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NA-367-2011-12-22 Credits
  Hats of State
  Executive Producer and 367 Club member: Sir Dwayne Melancon,
  Associate Executive Producers: Herbert Harms, Andrew Kirby, Anonymous, Jay Ragusa, Dean Carsen
  Become a member of the 368 Club, support the show here
  PR
    drondathome.com etc
      Hi John and Adam,
      I was listening to sunday's show this morning on the way to work, and got amazed about the cow-searching drone.
      This got me thinking about being droned at home and I verified if that would be available as a domain name.
      To my suprise it was, so here you go:
      www.dronedathome.com
      www.dronedathome.net
      www.dronedathome.org
      www.dronedathome.info
      are now forwarding to www.noagendashow.com.
      Please consider that as my first contribution, if all goes well professionaly in the next few months, expect some donations to follow !
      Thanks for all you are doing, and greetings from the Kingdom of Thailand, or, as I should say, "Khop khun maak khrap, chok dii khrap !" (thanks a lot and good luck)
      Xavier.
    save-page-as.com
      ohn and Adam,
      Just wanted to let you know I have pointed a new domain at noagendashow.com: save-page-as.com.
      The ultimate plan with save-page-as is to build a service (Offshore, so if either of you know a good off-shore host, that would be great to know), that you can enter a URL (Or use a bookmarklet, or a plugin), and save it off with tags, and all that. Everything will be anonymous, no logs will be kept, and no requests to remove items will be accepted.
      Just my way of helping to keep those pages such as the articles on soy shrinking brains, or what have you, online.
      --
      Brian Bommarito
      Sent with Sparrow
    misops.com
      misops.com (Wonderful connotations on this one.)
      misodrone.com
      Score!
    fema.xxx
      fema.xxx is redirecting to noagendashow.com
      Those who will give their liberty for security deserve neither liberty nor security.
    dronepilotjobs.com
      In the morning John and Adam,
      Here's another forward.... dronepilotjobs.com now goes to www.noagendashow.com.
      By the way, you guys have made me look more critically at the
      "news".The fact of the matter is that recently I've just been scanning
      the headlines and then waiting for you to parse the content.
      Belligerently yours,
      Steve Thompson
    Game Code
      Hi Adam,
      Hope you are well.
      I am really sorry you haven't heard from me sooner. The NoAgenda game has not done as well as I had hoped and I couldn't send the money easily. So I am still a boner.
      Then a few months ago I had an epiphany. I could rewrite an unpublished game and donate that.
      I use GameSalad Creator to make my games. The app is FREE to download and publish stuff. You are already an Apple Dev Licensee so...
      Hit the button @ http://gamesalad.com/creator
      Get the iOS viewer at the bottom of this page: http://gamesalad.com/
      Unzip the attached file to get a package that will run.
      There are some No Agenda graphics/sound, and polishing issues, that need to be added and resolved.
      I hope this is suitable.
      Keep showing the jaw dropping reality that the media hides from us.
      Cheers
      Valan
  Knighthoods: Spike, Paul the Book Guy, Armin Breuer
  Art By: alba
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  EUROLand
    Rajoy Appoints Ex-Lehman Banker, Budget Professor to Steer Spanish Economy- Bloomberg
      Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy named a former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. banker and a budget professor as his finance chiefs, tasking them with overhauling an economy that risks being engulfed by the debt crisis. Luis de Guindos, former deputy finance minister and head of Lehman in Iberia, was sworn in as minister for economy and competition today. Cristobal Montoro, budget minister when the People's Party was last in power, returns to the same post with further responsibility for public administration. Rajoy created the roles to replace Elena Salgado, who did both jobs in the last government as well as being deputy prime minister.
    ECB: Yes, This Really Could Be Like Lehman Again
      Positive market responses to European measures aimed at stemming the crisis appear to have been short-lived -- indeed, a bumpy ratification process appears to have contributed to additional market uncertainties. At the same time, downward revisions to the outlook for macroeconomic growth contributed to a lower shock-absorption capacity of euro area financial institutions...Ultimately, the transmission of tensions among sovereigns, across banks and between the two intensified to take on systemic crisis proportions not witnessed since the collapse of Lehman Brothers three years ago.
    Staking verlamt Belgie, maar legt het niet plat - Buitenland - VK
      Een landelijke staking heeft vanochtend Belgie ontregelt, maar niet platgelegd. Treinen, metro's en bussen rijden niet, maar het verwachte fileleed bleef uit. Veel Belgen namen vlak voor kerst of een snipperdag of werkten thuis. Ambtenaren in Belgie staken uit protest tegen de pensioenplannen van de nieuwe regering. De regering wil snijden in de regelingen voor vroegtijdig pensioen. Dat gaat 1,5 miljard euro schelen volgens minister Vincent Van Quickenborne (Pensioenen). Overleg tussen de minister en de vakbonden liep op niets uit. Later op donderdag zullen de bonden opnieuw met de minister aan tafel zitten. Hoewel de staking Belgiˆ´ niet helemaal platlegt, treft de actie wel menigeen. Leraren op gemeentelijke scholen geven geen les, postbodes en de huisvuilophaaldiensten lopen hun rondes niet en de publieke omroep VRT zendt alleen nog uit over een actie die lijkt op het Glazen Huis in Nederland. Ziekenhuizen en politie draaien zondagsdiensten.
