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NA-371-2012-01-05 Credits
  Dead Herring in Norway!
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      Ik heb mijn domeinnaam amsterdamfashion.nl laten verwijzen naar jullie site noagendashow.com
      Ik hoop dat het een klein beetje zal helpen om jullie fantastische show de winter door te helpen.
      Als ik ben afgestudeerd zal ik ook een donor zijn en niet langer een boner.
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  NDAA
    Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any Worse... Introducin[]g: H.R. 3166 & S. 1698 Enemy Expatriati[]on Act! - BlackListedNews.com
      112th Congress: 2011-2012
      To add engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which United States nationals would lose their nationality.
      Sponsor: Rep. Charles Dent [R-PA15]
  SOPA/ACTA
    US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law | TorrentFreak
      In a letter dated December 12th and sent by US Ambassador Alan D. Solomont to the Spanish Prime Minister's office, the US expressed "deep concern" over the failure to implement the SOPA-style censorship law.
      "The government has unfortunately failed to finish the job for political reasons, to the detriment of the reputation and economy of Spain," read the letter obtained by El Pais.
      Racing against the clock in the final days of the government, Solomont had one last push.
      "I encourage the Government of Spain to implement the Sinde Law immediately to safeguard the reputation of Spain as an innovative country that does what it says it will, and as a country that breeds confidence," he wrote.
      But along with the pleas came the stick.
      In the letter, which was also sent to Minister of Culture ˆÅngeles González-Sinde after whom the law is named, Solomont noted that Spain is already on the Special 301, the annual report prepared by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) detailing 'trade barriers' based on intellectual property issues.
  Bank$ters
    MF Global sold assets to Goldman before collapse: sources | Reuters
      MF Global unloaded hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of securities to Goldman Sachs in the days leading up to its collapse, according to two former MF Global employees with direct knowledge of the transactions. But it did not immediately receive payment from its clearing firm and lender, JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), one of the sources said.
      JPMorgan has fought aggressively in bankruptcy court to protect its interests, and received a lien on some of MF Global's assets in exchange for granting the firm $8 million to fund its bankruptcy costs. The lien puts JPMorgan's interests ahead of MF Global customers who have not yet received an estimated $900 million worth of money from their accounts, which remain frozen as regulators search for missing funds.
      The hastily crafted transactions and the seeming inability of MF Global to recoup some of the money in the sale to Goldman may start to explain why so much money remains unaccounted for at the futures firm.
      The Wall Street Journal previously reported that George Soros' fund was a buyer of securities sold by MF Global, scooping-up some of its European sovereign debt at a deep discount. Panic among investors and clients about MF Global's $6.3 billion bet on European sovereign bonds led to its demise.
      The sale of securities to Goldman occurred on October 27, just days before MF Global Holdings Ltd (MFGLQ.PK) filed for bankruptcy on October 31, the ex-employees said. One of the employees said the transaction was cleared with JPMorgan Chase.
      At the same time MF Global, which was run by former Goldman Sachs head Jon Corzine, was selling securities to Goldman to raise badly needed cash, the futures firm was also drawing down a $1.2 billion revolving line of credit it had with JPMorgan, according to one of the former MF Global employees
    World's Biggest Economies Face $7.6 Trillion Bond Tab as Rally Seen Fading - Bloomberg
      Governments of the world's leading economies have more than $7.6 trillion of debt maturing this year, with most facing a rise in borrowing costs.
      Led by Japan's $3 trillion and the U.S.'s $2.8 trillion, the amount coming due for the Group of Seven nations and Brazil, Russia, India and China is up from $7.4 trillion at this time last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Ten-year bond yields will be higher by year-end for at least seven of the countries, forecasts show.
      Investors may demand higher compensation to lend to countries that struggle to finance increasing debt burdens as the global economy slows, surveys show. The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for growth this year to 4 percent from a prior estimate of 4.5 percent as Europe's debt crisis spreads, the U.S. struggles to reduce a budget deficit exceeding $1 trillion and China's property market cools.
