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NA-369-2011-12-29 Credits
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  Executive Producers: Sir Ray Jacobsen, Sir David Hoffman, Stevn Jaffe, Sir Paull Alves, Sir Kris Gielen, Spiros Bettas, Mark Lay, Robert Alter, Paul Palcsek
  Executive Producer and 368 Club member: Baron Steven Pelsmaeker
  Executive Producer and 369 Club members: Sir Kris Gielen, Baron Steven Pelsmaeker
  Associate Executive Producers: Herbert Harms, Dr. Anonymous, Massimo Cattaneo, Falko Richter, Sir Borislav 'Bobby' Marinov, Dean Carson
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  PR
    thedronestarstate.com
      Hey Simon, I wanted to pass along that I am forwarding www.thedronestarstate.com to noagendashow.com. You're the best way to get it to Adam and John so keep up the good work!
      Todd
    eufoundingfathers.com
      www.EUfoundingfathers.com now forwarding to noagendashow.com
      Happy Christmas to you & miss micky, if only every day was Christmas,
      what a wonderful world it would be!
      Have a great one!
      Adam Randall
    doucheba.gs observatoryforhumanrights.com etc
      Been sitting on this one for awhile: doucheba.gs. The picture links to nashownotes.com right now. I'd love to get a list of everyone that's been called a douchebag on the show and put it up there, but I don't have enough time to go back and listen for them all. I can set up email forwards for @doucheba.gs emails, people can just send them to request@doucheba.gs and I'll set it up.
      Can I get credit for trainsgoodplanesbad.com and letsvoteforjobs.com? You can verify that I registered them with the whois info.
      I registered eattherich.us awhile ago and pointed it to noagendashow.com.
      After listening to #367 I was surprised to find that these were still available, so I registered them too: observatoryforhumanrights.com, observatoryforhumanrights.org, noagendahr.com, noagendahr.org Set up a temporary site on noagendahr.org, not totally sure what to do with it.
      Sorry for the long email!
      - Brad Dougherty
  Knighthoods: Ray Jacobsen (Order of the Dish)
  Art By: Brad Connell
  ShowNotes Archive of links and Assets (clips etc) 368.nashownotes.com
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NA-369-2011-12-29 Shownotes
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  Ministry of Truth
    Confused by the "Recapture" Provision of the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011? Me, Too!
      Knowing that, the "recapture" provision must be Congress' way of saying "anyone who makes over $110,100 per year (or $18,350 over the course of two months) doesn't get a Social Security tax cut on wages exceeding those amounts because they wouldn't have to pay Social Security taxes on the excess anyway." In other words, high income taxpayers must pay back any excess benefit received due to the payroll tax cut.
      According to the Journal of Accountancy, the law was written this way to keep things simple for employers -- they simply apply the tax cut across the board and the burden or reimbursing the federal government for any excess tax benefit falls on the high income employees' shoulders. It actually seems more complicated to me this way, but I have never been asked to draft a tax bill before. ;)
    Presidential Proclamation -- National Stalking Awareness Month, 2012 | The White House
      In our schools and in our neighborhoods, at home and in workplaces across our Nation, stalking endangers the physical and emotional well being of millions of American men and women every year. Too often, stalking goes unreported and unaddressed, and we must take action against this unacceptable abuse. This month, we stand with all those who have been affected by stalking and strengthen our resolve to prevent this crime before it occurs.
    The Pentagon and its Sock Puppets | StratRisks
      The internal review also apparently found no fault with the exclusion of four individuals precisely because they refused to be sock puppets, speaking critically of some Pentagon decisions. One of them, General Wesley Clark, apparently lost his position as an analyst for CNN because of Pentagon and White House displeasure with what he had to say.
    New York Times Staffers Express 'Profound Dismay' With Management
      New York Times staffers unhappy with management are letting publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. know it. In recent days, more than 270 current and former Times employees have signed an open letter expressing their "profound dismay" with recent company decisions.
      Bill O'Meara, president of the New York Newspaper Guild, said some staffers had considered even "more dramatic" actions.
