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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:31
De Jager: 'Veranderen van politieke partij doe je niet zomaar even'
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:03
  Door: Thijs van Soest '' 28/10/12, 13:02
  (C) anp. Jan Kees de Jager
  CDA-minister Jan Kees de Jager heeft niet overwogen om van politieke partij te veranderen om op die manier alsnog in aanmerking te komen voor een post in het nieuwe kabinet van PvdA en VVD. De alom gewaardeerde minister van Financin, die momenteel zijn laatste dagen beleeft als bewindsman, zei dat vanmiddag tijdens het 'afscheidsinterview' in het tv-programma Buitenhof.
  Ik ben zelf al heel snel van bruggen bouwen
  Jan Kees de Jager over waarom hij zichzelf niet geschikt acht als partijleider van het CDA'Veranderen van politieke partij, dat zal ik natuurlijk niet doen', zei De Jager. 'Je kunt niet zomaar even per week van politieke kleur verschieten om dan maar in het kabinet terecht te komen.' De Jager zei het wel te betreuren dat zijn partij 'in verval is geraakt' en nu dus ook niet mee zal doen aan een nieuw kabinet. 'Ik heb het met heel veel plezier gedaan. Het is een natuurlijk moment om het stokje door te geven.' De afgelopen weken gingen er evenwel geluiden op om alsnog ruimte te maken voor CDA'er De Jager vanwege zijn kundige optreden als minister in het bestrijden van de Europese schuldencrisis.
  Politieke kleurDe politieke kleur is niet zozeer van belang als minister van Financin, verduidelijkte De Jager, maar komt vooral naar voren in de ministersploeg die opereert vanuit de Trªvezaal. Daar worden volgens de politicus toch keuzes gemaakt op basis van de politieke kleur van de desbetreffende partijen, waardoor een plotse overstap naar een andere partij toch ongeloofwaardig zou zijn.
  Bruggen bouwenDe Jager ging tijdens het gesprek in Buitenhof ook in op het afwijzen van het partijleiderschap van het CDA. 'Ik heel veel jaren dit vak gedaan, met heel veel plezier, maar je moet ook weten wat jou heel erg ligt. Mijn gevoel gaf mij heel duidelijk aan dat dat partijleiderschap mij niet ligt. Een partijleider moet zijn partij kunnen accentueren en juist de verschillen benadrukken. Maar ik ben zelf al heel snel van het bruggen bouwen', verklaarde de demissionair minister die de politiek na het aantreden van het nieuwe kabinet dus zal verlaten.
  EurocrisisDe Jager liet verder weten dat de eurocrisis nog niet voorbij is. 'Ik zie zeker lichtpuntjes, maar ik ben nog iets terughoudender (dan bijvoorbeeld president Hollande van Frankrijk, red) om het sein brand meester te geven. Maar we hebben wel vooruitgang geboekt', zei hij. Het probleem is volgens De Jager vooral dat het vertrouwen nog niet is teruggekeerd. 'En dat vertrouwen keert ook niet terug als we maar geld blijven uitgeven. We zitten op de goede weg, maar als je de koers niet vasthoudt, kun je nog van de weg geraken.'
Arrest Made in BBC Sex-Abuse Scandal
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:02
  LONDON '-- The British police made an arrest on Sunday in the widening inquiry into the sexual abuse scandal surrounding the BBC television star Jimmy Savile.
  Metropolitan Police did not identify the man that had been arrested, saying only that he was in his sixties. But the British media, including the BBC, widely reported that the man held at a London police station was the 1970s pop star Gary Glitter, who is a convicted pedophile.
  A spokesman for Scotland Yard said the man was arrested shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday ''on suspicion of sexual offenses.'' The arrest came as part of a widening police inquiry known as Operation Yewtree, into ''Jimmy Savile and others,'' the spokesman said.
  Last week police officials said that some 300 people had come forward claiming Mr. Savile had assaulted them.
  Before his death last year, Mr. Savile was one of Britain's most-famous television hosts, known for his charity work, his garishly colored tracksuits and his peroxided hair. He was long dogged by rumors of inappropriate behavior toward underage girls.
  But the case did not break into the open until after Mr. Savile's death at the age of 84. Both Mr. Savile and Mr. Glitter have been accused of abusing young people in BBC studios.
  The BBC has come under withering criticism after an investigation into the accusations against Mr. Savile by the current affairs program ''Newsnight'' was abruptly canceled. Chris Patten, chairman of the BBC Trust, which oversees the BBC, said in an article in The Sunday Mail that the BBC's ''reputation is on the line'' and that the organization ''risks squandering public trust,'' as a result of the scandal.
  Mr. Patten also apologized ''unreservedly'' to the victims who spoke to the ''Newsnight'' program ''presumably at great personal pain, yet did not have their stories told as they expected.''
  Mr. Glitter, a glam-rock star whose real name is Paul Gadd, was convicted in Britain in 1999 on charges of possessing child pornography. He served nearly three years in prison in Vietnam for sexually abusing two girls, aged 11 and 12 years.
Douwe Egberts admits its Senseo coffee has been weak.
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 13:01
  Douwe Egberts admits its Senseo coffee has been weakBy Branko Collin
  Dutch coffee makers Douwe Egberts have been reducing the amount of coffee in the pods for its Senseo system for years, Volkskrant reports.
  The newspaper quotes CEO Michiel Herkemij, who blames former parent company Sara Lee. The amount of coffee in the pods was reduced from 7.5 grams to 7 grams to cut costs. Now that Douwe Egberts is its own company again (called ''D. E. Master Blenders''), the missing half gram has been returned to the pods.
  It appears the coffee maker wants to go back to competing on quality rather than price. Earlier this year Herkemij told NRC: ''If you lower the quality you open the door for white labels. Their pods are 20% cheaper and yet have the same quality as ours. When I worked for Heineken I learned that the only way to distinguish yourself is with better products.''
  Herkemij also wants to ditch the recent style of advertising which involved celebrities like Doutzen Kroes and Rutger Hauer and return to the cosy mood of yesteryear's ads that used the slogan ''het aroma komt je tegemoet'' ('the smell of coffee greets you').
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Please Stop Using Reusable Grocery Bags Before You Hurt Your Family
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:54
  Here's another article about how those reusable canvass grocery bags spread E. coli, salmonella, and the norovirus.
  Please stop using these things before you hurt your family unintentionally. Use plastic bags that they have at the grocery store and then throw those all away when you get home. If you want to feel ''green'', then use the grocery bags as trash bags after you've put your groceries away.
  That's what I do'...except for any bags that had meat in them or fresh produce (those bags all go right in the garbage). The bags that had canned goods or boxes I save to use as trash bags for our smaller garbage cans (like in the bathroom or under my desk'...they are the perfect size for that).
  Children are too precious to put at risk for ANYTHING just because the nuts on the Left think reusable bags are ''good for the environment''. Well, the jury is out on that'...but it's pretty damn clear to me that these reusable bags actually are bacteria farms that lead to people (and especially little kids) getting sick.
  Do not take the chance'...and don't think you're really going to wash those reusable bags properly so that they don't breed bacteria. If you think about it, you're actually causing more harm to the environment by even trying to wash those bags: the soap, the fossil fuels heating the water, the 30 minutes of electricity to wash those bags and then the 40 minutes to dry them, etc. I think using disposable plastic bags that won't make anyone in your house sick is smarter that trifling with washing canvass bags that apparently can never be washed properly.
  If you live somewhere that's outlawed plastic bags and you aren't in a position to move then you're in a real bind because the lefties who passed that no-plastic law in your part of the country have pretty much doomed you to getting sick'...all in the name of ''being good to Gaia, the Earth Mother''. That's in keeping with the Left's belief that humans are parasites and a bane on the planet'...so people getting sick is not as important as not upsetting the sentient ''Earth Mother''.
  Madness.
  There's no chance in Hell that I will ever do anything to make my boyfriend Justin sick by messing around with canvass bag bacteria farms when bringing home groceries. I really hope you don't do this to your families either, because we all have enough to worry about in this world without creating unnecessary risk just because the Left wants us to.
  Be good to your families. Use and then throw away plastic bags. Tell the Left and the Cult of Gaia to STUFF IT.
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Geen internet voor Britney Spears
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:54
  AMSTERDAM - Zangeres en X Factor-jurylid Britney Spears heeft voorlopig een verbod op internet gekregen.
  Britney Spears is verbannen van het internet, totdat de zaak met haar voormalig manager Sam Lutfi is afgehandeld. Dat hebben haar vader Jamie en haar verloofde Jason Trawick, die nog steeds de zorg over de zangeres hebben, besloten, meldt de Britse krant The Sun.
  Een bron vertelt aan de krant: "De reden dat Britney niet meer het internet op mag, is omdat ze bang zijn dat ze weer instort als ze leest wat Lutfi allemaal zegt. Het zou verschrikkelijk zijn als Britney opnieuw leest over die moeilijke periode."
  Sam Lutfi, die claimt dat hij de manager van de zangeres was, heeft een rechtszaak tegen de zangeres en haar ouders aangespannen wegens contractbreuk. Hij vertelde in de rechtszaal dat de zangeres een serieus drugsprobleem heeft. In haar huis zou hij een zak met de drug meth hebben aangetroffen.
  Volgens de bron maakt de Oop I did it again-zangeres het naar omstandigheden goed. "Ze staat op het punt aan de liveshows van X Factor te beginnen."
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The Sunday Splash
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  Source: A diary of deception and distortion
  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:24
  Ahergahergahergagerga'...now then now then now then guys n gals it's Jimmy Savile yet again with an' another terrific edition of Crop of the Gropes ahegaahergaherga'....
  It's a very light news day today, which leaves the Sundays free yet again to slobber all over the defrocked, unsainted, and ex-headstoned Sir James Savile OBE. This won't be a popular view I know, but the coverage is beginning to disgust me even more than the hypocrisy ('Esther Rantzen hands over dossier on top Beeb perverts') and almost as much the original crimes. Savile '' it seems highly likely '' was a pyscho perv, and now he's dead. That's it. Now let's move on. Like, maybe, find some of the hundreds of live ones still left?
  But no. Top of the Cops as always is the Murdoch axis of peeping toms, which has a picture of Freddie Starr in 1974 doing an impression of Sir Jimmy. This is presented as prima facie evidence that later in the show, Starr allegedly groped a 14 year old girl. In the marginally more serious Sunday Times, meanwhile, the main headline growls 'Savile trail leads to BBC boss's office', claiming that infamous arm-biter Mark Thompson was alerted several times to Savile's Travels around the bodies of the young and innocent. No I wasn't actually (says Thompson) but '' covering all the bases '' Roop's vendetta continues on the inside pages with 'Patten is fiddling while the BBC burns'. What, kiddy-fiddling you mean, fnar fnar?
  People need to take a break from gorging on this story, and wake up to the utterly undeserved second chance it is giving to Newscorp, in its long-running bid to bribe, cajole and threaten its way into replacing the BBC. I sense that Murdoch won't let go re this one, which is why The Slog is giving serious consideration over the next few days to running a Find the Sky Paedo competition. Everyone knows it's one of three blokes regularly onscreen. So beware, o Digger Slimeball: We are Watching You. Just like your lawyers are reading this.
  And so we say f**k off to Murdochania, and hello once again to the long-running Sarklays of Bark, the continuing sitcom about two fat twins who pay no tax, instead choosing to pay as many pipers as possible. It truly is a terrible edition this morning. There is, it headlines, a 'Fight to save a third of Britain's trees from killer fungus' (which almost all the other papers have too), while 'Claims emerge Alps murder victim may have had access to part of Saddam Hussein's fortune' (also near-ubiquitous along the Street of Blame), and 'Street lights turned off in their thousands to meet carbon emission targets' is almost identical to the line in two other titles.
  Over at The Observer meanwhile, Forest Ash disease takes deadly hold '' yes, and it shows '' while Max Clifford exclusively reveals that 'celebrities are frightened about these paedophile revelations'. Mr Clifford does of course have the exclusive UK franchise rights to Keep Calm and Pay me Money, so he would say that. If only he were a paedophile, my cup would run over and spill everywhere'....hopefully on this inflated, but initially enticing, piece of nonsense from the Guardian Group's Sunday fare:
  Jimmy Savile: BBC chief accused of misleading MPs
  Blimey, you mean Jimmy Savile has come back as a hack and reported that Chris Patten lied to a Parliamentary enquiry? Er'...no: 'David Jordan told committee he had issued inaccurate statements concerning investigation'. David Who? And at the end of para three, ''....he did so before he had been told about the true nature of the programme by its producer, Meirion Jones.'
  Right. So a bloke we've never heard of told an enquiry what he knew. Bugger me. Sorry, perhaps that's an unwise request to make these days'...at least, not until Britain's press media have got to the bottom of things. Sorry, sorry. What I mean is, let's not to come to'...sorry, sorry. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarg.
  Meawhile, in the real world where people die, there is only scant coverage of potentially one of the worst storms in US history careering inexorably towards the north-eastern seaboard.
  This is the little blighter on the left of your screen here, about to head north from the Bahamas. You wouldn't know to look at it, but the so-called 'Behemoth' storm has had a sex-change, from Irene to Sandy. If it turns a little limp-wristed in the end, perhaps they'll change the name again to Jules. Apologies to all foreign readers and young persons for that neolithic reference to the antics on Round the Horne during 1968.
  Limp is, however, what Sandy is unlikely to be. But fear not America, because the Times of India reports that 'President Obama is monitoring the storm'. This is more than you can say for the Sunday Express, which doesn't mention the barnstorming behemoth anywhere, but does have no fewer than six separate Jimmy Savile shagged my hamster stories. It's lead proclaims that 'THE BBC was under ­pressure last night to increase the cash given to sex-abuse charities by Children In Need after Jimmy Savile's crimes sparked myriad calls from victims.' For what it's worth, I rang the Beeb and they claim not to know WTF the story is on about. Their version is supported by the fact that thus far 0 (as in zero, no) readers have bothered to Have Their Say at the piece.
  There is one piece of genuine news this morning, and as often happens these days, it's in the Independent on Sunday. It is, of course, about Hackgate.
  It seems that worried Trinity Mirror investors have produced a coruscating dossier accusing six hacks of, er, hacking '' and that the practice was 'on a ''systematic'' scale inside the company's national titles'. The report says journalists on the Daily Mirror and People newspapers regularly accessed private mobile phone voicemails to obtain major stories, but the thing that makes this a really good story is the word 'systematic'.
  A few weeks back I posted briefly about the tricky situation faced by Uncle Rupert and his depraved Elves, in that Newscorp's liability insurers have fired a shot across Murdoch's bows, which is having an adverse effect on Murdoch's bowels. The Sun headline is this: 'Insurance giant warns Roop that proof of systematic hacking will nullify insurance policy'.
  It's great when two Evil Powers meet, innit? We all hate insurance companies and Newscorp, so one bombing the other is like a civil war where your hopes of mutually assured destruction at last stand a chance of being realised in full. But leaving that consideration aside, this is top-notch journalism from the IoS: the sting is in this tailpiece: 'After being notified that they featured in the private dossier, the journalists said that if any of them are charged, they plan to cite ''common practice'' as their defence.'
  So the insurers would drop the same bomb on Trinity. And that would probably bankrupt the Mirror Group. Major hat-tip here to reporter Margareta Pagano. Nice to see a Romping Arse feature shot in the piece, too: the net is closing, Piers old top: be very afraid.
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'AIR FORCE BROUGHT ABUSERS TO CHILD SEX ORGIES'
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:21
  Thatcher's friends. Website for this image...According to the Daily Star:Police investigating a child sex ring at the heart of Margaret Thatcher's government were warned: "Stop investigating if you want to keep your jobs."A teenage rent boy told police that a Cabinet minister had been abusing him.
  The boy said that he was one of a number of boys regularly having sex with top people.
  Boys from Europe would also fly in to attend the top people's child sex orgies.Daily Star Sunday
  According to the Daily Star:The boy named a British Cabinet minister, who is still alive.The boy referred to judges, members of the European elite and senior civil servants.The boy disappeared, after blowing the whistle.Daily Star Sunday
  According to the Daily Star:The police received allegations against the minister from a number of sources.The police ­discovered top people were ­paying the boys to attend sex parties at 'millionaire properties'.Some of the top child abusers were said to have flown in via Royal Air Force Northolt on the outskirts of London.According to the Daily Star:One boy told the police that wealthy men from Belgium attended the parties.The married Cabinet minister the boy named held a series of top jobs in government.
  Police sources in the minister's home region said there are allegations that he was once found trying to abuse the son of a friend.
  Daily Star SundayJaconelli(right)
  Sir Jimmy Savile has been named by police as being part of a paedophile ring.JIMMY SAVILE RULED PAEDOPHILE RING
  This ring allegedly involved two top businessmen in the town of Scarborough - former Scarborough mayor Peter Jaconelli and arcade boss Jimmy Corrigan, both now dead.Jaconelli appeared in the BBC TV show Savile's Travels.
  In Scarborough in 2003 two men were jailed for abusing young girls in the 1980s. During that investigation there was 'local gossip' about Savile.But, the police did not interview Savile.Was Savile working for the security services?(The British police do not have a good reputation. England schoolboy rugby star locked up - 'for filming police having a break in a bar)In 2002, Savile appeared in a Louis Theroux documentary, which was highly critical of Savile.
  In the same year, Savile said of Theroux: "If he wants to die, he can die.
  "He won't be the first that I've put away."
  Forensic psychologist Dr Ian Stephen said the Police should "keep an open mind" with regards to Savile and any open murder cases.
  He said: "They could be looking at places he was, places where people disappeared, that is how they have done it with other people."
  Savile: Did he admit murder?
  "Or would it be the same? Would the personal mistakes still be made that hold us captive to the system? "The violent crime of momentary passion that gets people locked up for life. "The temptation that puts you outside the law of society, brands you, and affects you till you die. "Whatever it's all about, we're all well and truly stuck with it...." Angus Ogilvy, husband of Princess Alexandra of Kent and Jimmy Savile."With Angus Ogilvy and his super missus Princess Alexandra one feels a great friendship from the off. "I am the vice-president to his presidency of the National Association of Youth Clubs and he is often down with us at headquarters in Devonshire Street, wanting to know what's happening. "Princess Alex is a patron of a hostel for girls in care. "At this place I'm a cross between a term-time boyfriend and a fixer of special trips out."Jimmy Savile: a strange and sordid life unravels after death
  John Michie as Jacko Vance Crime writer Val McDermid says that one of her most evil characters, Jacko Vance, was based on Savile.
  Jacko Vance is "a TV celebrity with a secret lust for torture, murder and under-age girls".
  Morrison at children's homeRod Richards is a former Conservative Member of Parliament and ex-leader of the Welsh Tories.
  He says that he has seen evidence linking Margaret Thatcher's close friend Sir Peter Morrison to the North Wales children's homes case, in which up to 650 children in 40 homes were raped.Richards also linked a second top Conservative to the scandals at homes including Bryn Estyn and Bryn Alyn Hall, both near Wrexham.
Ron Holland on Gold, Switzerland and the European Secessionist Movement
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:17
  The Daily Bell is pleased to present another exclusive interview with Ron Holland (left).
  Introduction: Ron Holland is the author of three books, numerous special reports and hundreds of articles on investment and political topics, many of which focus on the interplay between politics and the investment markets. Selections of his essays can be found in the archives of LewRockwell.com and TheDailyBell.com. Ron is currently chief executive officer of a new venture, Biologix Hair Inc., "The best of science and nature," a private Florida corporation headquartered in Toronto.
  Daily Bell: Let's jump right in. Give us some feedback on these monetary easings and the US dollar. Harmful? Helpful? Please put it in context.
  Ron Holland: Cutting rates, monetary stimulation and creating more fiat money seems to be the only option left to the central banking cartel in Europe and America. For the US, this creates a higher stock market thus making citizens feel more prosperous and less destitute than they really are. This always occurs during a presidential election campaign as the party in power and the president up for re-election need a positive '' or in this case an improving '' economy to increase their chances of winning the election. Both parties have done this for the last 40 years or so; nothing unusual here.
  I really don't view monetary easing as particularly harmful as it only postpones the inevitable for a little while longer, like moving up the angle of the Titanic as it was sinking from the bow with the stern higher up in the air. You stay dry for a few minutes longer but in the end, you still drown. Today politicians and central bankers are sort of like some crews on recent sinking cruise ships. They are using their time to steal the passenger lifeboats and safely get away while leaving the passengers to swim to shore or drown.
  Also, the European Central Bank (ECB) and banking elite efforts to postpone their day of reckoning in Europe and New York is actually somewhat helpful to American citizens and investors. The investor risk in Europe is actually propelling funds into the American stock and bond markets as well as the dollar buying us a little extra time before the crisis crosses the Atlantic. In addition, the EU problems are helping the dollar in the near term on a relative basis to be stronger than it would be otherwise.
  Daily Bell: You felt the system of control itself was not working so well anymore last time we interviewed you. Can you elaborate?
  Ron Holland: Today, in the middle of the Internet Reformation where truth and alternative views are available to all who are interested in doing their research, is a scary time to be in the power elite. Someday soon, the people will have had enough of the propaganda, lies and misinformation distributed to cover up the truth about all the theft, political and market manipulation and wars coordinated and waged by those with goals different from the working, productive citizens of most countries. The price and negative consequences for their actions could be high.
  Daily Bell: Are people waking up?
  Ron Holland: Yes. To a degree people are waking up both in the United States primarily because of the previous Ron Paul campaign and in Europe due to the EU sovereign debt and forced austerity crisis. Still, most Americans continue to have their heads in the sand but this is to be expected.
  Daily Bell: Where do you think this is all headed? Are people abandoning their illusions?
  Ron Holland: Since almost everything people know about the world is an illusion, it is asking a lot for the average person to wake up and discover they live in a "Matrix" type of daily existence. Your question makes me think of the cartoon with two sheep out of the entire herd talking with each other while the shepherd and sheep dog are watching from a distance. One sheep says, "Sometimes I get the feeling we are being manipulated." The other sheep responds, "You are so paranoid. Who would ever think such a thing?" This is the view of maybe 85 percent of the world. But that percentage is thankfully decreasing at a dramatic rate thanks to the Internet Reformation.
  The serfs of the world (all of us but the elites) have been lied to about most religions, current events, economics, history and even ancient history. This includes all current and former government structures ranging from tribal chieftains, theocracies, monarchies and the divine right of kings and representative republics to democracy and mob rule, communism, fascism and the regulatory and debt democracy most Western nations suffer under today.
  Daily Bell: Are we going to see Europe's social discontent happening here?
  Ron Holland: Yes. As in Europe, the social discontent here will come from higher taxes, reduced benefits and extreme austerity measures designed to steal our savings, government and private retirement benefits and our remaining gold and wealth. Of course, none of this will likely begin until after the January inauguration.
  Personally, I don't think we've seen even the real beginning of social or political discontent in Europe. I believe it will directly impact the PIIGS as well as wealthy Germany far more than what we've seen so far. Eventually, the German people will get tired of bailing out German, French and Anglo-American banking interests and other European nations and say, "Enough is enough." This is when the sh*t will hit the fan. I think Germany may exit the EU far earlier than some other countries in southern Europe.
  Switzerland, by not foolishly joining the EU or the euro, will be the only nation in Europe to likely escape the turmoil. Of course, Switzerland didn't join because, with their confederation direct democracy style of government, the voters wouldn't allow their politicians to join.
  Two points I would like to add about Switzerland: First, they have the best government structure designed to meet the needs for our new 21st century environment, which should be copied by nations around the world. Second, although I believe Switzerland will certainly escape the internal strife that will get far worse across Europe, they have their own unique risks from criminal gangs as the economy worsens in neighboring countries.
  Recent press reports show Switzerland expanding its number of military police units in case the coming EU collapse threatens their national borders. A close look at European history would suggest this threat should be the least of their concerns.
  This island of security and safety in a collapsing Europe has approximately 7,000 tons of gold stored both privately and as government reserves. This is approximately 8 percent of the 85,000 tons of gold in the world held as bars and coins; the other 50 percent is mainly jewelry. Add to this the trillions in financial wealth held in and managed from Switzerland and you have a very tempting target for public criminal gangs (governments, central banks and politicians) to want to get their hands on.
  I'm not saying Germany, Italy, France or the United States and UK will threaten or actually invade Switzerland, I'm just saying desperate political leaders and financial elites in times of economic crisis have done this hundreds of times over the last couple of centuries.
  Here is a list of Major Wars & Conflicts Just In the 20th Century. You might notice how many times Switzerland's neighbors and the United States have been involved in these conflicts while Switzerland has remained armed but at peace. Still, 8 percent of the non-jewelry gold in the world would be a tempting target and most threats of aggression by nations have been for far less.
  It's just something to consider. I hope Switzerland decides not just to increase military police battalions but also to modernize and increase its defensive military capability. I have a fictional essay coming out in a few weeks about how such a military aggression, although unlikely, could happen in the future.
  Daily Bell: What's your take on China these days and the slowdown? Central bankers have been trying to manage China's "soft landing." Do central bankers ever get it right?
  Ron Holland: Frankly, I'm impressed with the government and private sector in China. They might well be able to manage a "soft landing." Their economic miracle, even with likely fabricated economic statistics just like the United States, is really something to behold and this says a lot for the work ethic and solidarity of the Chinese people.
  Yes. I think central bankers usually get it right. Remember, the central banking franchise is the ultimate money-making and power-building structure in the history of the world. They usually get it right for the powerful economic and financial interests behind central banking; the reason their efforts always appear to be a failure is because what is best for elite profit and expansion is seldom what is best for a nation, national economy or its average citizens. This is where the difference between perception and reality of the situation comes from. After all, how could any group with the singular monopoly right to create money out of thin air really make a mistake?
  I believe China will get it right economically and the China Central Bank will do the right thing because their bank, almost but not quite uniquely in the world, just may serve the interests of China first rather than the central banking cartel. Time will tell whether I'm right about this.
  Daily Bell: As the world is an increasingly miserable place, wars seem to be heating up. Coincidence?
  Ron Holland: First, wars are necessary in order to create the climate of hardship and fear necessary for governments to take the strong actions against their citizens required to hold on to power and authority. Second, all wars are economic in nature and the future dividing line between a resurgent China and a defensive Anglo-American alliance is the Middle East with their oil resources. Add in Israel, which to the Arabs is a modern-day European style crusader-like state in the Middle East, and you have all the ingredients for a massive conflict and even a miniature third world war starting in the region.
  Daily Bell: Give us your take on Middle Eastern "youth rebellions." The real thing?
  Ron Holland: We probably disagree somewhat here. I believe many of the "youth rebellions" have been made up of disaffected youth wanting a better life for their generation and the Internet has helped to spawn this movement. On the other hand, there is no question that many of the rebellions like Syria today have been manufactured to a degree by Anglo-American intelligence efforts. Finally, the real near-term winners in these rebellions have been Islamic extremists, although I agree with the Daily Bell that this might have been the intent of Western interests all along.
  China has made great headway in the Middle East and Africa versus the West and maybe the Western power elite need the conflict and possible transition to major war in the region in order to position military forces necessary to counter Chinese expansion.
  On the contrary, I believe American security interests and the control of Islamic militants would be better served by withdrawing from the nations we occupy, curtail our drone attacks and leave the Middle East to the Muslims who inhabit the region. The US needs a reverse Monroe Doctrine for the region. Israel is strong enough militarily to protect itself.
  Daily Bell: What about Iran? Is war going to happen?
  Ron Holland: Yes, Israel and the United States will launch a "politically acceptable in the West" targeted strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, military command and control centers, naval and air defense targets. Of course, Iran will respond as it should and from this point I don't have a clue about the future.
  My guess is the corresponding military actions and nations and people pulled into the conflict will expand but to what degree I haven't a guess. It is a scary situation and bad environment to have American troops involved. After all, military control is not necessary for oil imports, as most oil is sold on the market and any nation can purchase it.
  Daily Bell: What are the economic ramifications? Inflation?
  Ron Holland: Yes, I believe the major ramifications of a Middle East war starting with Israel and Iran '' expanding, of course, to the US and other nations in the region '' will be of an economic nature to the West. Oil will likely skyrocket in price, gold will boom and the fragile US and European economies will tank. I'm not sure whether the result will be deflation or inflation but, like the German inflation, it will probably be the worst of both. America has no reason to attack Iran but we will certainly pay the economic price for getting involved. But then again, maybe this is why we will be attacking another nation in the Middle East, as our troops serve as cannon fodder for other interests.
  Daily Bell: Where do gold and silver go?
  Ron Holland: Short term, I haven't a clue but over a longer period, and quickly if war breaks out in the region, I would bet on far higher prices for gold, silver and oil.
  Daily Bell: Where do you keep your physical purchases? You mentioned Global Gold last time.
  Ron Holland: It is no one's business where I might keep my physical gold purchases either in North America or elsewhere should I have any, though I will comment generally. I like Global Gold as well as other secure facilities outside of my home country, although citizens of all nations should keep some gold and silver stored privately close by, in or near their home. The last place I would store anything of value is in a bank safe deposit box in the US. Second, no gold owners should ever publically state where they keep their gold or silver holdings.
  Daily Bell: What do you hold? Paper metals? Physicals? ETFs?
  Ron Holland: I will only comment here that I do hold a major grudge against those who have destroyed our republic and are now working to create a war and a crisis situation so they can steal the rest of our wealth and liberties. Although I prefer physical metals for crisis diversification purposes, some advisors are offering some excellent gold-trading strategies and I believe this product mix can provide an opportunity for investment profits. Also, I must say that I have concerns about paper metals and ETFs as to whether the gold will be there should a major financial crisis develop. No one knows the extent of the fake tungsten gold bar problems and this is a scary situation. When in doubt, ask for the real thing and have it essayed.
  Daily Bell: What about tax ramifications?
  Ron Holland: Everything Americans do in the world is taxed so I seldom concern myself about tax ramifications. If there is a tax benefit to do something, then you can bet your last dollar the benefit will be gone when you liquidate your hard assets.
  Daily Bell: What's your take on South America generally?
  Ron Holland: Most South American countries seldom go to war and in the event of a nuclear confrontation they will likely be outside of major radiation areas so I love the region as a place for a safe haven location. Second, I love the culture, the coffee and the people, as well as the climate in some areas.
  Yes, many of the nations in South America have corrupt governments but so do most other nations in the world, including the United States. Personally, I've found corruption in government employees there who need extra money to make ends meet but compared to the massive police state apparatus now being constructed across the West, government is almost inconsequential in the lives of most citizens and expats who live there. This is a welcome change from the 1984 lifestyle most Americans and UK citizens are now forced to deal with.
  Daily Bell: What about Argentina and its confiscations?
  Ron Holland: Again, while I like Argentina as a country and vacation destination, it is turning back into a populist, Peronist style government very similar to the fascism and National Socialism of the 1930s without the German organization and industrialism. Today, I would only suggest investing there if you want to have a 1930s wealth confiscation experience sooner rather than later when the US goes this route.
  Daily Bell: Where do you stand on Colombia?
  Ron Holland: As I've written in several editorials, I really like the nation of Colombia, both as a safe haven jurisdiction and for a second home location. High in the mountains around Medellin real estate is inexpensive, no heat or air conditioning is required because of the perfect weather and, most important, there are no bugs so no screens in the windows. Add in the beautiful women, fantastic restaurants and culture and the place is almost unbeatable for North and South America.
  My wife, Tami, and I enjoyed a great trip to Colombia a few weeks ago. We may well consider an exciting new real estate opportunity there and become involved in a unique high mountain resort designed only for successful, freedom-oriented individuals from around the world.
  Think of an accessible Galt's Gulch, only minutes from an international airport, world-class cardiac heart facility and private school together with nearby world-class city amenities where likeminded producers and entrepreneurs can relax, network and enjoy privacy and sophistication in their own private community. More information on this will be forthcoming soon in another editorial.