  We Can't Wait
    Stirring up a fight, Obama names consumer watchdog
      Presidents of both parties long have gotten around a stalled confirmation by naming a nominee to a job when the Senate is on a break through a process known as a recess appointment.
      But Obama went further by squeezing in his appointment during a break between rapid Senate sessions this week, an unusual move that the GOP called an arrogant power grab.
      The White House said what the Senate was doing - gaveling in and out of session every few days solely to avoid being in recess - was a sham. Obama's aides said the president would not be stopped by a legislative gimmick, even though it was Senate Democrats who began the practice to halt President George W. Bush's appointments.
      "When Congress refuses to act, and as a result hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them," Obama said from Ohio, a state vital to Obama's re-election bid.
  EUROLand
    EU DEBT CRISIS: Berlin anger as key ECB position goes to Belgian | The Slog
      Draghi is a shrewd, Goldman-trained consensus manager with a fine head for politics. The three new members of the ECB Board to join since he came on board have been French, German and Belgian. He has thus replaced two German resignees with one -- while the other two do not suffer from the inflation phobia driving events in the Merkel Government.
      By far the most important of these moves was the replacement of hawk German Jurgen Stark yesterday with Belgian dove Peter Praet. It was also very surprising for most observers....and irritated several senior players in Berlin. In particular, I'm indebted to a Slogger handily placed in Germany who point out an article in Deutsche Mittelstands Nachrichten on the subject of Praet's appointment as Chief Economist at the central bank. If you read German, the vituperative nature of most comments will tell you what most thinking Germans believe: that they have been stitched up the the Gallic-Latin alliance. And they're right.
      Merkel and Wolfgang Schauble wanted (and expected) German Jˆrg Asmussen to get the job, but the French intervened first to block him, and then to suggest another candidate in turn.....who just happened to be French -- Benoit Coeur. I understand that Draghi has tried to position these as 'neutral' appointments, but Berlin isn't buying it. For one thing, they know perfectly well that Mario Monti in Italy supported Praet's candidature, because he is a dove on junk bond-buying -- and without that support being upped dramatically, Italy is dead in the water. As DMN put it yesterday, '...now, the decisions made by the ECB's Board will be influenced by those countries who are dependent on money. Germany, in contrast, as the most potent paymaster, has lost a massive amount of influence.' Yah-boo-sucks, and s'not fair.
    Noodfonds schrijft obligatielening uit voor Ierland en Portugal - Schuldencrisis - VK
      Het tijdelijke Europese noodfonds EFSF gaat een obligatielening uitgeven waarvan de opbrengsten gebruikt worden om Ierland en Portugal financieel te ondersteunen. Dat werd vandaag bekendgemaakt.
      Het gaat om een driejarige lening voor een totaalbedrag van 3 miljard euro. De uitschrijving van de lening zal spoedig volgen. Een precieze datum is nog niet bekend. Het zal de eerste driejarige lening zijn die het EFSF uitschrijft.
      Het tijdelijke noodfonds werd in het leven geroepen om eurolanden die in de problemen waren gekomen financieel te ondersteunen. Het tijdelijke fonds zal worden vervangen door een permanent fonds, het ESM.
    Sarkozy hit with new allegations over arms kickbacks | EurActiv
      President Nicolas Sarkozy-is facing new allegations of involvement in an old weapons sales scandal four months ahead of French presidential elections, according to court testimony-disclosed by the daily Libˆ©ration.
      The newspaper yesterday (2 January) quoted testimony from a former defence official who said Sarkozy authorised in 1994 the creation of a shell company to pay kickbacks on large French arms sales to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Sarkozy was budget minister at the time.
      Gˆ©rard-Philippe Menayas, a senior Defence Ministry official at that time, told Judge Renaud Van-Ruymbeke that Sarkozy had agreed establishing the Heine firm in Luxembourg, seen as pivotal in a scheme using kickbacks from arms sales to fund the unsuccessful presidential campaign of Edouard Balladur in 1995. Sarkozy was Balladur's-campaign spokesperson.