    Star Wars als ocificiele religie - De Standaard
      'May the force be with you!' Meer en meer Tsjechen wensen het elkaar toe. In Tsjech is Star Wars vanaf nu een officle religie. 15.070 inwoners van het Centraal-Europese land gaven bij een volkstelling aan 'Ridders van de Jedi' te zijn en lieten zich officieel registreren als volgelingen van Luke Skywalker en co.
    DutchNews.nl - Defence minister supports community service for all youngsters
      Defence minister Hans Hillen supports the idea of compulsory community service for all teenagers and thinks the concept should be seriously investigated, the minister said in an interview with RTL7.
      Youngsters should spend a year doing useful work for the community, whether in military service, healthcare or the environment, Hillen is quoted as saying by the Volkskrant.
      This investment would teach youngsters that 'society also belongs to them,' Hillen said.
      The Netherlands scrapped military service in 1996 but has since introduced short community service programmes for secondary school pupils.
  We Can't Wait
    [VIDEO] Obama goes Christmas shopping at Best Buy - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
      Mr. Obama kept the tab to just over $40. The White House has been running a "What Does $40 Mean to You?" campaign designed to spotlight the money the average family will lose per paycheck if the payroll tax cut is not extended when it expires in less than two weeks. After the PetSmart stop Mr. Obama moved on to Best Buy, where he was Christmas shopping for his daughters. He purchased the video game "Just Dance 3" for the Nintendo Wii, a dancing game that, according to the product description, "kick-starts the party with over 45 tracks from multiple genres and popular artists including today's hottest hits."
    Understanding Congress' payroll tax cut fight
      The Senate's two-month version continues the payroll tax and jobless benefits at this year's levels and costs $33 billion. The bargainers agreed to pay for that by raising fees people pay for new mortgages or refinancing insured by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage companies. For a $200,000 mortgage, the fee increase would raise a borrower's cost about $17 a month.
    ekathimerini.com | Gov't stops tax returns to everyone
      The government has decided to stop tax returns and other obligation payments to enterprises, salary workers and pensioners as it sees the budget deficit soaring to over 10 percent of gross domestic product for 2011.
  Ron Paul Hit Jobs
    Dorothy Rabinowitz: What Ron Paul Thinks of America - WSJ.com
      One who is the best-known of our homegrown propagandists for our chief enemies in the world. One who has made himself a leading spokesman for, and recycler of, the long and familiar litany of charges that point to the United States as a leading agent of evil and injustice, the militarist victimizer of millions who want only to live in peace.
      There can be no confusions about Dr. Paul's own comments about the U.S. After 9/11, he said to students in Iowa, there was "glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq." It takes a profoundly envenomed mindset‹one also deeply at odds with reality‹to believe and to say publicly that the administration of this nation brought so low with grief and loss after the attack had reacted with glee. There are, to be sure, a number of like-minded citizens around (see the 9/11 Truthers, whose opinions Dr. Paul has said he doesn't share). But we don't expect to find their views in people running for the nation's highest office.
    How Ron Paul Invests - Total Return - WSJ
      But Ron Paul's portfolio isn't merely different. It's shockingly different.
      Yes, about 21% of Rep. Paul's holdings are in real estate and roughly 14% in cash. But he owns no bonds or bond funds and has only 0.1% in stock funds. Furthermore, the stock funds that Rep. Paul does own are all "short," or make bets against, U.S. stocks. One is a "double inverse" fund that, on a daily basis, goes up twice as much as its stock benchmark goes down.
      The remainder of Rep. Paul's portfolio -- fully 64% of his assets -- is entirely in gold and silver mining stocks. He owns no Apple, no ExxonMobil, no Procter & Gamble, no General Electric, no Johnson & Johnson, not even a diversified mutual fund that holds a broad basket of stocks. Rep. Paul doesn't own stock in any major companies at all except big precious-metals stocks like Barrick Gold, Goldcorp and Newmont Mining.
    Mojo - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
      a magic spell, hex, or charm; broadly : magical power
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  Syria
    Arab League Weighs in
      It is now, just as both efforts have ground to a halt and the Arab League prepares to bring their ultimatums and demands to the UN that Channel 4 in England has released "shocking images of violence and child abuse that proves Syrian torture policy," reports the Daily Mail.