  Daily Bell: Let's jump back to Europe. Will the euro survive?
  Ron Holland: I want the euro to compete with other public and private currency alternatives and let the market decide what currencies succeed and fail. I believe it probably will survive as a hard currency used by Germany, the Nordic countries and maybe Austria and others.
  Frankly, the European Central Bank and EU politicians have about bastardized it as bad as the American dollar. There is nothing inherently wrong with more than one nation using a single currency; the problem is only the fiat nature of a currency when currency creation is not restricted or backed in some manner by gold, oil or natural resources.
  Daily Bell: How about the EU?
  Ron Holland: I hope the EU fails and soon. It is an authoritarian, non-elected, centralized power creation of powerful Anglo-American interests who are using it to control Europe just like the American Union now controls what were "these United States" prior to Lincoln's War and invasion of the newly independent Southern States.
  Think about it. Who would have thought the first American government, the Articles of Confederation born during the American Revolution in 1777, would have been overthrown by 1789 and replaced by the Constitution? Second, who would have dared to guess that only 72 years later the Washington federal government would invade and wage war on a region in which the individual states had joined what they believed to be a voluntary union of individual republics? The death toll for this conflict was in excess of 600,000 at a time when the total US population was slightly over 30 million people.
  The bottom line is most initial voluntary unions held together by force or coercion eventually turn into tyrannies and the result is war when formerly independent nations or jurisdictions want to withdraw. It is for this reason I hope the death of the EU happens sooner rather than later.
  Daily Bell: Who's going to be the next US president?
  Ron Holland: Finally, I get an easy question. It will either be Romney or Obama, as no third party candidate has a chance in our two-party monopoly political system.
  Actually, I believe Romney would be a far better president on all issues other than foreign policy, due to his neocon handlers, although this is no credit to Romney personally. I still consider him a total empty suit when it comes to conservative, libertarian and free-market principles. In the final analysis, Romney could be a great president precisely because he is Mormon and loves his conservative and free-market oriented Church. If elected, he will be the first Mormon president and to govern from the socialist left would embarrass his Church and he will not do this. I have an editorial draft ready for publication after the election, titled "Thank God Romney Is Mormon," should he win.
  The election is too close to call but my counterintuitive view is the liberty movement will suffer should Romney win and expand if Obama is re-elected. Like during Ronald Reagan's term, those who oppose big government and advocate liberty will surely let their guard down if the GOP candidate wins, and likewise increase their opposition if Barack Obama is re-elected. The system is set up this way so the march toward more powerful government continues regardless of who wins.
  Daily Bell: What happened to Ron Paul?
  Ron Holland: Ron Paul's campaign was infiltrated and undermined from within and outside by the GOP operatives and the Republican establishment. Nothing new here but still, the educational and philosophical success of his presidential campaign dwarfs the feeble efforts of all freedom organizations and think tanks located near or in Washington, DC, which all too often seek acceptance and legitimacy with the Washington insider elites rather than standing for philosophical principles.
  Daily Bell: Will he continue to speak out?
  Ron Holland: Yes. Ron Paul will continue to fight for our liberties until he is free at last from those who rule over us. I fear this will come from his passing rather than some quick revolution or change of mind by the American electorate.
  Daily Bell: Is the global slump going to cause more money printing generally?
  Ron Holland: Of course. Money printing will continue until hyperinflation and the collapse of all fiat currencies and sovereign debt take place in the West. Then most governments will repudiate their sovereign debts after austerity measures, tax increases and gold confiscation have fleeced the wealth and savings from most citizens '' outside of Switzerland and a very few other countries.
  Daily Bell: Is it going to be a proverbial race to the bottom?
  Ron Holland: Yes and when the race to the bottom begins in earnest, you can forget the gradualist approach taken by politicians and governments to date. This will happen suddenly and, as I stated earlier, America can and will be locked down with a financial iron curtain almost overnight, probably by presidential executive order.
  Daily Bell: Are we going to end up with a world currency or a world war?
  Ron Holland: Both but the world war has to come first and it could begin with the Israeli attack against Iran, in the Middle East. Like the manufactured world war horror and destruction created first the League of Nations and later the United Nations following the Second World War, this is the time when the directed answer from the power elites will be a new world currency backed by gold, oil, etc. This is why I believe the confiscation of gold and numismatics, for instance, is so likely in the future across the West and especially America. That's also why Switzerland, the only citizen-controlled government to a degree left in the world today, has so much to fear from other nations.
  Daily Bell: Give us your best-case prognosis '' an optimistic one.
  Ron Holland: My best-case prognosis is simply more of the same that we have dealt with over the last few decades. Maybe there will not be a major war beginning in the Middle East. It is possible we can create unlimited and unpayable amounts of sovereign debt and fiat currency and everything falls together in tandem until such time as debt repudiation and a new currency is forced on the world.
  Daily Bell: Is that why you started a hair company?
  Ron Holland: No. I started a hair company because we discovered a therapy for hair loss that appears to work in over 80 percent of those who have tried the therapy in South America. It is a unique therapy and I believe it will revolutionize hair restoration and make most balding a relic of history.
  Please understand that the West is likely facing an economic and political dislocation similar to the end of the Roman Empire, the end of monarchy following World War One and maybe something like the fall of fascism and communism during the 20th century. This isn't the end of the world but rather a very exciting time to live and for those aware of the true situation of political and financial manipulation a very prosperous opportunity. It's exciting for those in the know about the real world we live in.
  It is in these times of transition, whether economic like the industrial revolution, political or financial, that massive fortunes can be made for those who are willing to see the big picture and take advantage of the opportunities that only a tiny minority are willing to act upon.
  Of course, most people in the West will lose as they always do, following the manipulated and directed mob off one real or manufactured cliff or another. But if you are reading this interview in The Daily Bell or other alternative news sites, there is nothing mob- or sheep-like about you and these troubled times could be the singular investment opportunity of your lifetime.
  Given the option, I would prefer to live through these exciting and perilous times with a full head of hair and I believe millions will agree with me.
  Daily Bell: How's that going?
  Ron Holland: We have been setting up agreements with cosmetic surgeons and hair transplant physicians for almost two months now and it is going very well. Those in the hair business seem to recognize the opportunity available to them to provide our therapy when and if we receive FDA approval within the next few years.
  Daily Bell: Any other points you want to make?
  Ron Holland: Yes. I would prefer to end on an optimistic note. Do you realize secession fever is now sweeping Europe because of the EU problems and sovereign debt crisis? The establishment press is full of news accounts about secession fever sweeping Europe and this is a positive political development. It is time for the restoration of formerly independent countries with their own unique cultural and ethnic heritage that were forced at gunpoint into larger empire states.
  Venice desires to be independent again from Italy, Catalonia demands out of Spain, Bavaria wants the restoration of independence from Germany. Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain and Portugal may have to leave the European Union and restore their national currencies in order to grow their economies again. Add to this Scotland cutting ties with the United Kingdom, the current split of Belgium into Flemish and Walloon entities and numerous independence movements growing across the West, even in the United States and Quebec in Canada. Even the United States, the most debt-ridden empire in world history, has multiple secession/independence movements, including one in Vermont and in the Southern states.
  This is a positive development for Europe as nations become smaller and more localized around historic boundaries and cultural beliefs. Smaller nations and withdrawal from the European Union is just what Europe needs to get its economic house back in order. This is a far more important development than who will be president of the United States or the latest manufactured statistics or central bank proclamation. Again, we live in exciting and interesting times.
  Daily Bell: Thank you.
  It is good to speak to Ron Holland again, a man of action even in perilous times, one who's started a hair company, created options for himself and others in Colombia and discovered outfits like Global Gold that offer options many may find convenient.
  His point about secession fever is certainly well taken. While the powers-that-be have spent several centuries creating nation-states '' almost always unnatural ones '' the 21st century is seeing these agglomerations come under considerable attack.
  Some of these movements, of course, seem more legitimate than others. The Scottish secession movement was in part manipulated, apparently, with the idea that Scotland would join the euro '' a backwards way of reinforcing the EU, which is experiencing stiff pushback in England.
  The Vermont secessionist movement is somewhat questionable as well, having a larger "green" component, apparently, than a libertarian one. The New Hampshire secessionist movement, on the other hand, is almost purely libertarian even though it hasn't made as much progress as its backers had hoped.
  But all that may change, as Ron Holland rightly hopes. The key to returning to civil society is to reduce political bigness. The idea that certain individuals are empowered to make decisions on behalf of hundreds of millions or billions is essentially a loony one. And the idea this is to be parlayed into a world government that will make decisions on behalf of even MORE people is even loonier.
  In fact, once governments get to a certain size, the reality of input by voters becomes questionable. Votes are used as an endorsement but voters no longer have individual influence. Their votes provide credibility but the actual voice is lacking.
  Governments work best when they are local and all those voting can have a say in subsequent policies. When votes are used as an endorsement but voters no longer have legitimate input then leadership devolves into cronyism and purely selfish decisions are portrayed as appropriate without the requisite pushback.
  Government may indeed be force; but as has been observed, the best government governs least and we would add that the most effective government is the smallest one practical.
  Ron does us a favor by mentioning the secessionist trend throughout the world and especially in the West. It is one of the bright spots in a picture that has many gloomy ones. It is also a "movement" that bears watching and is one of the most compelling developments of what we call the Internet Reformation.
Was Savile a killer?
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  Source: the tap
  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:10
  TAP - One of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims was found outside Savile's house. He also admitted he had killed in an interview. It would not be surprising given all else we know about him.PAEDOPHILE Jimmy Savile "confessed" to murder on national television, sparking new fears that the monster's reign of terror may have been worse than ever imagined.He was speaking in 2002 after the infamous Louis Theroux documentary, in which the shamed pervert was secretly filmed boasting about his brutal criminal past as a nightclub proprieter in Leeds.Brandishing one of his trademark cigars, he hisses: "I mean, he was having a go to try and get a bit of salacious TV so of course I suddenly drop into Godfather mode.
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  "If he wants to die, he can die. He won't be the first that I've put away."
  At the time, Theroux laughed off the apparent threat and said he took Savile's menacing words "with a grain of salt".
  However, detectives were yesterday urged to "keep an open mind" about whether the now-notorious presenter may have been telling the truth.Shamed Savile is now officially one of Britain's worst ever sex offenders, with police dealing with up to 300 victims and more expected to emerge.
  It has also emerged that he boasted of his links to organised crime and the IRA, had a bizarre relationship with serial killer Peter Sutcliffe and a macabre fascination with dead bodies.
  Yesterday, one of Britain's leading criminologists urged police to consider investigating Savile as a suspect in historic 'cold case' murders and missing persons investigations.
  Forensic psychologist Dr Ian Stephen said: "Paedophiles are a totally different type of criminal altogether from people who have killed women in a prolific manner. It would be very unusual to find somebody of that type, but having said that he had the money and he had the power."In a sense what he was saying [in the documentary] was I'm telling you this but you don't know, that's the way he lived his life. He was the nice guy who did all sorts of things for charity, that's the man you see but there's a side to me that you don't see.
  "Its like Peter Tobin, he won't tell anybody what he's done, it is all a big game for him. Tobin is in a different league to Savile, but he played games as well. All the things he did were games, his TV programmes, his charities, being around people in hospitals - they were all games.
  "He was saying, 'I'm the great Jimmy Savile' and at the same time he's going around groping young people. It is possible that he upped the game, that he needed to get that buzz from getting away with it, and the question is does he increase it? There is always that risk with people who are sensation seekers, they sometimes get bored and raise it and the possibilities are there."
  Dr Stephen also said the Metropolitan Police and other forces should "keep an open mind" with regards to Savile and any open murder cases.
  He said: "They could be looking at places he was, places where people disappeared, that is how they have done it with other people.
  "I don't know if they can get anything from that but if some of his victims start talking about attempts to kill them, or instances where the abuse turned physical as opposed to sexual, they might start looking around other possibilities."
  Yesterday, it emerged that Savile had assaulted one of his victims live on air during a crowded scene on Top of the Pops.
  Dr Stephen, who has worked on a number of serial killer cases and advised the makers of TV's Cracker, said he probably got a thrill from committing crimes - or admitting them - in front of the nation.
  He said: "Savile was very much a teaser, he liked to titillate people to get attention, it gave him a feeling of power to raise questions without people actually knowing the truth.
  "He liked to have the knowledge that he was Jimmy Savile and he was untouchable. He had this image that he was a good person and it must have been hard to keep up, almost too hard."
  Savile was one of several celebrities who had featured on Theroux's documentaries who were interviewed for Living With Louis, which was broadcast on the BBC in 2002.
  http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/354874/Savile-Did-he-admit-murder-HATTIP - aangirfan yet again.
Trial by 'Open Riool RTL Boulevard' en hun 'Hoer-John' van Badr Hari.
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  Source: ZapLog
  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:02
  Bron RTL Boulevard: ''John van den Heuvel neukt alles wat los en vast zit''. Boulevard stagiaires worden gek van 'Hoer-John'. In die zin hebben Peter R. de Vries en zijn riool-collega John van den Heuvel in ieder geval (C)(C)n ding gemeen: ze neuken beide alles wat los en vast zit.Wanneer wordt John van den Heuvel voor heling gearresteerd?Het wordt tijd in het belang van de Rule of Law en de Rechtsorde dat de advocaat van Badr Hari aangifte gaat doen wegens o.a. ambtsmisbruik (Lekken), c.q. ambtelijke corruptie tegen de politie in vereniging met John van den Heuvel en RTL-Boulevard wegens schaamteloos lekken van informatie en die...
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Je veux qu'il s'agissait de Patay.
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:59
  No era como era antes, the plain was now fields and the path a road, black and smooth which made the walking easy just like the dying was then.
  She had been in the saddle since 1 AM the previous night, but she always looked the same. She was our Angel of Light and wherever she shone the Light of her gave all France courage.
  The old women were there, LaHire, Poton, the Bastard, army which came with her, the army of Orleans, the army of Meung, we were all there and marching forward as we had not marched, since Agincourt, when we were not yet natives of this world or any other.
  The English had presented themselves on the 17th, but it was late in the day and the Maid refuse their offer of sending out knight against knight to settle the battle. It was a far cry different from the day she warned King Henry's own to give up the keys to France and they had threatened her if she did not return to minding her cows, they would burn this witch at the stake.
  It was raining when we left the camp so many miles before and another age before. In that night, we were the children of Cr(C)cy, Poitiers and Agincourt in that swaddling shroud of the night, but in dawn we were resurrected by the Maid in a Light transfigured upon the brier plain.For 100 years we had war with England and for 100 years we had died in more numbers than I could then count in 100,000 French dead. We bled, we fought, we died, we retreated, we hid, we marched, we bled, we fought and we died and more and more of France became English and King Henry's bands.The Maid took Meung as Talbot and Fastolfe fell back toward Paris. She had smashed those English Lords who owned our land and fathered our new breed of bastard French at Orleans, and now Paris was where these English would return as the land was becoming ours again.The Angles plunged into that brier of plain with LaHire's cavalry following, feeling for them in that vast waste. They had been at it since 8 the previous night, and after the Maid's report to them of taking their prizes, they thought the French would enjoy the prize and not march as siege was the machine their defeated hearts always fell back on.She was in back with LaHire in the front when they came to Patay. The advance had put up a stag and it ran into the English lines hidden there, and the English so imprisoned in their walls with moulded bread and rancid meat saw the stag as their salvation, but their cry only betrayed the grave they had dug.They were confident yet, and did not think we would follow, but the Maid told us to ride hard to those plains of La Beuace. "Trouv(C)", was what the advance told LaHire simply as he sent word back to the Maid that the English had been found.By the time orders came to attack, the English were now aware of their battle come to them, but it was too late as the archers were in position where we would pass, but their stakes were not their curtain of spikes protecting them and when LaHire smashed into that flank, it was like a mastiff grabbing a boar, and in savage shudder the big dog of satan shook that animal which had rooted all of France, and in minutes the pig lay dead.Falstofe arranged the majority of his forces on a ridge before the old Roman road, but as LaHire and the main battle van came upon the scene, Falstofe was falling back to the Angles advance guard, which mistakenly thought he was in full retreat and began retreating. The old general cursing it all moved on with them, as the French now poured death upon England.The English die well. It is what they always have done. In three hours the bugle sounded an end, and there laid before us were the piles of the best the Angles had, all dead, all 4000 of them they said. More English and more dead than I had ever seen. All dead and dying, and there were Talbot and Scales now in the Maid's protection as Falstofe escaped in disgrace.Nom de Dieu,it was beautiful seeing France bathed in that cleansing English blood, crimson upon our soils with flies in symphony adding a melody of chorus.Five dead French and thousands of dead English. "Bien qu'ils ont accroch(C) vers les nuages, nous obtiendrions eux."That is what she said and this Angel of Light was right. We would get these English and France would not see King Henry's rule for a 1000 years as that iron fist was broken.We would have marched on Jerusalem, but treachery from satan and France took this Angel soon enough and her dwarf, along with her guard. Sold to the collaborators and French priests, they would burn her at the stake and we would as she said continue our war.She and her voices though gave us Patay. She gave us France. There was whispered to me by an unknown wind that the our Maid gave the world a people of us I could not understand,la Nouvelle-Orl(C)ans
  I would to be there in the old days, the way it looked then.
  Ce n'est pas ce que je retiens et ce n'est pas ce que c'(C)tait.Je voudrais qu'il s'agissait du brier et la Femme de chambre (C)taient nous commandant.Je veux qu'il s'agissait de Patay. I would have given all France had died, if she had just lived. She lives now, but in different form. I want that it was Patay.
Analgate: The Final Hours of Chris Stevens
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:53
  Another in a continuing series of Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusives.........
  It began around nightfall on Sept. 11 with around 150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic militants, sealing off the streets leading to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. They set up roadblocks with pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns, according to witnesses.
  My children, I hope that you caught what this blog broke in the Analgate story when it mentioned that the terrorists who led the attack on Ambassador Chris Stevens were from Afghanistan with direct ties to the mass assassination of Team Six of the Navy Seals, because what is about to be revealed here is something which will indict and convict Barack Hussein Obama on the murder of Chris Stevens and the other Americans.
  The reality is the murder of Chris Stevens started on two fronts over a year previous. The catalyst was the work of Dr. Jerome Corsi with the Birthers in exposing Barack Hussein Obama AKA Barry Chin in his forged birth papers as a criminal fraud.It was Corsi's work which forced Mr. Obama to reveal another forged document and to then purchase the "contract" on Sheik bin Laden's corpse to kill it in a Pakistani compound to change the subject from his forged birth documents.
  While these events were taking place, George Soros had begun a leverage campaign with the Obama regime in releasing thee most hardcore of Libyan terrorists which Col. Khadaffi had in prison. It was this first act of forcing Col. Khadaffi to release his terrorists which was destined in the Barack Hussein Obama plan to handing over Libya to the Muslim Brotherhood and Libyan oil to British Petroleum for European control, after the mass murder of Col. Khadaffi and his followers.
  Benghazi would be the central hub of this terror revolution as "payback" for the Muslim Brotherhood's part in donating that 300 million dollars in counterfeit terror funds to the Obama 2008 campaign, which was bailed out by TARP by Timothy Geithner as this blog exclusively broke the story, as it was credit card wire fraud in the money never existed.
  It was at Benghazi that the Obama Soros terrorists would make their first move to seize control of Libya for the Islamocommunists, and the direct tie in Libya to the murdered American SEALS came in the stacking of the SEALS into one helicopter in Afghanistan to murder them all in an bait operation, to silence them for all they knew about the fraud concerning Sheik bin Laden's compound events and his acting double's murder.
  Do not overlook that thee most exclusive story in the world in what went on in the bin Laden compound has been ignored and censored by the Obama puppy press, as no one has ever bothered to interview the women and children there, left among the piles of dead bodies.
  As the Libyan situation was stoked by Barack Obama and his Libyan terrorists, the issue of importing Afghanistan terrorists came center stage, in this fight against Khadaffi, and more of them were imported as Bill Clinton imported the muhajadeen into Kosovo for that Muslim oil war in Europe against Serbian Christians.
  The terrorists connected to the Team SIX mass murder flew from Pakistan and landed in Egypt, with full knowledge of the Obama regime and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, who then provided transport of these terrorists into Libya, for the "final phase" of the mass murder of the last of Khadaffi's followers.
  This is where the on ground situation for an October Surprise began to spiral out of control as leaks were gushing from insider sources of a "hostage situation" which was brewing to both pin a Carter situation on Mr. Obama as in Iran 1980 and also for Mr. Obama to rescue these "hostages" to undo the ghost of Jimmy Carter and wag his dog to an election victory.
  The Middle East is a place where a secret is only a secret for the moment it is whispered. Ronald Reagan found this out in Iran Contra as the Beirut group soon published the details in this as no one there could keep their mouth shut, in slitting their own throats.
  This is what Barack Hussein Obama Osseiran initiated into life as his head of al Qaeda run from 1600 Penn Avenue, because it was this Afghani group directly working both sides of the koran took over the operation.See Obama had contracted for a group of 20 teenagers to start screaming about that Muslim movie as that was part of the plan of the campaign to pin this on Mitt Romney and his Christian voters to scare them into not voting against Obama.
  It was all supposed to be easy in Stevens was to be taken, secured in a safe house, a few demands made, Obama would send in the surviving SEALS, and shoot the kidnappers on a Monday and for two days before the first debate, Obama would preen in the Rose Garden before taking stage and all the bows for his new chest thumping, which Mitt Romney would be made to kowtow to, sealing Romney's defeat.
  What Obama ran into was a double operation, in which his "bad terrorists" who were upset over his targeting them, obtained direct intelligence of the Obama hostage scenario, and took over the 150 terrorists who Obama and Soros had been using since they let them out of prison to murder Col. Khadaffi and his followers.Chris Stevens honestly thought he was among friends. The reason Hillary Clinton and no one offered up Marine security is because the Benghazi terrorists ARE THE OBAMA HIRED SECURITY THERE.
  When this erupted there were live feeds off of drones as this blog pointed to early and everyone in DC in the loop knew exactly what was taking place, but the Obama inner circle was not worried as they thought it was just a show. When it became too late, Obama's inner circle was not about to allow in any rescue operations as it was premature for the election strategy and they did not want any US intelligence forces finding out exactly what was taking place.
  The problem for the regime was that ground chatter from terrorists celebrating and screaming about the kidnapping did not go according to plan, was picked up by NSA sweeps, and that is what started the shattering of the Obama menagerie.When Delta Force was sent in within hours, they assessed the situation as a "no go" with everyone dead and nothing to rescue and evac'd out immediately with the "this did not go down as was being offered".
  Within days, the American Intelligence knew the Obama regime was lying, as an inner deal had been worked out to expose Obama's hostage situation, by keeping the hostages until January as Bill Casey had worked out with the Iranians.When the "Casey Associates" obtained the intelligence confirming all, by day 5, the clean up crew was sent in, who shot the double dealers in Libya who had through the grapevine given the information which brought in the Afghani terrorists which ran this counter operation.The Afghnai's knew they would get away with the murders of the Americans as Obama was the one breaking the law in contracting to take the hostages.
  This is what Chris Stevens walked into with the other Americans in the CIA shadows there at sundown when this erupted in the cover of night.The first firebase checkpoints were set up around the perimeter of the US Embassy at 8 pm sharp. At around 9:40 pm the attack proper was launched.
  When the "security" detail was sent in to evacuate the personnel, the checkpoints on the front and side opened fire with heavy machine guns and grenades, effectively neutralizing the evacuation.
  The 'cross town' safe house was also the target on inside information, and the literal coup de grace took place at 4 am when an advanced precision mortar ended the lives of the two Americans holding up at the US Embassy.
  If one accounts the time line, the White House knew absolutely by 11 pm that terrorists were involved in this attack. It would not be until 4 hours later that the mortars hit the US embassy, when the "word from Leon Panetta" that no US forces were available for a rescue.Literally it was 7 hours that the Americans were under siege and any number of US forces in Italy to Israel could have been sent in from bases as reactionary forces.That is what Global Strike was created for under the Bush Cheney administration. The literal deceptions coming out of the Obama regime now have Mr. Obama lying about the reason for the attack for weeks, his admission he had information this was terrorists and covered it up, the deception that no Americans could have arrived to the rescue in 7 hours time and the most damning in the Obama inner circle watched the mass murder of American and never did a thing to assist.
  What Mr. Obama did was instead in knowing all of this, and exactly the brutality inflicted on the Americans in those final hours, jetted off to campaign events in which he was telling jokes and not making one mention of this mass murder.
  If one wants the disgusting Truth in this, this attack was engineered by Barack Hussein Obama on the Anniversary of 9 11, because Mr. Obama has this psychopathy in trying to be more than George W. Bush, Martin King, Ronald Reagan and Jesus the Christ in replacing them all.
  Barack Obama AKA Barry Chin orchestrated this campaign event to be his 9 11 Anniversary moment where he could sweep in with more SEALS and rescue Americans in rewriting 9 11 as his final chapter in murdering bin Laden's corpse and murdering the hostage takers of Americans on a new 9 11.
  This is the reality of Analgate in the unfolding of this story exclusively first and here, while the world is just catching up.
  The Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusives.
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Hurricane Sandy Strengthens and Heads to Northeast
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 11:49
  More than 50 million people from the mid-Atlantic to New England braced Saturday for a potentially massive storm, as Hurricane Sandy churned northward on a collision course with another storm system that is sweeping in from the west.
  Thousands of people were evacuated from low-lying areas, governors across the region declared states of emergency, and federal officials issued urgent warnings for people to prepare, saying that the storm's impact would stretch to the Ohio Valley.
  While tracking models showed the center of Hurricane Sandy likely to make landfall late Monday evening or early Tuesday, the director of the National Hurricane Center, Rick Knabb, said that the weather was expected to worsen well before then, with high winds and heavy rains starting to batter the region as early as Sunday night. The exact path of the storm was unclear, complicating preparation efforts. Federal officials, in a briefing with reporters on Saturday afternoon, could not say for certain where the impact would be the worst '-- only that it would be major. More than 60,000 National Guard troops in nine states were ready to assist the local authorities.
  In New York City, officials announced contingency plans to begin shutting down the subways and regional rail lines starting at 7 p.m. Sunday, a decision they will make only if it looks like storm surges will be severe. They also announced plans to close the bridges if there were sustained winds over 60 miles per hour.
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York told residents to stay out of city parks starting on Sunday and to stock up on basic supplies. All construction was ordered to be suspended starting on Saturday night.
  On Long Island, the Town of Islip ordered the mandatory evacuation of residents in low-lying areas, including Fire Island, by Sunday afternoon. Similar orders were issued in other coastal areas.
  From Plymouth, Me., to Cape Hatteras, N.C., residents boarded up windows; stocked up on water, batteries and food; and prepared to hunker down. Airlines encouraged people with flights scheduled in the next few days to change their plans and waived cancellation fees.
  At supply stores across the region, generators and other goods were snapped up in preparation for the possibility of extended power failures.
  Sandbags joined the Halloween scarecrows along Main Street in Hightstown, N.J., on Saturday as business owners who suffered flood damage during Hurricane Irene last year braced themselves.
  At a Home Depot in Yonkers, where propane cylinders were prominently displayed near the cash registers, generators were sold out by 6:30 on Saturday morning, within 30 minutes of opening, said Kareem Hiland, a store employee. ''The line for them was out the door,'' he said. ''For batteries, too.''Experts warned that even if Hurricane Sandy decreased in strength, it would remain a danger because of the unusual convergence of several weather systems.
  A system known as a midlatitude trough '-- which often causes severe winter storms '-- is moving across the country from the west. It is expected to draw in Hurricane Sandy, giving it added energy. A burst of arctic air is expected to sweep down through the Canadian Plains just as they are converging. That could lead to several feet of snow in West Virginia and lighter amounts in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
  The full moon on Monday could cause even greater flooding, with tides at their peak.
  The hurricane was forecast to come ashore between the Delmarva Peninsula and Long Island. But as it continued to churn north, it began to spread out, with tropical storm-force winds extending about 520 miles from its center. On Saturday, it was still moving slowly north and had yet to make its predicted westward swing, at which point it will likely become clearer where it will make landfall.
  Forecasters cautioned that the course of the storm could change, but officials from the National Hurricane Center said that it was no longer a question of if the storms would converge '-- but where and with how much force.
  Dr. Knabb of the National Hurricane Center said the storm's intensity was unlikely to change. ''The center of circulation is only going to be a very small part of the story,'' he said. ''This is not just going to be a coastal event.'' People from Virginia northward should be prepared for a ''long-duration event,'' he said.
  Utility companies were rushing to put crews in place to deal with power failures, which state officials warned could be extensive and long lasting. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey told residents that they should be prepared to go 7 to 10 days without electricity. On Saturday evening, Amtrak began to cancel train service to parts of the East Coast, including between Washington, D.C., and New York.
  Maureen Smith, 70, and her husband, Jim Dugan, 76, have been through hurricanes before, but on Saturday they were evacuated from North Wildwood, on the south shore of New Jersey.
  ''There was a sense of worry, because we do believe this will be serious,'' she said.
  With forecasters predicting this storm would be much worse than Hurricane Irene, which caused $15 billion in damage, many people were taking no chances. Bob Parise of North Wantagh, on Long Island, was scouring a hardware store.
  ''We learned our lesson from Irene and are better prepared,'' he said. ''I've got the generator and the gas. Now I'm just worried about the roof.''
  Reporting was contributed by Brian Stelter from New Jersey, Colin Moynihan from New York, Jon Hurdle from Philadelphia, Stacey Stowe from Yonkers and Angela Macropoulos from Long Island.
Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake Hits Canada - USGS | World | RIA Novosti
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 03:51
  A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has hit Canada's British Columbia province, the US Geological Survey reported.
  There have been no reports of deaths or damage caused by the quake, which occurred 202 km (126 miles) south-southwest of the port of Prince Rupert at a depth of 17.5 kilometers (11 miles).
Meat Loaf -- I Love Mitt Romney, But Can't Vote for Him
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  Source: tmzMeat Loaf can sing Mitt Romney's praises all he wants, but he can't vote for him. The singer -- who moved to Austin earlier this year -- never registered in Texas, according to The Smoking Gun. And the deadline to sign up, October 9, is over and out.So Meat Loaf -- who stood side-by-side with Romney Thursday (above) and either butchered or honored "America the Beautiful" depending on your ear -- recently requested an absentee ballot from California, the state he abandoned last year.According to the CA DMV you must be a resident to vote in CA. We don't know if Mr. Loaf got a ballot, but if he did he shouldn't use it.
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  27. We should have known when he said he did not like his Teddy..
  DR. SCOTT:From the day he was bornHe was troubleHe was the thorn In his mother's sideShe tried in vainCRIMINOLOGIST:But he never caused her nothing but shameDR. SCOTT:He left home the day she died!From the day she was goneAll he wantedWas rock & roll pornAnd a motor bikeShooting up junkHe was a lowdown cheap little punkTaking everyone for a rideCHORUS:When Eddie said he didn't like his teddyYou knew he was a no good kidBut when he threatened your lifeWith a switch blade knifeFRANK:What a guy!JANET:Makes you cryDR. SCOTT:Und I did!Reply to this post
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Savile Sexual Abuse Case Expands to Other Suspects - NYTimes.com
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:27
  LONDON '-- The number of people who said they were sexually assaulted by Jimmy Savile, one of Britain's most popular television hosts, expanded to 300 from 200 in just the last week, and other people may have acted with him, the Scotland Yard officer heading the investigation said Thursday.
  The officer, Cmdr. Peter Spindler, described Mr. Savile, who died last October at 84, as ''undoubtedly'' one of the most prolific sex offenders in recent British history, during a 50-year career as a self-styled pied piper for the young, the sick and the lonely. Commander Spindler said that in preliminary telephone interviews with 130 of the potential victims, 114 of them had accused Mr. Savile of criminal behavior ranging from ''inappropriate touching'' to rape. Of the 300 complainants, he said, all but 2 have been female.