      "There were people who wanted to storm Arthur Sulzberger's office," O'Meara told The Huffington Post. "There were people who wanted to stage a walkout."
    When it Rains, it Pours: The New York Times Fumbles into the New Year-|-NYTimes eXaminer
      The New York Times has experienced a dramatic series of changes closing out this year and that seem to cast the shadow of instability over the "paper of record" as it enters into 2012.
      This month alone delivered news of massive changes including CEO Janet Robinson's departure from the Times, as well as more than ten buyouts of long-time columnists and editorial staffers.
      If this news wasn't enough, the Times also recently announced the sale of 16 local papers that made up its regional media group, and the Newspaper Guild of New York has strongly expressed worker dissatisfaction with Times managerial practices.
      The Times put icing on its own cake yesterday when it mistakenly sent 8.6 million confusing e-mails notifying recipients that they, the subscriber, had requested cancellation of their own home delivery service.
      The e-mail, which was supposed to be sent to only 300 recipients but was mailed to anyone who had an e-mail on the Times list, explained:
    Report on Congress making more money
    OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting
      Dec 24 - The Center for Responsive Politics will be closed between Saturday, Dec. 24, and Monday, Jan. 2, for the Christmas and New Year's holidays.
  Haiti
    Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti >> What We-Do
    ONEXONE - Who We Are : Our Team
  Gold/PR
    Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an American news media organization established in 2006 that sponsors independent reporting that other media outlets are less willing or able to undertake on their own. The Center's goal is to raise the standard of coverage of global affairs, and to do so in a way that engages both the broad public and government policy-makers. The organization is based in Washington, D.C.
      The Center welcomes proposals for reporting projects throughout the world, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported, under-reported or mis-reported in the mainstream American media. The Center's director is former Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief Jon Sawyer.
  Squirrel!
    Rewards for Justice-main - english
  Movie PR
    Mike Myers plots 'Austin Powers 4' movie and stage musical | Film & TV News | NME.COM
      The spoof International Man Of Mystery is set to return for the first time since 2002's Austin Powers In Goldmember after Myers signed on to write another movie.
      A source close to Myers has now told Page Six that the new film could be on course to reach cinemas in 2013. They also added that he is planning to take the British superspy to Broadway, saying: "Mike would be heavily involved in writing the show, but he will not star in it, even though he has quite a good singing voice."
  Elite$
    Committee Reports - 112th Congress (2011-2012) - House Report 112-331
      For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, improvement, heating, and lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the Executive Residence at the White House and official entertainment expenses of the President, $13,425,000, to be expended and accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 112-114.
  2TTH
    AT&T Adviser Greenhill Falls Toward League-Table Obscurity
      Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc.'s failed $39 billion acquisition of Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA Inc. is sending Greenhill & Co. toward M&A league-table obscurity.
      Greenhill plunged to 40th place in the mergers and acquisitions rankings after AT&T scrapped its deal yesterday, from 18th place with the transaction included, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. AT&T's advisers -- Greenhill, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Evercore Partners Inc. -- will lose about $65 million in fees, according to estimates by New York-based researcher Freeman & Co.
  Bank$ters
    Obama to ask for debt limit hike: Treasury official
      WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House plans to ask Congress by the end of the week for an increase in the government's debt ceiling to allow the United States to pay its bills on time, according to a senior Treasury Department official on Tuesday.
      The approval is expected to go through without a challenge, given that Congress is in recess until later in January and the request is in line with an agreement to keep the U.S. government funded into 2013.
      The debt is projected to fall within $100 billion of the current cap by December 30, when the United States has $82 billion in interest on its debt and payments such as Social Security coming due. President Barack Obama is expected to ask for authority to increase the borrowing limit by $1.2 trillion, part of the spending authority that was negotiated between Congress and the White House this summer.