      "It is clear that the budget minister necessarily gave his agreement for establishing Heine... In view of the importance of the matter, such a decision could only be taken at the level of the ministers' cabinet," Menayas is quoted as saying.
      Sarkozy has repeatedly denied any involvement in the affair, although two of his aides, Thierry Gaubert and Nicolas Bazire, have been already charged.
    Germany's 'zombie currency' refuses to die | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 02.01.2012
      "You can also pay with deutschmarks!" These words, splashed across a flyer promoting an outdoor haberdashery stand in Berlin, appear dated given that Germany has been using the euro for 10 years now.
      But the stand's owner, a portly man who trades under the unlikely name of "Willy Winzig" (Tiny Willy), insists that his dual currency pledge is not just a tired promotional gimmick.
      "A lot of people still have deutschmarks lying around at home and don't know what to do with them," he says. To prove his point, Willy runs his sausage fingers through the piles of cloth, thread, and buttons he is selling until they re-emerge holding a small plastic bag filled with old coins.
    DutchNews.nl - The Netherlands has lost part of Greek loan: former central bank chief
      Despite finance minister Jan Kees de Jager's insistence that the Netherlands will get its money back, this is not a realistic picture, Wellink said.
      'There is one inconsistency in the story which all the politicians are telling. You can say, like our minister, that the government will always get its money back, but if you take on an increasingly large share of Greek debt, the chance of that happening decreases,' Wellink said.
      The Netherlands is responsible for ’Ç¨4.7bn of the ’Ç¨110bn loan made to Greece in May 2010. Its share of the new ’Ç¨130bn loan has yet to be finalised, the FD said.
    Vanaf 1 februari 2014 betalen we Europees | nu.nl/economie | Het laatste nieuws het eerst op nu.nl
      Single Euro Payments Area
    EU direct debit rules open to fraud, says consumer group | EurActiv
    Single Euro Payments Area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Ron Paul
    Crackpots Do Not Make Good Messengers | Mother Jones
      Can we talk? Ron Paul is not a charming oddball with a few peculiar notions. He's not merely "out of the mainstream." Ron Paul is a full-bore crank. In fact he's practically the dictionary definition of a crank: a person who has a single obsessive, all-encompassing idea for how the world should work and is utterly blinded to the value of any competing ideas or competing interests.
  Shut Up Slave!
    Ken Clarke to double number of prisoners working full time - Telegraph
      The Justice Secretary plans to double the number of inmates working up to 40 hours a week because they are currently a "wasted resource".
      They will carry out a range of jobs from welding and plastering to motor mechanics and printing, with some working on contracts for the private sector.
      The aim is to instill a work ethic in to offenders, some of who have never had a job in their life, and give them skills to find employment on release rather than return to crime.
      It comes as figures from one "working prison" showed six in ten released inmates find a job or go in to further training or education -- 50 per cent higher than the national average.
      Earlier this month, the chief inspector of prisons warned custody was a revolving door for too many offenders, who were left to sleep their way through their sentences.
  Drone Nation
    Unmanned drones used within UK civil airspace: Who is ensuring that the public's privacy and civil liberties are protected?
      Analysis of information received in response to a series of Freedom of Information requests to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has revealed that around fifty to sixty companies and public bodies per year are being granted "blanket permission" to fly unmanned drones within UK civil airspace.- -With very few exceptions each flight must remain under 400 feet and within 500 metres of the operator.
      While names of companies and institutions who have been granted permission to fly drones has not been revealed, the type of work being undertaken includes aerial photography and filming,- surveying of buildings and land, emergency services work, and surveillance in support of law enforcement, data collection, evidence gathering and security.
      The Civil Aviation Authority grants three types of 'permissions' to fly unmanned aircraft : a) permission for a one-off flight,- b) permission for a series of flights in a limited time frame, or c) blanket permission which must be renewed on an annual basis.