    Syrian Observatory for Human Rights - London
    The Syrian observatory for human rights Live Blog | Al Jazeera Blogs
    U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups
      Barada TV is closely affiliated with the Movement for Justice and Development, a London-based network of Syrian exiles. Classified U.S. diplomatic cables show that the State Department has funneled as much as $6 million to the group since 2006 to operate the satellite channel and finance other activities inside Syria. The channel is named after the Barada River, which courses through the heart of Damascus, the Syrian capital.
    Activists say 111 killed in Syria's bloodiest day | Reuters
      Syrian forces killed 111 people ahead of the start of a mission to monitor President Bashar al-Assad's implementation of an Arab League peace plan, activists said on Wednesday, and France branded the killings an "unprecedented massacre."
  Elite$
    Producer Mike on Elite$ & Chiner
      Adam,
      I live in Platte City, MO, which is across the Missouri river 10 miles from Leavenworth, KS. I know you are familiar with what goes on in Leavenworth, but here's something you might not know. Many of my neighbors are very high up in the military and some, I've learned, are in the CIA. Last night we had a cocktail party and invited many of them. I edged in with some crackpot stuff. Next thing I know, we are toasting the chiners. I had them calling them the chiners and they were in tears laughing so hard. They understand how much of an issue the chiners are becoming. However, when I said the proxy wars are going on and are going to be more frequent because the economy needs to run in order to pay for the military, heads turned. One guy leaned over later in the night and said war is coming between Israel and Iran, so naturally, we'll have to help Israel out. Next year - around October he said.
      Later,
      Mike
    Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin gives birth | TheBlaze.com
      Anthony Weiner's wife Huma Abedin gave birth to Jordan Zane Weiner on Wednesday. The little Weiner "checked in at just over seven pounds," according to the New York Post. You'll remember Weiner as the disgraced former New York representative who resigned this summer from Congress after admitting to sending lascivious photos of himself to several women. Since then, he and Abedin have been spotted around Washington, New York City and other places doing normal couple things.
    Jim Sensenbrenner comments on Michelle Obama's 'large posterior' | TheBlaze.com
      Our source, a Democratic operative who heard the whole thing, said he was "very loud". Sensenbrenner was overheard saying that after buying all their "crap" (his word) a woman approached him and praised first lady Michelle Obama. He told the woman that Michelle should practice what she preaches -- "she lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself." Sensenbrenner did not offer comment on the story. UPDATE: Sensenbrenner's spokeswoman told FishbowlDC that the congressman will be in touch with the first lady to apologize for his comments.
  Gitmo Nation
    Cops Ready for War
    Nearly a Third of Americans Are Arrested by 23, Study Says - NYTimes.com
      The study, the first since the 1960s to look at the arrest histories of a national sample of adolescents and young adults over time, found that 30.2 percent of the 23-year-olds who participated reported having been arrested for an offense other than a minor traffic violation.
    TSA screenings aren't just for airports anymore - latimes.com
      "We have to keep them [terrorists] on edge," said Frank Cilluffo, director of the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University in Washington. "We're not going to have a permanent presence everywhere."
      U.S. officials note that digital files recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan after he was killed by U.S. Navy SEALs in May included evidence that the Al Qaeda leader had considered an attack on U.S. railways in February 2010. Over the last decade, deadly bombings have hit subways or trains in Moscow; Mumbai, India; Madrid; and London.
  DADT
    BBC News - US Navy lesbian couple share first gay dockside kiss
      Two female US sailors have become the first same-sex couple to share the traditional dockside "first kiss" since the US ended a ban on gays in the army.
  Pedo
    Tens of thousands of children abused in Dutch Catholic institutions, report says | World news | guardian.co.uk
      The Roman Catholic church in the Netherlands was shamed on Friday when a comprehensive investigation of sexual abuse of children by clergy over 40 years found one in five vulnerable children had been molested. An 1,100-page report from a commission led by a former education minister and Christian Democrat leader said it could identify 800 Catholic clergy and other church employees guilty of sexually abusing children in the 40 years from 1945 and that more than 100 perpetrators were still alive.
  Vaccine$
    [VIDEO] Bird flu research row after US raises terror fears
      The authors of a controversial bird flu study have reportedly agreed to redact key details, after a US government panel suggested the data could be used by terrorists. Editors at two scientific journals have, however, said they will not approve the changes until they are assured the data will be accessible to researchers.
    U.S. Asks Journals to Censor Articles on Bird Flu Virus - NYTimes.com
      In the experiments, conducted in the United States and the Netherlands, scientists created a highly transmissible form of a deadly flu virus that does not normally spread from person to person. It was an ominous step, because easy transmission can lead the virus to spread all over the world. The work was done in ferrets, which are considered a good model for predicting what flu viruses will do in people.
    Will Canadians Wipe Out HIV?
      A team of researchers working out of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, have received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine on humans beginning in January. What makes this vaccine different from the handful of others in development around the world is that it uses dead HIV-1 virus, in a similar methodology that led to vaccines for polio, rabies and hepatitis A.