      Under the agreement struck in August during the showdown over the government's debt limit, the cap is automatically raised unless Congress votes to block the debt-ceiling extension. Lawmakers have 15 days within receiving the request to vote, which is largely symbolic because the president can veto it and Congress would be unlikely to muster the two-thirds majority to override it. Moreover, the U.S. House of Representatives also is in recess until January 17.
      The deal called for raising the debt ceiling by $2.1 trillion to serve the nation's borrowing needs into 2013 and also included mandatory cuts to the federal budget deficit. Since then, the extension has been increased twice by a total of $900 billion.
      The debt limit currently stands at $15.194 trillion and would increase to $16.394 trillion with the request.
    Obama Returns $70,000 in Corzine Donations - Bloomberg
      President Barack Obama's re-election campaign returned campaign contributions from Jon S. Corzine, former chairman and chief executive officer of MF Global Holdings Ltd., according to a Democratic official.
      Obama for America and the Democratic National Committee refunded the money from the former New Jersey governor out of an abundance of caution, said the official, who requested anonymity. Republicans have criticized the president for keeping contributions from the head of a firm that collapsed and filed for bankruptcy.
    SEC Announced Latest Chump Change Settlement With GE Funding The Friday Before Christmas. Hmmm... | Crooks and Liars
      Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- General Electric Co. agreed to pay $70.4 million to settle a criminal probe and civil claims for conspiring to rig bids on U.S. municipal-bond deals, overcharging state and local governments on investments.
      GE Funding Capital Market Services, a former unit, is the fifth company to settle in a more than five-year federal investigation. The deal will resolve probes by the Justice Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Internal Revenue Service as well as attorneys general in 25 states, the Justice Department said today in a statement.
  Gitmo Nation
    Madness: Even School Children Are Being Pepper-Sprayed and Shocked with Tasers | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
      There is something truly disturbing about a society that seeks to control the behavior of schoolchildren through fear and violence, a tactic that harkens back to an era of paddle-bruised behinds and ruler-slapped wrists. Yet, some American school districts are pushing the boundaries of corporal punishment even further with the use of Tasers against unruly schoolchildren.
      The deployment of Tasers against "problem" students coincides with the introduction of police officers on school campuses, also known as School Resource Officers (SROs). According to the Los Angeles Times, as of 2009, the number of SROs carrying Tasers was well over 4,000.
    TSA screenings aren't just for airports anymore - latimes.com
      "I'm mostly curious," said Barbara Spencer, 75, who was heading home to Chapel Hill after watching her grandson perform in a Christmas play. She asked the officers whether a terrorist threat had required the extra security. No, they replied.
      Vetter, the lawyer, had attended the game with his son, Noah. They jogged for the train after Seiko had finished his sniff, but Vetter had bigger worries on his mind. "The Panthers blew it," he said.
    Occupy protester 'banned' from flight home for Christmas - News & Advice - Travel - The Independent
      A member of the Occupy London protests was stopped from boarding his flight home for Christmas after he was found carrying anarchist literature, it has been claimed.
      The demonstrator, who is part of the group occupying the empty UBS building dubbed the "Bank of Ideas", said he was told he would not be allowed on the Ryanair flight to Malaga because the pilot feared he might distribute leaflets and "upset other passengers".
      John Charles Culatto, 34, claimed he was approached by police at Bristol International Airport who told him they had seen him "acting suspiciously" on the airport's CCTV system when he stopped to talk to fellow travellers.
      He said he went to airport security an hour before his flight was due to depart, where staff found posters in his bag linked to the anarchist group Crimethinc and refused to allow him through until they had contacted the airline. He claimed he overheard security staff who were examining his luggage using the word "terrorism".
    How a couple in Alaska became the terrorists next door - Los Angeles Times
      To Rockwood, the plot involving targeted assassinations and bombs was a "pure fantasy" created by a government agent he thought was his friend, a common refrain in the nation's burgeoning number of "home-grown" terrorism plots prosecuted since the Sept. 11 attacks.
      Rockwood concedes that he drew up a list of people. He thought they should be punished.
      "But ... it was all talk," Rockwood said in a small interview room at the correctional facility he has called home since July 2010.
