he left that position to serve as an advisor to George Papandreou.[4]
        He has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1998.[5]
      GREEK CRISIS: Athens set to choose a pro-American/German banker as PM. Imagine that. | The Slog
        This time, as we can see, the eurocrats and bankers aren't taking any risks. The new chap's suffix might be 'demos', but there's nothing democratic about this choice of leader. Like our old friend Christine Lagarde at the IMF, Mr Papademos is very Amerophile: he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gaining a degree in physics in 1970, a masters degree in electrical engineering in 1972, and a doctorate in economics, in 1978. He followed an academic career at Columbia University where he taught economics from 1975 until 1984. During this last period, he also served as Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
        The new head of the ECB Mario Draghi, as we saw last week, is also very well-connected in the US, and a former Goldman Sachs staffer. Goldman Sachs folks tend to wind up at the Federal Reserve in one form or another. So it's all going to be one big happy family....if it comes off. Papademos is also a hawk when it comes to EU integration: his line on this, plus his passion for physics, also tick all Merkel's boxes. It's not hard to discern who's taking control here -- and it is entirely predictable. The word has come down the line: no more accidents.
      Are Obama and NATO plotting a military coup in Greece?
        The sudden dismissal of the Greek military's high command Tuesday night, amid international uproar over a proposal for a referendum on an EU debt plan, has all the hallmarks of an action taken to preempt the threat of a military coup.
        A measure of this political magnitude would not have been taken lightly. At the very least, one must assume that Prime Minister George Papandreou had strong reason to believe that his government, and possibly his own person, was facing an imminent threat from the country's military.
        The Greek minister of defense, Panos Beglitis, a close political ally of Papandreou, summoned the four highest-ranking Greek military officers--the chiefs of the general staff, the army, navy and air force--to a hastily convened meeting to announce that they were being removed from their posts and replaced by other members of the Greek military brass.
      IMF Babysitter for Berlusconi: Italy Becomes Next Euro Battleground - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
        "I don't think the market has confidence in EFSF leveraging," said Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi, who is also in Cannes for the G-20 summit. "Everyone is expecting the IMF to become more proactive. The focus of the debate is how to set up a firewall, but we consider that the IMF should become one big firewall."
      Euro-rescuers want to pawn gold reserves of the Federal Bank
        That the European central bank (EZB) of the gold treasure seizes, obviously wrote the newspaper is intended. Under the heads of state and government in Cannes over it was advised to pawn the system of the European central banks with its foreign exchange reserves to the amount of altogether 50 to 60 billion euro in the form of special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund (IWF) to a purpose company of the European crisis fund. As "a fulfilment aid" the EZB angedient itself. Obviously already political proposals were prepared.
      Euro recovery will take a decade, says Merkel - The Local
        "The debt crisis will not be solved all in one go, (and) it is certain that it will take us a decade to get back to a better position," she added in comments posted on her website.
        For that to happen, all eurozone nations would have to legally limit their debt levels, she stressed in the weekly web posting.
        "Everyone in Europe must make an effort to achieve all that is required," Merkel said.
    Out There
      Large Asteroid 2005 YU55 Passes Earth, Closer Than Moon - ABC News
        Its approach is particularly exciting to researchers because now, from the comfort of our planet, they can study an object they previously could only look at closely with unmanned spacecraft. Technology has improved since the last large asteroid fly-by in 1976.
        The asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye. Amateur stargazers can take a look at the asteroid if they have a reflecting telescope with a light-gathering mirror six inches or more in diameter.
      Largest Sunspot in Years Observed on Sun | Solar Storms, Flares & Sunspots | Space Weather & Sun Activity | Space.com
        One of the largest sunspots in years has appeared on the sun, darkening part of its glowing face.
        The massive sunspot, called AR1339, is about 50,000 miles (80,000 km) long, and 25,000 miles (40,000 km) wide, reports SpaceWeather.com. For comparison, Earth itself is only 8,000 miles (12,800 km) wide.
      Railway station and tracks found on Mars - English pravda.ru
        Joseph Skipper, a well-known US researcher, a virtual archeologist, found railway tracks, a railway station and a railway carriage on the photos of Mars.
        Skipper is known for his meticulous studies of high-resolution Google Mars space images, Dni.ru website reports. This time, the researcher found a whole transport system on the photos.
        Many are skeptical about Skipper's discovery. There is a dash line on the -satellite images, but it was very brave of Joseph Skipper to call the line a railway. However, other scientists could not explain what the dash line could actually be.
        The "tracks" stretch to Gale crater on the red planet. NASA plans to land its new rover in the area of the crater. The rover will be launched to search for water and life. The "railway tracks" start some 900 kilometers far from the crater.
        The "archeologist" also discovered various constructions near the crater, which, as Skipper said, could be a railway station. He found a square-cut object not very far from the station. The object - most likely a railway carriage - is located right on the "tracks."
      Searching for ET, But No Evidence Yet | The White House
        Thank you for signing the petition asking the Obama Administration to acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.
        The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye.
        However, that doesn't mean the subject of life outside our planet isn't being discussed or explored. In fact, there are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth. Here are a few examples:
    Elite$
      House to repeal law withholding contractors' payment for delinquent taxes | iWatch News
        "We have to enforce our tax laws, but we have to enforce them fairly," said Rep. Wally Herger, R-Calif., a chief sponsor of the repeal bill. "If we have tax laws being enforced in a way to deter our economy and detrimental to small business and detrimental in general, those need to be reversed."
        Obama is among those backing repeal, including the bill the House is expected to approve Thursday. The White House has written in recent letters to Congress that letting contractors keep the 3 percent "would allow them to retain these funds and use them to create jobs and pay suppliers."
      Presidential Proclamation -- Veterans Day, 2011 | The White House
        NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim November 11, 2011, as Veterans Day.- I encourage all Americans to recognize the valor and sacrifice of our veterans through appropriate public ceremonies and private prayers.- I call upon Federal, State, and local officials to display the flag of the United States and to participate in patriotic activities in their communities.- I call on all Americans, including civic and fraternal organizations, places of worship, schools, and communities to support this day with commemorative expressions and programs.
      'Paus Benedictus overweegt in april 2012 terug te treden' | punt.nl: Je eigen gratis weblog, gratis fotoalbum, webmail, startpagina enz
        Joseph Ratzinger, de echte naam van paus Benedictus, zou met de gedachte spelen om, als hij in april 85 wordt, zijn staf over te geven aan een ander. Hoewel er nog niets officieel is besloten gaat het gerucht inmiddels rond in de hoogste kringen van het Vaticaan, volgens Tornielli -vaste correspondent voor nieuws uit het Vaticaan- reden om er 'serieuze aandacht' aan te besteden.
      Was Wall Street Insider Right? -- Solyndra To Be Obama's Downfall? - The Ulsterman Report
        "I can only conclude that your decision to issue a subpoena, authorized by a party-line vote, was driven more by partisan politics than a legitimate effort to conduct a responsible investigation."
        So says President Obama legal counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler in a letter sent to top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce committee. Historically, when an administration takes such an aggressive stance in relation to a Congressional document request, it is often an indication of smoke and possibly fire regarding potential political scandal of significant proportions.
    Vaccine$
      Open Letter to the DSM-5
        Given lack of consensus as to the "primary" causes of mental distress, this proposed change may result in the labeling of sociopolitical deviance as mental disorder.
        It means that under new proposed diagnostic guidelines, if you have behavioural symptoms that can be caused by sociopolitical dissent (you are enraged and go occupy wall street) you can be diagnosed a mental disorder, so they will dumb you down on meds if you live in usa or put you in jail if you live in europe under the Lisbon treaty.
      Glaxo Settles Cases With U.S. for $3 Billion - NYTimes.com
        The British drug company GlaxoSmithKline said Thursday that it had agreed to pay $3 billion to settle United States government civil and criminal investigations into its sales practices for numerous drugs.
      CBS 5 To Go: CBS 5 Investigates mail order diseases
        Doctors and medical experts are concerned about a new trend taking place on Facebook. Parents are trading live viruses through the mail in order to infect their children.
        The Facebook group is called "Find a Pox Party in Your Area." According to the group's page, it is geared toward "parents who want their children to obtain natural immunity for the chicken pox."