      The CAA has told Drone Wars UK that-out of the 100 applications submitted between-January 2010 and September 2011, 98 blanket permissions were issued.- With one exception all the applications were for drones weighing less than 20kg.- While in the time frame many of the 98 applications will have been renewals a conservative estimate is that around fifty to sixty companies and public bodies are regularly flying unmanned drones in- UK civil airspace.
    Sentient Developments: Montana to use drones against wolves
      J. William Gibson reports in the LA Times that the state of Montana is going to use unmanned drones to hunt wolves. "What is happening to wolves now, and what is planned for them, doesn't really qualify as hunting," writes Gibson, "It is an outright war." From the article:
    Whaling: campaigners use drones in the fight against Japanese whalers | Environment | The Observer
    Our New Megabase in Afghanistan | Defense Tech
      The perimeter of the once sprawling Soviet base was officially expanded to three times its size to accommodate the Afghan air force's undergraduate pilot training center. However, with last month's downing of an RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone, news emerged that Shindand plays host to the secret UAVs, which had previously only been known to fly out of Kandahar air base.
      The facility's remoteness and proximity to the border with Iran makes it the perfect location for a variety of ops against Tehran. In fact, its one of the few major U.S. bases that doesn't appear to be updated when veiwed through satellite viewers like Google Maps. Even the sensitive U.S. facilities in the UAE show plenty of Western jets parked on their ramps. Meanwhile, updated (albeit grainy) images of Kandahar Airport, where the RQ-170 likely takes off from for missions over nearby Pakistan, are easily viewable in Google Maps.
  Iran Nukes
    Iran Calls for New Nuclear Talks | End the Lie - Independent News
      Iran's National Security Adviser Saeed Jalili is calling for a new round of negotiations with the West over its nuclear program, amid heightened tensions in the Persian Gulf over threats by Tehran to close the vital Strait of Hormuz. About 40 percent of the world's oil purchases transit through that waterway.
      Iran's Al-Alam TV reported that security adviser Jalili made the offer to resume negotiations with the West Saturday, during a meeting with Iranian ambassadors in Tehran. It added that Iran's ambassador to Germany would present the proposal to EU foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton.
      The fresh diplomatic overture follows Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz earlier this week. The U.S. later countered with a promise to keep the strait open -- calming oil markets, which had been roiled by the earlier threats.
    About Us | UANI
      United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, advocacy group that seeks to prevent Iran from fulfilling its ambition to obtain nuclear weapons. UANI was founded in 2008 by Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, the late Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, Former CIA Director Jim Woolsey and Middle East expert Dennis Ross.
      WHAT WILL UANI BE DOING ABOUT IRAN?
        Build a broad, bipartisan and inclusive coalition with leading individuals and organizations representing a broad spectrum of views;
        Educate the public about the nature of the Iranian regime, including its desire and intent to possess nuclear weapons, as well as Iran's role as the key state sponsor of global terrorism, and a major violator of human rights at home and abroad;
        Heighten awareness nationally and internationally about the grave threat that a nuclear-armed Iran poses to the region and the world;
        Educate the public and opinion leaders about Iran's role as the key state sponsor of global terrorism, leading executer of women and children, and major violator of human rights at home and abroad;
        Mobilize public support, utilize media outreach, and call upon elected leaders to voice a united American opposition to a nuclear Iran;
        Lay the groundwork for effective US policies in coordination with European and other allies;
        Persuade the regime in Tehran to desist from its quest for nuclear weapons; while striving not to punish the Iranian people, and;
        Promote efforts that focus on vigorous national and international, social, economic, political and diplomatic measures.
      UANI's private sanctions campaigns and state and Federal legislative initiatives focus on ending the economic and financial support of the Iranian regime by corporations, firms, entities and individuals at a time when the international community is attempting to compel Iran to abandon its illegal nuclear weapons program, support for terrorism and gross human rights violations.