      By his account, the events of Sept. 11 stunned and repelled Rockwood and his wife, both raised Catholic. They were living in Virginia, and Rockwood had recently gotten a job as a contractor with the National Weather Service, hoping to eventually land a full civil service position and a more stable future.
    Find my Face - Google+ Help
      Find my face makes finding pictures of you easy and makes photos more social. Find my face offers name tag suggestions so people you know can quickly tag you when they see photos of you. Like any time someone tags you, you'll be able to accept or reject these name tags.
      How it works
      After you turn on Find my Face, Google+ uses the photos you're tagged in to create a model of your face. The model updates as tags of you are added or removed and you can delete the entire face model at any time by turning off Find my Face.
      If you turn on Find my Face, we can use your face model to make it easier to find photos of you. For example, we'll show a suggestion to tag you when you or someone you know looks at a photo that matches your face model. Name tag suggestions by themselves do not change the sharing setting of photos or albums. However, when someone approves the suggestion to add a name tag, the photo and relevant album are shared with the person tagged.
  Syria
    Angry Syrians bury Damascus bombing dead | Reuters
      Thousands of Syrians chanted "Death to America" on Saturday during funeral processions in Damascus for at least 44 people killed in twin suicide bombings that rocked the capital.
    Russian Article on Syria
      Moscow is ready to grant political asylum and guarantee the personal safety of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family: his successor is chosen, and the entire operation is coordinated with the U.S., according to NEWSru Israel with reference to the newspaper "Maariv". According to the newspaper, during a visit to Russia, Vice-President of Syria, Farouk Al-Shara was invited to assume the post of Bashar al-Assad after his resignation.
      From Oils
        ITM adam and Merry Christmas
        her eis what russian news run headlines today while rest of the world distracted with Christmas
        http://newsru.com/world/25dec2011/bashar.html
        the article is in russian
        the highlights are
        Russia Will take Bashar under protection and offed him and his family safe haven in russia
        Already found his substitution
        And all the operation is collaborated with USA
      According to the newspaper, during a visit to Russia, Vice-President of Syria, Farouk Al-Shara was invited to assume the post of Bashar al-Assad after his resignation.
  Real News
    French breast implant chief wanted by Interpol | World news | guardian.co.uk
      Interpol is seeking the arrest of Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of a French company whose breast implants are at the centre of a global health scare.
      The international police agency has issued a red notice for Mas. His firm Poly Implant Protheses (PIP), which went into administration last year, supplied implants to tens of thousands of women in Europe and South America.
      Interpol's website says the 72-year-old is wanted by Costa Rican authorities for crimes involving "life and health" but gives no further details. France has offered to pay for an estimated 30,000 women in the country to have their PIP implants removed because of risks the products could rupture and leak industrial-grade silicone.
  Out There
    'Vuurbal is brokstuk van raket André Kuipers' - BINNENLAND - PAROOL
      Op kerstavond is door verschillende mensen in Oost-Nederland een vreemd lichtobject aan de hemel waargenomen. De politie kreeg tientallen telefoontjes van verontruste mensen. Op Twitter werd volop gespeculeerd over het verschijnsel.
      In Gelderland was het vreemde object zaterdagavond rond zes uur te zien. Omroep Gelderland spreekt van 'een grote vuurbal'. De politie is met een helikopter op onderzoek gegaan. Er is tevens contact gezocht met de NASA: het zou om een komeet gaan. De KPLD heeft het over een meteoriet. 'Geen neerstortende Andrˆ© Kuipers dus en ook geen Superman', aldus de politiewoordvoerder tegen persbureau Novum. Het is 'een meteoriet die door de dampkring is gevlogen'.
  Xfaxtor Primaries
    The New Republican Primary Rules Make It Possible For The Republican Establishment To Steal The Nomination From A Candidate They Don't Like
      The following rule was adopted by the Republican Party back in August 2010....
        "Any presidential primary, caucus, convention, or other meeting held for the purpose of selecting delegates to the national convention which occurs prior to the first day of April in the year in which the national convention is held, shall provide for the allocation of delegates on a proportional basis."