        On the page, parents post where they live and ask if anyone with a child who has the chicken pox would be willing to send saliva, infected lollipops or clothing through the mail.
      Glaxo Settles Cases With U.S. for $3 Billion - NYTimes.com
        The agreement to settle its biggest federal cases should be completed next year, the company added in the statement. It said $3 billion would settle not only the Avandia case, but also a Justice Department investigation of its Medicaid pricing practices and a nationwide investigation led by the United States attorneys in Colorado and Massachusetts into the sales and marketing of nine of its drugs from 1997 to 2004.
    Libya
      William B. Taylor, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        Until February 2006 he was the U.S. Government's representative to the Quartet's effort to facilitate the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and parts of the West Bank, led by Special Envoy James Wolfensohn in Jerusalem. The Quartet Special Envoy was responsible for the economic aspects of this disengagement.
        Prior to this assignment, he served in Baghdad as Director, Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (2004--2005), in Kabul as coordinator of USG and international assistance to Afghanistan (2002--2003) and in Washington with the rank of ambassador as coordinator of USG assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1992--2002).
      William B. Taylor | United States Institute of Peace
        Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
        William B. Taylor, Jr. joined USIP in October 2009 as Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations.
        A graduate of West Point and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, he has served in posts in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. Most recently, Bill Taylor was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009.
        Prior to that assignment, he was the U.S. government's representative to the Mideast Quartet, which facilitated the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.- He served in Baghdad as director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office from 2004 to 2005, and in Kabul as coordinator of international and U.S. assistance to Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003.- Ambassador Taylor was also a coordinator of U.S. assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
        As an infantry platoon leader and company commander in the U.S. Army, he served in Vietnam and Germany.
      Our History | United States Institute of Peace
        The United States Institute of Peace Act, passed by the Congress and signed into law in 1984, established the Institute as a publicly funded national institution chartered to "serve the American people and the federal government through the widest possible range of education and training, basic and applied research opportunities, and peace information services on the means to promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts among the nations and peoples of the world without recourse to violence." The campaign to establish an Institute had begun a decade earlier, when the idea of a national peace academy was first brought to the Senate floor following recommendations by a commission appointed by President Jimmy Carter and chaired by Senator Spark Matsunaga. The legislation establishing the United States Institute of Peace was formally signed in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.
      UN Report Offers Smoking Gun Proof of NATO and US Lies about Libya | nsnbc
        Before NATO and the U.S. started bombing Libya, the United Nations was preparing to bestow an award on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and the Libyan Jamahiriya, for its achievements in the area of human rights. That's right--the same man, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, that NATO and the United States have been telling us for months is a "brutal dictator," was set to be given an award for his human rights record in Libya. How strange it is that the United Nations was set to bestow a human rights award on a "brutal dictator," at the end of March.
      BBC News - Tuna fished 'illegally' during Libya conflict
        EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki told BBC News that she is also investigating whether Italian authorities made bilateral deals with Libya on tuna-fishing, which would contravene EU regulations.
        The annual meeting of Iccat - the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas - opens in Istanbul on Friday, preceded by two days of talks within its Compliance Committee, which will begin to assess whether rules have been broken.
    Real News
      The World's Most Powerful People List - Forbes
      Louis C. K. Plans Online Broadcast of Comedy Concert - NYTimes.com
        Louis C. K., the star and creator of the FX series "Louie," said in an interview with Mr. O'Brien that his upcoming concerts at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan on Nov. 10 would be recorded and then posted in an edited version on his Web site, louisck.net, on Dec. 10 where it can be viewed for a cost of $5.
        Asked in a phone interview on Friday morning why he was not bringing the special to a traditional cable television network, Louis C. K. said: "To me, I flip the question over: Why should I go through a cable network when I can just give it directly to the people who want to see it? It's so much easier, and it's an interesting experiment."
    Bank$ters
      US Plans To Issue $846 Billion In Treasurys In The Next 6 Months, 35% More Than Previous Year | ZeroHedge
        In other words, the US Treasury is planning on issuing 35% more in the first half of the fiscal year than a year previously, even though this time last year the Fed was monetizing all gross issuance, and even though the European EFSF was not about to ramp up issuance and soak up hundreds of billions of excess fixed income targeted capital.
    Gitmo Nation
      Court says cellphone 'traps' are 4th Amendment searches | Electronista
        The US government late this week made a concession on constitutional law in a fraud case that could set a precedent protecting access to cellphones. In an affidavit (PDF), the FBI was willing to say that the use of a stingray, or fake cellular tower used to intercept and relay data from phones, represented a legal Fourth Amendment search and seizure in investigating identity theft allegations against the suspect, David Rigmaiden. Officials decided to use a court order as proof on legal grounds to avoid having to abide by a request from Rigmaiden to learn details of how a stingray worked to mount his defense on constitutional violation grounds.
    Haiti
      Why Haiti Does Not Need a New $95 Million Army: Amy Wilentz - Bloomberg
        As one of his first executive acts, Haiti's new president, Michel Martelly, has asked donor nations to help him re-establish the army that was disbanded by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide 16 years ago. The initial cost: $95 million, which will go, Martelly says, to a starter force of 3,500.
    $hadow Puppet Theatre
      Grassley to hold up Obama's nominees to FCC over LightSquared documents - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
        "I will object to proceeding to the nomination because the FCC continues to stonewall a document request I submitted to the FCC over six months ago on April 27, 2011, regarding their actions related to LightSquared and Harbinger Capital," Grassley said on Thursday, referring to the primary investor in LightSquared.
    Ministry of Truth
      American Jobs Act PDF
      US removes Afghanistan commander Peter Fuller for criticising Karzai | World news | guardian.co.uk
        General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), relieved Fuller as deputy commander of the effort to train Afghan security forces after Fuller told Politico that Afghan leaders were "isolated from reality", a US defence official said.
        Pentagon spokesman George Little had said on Friday that defence secretary Leon Panetta was aware of the remarks and Fuller had been speaking for himself, not the US defence department.
        "The secretary has full trust and confidence in General Allen's judgment with respect to his decision in this case," Little said in response to Allen's decision to relieve Fuller of his duties.
        Speaking in a Politico interview that ran on Thursday, Fuller depicted Afghan officials as detached and unappreciative of American sacrifices and financial contributions to Afghanistan after 10 years of war.
        The interview painted Fuller as critical of Karzai's recent comments suggesting Afghanistan would side with Pakistan if it went to war with the United States.
        "Why don't you just poke me in the eye with a needle! You've got to be kidding me -- I'm sorry, we just gave you $11.6bn and now you're telling me, 'I don't really care?'"
        The interview quoted Fuller as saying Afghanistan did not recognise the sacrifice in "treasure and blood" the US was making for its security.
      PICKET: Source - Rahm Emanuel involved in Cain sexual harassment accuser attacks - Washington Times
        According to a source who is friends with the Cain campaign, not only is the Rick Perry campaign involved but also the Mayor of Chicago and former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is likely involved with the sexual harassment accuser attacks. A friend of the Cain campaign believes a National Restaurant Association (NRA) employee out of the Chicago office leaked the story to the Perry campaign via information and influence from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office.
      Actually take these petitions seriously instead of just using them as an excuse to pretend you are listening | The White House
        Actually take these petitions seriously instead of just using them as an excuse to pretend you are listening
        Although the ability to submit petitions directly to the White House is a noble and welcome new feature of the current administration, the first round of responses makes blatantly clear the White House intends to just support its current stances and explain them with responses everyone who has done any research already knows.
        An online petition is not meant as a replacement for using a search box in a web browser. We the People, those who grant you the power to govern in the first place, are requesting changes in policy directly, circumventing legislators who already do not listen to us. We the People request you govern FOR us, which means actually listening to us and actually acting in our interests instead of special interests.
        You are not above us. You ARE us. Govern accordingly.
    EQ Machine$
      Record-Breaking Oklahoma Quake Causes Freaky Mass Bird, Bug Flight
        Oklahoma got hit by a record-breaking 5.6-magnitude earthquake last night--its second in as many days--and while there were no injuries or major damages, it could be felt as far away as Wisconsin. And as if two earthquakes in Oklahoma wasn't end-days enough, here's a video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That big green splotch? That's all the birds and bugs in the area taking to wing in numbers so big they got picked up by the radar.