  Commander Spindler said the ''vast majority'' of the accusations logged by the police were against Mr. Savile alone, with the remainder involving Mr. Savile and others or episodes in which the entertainer was not implicated. Although the commander specified that investigators had found no evidence of a ''pedophile ring,'' as some published accounts in Britain have suggested, he said that a number of ''living people'' were under investigation.
  Later, an article on the BBC's news Web site quoted ''sources close to Scotland Yard,'' whom it did not further identify, as saying the police were looking at some ''figures of high standing'' who might have helped Mr. Savile. ''It is thought investigations are looking at those who may have assisted Savile, helped organize abuse, cover it up or taken part in assaults themselves,'' the BBC story said.
  An article on The Guardian's Web site, citing no sources, said the newspaper ''understands'' that ''names of at least three doctors'' who worked at hospitals linked to Mr. Savile over decades had been passed to police investigators, with ''claims that they were at the heart of a loose network of child abusers connected with Savile.''
  The Guardian story noted that Mr. Savile kept an office and living quarters at the Broadmoor Hospital, a high-security psychiatric treatment center in Berkshire, and a bedroom in the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in Buckinghamshire, which has one of the largest units in the world that specializes in spinal injuries; both institutions are close to London. The newspaper also said he was given ''free rein'' at Leeds General Infirmary, in the northern industrial city where he was born and where he found his first job as a boy, working in a mine.
  Commander Spindler said his investigation, code-named Operation Yewtree, had not yet led to any arrests, but he implied that they might not be far off when he said that the police were preparing ''an arrest strategy.'' In the meantime, he said, police investigators were proceeding cautiously with Mr. Savile's accusers, spending as much as four hours on each initial interview.
  ''This may be the first time that some people have actually spoken in any detail, and we don't underestimate how significant an event it is for them to disclose sexual abuse,'' he said.
  Commander Spindler, who spoke at a news conference and in interviews with British news organizations, did nothing to allay the shock that the Savile scandal has caused across Britain. The weight of the evidence against Mr. Savile, he said, is overwhelming, not least because of the similarities in what the accusers have told the team of officers '-- raised to 30 in recent days, from an original group of 10 '-- about the abuses.
  ''We have to believe what they are saying, because they are saying the same thing independently,'' he said.
  The BBC reported on Wednesday that Mr. Savile, a bachelor, was investigated but never prosecuted for sexual abuse at least half a dozen times during a television career in which he presented himself as an irrepressibly jaunty figure with a vocation to spread happiness into some of the most vulnerable corners of society. But a cascade of revelations in the past month have suggested that his wildly successful programs, ''Top of the Pops'' and ''Jim'll Fix It,'' as well as charitable work that raised tens of millions and made him a tireless visitor to hospitals, nursing homes and institutions for the emotionally and psychologically disturbed, were vehicles for another career, as a relentless sexual predator.
  The scandal has thrown his employer, the BBC, into one of the greatest crises in its 90-year history as Britain's revered public service broadcaster, drawing in several senior figures there, including its current director general, George Entwistle, who took over in September from Mark Thompson, the incoming president and chief executive of The New York Times Company.
  Mr. Thompson was director general of the BBC when the editor of a current affairs program canceled an investigation into Mr. Savile late last year, just as other divisions were planning Christmastime tributes to him, two months after his death.
  Mr. Thompson has said repeatedly that he knew nothing about the investigation by the current affairs program, ''Newsnight,'' while it was under way; had no role in canceling it; and had heard none of the suspicions about Mr. Savile. He has agreed to answer questions from Parliament and from the independent investigators examining the events at the BBC.
  The police, the National Health Service and other institutions have been shaken by what the disclosures have shown, and the political shock waves have led the prime minister, David Cameron, to demand that the BBC, in particular, account for its failure to protect Mr. Savile's victims, some of whom were said to have been abused in his BBC dressing rooms.
  Commander Spindler suggested the scandal and the subsequent investigation of the sexual abuse of children would have a cathartic impact on Britain. He said the events of the past month had been ''a watershed'' that would force public institutions to develop new and tougher programs to detect and combat the sexual exploitation of children, push the police to intensify their own procedures and encourage victims to come forward.
  ''I think what's happened with this inquiry,'' he said, ''is that they do have a voice, and that they will be heard.''
  John F. Burns reported from London, and Alan Cowell from Paris.
Major Banks, Governmental Officials and Their Comrade Capitalists Targets of Spire Law Group, LLP's Racketeering and Money Laundering Lawsuit Seeking Return of $43 Trillion to the United States Treasury - MarketWatch
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  NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Spire Law Group, LLP's national home owners' lawsuit, pending in the venue where the "Banksters" control their $43 trillion racketeering scheme (New York) - known as the largest money laundering and racketeering lawsuit in United States History and identifying $43 trillion ($43,000,000,000,000.00) of laundered money by the "Banksters" and their U.S. racketeering partners and joint venturers - now pinpoints the identities of the key racketeering partners of the "Banksters" located in the highest offices of government and acting for their own self-interests.
  In connection with the federal lawsuit now impending in the United States District Court in Brooklyn, New York (Case No. 12-cv-04269-JBW-RML) - involving, among other things, a request that the District Court enjoin all mortgage foreclosures by the Banksters nationwide, unless and until the entire $43 trillion is repaid to a court-appointed receiver - Plaintiffs now establish the location of the $43 trillion ($43,000,000,000,000.00) of laundered money in a racketeering enterprise participated in by the following individuals (without limitation): Attorney General Holder acting in his individual capacity, Assistant Attorney General Tony West, the brother in law of Defendant California Attorney General Kamala Harris (both acting in their individual capacities), Jon Corzine (former New Jersey Governor), Robert Rubin (former Treasury Secretary and Bankster), Timothy Geitner, Treasury Secretary (acting in his individual capacity), Vikram Pandit (recently resigned and disgraced Chairman of the Board of Citigroup), Valerie Jarrett (a Senior White House Advisor), Anita Dunn (a former "communications director" for the Obama Administration), Robert Bauer (husband of Anita Dunn and Chief Legal Counsel for the Obama Re-election Campaign), as well as the "Banksters" themselves, and their affiliates and conduits. The lawsuit alleges serial violations of the United States Patriot Act, the Policy of Embargo Against Iran and Countries Hostile to the Foreign Policy of the United States, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (commonly known as the RICO statute) and other State and Federal laws.
  In the District Court lawsuit, Spire Law Group, LLP -- on behalf of home owner across the Country and New York taxpayers, as well as under other taxpayer recompense laws -- has expanded its mass tort action into federal court in Brooklyn, New York, seeking to halt all foreclosures nationwide pending the return of the $43 trillion ($43,000,000,000.00) by the "Banksters" and their co-conspirators, seeking an audit of the Fed and audits of all the "bailout programs" by an independent receiver such as Neil Barofsky, former Inspector General of the TARP program who has stated that none of the TARP money and other "bailout money" advanced from the Treasury has ever been repaid despite protestations to the contrary by the Defendants as well as similar protestations by President Obama and the Obama Administration both publicly on national television and more privately to the United States Congress. Because the Obama Administration has failed to pursue any of the "Banksters" criminally, and indeed is actively borrowing monies for Mr. Obama's campaign from these same "Banksters" to finance its political aspirations, the national group of plaintiff home owners has been forced to now expand its lawsuit to include racketeering, money laundering and intentional violations of the Iranian Nations Sanctions and Embargo Act by the national banks included among the "Bankster" Defendants.
  The complaint - which has now been fully served on thousands of the "Banksters and their Co-Conspirators" - makes it irrefutable that the epicenter of this laundering and racketeering enterprise has been and continues to be Wall Street and continues to involve the very "Banksters" located there who have repeatedly asked in the past to be "bailed out" and to be "bailed out" in the future.
  The Havens for the money laundering schemes - and certain of the names and places of these entities - are located in such venues as Switzerland, the Isle of Man, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Cypress and entities controlled by governments adverse to the interests of the United States Sanctions and Embargo Act against Iran, and are also identified in both the United Nations and the U.S. Senate's recent reports on international money laundering. Many of these entities have already been personally served with summons and process of the complaint during the last six months. It is now beyond dispute that, while the Obama Administration was publicly encouraging loan modifications for home owners by "Banksters", it was privately ratifying the formation of these shell companies in violation of the United States Patriot Act, and State and Federal law. The case further alleges that through these obscure foreign companies, Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo Bank, Citibank, Citigroup, One West Bank, and numerous other federally chartered banks stole trillions of dollars of home owners' and taxpayers' money during the last decade and then laundered it through offshore companies.
  This District Court Complaint - maintained by Spire Law Group, LLP -- is the only lawsuit in the world listing as Defendants the Banksters, let alone serving all of such Banksters with legal process and therefore forcing them to finally answer the charges in court. Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission, nor the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, nor the Office of the Attorney General, nor any State Attorney General has sued the Banksters and thereby legally chased them worldwide to recover-back the $43 trillion ($43,000,000,000,000.00) and other lawful damages, injunctive relief and other legal remedies.
  James N. Fiedler, Managing Partner of Spire Law Group, LLP, stated: "It is hard for me to believe as a 47-year lawyer that our nation's guardians have been unwilling to stop this theft. Spire Law Group, LLP stands for the elimination of corruption and implementation of lawful strategies, and that is what we're doing here. Spire Law Group, LLP's charter is to not allow such corruption to go unanswered."
  Comments were requested from the Attorney Generals' offices in NY, CA, NV, NH , OH, MA and the White House, but no comment was provided.
  About Spire Law Group
  Spire Law Group, LLP is a national law firm whose motto is "the public should be protected -- at all costs -- from corruption in whatever form it presents itself." The Firm is comprised of lawyers nationally with more than 250-years of experience in a span of matters ranging from representing large corporations and wealthy individuals, to also representing the masses. The Firm is at the front lines litigating against government officials, banks, defunct loan pools, and now the very offshore entities where the corruption was enabled and perpetrated.
  Contact: James N. Fiedler877-438-8766 http://spire-law.com
  SOURCE Spire Law Group, LLP
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For DHS, Cybersecurity Education Begins in Kindergarten | CNSNews.com
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  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivers a speech at George Washington University on January 27, 2011 (Photo: DHS)
  (CNSNews.com) '' In a blog on the Department of Homeland Security website, Secretary Janet Napolitano said her department is working to develop the next generation of leaders in cybersecurity beginning in kindergarten.
  In a blog titled, ''Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Professionals,'' Napolitano said, ''In addition, we are extending the scope of cyber education beyond the federal workplace through the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, involving students from kindergarten through post-graduate school.''
  ''At DHS, we're working to develop the next generation of leaders in cybersecurity while fostering an environment for talented staff to grow in this field. We are building strong cybersecurity career paths within the Department, and in partnership with other government agencies,'' the secretary said.
  DHS also sponsors the U.S. Cyber Challenge, she said, ''a program that works with academia and the private sector to identify and develop the best and brightest cyber talent to meet our nation's growing and changing security needs.''
  The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) noted on its website that the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation are leading the Formal Cybersecurity Education Component.
  ''Their mission is to bolster formal cybersecurity education programs encompassing kindergarten through 12th grade, higher education and vocational programs, with a focus on the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines to provide a pipeline of skilled workers for the private sector and government,'' the website said.
  ''A digitally literate workforce that uses technology in a secure manner is imperative to the Nation's economy and the security of our critical infrastructure,'' NICE said on its website.
  ''Just as we teach science, technology, engineering, mathematics, reading, writing and other critical subjects to all students, we also need to educate all students to use technology securely in order to prepare them for the digital world in which we live,'' the website added.
Remote U.S. base at core of secret operations - The Washington Post
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:06
  By Craig Whitlock,This is the third of three articles.
  DJIBOUTI CITY, Djibouti '-- Around the clock, about 16 times a day, drones take off or land at a U.S. military base here, the combat hub for the Obama administration's counterterrorism wars in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
  Some of the unmanned aircraft are bound for Somalia, the collapsed state whose border lies just 10 miles to the southeast. Most of the armed drones, however, veer north across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, another unstable country where they are being used in an increasingly deadly war with an al-Qaeda franchise that has targeted the United States.
  Camp Lemonnier, a sun-baked Third World outpost established by the French Foreign Legion, began as a temporary staging ground for U.S. Marines looking for a foothold in the region a decade ago. Over the past two years, the U.S. military has clandestinely transformed it into the busiest Predator drone base outside the Afghan war zone, a model for fighting a new generation of terrorist groups.
  The Obama administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal the legal and operational details of its targeted-killing program. Behind closed doors, painstaking debates precede each decision to place an individual in the cross hairs of the United States' perpetual war against al-Qaeda and its allies.
  Increasingly, the orders to find, track or kill those people are delivered to Camp Lemonnier. Virtually the entire 500-acre camp is dedicated to counterterrorism, making it the only installation of its kind in the Pentagon's global network of bases.
  Secrecy blankets most of the camp's activities. The U.S. military rejected requests from The Washington Post to tour Lemonnier last month. Officials cited ''operational security concerns,'' although they have permitted journalists to visit in the past.
  After a Post reporter showed up in Djibouti uninvited, the camp's highest-ranking commander consented to an interview '-- on the condition that it take place away from the base, at Djibouti's lone luxury hotel. The commander, Army Maj. Gen. Ralph O. Baker, answered some general queries but declined to comment on drone operations or missions related to Somalia or Yemen.
  Despite the secrecy, thousands of pages of military records obtained by The Post '-- including construction blueprints, drone accident reports and internal planning memos '-- open a revealing window into Camp Lemonnier. None of the documents is classified and many were acquired via public-records requests.
  Taken together, the previously undisclosed documents show how the Djibouti-based drone wars sharply escalated early last year after eight Predators arrived at Lemonnier. The records also chronicle the Pentagon's ambitious plan to further intensify drone operations here in the coming months.
  The documents point to the central role played by the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which President Obama has repeatedly relied on to execute the nation's most sensitive counterterrorism missions.
  About 300 Special Operations personnel plan raids and coordinate drone flights from inside a high-security compound at Lemonnier that is dotted with satellite dishes and ringed by concertina wire. Most of the commandos work incognito, concealing their names even from conventional troops on the base.
  Other counterterrorism work at Lemonnier is more overt. All told, about 3,200 U.S. troops, civilians and contractors are assigned to the camp, where they train foreign militaries, gather intelligence and dole out humanitarian aid across East Africa as part of a campaign to prevent extremists from taking root.
  In Washington, the Obama administration has taken a series of steps to sustain the drone campaign for another decade, developing an elaborate new targeting database, called the ''disposition matrix,'' and a classified ''playbook'' to spell out how decisions on targeted killing are made.
  Djibouti is the clearest example of how the United States is laying the groundwork to carry out these operations overseas. For the past decade, the Pentagon has labeled Lemonnier an ''expeditionary,'' or temporary, camp. But it is now hardening into the U.S. military's first permanent drone war base.
  Centerpiece base
  In August, the Defense Department delivered a master plan to Congress detailing how the camp will be used over the next quarter-century. About $1.4 billion in construction projects are on the drawing board, including a huge new compound that could house up to 1,100 Special Operations forces, more than triple the current number.
  Drones will continue to be in the forefront. In response to written questions from The Post, the U.S. military confirmed publicly for the first time the presence of remotely piloted aircraft '-- military parlance for drones '-- at Camp Lemonnier and said they support ''a wide variety of regional security missions.''
  Intelligence collected from drone and other surveillance missions ''is used to develop a full picture of the activities of violent extremist organizations and other activities of interest,'' Africa Command, the arm of the U.S. military that oversees the camp, said in a statement. ''However, operational security considerations prevent us from commenting on specific missions.''
  For nearly a decade, the United States flew drones from Lemonnier only rarely, starting with a 2002 strike in Yemen that killed a suspected ringleader of the attack on the USS Cole.
  That swiftly changed in 2010, however, after al-Qaeda's network in Yemen attempted to bomb two U.S.-bound airliners and jihadists in Somalia separately consolidated their hold on that country. Late that year, records show, the Pentagon dispatched eight unmanned MQ-1B Predator aircraft to Djibouti and turned Lemonnier into a full-time drone base.
  The impact was apparent months later: JSOC drones from Djibouti and CIA Predators from a secret base on the Arabian Peninsula converged over Yemen and killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric and prominent al-Qaeda member.
  Today, Camp Lemonnier is the centerpiece of an expanding constellation of half a dozen U.S. drone and surveillance bases in Africa, created to combat a new generation of terrorist groups across the continent, from Mali to Libya to the Central African Republic. The U.S. military also flies drones from small civilian airports in Ethiopia and the Seychelles, but those operations pale in comparison to what is unfolding in Djibouti.
  Lemonnier also has become a hub for conventional aircraft. In October 2011, the military boosted the airpower at the base by deploying a squadron of F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets, which can fly faster and carry more munitions than Predators.
  In its written responses, Africa Command confirmed the warplanes' presence but declined to answer questions about their mission. Two former U.S. defense officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the F-15s are flying combat sorties over Yemen, an undeclared development in the growing war against al-Qaeda forces there.
  The drones and other military aircraft have crowded the skies over the Horn of Africa so much that the risk of an aviation disaster has soared.
  Since January 2011, Air Force records show, five Predators armed with Hellfire missiles crashed after taking off from Lemonnier, including one drone that plummeted to the ground in a residential area of Djibouti City. No injuries were reported but four of the drones were destroyed.
  Predator drones in particular are more prone to mishaps than manned aircraft, Air Force statistics show. But the accidents rarely draw public attention because there are no pilots or passengers.
  As the pace of drone operations has intensified in Djibouti, Air Force mechanics have reported mysterious incidents in which the airborne robots went haywire.
  In March 2011, a Predator parked at the camp started its engine without any human direction, even though the ignition had been turned off and the fuel lines closed. Technicians concluded that a software bug had infected the ''brains'' of the drone, but never pinpointed the problem.
  ''After that whole starting-itself incident, we were fairly wary of the aircraft and watched it pretty closely,'' an unnamed Air Force squadron commander testified to an investigative board, according to a transcript. ''Right now, I still think the software is not good.''
  Prime location
  Djibouti is an impoverished former French colony with fewer than 1 million people, scarce natural resources and miserably hot weather.
  But as far as the U.S. military is concerned, the country's strategic value is unparalleled. Sandwiched between East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, Camp Lemonnier enables U.S. aircraft to reach hot spots such as Yemen or Somalia in minutes. Djibouti's port also offers easy access to the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.
  ''This is not an outpost in the middle of nowhere that is of marginal interest,'' said Amanda J. Dory, the Pentagon's deputy assistant secretary for Africa. ''This is a very important location in terms of U.S. interests, in terms of freedom of navigation, when it comes to power projection.''
  The U.S. military pays $38 million a year to lease Camp Lemonnier from the Djiboutian government. The base rolls across flat, sandy terrain on the edge of Djibouti City, a somnolent capital with eerily empty streets. During the day, many people stay indoors to avoid the heat and to chew khat, a mildly intoxicating plant that is popular in the region.
  Hemmed in by the sea and residential areas, Camp Lemonnier's primary shortcoming is that it has no space to expand. It is forced to share a single runway with Djibouti's only international airport, as well as an adjoining French military base and the tiny Djiboutian armed forces.
  Passengers arriving on commercial flights '-- there are about eight per day '-- can occasionally spy a Predator drone preparing for a mission. In between flights, the unmanned aircraft park under portable, fabric-covered hangars to shield them from the wind and curious eyes.
  Behind the perimeter fence, construction crews are rebuilding the base to better accommodate the influx of drones. Glimpses of the secret operations can be found in an assortment of little-noticed Pentagon memoranda submitted to Congress.
  Last month, for example, the Defense Department awarded a $62 million contract to build an airport taxiway extension to handle increased drone traffic at Lemonnier, an ammunition storage site and a combat-loading area for bombs and missiles.
  In an Aug. 20 letter to Congress explaining the emergency contract, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said that 16 drones and four fighter jets take off or land at the Djibouti airfield each day, on average. Those operations are expected to increase, he added, without giving details.
  In a separate letter to Congress, Carter said Camp Lemonnier is running out of space to park its drones, which he referred to as remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), and other planes. ''The recent addition of fighters and RPAs has exacerbated the situation, causing mission delays,'' he said.
  Carter's letters revealed that the drones and fighter aircraft at the base support three classified military operations, code-named Copper Dune, Jupiter Garret and Octave Shield.
  Copper Dune is the name of the military's counterterrorism operations in Yemen. Africa Command said it could not provide information about Jupiter Garret and Octave Shield, citing secrecy restrictions. The code names are unclassified.
  The military often assigns similar names to related missions. Octave Fusion was the code name for a Navy SEAL-led operation in Somalia that rescued an American and a Danish hostage on Jan. 24.
  Spilled secrets
  Another window into the Djibouti drone operations can be found in U.S. Air Force safety records.
  Whenever a military aircraft is involved in a mishap, the Air Force appoints an Accident Investigation Board to determine the cause. Although the reports focus on technical questions, supplementary documents make it possible to re-create a narrative of what happened in the hours leading up to a crash.
  Air Force officers investigating the crash of a Predator on May 17, 2011, found that things started to go awry at Camp Lemonnier late that night when a man known as Frog emerged from the Special Operations compound.
  The camp's main power supply had failed and the phone lines were down. So Frog walked over to the flight line to deliver some important news to the Predator ground crew on duty, according to the investigators' files, which were obtained by The Post as part of a public-records request.
  ''Frog'' was the alias chosen by a major assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command. At Lemonnier, he belonged to a special collection of Navy SEALs, Delta Force soldiers, Air Force commandos and Marines known simply as ''the task force.''
  JSOC commandos spend their days and nights inside their compound as they plot raids against terrorist camps and pirate hideouts. Everybody on the base is aware of what they do, but the topic is taboo. ''I can't acknowledge the task force,'' said Baker, the Army general and highest-ranking commander at Lemonnier.
  Frog coordinated Predator hunts. He did not reveal his real name to anyone without a need to know, not even the ground-crew supervisors and operators and mechanics who cared for the Predators. The only contact came when Frog or his friends occasionally called from their compound to say it was time to ready a drone for takeoff or to prepare for a landing.
  Information about each Predator mission was kept so tightly compartmentalized that the ground crews were ignorant of the drones' targets and destinations. All they knew was that most of their Predators eventually came back, usually 20 or 22 hours later, earlier if something went awry.
  On this particular night, Frog informed the crew that his Predator was returning unexpectedly, 17 hours into the flight, because of a slow oil leak.
  It was not an emergency. But as the drone descended toward Djibouti City it entered a low-hanging cloud that obscured its camera sensor. Making matters worse, the GPS malfunctioned and gave incorrect altitude readings.
  The crew operating the drone was flying blind. It guided the Predator on a ''dangerously low glidepath,'' Air Force investigators concluded, and crashed the remote-controlled plane 2.7 miles short of the runway.
  The site was in a residential area and fire trucks rushed to the scene. The drone had crashed in a vacant lot and its single Hellfire missile had not detonated.
  The Predator splintered apart and was a total loss. With a $3 million price tag, it had cost less than one-tenth the price of an F-15 Strike Eagle.
  But in terms of spilling secrets, the damage was severe. Word spread quickly about the mysterious insect-shaped plane that had dropped from the sky. Hundreds of Djiboutians gathered and gawked at the wreckage for hours until the U.S. military arrived to retrieve the pieces.
  One secret that survived, however, was Frog's identity. The official Air Force panel assigned to investigate the Predator accident couldn't determine his real name, much less track him down for questioning.
  ''Who is Frog?'' one investigator demanded weeks later while interrogating a ground crew member, according to a transcript. ''I'm sorry, I was just getting more explanation as to who Frog '-- is that a person? Or is that like a position?''
  The crew member explained that Frog was a liaison officer from the task force. ''He's a Pred guy,'' he shrugged. ''I actually don't know his last name.''
  The accident triggered alarms at the upper echelons of the Air Force because it was the fourth drone in four months from Camp Lemonnier to crash.
  Ten days earlier, on May 7, 2011, a drone carrying a Hellfire missile had an electrical malfunction shortly after it entered Yemeni airspace, according to an Air Force investigative report. The Predator turned back toward Djibouti. About one mile offshore, it rolled uncontrollably to the right, then back to the left before flipping belly up and hurtling into the sea.
  ''I've never seen a Predator do that before in my life, except in videos of other crashes,'' a sensor operator from the ground crew told investigators, according to a transcript. ''I'm just glad we landed it in the ocean and not someplace else.''
  Flying every sortie
  The remote-control drones in Djibouti are flown, via satellite link, by pilots 8,000 miles away in the United States, sitting at consoles in air-conditioned quarters at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada and Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico.
  At Camp Lemonnier, conditions are much less pleasant for the Air Force ground crews that launch, recover and fix the drones.
  In late 2010, after military cargo planes transported the fleet of eight Predators to Djibouti, airmen from the 60th Air Force Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron unpacked the drones from their crates and assembled them.
  Soon after, without warning, a microburst storm with 80-mph winds struck the camp.
  The 87-member squadron scrambled to secure the Predators and other exposed aircraft. They managed to save more than half of the ''high-value, Remotely Piloted Aircraft assets from destruction, and most importantly, prevented injury and any loss of life,'' according to a brief account published in Combat Edge, an Air Force safety magazine.
  Even normal weather conditions could be brutal, with summertime temperatures reaching 120 degrees on top of 80 percent humidity.
  ''Our war reserve air conditioners literally short-circuited in the vain attempt to cool the tents in which we worked,'' recalled Lt. Col. Thomas McCurley, the squadron commander. ''Our small group of security forces personnel guarded the compound, flight line and other allied assets at posts exposed to the elements with no air conditioning at all.''
  McCurley's rare public account of the squadron's activities came in June, when the Air Force awarded him a Bronze Star. At the ceremony, he avoided any explicit mention of the Predators or Camp Lemonnier. But his narrative matched what is known about the squadron's deployment to Djibouti.
  ''Our greatest accomplishment was that we flew every single sortie the Air Force asked us to fly, despite the challenges we encountered,'' he said. ''We were an integral part in taking down some very important targets, which means a lot to me.''
  He did not mention it, but the unit had gotten into the spirit of its mission by designing a uniform patch emblazoned with a skull, crossbones and a suitable nickname: ''East Africa Air Pirates.''
  The Air Force denied a request from The Post to interview McCurley.
  Increased traffic
  The frequency of U.S. military flights from Djibouti has soared, overwhelming air-traffic controllers and making the skies more dangerous.
  The number of takeoffs and landings each month has more than doubled, reaching a peak of 1,666 in July compared with a monthly average of 768 two years ago, according to air-traffic statistics disclosed in Defense Department contracting documents.
  Drones now account for about 30 percent of daily U.S. military flight operations at Lemonnier, according to a Post analysis.
  The increased activity has meant more mishaps. Last year, drones were involved in ''a string of near mid-air collisions'' with NATO planes off the Horn of Africa, according to a brief safety alert published in Combat Edge magazine.
  Drones also pose an aviation risk next door in Somalia. Over the past year, remote-controlled aircraft have plunged into a refugee camp, flown perilously close to a fuel dump and almost collided with a large passenger plane over Mogadishu, the capital, according to a United Nations report.
  Manned planes are crashing, too. An Air Force U-28A surveillance plane crashed five miles from Camp Lemonnier while returning from a secret mission on Feb. 18, killing the four-person crew. An Air Force investigation attributed the accident to ''unrecognized spatial disorientation'' on the part of the crew, which ignored sensor warnings that it was flying too close to the ground.
  Baker, the two-star commander at Lemonnier, played down the crashes and near-misses. He said safety had improved since he arrived in Djibouti in May.
  ''We've dramatically reduced any incidents of concern, certainly since I've been here,'' he said.
  Last month, the Defense Department awarded a $7 million contract to retrain beleaguered air-traffic controllers at Ambouli International Airport and improve their English skills.
  The Djiboutian controllers handle all civilian and U.S. military aircraft. But they are ''undermanned'' and ''over tasked due to the recent rapid increase in U.S. military flights,'' according to the contract. It also states that the controllers and the airport are not in compliance with international aviation standards.
  Resolving those deficiencies may not be sufficient. Records show the U.S. military is also scrambling for an alternative place for its planes to land in an emergency.
  Last month, it awarded a contract to install portable lighting at the only backup site available: a tiny, makeshift airstrip in the Djiboutian desert, several miles from Lemonnier.
Horrific Superstorm Targets US After Gulf Stream Collapse
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  An ominous report prepared by the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia (HCR) on the ''Frankenstorm'' (aka Hurricane Sandy) barreling towards the Northeastern United States warns that this superstorms origins lie in the near complete collapse of the Deep Southerly Return Flow (DSRF) of the Gulf Stream this past week due to the unprecedented melting of the Greenland Icecap.
  The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic Ocean current that originates at the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The Gulf Stream, also, influences the climate of the east coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland, and the west coast of Europe.
  The warm water and temperature contrast along the edge of the Gulf Stream are, also, responsible for increasing the intensity of cyclones, tropical or otherwise, such as the one approaching the US, this HCR report says.
  HCR scientists in this report note that NASA had previously warned about the melting of the Greenland Icecap this past July when they released satellite photographs documenting this environmental tragedy.
  The NASA satellite pictures of melt covering most of the ice sheet surface on 12 July (corroborated by several independent satellite methods and research groups) is dramatic, and several key Greenland scientists have confirmed it is unprecedented in the satellite record going back to the late 1970s. The Danish Meteorological Institute website, also, showed Greenland temperature anomalies about 2-4C higher than the 1961-90 baseline average during these last three months.
  In 2010, NASA had, also, forewarned that the change in salinity caused by a massive melt-off of the Greenland Icecap could depress the Gulf Stream and alter North Atlantic circulation patterns that control weather in Europe. Combined with a loss of Arctic sea ice, NASA said, this effect could radically change global ocean circulation patterns and give rise to such superstorms such as are now occurring.
  In the current situation, this report says, a strong ridge of high pressure over the Canadian Maritimes and Greenland due to this massive melt-off will help push this superstorm northwestward, into the Mid-Atlantic or New England, rather than allowing it to move out to sea.
  That will also make this superstorm a slow mover, which will only worsen the damage in affected areas. A ridge of such high pressure is known as a ''blocking high,'' and while its occurrence is not particularly unusual, HCR experts say in this report, its intensity is.
  Not just to the horrific damages from wind, rain and coastal flooding from this superstorm are to feared either, this report says, but, also, to the massive amounts of snow measuring up to nearly 1 meter (2 feet) expected to impact an area roughly 1/3 the size of the Eastern United States. A situation, HCR scientists say, that has the potential to be catastrophic as these snows fall upon trees that have yet to shed their leaves.
  Most ominous, perhaps, in this report are the warnings that this unprecedented superstorm effects may, also, include earthquakes in the Northeastern US and Canadian regions such as the one that occurred in the State of Maine on 16 October and rattled all of New England, and the 10 October one that shook Montreal.
  Unlike their western counterparts, it is to be noted that both Russian and Chinese scientists consider strong weather patterns as being part of the precursors, if not outright causes, of seismic events, particularly strong low pressure systems like the one associated with this superstorm about to shatter tens of millions of lives in the United States.
  Interesting to note is that in 2009 the New York Times in their article titled ''How Storms Can Trigger Earthquakes'' supported the research of Eastern scientists, and as we can, in part, read:
  New evidence shows that atmospheric low pressure systems can prompt the landslide to lurch downward. Pressure drops when warm daytime air results in low ''tides,'' or when fast-moving storms race onto the scene. The effect on landslides and earthquakes only occurs when the pressure plummets suddenly, causing underground water and air to shoot toward the surface. That reduces friction between grinding subterranean plates, or under a landslide that's been held immobile by abrasive dirt and rocks.