      The virus is first produced at special "bio-safety level 3" laboratories in Maryland and Colorado. It's then killed and genetically modified to become harmless, and a protein found in honeybee venom cultivates it into the vaccine, which they've named SAV001. This is the fourth attempt to produce such a vaccine, and only passed FDA approval -- considered the world gold standard -- after it passed 230 different safety tests.
  Techno Experts
    Somalia's Rebels Embrace Twitter as a Weapon - NYTimes.com
      Somalia's powerful Islamist insurgents, the Shabab, best known for chopping off hands and starving their own people, just opened a Twitter account, and in the past week they have been writing up a storm, bragging about recent attacks and taunting their enemies.
    Can the U.S. Government close social media accounts? - Salon.com
  Drone Nation
    Part I: Was US Spy Drone Captured by Iranian Flying Saucer?
      Of all the inventors making bold claims on the internet, Iranian nuclear engineer Mehran Tavakoli Keshe is perhaps the most enigmatic, and the most interesting. By allegedly harnessing a fusion reaction that manipulates dark matter, regular matter, and antimatter, he claims to have developed technologies that rival those in science fiction. As we reported last April, Keshe claims that years ago he gave the Iranian military his technology in order for them to produce flying saucers; and the alleged Iranian flying saucer that had popped up in the news last March was a result of that. He had offered it to NASA, but they poopooed it.
    Overstretched U.S. drone pilots face stress risk | Reuters
      "Clinical distress takes it to a different level," said Dr. Wayne Chappelle, who co-authored the study, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters. In comparison, about 28 percent of returning U.S. soldiers from Iraq were diagnosed with "clinical distress," the Air Force said. The Air Force study also turned up a surprise for some top brass - the main source of stress for crews manning the Air Force's drone fleet wasn't firing Hellfire missiles or taking out targets on the battlefield. Although a small number of pilots were seen at high risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, the biggest factor wearing down drone crews were things like long hours and inadequate staffing, which have pushed the Air Force's 350-odd drone pilots and the crews supporting them to their limits.
    Djibouti Drones
      Tomgram: Nick Turse, Mapping America's Shadowy Drone Wars | TomDispatch
        Over the last decade, the American use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) has expanded exponentially, as has media coverage of their use. On September 21st, the Wall Street Journal reported that the military has deployed missile-armed MQ-9 Reaper drones on the "island nation of Seychelles to intensify attacks on al Qaeda affiliates, particularly in Somalia." A day earlier, a Washington Post piece also mentioned the same base on the tiny Indian Ocean archipelago, as well as one in the African nation of Djibouti, another under construction in Ethiopia, and a secret CIA airstrip being built for drones in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. (Some suspect it's Saudi Arabia.)
      The Dangerous US Game in Yemen | The Nation
        As part of Saleh's deal with the Bush administration, the United States created a "counterterrorism camp" in Yemen run by the CIA, Marines and Special Forces that was backed up by Camp Lemonier, the US outpost in the nearby African nation of Djibouti, which housed Predator drones. Located just an hour from Yemen by boat, the secretive base would soon serve as a command center for covert US action in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
  Ministry of Truth
    Prosecutors claim Bradley Manning wanted to remove 'the fog of war' | World news | guardian.co.uk
      According to the prosecution Manning was able to download huge quantity of documents using the program, called Wget. Manning started using the program in early March 2010 and used it hundreds of times to illegally download classified files, according to the government.
    Spokeshole Carney Teleprompter
      ITM Adam,
      Jake the Button Pushing Monkey here. I am catching up on sundays service right now. I am pretty sure the tones you were hearing were the speaker's Inews client freaking out.
      http://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=287791&ssdFilterCommunity10=368&ssdFilter_SearchKeyWord=usb+sounds&ssdFilterCommunity3=1080&Hilite=usb+sounds
      This is from the Avid knowledgebase. We use the same system here at my station. When you have 6 "producers" working on a show with their sound up you hear that chirp chirp noise constantly.
      So i figure what we heard was his Prompter being updated.
      Thanks for all you do! I'll keep hitting them in the mouth.
      Wire alert sounds
    GoogleWash
      On episode 366, you and John spoke about Google washing of No Agenda. I run Google Chrome as My browser but when typing in noagendashow.com, the web site can never be displayed. This has forced me to use my Android phone for the site.
      -Jeremy Slate
  Iran
    U.N. Inspectors Seek 'Smoking Gun' In Iranian Nuclear Program
      "In terms of the use of uranium metal, if you're doing work on nuclear weapons research, at some point you might want to use natural uranium metal as a surrogate material when you're testing to see whether or not your nuclear design will function properly," a senior U.S. official said. "You can do this . . . without producing a nuclear yield if you use surrogate material instead of fissile material for the core." Iran used tungsten as a surrogate for a fissile core, the IAEA report said, noting that "Iran has manufactured simulated nuclear explosive components using high density materials such as tungsten." The report also said that Iran has apparently "constructed a large explosives containment vehicle in which to conduct hydrodynamic experiments." The IAEA claims the vessel was installed at Iran's Parchin military testing ground in 2000.