      Northern Lights May Return To Oklahoma This Weekend - NewsOn6.com - Tulsa, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports - KOTV.com |
        TULSA, Oklahoma -- Anyone who missed the rare appearance of the northern lights over Oklahoma last month should keep an eye on the sky over the next few nights.
        The northern lights, which are known by the scientific name aurora borealis, happen when disturbances on the sun affect Earth's magnetic field. As the name implies, they're a common sight in northern latitudes, but it takes an unusual event on the sun to make them visible in more southern latitudes.
        After being relatively quiet for years, the sun seems to be waking up. It sent out a huge coronal mass ejection in late October, causing the northern lights to be visible much further south than usual.
    Biodiversitée
      US Tree "Apocalypse" Warned Being Used To Destroy America
        A grim report authored by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Minprirody of Russia) is warning today that the United States is facing a tree "apocalypse" on a scale not seen in modern history that could irrevocably change the entire North American Continent forever.
        Raising the concerns of Minprirody officials is a little insect known as the Asian long-horned beetle [photo 2nd left] that is native to eastern China, Japan, and Korea that was accidentally introduced to the United States in 1996, as well as Canada and several countries in Europe, including Austria, France, Germany, and Italy.
        Unlike Europe, however, this report warns that the United States has over 12 species of trees these dangerous beetles attack and kill, with Maple trees being their favorite food. The beetles chew into tree bark to lay their eggs and then young insects feed on trees from the inside before emerging from round holes slightly smaller than a coin. [Photo bottom left.]
        The recent discovery of these beetles in Bethel, Ohio has caused both the State and US Federal governments to impose a large quarantine area around the estimated 10-20 trees found infested, but in a shocking plan have announced they will begin destroying over 50,000 trees next week in order to contain this outbreak.
        Bill Skvarla, owner of Harmony Hill Vineyards, just west of Bethel, in commenting on the plan to destroy so many trees stated, "We were deceived." He said he'd been told by the authorities that only infested trees would be removed.
        Minprirody officials in their report question these latest methods being used by the US in the containment and eradication of this insect by clear-cutting huge numbers of trees noting that Russia, China, South Korea and Japan for decades have successfully limited the destruction of this dangerous pest by the use of the pesticide DDT.
        DDT, however, is banned from use in the United States due to its dangers upon the environment, and due to the Americans forbidding funding for its use in malaria-hit African nations has been blamed for the killing of over 20 million children.-
    Shut Up Slaves!
      Hacking Walmart PA
        Hi,
        On show 347 (I'm a little behind) you wondered if there was a way to get on the walmart PA system from the outside, this used to work:
        1) Call any department except women's clothing
        2) Apologize and say you were trying to reach women's clothing, they'll transfer you.
        3) Apologize again, pretend to be an employee calling from the department you were just transferred from, and say you were trying to reach the "page out". Nine out of ten times they'll just transfer you to the intercom, but if they say "oh, it's extension ####" just say something like "I tried that and it wasn't working, can you transfer me?"
        This works (or at least it did, I'm sure it still does) because the person who answer's the phone for woman's clothing is typically the person in front of the dressing rooms who also doubles as a sort of switchboard operator. (If you ever go to the dressing room at Walmart the person there usually has a huge phone, that's why).
        Also, the first department you call will see that the number is coming from outside, but the department you are transferred to (women's clothing) will see the call as coming from the department you initially called, which is why you can pretend to be an employee there.
        With great power comes great responsibility, :P
        Drake
    Drone Nation
      Multiple missteps led to drone killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan | www.latimes.com | Readability
        Thirty-one seconds after the pilot reported muzzle flashes, the Marines at Alcatraz ordered that the Predator be prepared to strike if the shooters could be confirmed as hostile. At 8:49 a.m., 29 minutes after the ambush began, they authorized the pilot to fire.
        In minutes, two Americans would be dead.
      CIA Drones Kill Large Groups Without Knowing Who They Are | Danger Room | Wired.com
        This is the new standard, according to a blockbuster piece in the Wall Street Journal: "men believed to be militants associated with terrorist groups, but whose identities aren't always known." The CIA is now killing people without knowing who they are, on suspicion of association with terrorist groups. The article does not define the standards are for "suspicion" and "association."
        Strikes targeting those people -- usually "groups" of such people -- are called "signature" strikes. "The bulk of CIA's drone strikes are signature strikes," the Journal's Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman and Julian E. Barnes report.
      U.S. Tightens Drone Rules for Its Pakistan Attacks - WSJ.com
        But changes were made. Mr. Obama instituted an appeals procedure to give the State Department more of a voice in deciding when and if to strike. If the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan objected to a strike, for example, the CIA director or his deputy would first try to talk through their differences with the ambassador. If the conflict was unresolved, the secretary of state would appeal directly to the CIA director. If they couldn't reach agreement, however, the CIA director retained the final say.
        Since the changes were made, officials say internal tensions over the strikes have eased and agencies were acting more in concert with each other.
        Though Mr. Petraeus voiced a preference for smaller drone strikes, officials said the agency has the leeway to carry out large-scale strikes and hasn't been formally directed to go after only higher-value targets and avoid foot soldiers. Since Mr. Petraeus's arrival at CIA, some strikes on larger groups have taken place, the senior intelligence official said.
      In Pakistan, Drones Kill Our Innocent Allies - NYTimes.com
        Collecting evidence is a dangerous business. The drones are not the only enemy. The Pakistani military has sealed the area off from journalists, so the truth is hard to come by. One man investigating drone strikes that killed civilians was captured by the Taliban and held for 63 days on suspicion of spying for the United States.
        At the end of the day, Tariq stepped forward. He volunteered to gather proof if it would help to protect his family from future harm. We told him to think about it some more before moving forward; if he carried a camera he might attract the hostility of the extremists.
      Air Force FY11.2 SBIR Solicitation Topics
        The orderwire must operate over an extended range to reach all nodes in the network. The orderwire must be scalable to support a large number of network participants. In omnidirectional broadcast mode, it should be capable of LPI/LPD operation. The orderwire data format should integrate seamlessly into the framing format of existing radio and satellite systems and keep overhead to a minimum. Its form factor must be suitable for operation on small drones.
      Germany to decide on drones purchase in 2012-source | Reuters
        The source said the Bundeswehr would continue leasing Israeli Heron drones until 2014. It could decide to order the EADS Talarion drones but could also opt for another model already available on the market and with a proven track record, the source added.
    Iran
      Iran nukes
        American sources told Fox television early Sunday, Nov. 6 that all the senior Israeli ministers who were formerly against attacking Iran's nuclear sites are now for it, having been updated on Iran's clandestine progress toward building a nuclear weapon. This information is due to be borne out when the IAEA publishes its next Iran report Tuesday, Nov. 8. The ministers are said to have changed their minds in the belief that the next round of sanctions will not be tough enough and point to the precedent of Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor which was never rebuilt.
        According to debkafile's Washington sources, the Obama administration attributes the change of heart by those ministers to a conviction that Iran already has a nuclear weapon.
    OWS
      Occupy protests inspires T-shirts, trademark bids | kgw.com Portland
        The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has received several applications from people and businesses seeking to own the word "Occupy" and the slogan "We are the 99 percent" and the like. Two groups are even competing for the trademark to "Occupy Wall Street."
    Clooney can handle it!
      Sudan sends complaint against S.Sudan to U.N. | Reuters
        But tensions have risen since then as north and south blame each other for violence on both sides of their poorly-marked border. They have also failed to agree how to share oil revenues and find a solution for the disputed region of Abyei.
    Techno Experts
      BT under pressure to block The Pirate Bay | Technology | guardian.co.uk
        The coalition has requested BT block access to The Pirate Bay or, if it refuses to do so, consent to a court order.
        A BT spokesman said: "We can confirm we are now in receipt of a letter from the BPI [ requesting that BT block the Pirate Bay site]. BT is considering its response.
        In line with the Newzbin judgment, a court order will be needed before any blocking could begin. BT is currently focused on implementation of that order."