  The same conclusion was reached by scientists in Taiwan this June. A study published in the journal Nature described how low pressure accompanying typhoons sparked small earthquakes along the fault between the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate. The scientists note that they make ''a definitive connection between fault slip and changes in atmospheric pressure.''
  Importantly, both studies say weather impacts can accelerate an earthly act that was bound to happen sooner or later. In other words, low pressure is not the cause of an earthquake, just the trigger.
  To the final outcome of this event it is not in our knowing, other than to note, and as we've seen so many times in the past, the American people (especially those living in their Eastern regions about to be hit) are, perhaps, the least likely of any of Earth's peoples able to defend themselves against this catastrophe as they have lost the simple human ability to know how survive by themselves without their governments help.
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Absentee ballots for Afghanistan may have been burned in crash - Afghanistan - Stripes
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  Published: October 27, 2012
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Federal officials say that absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan may have been burned in a plane crash.
  A top official in the Federal Voting Assistance Program this week notified election officials across the nation that a transport plane crashed at Shindad Air Base on Oct. 19.
  The crash resulted in the destruction of 4,700 pounds of mail inbound to troops serving in the area.
  Federal officials in their email to state election offices said they did not know if any ballots were destroyed. They also said the lost mail was limited to one zip code.
  But they recommended that election officials resend a new ballot to anyone who requested one since the first ballot may have been destroyed in the crash and fire.
Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order @ TigerDroppings.com
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  Posted byMessageAmbassadorLSU FanWest Monroe, LAMember since Jan 2004735 posts Online Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:45 p.m.)
  I heard a story today from someone inside the military that I trust entirely. The story was in reference to General Ham that Panetta referenced in the quote below.quote:
  "(The) basic principle is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on; without having some real-time information about what's taking place," Panetta told Pentagon reporters. "And as a result of not having that kind of information, the commander who was on the ground in that area, Gen. Ham, Gen. Dempsey and I felt very strongly that we could not put forces at risk in that situation."The information I heard today was that General Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
  General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.
  The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham's place as the head of Africon.
  I found this story when I got home after hearing this story.
  quote:
  President Barack Obama will nominate Army Gen. David Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command and Marine Lt. Gen. John Paxton to succeed Gen. Joseph Dunford as assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced Thursday.General Rodigues Nominated as Head of Africon
  As I was typing this I heard John Bolton on Greta say that there are conflicting reports of General Ham's comments on this tragedy and why a rapid response unit was not deployed. Bolton says someone needs to find out what Ham was saying on 9/11/12.
  Interesting to say the least.
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  EighteenMississippi St. FanMember since Dec 200613771 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:48 p.m. to Ambassador)There is just so much to this story, it would be nice if there were people who were paid to ask questions, request documents and put all leads and quotes together in an attempt get the truth...there should really be a profession for that...
  Back to topTigerTattleLSU FanOut of TownMember since Sep 20073293 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:48 p.m. to Ambassador)Holy crap! If that's true, kudos to Gen. Ham. Seems he's the only one in the administration/military who tried to do the right thing.Back to topkingbobLSU FanSt. Amant, LAMember since Nov 20105337 posts Online re: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:50 p.m. to TigerTattle)The sad thing about this story is how believable it is.Back to topTigerLicksBuffalo FanDallas, TXMember since Oct 20039335 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:51 p.m. to Ambassador)Great points. Great find.Back to topKosmoCramerOhio State FanMember since Dec 200735498 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:51 p.m. to Ambassador)I'm getting sick just finding out everything that was going on behind the scenes of this and how it's not being talked about.I literally want to vomit thinking that we left American heroes to die when we had many avenues of support and assets that could have been utilized.
  Back to topGumboPotLSU FanSaints FanMember since Mar 200914553 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:53 p.m. to kingbob)quote:
  The sad thing about this story is how believable it is.Right...not to far fetched and quite plausible.
  Back to topTigerTattleLSU FanOut of TownMember since Sep 20073293 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:54 p.m. to Eighteen)quote:
  put all leads and quotes together in an attempt get the truth...Not so much leads, but here are the quotes. I posted the same link in another thread. Benghazi TimelineBack to topPatrick_BatemanUSA FanMember since Jan 20121333 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:54 p.m. to Ambassador)In other words, this story is about to go Ham?Back to toptigerpimpbotLA-Monroe FanJudicial hell hole 1Member since Nov 20117334 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:55 p.m. to Ambassador)I have no doubt this happened. Mother frick. Back to topKosmoCramerOhio State FanMember since Dec 200735498 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:56 p.m. to GumboPot)The question now is WHY were they told to stand down.The special response teams under the control of Ham knew that their job was to go into situations with limited intel. That is how they are trained, that's how their procedures are set up.
  Benghazi happened, they were trained to respond, and were told to stand down.
  This is all going to come out. There are a lot of pissed of Delta Force, Inteiligence people, etc. that KNOW the U.S. government let American heroes die. This will all leak out, sooner rather than later, but honestly who cares about this effecting the election. This is way bigger than that.
  Back to topEl Josey WalesLSU FanAnti ObamavilleMember since Nov 20077541 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:56 p.m. to KosmoCramer)quote:
  I'm getting sick just finding out everything that was going on behind the scenes of this and how it's not being talked about.This.
  Back to topbaybeefeetzthe nowMember since Sep 20099376 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:58 p.m. to TigerTattle)Tht tImeline is awesome.Back to topEl Josey WalesLSU FanAnti ObamavilleMember since Nov 20077541 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 9:58 p.m. to KosmoCramer)quote:
  This is way bigger than that.I agree wholeheartedly but a vast majority of the country has no idea about any of this.
  A damn shame.
  Back to topEighteenMississippi St. FanMember since Dec 200613771 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 10:00 p.m. to TigerTattle)quote:
  Not so much leads, but here are the quotes. I posted the same link in another thread. Benghazi Timeline
  thanks for the link...I was just being facetious about how the MSM "journalists" care more about binders, Big Bird and random misquotes that actually questioning the administration about Benghazi
  The tough questions should have been asked from the beginning...all this stuff shouldn't have to trickle out slowly through other sources
  Back to topTopisawtigerLSU FanMississippiMember since Oct 201293 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 10:00 p.m. to El Josey Wales)I am a retired military officer and the only time you would ever leave someone like that, without responding is POLITICS. Ever.Back to topRTR AmericaAlabama FanMemphis, TNMember since Aug 20122320 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 10:02 p.m. to TigerTattle)This is what is bothering me is I have never heard from our military that it was not "optimal" to go out and try to safe the lives of our fellow Americans.Oh and
  Back to topWild ThangLSU FanRIP DawgrantMember since Jun 20096909 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 10:04 p.m. to Ambassador)quote:
  General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham's place as the head of Africon.
  Obama needs to be put in jail IMO.
  Back to topEighteenMississippi St. FanMember since Dec 200613771 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 10:06 p.m. to RTR America)this is why it pisses me off so much when Decatour, Rex, DA and Col Toddy try and justify all of this.It is clear there was a major frick up, and it came under Obama's whether they like it or not. He deserves to be held accountable, and he isn't.
  There is nothing you can do to justify what happened...something like this should have never happened on the fricking anniversary of 9/11.
  Its just pathetic.
  This post was edited on 10/26 at 10:14 pm
  Back to topTigerTattleLSU FanOut of TownMember since Sep 20073293 postsre: Interesting Rumor Concerning General Carter Ham and Stand Down Order (Posted on 10/26/12 at 10:08 p.m. to baybeefeetz)quote:
  Tht tImeline is awesome.Back to top
Merkel Calls for Massive Centrally Planned Global Finance System
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  Reuters reports:German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the world's top economies to push ahead with further financial regulation, saying that not enough had been achieved so far.
  The global financial crisis has prompted an overhaul of regulation in almost every part of the financial system from over-the-counter derivatives to bank capital requirements.
  But Merkel said in her weekly podcast that more was needed.
  "In my view, we are not where we ought to be yet," she said.
  "We had planned to regulate every financial centre, every financial actor and every financial market product. Significant progress has been made but the rules have not yet been implemented everywhere and we are still missing further areas."
  The chancellor pointed to "shadow banks", or non-bank financial institutions that are less regulated than banks, as an area where progress needed to be made.
  This is about banksters and governments getting even more control of money flows. They will direct money toward their crony projects and drain funds from other sectors. This is one of the more destructive programs promoted by the globalists. Without unihibited, unregulates money flow going into many different pockets, innovation stops, the crony rich get richer and the rest of us don't have a chance.
Marco Rubio rushed from campaign trail following daughter's car accident
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  Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:14
  Senator Marco Rubio was pulled out of Mitt Romney's motorcade en route to a campaign event today after his daughter was involved in a car accident.
  The Tampa Bay Times reports that 12-year-old Amanda Rubio was airlifted to Miami Children's Hospital, where she is in stable condition.
  Prayers and well-wishes came in quickly.
  Rubio was scheduled to speak along with Senate candidate Connie Mack at a rally at Land O' Lakes High School where a crowd of thousands had assembled.
  Twitchy sends its best wishes to the Rubio family.
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  The disappearance of knowledge from human consciousness is a rare phenomenon, but there are recorded instances of knowledge which has evaporated. As a curious example, Pancirollus, writing in the 16th Century mentions that, among many other cases of lost technology, in the time of the Roman Empire a man who had invented flexible glass was presented to Emperor Tiberius. Tiberius condemned the poor man to death and ordered the destruction of all his products, considering that such an invention was detrimental to society.
  A striking case of general human amnesia is that of Aristarchus of Samos (born 310 B.C.) who was the first man to declare that the Sun is the center of the solar system, and that the Earth and all the other planets revolve around the Sun; he also arranged the Earth and planets in the correct order of their distance from the Sun. This knowledge was fairly soon forgotten and only rediscovered by Copernicus - 1800 years later!
  Whether the Sun is the center of the solar system or whether it revolves around the Earth, as was thought to be the case up to the time of Copernicus, is really of little consequence to human life, which goes on normally whatever we wish to think about the Universe. We happen to know someone who still adheres to Holy Writ and who is firmly convinced that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and he has sent us a book which attempts to prove that Scripture is correct. Well, who cares? We still have to eat three meals a day, whatever we wish to think about the Universe.
  We mention all this because we are back to Tiberius, who decided that a new invention was noxious to human life and deliberately suppressed all knowledge about it: it appears that humanity is today subjected to the suppression of knowledge which is - unlike cosmology or the technique for the manufacture of flexible glass '' vitally important to human life; we refer to knowledge about money and Austrian economics.
  The control of knowledge is not a new thing; from the dawn of history, priesthoods of all religions '' the ‰lite of ancient times - have done their best to control knowledge through the creation of mysteries and the invention of rites of initiation into the various degrees of knowledge. Pythagoras, in the 6th Century B.C. prohibited his disciples from writing down anything related to his teachings, which is why we know so little about them. The Egyptian priesthoods were also hermetic '' the very word denotes the sacredness of the knowledge retained by the priesthood. The Celtic Druids controlled their acquired knowledge with extreme jealousy and required its memorization: knowledge was not to be written down. The accumulated wisdom of the Celts vanished when all the Druids were killed by the Romans. In our day, Freemasonry operates under a strict system of degrees of access to knowledge open only to initiates who fulfill the required qualifications.
  It is suspicious that all knowledge relating to real money and Austrian economics is carefully excluded, all over the world, from consideration in Academia, from the deliberations of Legislative bodies, from the pages of journals, from the TV screen and from the productions of the film industry. It appears that humanity is being subjected to a planned operation to erase from all human consciousness the memory of real money and of the economic principles that lead to prosperity. Of course the ‰lite know full well that ''gold is money, all else is credit'': J. P. Morgan himself said so.
  Who are the world's ‰lite? They are an amorphous number of individuals from around the world. They are the people who have influence and the power to affect the operations of leading institutions. They are the people who are invited to Bilderberg meetings, to World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland. They are the people of the Trilateral Commission, the members of the CFR. They compose the Brotherhood of Central Bankers around the world. They head the great world-spanning corporations. Typically, the ‰lite are the world's top bankers and politicians. What they have in common is the desire to perpetuate their wealth, influence and power, which means that they quite naturally agree (without even having to acknowledge their agreement) to bar any discussion of questions of the greatest transcendence, because the greater the transcendence, the greater the number of the ‰lite who would be adversely affected by any change. It would be quite improper, for instance, to bring up the subject of a return to the Gold Standard at any meeting of the ‰lite. This explains why no journalist under the influence of the ‰lite, publishing his articles in The Wall Street Journal or in the Financial Times, may include in his analysis of the present financial breakdown of the world any mention of the central cause of that breakdown: fiat money.
  The only money that is considered in the Media, accredited institutions of learning and all other institutions of any weight across the world is fiat money '' imaginary money. Fiat money is to be considered as the only possible money and the best of all possible moneys: gold and silver are trashed as antiquated and failed currencies. In some circles, the idea that money should be gold or silver, or both, is regarded as ridiculous if not scandalous.
  The other side of the control over access to Knowledge exercised by the ‰lite through the centuries is the deliberate spreading of falsehoods, fictions, fairy-tales or memes which serve to consolidate the rule of the ‰lite. Examples too numerous to mention abound: 9-11 is but one example.
  Humanity could forget everything that has been learned about the Universe and be none the worse for it, but forgetting about what money is and must be is of vital importance to humans, because true money is the life-blood of any human society living under the division of labor.
  Since 1971, all money all over the world is nothing but numeric money; money which consists of numbers and which has no substance. The contrast with our culture is striking: we are supposed to be living in an Age of Materialism, and yet the world's money has no material existence '' it is purely symbolic or imaginary. Paper money, previously a derivative of underlying metal, no longer derives value from any underlying referent. Digital money is an even more vacuous complement of paper money.
  The ‰lite has created for itself the power to run the world; how is this power to be retained? How is the ‰lite to run the world in such a way that it remains in power? Take into account that there are now over 7 billion humans vying for all the things that are required to maintain human life, plus iPads, cellphones and other stuff.
  First of all, as a member of the ‰lite one must understand that it is impossible to reason with 7 billion humans: in fact, it's almost impossible to reason with anyone who is dissatisfied with his economic situation, let alone 7 billion.
  This is why Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor of Germany, invented the Welfare State back around 1890. He had a number of unhappy Germans listening to Socialist agitation, and to distract them he promised them State aid in case of unemployment, medical assistance in case of illness or injury, and a pension upon retirement. In effect, he stole the thunder from the Socialist agitators who were stirring up resentment. Bismarck invented ''Socialism lite''.
  The ‰lite around the world since Bismarck's time have agreed to implement Democracy and have implemented and expanded his Welfare State. A lovely dream for the masses! They get to vote and the majority rules '' hard to complain about that. Elections pose no problem for the ‰lite: when have votes ever changed anything of transcendence? And then, the masses have the Welfare State to be their nanny and take care of all their problems.
  Perhaps some government, applying Prussian discipline, might in theory be able to pay for ''Socialism lite'' out of tax receipts without running deficits, but in practice not a single government in the world has in fact been able to do so; Welfare Benefits have overthrown all fiscal balance in the nations of the world. There has been only one way to fund the Welfare State, and that way has required another lie: fiat money. This is the inexhaustible well from which funds are pulled up to pay for the Welfare State. Real money would never do; its supply would soon be exhausted; the drain of silver and gold would crush productive activity, supposing such volume of taxation could be collected at all in real money.
  One must understand that it is no small thing to retain control over billions of humans. It takes lies, but from the point of view of the ‰lite, the lies are useful and indeed, indispensable.
  Will the fiat money well never run dry? Not really; for if the numbers required to fund the Welfare State become too large and unwieldy, the thing to do is lop off some zeros from the money in use and from prices, and the game goes on. Argentina has shown the way: since the 1930's, the governments of Argentina have lopped off 22 zeros from the Argentine peso, and still, life goes on in Argentina.
  Besides promising Welfare '' though not actually keeping their promises '' the ''‰lite'' have wisely incorporated Entertainment for the masses into their scheme for control. This policy of entertainment is vast in scope, from Sport on through Pornography and incorporating War. Notice the importance given to the ''Olympic Games''. The ''‰lite'' regards war as simply an extreme form of sport for those directly engaged in it, and as entertainment or ''distraction'' for those who watch it on TV. (Witness the popularity of films about WW II.) The victims '' both soldiers and civilians - are simply expendable human material. Under ''War'' we have to include the mind-controlling psywar waged against the ‰lite's own peoples by hammering continual warnings of dire threats from abroad and by breaking down all sense of rights vested in the individual, with the ''fight against Terrorism'' as the excuse, for the time being.
  We have to include ''elections'' under the category of entertainment. Just like professional basketball, baseball and football, elections are enormously entertaining; they attract the attention of huge masses of people without any significant effect upon reality. All over the world, elections are constantly approaching or in process; all very entertaining. The entertaining bloody fights of hooligans between winners and losers in sports serve to discharge latent social frustrations. Riots against ''electoral fraud'' are nothing more than childish tantrums in the eyes of the ‰lite and also vent latent frustrations.
  If we understand the point of view of the ''‰lite'' we can understand what will necessarily take place in the world. It has to take place, because there is no other means by which the ''‰lite'' can retain their power in the world than by the application of the Matrix that supports their rule:Democracy, the Welfare State, Fiat Money, Entertainment and the Control of Knowledge.
  What will necessarily take place '' barring a nuclear war which will overthrow the present ‰lite - will certainly not be the disappearance of the Welfare State and a return to real money, but quite the contrary: the Welfare State will be expanded to its full expression, the Socialist State; fiat money will be supplemented with ration tickets: there are already 46.5 million Americans on the SNAP program (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) a modern version of food-ration tickets. The Socialist State '' think of dingy, mediocre post-war Britain - will minimize the market and fiat money will play a reduced part in the life of people. In this regard, notice the war on cash, with restrictions increasingly applied to the use of cash, first in Italy and now in Spain. Personal cash deposits to bank accounts in Mexico, in excess of a monthly limit, are taxed. Capital controls will crack down on international money transfers. Everywhere, the use of credit or debt cards will be encouraged, in order to leave paper trails. Nikita Khrushchev was only partially right when he prophesied ''We will bury you!'' for it was not the U.S.S.R. that was to bury the West, it was the ‰lite of the West.
  Prior to the coming of the Internet, which has swept up the attention of the world, the world experienced a similar revolution in information with the invention of the printing press in the 15th Century. However, we must note a significant difference between the printing press revolution and the Internet. The printing press disseminated an idea that came to light in the Renaissance and that caught the imagination of Europe: the idea of the rights of the individual, in turn based on the fundamental concept of freedom of thought. This is turn, later spawned the idea that governments should find their legitimacy in the approval of the mass of free-thinking individuals '' the repudiation of the medieval idea of the King's God-given right to rule. Authority was to come from below, from the approval of the mass of individual voters, and not from above, as did the authority of Kings. The idea of freedom of thought also affected the authority of the Catholic Church's Pope, because the Protestants affirmed that each man should receive his spiritual guidance directly from the Bible, which before the printing press was inaccessible to the population.
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  At this point, an excursion into a consideration of ''looking Above and looking Below'':
  In a fascinating 1959 book, ''The Sleepwalkers'', Arthur Koestler pointed out a change that came over humanity approximately around the year 1600. At about that time, the thinkers of humanity changed their outlook on the material world; they ceased to regard it from the point of view of looking upward to causes Above phenomena, and they began to seek causes Below phenomena, beneath the physical events observed. The consideration of Quality in phenomena was increasingly displaced by the observation of Quantity. Thus inferior phenomena were supposed to determine phenomena of a superior nature. Physics has pursued substance downward to such an extent that today it can only speak in mathematical formulas.
  This change in the point of view of thinkers '' from looking Above to looking Below - has its parallels in all realms of modern thought. We see it in the dethroning of Kings, whose authority derived from their quality, and the installation of Democracy, whose authority derives from the quantity of votes. We see it in the repudiation of real money of quality, and the adoption of numeric fiat money of no quality whatsoever and which is only defined by its quantity. We see it again in the birth of Positivism, which banishes quality and holds that all knowledge must be based on measurable quantities. And we see it again, in Sociology and Economics, which look to quantify and to elaborate statistics.
  In Economics particularly, the change of emphasis from Quality (Above) to Quantity (Below) is reflected in the general disregard for the Austrian School of Economics, which has as its starting point the fact that humans choose at every instant of their waking lives, and that choice necessarily implies a consciousness of Quality and comparison of the qualities, and therefore the values of the things or actions chosen; this is a starting point radically different from that of the prevailing Economics, which looks Below, to a sterile elaboration and study of arbitrary numbers - Quantities denoted by monetary data - and offers the mechanistic illusion that human life can be improved by attention to numbers on the part of rulers. Modern economics disregards a fundamental premise of computer programming: ''GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out''.
  Modern economics adheres to the general model of science in our day: to look for causes below the phenomena observed. These causes are deemed to push the entities observed and determine their motion. Modern science does not look for causes which pull the entities observed, because this would entail the recognition of purpose in the physical world, and all modern science has to be purposeless, that is to say, empty of any objective, i.e., teleologically neutral.
  However, in the study of acting man '' which is theme of Austrian economics '' the fact that humans do choose implies that they do have purposes and are in fact pulled toward the actions and things they choose. Because Austrian economics does recognize this fact and derives all its study from it, it is realistic and thus provides the knowledge of what economic policy is conducive to the highest possible level of general prosperity.
  Modern economics '' Keynesianism '' studiously avoids regarding the purposes of individuals and strives to push them into behaving the way that it judges as best: hence ''QE''. The classic Keynesian statement that ''people are saving too much'' typifies its philosophy of ignoring causes above social phenomena - the pull exerted by the choices of individuals - and seeking to apply causes below, to push society to the ends which they, the Keynesian economists, deem preferable.
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  A consequence of the printing press was the upheaval of the French Revolution that changed the world by implementing this new idea: Authority comes from below, not from above. This idea ousted one ‰lite and installed another: Kings, Aristocracy and Priesthood were swept away and Bankers ascended into the new ‰lite. The top Bankers gained an important standing among the ‰lite because they had, and have the money to purchase the consent of the voters.
  The Internet has indeed been a massive and surprising phenomenon. But has it introduced a new idea that has captivated the imagination of mankind, as the printing press did? The Internet overflows with criticism, the world's complaints are heard far and wide, but we have yet to see any new idea - spreading like wildfire - that will change the way the world is governed. The idea that ''authority comes from below'' appears unassailable. Until that idea is superseded by another idea, the Internet poses no real danger to the ruling ‰lite. Presidents and Prime Ministers may come and go; the ‰lite will remain in charge. If banking systems are nationalized, they will still be run by the ‰lite who operate at a supra-national level.
  An ‰lite is a permanent fixture of human society. The United States was founded by an ‰lite who enjoyed the humane culture of English gentlemen of quality living in the Colonies. A notable accident took place: the ‰lite of the United States were inspired by benevolence toward the whole of the new American nation which they founded. Their attitude of good will was expressed in their elaboration of the Constitution of the United States.
  The creation of the US was an accident that changed the course of history. We shall not attempt to recite the subsequent history of that accident; suffice it to say that from those heights of benevolence, of good will to man, the ‰lite of the United States '' and under the leadership of the United States, the ‰lite of most of the world '' have now transformed into a clearly malevolent ‰lite. The Constitution is now regarded as ''a goddamn piece of paper'', according to a statement attributed to a recent President.
  The US Constitution has been erased for all practical purposes and a malevolent ‰lite rules most of the world through the Matrix of Power.
  An ‰lite there must always be: its existence is in the nature of things. The objective for men of good will must be to weaken the malevolent ‰lite by undermining their Matrix of Power. The undermining of the Matrix must proceed by attacking the Matrix at its weakest link: fiat money. Fiat money is the weakest link because it naturally evolves into a chaos of hyperinflation and disappearance of international cooperation which inflames massive discontent. Fiat money is the element that enables the operation of the Matrix. The response of the ‰lite to the inevitable consequences of fiat money is predictable: they attribute economic '' and cultural - deterioration to everything but the proximate cause, fiat money. We see this going on before our eyes.
  Within the Western ‰lite, fiat money has placed men who are not qualified to wield power '' the moneylenders - in the most prominent places of power. Thus the worst men determine the fate of civilization. The international bankers are calling the shots. Under the gold standard Banking was an honorable profession, but raised to the supreme power of ruling, Bankers have become corrupt.
  The men of good will in all nations must understand that the enemy of civilization is fiat money. The Internet can help generate and spread this understanding. When conditions become intolerable, the cry for real money may convince a part of the ‰lite to change their stance and turn their backs on the fiat money bankers. This is certainly a forlorn hope, but we have no other, unless we remember the words of Jesus: ''Ask, and it shall be given you.''
  In the midst of a dire economic collapse, with a popular outcry for real money, the Welfare State may be jettisoned. A new outlook of hope may be reborn. Personal charity may take the place of the Welfare State, as it should. Humanity may be able to start from scratch to rebuild prosperity. It is likely that such a drastic change of outlook would require Dictatorship and jettisoning Democracy along with fiat money. Aristotle, 2300 years ago, already noted that democracies are regularly followed by dictatorships.
  If fiat money is not abolished, will the present wickedness ever end? Yes, it will end in the fall of industrial civilization because our civilization, now in decline, cannot survive under a fiat money system; nor can it survive under Socialism, because Socialism can only consume Capital. However, it may take a century or more for mankind to realize that industrial civilization is a thing of the past. Poverty will mean starvation for millions; the world's population will contract, perhaps as fast as it rose since the Industrial Revolution. By 2300 we might be back to one billion humans on Earth.
  This decline would not appear to worry the ‰lite; there are signs that lead us to think that they believe that the population of the Earth has to be reduced, that the resources for maintaining the present material conditions of mankind are insufficient and that the lives of 7 billion humans are unsustainable, approaching the ''carrying capacity'' of Earth.
  When the population of the Earth has declined to one billion, after some three centuries of starvation, disease and war, the ‰lite will also be poorer but they will still be on top, because the existence of an ‰lite is a fact of life.
  However, this is not the end of the story: there is no end to the story of human life. It has a fractal nature, with infinite variations on themes, like the ''Mandelbrot set'' (see here). One ever-recurring theme is that some men - the ‰lite '' dominate for a time, eventually lose their domination and then the way opens for the appearance of a new ‰lite.
  There will always be an ‰lite because, contrary to what has been stated as a ''self-evident truth'', all men are not created equal; ''equality'' is an idea born of the impulse to ignore quality and fixate on quantity. The ‰lite is made up of those who have special qualifications '' mostly bad, in our day '' and of those whom Dame Fortune brings to power, ''creatures of circumstance'', as Napoleon described himself: creatures of the fractal which is human life.
  In the impoverished condition of mankind which lies ahead and with the drastic decrease in the population of the Earth, today's technology will fade as Capital vanishes; technology without Capital to apply it will become useless knowledge. The world will become a larger and simpler place, with much empty space.
  The decline of technology, forced by the scarcity of Capital, will drastically weaken the control of the ‰lite. The nations of today will melt into smaller nations which will not be willing to accede to the world control of the present ‰lite. Independence and Nationalism will be reborn in new forms. The world control exercised by the present ‰lite will dissolve for lack of means to impose it. In some regions, breathing spaces of some freedom may once again open for humans. Gold and silver may once again be money - in some places. New ‰lites will come to power, limited in geographical scope; some of them probably dictatorial in nature.
  The differences between dictatorship, democracy and kingly rule are that the democratic governments claim to speak for the people, kings claim to have divine approval of their rule, and dictators may lay claim to be the executors of the popular will according to some ideology; as examples we have Fidel Castro, Adolph Hitler, Mussolini and Lenin; or dictators may simply seize power and retain it by silencing opposition through brutal means; but most dictators govern by applying ad hoc ideological claims, rigged elections and brutality simultaneously. Chairman Mao said that ''political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'' It is true that some dictators have been enlightened men who have had humane views and have ruled wisely.
  The present ‰lite are concerned that a force exists which may unseat them: Islam. Islam has the faith '' perceived as fanaticism by the West '' to revert the paradigm that has shaped the world since the French Revolution: Islam affirms that Authority comes from Above. Thus it is understandable that the ‰lite regard Islam as their deadly enemy.
  The concern of the ‰lite regarding Islam is reinforced by the presence of a significant component of Jews within the ranks of the ‰lite. A tenet of Judaism is that the Jews, as God's Chosen People, are promised world dominion by God. So besides Islam, Judaism is another force which affirms ''Authority from Above'', where Jewish world-authority is to be exercised by divine mandate at some future time.
  As long as the world '' including nominally Islamic areas - accepts the idea that ''Authority comes from Below'', the future will essentially have to resemble the present, because ''Authority comes from Below'' is the defining idea regarding government in our time.
  The political disturbances which have roiled Iran seem to confirm that there is a segment of its population which holds the idea that ''Authority comes from Below''. Add to this consideration the telling fact that the Iranian government uses fiat money, necessary to purchase consent.
  ''Authority from Above'' - when it still existed 250 years ago - did not purchase consent; it demanded consent and used real money of gold and silver. The world's second government established upon the premise of ''Authority comes from Below'' '' the Revolutionary Government of France in 1790 '' introduced a full fiat, paper money system for France, which caused a huge collapse in short order. (The first government to claim that ''Authority comes from Below'' was that of Oliver Cromwell of England, established in 1649 and dissolved in 1660.)
  Questions then arise: Will it ever be possible for a new ‰lite to operate under the paradigm of ''Authority comes from Above''? And will it be able to rule without recourse to lies, deceptions or fictions? We leave the questions open.
  The Human Fractal''The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the sun.''Ecclesiastes 1:9
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For Obama, a Tricky Balance of Campaigning and Storm
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:02
  NASHUA, N.H. '-- With 10 days to go until Election Day, President Obama stuck to his plans Saturday and exhorted supporters at a rally here to help him win this state's tiny but potentially significant four Electoral College votes.
  But the big question facing the Obama campaign this weekend concerned science as much as math: how is the president supposed to campaign in the middle of what is being billed as possibly the biggest storm to hit the mid-Atlantic in years?
  With Hurricane Sandy heading toward a collision with an early winter storm and expected to reach the East Coast late Sunday, Mr. Obama, more than his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, must figure how to marshal the government's response while also rallying votes ahead of the Nov. 6 elections. It is a delicate balance, made more so by the fact that some of the swing states necessary to Mr. Obama's re-election hopes '-- Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire '-- are in the storm's projected path.
  Even while Obama officials were making plans to reschedule the president's campaign travels so that he can get ahead of the storm '-- for example, Mr. Obama will fly to Florida on Sunday night instead of Monday '-- the White House was trying to project an image of a president working to prepare the East Coast for the storm.
  Aboard Air Force One en route to New Hampshire on Saturday, Mr. Obama held a conference call with Craig Fugate, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other top officials to get an update on Sandy. The day before, Mr. Obama had directed Mr. Fugate ''to ensure that all available federal resources are being brought to bear to support state and local responders in potentially affected areas along the eastern seaboard,'' the White House said in an e-mail to reporters.
  The storm could hold repercussions for both Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney, particularly if it inhibits voter turnout in crucial states. In Ohio in particular, the Obama campaign has been counting on its field operation to urge people to vote early, with buses taking voters to the polls after Obama rallies in the state. Republicans, for their part, have been pushing their own early-vote efforts in Virginia, hoping that Mr. Romney can get a head start in vote tallies there.
  Josh Earnest, a White House spokesman, said that beyond Mr. Obama's early departure for Florida on Sunday, there were no plans for additional weather-related changes to Mr. Obama's campaign schedule. But the president was supposed to campaign in Virginia on Monday; if Sandy is pushing through the Commonwealth at the same time, it is hard to imagine that the president would fly into the storm '-- or ask supporters to show up at a rally amid heavy winds and rain.