    Russian expert: Iran will be apparently attacked from Georgia's territory - PanARMENIAN.Net
      "Before attacking Iran, the West will have to topple Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria and settle problems with Hezbollah, which surely will target missiles at Israel in case of war against Tehran. Thus, a conclusion emerges that Iran will be apparently attacked from Georgia's territory, given reports that Israeli air forces are being deployed in Georgian airdromes," he said.
  Presidential XFactor
    Opinion: New Hampshire voters should draft Hillary - Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen - POLITICO.com
      We argued in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that President Barack Obama should stand down and let Secretary of State Hillary Clinton run as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2012. We are now calling on Democratic voters nationally -- particularly in New Hampshire -- to organize a write-in campaign for Clinton. This is something that New Hampshire voters have a long history of doing.
    Obama seating chart
      Friend --
      I just saw the seating chart for Dinner with Barack and Michelle,
      and I thought you should know about it.
      The President and First Lady are on the left and right sides of
      the table. Where do you want to sit?
      Think about it, then donate $3 or whatever you can to be
      automatically entered for a chance to win:
      https://donate.barackobama.com/Barack-and-Michelle25
      I've put a lot of dinners together for the President and
      Mrs. Obama.
      Sometimes they've been for foreign dignitaries and heads of
      state. Sometimes they've included governors, artists, and
      musicians. The seating can get pretty complicated, but I have
      to say, this one was easy.
      One table, six guests, and the President and First Lady.
      So really, my job's done. The only thing that's missing is who the
      guests will be.
      Click here to give $3 or whatever you can and be automatically
      entered for a chance for you and a guest to have dinner with
      the President and First Lady:
      https://donate.barackobama.com/Barack-and-Michelle25
      I'd love for you to be there.
      Thanks,
      Julianna
      Julianna Smoot
      Deputy Campaign Manager
      Obama for America
  Out There
    What is the E-Cat? | E-Cat World
      E-Cat is short for the term "energy catalyzer" and is an invention of Italian engineer Andrea Rossi. The E-Cat is a device in which hydrogen gas, powdered nickel metal, and an undisclosed catalyst are combined to produce a large amount of heat through a little understood low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) process inside a specially designed chamber. The inner workings of the reactor are covered by a trade secret which Rossi consistently refuses to discuss.
      In this process, when an external heat source is applied (Electric or fossil) it is claimed that the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, a proton, penetrates a nickel nucleus and in doing so a nickel atom becomes a copper atom, and releases gamma rays creating a large amount of thermal energy. From reports of tests, it appears that the reaction begins when the reactor is heated to around 60 degrees Celsius, and once the reaction is stable, the external heat can be turned off and the reaction can continue for a considerable length of time. In an October 6th test in Bologna, Italy, the E-Cat ran without external heat (referred to as 'self-sustain mode) for almost four hours, maintaining a constant temperature and boiling water continuously.
  NDAA
    Unpriveledged explanation
      Dear Adam Curry,
      I am sorry that I could not listen to NA show 366 live as my internet provider had technical problems.
      Still, while listening I heard you talk about so-called unprivileged enemy belligerents.
      The term is not legal, in the sense that it has a legacy, but rather is a new version of the labels discussed since the legal challenges to the first detentions post 9/11.
      The term as tied to the cases of German "spies" in the 1940s, Ex parte Quirin, was lawful (and unlawful) enemy combatants.
      The term is later invoked in the Military Commissions Act of 2006. (Please see my critique on Scribd, Weapon of Mass Detention: The Military Commissions Act of 2006 is an unconstitutional bill of attainder).
      So, the idea of privileged or lawful combatant, under the rules / laws of war (international treaties that pre-date WWI - the Hague Conventions of 1907), is a person, who is wearing a military uniform (i.e., visible to all), and representing a nation that has declared war, and is attacking military targets (persons or property).
      Those who are not privileged include then: spies, people without uniforms, and or persons not fighting under the authorization of a government.
      In the present day, such unprivileged (unlawful) enemy belligerents (combatants) are:
      al-CIA-da reps and or franchises, lone wolves, people who are not active military, spies, so-called gun club members or members of self-regulating militia and or survival groups, etc.
      So, the first trick is that the president or his designee, defines a person as an unprivileged belligerent, a designation which cannot be challenged under law in the MCA of 2006, then our hero / lone wolf gets Gitmo treatment and a little Sandusky horseplay - FOREVER.
      Thank you for the show.