  Haiti
    Haiti: Seven Places Where Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go | Common Dreams
      The largest single recipient of US earthquake money was the US government. The same holds true for donations by other countries.
      Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton announced a fundraising venture for Haiti on January 16, 2010. As of October 2011, the fund had received $54 million in donations. It has partnered with several Haitian and international organizations. Though most of its work appears to be admirable, it has donated $2 million to the construction of a Haitian $29 million for-profit luxury hotel.
      Less than a month after the quake hit, the US Ambassador Kenneth Merten sent a cable titled "THE GOLD RUSH IS ON" as part of his situation report to Washington. In this February 1, 2010 document, made public by The Nation, Haiti Liberte and Wikileaks, Ambassador Merten reported the President of Haiti met with former General Wesley Clark for a sales presentation for a Miami-based company that builds foam core houses.
    OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: Clinton, Haiti And Martelly
      Haitian suspicion of Bill Clinton is not unfounded or baseless. One of the singular accomplishments during his presidency was to strong-arm Haiti into joining NAFTA (the now discredited and defunct North American Free Trade Area). Haiti was forced to drop tariff protections and embrace cheap imported and US subsidized goods that killed the local Haitian agricultural industry and eventually its already weak social structure.
      Out of office Clinton was remarkably candid when he described the NAFTA/Haitian deal as "we made a devil's bargain." Within months of NAFTAs implementation, unable to sell their-organic rice any longer,-an internal reverse Diasporan drift began with hundreds of thousands of starving, unemployed Haitian people converging upon Port-au-Prince to find jobs and set up slum dwellings as makeshift homes mushroomed all over the place.
  Gitmo Nation
    440,783 "Silent SMS" Used to Track German Suspects in 2010 - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab
      Silent messages, often called silent SMS, stealth SMS, or stealthy ping, will not show up on the display, neither
      -----is there an acoustical signal when they are received. However, at the mobile provider some data is created
      -----(for example, the subscriber identification IMSI). This kind of message is sent especially by the police to locate
      -----a person or to create a complete movement profile of a person. In Germany in the year 2010, nearly half a
      -----million "silent SMSs" were sent by the federal police, the customs, and the secret service "Office for Protection
      -----of the Constitution."
  2TTH
    50 Cent makes macabre death prediction on Twitter | Mail Online
      Fiddy, 36, said: 'Ill be honest I don't think I'm gonna live much longer.'
      He also insisted he is 'good if I die tonight.'
      It came after he had a lengthy Twitter rant about the state of his career.
      He said: 'I have lost all the faith in the team I'm on. I having nothing left to say I will not be promoting my music.
      'I'm going to deliver this album then I have a film I wrote to focus on.
      'I'm not upset I'm just convinced this is not how I want to remembered.'
    Local Japan official found with shotgun blast to chest -- Lectured against nuclear power after Fukushima - Enenews.com
      According to Ise station, Uemura receiving the bullet to the chest, we have collapsed with the driver's seat, the shot gun (total length approximately 113 centimeters, top and bottom 2 connected type) had fallen external. In order for Uemura same day around 10:30 AM, to exterminate the crow of the ranch, you say that you went out with 1 people, with the gun. You investigate the same station from accidental explosion accident and both sides of suicide.
  Trains Good, Planes Bad (Whoo Hoo!)
    Qantas flight plunge off Western Australia blamed on computer
      In the culmination of a three-year probe into the incident, which occurred at 37,000 feet over the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia on October 7, 2008, Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators found the plane twice dived unexpectedly after one of three airspeed sensors malfunctioned.
    Techno Experts
    .net vs .gov
      I'm not a federal webmaster but I've done consulting for county
      governments. I can tell you a little bit about why they don't use .gov
      for some domains.
      Like all domain registrations, .gov domains require an administrative,
      billings and technical contact. Unlike other domain registrations,
      these three contacts must be unique and have specific requirements that
      are agreed to. Specifically, the administrative contact is responsible
      for reviewing all content before it goes public.