  Asked if the Obama team was worried that Mr. Romney could politicize the government response to the storm, Mr. Earnest said: ''I don't want to predict what Governor Romney may or may not say '-- he certainly does have an interesting track record on this.''
  In the meantime, Mr. Obama was trying to make all he could out of the last decent weather day before Sandy was to hit the American mainland. Before heading to the rally in Nashua, he stopped at a local Teamsters office in Manchester to encourage campaign volunteers.
  ''New Hampshire is going to be very important,'' Mr. Obama said. ''We don't know how this thing is going to play out; these four electoral votes right here could make the difference.''
  At the rally in Nashua '-- attended by 8,500, who were entertained beforehand with a performance by James Taylor '-- Mr. Obama accused Mr. Romney of raising taxes and fees on the middle class while he was governor of neighboring Massachusetts.
  ''He raised fees to get a birth certificate, which would have been expensive for me,'' Mr. Obama joked, grinning.
Frank Rich: Right will rage if Obama wins
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:01
  Ever since the days of Barry Goldwater, many liberals have assumed '-- or naively hoped '-- that each national defeat would teach Republicans that they had overreached, and pull them back from the extremes. Instead, the opposite has happened: The lesson of every loss, even the routs, has been ''we were not conservative enough.''
  The Goldwater smackdown in 1964 really did lay the groundwork for the Reagan revolution and the ensuing conservative era. But the loss to Barack Obama in 2008 '-- and the toppling of establishment conservatives by tea party insurgents in 2010 '-- has put the extremes in charge. Even someone as conservative and virulently opposed to the Obama agenda as Mitch McConnell has hired a tea party veteran '-- and Rand Paul adviser '-- to run his 2014 Senate re-election campaign.
  So what happens if Obama beats Mitt Romney and the Republicans again, this time after the likes of McConnell made denying him a second term their main legislative mission over the last four years? The earnest-minded might hope that Republicans view Obama's re-election as a message to cooperate and a sign that their obstruction failed. The sober-minded might look at the number of ridiculous white men determined to make rape victims carry their attacker's baby and a primary campaign filled with evolution opponents and assume common sense and basic decency, or at least post-Renaissance thinking, might return on social and cultural issues.
  But Frank Rich says none of that will happen. The only lesson that will be learned, the New York magazine columnist says, is to head further right. And Rich argues that's because there simply aren't any other voices left. The moderate Northeast wing of the party was purged long ago. The primary defeats of conservatives like Bob Bennett in Utah and Richard Lugar in Indiana taught establishment figures that any compromise has its costs. Even a moderate-conservative wing, Rich suggests, would have no leaders, let alone followers, in the national party.
  As part of a new series of conversations with leading thinkers and writers about where American politics goes from here, we sat down with Rich on Thursday afternoon in New York. The former New York Times columnist and executive producer of HBO's ''Veep'' sees more of the same ahead '-- a president who remains cautious in a second term, an opposition party that thinks it needs to be even more conservative, and a race among true believers for the party's nod in 2016.
  Let's assume that Nate Silver '' everyone's Xanax these days '-- is right, and Obama has a 70 percent chance of winning reelection (Silver's calculation moved to 74.4 percent on Saturday). What do you expect from an Obama second term? I think that there are a lot of people who fantasize that his second term will liberate him to be the lefty, transformative president they dreamed he would be. And that seems like a fundamental misreading of the sober and cautious and bipartisan president that he's attempted to be.
  I think you've answered the question. I don't believe people change. I think we know who Obama is, despite the Republican attempt to caricature him as a wide-eyed radical. He's a moderate Democrat. In another era, he might have been a moderate Republican. And, generally speaking, presidents don't accomplish much in their second terms anyway. I think anything he does will be kind of incremental. I don't have great expectations.
  I know the things he's said he'll work on: tax reform, immigration reform, entitlement reform, a grand bargain '-- all this. And I'm sure he'll in good conscience pursue it and perhaps succeed at some of it, depending on the mood of the country and what hand he's dealt in Congress. But I think the idea that there's going to be a radical difference '-- or even if there were, that he'd be able to effect it '-- is not realistic.
  Your colleague Jonathan Chait argued last week that we'd get an immediate read on Obama, if reelected. He could fight the entire misframing of the fiscal cliff and break Congressional obstructionism. He could simply let these defense cuts mandated by the debt ceiling deal go into place, and allow the Bush tax cuts to officially expire. And if the House Republicans then refuse to raise the debt limit in the winter, he simply does it by executive fiat. But then in the last debate, he seemed to take that off the table already, when he said the sequester cuts would not happen.
  It is a test. But, back to my answer to the first question'--
  People don't change.
  People don't change. I think there's going to be some attempt to throw the needle '-- barring some extraordinary circumstance, like the Democrats take the House, but that's not going to happen. But even if it did, I still think Obama would be a very moderate Democrat.
  Does this mean that he has not learned the fundamental lesson of his first term: the raw determination of Republican obstructionism? The debt ceiling debate and the collapse of the grand bargain seemed to be when the wool finally came off his eyes. Would he really start a second term thinking these guys wanted to compromise with him?
  I think he did learn that lesson, but that doesn't mean that his actual action in the next showdown is going to be that much different. It's not necessarily going to pay off in terms of the way he actually proceeds at the top of a second term. Obviously, eyes have been opened and he'll be less inclined to fall for bullshit from the Republican leadership in Congress. Will he be played by people even like Olympia Snowe '-- who, of course, will no longer be in the Senate. But I don't think that the end result will be all that different. It just may happen in a faster, clearer and more transparent way, with less dawdling and less waiting for a bipartisan miracle that's not going to happen.
  So how would the Republicans behave in a second term? You argued last week, in a piece that I am sure surprised some people, that the party will continue moving to the right no matter what '' that there is no chance a loss in this election would convince them to become more moderate.
  Whether he's reelected or not, I think the party, the radical, conservative, right-wing party, is going to keep moving to the right. Keep getting rid of dissidents, purging dissidents. To liberals, something like the Richard Mourdock thing is, ''Oh my god, this is the end of the Republican Party,'' but, no. A lot of Republican powers that be circled back to Todd Akin once the spotlight was off of him. That is the party. For liberals to have the illusion that it's going to change, or that they're going to learn a lesson if Romney loses, is to make the same mistake liberals always make.
  All the way back to Goldwater, liberals have expected Republicans to stop moving to the right after a defeat.
  And they're deluding themselves. Every liberal pundit '-- Tony Lewis and James Reston in the Times, Richard Hofstadter in the New York Review of Books '-- back then predicted oblivion and, two years later, Reagan was elected governor of California and the rest is history. So, if Romney wins, I think he is going to be a messenger boy for Paul Ryan.
  Right.
  If Obama wins, they're going to say '-- I can already read the stories '-- ''If only we had found a true conservative.'' Now, they couldn't find a true conservative who wouldn't frighten children. All they could come up with was Michele Bachmann, Santorum, Herman Cain, Gingrich, but the next go-round they'll have Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and others. That's the way the party is going to go. They'll say as much as they said of McCain, ''He didn't really represent us.''
  How many times in a row can you say that after a loss?
  Well, you can keep saying it because you keep saying, ''They weren't Ronald Reagan. We won when we had a Ronald Reagan, so now we're going to find our Ronald Reagan.''
  Except that Reagan would looked like Jon Huntsman if he was running in the primary field this year.
  Look, they knew Romney wasn't it; 75 percent, more or less, of the party opposed him in the primaries. The other thing that's going to happen is: unbelievable rage at Obama. We're going to see the rage of fanatics and spin keep ratcheting it up. The position has been '-- and this is even by relatively establishment people like Peggy Noonan, George Will '-- ''He's an incompetent. Americans can't stand him. They think he's a nice guy but he's in over his head. This is an historic change to end this collectivist presidency.'' Because underlying so much of this, in my view, is race, they're going to be furious. They really felt they could knock him off easily.
  So when that fails, they're going to be very angry. They'll be angry at Romney, but they'll forget about Romney in two minutes. They're really going to be angry at Obama because they can't believe that this collectivist black man has, in their view, bamboozled the American public once again.
  Even in the midst of this economy.
  Exactly, when all of the factors were in their favor. And they convince themselves that their point of view about Obama is essentially the universal point of view of everyone except minorities. They think all white people agree with them.
  And not to be another deluded liberal: But is there no election result that can dissuade them from heading down that path? Is there no more tempered voice to say, you know, a party of tax cuts and abortion extremism just isn't going to be a majority party again '' especially since, demographically, there won't be enough angry white men left for them?
  Who would represent it? Who are the people in that party to be that tempered voice? Not that she has been effective, but Olympia Snowe is leaving the Senate. Who is it going to be? John Cornyn? John Boehner? They're held in contempt by the right as it is. So, no. It just doesn't exist.
  This is a right-wing party now. And if you follow the history of the Republican Party over the past 50 years, it's been a steady progression to drum these people out. To invite in Democrats, the Dixiecrats and segregationists from the Deep South, then to purge the old Rockefeller, Javits, George Romney wing of the party. It just doesn't exist, except for a few congressional districts in the Northeast, but that's it.
  There's not a single national Republican leader that falls into that category. You can't count Jon Huntsman because Gary Johnson is more popular than he is. I don't see anything changing. I don't see who the leader of it would be. Hypothetically, once upon a time, it would have been Michael Bloomberg. But he's not a Republican, and wouldn't be welcomed by Republicans. I mean, Rudy Giuliani was supposed to be an example of moderate Republicanism, too. I'm not a Giuliani fan, but he got absolutely no traction. When Jeb Bush talked about it being a big tent party and leading the Republican Convention this summer, he was held in contempt or just laughed off.
  And there's about to be this generational shift where even the voices who were essentially establishment, moderate-conservative voices '-- the Romneys, the McCains, even in some ways the Bushes '-- are really about to leave the stage to the Ryans, the Rubios, the Jindals.
  Right. And, that's why I feel that even if Romney wins, he's a placeholder. If he loses, people won't remember who he was 48 hours after the election in that party. They'll be like, ''Good riddance to bad rubbish, and next time we'll find our Rubio, Ryan or Christie.'' Whoever they want.
  So the Republicans head further to the right in 2016, but in an America that's rapidly changing demographically in ways that would seem to benefit the Democrats. What's the strategy to compete?
  There aren't going to be enough white people left for them so it's all about status. They're never going to win the African-American vote when they're still trying to bring back Jim Crow '-- it's not happening. But, you could argue '-- and I'm not arguing this, I'm not saying it's going to happen '-- that they learned that they made a big mistake demonizing illegal immigrants and, by extension, all immigrants and, by extension, Latinos. And Rove and Bush recognized that '--
  Bush got something close to 40 percent of the Latino vote.
  They got somewhere between 36 and 40 percent. This year they may get 25 percent. This election cycle, nothing can happen. Romney went to the right of Rick Perry. But if they very quickly bury all of this '-- I think that for cynical reasons '-- I think they would take the argument that some elements of the Latino community might like a social conservative message. So we're going to come up with our own version of the DREAM Act, as Rubio was trying to do before he was preempted by Obama with the new DREAM Act. They will no longer have a candidate that will veto the DREAM Act and effect self-deportation, whatever that is. And so they have a chance '-- and, frankly, a gun held to your head where you cannot win an election systemically if you cannot appeal to the Hispanic vote might help. They really have to change their ideology to do it. I also think it's very revealing in this election that gay rights have basically fallen off the table. Because obviously they're looking at polls showing that gay baiting and gay bashing and demagoguery on gay marriage is a losing issue, certainly with independent voters.
  If that's the case, though, why can't they stop talking so offensively about rape?
  They will always be the pro-life party. I think the fact is that they're looking at polls showing it's not helpful but they can't really change it. The move to shut down Akin was real. If they didn't feel there was a problem with having these things publicly stated then they wouldn't have tried to shut him down. Mourdock has done some damage. So they'll try to put that in the closet. They're still anti-same sex marriage. Ralph Reed is still getting out the vote for Romney, but they're going to put this stuff on the down low. Mark my words. Romney is already trying to put it on the down low, and took out an ad where the woman is saying, ''He is pro-choice because it's OK to have an abortion is cases of rape and incest and the life of the mother!'' That shows that they know that they have to polish up that turd.
  They'll do it on gay issues, too. And my guess is, with Latinos, they will find a Rubio or someone like him '-- though their ideal candidate would be a Mexican-American and not Cuban-American '-- to move on that. And the truth is, their financial base wants immigration reform. Because it's big business and it's corporate America and they want immigration reform. So, if they can get themselves back toward 40 percent of the Latino vote '-- it's not happening this year, may not happen two years from now, but could happen four to eight years from now. So that, in my mind, allows one to argue '-- doesn't mean it'll happen '-- that there is a way that they can outrun the demographic issue. If it was this party now '-- loathed by most Hispanics and Latinos in the country, with these policies on immigration, embracing Kris Kobach and the Arizona law and all of that '-- then, no, they're demographically dead. But you can't assume that that's what they're going to be doing. They're not that stupid. We never thought that they would disown neocon foreign policy after Bush, and they have, basically.
  But John Bolton and Dan Senor are still advising Romney on foreign policy. He can stuff them in the closet now, but if he wins, they'll be right there driving policy on Iran, for example, no?
  With Romney there's no way to know. Colin Powell said it yesterday, he said, ''I don't know in foreign policy which Romney we're getting. The one in the debate? Or the one a few weeks ago?''
  Or the one during the primary campaign.
  Yeah. Over the long haul, and you saw this in the primaries, Romney notwithstanding, a return to a classic, vaguely isolationist realism foreign policy among the Republicans. And now we literally have Romney saying, ''We don't want to have another Iraq or Afghanistan.'' And that's where the country is, so, it could always be lying in wait, but '...
  Iran is right there waiting. And it was only last month when Romney sounded ready to join Netanyahu in an attack on Iran.
  Clearly Romney has decided within the last couple of weeks, ''I don't want to go there.'' His policy just really does not differ from Obama's. People just aren't listening anymore to McCain and Lindsey Graham and Joseph Lieberman. That's all over. People do not want to fight another war. If you listen to right-wing talk radio, no one is saying, ''Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran'' as McCain was saying four years ago.
  There are two competing concepts here, though, whether we're talking about social issues or foreign policy. Whether it's Personhood or forcing a rape victim to carry a baby to term, as the party heads further and further right, these extremes have very real policy consequences '' and the people driving the party in that direction do want to go there, and those ostensibly in charge don't seem to have the will to stop them.
  If you're running in a right-wing state. The national policy doesn't have to be that, even if it's in the platform as it has been for decades now. The truth is that I think the Republicans have always known that if Roe v. Wade were to be repealed, and abortions were to really become illegal, it would be bad for them.
  It's an issue I'm very concerned about and am very passionate about. But I feel they're going to try to keep it on the down low. But, yes, you're always going to have candidates that are neanderthals on this issue, and Mourdock is a classic example. But Mourdock is running in a very red state.
  Let me back up and look at the coverage of this campaign, big picture. As somebody who has written as eloquently as you have on the way that lies harden into truths: Have there been big-picture lies in this campaign that have simply not been called out? There's lots of fact-checking now, but it doesn't seem to stop false claims from being repeated
  I think they've all been called out. I think the fact is that it doesn't matter that they're called out. That's the real lesson of this campaign. The real lesson is the now overworked Daniel Patrick Moynihan quote: Everyone has his or her own facts and that's it. That's really scary, because when a democracy makes its decisions without having the proper information, it's going to go astray. Furthermore, when you combine that with the decline of journalism as a profession, largely for economic reasons '-- I'm not talking about the quality of what journalism there is, but the economic precariousness of news gathering.
  There's less of it.
  There are fewer facts available to get wrong. That, to me, is the biggest story: the rise of false narratives. But I don't think it matters when they're called out. That's the really interesting thing. The right always was against moral relativism but now they've embraced it. ''With our facts, there is no climate change.''
  Can anything be done to stem the lack of faith in government, which very directly threatens the ability of liberals to convince people that government can be a force for good?
  I think that everyone has to clean up his or her act. I was very taken with this Washington Post investigation that came out a few months ago on how rich everyone in Congress is, with Democrats equaling Republicans, as far as that's concerned. So when you have a congressional approval rating below 10 percent, that means both Democrats and Republicans '-- that it's corrupt. Not just that it's dysfunctional but that it's corrupt.
  So yes, the Republicans have been horrible obstructionists and have moved way to the right. All of that's true. But the fact is that the Democrats, including Democrats in Congress, have not set an example that's inspiring or necessarily redolent with integrity. People look at any politician in Washington and they see a hack '-- and usually they're right.
Local news reporter grills President Obama on Libya, 'bullshitter' remark
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  Source: Dprogram.net
  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:46
  October 27th, 2012
  (DailyCaller) '' In an unusually direct and at times tense interview with Denver local news station KUSA, President Barack Obama on Friday admitted on two occasions that he doesn't know whether the administration denied requests for military assistance by the U.S. Embassy in Libya when it was besieged on Sept. 11.
  ''Were the Americans under attack at the consulate in Benghazi Libya denied requests for help during that attack? And is it fair to tell Americans that what happened [in Libya] is under investigation and we'll all find out after the election?'' anchor Kyle Clark asked at the top of the interview.
  ''The election has nothing to do with four brave Americans getting killed and us wanting to find out exactly what happened,'' Obama replied. ''Nobody wants to find out more what happened than I do. But we want to make sure we get it right.''
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Sandy is 'An Extraordinarily Unusual Confluence of Events'
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:25
  It isn't just the barometric pressure that has folks alarmed, of course. So many of the potential tracks would bring devastating coastal flooding. The official NHC track could be calamitous for Delaware Bay. The latest GFS model could bring devastating flooding to the shores of Long Island Sound. And of course there is theNew York Harbor nightmare. Or, Washington, D.C., the Delmarva and Chesapeake Bay could be crushed. Or the New Jersey shore could. It's important to emphasize that we don't know exactly where Sandy will go, and won't for a while yet. But at this point, it's hard to find a reasonably likely track that wouldn't be a serious disaster for someone, in a region that's so heavily populated.
  Moreover, because Sandy is so huge, its impact will be widespread and long-lasting. North and east of the landfall point, its relentless onshore winds will pile up a storm surge over a wide area through multiple tide cycles '-- making each successive high tide higher than the previous one. With astronomical high tide on Monday, this is a particularly big problem. AccuWeather meteorologist Mike Smith (an AGW skeptic and non-alarmist) writes on his blog: ''Based on some media coverage I'm seeing, the threat of flooding in coastal areas is being underplayed. Especially, if you live ten feet or lower above sea level, you need to be prepared to evacuate should the order be given.'' I completely agree with that statement.
  While we're on the topic of ocean flooding, models suggest Sandy will stir up the ocean to an almost unbelievable extent, with offshore waves that are, well, just huge:
  I'm picking up some skepticism of all this ''hype'' from commenters and on Twitter, by folks who say this is ''just'' a Category 1 hurricane or ''just'' a big Nor'easter, and the media is jumping the gun again, like they did with Irene and various other storms. (Actually, Irene arguably lived up to much of the hype, but I'll leave that argument for another day.) This sort of critique, which is often more rote media criticism than actual storm-specific analysis, routinely fails to recognize that weather forecasting is an inherently uncertain probabilistic enterprise '-- meaning most worst-case scenarios, warned of days in advance, don't happen; if we wait to discuss them until they're likely or certain to happen, it's too late to prepare '-- so you have to judge the validity of ''hype'' contemporaneously, not with the benefit of hindsight. And, given that fact, the ''overhype'' critique is particularly misguided and wrong-headed in the present situation. The currently available data suggests, almost unanimously, that the universe of realistic scenarios for Sandy ranges from ''bad'' to ''very, very bad.'' The moment that data shifts, and starts suggesting a lower probability of disaster, I'll let you know, just as I did with Irene and Isaac when the data shifted toward more favorable outcomes in those cases. But right now, that's just not what the data says.
  Some folks '-- local TV news departments probably being among the worst offenders '-- will always hype every semi-serious storm, and even more folks (including national cable news writ large) routinely fail to walk back previously-justified hype when the data changes, or events on the ground prove the data wrong. But those of us who take our roles seriously only hype those storms that deserve it, and tamp down the hype when conditions change such that the storm no longer deserves it. Right now, this storm deserves it.
  It's also critically important to remember yesterday's quote from meteorologist Brad Panovich: ''Don't let the Category of the storm or whether it's 'just' a Nor'easter dictate your response. Your personal memories of previous storms are no use in this unique situation.''
  Why, you may ask, is it so unique? Why is all of this happening? Why is a Category 1 hurricane so potentially devastating? The Capital Weather Gang gives the most succinct answer I've seen:
  [T]he clash of the cold blast from the continental U.S. and the massive surge of warm, moist air from Hurricane Sandy will cause the storm to explode and the pressure to crash.
Portraits of Hillary Clinton as a College Grad, 1969
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  Source: pg.chrys news feed
  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:17
  Long before Yale Law, before Arkansas, before marriage to Bill, the Senate, the White House, her own (first?) run for the White House, the State Department and the ubiquitous ''texts from'' meme that just keeps on giving, she was Hillary Diane Rodham, the older sister of two brothers and the over-achieving daughter of loving, politically conservative parents from suburban Park Ridge, Illinois.
  Intelligent, intensely curious and, from a young age, driven to find a way to somehow contribute to the world around her, Hillary Rodham enrolled at Wellesley College in the fall of 1965. It was there, in Massachusetts, that the moderate Republican underwent her transformation (she might characterize it as ''an evolution'') to committed Democrat.
  By the time she graduated from Wellesley in May 1969, Hillary Rodham was already such a notable figure that she was featured, along with four other speakers from four other schools '-- and excerpts from their commencement addresses '-- in the June 20, 1969, issue of LIFE, in an article titled, simply, ''The Class of '69.''
  Her speech was, perhaps not surprisingly, less strident and confrontational than those of the other valedictorians quoted in the issue; as early as 1969, Hillary was showing signs of that phenomenal ability to modulate her message '-- without diluting or compromising it '-- that helps explain so much of her success in public life. The other student speakers featured in that June 1969 issue included Yale's William Thompson; Justin Simon at Brandeis; Mills College's Stephanie Mills, now an author and fellow at the Post Carbon Institute; and Brown University's Ira Magaziner '-- a high-profile student activist who went on to become a business strategist and, coincidentally (or not), a senior adviser in the Clinton White House. Today, Magaziner works for the Clinton Foundation.
  [See all of TIME.com's coverage of Hillary Clinton.]
  Today, on Hillary Rodham Clinton's 65th birthday (she was born October 26, 1947, in Chicago), LIFE.com presents a series of pictures by photographer Lee Balterman, only one of which would run in the June 20 issue of LIFE, made at the Rodham home in Park Ridge in mid-June 1969, a week and a half after she graduated. Leaving aside the insights into late-Sixties fashion that these pictures afford, one senses in Balterman's informal portraits a nimble '-- and perhaps somewhat restless '-- intellect at play. Here, the pictures suggest, is a self-possessed young woman coming fully into her own.
  In the LIFE archives, meanwhile, one finds tantalizing insights into the younger Hillary that never made it into the magazine. For instance, in a note date June 11, 1969, that accompanied Balterman's rolls of film when they were sent from Illinois to LIFE's offices in New York, we learn that Hillary told reporter Joan Downs that ''press accounts of her commencement speech were vastly different from what she actually said because the speech wasn't written out and taped transcripts were unavailable until several days after commencement.''
  ''She's also quite concerned,'' the note continues, ''that it be made clear she was not attacking Senator Brooke personally.'' Edward Brooke, the first African-American elected to the Senate and the last Republican Senator elected from Massachusetts until Scott Brown's election in 2010, spoke before Hillary Rodham at Wellesley's commencement, and she deviated from her prepared remarks to address at least part of what he said.
  [Read a transcript of her commencement speech here.]
  Another Balterman note in the archive, meanwhile, written in the photographer's own hand, points to a less dramatic, if no less pressing, element of the photo shoot: ''Had to go for nothing more than informal portraits, but should be some good expressions & hand gestures, etc.,'' the note reads, before ending with a simple and, all these years later, somehow touching observation: ''Her glasses helped.''
  Happy birthday, Mrs. Clinton. And many more.
CNBC Exec's Children Murdered After Reporting On $43 Trillion Lawsuit Against US Banks
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  Source: Conscious Life News
  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:13
  Posted by Deep Space_Featured_, BankstersSaturday, October 27th, 2012CNBC Exec's Children Murdered After Reporting On $43 Trillion Lawsuit Against US Banks
  Market Watch still runs story of $43 trillion lawsuit against US banks after CNBC erases their version following murder of CNBC executive's children.
  Major Banks, Governmental Officials and Their Comrade Capitalists Targets of Spire Law Group, LLP's Racketeering and Money Laundering Lawsuit Seeking Return of $43 Trillion to the United States Treasury
  Spire Law Group, LLP's national home owners' lawsuit, pending in the venue where the ''Banksters'' control their $43 trillion racketeering scheme (New York) '' known as the largest money laundering and racketeering lawsuit in United States History and identifying $43 trillion ($43,000,000,000,000.00) of laundered money by the ''Banksters'' and their U.S. racketeering partners and joint venturers '' now pinpoints the identities of the key racketeering partners of the ''Banksters'' located in the highest offices of government and acting for their own self-interests.
  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/major-banks-governmental-officials-and-their-comrade-capitalists-targets-of-spire-law-group-llps-racketeering-and-money-laundering-lawsuit-seeking-return-of-43-trillion-to-the-united-states-treasury-2012-10-25
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  Commentary by Mike Rivero (whatreallyhappened.com)
  KEEPING THIS STORY AT THE TOP.
  Please share with your friends.
  This story about the lawsuit broke Thursday at CNBC.
  Here is the saved page.
  http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/CNBCvanishedarticleSpire.jpg
  Now following the original CNBC link takes you to a blank page, even though some of the comments on that original article remain (UPDATE: comments have been erased as well).
  Here the story takes a dark turn!
  It turns out that Kevin Krim, the father of the two children stabbed to death, allegedly by the Nanny, is SVP and General Manager, CNBC Digital!
  And shortly after the murder of the children, CNBC pulled down the story regarding the lawsuit against the banks!
  How long will the story remain at Marketwatch before it is ''Orwellized?''
  Are the children of the executives at Marketwatch even now in danger?
  As a side note, the official story regarding the murders is that the nanny stabbed the children, then tried to slash her own throat.
  Suicide by cutting ones own throat is extremely rare, less than one percent of all suicides, and is primarily committed by men with military experience.
  Women committing suicide by slashing their own throat is almost unheard of!
  While the corporate-owned media is proclaiming the ''rush to judgement'' guilt of the nanny (who has survived but cannot yet speak) she has not actually been charged yet, nor is there any apparent motive for the nanny to have done such a thing.
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Chirp, chirp, chirp: Lapdog media ignore Obama's vote of 'present' on bill for rape victims
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  Source: Twitchy » US Politics
  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 16:27
  Yesterday entrepreneur and former adult film star Jenna Jameson slammed President Obama for voting ''present'' on a bill to protect rape victims when he was an Illinois state senator. As RedState and The Daily Caller reported, Obama was the only senator who failed to vote for a bill to allow sexual assault victims to have their cases sealed after a conviction.
  But even the Jenna Jameson angle wasn't enough to rouse the media from their long nap in the president's drool-covered lap.
  Former Mitt Romney aide Richard Grenell called out the president's lapdogs for conveniently ignoring Obama's War on Women while despicably using GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's pro-life remarks to portray him as ''pro-rape.''
  Actually, it should be reported much more extensively since it's actually relevant to voters, especially voters who constantly tout Obama as For The Women'. But it won't be. Obama's palace guard media have too much invested in the false narrative that Republicans are the ones waging a War on Women.
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Berlusconi to stay in politics
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  Source: BBC News - Home
  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:18
  27 October 2012Last updated at09:12 ETFormer Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said he feels "obliged" to stay in politics, a day after receiving a jail term for tax fraud.
  Mr Berlusconi told Italian TV he wanted to "reform the justice system so that what happened to me doesn't happen to other citizens".
  On Friday, Mr Berlusconi and others were convicted of inflating the price of distribution rights bought by his Mediaset group to avoid paying taxes.
  Reports say he will launch an appeal.
  The media mogul has also been barred from holding office for five years.
  "There will be consequences," he said in an interview given on Saturday to TG5, one of the TV channels owned by Mediaset. "I feel obliged to stay in the field," he added.
  He went on to dismiss the case against him as "science fiction".
  On Wednesday, he had announced his intention not to run again for office, saying would instead limit himself to "giving advice, experience, speaking and judging without intruding".
  'Intolerable harassment'Mr Berlusconi's lawyers said on Friday that he would appeal against the four-year jail sentence for tax fraud, according to media reports.
  The appeal will be lodged by 10 November, reports said, and could take several years.
  Continue reading the main storyAccused of having paid for sex with an underage prostitute and of abuse of power for asking police to release her when she was arrested for theftConvicted of tax fraud in case focusing on the purchase of the TV rights to US films by his company, MediasetTwo other corruption cases - involving alleged tax evasion by his Mediaset company and the alleged bribing of British lawyer - expired under statute of limitationsA furious Mr Berlusconi went on national television on Friday to condemn the sentence as "intolerable judicial harassment".
  He has long complained that he is being persecuted by left-leaning judges in Milan.
  "It is a political, incredible and intolerable judgement," Mr Berlusconi said on Italia 1 - another one of the TV stations he owns.
  Mr Berlusconi has faced a number of trials.
  He has in the past either been cleared, or cases have run beyond the judicial time limit.
  In 1997 he received a suspended sentence for false book-keeping but that conviction was reversed on appeal.
  In the latest case, prosecutors said that part of the money declared for the purchase of US film rights was skimmed off to create illegal slush funds, reducing tax liabilities for Mr Berlusconi's Mediaset group.
  The court handed Mr Berlusconi a longer sentence than the three years and eight months requested by prosecutors. However, it later announced that the sentence served would be one year due to a 2006 amnesty law aimed at reducing prison overcrowding.
  It ordered him and his co-defendants to pay 10m euros (£8m) in damages.
  Both the jail term and the ban from holding office will only take effect if the sentence is upheld by a higher court.
  Sex caseThe BBC's David Willey in Rome says Mr Berlusconi is unlikely ever to serve his sentence as the conviction first has to be confirmed by two successive courts of appeal.
  Those appeals could take years, he adds.
  In February a court threw out a corruption case against him after the statute of limitations had expired.
  He is also currently on trial charged with paying for sex with an underage girl and trying to cover it up. He denies any wrongdoing.
  Mr Berlusconi, 76, was forced to resign as prime minister of a centre-right coalition last November.
2012 Vote
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:10
  This is the worst moment in all of my voting life in I have absolutely no one to vote for, for United States President. In checking with my options, I can not even submit a write in vote.
  I have made no secret about my voting, not to influence anyone, but to state the fact I would vote for Sarah Palin if I could write the name in as she is the one who should be there for God to work through.
  I have also given Mitt Romney enough time to convert to announcing Jesus as His Savior and he has not. The point being why should I be made to renounce my Jesus, when Mitt Romney will not renounce his Mormonism.
  I will not vote for someone like Mitt Romney as his Vice President is an Aspen Institute product of Foster Freiss' hippy America as has been exposed only here.I will not face Jesus and be convicted on this as there is no excuse in this, no more than those who vote for messiah Obama and are going to answer for that anti Christ vote.
  In reviewing things, I'm not going to vote leftist for Jill Stein in the Greens. Nothing in their agenda would continue on America, and extensions of Obama European Keynesian policies would only add to the feudal world condition.
  This brings one to Gary Johnson of the Libertarians. Upon examination I will not waste my vote on him nor his VP, as while his claim to balancing the budget would be great, he has no line item veto in DC to accomplish this, so his agenda is legalizing dope and sodomy.Frankly, dope is in the system for several days and is not like wine. It means one has impaired drivers and flyers endangering people, and as God wiped out Sodom with fire and brimstone, I will not legalize that nor come to destroying people by "what goes on behind closed doors" fraud.So if a consenting adult says it is ok to whip them, pee on them and rape them, that is legal ? Under Gary Johnson it would be condoned, but what is the cost of all of that on the people doing it?