      Dr. Jones
      Richmond, BC
      (currently in Texas)
    LightSquared Files FCC Petition
      Tuesday, the upstart broadband service wholesaler repeats its claim that the manufacturers of GPS devices that are affected by the broadband signals are to blame for the interference. "It recently has become apparent that the commercial GPS industry has manufactured, and sold to unsuspecting consumers, unlicensed and poorly designed GPS receivers that 'listen' for radio signals both in the 'RNSS' frequency band in which the U.S. GPS system is intended to operate, as well as across the adjacent 'MSS' frequency band that is not intended for GPS use, and in which LightSquared is licensed," the petition says.
  2TTH
    Dakota Meyer Drops Suit Against BAE - Soldier Systems
    New Jersey Christmas plane crash: Pilot's last transmission about icy conditions | Mail Online
      The NTSB said the plane had climbed to 17,500 feet.
      Ice can form on airplanes when temperatures are near freezing and there is visible moisture, such as clouds or rain.
      The ice adds weight to an aircraft, and rough accumulations known as rime interrupt the flow of air over wings.
      In extreme cases, a plane can lose so much lift that it falls out of the sky.
      Icing played a role in crashes in 2009 involving a Colgan Air flight outside Buffalo, New York, and an Air France flight off the coast of Brazil.
      In both cases the pilots sent their airplanes into uncontrolled spins while trying to deal with accumulations of ice.
      The Colgan plane crashed into a house in Buffalo, killing all 49 people aboard the plane and an occupant of the home.
      Most versions of the TBM-700 have deicing systems. But recordings available online show that even airliners with powerful deicing equipment were having trouble clearing the ice Tuesday.
      The pilot of a commuter jetliner headed to nearby LaGuardia Airport in New York asked a controller for an immediate climb into drier conditions.
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  Real News
    Frankrijk waarschuwt voor borstimplantaten - De Standaard
      De Franse overheid vraagt 30.000 vrouwen om hun borstimplantaten te laten nakijken. De gebruikte protheses, die sneller dan andere merken scheuren, zouden al aan een vrouw het leven hebben gekost, en kunnen duizenden vrouwen in gevaar brengen.
  FnF
    Did the FBI Bury Oklahoma City Bombing Evidence? | Mother Jones
      Trentadue placed one FOIA after another, always getting the runaround from the FBI. Finally, after three years, he persuaded Clark Waddoups, another Utah-based federal judge, to order the FBI to respond by June 30, 2011. Trentadue was particularly interested in 20 or more video surveillance tapes from cameras located on the Murrah building--cameras that might have shown, among other things, whether McVeigh was alone when he parked a truckload of explosives beneath the building and then fled from his truck.
      The FBI suggested that the Murrah building's cameras were never hooked up, based on a claim by an elevator repairman.
      Earlier, the FBI had produced a document suggesting that the videotapes didn't exist, based on an investigatory report "in which an individual personally involved in clearing the Murrah building after the bombing with apparent familiarity with its surveillance systems, stated that it was 'a shame...that the surveillance cameras were never hooked up again after they put in a new security system approximately two years ago.'" The person in question was an elevator repairman who had done some work in the Murrah building and had gone there shortly after the blast.
  Bank$ters
    GOLD: Why the old purchasing system is breaking down | The Slog
      Earlier this year I reported evidence of Austrian gold purchasers being rationed by banks as to how much they could buy. This trend seems to have gone further underground -- and yet be ever more influential. Basically -- as far as I can understand the feedback -- lots of middle-men are being cut out. Very large investment combines and wealthy Arabian/Asian Sovereigns are approaching the miners direct. They offer the producers mouth-watering deals: have the cash now, set aside the gold for us in (say) six months time...have the money interest-free. Just sign here saying come what may, you'll give us the gold. Or -- just as attractive in many ways -- at this guaranteed futures price way above the current level, we sign here to say we will buy whatever you can produce. (And above all, they add, we are not some flaky bank: this is, as it were, solid-gold profit).
      Now clearly, the one party with a 0% risk in that dizzying context is the mining sector. Which is why, despite average performance since I bought them, I regard my mining shares as gilts-on-steroids. And I may well increase my holdings.
  Haiti
    HELP HAITI HOME | J/P Haitian Relief Organization's Fundraiser on Crowdrise
    Crowdrise: Charity FAQs
      Are there start-up costs?
      Your charity pays nothing to get started on Crowdrise. You can build a super compelling page for your Charity on Crowdrise in about 2 minutes and you don't need any programmers, IT staff or graphic designers. We make it so easy you won't even believe it. During the sign up process, you'll claim your charity and then have the option of signing up for a free Basic Account, a $299/year Featured Account, or a $499 Royale Account. View Account Types. To make sure we don't go out of business trying to help you raise money in new ways, Crowdrise charges Transaction Fees on donations. You'll also have the option of receiving your donations through Network for Good or through your own Amazon Payments account.
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      What are the Transaction Fees?