      This new rule means that delegates will be apportioned to candidates on a proportional basis in Republican caucuses and primaries that are conducted prior to April 1st. One notable exception to this rule is Florida, which got approval to remain a "winner take all" state. So Florida will be very important.
      In addition, all of the states that are now using "proportional representation" do not allocate delegates the exact same way. Each state has slightly different election rules.
      But in general, in most of the primaries and caucuses held before April 1st, delegates will be awarded to multiple candidates instead of to just a single candidate.
  SOPA/ACTA
    EU Council Quietly Adopts ACTA, In An Agricultural And Fisheries Meeting
      The group of some 40 ministers approved a lot of industry related issues and then moved on to ACTA. The press release regarding the approval states the following on the last page:
        The Council adopted a decision authorising the signing of an anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) with Australia, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States.
        ACTA is aimed at establishing an international framework to improve the enforcement of intellectual property right laws and create improved international standards for actions against large-scale infringements of intellectual property. Negotiations were concluded in November 2010.
  Monsanto
    Monsanto's GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals - The Huffington Post
      "Effects were mostly concentrated in kidney and liver function, the two major diet detoxification organs, but in detail differed with each GM type. In addition, some effects on heart, adrenal, spleen and blood cells were also frequently noted. As there normally exists sex differences in liver and kidney metabolism, the highly statistically significant disturbances in the function of these organs, seen between male and female rats, cannot be dismissed as biologically insignificant as has been proposed by others. We therefore conclude that our data strongly suggests that these GM maize varieties induce a state of hepatorenal toxicity....These substances have never before been an integral part of the human or animal diet and therefore their health consequences for those who consume them, especially over long time periods are currently unknown."
      Monsanto has immediately responded to the study, stating that the research is "based on faulty analytical methods and reasoning and do not call into question the safety findings for these products."
    America's farmlands to be carpet-bombed with Vietnam-era Agent Orange chemical if Dow petition approved
      A key chemical in that weapon -- 2,4-D -- is just months away from being dropped on agricultural land across the United States. Dow AgroSciences, which along with DuPont and Monsanto is heavily invested in genetically engineered crops, has petitioned the U.S. government to deregulate a variety of GE corn that's resistant to 2,4-D, which comprises 50% of the recipe of Agent Orange.
    2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
      Different organizations have taken different stances on cancer risk of 2,4-D. On August 8, 2007, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a ruling that stated that existing data does not support a conclusion that links human cancer to 2,4-D exposure.[13] The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified 2,4-D among the phenoxy acid herbicides MCPA and 2,4,5-T as a class 2B carcinogen - possibly carcinogenic to humans.[14] A 1995 panel of 13 scientists reviewing studies on the carcinogenicity of 2,4-D had divided opinions, but the predominant opinion was that it is possible that 2,4-D causes cancer in humans.[15]
  Vaccine$
    Turns Out That Viagra Actually Makes Muscles Limp
      This newly discovered benefit can help patients with diastolic heart failure. This illness makes heart ventricles abnormally inflexible. As a result, they don't fill with enough blood. Apparently, the drug helps this condition almost instantly. This discovery would also finally make true that old saying: "do you have diastolic heart failure or are you just happy to see me?"
    Viagra Patent Expires, Goes Generic | What Will Happen To Viagra
      Pfizer will lose its patent for Viagra on March 27, 2012, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, at which point any drug company will be able to make and sell a cheap "generic" version of the blockbuster erectile dysfunction (ED) drug. Doctors and lawyers believe that the expiration of Pfizer's monopoly on the drug will be good news for patients, as it will force competition between Pfizer's Viagra and the new generic versions, dramatically driving down the price not only of Viagra but also of Eli Lilly's Cialis and Bayer's Levitra.