  I do not want a nation of 300 million Bill Mahers.
  Just look at Facebook and one can see what kind of behind closed doors human degradation it produces.
  That leaves the Constitution Party.of Virgil Goode and Jim Clymer. Pro gun, pro American, pro life and pro Constitution. That is probably the place I'm going to waste my vote with two Christians, who like wives and who have children.
  The top four in this of DNC, GOP, Libertarian and Constitution could all win the 270 electoral votes if people voted for them. So is not a wasted vote.In that matter, if Mitt Romney wanted Conservatives to vote for him, then he could have been a Christian, not banned guns in Massachusetts.........you know all he could have done in being a Mexican border buster.See I made the point that Marco Rubio was qualified to be Vice President and President as his parents were in Cuba under American guardianship. Mitt Romney's grandfather left America for sex in Mexico as a Mormon, and Mitt's old man born in Mexico came to Texas in fleeing the banditos, which makes Mitt Romney just like Obama in a son of a foreigner.Even if Obama has all these birth stories, his old man was foreign..........well Mitt's mum was at least American.
  That is as close as I have come on a decision for President. Romney has had months to fix things to con people on the right to vote for him, and has chosen to be Mormon banker first. He will not even lie like Secular Islamist Obama does to get a vote, as Romney is that hard core.
  I will vote for the Americans on the ticket, a Virginian and a Pennsylvanian at the Constitution party is appears any unforseen events taking place. They are not tossing God off the ticket nor going queer sex like the Libertarians, as I desire no part of a dope sex agenda, no more than a Mormon oil agenda, no more than a gay green agenda.
  In reading that, one sees who gone to hell America has become. Gary Johnson does not consult God first on his politics. Romney consults magic sunglasses. Obama prays to hisself. What Godless ilk has been placed before these Americans in being given exactly what satan's whores desire.
  So I'm not happy about any of this, unlike my first election in being excited about who I voted for.
  If the GOP was not like the DNC in being cartel controlled, it would have found a way to bring in the Libertarians and the Constitutional voters. Libertarians though now are to the left of the democrats and the greens. It is all engineered for this outcome, and it leaves Americans with no viable options for 1600 Penn Avenue.
  I await for Jesus to return, as America is gone and the last President she had was Ronald Reagan.
  If the Lord is not your Shepherd, then satan is your rustler.
  Lame Cherry
  agtG 224Y
Father of Slain SEAL: Who Made the Decision Not to Save My Son? | The Weekly Standard
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:43
  Charles Woods, the father of Tyrone Woods, who was killed in the 9/11 terrorist attack at the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, reveals details of meeting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the publically broadcast memorial service for the slain Americans at Andrews Air Force Base only days after the attack. And, in a recent radio appearance, Woods publicly questions who made the call not to send in back-up forces to possibly save his son's life, as well as the three other Americans killed in Benghazi (which includes the American ambassador to Libya).
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  ''When [Obama] came over to our little area'' at Andrew Air Force Base, says Woods, ''he kind of just mumbled, you know, 'I'm sorry.' His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, 'I'm really sorry, you know, that your son died,' but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, 'I'm sorry.'''
  Woods says that shaking President Obama's hands at his son's memorial service was ''like shaking hands with a dead fish.''
  ''It just didn't feel right,'' he says of his encounter with the commander in chief. ''And now that it's coming out that apparently the White House situation room was watching our people die in real time, as this was happening,'' Woods says, he wants answers on what happened'--and why there was no apparent effort to save his son's life.
  ''Well, this is what Hillary did,'' Woods continues. ''She came over and, you know, did the same thing'--separately came over and talked with me. I gave her a hug, shook her hand. And she did not appear to be one bit sincere'--at all. And you know, she mentioned that the thing about, we're going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video. That was the first time I had even heard about anything like that.''
  Woods continues: ''Apparently even the State Department had a live stream and was aware of their calls for help. My son wasn't even there. He was at a safe house about a mile away. He got the distress call; he heard them crying for help; that's why he and Glen risked their lives to go that extra mile just to take care of the situation. And I'm sure that wasn't the only one received that distress call'--you know, come save our lives '... I'm sure that other people in the military, in the State Department, in the White House, received that same call that he would receive. And I'm sure that most military people would jump at the chance '... to protect that life [and] not leave anyone behind.''
  Woods made clear that he isn't "mad," but that he wants to the "truth" to be told because he feels " abandoned."
  Woods says he was told by military officials that the military could have "come above [the area] and completely carpeted area," and therefore saved the officials in Benghazi, Libya. But that someone gave the command for the American military not to save the lives of the Americans under attack.
  "When I heard, you know, that there's a very good chance that the White House as well as other members of the military knew what was going on and obviously someone had to say, don't go rescue them. Because every person in the military--their first response [would be], we're going to go rescue them. We need to find out who it was that gave that command--do not rescue them."
  Woods told his story to radio host Lars Larson. Here's the full interview.
EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources say | Fox News
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:42
  Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later on the annex itself was denied by the CIA chain of command -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
  Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange. Soon after, they were again told to "stand down."
  Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The rescue team from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.
  At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights.
  CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood, though, denied the claims that requests for support were turned down.
  "We can say with confidence that the Agency reacted quickly to aid our colleagues during that terrible evening in Benghazi," she said. "Moreover, no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. In fact, it is important to remember how many lives were saved by courageous Americans who put their own safety at risk that night-and that some of those selfless Americans gave their lives in the effort to rescue their comrades."
  The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours -- enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.
  Watch "Special Report Investigates: Benghazi -- New Revelations" on Fox News at 1 p.m. ET on Saturday, 3 p.m. on Sunday and 10 p.m. on Sunday.
  A Special Operations team, or CIF which stands for Commanders in Extremis Force, operating in Central Europe had been moved to Sigonella, Italy, but they were never told to deploy. In fact, a Pentagon official says there were never any requests to deploy assets from outside the country. A second force that specializes in counterterrorism rescues was on hand at Sigonella, according to senior military and intelligence sources. According to those sources, they could have flown to Benghazi in less than two hours. They were the same distance to Benghazi as those that were sent from Tripoli. Spectre gunships are commonly used by the Special Operations community to provide close air support.
  According to sources on the ground during the attack, the special operator on the roof of the CIA annex had visual contact and a laser pointing at the Libyan mortar team that was targeting the CIA annex. The operators were calling in coordinates of where the Libyan forces were firing from.
  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday that there was not a clear enough picture of what was occurring on the ground in Benghazi to send help.
  "There's a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on here," Panetta said Thursday. "But the basic principle here ... is that you don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on."
  U.S. officials argue that there was a period of several hours when the fighting stopped before the mortars were fired at the annex, leading officials to believe the attack was over.
  Fox News has learned that there were two military surveillance drones redirected to Benghazi shortly after the attack on the consulate began. They were already in the vicinity. The second surveillance craft was sent to relieve the first drone, perhaps due to fuel issues. Both were capable of sending real time visuals back to U.S. officials in Washington, D.C. Any U.S. official or agency with the proper clearance, including the White House Situation Room, State Department, CIA, Pentagon and others, could call up that video in real time on their computers.
  Tyrone Woods was later joined at the scene by fellow former Navy SEAL Glen Doherty, who was sent in from Tripoli as part of a Global Response Staff or GRS that provides security to CIA case officers and provides countersurveillance and surveillance protection. They were killed by a mortar shell at 4 a.m. Libyan time, nearly seven hours after the attack on the consulate began -- a window that represented more than enough time for the U.S. military to send back-up from nearby bases in Europe, according to sources familiar with Special Operations. Four mortars were fired at the annex. The first one struck outside the annex. Three more hit the annex.
  A motorcade of dozens of Libyan vehicles, some mounted with 50 caliber machine guns, belonging to the February 17th Brigades, a Libyan militia which is friendly to the U.S., finally showed up at the CIA annex at approximately 3 a.m. An American Quick Reaction Force sent from Tripoli had arrived at the Benghazi airport at 2 a.m. (four hours after the initial attack on the consulate) and was delayed for 45 minutes at the airport because they could not at first get transportation, allegedly due to confusion among Libyan militias who were supposed to escort them to the annex, according to Benghazi sources.
  The American special operators, Woods, Doherty and at least two others were part of the Global Response Staff, a CIA element, based at the CIA annex and were protecting CIA operators who were part of a mission to track and repurchase arms in Benghazi that had proliferated in the wake of Muammar Qaddafi's fall. Part of their mission was to find the more than 20,000 missing MANPADS, or shoulder-held missiles capable of bringing down a commercial aircraft. According to a source on the ground at the time of the attack, the team inside the CIA annex had captured three Libyan attackers and was forced to hand them over to the Libyans. U.S. officials do not know what happened to those three attackers and whether they were released by the Libyan forces.
  Fox News has also learned that Stevens was in Benghazi that day to be present at the opening of an English-language school being started by the Libyan farmer who helped save an American pilot who had been shot down by pro-Qaddafi forces during the initial war to overthrow the regime. That farmer saved the life of the American pilot and the ambassador wanted to be present to launch the Libyan rescuer's new school.
News from The Associated Press
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:42
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Obama administration officials defended their response to the September attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, amid new claims that the White House failed to send help quickly enough as militants overran the mission. The U.S. ambassador and three other Americans died in the hourslong battle.Fox News reported that security officers working for the CIA in Benghazi heard the attack on the consulate but were twice told to wait before rushing to the compound. Fox also reported that U.S. officials refused when the security team asked for U.S. warplanes to bomb their attackers, which would have meant violating Libyan airspace.In response to the report, CIA spokeswoman Jennifer Youngblood said the CIA "reacted quickly to aid our colleagues during that terrible evening in Benghazi."She added: "Moreover, no one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate."President Barack Obama said repeatedly Friday that his administration would "find out what happened" and punish those responsible, but he twice ducked questions about whether U.S. officials denied requests for help."We're going to gather all the facts, find out exactly what happened, and make sure that it doesn't happen again, but we're also going to make sure we bring to justice those who carried out these attacks," Obama said in an interview with Denver television station KUSA.In the run-up to the presidential election, Republicans have accused the Obama administration of distorting the account of the attack on Sept. 11 that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Officials first blamed the attack on a mob set into motion by an anti-Islamic film, saying the mob had been infiltrated and overtaken by extremists. Officials later revised their account, describing the attack as a military-style operation that took place without a demonstration beforehand.The new claims come as Republican senators demanded that the Obama administration make public the surveillance video taken during and just after the attacks.Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire wrote to the defense secretary, CIA director and attorney general demanding that the video from Sept. 11 and 12 be declassified. Pentagon and CIA officials declined to comment on the senators' request. Justice Department officials did not respond to requests for comment.U.S. intelligence officials this week turned over intelligence reports to Congress showing what officials at the CIA and other agencies knew and when. U.S. officials who have reviewed the material say it shows confusion during and in the days following the attack. Members of Congress have complained that the White House and the intelligence community stuck to the analysis that an angry mob started the attack long after it had become more clear that it was an organized militant operation.
Obama's 21st Century Crime: Analgate
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:28
  My children, Analgate is one flatulent fiasco away from blowing the anus of the Obama regime to hemorrhoid hell, because the CIA is openly bringing down 1600 Penn Avenue after their people were left to be murdered there.
  Bill Kristol has it right in his short blurb in the CIA has thrown Obama under the bus, but the revelations in this are manifold as B. Hussein Obama now has not just been caught lying, but has now been caught allowing people to be murdered to cover up his crimes in instigating this "hostage crisis" involving Chris Stevens and other Americans to assist his 2012 election theft as was exclusively broken here first.
  It is the key in this that an Executive Decision took place, literally meaning as Kristol has been informed, that Sec. of Defence Leon Panetta would not have alone decided not to send in military help to rescue these Americans in Benghazi, but was warned off from doing so, and it is what is behind his "Monday morning quarterbacking by critics comment" as Panetta is sweating bullets literally at this moment as the evidence is there in the communications that he asked the White House what should be done, and 1600 Penn waved him off.
  Senators demand White House declassify Libya video...
  CIA OPS 'DENIED HELP' THREE TIMES DURING BENGHAZI...
  Father of Slain SEAL: Who Made the Decision Not to Save My Son?
  PENTAGON: Knew too little to deploy troops...
  Panetta: Critics 'Monday Morning Quarterbacking'...
  KRISTOL: Petraeus Throws President Under Bus...
  OBAMA DODGES DURING LOCAL TV INTERVIEW...
  Do not forget the exclusive in this blog that Delta Force showed up on a tarmac in Libya, and jetted back out after the corpses were discovered and no recovery of bodies was initiated. These special forces were sent in late and were in theater oriented and let us just say, "Went over Panetta's head".
  Director Patraeus, shall we say, has long communication ties with the military and it is not that "on a park bench in talking to oneself" that his old commander, Gen.Tommy Franks, who is advising Mitt Romney on defense matters, was provided enough directional information to have Mitt Romney lay off Obama in debate 3, as everyone knows in the loop what this blog has broken as this is all common knowledge now.
  Gen. Franks was furious over the "lecture" Obama gave Romney in Debate 3 in talking about carriers and bayonets as if Mitt Romney had no idea what war implements were use for.
  This ream job has not yet begun in the Obama soap dropping. The people who know have watched Obama and what was done to Team Six, and now they had first hand viewing of what the Obama campaign had up in Benghazi that got operatives murdered.
  From the beginning, this blog broke there was digital of this and other attacks, and there is a great deal more in this that is being secured and will appear in 2013 for impeachment of Barack Obama if he steals the elections again.
  The fact in this, Obama was not AWOL. He knew the operation was being conducted and coolly waved off a "premature" rescue as that would have blown his campaign mode of a Monday deliverance, so he would have a few days to build the story at the Rose Garden to hammer Mitt Romney with.The first discussions after the fact was how to cover all of this up, and the talking points coming out of the situation room grabbed on the Muslim movie they were going to use to beat Romney and Christians over the head with.Obama and Jarrett seized on this with the comments, "The press will run the story we give them and shut this down".
  Obama then jetted off to his campaign stops ignoring it all as the press would give him cover and just like in Gabby Giffords shooting was to be blamed on Sarah Palin in the talking points, this was all going to go to voter intimation of Christians.
  This blog is not about to stand up for these criminals in the Obama regime, but it will repeat when Ambassador Susan Rice was sent out to lie, she was not aware of this specific information no more than Maddy Albright was on Monica Lewinski for Bill Clinton. She was though completely aware a cover up was taking place, but not for what she thought.That early briefing the White House got 2 hours after the time Obama thought Stevens and the others were going to be sitting in a prepositioned "safe house" for rescue in a few days, was cleansed from the system. This was only in the inner circle who were aware of any of this.
  Panetta knew his part about being waved off. He did not know of the campaign hostage event. Patraeus knew the wave off, the events and was getting in real time data about what Obama's terrorists were chattering about exposing all of this.
  It is all been put together since day 3, and on day 5, the assembled force went in to retaliate on the Libyans involved. Those out country targets are still being tracked.
  When this blog broke the Candy Crowley debate in setting up Mitt Romney on the Obama statement, and Obama was trying to bail on this was his stating this was a "terror event" he stepped into it all, as he admitted he had prior knowledge when that is not what he meant at all in the Rose Garden. This is all Watergate stuff in Obama is trying to bail on things in keeping his butt in the Oval Office, so he can keep any of this from seeing Congressional hearings.
  There are too many knowledgeable people though who know enough of what took place, that they are not going to be submarined. Director Patraeus is auditioning for Director of CIA under a Romney Administration.The people in the know on this are no longer the cowards like Darrell Issa propping up Obama with Mark Levin commentary. These are professionals and while they knew what Obama was up to in crimes, what took place in the sacrificing of operatives for a campaign talking point is something this group is not going to allow to slide.
  The fat lady is not singing yet my children, but she is off her fat rear.
  Analgate, the story broken here first in another Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive, is become the 21st crime of the century of worse than Watergate as there are a dozen deep throats now talking.
  nuff said
  agtG 251
  The tourists have arrived at the Lame Cherry hedgerows.......
  6:05 PM, Oct 26, 2012 ' By WILLIAM KRISTOLBreaking news on Benghazi: the CIA spokesman, presumably at the direction of CIA director David Petraeus, has put out this statement: "No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate. ''So who in the government did tell ''anybody'' not to help those in need? Someone decided not to send in military assets to help those Agency operators. Would the secretary of defense make such a decision on his own? No.It would have been a presidential decision. There was presumably a rationale for such a decision. What was it? When and why'--and based on whose counsel obtained in what meetings or conversations'--did President Obama decide against sending in military assets to help the Americans in need?
Barring Some Sudden Change, Romney Will Win the Popular Vote - By Jim Geraghty - The Campaign Spot
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:27
  Barring some dramatic change in the final ten days or so, Mitt Romney will win the popular vote in the 2012 presidential election.
  In the 22 national head-to-head polls with Romney conducted in the month of October, Obama has hit 50 percent once, 49 percent four times, 48 percent three times, 47 percent eight times, 46 percent once, and 45 percent five times. (He hasn't hit 48 percent in a national poll since October 20.) Mind you, in most of these polls Obama has trailed narrowly, with Romney at 48 to 50 percent, and in a few, he's led Romney, with the GOP challenger at 45 percent or so. But the polling this month points to a strikingly consistent percentage of support for an incumbent president.
  Not only is Obama's percentage in the RealClearPolitics average 47 percent, he's at 47 percent in four tracking polls: Rasmussen, ABC News/Washington Post, Gallup, and IBD/TIPP. It is not merely significant that Obama is likely at 47 percent at this moment, it's that he's been around 47 percent for most of the month '-- with debates, new attack-ad barrages on both sides, etc. He's around 47 percent in polls with many remaining undecideds and few remaining undecideds.
  We can debate whether those remaining undecideds, ranging from 3 to 8 percent in most of these polls, will break heavily for the challenger. In 2004, George W. Bush and John Kerry split the remaining undecideds roughly evenly. But the one scenario that political scientists deem virtually impossible is one where undecideds who have declined to support the incumbent all year suddenly break heavily in favor of him. For most of the remaining undecideds, the choice is between voting for the challenger and staying home.
  The polling currently suggests President Obama has a hard ceiling of about 47 percent, perhaps 48 percent. Let's take the 50''47 split found currently in the Rasmussen, Washington Post, and Gallup tracking polls. Presume that most of the remaining undecideds stay home, and that the vote for third-party candidates amounts to about a percentage point. Under that scenario, we would see a 51 percent to 47.9 percent popular-vote win for Romney.
  There are two other little-discussed indicators pointing to a Romney popular-vote win '-- the GOP challenger's level of support in the uncontested blue states and in the uncontested red states.
  There are a bunch of heavily populated states in the Northeast and on the West Coast that remain frustratingly uncompetitive for Republicans. But last cycle, the bottom really fell out for the GOP, due to several factors: the Obama campaign's serious financial advantages, enormous grassroots enthusiasm among Democrats, the John McCain''Sarah Palin ticket's lack of appeal to these regions, and of course, the economic meltdown. The bad news for Republicans is that the Romney''Ryan ticket is unlikely to put any of these in play. The good news is that Romney appears likely to dramatically overperform the low bar of McCain's level from 2008, owing to GOP grassroots enthusiasm even in uncompetitive states.
  In New Jersey on Election Day 2008, Obama won 57 percent to 42 percent for McCain. Five polls have been conducted in the Garden State in October, and Obama's support is at 54 percent, 53 percent, 48 percent, 51 percent and 51 percent. None of the polls have Obama ahead by less than 7 points, but it seems a safe bet that Romney will finish better in this state than McCain did.
  In California last cycle, Obama won 61 percent to 37 percent. Three polls conducted in this state in October put Obama's level of support at 53 percent. Again, no one doubts Obama will win; his smallest lead is 12 points. But again, Obama is very likely to come out of the Golden State with a smaller margin of victory, probably hundreds of thousands of votes fewer than in 2008.
  In Connecticut, Obama won in 2012 by 61 percent to 38 percent. In this state, there's been quite a bit of polling because of the state's surprisingly competitive Senate race between Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy. Obama's level of support, measured by percentage, has been 52, 55, 53, 49, 51, 53.
  In the red states it's a different story. In state after state, Romney is polling higher than McCain's percentage in the final vote, or Obama is polling significantly lower than his percentage in the final tally of 2008, or both.
  John McCain won North Dakota in 2008 by a 53 percent to 45 percent margin. In the three polls in this state in October, Romney's lowest level of support has been 54 percent and Obama's highest level of support has been 40 percent.
  In 2008, John McCain won Arkansas 59 percent to 39 percent. Obama's highest level in any poll conducted in Arkansas this year is 35 percent and he was at 31 percent in mid-October.
  Obama failed to win a single county in Oklahoma in 2008, losing to McCain, 34 percent to 66 percent. Only two polls have been conducted in Oklahoma this year, but both had Obama below 30 percent.
  Indiana was Obama's most unexpected victory in 2008, winning 50 percent to 49 percent. Polling has been sparse much of this year, but the two polls conducted this fall put Romney up by 12 and 13 percentage points.
  Add up these factors '-- a consistent national polling lead for Romney, a seemingly hard ceiling of 47''48 percent for Obama support in these national polls, a narrower margin of victory for Obama in blue states and a wider margin of victory in red states '-- and you have an electoral map where the red states of 2008 turn crimson and the blue states are at least a bit more purple.
  Now, as Al Gore will tell you, a popular-vote win and a couple of bucks will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. But it's also relatively rare for a candidate to win the popular vote and lose the Electoral College. And if Obama is running a few percentage points behind his 2008 levels of support in red states and blue states . . . just how much can advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts stem that tide in the purple states?
Sandy is set to deliver potential election surprise
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:25
  Paul Beck, Ohio State University professor, describes the importance of winning Ohio, a battleground with a large number of electoral votes. It's a diverse state with liberals and conservatives matching a cross section of the nation.
  By Tom Curry, NBC News national affairs writer
  Hurricane Sandy is barreling toward the East Coast and could deliver the presidential campaign an unpredictable, but impactful, October surprise.
  It remains too early to determine precisely where Sandy will make landfall or just how severe the storm might be, but the projections for its path have it aimed toward the mid-Atlantic region, likely impacting hotly-contested battleground states.
  Sandy was briefly downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm by the NHC early Saturday, but it returned to hurricane strength within a few hours.
  Warnings as Sandy heads north
  Extensive damage, power outages, and the resulting news coverage could push the election into the background, at least in that region, and could wreak havoc on campaign plans for the final week of the race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
  Travel schedules, television advertising buys, and voter outreach could all be impacted '... and in some cases, already have been.
  A Romney official said Friday that the campaign is keeping a very close eye on the storm and had already decided to cancel a planned rally on Sunday night in Virginia Beach. Vice President Joe Biden also cancelled a Virginia Beach event on Saturday, and a rally for First Lady Michelle Obama planned for Tuesday at the University of New Hampshire in Durham was also canceled, officials said Friday. Said the Obama campaign, "This change in schedule is being taken out of an abundance of caution to ensure that all local law enforcement and emergency management resources can stay focused on ensuring the safety of people who might be impacted by the storm."
  After strong winds and heavy rain washed out bridges and damaged homes in multiple countries, the hurricane looks toward the northeastern U.S.
  It isn't yet clear whether Sandy will affect Obama's scheduled events with former president Bill Clinton in Florida and Virginia on Monday.
  Since March, the two presidential campaigns and outside groups have invested $144 million in radio and TV ads in Virginia, with $27 million spent just in the past two weeks. Virginia ranks third in the amount of presidential campaign advertising, after Ohio and Florida.
  If local TV stations in Virginia interrupt their regularly scheduled programming in order to broadcast bulletins and live coverage of the storm's impact, then a campaign ad which had been booked for a specific time on a specific station would not air.
  The station would refund the money paid for the ad, but at this point in the election season, campaigns don't want their money back -- they want their ads to run.
  RELATED: Ad spending on presidential race surpasses $900 million
  Of course, even if stations do run those already-booked campaign ads, thousands of Virginia homes might be without power '... and millions of dollars in ad buys could be still wasted.
  After the intense ''derecho'' storm swept through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic region with 70-mile-per-hour winds on June 29, electricity for millions of customers was effectively knocked out.
  In some areas around Washington, D.C., power was out for a week. And outages in Virginia due to Sandy could conceivably last into Election Day itself.
  Voting requires polling locations which have the lights on and aren't under water, so this storm also raises the question of how election officials are preparing to ensure that balloting isn't disrupted on Election Day.
  Mitt Romney has just wrapped up what his campaign billed a major economic speech, at the heart of his closing arguments. Democratic strategist Elmendorf, Romney campaign economic adviser Vin Weber and The Economist's Greg Ip break it down.
  According to Virginia State Board of Elections spokeswoman Nikki Sheridan, the board has been coordinating with the state Department of Emergency Management, the Virginia State Police, the state Department of Transportation, major utility companies, and the 134 voting registrars who administer the election across the state ''to monitor the weather situation and, if necessary '... act accordingly.''
  The board has told local election officials that ''unless conditions render the voting process unsafe'' for employees and voters, registrars should keep their offices ''open and to continue the in-person voting process'' already underway in the state.
  The final decision whether to close a general registrar's office ''will be made by local authorities or first responders after consultation with your office and electoral board,'' the board said.
  RELATED: Focusing on Ohio and Colorado
  In a press conference Friday afternoon, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Romney supporter, said, ''There are obviously concerns about making sure we're ready for Election Day which will only be a week after the departure of this storm.''
  He said that the president of Dominion Power, the state's major power provider, has told him that the utility would add election locations ''as a top priority for power restoration in addition to hospitals and schools and so forth, so I think that is prudent as well, but we don't anticipate adverse election issues at this time.''
  The candidates crisscross the country hitting the battleground states trying to lock up key electoral votes and Domenico demonstrates the electronic map to 270.
  He said the electric utility had a ''well-thought out set of priorities for what to restore'' and ''at this point I don't see anything happening that would interfere with the election.''
  He also said ''I expect both candidates and both parties to monitor the situation and if they think they're going to be interfering with first responder operations'' to cancel their Virginia campaign events. ''They're not going to get coverage and they're not going to get people coming out (to events) because they're not going to stand out in the rain so they'd be smart to make alternative plans.''
  Ross Goldstein, deputy administrator of the Maryland Board of Elections, said Friday, ''We're in contact with state emergency management. We've given utility companies a list of polling locations so that they know where our needs are.''
  He added that ''all of our voting equipment has battery backup,'' but noted that, obviously, electricity would be needed to keep the lights on at polling locations.
  As in Virginia, Maryland voters have the option of early voting, beginning in the state on Saturday, with one-to-five polling places per county.
  In a conference call on Friday, elections officials in Maryland and eight other East Coast states conferred with Louisiana Commissioner of Elections Angie Rogers to find out what officials in her state have learned from coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and other subsequent storms.
  Louisiana Secretary of State Tom Schedler said Friday that contingency plans must be made for both before and after Election Day.
  Obama campaign co-chair Kal Penn joins Andrea Mitchell Reports to discuss the youth vote in the 2012 election.
  ''Number one, before the storm, secure the (voting) equipment, move it if necessary, get it out of harm's way,'' he said.
  ''Number two, get good information on where your poll workers are going to be, make sure you have their cell numbers and evacuation plans so you can get in touch with them if you've moved a precinct," he said.
  "Then after the storm, determine if your locations are still viable and usable and if they're not, make sure you move and consolidate precincts. We did that here in Louisiana with the big mayoral election after Katrina. As long as you have locations, power and equipment or paper ballots -- you can still have the election and go forward," he added.
  Schedler said another tip for elections officials in storm-affected areas: ''Make sure you have a good relationship with the National Guard in your state. Here in Louisiana we used the National Guard to set up large tents for 'mega-sites.' They provided us generators. And think about public restrooms, you may need to bring in some Portalets (portable toilets) when setting up as site like that. You need to anticipate just like you do in any emergency.''
  He also suggested that state officials in Sandy's path urge people to vote early.
  NBC News' Garrett Haake contributed to this report.
Lawrence O'Donnell On Why He Does Not Report On Espionage Act And NDAA
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  Luke Rudkowski engages MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell in a conversation. They have an honest discussion about the NDAA and Espionage Act.
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Meeting with the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, David Cameron
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Father of SEAL Killed In Benghazi On Meeting Obama '' ''Like Shaking Hands With A Dead Fish''
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October 25th, 2012
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  So we pull into the local Dollar Tree . A lady has her camera out, and seems to take a picture of us, in our car'... ok'... I know I'm fabulous, but I typically don't get the paparazzi. We walk into the Dollar Tree; ''good side'' fully available. All the cashiers have their faces against the window talking about ''that guy''. I look out and see a man in black with a head covering on. He is ''different'' looking. He has on a skirt. I am a little jealous that I didn't think to put one on with this hot weather. One lady said she called the cops. I hear the power in her voice. And she's wearing that feeling like a shiny sheriff badge. God. You have got to be joking. Please find another way to feel powerful, that doesn't involve dominating other humans! Look, he's walking into the AT&T store! Look everyone! It's a different looking person walking into a store! They're completely beside themselves when they see the various Walmart cops pull up to assist to the local police. Good idea. The dude might need to be reprimanded for wearing Heelies in the store. Now I am almost sick. These phobes in the Dollar Tree that are so quick to pull the police trigger are what scare me.
  What aisle am I even on? On some biological level my legs led me to the chocolate aisle. This must be how Homer finds his Duff Beer. I look out the window again, because evidently something else is going on, based on the the quickened, clipped sounds they are making. Sounds like clucking. I have no idea why, but it reminds me that I need a pi±ata. Subconscious Viva Pi±ata reference, probably. I don't hit poultry with sticks. Dollar Tree wouldn't have those. Unless it was a miniature version. That held one piece of candy. What was I thinking. Oh, now the cops are searching him'...Wow'... I am pretty livid now. Doesn't anyone else see the hate in this? Am I the only one in the whole wide'....Dollar Tree that understands this? Population 10. Yea, probably so. Well, I can add my kids to my number. Or maybe I am kidding myself. After all, I'm no more intelligent than the next person. Maybe they all have a phobia of black clothing. Hey, don't judge. That's just as logical'...
  I search for my silly string. It is my mantra now'... Need about 22 cans of it. Cool, they have enough. More, actually if I dare to come back. Nope. 22 is decidedly enough. At the register I can barely utter a word to the intolerant borderline insane, hate monger that I am now handing my money. Just let me and my children that have unfortunately witnessed this level of bullying get out with our silly string. The evil man that almost bombed an AT&T store and I both get into our cars amid a crowd of people and leave. I may need to note here that he doesn't set fire to his car and drive it into a store.
  I can't catch his eye to mouth an ''I'm sorry.'' And I thought I was having a rough day.
  Next time, I'm packing silly string. Hey bigots! I will open up a can of color on your arse!
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Woody Harrelson talks TRUTH about Iraq and Afghanistan
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Daily Press Briefing - October 25, 2012
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  MS. NULAND: They've downgraded me to a paper cup. What am I supposed to think about that? I guess it's more environmentally appropriate, right?
  All right, everybody. Thin crowd today. Happy Thursday. I have one thing at the top, which is with regard to the violence in Burma's Rakhine state. The United States is deeply concerned about reports this week of increasing ethnic and sectarian violence in Burma's Rakhine state, and urges parties to exercise restraint and immediately halt all attacks. We join the international community and call on authorities within the country, including the government, civil and religious leaders, to take immediate action to halt the ongoing violence, to grant full humanitarian access to the affected areas, and to begin a dialogue towards a peaceful resolution, ensuring expeditious and transparent investigations into these and previous incidents.