      Crowdrise is designed to help Volunteers and Fundraisers answer the call to service, raise money for Charity, and have the most fun in the world while doing it. To make sure we don't go out of business trying to help everyone raise lots of money for Charity, Crowdrise charges a transaction fees on donations. . There are three account types and pricing differs for each. Pricing ranges from a flat 4.95% charge on each donation, one of th to a 5% charge on each donation plus a $1 transaction fee on donations under $25 and a $2.50 transaction fee on donations $25 and over. To see the exact pricing options you have to choose from, we made this gorgeous chart of Charity Account Types to make it really easy. This pricing INCLUDES all credit card fees so there are no additional fees. Note that to get the lower pricing you'll see for Featured and Royale accounts, you'll need an Amazon Payments account, which is really easy to set up and we're here to help. If you have any questions, please email us at falco@crowdrise.com and we'll give you the greatest customer service in the world.
  Science
    Caffeine-Induced Psychosis
      "If a person were injected with 500 milligrams of caffeine [less than the dosage in some 16-ounce brews], within about an hour he or she would exhibit symptoms of severe mental illness, among them hallucinations, paranoia, panic, mania, and depression. But the same amount of caffeine administered over the course of a day only produces the milder forms of insanity for which we take tranquilizers and antidepressants."
  Trains Good, Planes Bad (Whoo Hoo!)
    Siemens Ratchets Up Push in U.S. With McChrystal Hire - WSJ.com
      German engineering giant Siemens AG is adding heft to its campaign to win more business with the U.S. government by appointing former U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal to a supervisory role.
      The company is expected to announce Monday that the retired four-star general will chair a board overseeing a newly created unit aimed at securing more and bigger contracts with the federal government. Gen. McChrystal lost his post last year as top U.S. and international commander in Afghanistan after he and his senior aides were quoted making disparaging remarks about members of the Obama administration in a magazine article. ...
  VIDEO
    [VIDEO] Whoopi Goldberg Calls Communism 'a Great Concept' | Video | TheBlaze.com
      "If you say that this is how our culture is and then you send your child to a Swiss boarding school -- you know, this is what happens with communism. It's a great concept. On paper it makes perfect sense. But once you put a human being in power, it shifts. We saw it in Russia, we've seen it all around the world. It's nuts. But, I keep my fingers crossed."
    [VIDEO] CNN Hit Piece: Ron Paul Is A Racist! (Nice Fair & Balanced News) -
    [VIDEO] EconomicPolicyJournal.com: HOT: Ron Paul Walks Out During CNN Interview
      Ron Paul walked out of a CNN interview earlier today that was conducted by CNN reporter Gloria Borger
    [VIDEO] Obama goes Christmas shopping at Best Buy - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
      Mr. Obama kept the tab to just over $40. The White House has been running a "What Does $40 Mean to You?" campaign designed to spotlight the money the average family will lose per paycheck if the payroll tax cut is not extended when it expires in less than two weeks. After the PetSmart stop Mr. Obama moved on to Best Buy, where he was Christmas shopping for his daughters. He purchased the video game "Just Dance 3" for the Nintendo Wii, a dancing game that, according to the product description, "kick-starts the party with over 45 tracks from multiple genres and popular artists including today's hottest hits."
    [VIDEO] New FAA Rules to Help End Flying While Sleepy | NewsLook
    [VIDEO] Bill Clinton: The American Press Favored Obama Over Hillary -
      Bill Clinton agreed with Bill O'Reilly tonight on The Factor that the American press favored Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary. Clinton went on to say he has an opinion on why they picked Obama but that he was going to keep it to himself.
    [VIDEO] Ron Paul "I Am The ANTI Racist!" Wolf Blitzer Interview 2008
    [VIDEO] TYT: Is Ron Paul A Racist? -
    [VIDEO] The Game Changer: E-Cat Device from Andrea Rossi -
      A new and potentially revolutionary invention is about the hit the market in October 2011. The silence of the US main stream media is deafening, they pretend as if this cold fusion device weren't exist. Behind the curtain, however, the powers that be are already positioning themselves and preparing for the upcoming energy revolution. I have been following the progress of the alternative energy sources for years now and I haven't ever seen a so promising discovery as this one. I firmly believe that the Rossi E-Cat device could change our world for the better.
    [VIDEO] YOU MUST OBEY -
      Canada is full of terrorists according to this Border Policeman. Listen carefully and judge for yourselves. Right , wrong whatever. The Golden Rule is you MUST follow every thing an immigration officer tells you, politely without questioning or trying to be a smart aleck.
      In another perfect illustration of why the U.S. tourist industry is in free fall, audio has emerged of a Canadian couple who were interrogated and arrested by immigration officials after they dared to inquire as to why they were being asked such pointless and invasive questions.
      Attempting to enter the U.S. at the Niagara Falls border, the couple were asked where they were going, to which they responded the Niagara Falls shopping mall. When the immigration official bizarrely demanded to know what shops they were planning to visit, the situation quickly worsened.