    Squirrel!
      Rainbow 6® Patriots | The Official Site | Ubisoft
        In Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Patriots, Team Rainbow faces a new and very real threat called the "True Patriots," a highly-trained, well-organized revolutionary group that claim the American government is irrevocably corrupted by greedy politicians and corporate special interests. The True Patriots will do whatever it takes to reclaim their country. Playing as Rainbow, players will face critical scenarios that will require them to make tough ethical decisions in order to stop this new breed of terrorists.
    VIDEO
      [VIDEO] President Obama and President Sarkozy of France Speak on Bilateral Meeting | The White House
        Presidents talk about the issues to be discussed at the G20 meeting.
      [VIDEO] Obama at G20 in French
        at 5'53''
        => First words of Obama at the G20: I hope to see some movies.
        at 6'12''
        => Obama makes a Joke: "I am confident that Giulia will inherited her mother¹s looks rather than her fathers."
        Sarkozy (Giulia is his daughter) is actually standing next to him.
        Le Petit journal - Le Petit Journal 03/11/11 - Festival de Cannes - CANALPLUS.FR
      [VIDEO] Advise the Advisor: Nancy-Ann DeParle | The White House
        Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Nancy-Ann DeParle discusses the Presidents actions to create jobs and put American's back to work, and asks for your ideas to be submitted on WhiteHouse.Gov/Advise
      [VIDEO] Weekly Address: We Have to Increase the Pace | The White House
        Speaking from the University of Pittsburgh, Vice President Biden argues that this month's jobs numbers demonstrate that Congress should pass the American Jobs Act to strengthen our economy and create jobs right away.
      [VIDEO] State douchebag
        Nov. 3, 2011: Briefing by Bill Taylor, Special Coordinator for Middle East Transitions.
      [VIDEO] Al-Qaida fighting for hearts and minds in famine-hit Somalia - video | Global development | guardian.co.uk
        Al-Qaida has joined forces with the Islamist militia al-Shabaab to provide cash, food and medical aid to those affected by the famine in Somalia. In an exclusive report for the Guardian, Jamal Osman reveals that al-Shabaab may be endangering lives by closing the camp for displaced Somalis and sending people back to their villages
      [VIDEO] Occupy Wall Street Rag (New Song - keep it REAL)
        An independent American singer/songwriter and an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker teamed up to counter the skewed and purposefully-distorted image of the "OCCUPY WALL STREET" movement in much of the "news" media... and specifically on FOX. This is their brand new song and video. Peace
      [VIDEO] Ben Stiller on new movie "Tower Heist": "Reflective of the situation we're in economically" -- Piers Morgan - CNN.com Blogs
        Still said the protests are expressing frustrations that are "very valid in the country right now." He also talked about President Barack Obama.
        "I'm disappointed that we haven't seen more bold decisions from him and a willingness to maybe stick to more of what he had, in his campaign, had said in terms of what he was willing to do," said Stiller of Obama.
      [VIDEO] Gabrielle Giffords interviewed by Diane Sawyer | TheBlaze.com
        There's a sneak-peek (see also "advertisement") out for ABC News' hour-long special on the recovery of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The special is set to air Nov. 14 and will have footage of Giffords' rehabilitation process and some type of interview (not "full-length," according to her chief of staff) with the congresswoman and her husband Mark Kelly.
      [VIDEO] 'Euro could be dead in a month' -- RT
        Greek Communists chant slogans at the Athens' Syntagma square in front of the Greek Parliament during a rally in Athens on November 4, 2011
      [VIDEO] Freedom -- We have something shocking to say
        Brace yourself. We have something shocking to say.
        Our President is inside The Big Fix, a rigged game of sorts, in which the players ultimately lose and the house takes the spoils. ('The Big Fix' is also the name of our new movie, which opens this week in New Orleans, next week in Los Angeles and on December 2nd in New York City -- details, screening times and theaters at the end of this letter).
      [VIDEO] Michael Moore Calls CBS Reporter a 'Punk' and a Liar for Asking About His Millions
      [VIDEO] Lone Star Watchdog: Minister Farrakhan on Ron Paul & Exposing the Federal Reserve
      [VIDEO] Gov. Scott Walker gets checked, Mic Checked!
        When Wisonsin Governor gave a speech at Chicago's Union League Club the morning of Nov 3rd, he has some unexpected guests:
        Stand Up! Chicago
      [VIDEO] Drugs At Occupy Boston | Local News Report | Video | Mediaite
        After this report, WHDH sent their reporter Tim Caputo on site at Dewey Square, where he found several people during the day willing to claim that "it's not a drug environment," but at night, he followed the scent of marijuana to "a tent with smoke billowing out." When someone told the people inside that "Channel 7" was outside, the group started coughing, cursing, and shouting, and told the reporters to leave. While some members of the protest insisted there was no drug use there, it's hard to imagine what else was going on in that tent that involved smoke and marijuana scents that would cause everyone to run and hide from the cameras.
      [VIDEO] Media Reacts To Conan's Same-Sex Wedding News
      [VIDEO] What Did Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Find in Libya? | Conscious Life News
        Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D -- Georgia) went on a fact finding mission with journalists in Libya. She claims that NATO is bombing civilian targets like universities while using depleted uranium. The goal is O.I.L., Oil, Israel, and Logistics.
      [VIDEO] G20 Summit: Italy - the President's Videos
        Statement of Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, on Italy during the second day of the G20 Summit.
      6:21AM: A Wedding Yesterday At #OccupyPhilly (Crooks and Liars)
        A Wedding Yesterday At #OccupyPhilly
        View more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com . And for their honeymoon, they plan to visit other East Coast Occupy sites. Aww! Via NBC10: Two members of the Occupy Philadelphia protest movement put politics on hold for a day to form a more perfect union - their own. Alicia...
      5:58PM: Ken Blackwell Blames Video Editing on You Tube for Rick Perry Looking Bad in Bizarre Cornerstone Speech (Crooks and Liars)
        Ken Blackwell Blames Video Editing on You Tube for Rick Perry Looking Bad in Bizarre Cornerstone Speech
        Click here to view this media Bob Schieffer sat down with a panel that could rightfully be called "Meet the Republicans" on this week's Face the Nation and asked his panel of Ken Blackwell, Ed Rollins, Liz Cheney and Ed Gillespie what they thought about Rick Perry's bizarre...
      3:59PM: Condi Rice's Warmongering Continues: 'Time To Confront The Iranian Regime' (Crooks and Liars)
        Condi Rice's Warmongering Continues: 'Time To Confront The Iranian Regime'
        video platform video management video solutions video player Watch and see how it's done on today's edition of This Week with Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour feeds Condoleezza Rice some softballs that reflect the wise foreign policy agenda of the Beltway bobbleheads, and Condi...
      5:08PM: Teabagger Heckles Elizabeth Warren: 'You're a Socialist Whore' (Crooks and Liars)
        Teabagger Heckles Elizabeth Warren: 'You're a Socialist Whore'
        Click here to view this media (video courtesy of HuffPo, h/t Scarce) Kiss your mother with that mouth, jerk ? Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate...
      [VIDEO] Chronicle of a miracle - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
        - With regard to her political plans, Giffords does not specify whether she plans to run in 2012 or further down the line. Apart from a dramatic entrance on Aug. 1 to cast a vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling, Giffords has been absent from the chamber while she recovers, relearning how to walk and talk.
        She also shills for The Daily iPad app.
  United $tates of EURO-pe
    Lucas Papademos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Lucas Demetrios Papademos ( Greek pronunciation:-; born 11 October 1947 in Athens) is an economist, and former Vice President of the European Central Bank. In November 2011 it was widely reported[1] that he would head the interim provisional government that would take Greece out of a major political crisis caused by the country's debt crisis and EU, IMF and ECB proscribed austerity measures. He is currently serving as a visiting professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
      Papademos attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gaining a degree in physics in 1970, a masters degree in electrical engineering in 1972, and a doctorate in economics, in 1978.