      The fight between Pfizer and Teva escalated June 15 through July 13, 2011 as the 12 day bench trial took place. Teva was shot down in it¹s hopes to put a generic Viagra on the market. Pfizer¹s patent stands solid until 2019. There are pages and pages devoted to the procedural history of the case, which began in March 2010 when Pfizer Inc. sued Teva Pharmaceuticals after Teva gained tentative approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market a generic version of Viagra.
      "We are pleased that the court recognized the validity and enforceability of our Viagra patent for the treatment of erectile dysfunction," said Amy Schulman, executive vice president and general counsel for Pfizer, in a statement. "Protecting the intellectual property rights of our innovative core is critical, and Friday's court decision acknowledges Teva's clear violation of our patent rights."
  Devil Weed / Drink
    Meer dan 2.000 cafés dicht sinds rookverbod - De Standaard
      Sinds 1 juli, toen het rookverbod in cafˆ©s van kracht werd, zijn er al 2.005 zaken stopgezet of failliet gegaan. Dat is een stijging met 43 procent tegenover dezelfde periode vorig jaar, toen 1.400 zaken hun deuren sloten.
      De cijfers komen van het handelsinformatiekantoor Coface Services Belgium en ondernemersorganisatie NSZ, en zijn ingekeken door Het Laatste Nieuws.
      Het Neutraal Syndicaat voor Zelfstandigen heeft het over 'dramatische resultaten'. 'Zeker als je ermee rekening houdt dat de herfst erg mild is geweest (waardoor de terrassen veel langer konden blijven staan voor de rokende klanten, nvdr). Bij een normale temperatuur en meer regen was de tol allicht nog veel hoger geweest.'
  Techno Experts
    Congress calls on Twitter to block Taliban - Telegraph
      enators want to stop feeds which boast of insurgent attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan and the casualties they inflict.
      Aides for Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said the move was part of a wider attempt to eliminate violent Islamist extremist propaganda from the internet and social media.
      The Taliban movement has embraced the social network as part of its propaganda effort and regularly tweets about attacks or posts links to its statements.
      The information has ranged from highly accurate, up-to-the-minute accounts of unfolding spectacular attacks, to often completely fabricated or wildly exaggerated reports of American and British casualties.
      Twitter feeds including @ABalkhi, which has more than 4,100 followers, and @alemarahweb, which has more than 6,200 followers, regularly feature tweeted boasts about the deaths of "cowardly invaders" and "puppet" Afghan government forces.
  FnF
    Angry former ATF chief blames subordinates for Fast and Furious - Los Angeles Times
      But B. Todd Jones, Melson's replacement as acting director of the agency, said in an interview that Melson allowed overzealous field agents and supervisors to go beyond approved tactics.
      Pointing out that the ATF has had five acting directors in the last six years, Jones said the resulting weak management structure has given some field agents a license to operate independently of Washington.
      "There was a vacuum. Fast and Furious went off the rails, and there were plenty of opportunities to pivot so none of this would happen," Jones said.
      Under the program, devised to help agents follow weapons from gun stores to Mexican cartel leaders, about 2,000 firearms were lost. Two were found after the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. Hundreds more were recovered after violent crimes in Mexico
  Drone Nation
    Army to Send Three Unmanned Spy Helos to Afghanistan | Defense Tech
      The drone war in Pakistan may be on a temporary hiatus, that hasn't stopped the Army from moving to send three of its newest drones to neighboring Afghanistan this Spring. The service is sending three of Boeing's A160 Hummingbird drone choppers downrange for up to one year to feed the military's insatiable hunger for more airborne ISR.
      The helos will be equipped with the ARGUS wide area surveillance cameras, allowing the birds to hover and watch over massive swaths of land. Think of the typical UAV camera as looking at a region through a soda straw; operators and intel analysts only see the immediate area where the camera is focused. WAS systems like ARGUS are being developed to provide up to 65 video streams via one sensor package. This obviously gives a much broader picture of a region.
    PressTV - 'US spy drone crashes in Afghanistan'
      A Tuesday statement released by NATO confirmed the incident but claimed that the unmanned aircraft made an emergency landing "due to technical malfunction."