  The situation in Rakhine state underscores the critical need for mutual respect among all ethnic and religious groups, and for serious efforts to achieve national reconciliation in Burma. We urge the people of Burma to work together towards a peaceful, prosperous, and democratic country that respects the rights of all of its diverse people.
  Let's go to what's on your minds.
  QUESTION: Right. So speaking of calls for ends to violence, you've seen that the ceasefire in Syria has been agreed to. Do you think this makes any difference? Do you think that it will work? And does it really mean anything if the government hasn't agreed to a political transition?
  MS. NULAND: Well, as you note, Matt, we have seen some statements from the regime side. We've also seen some statements from the opposition side, Free Syrian Army, saying that they will abide by the UN Security Council and the UN Special Envoy's call for a ceasefire tomorrow beginning for the Eid holiday and continuing into Sunday. What we are hoping and expecting is that they will not just talk the talk of ceasefire, but that they will walk the walk, beginning with the regime. And we will be watching very closely.
  QUESTION: Right, but does it really mean anything if the government hasn't agreed to a political transition (inaudible)?
  MS. NULAND: I think we all would agree that any day in Syria without violence is progress. And obviously, if we can get this ceasefire in place, it might open space for more work to be done on a transition. We are also in parallel, as you know, continuing to work with the Syrian opposition inside and outside of Syria on their own transition plan and on their own leadership structure so that they can be better prepared to work towards that transition if we can get the conditions going. But from our perspective, any day without violence in Syria is a better day than we have today.
  QUESTION: You just said that you hope and expect that they will follow through on this. What leads you to that expectation? I mean, the Syrian Government, for one, didn't honor its previous declarations of this kind. Why do you expect that they're going to do it now?
  MS. NULAND: Well, again, we are putting forward, as we did in concert with other UN Security Council members yesterday, our call for everyone to abide by the ceasefire. So we are putting forward that we would expect that they will now keep the word that they have put on the street, but we have to see. As we have seen over the past year, the Syrian regime in particular is good at making promises and less good at following through.
  I would simply note that, as we said yesterday, the regime's violence and brutality in these days leading up to the Eid holiday has continued unabated. Despite these calls for a ceasefire, the regime hit five mosques in the Damascus suburbs of Harasta yesterday, and abducted and murdered an Orthodox priest, Father Fadi Haddad, outside of Damascus. And there are reports, as you know, of serious fighting in Aleppo and Idlib, et cetera.
  QUESTION: Can I just ask you about your wording? You just said the Syrian regime is good at making promises and less good at following through. Don't you really mean to say that they're no good at all at following through, or do you think that there has been some good, and so that ''less good'' is appropriate?
  MS. NULAND: Well, you can parse my words clearly. We have seen many promises from the Assad regime --
  QUESTION: Well, have they followed through on any?
  MS. NULAND: We have seen none of them implemented.
  QUESTION: All right.
  QUESTION: Do you understand any conditions set to this truce? I mean, one of the things that immediately comes to mind to me is how the government is going to react to possible peaceful protests that may now be able to emerge if there is indeed an absence of violence for a couple of days.
  MS. NULAND: Well, again, let's start, Brad, with getting an absence of violence for a couple of days. You know where we stand on these things. We support, whether it's in Syria, whether it's anywhere on this planet, the right of citizens to protest peacefully, but we haven't had the conditions to see much of that, so let's see.
  QUESTION: Syria-related?
  MS. NULAND: Mm-hmm.
  QUESTION: Yesterday, you asked the Russians to provide any proof that they might have of Stinger missiles being in Syria. Have you gotten any response from the Russians on this?
  MS. NULAND: I don't think we have, no.
  QUESTION: Related --
  MS. NULAND: Please, Scott.
  QUESTION: The Foreign Ministry '' Russian Foreign Ministry says that the United States is coordinating the delivery of weapons to illegal armed groups in Syria.
  MS. NULAND: I hadn't seen that statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry. I think we've been very clear that we are not providing any lethal assistance ourselves. We've been also clear that we are coordinating and talking with countries around the world that are supporting the opposition, including those who have made other choices than the ones that we have made, and that one of the things that we are working on, all of us, is to try to ensure that any support we give to the opposition is not going to extremists.
  QUESTION: Well, so, if you're saying now that you are coordinating with countries that made a different choice, is it incorrect for the Russian Foreign Ministry to say that you're coordinating shipments of weapons to the rebels?
  MS. NULAND: The implication that we are coordinating the shipment of other people's weapons is ludicrous.
  QUESTION: Well, but you just said that you were.
  MS. NULAND: I said we are coordinating, as we have said --
  QUESTION: With countries that have made another choice than you have.
  MS. NULAND: Can I finish my sentence?
  QUESTION: Yeah.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah. This is not new. The Secretary's been saying this since --
  QUESTION: I know it's not new, but I don't think it's a denial of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
  MS. NULAND: Maybe I can finish my sentence. As we've been saying for many months, including when the Secretary was in Istanbul, we have made a choice only to provide non-lethal assistance. Other countries have made a different choice. We coordinate with all of those countries, particularly on this issue of ensuring that we are vetting well who are we '' who we are working with, and making sure that we are not inadvertently supporting extremists. But this notion that we are coordinating the military assistance of other countries is ludicrous.
  QUESTION: You still think this is the wrong choice, right? That providing weapons only further militarizes the situation?
  MS. NULAND: That is why we have continued to make the non-lethal choice.
  QUESTION: So why, if you coordinate with countries that are doing the wrong thing, in your opinion, have you been '' are you unable to coordinate or work with countries that are providing weapons to the other side, which is just another wrong choice?
  MS. NULAND: We have been trying, as you know '' the Secretary's made clear for more than a year '' to work with Russia, work with China, work with other countries, on bringing more pressure on the regime to stop its violence. We have made three attempts in the Security Council to pass something that has consequences for noncompliance with the calls of the Security Council for the violence to end, for dialogue to begin, for journalists to be able to get in, all of these things. And you know the '' how that story has turned out. And we were continuing to try.
  As you know, Special Envoy Brahimi, I believe, is on his way to both Moscow and Beijing in coming days, and we are coordinating messages to him.
  The Secretary said again yesterday that the Geneva document that we worked out many months ago is still viable as far as we're concerned, as long as there are consequences for noncompliance with it, consequences for both sides. So we have been trying to work this through, but we haven't been having a lot of success.
  QUESTION: I took that comment to be kind of policy boilerplate, but is there a serious effort now to re-internationalize this in the sense of either the UN Security Council or something else at the United Nations to attach real consequences to some sort of Geneva-like plan?
  MS. NULAND: If you've tracked what the Secretary has said since the day the ink was drying on the Geneva document, she has regularly raised the notion that this plan could be put under a Security Council resolution, and said that we're open to it as long as that resolution has consequences for noncompliance. So every single time this sort of (inaudible) goes cold, it's been she who has put forward again the option of the international community supporting a real roadmap towards a transition that we've all agreed to, but only if there are consequences. So our message has been consistent; it's a question of what the other side wants to do.
  QUESTION: But there's no movement on that front that you know of?
  MS. NULAND: Correct.
  QUESTION: I wonder if you could just explain a little bit how you would see '' you say consequences for both sides. Clearly, the Syrian Government is a sanctionable entity, it's a centralized state.
  MS. NULAND: Right.
  QUESTION: Whereas the various freedom fighting elements are all very disparate, there is no central control, they have different connections with different people. How could you get consequences for that '' for them, should elements of that fighting force decide not to abide by anything? I mean, it seems like you can't sanction them as a group because they aren't a unified group.
  MS. NULAND: Well, without getting into all kinds of hypotheticals '' and we can have a deeper conversation about this offline '' you could imagine a scenario '' say in some magical universe, the regime --
  QUESTION: It doesn't get much more hypothetical than that. (Laughter.) That's crazy land.
  QUESTION: Is that crazy land? Is it crazy land in the magical universe? (Laughter.)
  MS. NULAND: Say in some magical universe we have a complete cessation of hostilities by all regime forces and the other side is not complying after you have passed the Geneva plan under UNSC. We have identifiable individuals on the opposition side, we have clear leaders, we have countries around the world who are providing them with support. So obviously, one could envision opportunities to turn off that spigot that one could work through, including in UN Security Council language. But we are so far from that right now that we're continuing to talk about the principles of how this could work.
  QUESTION: Can we '' just to remove ourselves from rainbows and unicorns for a second, back to the coordination, I don't understand why it's '' why you say that the Russian Foreign Ministry suggestion is ludicrous that you are coordinating military shipments if you, in fact, say that you are coordinating with countries that are supplying weapons to the rebels. I understand --
  MS. NULAND: I think I explained in some detail --
  QUESTION: But doesn't the coordination just '' doesn't the coordination that you're involved with these countries that are supplying the weapons include coordinating their shipments of weapons? Or are you saying that it doesn't and that only '' the only coordination that you're involved with is with their nonlethal supplies?
  MS. NULAND: I'm not going to get into a detailed discussion of our private diplomatic exchanges with these countries. What I said was we are working together to try to understand who's who on the ground in the opposition to ensure that none of us, whether we're supporting on the nonlethal side or making another choice, are inadvertently aiding and abetting extremists.
  QUESTION: Okay.
  MS. NULAND: This is something that we are extremely careful about. I read the Russian statements to be implying that we were directing shipments, supplies, materiel by countries other than the United States, and that is not --
  QUESTION: Okay.
  MS. NULAND: Okay?
  QUESTION: Okay. But what you read '' I thought you had said you hadn't seen them.
  MS. NULAND: Well, I had heard about it. I hadn't seen the precise language until Scott read it out.
  QUESTION: All right. Okay.
  MS. NULAND: Please.
  QUESTION: Can you define extremist in that '' in the sense you're talking about now? What is extremist, what is not?
  MS. NULAND: We have actors in Syria who advocate an ideology other than what we understand the vast majority of Syrians support. What we have said is we want to see a democratic, unified, pluralistic, tolerant Syria going forward. There '' the concern has been about extremist elements supporting either side, frankly, who don't have that vision of Syria, who are seeking a less tolerant Syria, who are seeking a decidedly undemocratic Syria, who are seeking a Syria that is only constituted to support one small group or is going to replace one tyranny with another. And that is what we all need to be vigilant against, and what the Syrian opposition is working hard to be vigilant against.
  QUESTION: Would you consider the Muslim Brotherhood as extremists, or it's just like al-Qaida-linked organization or --
  MS. NULAND: Well, we're certainly concerned about those linked with terrorism; we're certainly concerned about those who espouse extremist and terrorist ideology. But as you know, we work with political '' legitimate political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood, in other parts of the world. So I'm not going to get into naming names or grading people's t-shirts and affiliations. But I think certainly anybody who espouses a terrorist ideology would fit the bill.
  QUESTION: How confident are you that your close international partners are also promoting democracy, pluralism, and tolerance, as you put it? I mean, is Saudi Arabia, who you've been closely working with '' coordinating, in fact, on this '' are they '' is their goal to promote democracy, tolerance, and pluralism in Syria?
  MS. NULAND: Brad, let me refer you back to the communiques that have been issued after the last two Friends of the Syrian People meetings. I think they are quite clear that we all share the value of a tolerant, open, unified, pluralistic Syria.
  QUESTION: But how much credibility does that have when some of these countries don't promote those very ideals in their own countries, yet are now suddenly behind the banner and providing weapons and supposedly promoting that in other countries?
  MS. NULAND: A number of these partners that we've worked with have also, in the context of Libya, in the context of Yemen, in the context of Egypt '' worked with us, worked with the international community to ensure that as these transitions go forward, the end state is a democratic, pluralistic, unified country.
  So this is obviously something that the Syrian people are going to have to take forward at the right moment, but the goals of the international community, the goals of the countries working in the Friends of the Syrian People organization and format, have been very consistent and very unified.
  QUESTION: There's been various stories about weapons provided by certain countries and groups that aren't promoting these things, and it just begs the question '' you wouldn't say that Saudi Arabia is, itself, a democratic, pluralist, and tolerant society, would you?
  MS. NULAND: Brad, as I said, and as I've said now four times, I think, today, as we work through who's who in the opposition, one of the key goals of all the countries that we work with --
  QUESTION: Right.
  MS. NULAND: -- is to better understand what they are and what they stand for.
  QUESTION: No, but my point is that if Saudi Arabia considers itself a democratic, tolerant, pluralistic society, it might have completely different notions of what those words mean and might be supporting groups that you don't think meet that criteria. Is that correct?
  MS. NULAND: Again, this is why it's important that we are all talking to each other frequently and working together closely, and that is what we have been doing.
  QUESTION: I think that the point may be that '' are you comfortable with joining up with Saudi Arabia to, say, promote equal rights, women's rights in Arab Spring countries? This is something the Secretary's made a big deal about. This is '' Saudi Arabia is a country which discriminates against women and religious minorities. It's a big '' it's antithetical to the '' its policies are antithetical to what Secretary Clinton has espoused in Tunisia, in Libya, in Syria, in Egypt, and in Yemen.
  MS. NULAND: I don't think that Saudi Arabia or any of our other partners have any doubt where the United States stands on all of these issues, and particularly where the Secretary of State stands on the issues of rights for women. All of these issues are going to have to be addressed by the Syrian people. We're not going to make any secret of the kind of Syria that we want to see, one that protects the rights of all Syrians, including women, and that it is on that basis that we are supporting a strong transition going forward.
  QUESTION: But you're not uncomfortable with the fact that Saudi Arabia is '' I mean is, along with you, championing these ideas which it does not '' which, these policies which it does not appear to (inaudible)?
  MS. NULAND: Again, I'm going to send you to the Kingdom for its own views on these things, but in working with us, they know very clearly what we support.
  Please.
  QUESTION: Afghanistan.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: The Taliban leader Mullah Omar, today issued a statement saying that Taliban would negotiate only with U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan through its recently created political office in Qatar. Have you seen, though, the statements, and this statement indicates that they are trying to bypass the Karzai government, they want to --
  MS. NULAND: Trying to bypass?
  QUESTION: The Karzai Government, the government in Kabul.
  MS. NULAND: I'm not going to interpret the Taliban's words. I'm going to send you to them. I think we've been very clear --
  QUESTION: (Laughter.) That is '' boy, thanks a lot.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah, good luck. (Laughter.) Good luck with that. This was, as I understand it, part of a long Eid message to their own faithful. We have made clear that we are supportive of an Afghan-led reconciliation process. We have worked, as have the Afghans, to make that possible, but the Taliban are going to have to make their own decision whether they want to take advantage of that.
  QUESTION: But where do the process stands now, after the office was opened in Qatar '' attempts were made to open the office in Qatar?
  MS. NULAND: I don't think I have anything new to report. We've been talking about this for some time, that the Taliban themselves broke off talks sometime back in March. So we continue to talk among ourselves in the Core Group to try to make it possible if they change their minds about that and talks are restarted to facilitate those, but it's the Taliban's choice to make here.
  QUESTION: Would the U.S. be willing to talk to Taliban directly, as this statement indicates, without having the democratically elected Kabul government in the talks?
  MS. NULAND: Again, this is an Afghan-led process, of Afghans talking to Afghans, that we support. So if we get to a point where there are conversations that the Afghans consider might be helpful, we will consider that. But we're so far from that right now, Lalit. Okay?
  QUESTION: If I could just take us back to Burma just to '' a quick follow-up on that. It's notable that this related violence takes place about a week after the Human Rights Dialogue. I'm wondering if you feel that the government's response so far has conformed with its statements or pledges that it made in the Human Rights Dialogue, and are you at all disappointed or (inaudible) that they're '' this is exposing, perhaps, a gap between what they say and what they do?
  MS. NULAND: Well, certainly the violence in Rakhine state has been on the agenda in all of the conversations that we have had with the Burmese, including the Human Rights Dialogue that took place on October 17th. We have now, ourselves, made five visits down to northern Rakhine state since the outbreak of the violence in June. That, in and of itself, is remarkable if you consider where Burma was a year ago, that they are allowing not only us, but they are allowing other international observers and UN organizations to try to assist them in getting a handle on this. It's obviously a very difficult problem, and we are working with them on various ways to address it.
  As the Secretary has said before, obviously there are deeply felt tensions and religious tensions here. But at the root of this problem is the extreme poverty and lack of opportunity that plagues both communities in Rakhine state. So over the longer term, it's going to be a matter of the government providing a better quality of life for both communities there.
  QUESTION: And you feel that Aung San Suu Kyi has been appropriately vocal, given that she represents a new Burma? Do you think that her statements to date, which sometimes have appeared to be a little confusing, have been on message or loud enough?
  MS. NULAND: I think when you '' if you follow some of the comments that she made when she was on her 16 day U.S. tour, she's clearly appreciated the importance of Burmese leaders and all political parties getting a handle on this, addressing both the near-term problem and the longer underlying problems. She '' some of these problems are things that she hasn't had to address or deal with until her recent incarnation as a parliamentarian. So I think in our conversations with us '' with her, it's very clear that they are front of her mind.
  QUESTION: Is the U.S. sending a new team to this state after yesterday's violence in (inaudible)?
  MS. NULAND: Our Ambassador Derek Mitchell out there is (inaudible) to talk to the government about what might be helpful. I would also note that on October 19th, we announced an additional humanitarian contribution of 2.73 million for displaced people in Rakhine. Two million of that will go through UNHCR and 730,000 will go through UNICEF for water, sanitation, hygiene, and nutritional support. So we are doing what we can to be helpful, and we are in constant conversation with Burmese authorities.
  QUESTION: Given that the Burmese Government has not been able to protect its own people in this state and there have been human rights violations in this state against the Muslims, would the U.S. review its '' the way its lifted the sanctions against Burma in recent months and the next phase of lifting of sanctions? Would these incidents have an impact on the develop '' on the decisions making process?
  MS. NULAND: Well, I'm not going to get ahead of where we are, which is to try to work with Burmese authorities on ways to address both the short-term issues and the longer-term issues. As we have said, there are communal issues on both sides; there are issues of poverty on both sides. So these have to be worked out over time. But I'm not going to make any predictions about where this is going to go.
  Please.
  QUESTION: Thank you.
  QUESTION: The story in Libya and Bani Walid continues to grow in its cruel brutality. And the matter at hand is a systematic slaughter of Bani Walid's population by what used to be anti-Qadhafi rebels for not towing the party line and not supporting Libya's new rule and government quickly enough and with quite open heart. Only yesterday, on Wednesday, 600 local residents --
  MS. NULAND: Is there a question here, or is this a political statement that you're making here in the briefing room?
  QUESTION: No, no, just a '' I wondering, 600 people, local resident, were allegedly killed yesterday --
  MS. NULAND: Can you tell me what news organization you're from?
  QUESTION: -- and why this '' and local appealing for the international aid and an international call, but why this call? Why these massacre completely ignored by the Western community and the '' particularly by the U.S.?
  MS. NULAND: Where are you from, please? What news organization?
  QUESTION: Vera Volokhonovich, RT.
  MS. NULAND: From Russian TV.
  QUESTION: Russia. Yeah. Yeah.
  MS. NULAND: Well, first of all, we haven't ignored this at all. We talked about it a number of times here, and we've spoken about it very clearly. We have been urging restraint on all sides, respect for human rights and humanitarian law. We've been calling on Libyan authorities and rebel groups to provide access for humanitarian organizations who are trying to provide humanitarian assistance. And frankly, we can't confirm any of these press reporting of what is actually ongoing there, but we are calling on all sides to exercise restraint.
  QUESTION: But why Washington blocked '' why did Washington block the statement '' draft statement proposed by Russia for the United Nations Security Council resolution, which called for a peaceful solution for this conflict?
  MS. NULAND: Well, I can't speak to what may be going on at USUN. I'm not aware of what the Russian statement might have been. I will send you up to our people in New York to discuss that. But our position on this is absolutely clear: We support the efforts of the Libyan Government to get control of militias and to provide security throughout the country, including in Bani Walid, and to do so in a way that is respectful of the human rights of all citizens, and allows humanitarian organizations to get in. So we are watching this situation very closely.
  Please, Scott.
  QUESTION: Sudan. Do you have anything that you could tell us today about who you think blew up the arms factory outside of Khartoum?
  MS. NULAND: I don't have anything new for you on that. I would send you to the Sudanese authorities. We don't have anything particular to say.
  QUESTION: Right. Do you have anything old for us on that?
  MS. NULAND: I don't have anything old for you on that.
  QUESTION: Ah. Okay, so you basically have nothing at all on that. You are aware that it happened, correct?
  MS. NULAND: We are aware that it happened. Yes.
  QUESTION: And not just from press reports.
  MS. NULAND: We are aware that it happened. In fact, after the explosion happened, there was '' there's some misreporting as to our '' the status of our mission there, so why don't I take this opportunity to clean that up.
  I think all of you know that we have been in a reduced staffing pattern in Khartoum since we had the anti-U.S. protests around our mission. So we've been in reduced operational status since about September 12th. The Embassy has been operating, but it has not been open to the public since that time. We got our first reports in the Embassy of the explosion at about 11:30 local time on the 23rd, and at that '' soon thereafter, our mission suggested that Embassy staff not come into work the next day, that the mission be closed, and it has been closed since then. It's now closed for the Eid holiday.
  We also simultaneously issued an emergency message to all U.S. citizens who were registered with the Embassy apprising them of the explosion and urging them to stay home as well.
  QUESTION: You're not aware of an untoward incidents at the Embassy since --
  MS. NULAND: No. In fact, there have been none. No.
  Okay. Andy.
  QUESTION: Algeria. Just saw you announced the Secretary's trip next week to Algeria. I'm wondering if you could tell us '' stating the obvious, perhaps '' but if Mali (inaudible) potential intervention is going to be on the agenda. And we're hearing now from various sources in Algiers and Paris that the Algerians are sort of okay with this idea. Have you received any notice from them that they are more open to the idea of an African-led military intervention in Mali?
  MS. NULAND: Well, in addition to bilateral issues and general regional issues, Mali is one of the subjects that the Secretary does want to talk to Algerian officials about, as well as the general issue of al-Qaida in the Maghreb. I've seen the press reports today that the Government of Algeria seems to be more open to supporting the ECOWAS force. I think we look forward --
  QUESTION: Wait, wait. The Government of Algeria or the Government of Mali?
  QUESTION: Algeria.
  MS. NULAND: It was the Government of Algeria, actually. And so we look forward to continuing that discussion when we're there on Tuesday.
  Please.
  QUESTION: Lebanon?
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: Yourself and the Secretary have been warning about the vacuum in Lebanon for the past few days. Is there anything in particular you're concerned with?
  MS. NULAND: Well, we talked about this at some length yesterday, and I don't think I have anything further to say to what the Secretary said yesterday and what we said here yesterday and the day before. We're looking at this process that President Suleiman is conducting, and we want to see it be a Lebanese process; we want to see it be successful and result in a new government. But we don't want to see a vacuum between now and then.
  QUESTION: But nothing in particular --
  MS. NULAND: This is --
  QUESTION: -- by any particular party you would be concerned with? It's not --
  MS. NULAND: I think we are affirmatively saying this is not for us to decide; this is for the Lebanese to decide. We're not going to be picking and choosing. Lebanese people have to work this through.
  QUESTION: No, no, it's just about concerns of a vacuum.
  MS. NULAND: Well, I think the concern was we want to have these negotiations be successful; we want to have a new government emerge. But between now and then, we don't want to have a vacuum.
  Please, Scott.
  QUESTION: Do you have anything on the arrest of the Russian Left Front activist Leonid Razvozzhayev?
  MS. NULAND: Well, I think we've talked about this a couple of days ago, but let me just say again that we've seen these press reports about the disappearance of Russian opposition activist Leonid Razvozzhayev in Ukraine and then his subsequent arrest in Russia. We are quite concerned about allegations that he was forced to confess, that he may have been subjected to torture, and we take '' we are '' concerns about this and other arrest actions taken against the May 6th protestors very seriously, including against Aleksei Navalny, Sergei Udaltsov, Konstantin Lebedev, and now Razvozzhayev. And we continue to support the rights of all Russians to exercise freedom of expression and assembly regardless of their political views. And we have shared our concerns with the Russian Government, including about the Razvozzhayev case.
  QUESTION: Do you have anything to add to the nothing that you had to say yesterday about the arrest of this Benghazi suspect in Tunisia?
  MS. NULAND: No.
  QUESTION: And there were reports from Cairo yesterday about another suspect being killed. Do you know anything on that?
  MS. NULAND: I don't have anything on that either.
  Okay? Way in the back, please.
  QUESTION: Yeah. If I can change the topic, do you have any update about the situations with the OSCE observers and this conflict in Texas? As I know, they sent a letter to Madam Clinton.
  MS. NULAND: Yes. Can you tell me where you're from? I haven't seen you before.
  QUESTION: Dmytro Anopchenko, Inter television channel, Ukraine.
  MS. NULAND: Well, we talked about this a couple of days ago, that since 2002 the OSCE has regularly sent observers to U.S. general elections and midterm elections, that this one isn't any different than that. Since the initial issue with Texas, we've received a letter both for Secretary Clinton and one for Texas authorities from the OSCE assuring us and Texas authorities that the OSCE observers are committed to following all U.S. laws and regulations, as they do in any country where they observe elections, and they will do so as well in Texas.
  QUESTION: So did you ever get the answer to my question on this about the support that you offer? And can you --
  MS. NULAND: Yes, I got a little bit more.
  QUESTION: Can you --
  MS. NULAND: So Matt had asked a couple of days ago about the role the State Department plays when the OSCE or other international observers come. We provide letters of introduction to the state secretaries of the states where these OSCE observers want to be active. And since 1996, we have also given the observers privileges and immunities when they come into the United States, certain diplomatic privileges and immunities, as we do for diplomatic personnel.
  I think we also had a question about whether we knew of any other organizations '' international organizations looking to observe our elections. We understand that the NGO International Foundation for Electoral Systems, better known as IFES to many of you, has invited more than 200 election administrators to watch how the U.S. does elections. These are not observers strictly. They are coming to look at how we do administration of our elections for lessons learned purposes, and we do expect that individual embassies and countries may send parliamentarians, diplomats, politicians to observe elections, but not in a organized fashion necessarily.
  QUESTION: Sorry, back to the OSCE team.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: They all get diplomatic immunity?
  MS. NULAND: No, they get certain privileges and immunities.
  QUESTION: Which ones?
  MS. NULAND: I don't have a list here of exactly what we're giving them, but in general, we give them protected status, as we expect of our people when we participate in OSCE delegations.
  QUESTION: Okay. And '' but who are these people?
  MS. NULAND: Generally, they are parliamentarians from OSCE countries. They're usually the ones who --
  QUESTION: They're members of parliament, they're lawmakers --
  MS. NULAND: -- make up the bulk '' they are lawmakers from OSCE countries.
  QUESTION: -- who would normally or not normally have diplomatic status if they traveled to the United States?
  MS. NULAND: Again, it depends on how they came. If they came to bring their grandchildren to Disneyland, they'd be on a tourist visa. If they came in their parliamentary capacity, or in this case, in an OSCE capacity, then they would have some protected status.
  QUESTION: Okay. And I'm sorry, I didn't understand the '' you have gotten '' the question about Texas '' you got a letter from the OSCE; is that correct? Or the Secretary got a letter from --
  MS. NULAND: The Secretary got a letter and the authorities in Texas got a similar letter.
  QUESTION: And you said that you have responded to the OSCE? I didn't understand the rest of that.
  MS. NULAND: The Texas authorities expressed their concern by letter, through us --
  QUESTION: Yes.
  MS. NULAND: -- and directly to the OSCE.
  QUESTION: Yes.
  MS. NULAND: The OSCE has now responded both to Texas and to the Secretary.
  QUESTION: Oh, okay.
  MS. NULAND: Okay?
  QUESTION: And the concern was what from Texas?
  MS. NULAND: I think you can see the Texas letter, but they were concerned about whether this observer delegation would obey Texas electoral law.
  QUESTION: Texas is still part of the union, is it not?
  MS. NULAND: It is.
  QUESTION: Yeah? The Republic of Texas has long, long ago gone away even though it still has an embassy in Paris?
  MS. NULAND: But under our Constitution, as you know, there's a thing called states rights, and they '' and states administer their own elections, right?
  QUESTION: Well, has there ever been a problem in the past?
  MS. NULAND: I can't speak to that. I don't know.
  QUESTION: Did the '' I'll look for the Texas letter, but are you aware of any problems that there were in Texas?
  MS. NULAND: No.
  QUESTION: All right.
  QUESTION: Is it normal procedure for states to be in touch with international organizations directly, not through the State Department or the federal government?
  MS. NULAND: Yeah. I mean, it's common practice in the same way, as I said, that we are providing introductions to the secretaries of state in the states for this international organization, in the same way when states have an international problem they can work with us, they can work with other federal agencies, whether Department of Justice, et cetera.
  QUESTION: Yeah. But would they go to any international body without going through you, or through the federal government?
  MS. NULAND: Generally, they do better if they work with us, but sometimes they can go directly. There's no law against it per se.
  QUESTION: Do you have or do you know if it's on, like, the OSCE website where they're going to be going?
  MS. NULAND: We had, I think, about 15 states that they were going to go to. I think the list was still being worked up. We'll get that for you, Matt.
  QUESTION: And Texas was the only one that had reservations or concerns?
  MS. NULAND: To my knowledge, it's the only state that came forward and said please reassure us that you're going to follow our state electoral law. And they have now been reassured.
  Okay. Thanks, everybody.
  (The briefing was concluded at 1:44 p.m.)
His Obamaness, Colin Powell
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 05:23
  Oh by the way, Colin Powell as a reminder in his announcement he is again assisting Obama to steal 1600 Penn Avenue.
  Powell is guilty of Powellgate in the leaked intelligence information on Syria fed him by the Obama regime, which is illegal as it is classified.
  While here, let me explain something about Colin Powell which is an exclusive here.
  See Colin Powell was supposed to be the first black Vice President and that is what Plamegate was all about in Dick Armitage leaking her information to Bob Novak and Patrick Fitzgerald going after Scooter Libby.
  The real target was Dick Cheney who was supposed to as a Conservative be destroyed and replaced by Sec. of State Colin Powell who would have then been Vice President. That was what was behind Powell's game in the Rockefeller claque as his reward for keeping Saddam in power in Gulf War I, as you will remember he is the one who stopped Bush41 from destroying Saddam's forces in Kuwait.
  It was a rough road though as that would have split the blacks for the GOP and that is not what the cartels wanted. It all fell apart when Alberto Gonzales refused to let Plamegate get into the Bush White House........see you don't get this as this was like Rockefeller being VP for Gerald Ford and all those wackos trying to murder Ford all summer.
  It was supposed to be Libby rolling on an innocent Cheney, who would then be replaced by Powell who with Armitage had given court testimony to Gonzales who would have as this blog exclusively exposed would have informed Bush43, and that would have been obstruction of justice and.........impeachment as the democrats were promised in retaliation for what was done to Bill Clinton....
  Colin Powell is thee most treacherous Caribbean queen next to Eric Holder in world history. He literally for the cartel almost pulled off a coup on Bush43 and Dick Cheney over his engineering of Plamegate, but in stomping all over Martin King's grave, installed the greatest fraud in world history in Barack Hussein Obama for the cartels for the plundering of America.
  Powell is so delusional that he tells hisself that he is the "black godfather" of getting Obama elected. That is the reality of Colin Powell and this blog is pleased the little general keeps on spouting off, so more and more of his Benedict Arnold crimes can be revealed and his legacy can be burned into the histories of the world in this worst of all American traitors from the West Indies linking up with Chinese Obama from the East.
  nuff said.
  agtG 270
Doug Ross @ Journal: BENGHAZI-GATE: Did two heroic SEALs ruin Obama's October Surprise? [UPDATED!]