      He followed an academic career at Columbia University where he taught economics from 1975 until 1984, and then at the University of Athens from 1988 to 1993.[2]
      He has served as Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in 1980. He joined the Bank of Greece in 1985 as Chief Economist, rising to Deputy Governor in 1993 and Governor in 1994. During his time as Governor of the national bank, Mr Papademos was involved in Greece's transition from the drachma to the euro as its national currency.[3]
      After leaving the Bank of Greece in 2002, Papademas became the Vice President to Jean-Claude Trichet at the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010. In 2010 he left that position to serve as an advisor to George Papandreou.[4]
      He has been a member of the Trilateral Commission since 1998.[5]
    GREEK CRISIS: Athens set to choose a pro-American/German banker as PM. Imagine that. | The Slog
      This time, as we can see, the eurocrats and bankers aren't taking any risks. The new chap's suffix might be 'demos', but there's nothing democratic about this choice of leader. Like our old friend Christine Lagarde at the IMF, Mr Papademos is very Amerophile: he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gaining a degree in physics in 1970, a masters degree in electrical engineering in 1972, and a doctorate in economics, in 1978. He followed an academic career at Columbia University where he taught economics from 1975 until 1984. During this last period, he also served as Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
      The new head of the ECB Mario Draghi, as we saw last week, is also very well-connected in the US, and a former Goldman Sachs staffer. Goldman Sachs folks tend to wind up at the Federal Reserve in one form or another. So it's all going to be one big happy family....if it comes off. Papademos is also a hawk when it comes to EU integration: his line on this, plus his passion for physics, also tick all Merkel's boxes. It's not hard to discern who's taking control here -- and it is entirely predictable. The word has come down the line: no more accidents.
    Are Obama and NATO plotting a military coup in Greece?
      The sudden dismissal of the Greek military's high command Tuesday night, amid international uproar over a proposal for a referendum on an EU debt plan, has all the hallmarks of an action taken to preempt the threat of a military coup.
      A measure of this political magnitude would not have been taken lightly. At the very least, one must assume that Prime Minister George Papandreou had strong reason to believe that his government, and possibly his own person, was facing an imminent threat from the country's military.
      The Greek minister of defense, Panos Beglitis, a close political ally of Papandreou, summoned the four highest-ranking Greek military officers--the chiefs of the general staff, the army, navy and air force--to a hastily convened meeting to announce that they were being removed from their posts and replaced by other members of the Greek military brass.
    IMF Babysitter for Berlusconi: Italy Becomes Next Euro Battleground - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
      "I don't think the market has confidence in EFSF leveraging," said Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi, who is also in Cannes for the G-20 summit. "Everyone is expecting the IMF to become more proactive. The focus of the debate is how to set up a firewall, but we consider that the IMF should become one big firewall."
    Euro-rescuers want to pawn gold reserves of the Federal Bank
      That the European central bank (EZB) of the gold treasure seizes, obviously wrote the newspaper is intended. Under the heads of state and government in Cannes over it was advised to pawn the system of the European central banks with its foreign exchange reserves to the amount of altogether 50 to 60 billion euro in the form of special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund (IWF) to a purpose company of the European crisis fund. As "a fulfilment aid" the EZB angedient itself. Obviously already political proposals were prepared.
    Euro recovery will take a decade, says Merkel - The Local
      "The debt crisis will not be solved all in one go, (and) it is certain that it will take us a decade to get back to a better position," she added in comments posted on her website.
      For that to happen, all eurozone nations would have to legally limit their debt levels, she stressed in the weekly web posting.
      "Everyone in Europe must make an effort to achieve all that is required," Merkel said.
  Out There
    Large Asteroid 2005 YU55 Passes Earth, Closer Than Moon - ABC News
      Its approach is particularly exciting to researchers because now, from the comfort of our planet, they can study an object they previously could only look at closely with unmanned spacecraft. Technology has improved since the last large asteroid fly-by in 1976.
      The asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye. Amateur stargazers can take a look at the asteroid if they have a reflecting telescope with a light-gathering mirror six inches or more in diameter.
    Largest Sunspot in Years Observed on Sun | Solar Storms, Flares & Sunspots | Space Weather & Sun Activity | Space.com
      One of the largest sunspots in years has appeared on the sun, darkening part of its glowing face.
      The massive sunspot, called AR1339, is about 50,000 miles (80,000 km) long, and 25,000 miles (40,000 km) wide, reports SpaceWeather.com. For comparison, Earth itself is only 8,000 miles (12,800 km) wide.
    Railway station and tracks found on Mars - English pravda.ru
      Joseph Skipper, a well-known US researcher, a virtual archeologist, found railway tracks, a railway station and a railway carriage on the photos of Mars.
      Skipper is known for his meticulous studies of high-resolution Google Mars space images, Dni.ru website reports. This time, the researcher found a whole transport system on the photos.
      Many are skeptical about Skipper's discovery. There is a dash line on the -satellite images, but it was very brave of Joseph Skipper to call the line a railway. However, other scientists could not explain what the dash line could actually be.
      The "tracks" stretch to Gale crater on the red planet. NASA plans to land its new rover in the area of the crater. The rover will be launched to search for water and life. The "railway tracks" start some 900 kilometers far from the crater.
      The "archeologist" also discovered various constructions near the crater, which, as Skipper said, could be a railway station. He found a square-cut object not very far from the station. The object - most likely a railway carriage - is located right on the "tracks."
    Searching for ET, But No Evidence Yet | The White House
      Thank you for signing the petition asking the Obama Administration to acknowledge an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth.
      The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race. In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public's eye.
      However, that doesn't mean the subject of life outside our planet isn't being discussed or explored. In fact, there are a number of projects working toward the goal of understanding if life can or does exist off Earth. Here are a few examples:
  Elite$
    House to repeal law withholding contractors' payment for delinquent taxes | iWatch News
      "We have to enforce our tax laws, but we have to enforce them fairly," said Rep. Wally Herger, R-Calif., a chief sponsor of the repeal bill. "If we have tax laws being enforced in a way to deter our economy and detrimental to small business and detrimental in general, those need to be reversed."
      Obama is among those backing repeal, including the bill the House is expected to approve Thursday. The White House has written in recent letters to Congress that letting contractors keep the 3 percent "would allow them to retain these funds and use them to create jobs and pay suppliers."
    Presidential Proclamation -- Veterans Day, 2011 | The White House
      NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim November 11, 2011, as Veterans Day.- I encourage all Americans to recognize the valor and sacrifice of our veterans through appropriate public ceremonies and private prayers.- I call upon Federal, State, and local officials to display the flag of the United States and to participate in patriotic activities in their communities.- I call on all Americans, including civic and fraternal organizations, places of worship, schools, and communities to support this day with commemorative expressions and programs.
    'Paus Benedictus overweegt in april 2012 terug te treden' | punt.nl: Je eigen gratis weblog, gratis fotoalbum, webmail, startpagina enz
      Joseph Ratzinger, de echte naam van paus Benedictus, zou met de gedachte spelen om, als hij in april 85 wordt, zijn staf over te geven aan een ander. Hoewel er nog niets officieel is besloten gaat het gerucht inmiddels rond in de hoogste kringen van het Vaticaan, volgens Tornielli -vaste correspondent voor nieuws uit het Vaticaan- reden om er 'serieuze aandacht' aan te besteden.
    Was Wall Street Insider Right? -- Solyndra To Be Obama's Downfall? - The Ulsterman Report
      "I can only conclude that your decision to issue a subpoena, authorized by a party-line vote, was driven more by partisan politics than a legitimate effort to conduct a responsible investigation."
      So says President Obama legal counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler in a letter sent to top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce committee. Historically, when an administration takes such an aggressive stance in relation to a Congressional document request, it is often an indication of smoke and possibly fire regarding potential political scandal of significant proportions.
  Vaccine$
    Open Letter to the DSM-5
      Given lack of consensus as to the "primary" causes of mental distress, this proposed change may result in the labeling of sociopolitical deviance as mental disorder.
      It means that under new proposed diagnostic guidelines, if you have behavioural symptoms that can be caused by sociopolitical dissent (you are enraged and go occupy wall street) you can be diagnosed a mental disorder, so they will dumb you down on meds if you live in usa or put you in jail if you live in europe under the Lisbon treaty.