      As a result, many .gov websites end up forwarding to a .com, .net or
      .org to get around this requirement. Anything that they wanted to
      disavow, have user submitted, etc. then goes on the non-.gov site so
      that they aren't responsible for reviewing and posting it.
      Hope this helps.
      All the best,
  Out There
    Thousands of herring wash up on beach - then disappear [In The StarGate!]
      Tens of thousands of dead herring have carpeted a stretch of coast in northern Norway - and then disappeared again.
      The fish appeared on New Year's Eve, leading to speculation that predators might have driven a huge school ashore or the fish could have been washed on to the beach by a powerful storm that hit Norway on Christmas Day.
      Jens Christian Holst of Norway's Institute of Marine Research said a combination of several factors was the likely explanation.
      Advertisement: Story continues below
      Locals also started pondering how to clean up the estimated 20 tonnes of dead fish on the beach in Kvaenes, near Tromsoe, north of the Arctic Circle, before it decayed. But before they could start, the fish disappeared.
      Holst said the herrings had most likely washed back into the North Sea.
  Chemtrails/Persisten Jet Contrails
    Rabies vaccine to be dropped from the air | kvue.com Austin
      The Texas Department of State Health Services will drop vaccines from the air Wednesday.
      It's part of the annual effort to protect people and livestock from rabies. They'll drop about 1.8 million doses of the rabies vaccine over the next month.
      The vaccines are enclosed in small packets dipped in fish oil and coated with fish meal crumbles.
      The baits don't pose a risk to humans, but organizers say you should avoid them because animals are less likely to eat the bait if a human has been messing with it.
  Ministry of Truth
    Rewards for Justice-faq - english
      Can you provide details on the Rewards for Justice Fund?
      The Rewards for Justice Fund is a non-governmental, non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose sole affiliation with the U.S. Department of State's Rewards for Justice program is for the purpose of raising and providing private contributions for its use in the identification and apprehension of terrorists operating within the United States and abroad. The Rewards for Justice Fund was created and is administered by a group of private American citizens. The group approached the Department of State shortly after the September 11 attacks and requested approval to raise money through donations from the general public to support RFJ. We reviewed this proposal and support the efforts of the Rewards for Justice Fund. Additional questions should be directed to the Fund at www.rewardsfund.org.
    RewardsForJustice investigaton
      I filled out their contact form on the RewardsForJustice.net and asked if they were an NGO or a government organization.... To my surprise, I got this reply.
      Thought you might find it interesting....
      Begin forwarded message:
      The Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program forwarded to me your query about the RFJ Web site.
      The Web site to which you refer (www.RewardsForJustice.net) is indeed a U.S. Government Web site for the RFJ program.
      The RFJ program is an interagency body but is managed by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, which is why I am responding to you.
      When the RFJ program pays a reward, the money come from funds within the budget of the U.S. Department of State.
      If you need any additional information about the RFJ program, please peruse the Web site's FAQ page or feel free to contact me.
      Thanks for your query.
      -- David E. Bates
      Diplomatic Security Public Affairs
      571-345-2518
      BatesDE@state.gov
      www.DiplomaticSecurity.state.gov
      This email is UNCLASSIFIED.
      ---
      Patrick Bailey
    Press Gaggle by Press Secretary Jay Carney en route Cleveland, OH | The White House
      Q Jay, on Cordray, it seems you're walking into -- the President is walking into a legal and political buzz saw here. Your own administration has conceded that three days is too short a period to qualify as a recess. Harry Reid has acknowledged that. Doesn't that put Cordray in an incredibly weak starting position?
      MR. CARNEY: Not at all. In fact, the President's counsel has determined that the Senate has been in recess for weeks and will be in recess for weeks. The Constitution guarantees the President the right, provides the President the right to make appointments during Senate recesses, and the President will use that authority to make this appointment.