      Thankyou to Jinxs38's channel-
      http://www.[VIDEO] .com/user/Jinxs38
    [VIDEO] Suspicious trailer leads to Orange Avenue shutdown - OrlandoSentinel.com
      A white work trailer, covered with anti-government messages proclaiming Central Florida to be "The U.S. Capital for Child Abuse" and bearing a warning on its back door that read "Open At Your Risk," prompted police and the city bomb squad to shut down Orange Avenue for four hours Sunday evening.
    [VIDEO] Date of the next informal European Council set to 30 Jan. 2012 - the President's Videos
      Video message by Herman VAN ROMPUY, President of the European Council, on the setting of the date for the next summit on 30 January 2012.
    [VIDEO] (2.20 roped off) TSA Chorus raise their voices in concert at LAX - latimes.com
      You know them as the folks who make you take off your shoes and bark at you about liquids and gels. But Tuesday, the TSA Chorus made hearts light at Terminal 4's American Airlines gates as they performed for passengers caught up in the extra madness of holiday travel at Los Angeles International Airport.
    [VIDEO] SOPA Cabana (by Dan Bull) -
    [VIDEO] Will Ron Paul kill the caucuses? - Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com
      Conservatives and Republican elites in the state are divided over who to support for the GOP nomination, but they almost uniformly express concern over the prospect that Ron Paul and his army of activist supporters may capture the state's 2012 nominating contest -- an outcome many fear would do irreparable harm to the future role of the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
    [VIDEO] IBM Next 5 in 5 2011: Mind Reading -
      Mind reading is no longer science fiction. IBM scientists are researching how to link your brain to your devices, such as a computer or a smartphone, so you just need to think about calling someone and it happens.
    [VIDEO] Boehner's office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP takes verbal beating | The Raw Story
    [VIDEO] Blitzer's fun with bleeps
    [VIDEO] VGA 2011: Rainbow Six: Patriots Exclusive Trailer
    [VIDEO] Ron Paul takes lead in latest Iowa poll - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
      Iowa State University/Gazette/KCRG asked 740 registered Republicans and 200 registered independents about their current preferences in telephone interviews conducted between December 8-18. The results stem from the 333 of those polled who said they would probably attend the caucuses. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus five percentage points.
    [VIDEO] J/P HRO Help Haiti Home PSA -
    [AUDIO]Domestic Drones: Hear About Who's Watching You from Above >> Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
      The Atlantic Wire was good enough to call the report "well-sourced and pretty accessible for even non-privacy experts as it explains everything from how the Federal Aviation Administration is (or isn't) updating regulations to take drones into account and a good old fashioned review of what the Fourth Amendment means."
      Eyes in Sky: Drones on the Homefront | The Kojo Nnamdi Show
      The Unmanned Air Force | On Point with Tom Ashbrook
      Report: "Protecting Privacy From Aerial Surveillance: Recommendations for Government Use of Drone Aircraft" | American Civil Liberties Union
    [VIDEO] Janet Napolitano talks TSA with CNN | TheBlaze.com
      "If someone is willing to kill themselves, they're going to find a way to do it, right? There's no way you can become fool-proof," Burnett asked, referring to attempted suicide bombings. "Look, this is the Department of Homeland Security, not the department of guarantees. There are no guarantees here."
    [VIDEO] "Ron Paul Is Not Only Unacceptable In The Republican Party He's Unacceptable In America!"
      Mojo??
    [VIDEO] "Ron Paul Could Actually Win In Iowa!" Unless We Can Convince You He's A RACIST!!! -
    [VIDEO] Official Christmas Card from the White House with spaceships UFO ?? -
    [VIDEO] UFO NEWS: Secret UFO Transport in Cowley County, USA Dec. 2011 -
    [VIDEO] Lt Dan Choi Thrown Out Of Bradley Manning's Courtroom In Handcuffs & Injured By Military Police -
Clips & Stuff
  Bird Flu.mp3
  EUROLand
    German Opening.aiff
    Haiku Herman jan 30.mp3
  FnF
    holder.pdf
  Haiti
    Help Haiti Home.mp3
    Silverman.mp3
  JCD Clips
    2012 aside.mp3
    2012 part 2.mp3
    grilling pierce morgan.mp3
    mccain idiot.mp3
    soverign 2.mp3
    soverign rights.mp3
    stolen babies 2.mp3
    stolen babies.mp3
    ufos meet 2012.mp3
  NA-Game.zip
  na367art
  Ron Paul
    ABC-MoJo-Army.mp3
    msnbc-MoJo-unamerican.mp3
    RP-bitzer-08.mp3
    RP-Gloria Borger.mp3
  Squirrel!
    Candian Terrorists.mp3
    Lucy and Erin.mp3
    Rainbow Six Patriots.mp3
  We Can't Wait
    BILLS-112hr3630eas.pdf
    BILLS-112hres501ih.pdf
    hoyer-cspan cameras.mp3