      According to locals, US-led forces have cordoned off the site of the incident.
      Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid also claimed that members of the militant group shot down the drone in the Ahmadabad district of the province.
      The Taliban say they have shot down several aircraft and NATO choppers in different parts of Afghanistan over the past few months.
      Activities by the militants have persisted despite the presence of around 150,000 US-led forces in Afghanistan.
      The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 under the pretext of combating terrorism and eradicating the Taliban militancy but its failure has forced Washington to turn to negotiation with the militants.
      The Taliban have steadily stepped up their attacks on the US-led forces, inflicting heavy casualties and damage on them.
  $hadow Puppet Theatre
    Obama Nominates Carlyle Group Partner to The Federal Reserve - BlackListedNews.com
      While on vacation in Hawaii, Obama tapped Jerome Powell to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
      Powel served as the undersecretary for finance under the president George H. W. Bush and was a partner of The Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group is a massive private equity firm and one of the largest defense contractors in the world.
      They're made up of some of the most influential policymakers over the last five administrations including both Bush presidents, former Secretary of State James Baker III, former Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, former Clinton Chief of Staff Mack McLarty, and former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt to name a few.
      Other notable investors in The Carlyle Group include the bin Laden family and the Saudi Royal Family. Coincidentally, George H. W. Bush was meeting at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington on the morning of September 11th with one of Osama Bin Laden's brothers.
    Jerome Powell | Bipartisan Policy Center
      Jerome H. Powell is a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on state and federal fiscal issues. Powell served as undersecretary of the treasury for finance under President George H.W. Bush, with responsibility for policy on financial institutions, the treasury debt market, and related areas. From 1997 through 2005, Powell was a partner at The Carlyle Group, where he founded and led the Industrial Group within the U.S. Buyout Fund. He worked for many years prior to that as a lawyer and investment banker in New York City.
  EUROLand
    Studenten hangt verlies basisbeurs boven het hoofd - Onderwijs - VK
      De kans is groot dat studenten hun basisbeurs kwijtraken. Het kabinet denkt na over het invoeren van een sociaal leenstelsel. Dat meldt het AD.
      Ambtenaren van het ministerie van Financiˆ´n werken daarvoor plannen uit. Komend voorjaar moet er voor miljarden extra worden bezuinigd. Het afschaffen van de basisbeurs voor studenten levert zo'n 800 miljoen euro op. Ook de ov-kaart voor studenten zit in de gevarenzone.
      Bij de afgelopen verkiezingen pleitte de VVD ervoor studenten meer zelf te laten betalen voor hun studie. Ook D66, PvdA en GroenLinks willen dat. Het CDA en PVV zijn altijd fel tegenstander van het plan geweest, maar nu laat een CDA'er weten: 'De tijd van taboes lijkt voorbij in deze lastige tijden'.
      De regeringspartijen gaan pas later om de tafel zitten om keuzes te maken.
    'Pensioenen begin 2013 omlaag' Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl
      Een korting op de pensioenen van veel werkenden en gepensioneerden is op handen. Bij zeventien grote fondsen zullen de pensioenen begin 2013 waarschijnlijk met gemiddeld 5,9 procent omlaag gaan.
      De zeventien fondsen vertegenwoordigen gezamenlijk 65 procent van de totale Nederlandse pensioenpot. Bij de vijf grootste dreigt zelfs een daling van gemiddeld 7,9 procent.
    Aantal veroordeelden onder elektronisch toezicht stijgt ja... - De Standaard
      In 2008 kregen de justitiehuizen 2.886 nieuwe mandaten voor elektronisch toezicht overgemaakt. In 2009 steeg dat aantal tot 3.188 (+ 10,5 procent) en in 2010 tot 3.478 (+ 9,1 procent). In de eerste 9 maanden van 2011 ging het om 2.806 nieuwe mandaten, wat overeenkomt met 3.741 op jaarbasis (+ 7,6 procent).