      Where pro forma sessions are used, as the Senate has done and plans to continue to do, simply as an attempt to prevent the President from exercising his constitutional authority, such pro forma sessions do not interrupt the recess. And I would note that this is the view of White House counsel. I would also note that it's the view of the head of the OLC under the President George W. Bush administration, as well as the Deputy -- I believe the deputy attorney general in the Bush administration on the very same point about pro forma sessions that are designed explicitly simply to prevent the President from exercising his constitutional authority.
    Twitter Questions to be Taken from the Podium - 21st Century Statecraft Month
    Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 515, H.R. 789, H.R. 1059, H.R. 1264, H.R. 1801, H.R. 1892, H.R. 2056, H.R. 2422, and H.R. 2845 | The White House
      H.R. 515, the "Belarus Democracy and Human Rights Act of 2011," which reauthorizes and amends the Belarus Democracy Act of 2004;
      H.R. 1059, which extends for six years, through December 31, 2017, the authority of the Judiciary to redact personal and sensitive information in the financial disclosure reports of judicial officers and employees where release of the information could endanger them or their family members;
      H.R. 1801, the "Risk-Based Security Screening for Members of the Armed Forces Act," which requires the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration to develop and implement a plan to provide expedited security screening services for members of the Armed Forces;
      H.R. 1892, the "Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012," which authorizes FY 2012 appropriations for U.S. intelligence-related activities and establishes and amends various intelligence-related authorities;
      H.R. 2056, which requires the Inspector General of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to conduct a comprehensive study on the impact of the failure of insured depository institutions and the Government Accountability Office to carry out a study on the causes of high levels of bank failures;
  FnF
    Laurie Robinson Leaving the Obama Administration in February
      Laurie Robinson, the assistant attorney general for the division of the Justice Department that oversees juvenile justice, announced in a message to colleagues that she would be leaving the Obama administration at the end of February.
      Robinson leads the Office of Justice Programs, which is the main conduit of federal Justice Department funds to the states and includes seven programmatic offices, including the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
      Her decision means that Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli is the closest Senate-confirmed leader at Justice to the OJJDP, which has been without a confirmed administrator since J. Robert Flores resigned during the George W. Bush administration.
    Eric Holder to face grilling on Fast and Furious next month - POLITICO.com
      Attorney General Eric Holder has grudgingly agreed to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Feb. 2 to answer further questions about the Justice Department's handling of Operation Fast and Furious and the subsequent controversy about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gun trafficking probe.
      Holder's testimony was offered in an unusual Justice Department letter that called the subject matter of the hearing redundant because Holder has answered questions on Fast & Furious at five prior hearings.
    Eric Holder Assistant Abruptly Resigns From DOJ -
      Laurie Robinson, assistant to Attorney General Eric Holder and responsible for disseminating billions of dollars from Obama stimulus funds, abruptly resigns from the Department of Justice.
  VIDEO
    [VIDEO] Sydney shooting in Sans Souci-LOne Wof bikie gang
    [VIDEO] Ron Paul "When Newt Gingrich Was Called To Service During Vietnam HE CHICKENED OUT!" -
    [VIDEO] Al Gore on Ron Paul - No wonder -
    [VIDEO] Iowa Republican Party Officials Confirm Potential Vote Count Fraud In Iowa Caucus | TheOverThrowShow.com -- Peter Santilli
      Data Director for the Iowa Republican party, he confirms the potential for voter fraud, and also refuses to answer the question regarding whether or not the chain of human custody between the precincts and central headquarters is ever broken.
    [VIDEO] Ahem, It Turns Out There Was a Computer "Glitch" in Iowa
      Here's an interesting report from National Journal and the real-time coverage from CNN at that point. It doesn't in itself prove chicanery, perhaps the opposite. But, here is what is known for the record, though perhaps a little more about this computer "glitch" and how extensive it was needs to be researched and how many other precinct numbers were just "called in" because of the "glitch".
    [VIDEO] Michelle Obama Jokes: "I Kind Of Like" Being Called Your Excellency |
    [VIDEO] Flying sphere goes where man fears to tread -
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