    Glaxo Settles Cases With U.S. for $3 Billion - NYTimes.com
      The British drug company GlaxoSmithKline said Thursday that it had agreed to pay $3 billion to settle United States government civil and criminal investigations into its sales practices for numerous drugs.
    CBS 5 To Go: CBS 5 Investigates mail order diseases
      Doctors and medical experts are concerned about a new trend taking place on Facebook. Parents are trading live viruses through the mail in order to infect their children.
      The Facebook group is called "Find a Pox Party in Your Area." According to the group's page, it is geared toward "parents who want their children to obtain natural immunity for the chicken pox."
      On the page, parents post where they live and ask if anyone with a child who has the chicken pox would be willing to send saliva, infected lollipops or clothing through the mail.
    Glaxo Settles Cases With U.S. for $3 Billion - NYTimes.com
      The agreement to settle its biggest federal cases should be completed next year, the company added in the statement. It said $3 billion would settle not only the Avandia case, but also a Justice Department investigation of its Medicaid pricing practices and a nationwide investigation led by the United States attorneys in Colorado and Massachusetts into the sales and marketing of nine of its drugs from 1997 to 2004.
  Libya
    William B. Taylor, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Until February 2006 he was the U.S. Government's representative to the Quartet's effort to facilitate the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and parts of the West Bank, led by Special Envoy James Wolfensohn in Jerusalem. The Quartet Special Envoy was responsible for the economic aspects of this disengagement.
      Prior to this assignment, he served in Baghdad as Director, Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (2004--2005), in Kabul as coordinator of USG and international assistance to Afghanistan (2002--2003) and in Washington with the rank of ambassador as coordinator of USG assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1992--2002).
    William B. Taylor | United States Institute of Peace
      Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
      William B. Taylor, Jr. joined USIP in October 2009 as Vice President, Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations.
      A graduate of West Point and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, he has served in posts in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. Most recently, Bill Taylor was U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009.
      Prior to that assignment, he was the U.S. government's representative to the Mideast Quartet, which facilitated the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and parts of the West Bank.- He served in Baghdad as director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office from 2004 to 2005, and in Kabul as coordinator of international and U.S. assistance to Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003.- Ambassador Taylor was also a coordinator of U.S. assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
      As an infantry platoon leader and company commander in the U.S. Army, he served in Vietnam and Germany.
    Our History | United States Institute of Peace
      The United States Institute of Peace Act, passed by the Congress and signed into law in 1984, established the Institute as a publicly funded national institution chartered to "serve the American people and the federal government through the widest possible range of education and training, basic and applied research opportunities, and peace information services on the means to promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts among the nations and peoples of the world without recourse to violence." The campaign to establish an Institute had begun a decade earlier, when the idea of a national peace academy was first brought to the Senate floor following recommendations by a commission appointed by President Jimmy Carter and chaired by Senator Spark Matsunaga. The legislation establishing the United States Institute of Peace was formally signed in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan.
    UN Report Offers Smoking Gun Proof of NATO and US Lies about Libya | nsnbc
      Before NATO and the U.S. started bombing Libya, the United Nations was preparing to bestow an award on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and the Libyan Jamahiriya, for its achievements in the area of human rights. That's right--the same man, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, that NATO and the United States have been telling us for months is a "brutal dictator," was set to be given an award for his human rights record in Libya. How strange it is that the United Nations was set to bestow a human rights award on a "brutal dictator," at the end of March.
    BBC News - Tuna fished 'illegally' during Libya conflict
      EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki told BBC News that she is also investigating whether Italian authorities made bilateral deals with Libya on tuna-fishing, which would contravene EU regulations.
      The annual meeting of Iccat - the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas - opens in Istanbul on Friday, preceded by two days of talks within its Compliance Committee, which will begin to assess whether rules have been broken.
  Real News
    The World's Most Powerful People List - Forbes
    Louis C. K. Plans Online Broadcast of Comedy Concert - NYTimes.com
      Louis C. K., the star and creator of the FX series "Louie," said in an interview with Mr. O'Brien that his upcoming concerts at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan on Nov. 10 would be recorded and then posted in an edited version on his Web site, louisck.net, on Dec. 10 where it can be viewed for a cost of $5.
      Asked in a phone interview on Friday morning why he was not bringing the special to a traditional cable television network, Louis C. K. said: "To me, I flip the question over: Why should I go through a cable network when I can just give it directly to the people who want to see it? It's so much easier, and it's an interesting experiment."
  Bank$ters
    US Plans To Issue $846 Billion In Treasurys In The Next 6 Months, 35% More Than Previous Year | ZeroHedge
      In other words, the US Treasury is planning on issuing 35% more in the first half of the fiscal year than a year previously, even though this time last year the Fed was monetizing all gross issuance, and even though the European EFSF was not about to ramp up issuance and soak up hundreds of billions of excess fixed income targeted capital.
  Gitmo Nation
    Court says cellphone 'traps' are 4th Amendment searches | Electronista
      The US government late this week made a concession on constitutional law in a fraud case that could set a precedent protecting access to cellphones. In an affidavit (PDF), the FBI was willing to say that the use of a stingray, or fake cellular tower used to intercept and relay data from phones, represented a legal Fourth Amendment search and seizure in investigating identity theft allegations against the suspect, David Rigmaiden. Officials decided to use a court order as proof on legal grounds to avoid having to abide by a request from Rigmaiden to learn details of how a stingray worked to mount his defense on constitutional violation grounds.
  Haiti
    Why Haiti Does Not Need a New $95 Million Army: Amy Wilentz - Bloomberg
      As one of his first executive acts, Haiti's new president, Michel Martelly, has asked donor nations to help him re-establish the army that was disbanded by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide 16 years ago. The initial cost: $95 million, which will go, Martelly says, to a starter force of 3,500.
  $hadow Puppet Theatre
    Grassley to hold up Obama's nominees to FCC over LightSquared documents - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
      "I will object to proceeding to the nomination because the FCC continues to stonewall a document request I submitted to the FCC over six months ago on April 27, 2011, regarding their actions related to LightSquared and Harbinger Capital," Grassley said on Thursday, referring to the primary investor in LightSquared.
  Ministry of Truth
    American Jobs Act PDF
    US removes Afghanistan commander Peter Fuller for criticising Karzai | World news | guardian.co.uk
      General John Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), relieved Fuller as deputy commander of the effort to train Afghan security forces after Fuller told Politico that Afghan leaders were "isolated from reality", a US defence official said.
      Pentagon spokesman George Little had said on Friday that defence secretary Leon Panetta was aware of the remarks and Fuller had been speaking for himself, not the US defence department.
      "The secretary has full trust and confidence in General Allen's judgment with respect to his decision in this case," Little said in response to Allen's decision to relieve Fuller of his duties.
      Speaking in a Politico interview that ran on Thursday, Fuller depicted Afghan officials as detached and unappreciative of American sacrifices and financial contributions to Afghanistan after 10 years of war.
      The interview painted Fuller as critical of Karzai's recent comments suggesting Afghanistan would side with Pakistan if it went to war with the United States.
      "Why don't you just poke me in the eye with a needle! You've got to be kidding me -- I'm sorry, we just gave you $11.6bn and now you're telling me, 'I don't really care?'"
      The interview quoted Fuller as saying Afghanistan did not recognise the sacrifice in "treasure and blood" the US was making for its security.
    PICKET: Source - Rahm Emanuel involved in Cain sexual harassment accuser attacks - Washington Times
      According to a source who is friends with the Cain campaign, not only is the Rick Perry campaign involved but also the Mayor of Chicago and former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is likely involved with the sexual harassment accuser attacks. A friend of the Cain campaign believes a National Restaurant Association (NRA) employee out of the Chicago office leaked the story to the Perry campaign via information and influence from Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office.
    Actually take these petitions seriously instead of just using them as an excuse to pretend you are listening | The White House
      Actually take these petitions seriously instead of just using them as an excuse to pretend you are listening
      Although the ability to submit petitions directly to the White House is a noble and welcome new feature of the current administration, the first round of responses makes blatantly clear the White House intends to just support its current stances and explain them with responses everyone who has done any research already knows.