  Space Wars
    Russia's lost Phobos-Grunt to fall in Afghanistan -- U.S. military | Russia | RIA Novosti
      Phobos-Grunt, Russia's most ambitious planetary mission in decades, was launched on November 9 but it was lost due to propulsion failure and is expected to fall back to Earth next month.
      The U.S. Strategic Command said the spacecraft would enter the atmosphere at 2.22 a.m. Moscow time (22.27 GMT) and fall somewhere between 30.7 Degrees North and 62.3 Degrees East in southwestern Afghanistan near the city of Mirabad.
  We Can't Wait
    AT&T completes acquisition of Qualcomm's FLO TV spectrum -- Engadget
      It's only been five days since it's gotten the official go ahead, but AT&T's wasted no time in completing its acquisition of a swath of 700MHz spectrum from Qualcomm. Those airwaves, which formerly powered FLO TV, were purchased for a cool $1.9 billion and will now be repurposed to bolster Ma Bell's LTE network. It might not have been everything the carrier had hoped for, but some additional spectrum is better than none, right? Possibly the shortest press release you'll ever see awaits after the break.
  VIDEO
    [VIDEO] Do Black Americans Believe Ron Paul Is Racist? -
    [VIDEO] Ron Paul: Damn It, Don't Ask Bout My Racist Writings. -
      Boots on the ground. Spread the word, mine or yours.
    [VIDEO] Proof that Concealed Carry permit holders live in a dream world, Part One -
      The controlled study documented in these videos show that concealed carry permit holders are fooling themselves if they think they will be able to react effectively to armed aggressors.
    [VIDEO] Be a HERO and Help STOP SOPA Now!! I'll tell you How! This Video that Must Be SHARED! -
    [VIDEO] Trading Oil, Currencies & Markets
      A check on the moves in oil, markets and currencies, and where traders are placing their bets today, with Tom O'Brien, The Gold Report; Boris Schlossberg, GFT Forex, and Ben Lichtenstein,
    [VIDEO] - Opinion Journal: Ron Paul's Letters to the Fanatics -- Dorothy Rabinowitz on Ron Paul's devout fans - WSJ.com
      Dorothy Rabinowitz on the blind faith of Ron Paul's devout followers.
    [VIDEO] Joe Scarborough: 'There Is Always A Strain Of Anti-Semitism' At Ron Paul Events | Mediaite
    [VIDEO] Briefing on New Rewards for Justice Reward Offer
      MR. HARTUNG: Thank you. Good afternoon. Today the U.S. Department of State's Rewards for Justice program is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that leads law enforcement or security forces to the person pictured behind me, Ezedin Abdel Aziz Khalil, better known as Yasin al-Suri. Today's announcement marks the first time that the Rewards for Justice program has offered a reward for information that leads to a terrorist financier. Under an agreement between al-Qaida and the Government of Iran, Yasin al-Suri has helped move money and recruits through Iran to al-Qaida leaders in neighboring countries in the region.
      From his sanctuary inside Iran, he has moved terrorist recruits through Iran to al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan and in Afghanistan. He has also arranged for the release of al-Qaida operatives from Iranian prisons and their transfer to Pakistan. And he has funneled significant amounts of money through Iran to al-Qaida's leadership in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a dedicated terrorist working in support of al-Qaida with the support of the Government of Iran, which the Department of State has designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
Clips & Stuff
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  Gitmo Nation
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  Haiti
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  JCD Clips
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    ron paul newsletter.mp3
    ron paul sniggering.mp3
  Ministry of Truth
    ABC report from soros.mp3
    BILLS-112hr3765eh.pdf
    Japanese debris animation.mp3
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  Obama
    biden on corzine.mp3
  Out There
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    xmas ufos in euroland.mp3
  PR
    Nike PR gets out of hand.mp3
  Ron Paul
    Eric Dondero stumbles.mp3
    morning joe anti-semitisim.mp3
    RP-rabinowitz hit job.mp3
  Squirrel!
    state on reward.mp3
  Techno Experts
    NATO excercise.mp3
    threat-predictions-2012.pdf
  Xfactor
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