      An online petition is not meant as a replacement for using a search box in a web browser. We the People, those who grant you the power to govern in the first place, are requesting changes in policy directly, circumventing legislators who already do not listen to us. We the People request you govern FOR us, which means actually listening to us and actually acting in our interests instead of special interests.
      You are not above us. You ARE us. Govern accordingly.
  EQ Machine$
    Record-Breaking Oklahoma Quake Causes Freaky Mass Bird, Bug Flight
      Oklahoma got hit by a record-breaking 5.6-magnitude earthquake last night--its second in as many days--and while there were no injuries or major damages, it could be felt as far away as Wisconsin. And as if two earthquakes in Oklahoma wasn't end-days enough, here's a video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That big green splotch? That's all the birds and bugs in the area taking to wing in numbers so big they got picked up by the radar.
    Northern Lights May Return To Oklahoma This Weekend - NewsOn6.com - Tulsa, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports - KOTV.com |
      TULSA, Oklahoma -- Anyone who missed the rare appearance of the northern lights over Oklahoma last month should keep an eye on the sky over the next few nights.
      The northern lights, which are known by the scientific name aurora borealis, happen when disturbances on the sun affect Earth's magnetic field. As the name implies, they're a common sight in northern latitudes, but it takes an unusual event on the sun to make them visible in more southern latitudes.
      After being relatively quiet for years, the sun seems to be waking up. It sent out a huge coronal mass ejection in late October, causing the northern lights to be visible much further south than usual.
  Biodiversitée
    US Tree "Apocalypse" Warned Being Used To Destroy America
      A grim report authored by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Minprirody of Russia) is warning today that the United States is facing a tree "apocalypse" on a scale not seen in modern history that could irrevocably change the entire North American Continent forever.
      Raising the concerns of Minprirody officials is a little insect known as the Asian long-horned beetle [photo 2nd left] that is native to eastern China, Japan, and Korea that was accidentally introduced to the United States in 1996, as well as Canada and several countries in Europe, including Austria, France, Germany, and Italy.
      Unlike Europe, however, this report warns that the United States has over 12 species of trees these dangerous beetles attack and kill, with Maple trees being their favorite food. The beetles chew into tree bark to lay their eggs and then young insects feed on trees from the inside before emerging from round holes slightly smaller than a coin. [Photo bottom left.]
      The recent discovery of these beetles in Bethel, Ohio has caused both the State and US Federal governments to impose a large quarantine area around the estimated 10-20 trees found infested, but in a shocking plan have announced they will begin destroying over 50,000 trees next week in order to contain this outbreak.
      Bill Skvarla, owner of Harmony Hill Vineyards, just west of Bethel, in commenting on the plan to destroy so many trees stated, "We were deceived." He said he'd been told by the authorities that only infested trees would be removed.
      Minprirody officials in their report question these latest methods being used by the US in the containment and eradication of this insect by clear-cutting huge numbers of trees noting that Russia, China, South Korea and Japan for decades have successfully limited the destruction of this dangerous pest by the use of the pesticide DDT.
      DDT, however, is banned from use in the United States due to its dangers upon the environment, and due to the Americans forbidding funding for its use in malaria-hit African nations has been blamed for the killing of over 20 million children.-
  Shut Up Slaves!
    Hacking Walmart PA
      Hi,
      On show 347 (I'm a little behind) you wondered if there was a way to get on the walmart PA system from the outside, this used to work:
      1) Call any department except women's clothing
      2) Apologize and say you were trying to reach women's clothing, they'll transfer you.
      3) Apologize again, pretend to be an employee calling from the department you were just transferred from, and say you were trying to reach the "page out". Nine out of ten times they'll just transfer you to the intercom, but if they say "oh, it's extension ####" just say something like "I tried that and it wasn't working, can you transfer me?"
      This works (or at least it did, I'm sure it still does) because the person who answer's the phone for woman's clothing is typically the person in front of the dressing rooms who also doubles as a sort of switchboard operator. (If you ever go to the dressing room at Walmart the person there usually has a huge phone, that's why).
      Also, the first department you call will see that the number is coming from outside, but the department you are transferred to (women's clothing) will see the call as coming from the department you initially called, which is why you can pretend to be an employee there.
      With great power comes great responsibility, :P
      Drake
  Drone Nation
    Multiple missteps led to drone killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan | www.latimes.com | Readability
      Thirty-one seconds after the pilot reported muzzle flashes, the Marines at Alcatraz ordered that the Predator be prepared to strike if the shooters could be confirmed as hostile. At 8:49 a.m., 29 minutes after the ambush began, they authorized the pilot to fire.
      In minutes, two Americans would be dead.
    CIA Drones Kill Large Groups Without Knowing Who They Are | Danger Room | Wired.com
      This is the new standard, according to a blockbuster piece in the Wall Street Journal: "men believed to be militants associated with terrorist groups, but whose identities aren't always known." The CIA is now killing people without knowing who they are, on suspicion of association with terrorist groups. The article does not define the standards are for "suspicion" and "association."
      Strikes targeting those people -- usually "groups" of such people -- are called "signature" strikes. "The bulk of CIA's drone strikes are signature strikes," the Journal's Adam Entous, Siobhan Gorman and Julian E. Barnes report.
    U.S. Tightens Drone Rules for Its Pakistan Attacks - WSJ.com
      But changes were made. Mr. Obama instituted an appeals procedure to give the State Department more of a voice in deciding when and if to strike. If the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan objected to a strike, for example, the CIA director or his deputy would first try to talk through their differences with the ambassador. If the conflict was unresolved, the secretary of state would appeal directly to the CIA director. If they couldn't reach agreement, however, the CIA director retained the final say.
      Since the changes were made, officials say internal tensions over the strikes have eased and agencies were acting more in concert with each other.
      Though Mr. Petraeus voiced a preference for smaller drone strikes, officials said the agency has the leeway to carry out large-scale strikes and hasn't been formally directed to go after only higher-value targets and avoid foot soldiers. Since Mr. Petraeus's arrival at CIA, some strikes on larger groups have taken place, the senior intelligence official said.
    In Pakistan, Drones Kill Our Innocent Allies - NYTimes.com
      Collecting evidence is a dangerous business. The drones are not the only enemy. The Pakistani military has sealed the area off from journalists, so the truth is hard to come by. One man investigating drone strikes that killed civilians was captured by the Taliban and held for 63 days on suspicion of spying for the United States.
      At the end of the day, Tariq stepped forward. He volunteered to gather proof if it would help to protect his family from future harm. We told him to think about it some more before moving forward; if he carried a camera he might attract the hostility of the extremists.
    Air Force FY11.2 SBIR Solicitation Topics
      The orderwire must operate over an extended range to reach all nodes in the network. The orderwire must be scalable to support a large number of network participants. In omnidirectional broadcast mode, it should be capable of LPI/LPD operation. The orderwire data format should integrate seamlessly into the framing format of existing radio and satellite systems and keep overhead to a minimum. Its form factor must be suitable for operation on small drones.
    Germany to decide on drones purchase in 2012-source | Reuters
      The source said the Bundeswehr would continue leasing Israeli Heron drones until 2014. It could decide to order the EADS Talarion drones but could also opt for another model already available on the market and with a proven track record, the source added.
  Iran
    Iran nukes
      American sources told Fox television early Sunday, Nov. 6 that all the senior Israeli ministers who were formerly against attacking Iran's nuclear sites are now for it, having been updated on Iran's clandestine progress toward building a nuclear weapon. This information is due to be borne out when the IAEA publishes its next Iran report Tuesday, Nov. 8. The ministers are said to have changed their minds in the belief that the next round of sanctions will not be tough enough and point to the precedent of Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor which was never rebuilt.
      According to debkafile's Washington sources, the Obama administration attributes the change of heart by those ministers to a conviction that Iran already has a nuclear weapon.
  OWS
    Occupy protests inspires T-shirts, trademark bids | kgw.com Portland
      The U.S Patent and Trademark Office has received several applications from people and businesses seeking to own the word "Occupy" and the slogan "We are the 99 percent" and the like. Two groups are even competing for the trademark to "Occupy Wall Street."
  Clooney can handle it!
    Sudan sends complaint against S.Sudan to U.N. | Reuters
      But tensions have risen since then as north and south blame each other for violence on both sides of their poorly-marked border. They have also failed to agree how to share oil revenues and find a solution for the disputed region of Abyei.
  Techno Experts
    BT under pressure to block The Pirate Bay | Technology | guardian.co.uk
      The coalition has requested BT block access to The Pirate Bay or, if it refuses to do so, consent to a court order.
      A BT spokesman said: "We can confirm we are now in receipt of a letter from the BPI [ requesting that BT block the Pirate Bay site]. BT is considering its response.
      In line with the Newzbin judgment, a court order will be needed before any blocking could begin. BT is currently focused on implementation of that order."
  Squirrel!
    Rainbow 6® Patriots | The Official Site | Ubisoft
      In Tom Clancy's Rainbow 6 Patriots, Team Rainbow faces a new and very real threat called the "True Patriots," a highly-trained, well-organized revolutionary group that claim the American government is irrevocably corrupted by greedy politicians and corporate special interests. The True Patriots will do whatever it takes to reclaim their country. Playing as Rainbow, players will face critical scenarios that will require them to make tough ethical decisions in order to stop this new breed of terrorists.
  VIDEO
    [VIDEO] President Obama and President Sarkozy of France Speak on Bilateral Meeting | The White House
      Presidents talk about the issues to be discussed at the G20 meeting.
    [VIDEO] Obama at G20 in French
      at 5'53''
      => First words of Obama at the G20: I hope to see some movies.
      at 6'12''
      => Obama makes a Joke: "I am confident that Giulia will inherited her mother¹s looks rather than her fathers."
      Sarkozy (Giulia is his daughter) is actually standing next to him.
      Le Petit journal - Le Petit Journal 03/11/11 - Festival de Cannes - CANALPLUS.FR
    [VIDEO] Advise the Advisor: Nancy-Ann DeParle | The White House
      Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Nancy-Ann DeParle discusses the Presidents actions to create jobs and put American's back to work, and asks for your ideas to be submitted on WhiteHouse.Gov/Advise
    [VIDEO] Weekly Address: We Have to Increase the Pace | The White House
      Speaking from the University of Pittsburgh, Vice President Biden argues that this month's jobs numbers demonstrate that Congress should pass the American Jobs Act to strengthen our economy and create jobs right away.
    [VIDEO] State douchebag
      Nov. 3, 2011: Briefing by Bill Taylor, Special Coordinator for Middle East Transitions.
    [VIDEO] Al-Qaida fighting for hearts and minds in famine-hit Somalia - video | Global development | guardian.co.uk
      Al-Qaida has joined forces with the Islamist militia al-Shabaab to provide cash, food and medical aid to those affected by the famine in Somalia. In an exclusive report for the Guardian, Jamal Osman reveals that al-Shabaab may be endangering lives by closing the camp for displaced Somalis and sending people back to their villages
    [VIDEO] Occupy Wall Street Rag (New Song - keep it REAL)
      An independent American singer/songwriter and an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker teamed up to counter the skewed and purposefully-distorted image of the "OCCUPY WALL STREET" movement in much of the "news" media... and specifically on FOX. This is their brand new song and video. Peace
    [VIDEO] Ben Stiller on new movie "Tower Heist": "Reflective of the situation we're in economically" -- Piers Morgan - CNN.com Blogs
      Still said the protests are expressing frustrations that are "very valid in the country right now." He also talked about President Barack Obama.
      "I'm disappointed that we haven't seen more bold decisions from him and a willingness to maybe stick to more of what he had, in his campaign, had said in terms of what he was willing to do," said Stiller of Obama.
    [VIDEO] Gabrielle Giffords interviewed by Diane Sawyer | TheBlaze.com
      There's a sneak-peek (see also "advertisement") out for ABC News' hour-long special on the recovery of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The special is set to air Nov. 14 and will have footage of Giffords' rehabilitation process and some type of interview (not "full-length," according to her chief of staff) with the congresswoman and her husband Mark Kelly.
    [VIDEO] 'Euro could be dead in a month' -- RT
      Greek Communists chant slogans at the Athens' Syntagma square in front of the Greek Parliament during a rally in Athens on November 4, 2011
    [VIDEO] Freedom -- We have something shocking to say
      Brace yourself. We have something shocking to say.
      Our President is inside The Big Fix, a rigged game of sorts, in which the players ultimately lose and the house takes the spoils. ('The Big Fix' is also the name of our new movie, which opens this week in New Orleans, next week in Los Angeles and on December 2nd in New York City -- details, screening times and theaters at the end of this letter).
    [VIDEO] Michael Moore Calls CBS Reporter a 'Punk' and a Liar for Asking About His Millions
    [VIDEO] Lone Star Watchdog: Minister Farrakhan on Ron Paul & Exposing the Federal Reserve
    [VIDEO] Gov. Scott Walker gets checked, Mic Checked!
      When Wisonsin Governor gave a speech at Chicago's Union League Club the morning of Nov 3rd, he has some unexpected guests:
      Stand Up! Chicago
    [VIDEO] Drugs At Occupy Boston | Local News Report | Video | Mediaite
      After this report, WHDH sent their reporter Tim Caputo on site at Dewey Square, where he found several people during the day willing to claim that "it's not a drug environment," but at night, he followed the scent of marijuana to "a tent with smoke billowing out." When someone told the people inside that "Channel 7" was outside, the group started coughing, cursing, and shouting, and told the reporters to leave. While some members of the protest insisted there was no drug use there, it's hard to imagine what else was going on in that tent that involved smoke and marijuana scents that would cause everyone to run and hide from the cameras.
    [VIDEO] Media Reacts To Conan's Same-Sex Wedding News
    [VIDEO] What Did Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney Find in Libya? | Conscious Life News
      Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D -- Georgia) went on a fact finding mission with journalists in Libya. She claims that NATO is bombing civilian targets like universities while using depleted uranium. The goal is O.I.L., Oil, Israel, and Logistics.
    [VIDEO] G20 Summit: Italy - the President's Videos
      Statement of Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, on Italy during the second day of the G20 Summit.
    6:21AM: A Wedding Yesterday At #OccupyPhilly (Crooks and Liars)
      A Wedding Yesterday At #OccupyPhilly
      View more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com . And for their honeymoon, they plan to visit other East Coast Occupy sites. Aww! Via NBC10: Two members of the Occupy Philadelphia protest movement put politics on hold for a day to form a more perfect union - their own. Alicia...
    5:58PM: Ken Blackwell Blames Video Editing on You Tube for Rick Perry Looking Bad in Bizarre Cornerstone Speech (Crooks and Liars)
      Ken Blackwell Blames Video Editing on You Tube for Rick Perry Looking Bad in Bizarre Cornerstone Speech
      Click here to view this media Bob Schieffer sat down with a panel that could rightfully be called "Meet the Republicans" on this week's Face the Nation and asked his panel of Ken Blackwell, Ed Rollins, Liz Cheney and Ed Gillespie what they thought about Rick Perry's bizarre...
    3:59PM: Condi Rice's Warmongering Continues: 'Time To Confront The Iranian Regime' (Crooks and Liars)
      Condi Rice's Warmongering Continues: 'Time To Confront The Iranian Regime'
      video platform video management video solutions video player Watch and see how it's done on today's edition of This Week with Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour feeds Condoleezza Rice some softballs that reflect the wise foreign policy agenda of the Beltway bobbleheads, and Condi...
    5:08PM: Teabagger Heckles Elizabeth Warren: 'You're a Socialist Whore' (Crooks and Liars)
      Teabagger Heckles Elizabeth Warren: 'You're a Socialist Whore'
      Click here to view this media (video courtesy of HuffPo, h/t Scarce) Kiss your mother with that mouth, jerk ? Moments into a speech before volunteers here Wednesday evening, Elizabeth Warren was interrupted by a Tea Party supporter who hurled a gender-based epithet at the Senate...
    [VIDEO] Chronicle of a miracle - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
      - With regard to her political plans, Giffords does not specify whether she plans to run in 2012 or further down the line. Apart from a dramatic entrance on Aug. 1 to cast a vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling, Giffords has been absent from the chamber while she recovers, relearning how to walk and talk.
      She also shills for The Daily iPad app.