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 05:02
  Please see critical updates belowIt's a conspiracy theory, to be sure, but "Kozy" asserts the Benghazi attack was an "October Surprise" gone awry thanks to two SEALs who weren't even supposed to be in Benghazi.The scenario is both simple and plausible:
  ' In June, Egyptian President Morsi pledged to secure the release of 'The Blind Sheikh', the extremist cleric responsible for the first World Trade Center attack. ' Eager to accommodate Morsi and strengthen the U.S. relationship with Egypt, Obama's henchmen formulate a two-step cover story. The first step is a video that no one has seen, which was released in July.
  ' Next, strip security from the Libyan Ambassador, despite pleas from a variety of quarters for more security, not less. In essence, remove any barriers to using the Ambassador as a hostage.
  ' Back-channel communications between the White House and the Imam's legal representatives confirm that a swap can be achieved with a high-level hostage exchange. The Imam's cronies are informed that Ambassador Stevens has no security in Benghazi. So the Imam can be secured through a trade after capturing Stevens who doesn't even have a single bodyguard.
  ' Had all gone according to plan, Stevens would be released just before the election; Obama would take credit for that and a newly strengthened relationship with Egypt and Morsi.
  ' But what wasn't planned: two ex-SEALs named Doherty and Woods. They only happened to be in Benghazi because they were on a separate intel mission to locate surface-to-air missiles.
  So the terrorists launch their attack believing that there is no security whatsoever. And they are surprised to find that two SEALs are not only fighting back, but killing them left and right. The resulting firefight transforms the terrorists' assault from a simple kidnapping into a murderous onslaught that cost all four Americans their lives.
  Sure, it's a crazy, right-wing conspiracy theory. But add in the following observations:
  ' Repeated denials for more security in Benghazi, despite requests from multiple quarters. No credible explanation has been offered for the removal of security by the White House or the State Department.
  ' Leading up to 9/11 -- of all dates -- there was no special security posture ordered in diplomatic installations around the Middle East.
  ' After the attack, a series of conflicting and morphing stories were offered by, among others, Ambassador Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Jay Carney, David Axelrod, Joe Biden, etc.
  ' Not only did the president go to sleep after getting word of the attack, but it appears he also refused security briefings in the aftermath of the attack, instead simply departing for a fundraiser in Las Vegas.
  The theory being: the President didn't need to stay awake after hearing of the attack. He didn't need any briefings. He knew exactly what had happened.
  Update 10/17/12: An alert commenter reminds of this bit of evidence, translated from Arabic by Walid Shoebat:
  Video from Libya: 'Don't Shoot us! We were sent by Mursi'Fast forward to the 1:15 mark in this video (if you don't understand Arabic). Watch as the raw footage of a firefight in Benghazi is taking place. The news report loops the relevant portion of an exchange between gunmen, in which one can be heard, saying, 'Don't Shoot us! We were sent by Mursi'!But, no. This is just some kind of crazy, whacked-out conspiracy theory. There's got to be a much better explanation for the Obama administration's removal of all of Ambassador Stevens' security, despite multiple pleas for more security. We just don't know what it is yet.Update 10/26/12: Jennifer Griffin of Fox News reports that the SEAL operators were ordered to "Stand down" during the attack!
  EXCLUSIVE: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack, sources sayFox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. Consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by officials in the CIA chain of command -- who also told the CIA operators twice to "stand down" rather than help the ambassador's team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11......Former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were part of a small team who were at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. Consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When they heard the shots fired, they radioed to inform their higher-ups to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange. An hour later, they called again to headquarters and were again told to "stand down."
  ...[At midnight,] they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours -- enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators...
  Read the whole thing. The Benghazi story gets more bizarre -- and more troubling -- by the day.Hat tips: Wanda and MOTUS.
Thread: Our Soviet Union
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  Source: Dave Winer's linkblog feed
  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:52
  I just had a flash, and that's what blogs are for.
  The Soviet Union collapsed. And that changed the world.
  Could the United States collapse too?
  What if it already has?
  What if the change in the way the press works is the equivalent of a new political system, with a new division of power.
  Isn't that what happened in the Soviet Union?
New York Storm Evacuation Plan Discussed as Sandy Approaches
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  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:51
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  `Frankenstorm' May Cut Northeast Power for Days
  New York City officials discussed plans for evacuations and subway closings to deal with Hurricane Sandy as Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency in all of the state's 62 counties.
  The so-called superstorm is expected to make landfall between Delaware and central New Jersey on Oct. 30, according to forecasters. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it's too early to determine if the city's low-lying areas, home to 375,000 residents, will be evacuated.
  ''This is a very dangerous storm,'' Bloomberg said today at a City Hall news conference. ''Hopefully, tomorrow night we'll have better news that it's likely to go somewhere else, but even then, it could change at the last minute, because that's the way the weather is.''
  Bloomberg said he will update residents tomorrow afternoon or evening. If areas are evacuated, the city will have 65 shelters available that will be stocked with food and supplies. Students should plan to go to school Oct. 29, the mayor said.
  The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city's subways, said in a statement that its hurricane plan calls for shutting down service if winds are sustained at 39 miles (63 kilometers) per hour or more.
  Worst CaseThe storm's predicted landfall puts New York City in the path of its strongest winds, which, wrapping around the eastern side of the system, could be sustained at as much as 80 mph for 24 hours, state Homeland Security Commissioner Jerome Hauer said in an interview in Albany.
  ''The worst-case scenario is that the storm hits in the mid-Jersey area,'' he said. ''That forces water from the ocean into New York Harbor and we get significant flooding in New York City, particularly in Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.''
  Forecasters say Hurricane Sandy may develop into a superstorm as it meets another low-pressure system rushing eastward across the U.S. With landfall still not expected for about three days, the storm's path may still shift, though its size and predicted power mean damage will be widespread regardless of where it strikes directly, according to the National Hurricane Center.
  Irene's WrathStill, the storm's current predicted path means it will probably be worse than Tropical Storm Irene, Hauer said. The August 2011 blast of wind and rain left more than 4 million homes and businesses without power, and caused $3 billion in damage across the eastern U.S. Some of the worst damage was north of New York City in the state's Catskills region and Vermont.
  ''Unfortunately, the areas hit by Irene are under the gun right now,'' he said.
  Cuomo urged New Yorkers to remain calm.
  ''There's no need to panic,'' Cuomo said today at a news conference in Hauppauge in central Long Island. ''We have a lot of time, and we're prepared for any eventuality.''
  The mayor is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.
  To contact the reporter on this story: Freeman Klopott in Albany at fklopott@bloomberg.net
  To contact the editor responsible for this story: Stephen Merelman at smerelman@bloomberg.net
  Enlarge imageNYC Discussing Plans to Evacuate Areas, Halt Subway ServiceAmy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/MCT/Getty Images
  Water floods onto A1A during a storm surge on Ft. Lauderdale Beach, Florida, on Oct. 26, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy passes to the east.
  Water floods onto A1A during a storm surge on Ft. Lauderdale Beach, Florida, on Oct. 26, 2012, as Hurricane Sandy passes to the east. Photographer: Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel/MCT/Getty Images
  Corey Hutterli works on securing his sailboat with rope as the outer bands of Hurricane Sandy are felt in Miami Beach, Florida. Photographer: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Because I can....
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:46
  I'm running out of room here before the election, so will live post this as this needs to be said and it will be a Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter, as no one else has bothered with this.
  I really noticed how sh*t faced Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have been to former President George W. Bush. Especially in that town whiner debate in that person asking the question what was the difference between Obama / Romney and W.........as if George W. Bush was some kind of goddamned mullah Muslim raping sheep and penetrating Jews with nuclear missiles.
  No one has stood up for W. and that really is piss ass in the extreme, as this American inherited the messes his old man created in that original tax with George read my lips Mitchell that started with Clinton's retroactive taxes that started the 2000 Clinton recession.
  W. then had that little 9 11 economic attack on America foisted on him by Al Gore compartmentalists to embarass him, and with Obama Berliner boy assistance.
  George W. Bush then tried to fix Colin Powell's horrid advice in leaving Saddam in power and in doing so had two terror wars on his hands, and a world economy on the brink of depression.
  W. answered with a trillion dollars in money printed up, and in return the Soros cartel set it up for the collapse in 2008 using food and high energy prices.
  On top of that Colin Powell and Dick Armitage were running that little Plamegate coup to get Cheney and Bush both impeached so he could be the first black President for the Rockefellers, along with that little hide and seek of WMD's in Iraq which had to be hidden as it would have brought down the entire European government structure and throwed Bill Clinton into prison for bribery, and one gets an idea that George W. Bush inherited and fixed one pile of sh*t compared to the self created compost pile Obama generated for his installment.
  Oh yeah, and Bush had the press and Pelosi trying to coup de grace him via Cindy Sheehan for his Mission Accomplished.
  In 2009, after all this, the news was in January that Bush43 had stabilized things. Afghansitan was sound as was Iraq. The Middle East was in good shape. The world was ready at 1.87 gasoline to mend things and be prosperous, but Obama strangled it all for green and Obamacare Marxism.
  That is the history of this social democrat in George W. Bush. He tried to fix welfare, but was abandoned. He had his faith shaken in God and while I did not like his spending or Karl Rove sodomizing of America, it was what it was and he minded well in putting Sam Alito on the court after Rove blew that.
  Except for Rove, none of that was bad for America in the least. Geroge W. Bush did the best he could do with the disasters of his old man and Bill Clinton, and the only bad things which took place were the outside terror attacks which he had no control over and the inside killing of Conservatives which he allowed via Rove.
  It is in all of this piss poor that I have to set things right for George W. Bush, as I have had it with his mother in bashing Sarah Palin and in Jeb Bush running over Ronald Reagan. His good looking daughter sounds like Megs McCain in an Obama voter, so that Prescott claque just disgusts this Conservative.......but then all of those "conservatives" disgsut this Conservative for the damned frauds they are in keeping Obama in power.
  George W. Bush deserves better than what Mitt Romney and Barack Obama did to him in that debate. George W. Bush deserved at least one person to stand up and defend him, but no one did.Hell this blog deserves George W. Bush to donate a million to it, but I doubt that will ever happen either, as the patricians never do figure out that greasing the skids in good will keeps the press that matter saying nice things about them when their whores in the media are covered in Cheetos and stoned on coke.
  There was a time in America in Ronald Reagan's America of the Reagan 11th Commandment in Thou Shalt Not Speak Evil of a Fellow Republican. As you can see, George H. W. smashed that in skewering the Gipper and Jeb is still putting tire tracks on Ronald Reagan.
  So I suppose what comes around goes around in Junior Reagan skewering George W. Bush and now Mitt Romney doing the same thing.
  I voted for Bush43 twice as that was all there was. I defended W. for 8 years and only stopped when his family became too repulsive to deal with. He is though an American President and it bothers me the mistreatment he has suffered as he held things together well considering the coups, the wars and the disaster he inherited in foreign and domestic policy, all with puffy lips Rove rocking the boat.
  Mitt Romney is of low regard. He violated something which should never have been. Barack Obama is a foreign agent of Peking origins, so it is his orders to rip apart Americans, but Mitt Romeny being a border buster Mexican has more expected of him.Sure it stems back to old Prescott and his old man George Romney no doubt like Joe Kennedy and FDR, but there are no excuses in this, because Romney can cuddle with Bill Clinton and grin at Obama, he sure as hell can at least nod at George W. Bush and say, "Bush inherited a hell of allot too and people had better remember they were the ones screaming for him to liberate Afghansitan and Iraq, and it was not George Bush forcing them to."
  This blog does not want to have to keep setting the George W. Bush record straight, for a Texican who could not give a damn about me nor will ever raise a finger to help out.
  Mitt Romney though is as low class as Barack Obama in this bashing George W. Bush. Same garbage that Richard Nixon had to deal with in what he was set up over.I can state on thing though, and Mitt Romney is going to need George W. Bush if he gets into 1600 Penn Avenue as W. knows what to do.Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton turned to Richard Nixon to make their administrations work.
  Barack Obama was a damn fool for not reaching out to George W. Bush in having W. solve things for him.
  Mitt Romney has already proven he is a fool in slapping at George W. Bush. The future will reveal if he is a damn fool for not heeding Bush43's advice.
  There are a hell of allot of people from Trent Lott, Richard Pearle, Paul Wolfowitz, Larry Craig, Norm Coleman to bin Laden's family who were ruined by the Bush machine and they never said a word in taking it with class.
  It is classless the current Occupy White House in Obama and the Lease Looker Romney do not have the same class when George W. Bush did nothing but provide these two with the stages they are now preening on.
  nuff said
  agtG
Hurricane Sandy: Election in Sandy's shadow
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  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:44
  'Sandy is a loose, unpredictable cannon,' a MIT climate researcher said. | Reuters
  CloseCould Hurricane Sandy be our October surprise?
  The possibility of a killer cyclone from the tropics delivering a gut punch to the U.S. East Coast just before Election Day, threatening tens of millions of voters with soggy devastation and a possible burst of snow, was probably not a factor in any candidate's game plan. But it's suddenly all too real.
  Continue ReadingThe pre-Halloween hurricane is already affecting the presidential race, prompting both Mitt Romney and Vice President Joe Biden to cancel scheduled appearances this weekend in Virginia Beach. It's unknown whether it will do the same to a planned campaign stop Monday by President Barack Obama with former President Bill Clinton in Prince William County, Va.
  (PHOTOS: Hurricane Sandy)
  Beyond that, Sandy has scrawled a giant, blustery question mark on a crucial stretch of the political calendar.
  The National Hurricane Center's latest forecast projects Sandy will be either at or near hurricane strength by the time it hooks into the mid-Atlantic coast late Monday or early Tuesday morning. It swept through the Bahamas early Friday after killing 40 people across the Caribbean.
  The center of the sprawling storm's projected path targets Delaware and Maryland, but that projection comes with huge amounts of uncertainty. The territory that could feel the brunt of 57 mph or greater winds '-- equivalent to at least a strong tropical storm '-- stretches from North Carolina to Massachusetts, and includes chunks of battleground states North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Some states, such as Virginia and Maryland, have already issued emergency declarations.
  ''This is a very dangerous scenario,'' the National Weather Service's Philadelphia-area office warned in a briefing Friday morning. The agency said likely impacts include major flash and river flooding, along with storm tides of as much as 5 feet in the Chesapeake Bay and 10 feet in Delaware Bay, worsened by the effects of Sunday's full moon. Forecasters advised that some areas will be exposed to strong winds from the slow-crawling storm for up to two days straight.
  Beyond that, Sandy could merge with an eastward-moving winter storm and cold air flowing from Canada to form what the media is calling a ''Frankenstorm,'' which could drop as much as 2 feet of snow on West Virginia, with lighter dustings in parts of Ohio and Pennsylvania
  (See also: POLITICO's swing-state map)
  Not even the experts are confident how this all will play out.
  ''Sandy is a loose, unpredictable cannon,'' said MIT climate researcher Kerry Emanuel, author of the 2005 book ''Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes.'' For one thing, he noted that late October hurricanes usually affect the Caribbean, not the U.S. East Coast.
  ''The only thing we're confident in is that it's a large and dangerous storm and could have widespread effects,'' National Hurricane Center specialist Eric Blake said Friday evening.
  And that makes Sandy one last wildcard in a razor-thin presidential race that has already taken plenty of strange loops.
  Here are some ways the storm could affect the outcome '-- with plenty of potential down side for either Obama or Romney.
  (See also: The latest presidential polls)
  1) Early voting: Voting is under way in some states in Sandy's potential path '-- including North Carolina, where state election officials are preparing for the worst.
  ''Those counties that are already prone to flooding are already making plans for if they need to relocate resources like voting equipment,'' said Veronica Degraffenreid, a liaison at the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
  She said board Executive Director Gary Bartlett also has emergency powers to suspend early voting in some locations if he deems it necessary. ''We would take steps to ensure the safety of voters and election officials,'' she said.
  That wouldn't be great news for Democrats, who have been pushing as many of their supporters as possible to vote early in states that allow it.
  That would be doubly true in Ohio, another early-voting state '-- and an all but indispensable state for both Obama's and Romney's electoral maps.
  Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration is also monitoring the storm to determine whether changes will be needed to the state's early voting schedule, The Associated Press reported.
  Early voting is scheduled to start Saturday in Florida, which isn't in Sandy's direct path but is getting a lashing as the storm roars past.
Senator Harry Reid released from hospital after crash in Las Vegas
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  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:44
  By Molly Waldron
  CREATED 1:34 PM
  Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- Senator Harry Reid has been released from the hospital following a crash in Las Vegas on Friday afternoon.
  The crash happened just after 1 p.m. on I-15 northbound near the Sahara exit, according to a Nevada Highway Patrol spokesperson.
  Six cars, including four in Senator Reid's security motorcade, were involved in the crash.
  The Senator was taken to University Medical Center and treated for rib and hip contusions. A spokesperson for Reid says the Senator was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash, and was able to walk into the hospital on his own.
  Reid's condition was said to be good and doctors cleared him for release at about 3 p.m. He left the hospital shortly after.
  Other members of Senator Reid's security team were also treated for minor injuries at UMC.
  Nevada Highway Patrol troopers are investigating what caused the crash.
  Traffic on I-15 northbound was at a gridlock for miles following the collision.
  Drivers are urged to take alternate routes as crews work to clear the scene.
What If We Didn't Know Hurricane Sandy Was Coming? - Rebecca J. Rosen
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  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:41
  The New York Times reports that dying satellites threaten our ability to forecast storms in the years ahead.
  NASA
  It's no exaggeration that our ability to forecast storms saves lives and dollars every year. But what if we were no longer able to make those forecasts?
  Of course, it's not that we would lose the knowledge of how to do so. The problem is that we might lose the data that feeds our models.
  The New York Times reports that our weather-monitoring satellites -- which fly from pole to pole, crossing the critical zone around the Equator in the early afternoon -- are dying, and mismanagement and underfunding (generally resulting from Bush-era decisions or congressional Republican budgets) mean that replacement ones are behind schedule. ($182 million dollars for the weather satellites will disappear should sequestration -- automatic cuts looming in 2013 -- come to pass.) The result may be "a year or more" without the data these satellites provide. John H. Cushman Jr. reports:
  Experts have grown increasingly alarmed in the past two years because the existing polar satellites are nearing or beyond their life expectancies, and the launching of the next replacement, known as JPSS-1, has slipped until early 2017, probably too late to avoid a gap of at least a year.
  Prodded by lawmakers and auditors, the satellite's managers are just beginning to think through their alternatives when the gap arrives, but these are unlikely to avoid it.
  The mismanagement of the $13 billion program, which goes back a decade, was recently described as a "national embarrassment" by a top official of the Commerce Department.
  This summer, three independent reviews -- by the Commerce inspector general, the Government Accountability Office, and a blue-ribbon team of outside experts -- each questioned the government's cost estimates for the program, criticized the program's managers for not pinning down the designs and called for urgent remedies. The project is run by Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, along with NASA.
  The newest NOAA satellite, the Suomi NPP, launched last October but it is not known whether it will last until JPSS-1 is ready to go -- many of its instruments are new and it is therefore difficult to predict their survival in orbit. If Suomi sputters out before JPSS-1, as government officials believe is likely, the gap would come in afternoon data collection, a time period critical because it covers the peak of midday heat, data necessary for our atmospheric models. This chart from the NOAA NESDIS Independent Review Team shows this gap below.
  Acronyms represent the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program and MetOp, Europe's polar-orbiting weather satellites, with whom the U.S. partners for weather-data collection. (NOAA NESDIS Independent Review Team Report)
  NOAA recently conducted an experiment to see what the agency would have forecast when 2010's "Snowmaggedon" struck, had the agency only had buoys and weather balloons. With the lesser data, the models lowballed the snowfall by 10 inches.
  In case you still aren't sure whether this data matters, "polar satellites" Cushman reports, "provide 84 percent of the data used in the main American computer model tracking the course of Hurricane Sandy."
Arm & Hammer Adds 33% More Peroxide, Subtracts .3 Ounces Of Toothpaste '' The Consumerist
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  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:20
  New box, old tube, new tube
  The good news is that PeroxiCare toothpaste comes with slightly more peroxide than it did before. The bad news is that this supposed improvement comes with a .3 ounce reduction in the total amount of toothpaste in the tube. Tipster and avid teeth-brusher Tristan writes:
  I bought some new toothpaste a couple weeks ago before I was completely out. I was excited because the box said 33% more on it. When I opened the new box today I noticed it was smaller than the old box. They removed .3 ounces but added the words 33% more peroxide to the box. Won't be buying this brand of toothpaste anymore.
  Ah, but good luck finding a brand that has never been shrink rayed.
  Here's an extreeeeeme close-up of those sizes, for the doubters out there:
National Hurricane Center
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  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:05
  2:00 PM EDT Fri Oct 26Location: 27.1°N 77.1°WMoving: N at 7 mphMin pressure: 971 mbMax sustained: 75 mphPublicAdvisory#17A200 PM EDTAvisoPubliconotavailableForecastAdvisory#171500 UTCForecastDiscussion#171100 AM EDTWind SpeedProbabilities#171500 UTC
Journalism in the Obama age shows the real media bias | Comment is free
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  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:03
  The Rolling Stone's Douglas Brinkley, in a screen grab from CNN, speaks about his new interview with the President. Photograph: CNN
  Last month, Vanity Fair featured a major profile of President Obama by Michael Lewis, who was given what the New York Times called "rare" and "extraordinary access". Lewis "conducted multiple interviews with the president"; "rode in the official presidential limousine"; "was given a special lapel pin that identified him to the Secret Service as someone who was allowed to be in close proximity to the president"; and "flew with the president on several foreign and domestic trips" -- "not with the rest of the press corps in the back of Air Force One, but near the front." And, noted the Times, "the president even allowed Mr. Lewis to play on his basketball team."
  But in exchange for such access, Lewis, unbeknownst to readers of his profile, had agreed to a journalistically corrupt practice - now banned by many large media outlets - whereby the only quotes he was permitted to use were ones the White House approved in advance. Unsurprisingly, the profile was pure hagiography that left Obama's most devoted media fans gushing with ecstacy.
  Though I would have thought it impossible, Rolling Stone somehow just managed to top that profile when it comes to sycophantic, power-worshiping "journalism". This week, it features a cover story on Obama by its contributing editor, the historian Douglas Brinkley, largely based on a 45-minute interview in the Oval Office. The questions Brinkley posed are so vapid and reverent that it is hard to believe it's not satire.
  Most of his questions are some iteration of asking Obama: Seriously, how heinous is Mitt Romney? How gross is he? And really, how great are you? Just behold some of the questions which this historian and journalist - given the opportunity for a one-on-one interview with the president of the United States - chose to ask, beginning with the first four of the interview:
  "Let's start with how the campaign has been going. Ever since the first debate, Romney has abruptly shifted his position on a whole host of issues, from his tax plan to financial regulation [that's the entirety of his first "question"].
  "Many observers have commented on how Romney has misrepresented or even changed his positions in this last leg of the campaign '' that he's been like a chameleon on plaid. Do you feel that he has lied to the American people?
  "Where were you when you first saw Romney's speech in Boca Raton about the 47 percent? What was your first reaction?
  "What has surprised you the most about the Republican campaign this year?
  "You said, 'a.k.a. Obamacare.' Do you mind if historians call the achievement Obamacare?
  "You sometimes use the term 'fair shake'. FDR had the New Deal, Lyndon Johnson had the Great Society. Is the Fair Shake something you'd be comfortable with to describe your legacy?
  "The auto bailout helped rescue states like Ohio from economic disaster. What, in turn, have you learned from the people of Ohio during your many visits to the state?
  "Bill Clinton '' how important is he as a surrogate for you? What's your friendship with him like these days?
  "Halloween's coming up. If you could have Mitt Romney dress in a costume, what should he be for Halloween?"
  If nothing else, shouldn't a concern for his own dignity lead Brinkley to have at least a pretense of adversarial substance? An interview of Obama by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney would have been more challenging. Had Brinkley had more time, next on his list of questions undoubtedly included: "Do you believe Romney is more like Hitler or Satan?", and "Sir, do you mind that historians will likely see you as a mix of Gandhi and Jesus?"
  Ample ink is spilled over debating whether the US media is biased in favor of Republicans or Democrats. It is neither. The overwhelming, driving bias of the US media is subservience to power, whoever happens to be wielding it.
  That is what explains why the US media has been so obsequious first with George Bush and now with his Democratic successor (for those who doubt that "the liberal media" venerated Bush as much as Lewis and Brinkely do Obama, I'll remind you of this still-remarkable, borderline pornographic display of giddy fawning on Mission Accomplished Day, or the fact that Bush's own Press Secretary wrote a book mocking the US media for how "deferential" it was to the Bush White House). It's why journalists joyously dance with top officials, swing on their tires, are creepily grateful when they're sprayed in the face by their squirt guns, and play fun beach games with the very campaign officials they're ostensibly covering.
  The central function, the religion, of the US establishment media is adulation of those who wield power, especially military power as personified by the inaptly referred to "commander-in-chief". Brinkley conducted the interview in the Oval Office from his knees because - with some significant exceptions - that's the posture which US media culture assumes in the presence of the royal court.
  What makes this most ironic, and most destructive, is that this function is the exact antithesis of what media figures claim they perform and what pioneers of press freedom protections envisioned. The political media is designed to be adversarial because it is supposed to serve as a scrutinizing check on the claims of those in power, not serve as worshipful, propagandistic amplifiers of those claims.
  If, as is obviously the case, Brinkley desperately craves Obama's re-election, that's fine. But as a journalist and historian, there are all sorts of dubious assertions and controversial actions on the part of the president that merit questioning and challenge. One would think that minimal intellectual curiosity, or at least base professional self-esteem, would prevent someone like Brinkley from completely squandering this opportunity by taking the time he was given to flatter and serve the president.
  But one would be wrong. He was given this time and access precisely because the White House knew how and toward what end he would use it. In other words, they knew he was a typical member of the US press corps and his behavior would therefore be reverent in the extreme. One cannot blame the White House for exploiting those eager to spit up hagiography masquerading as journalism. The fault lies with those who deceive the public by holding themselves out as journalists.
Kim Jon GUNs
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  Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:51
  This blog agrees with Kim Jong Un, as in this age of historic Obama 44 ruthlessly putting old Mulisms like Mubarak in cages and dragging old Muslims like Khadaffi around before slaughtering them in mass, needs a civilized leader like KJU.
  I christen Kim Jong Un, KJU, as a man this manly, just needs to have a title worthy of his persona.
  Look, KJU, has a hot wife. The hottest first babe on the planet. He likes chics to the max and that is a great thing in fag Obamaland all limp and feces penis.
  KJU has the Crotch Dancers. What can be better than the ally of stiff collar Iran, having crotch dancing girls. What can be more wholesome than giving stiff Muslims some wood and showing them they do not have to be martyrs in waiting for 70 virgins, when Kim just has them high stepping like the June Taylor Dancers for all the beaver to trap.
  It even gets better in KJU has sexy North Korean spies as waitresses doing the espionage on foreigners in North Korea who are probably spies themselves. It is just civilized to be using pretty girls to entice lesbians and lounge lizards. Makes things all more pleasant as KJU can sit and pretend he is listening about some evil capitalist when he like all there are watching the cute spy flaunt her stuff.
  KJU is really a civilized leader in there is no thwarting the law or executive orders overthrowing Congress with him. Take for example his latest judicial finding in he had this traitor in his midst.......has had allot of traitors as everyone wants to rule North Korean when Kim Jong daddy croaked..........so KJU arrests this guy, Kim Choi, Vice Minister of the Army, and after a fair trial where Kim issued the orders he did not want a hair of this dudes head left in this world, the government took him out........now get this for leadership.
  They had zeroed in a mortar round. Put KC on the spot, probably tied to a stake, although if KJU told you to stand there and take a mortar, it stands to reason worse would be waiting, so KC is on the spot, and the government fires a mortar and blows the guy to bits.
  Talk about GREEN REVOLUTION, what can be better than that! No digging graves, no funerals, no monuments to stir up revolution..........just a pile of goo for the birds to peck at and mice to gnaw on the bones. Completely green there and cheaper than billions by Obama for batteries no one wants to buy.
  I keep telling you children that this Kim Jong Un is the reformer America can deal with. America should have been dealing with his olde man, as these communists unlike Obama, actually like Christians, as they know that Christians make good subjects and never revolt.
  What can be wrong with a man who knows he likes hot women, knows how to deal with traitors in a green way to please the world left, and is busy enticing Muslims to boners, so they can not move fast enough to be suicide bombers.
  The only thing which sucks in this is all those hot North Korean women are ending up in China as Peking Girls as China aborted all their baby girls for world Obama policy.
  America must have a policy for these Korean girls to not be chinoidized like Obama is. The world has seen what a disaster Chinese crosses are in chinoids, as nothing good comes from them. So I say, let America send over a bunch of sperm donors with some cash so the girls can stay home. The new Amerean would be taller, more healthy and better suited with a Bible to serve KJU and the world will be a better place in this dicks across the water.
  See that is what is wrong with the fag west, is it is all dicks up the butt, and no Muslim wants that as they have sheep pussy already, and who wants to trade anal sex for sheep sex.KJU is a great American ally in his pussy appeal. He is just a man and womans kind of man. He knows how to bag a hot chic and blow up his enemies in green ways.
  I tell you this is the kind of leader America needs to save what is left of her. What could be better than Paul Ryan, having..........Maxim Hometown Hotties dancing for him in crotch shorts, his having some hot wife looking hot, and inviting Muslims over for a peek at the good life, while Ryan drags out.......you make your choice in some Obama traitorous criminal......in chains to Andrews Air Force Base and an F 35 screams overhead at like Mach 7, and launches a sidewinder.....oh yeah, Ryan lights a fire as this is a heat seeking missile and the missile just blows this criminal to hell.The robins get a meal, giving innocent worms a break for the day, and it just makes great reality television.
  Now if Joe Biden did this, it would be creepy.....be damn spooky if blow fly eyes Obama did this, but Paul Ryan could pull this off.......I think if Romney did this it would have the Mormon Inquisition feel to it, but maybe he could too if he softened it and had some hot Mormon chics bending over at the hip and praying......you know his boy wanted to smack that Obama boy around, so Mitt does have it in him....he likes women too.......runs in his family.
  Where was I?
  Oh yeah, Aspen Ryan could pull this off in an F 35 strike, as America does not want to have KJU showing them up in mortar for mortar round.
  What could be better than Ahmadinejad all starch shirt seeing some traitor blowed to hell with a missile in Americans having fun, along with lots of dancing girls?
  You know this is just what America needs!
  KJU is a leader. He knows how to lead and knows what a dick is for, as he has the balls to do it.
  Let's sing......
  Where is the love ?Where is the love.......
  Why is it the west only has fag Muslims like communist Ahmadinejad and marxist Obama, and all the he man leftist are in the east in Bolshevik Vladamir Putin and this sexy Kim Jon GUN.The east is where the real chest thumpers are. KJU mortars his enemies mano mano while Obama sends in the sea mammals to shoot stand ins.
  Bring on the Mormon Inquisition OOOO RAHHHH!!!!
  Downbeat, 2 3, 234 and......
  Where is the love!!!!!Where is the love!!!!!
  agtG
Russia claims Syria rebels have U.S.-made Stinger missiles | The Raw Story
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  Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:31
  By Agence France-PresseWednesday, October 24, 2012 22:28 EDT
  MOSCOW '-- Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have shoulder-launched missile systems, including US-made Stingers, Russia's top general claimed Wednesday, prompting a strong denial from Washington.
  Russian chief of staff General Nikolai Makarov, whose country is the Damascus regime's top arms supplier and has refused to back the opposition, said it was not clear who had delivered the weapons.
  ''We have information that the rebels fighting the Syrian army have shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles of several states, including Stingers made in the United States,'' he said quoted by the Interfax news agency.
  ''We need to still find out who has delivered them,'' he said.
  The United States vehemently disputed the allegation, challenging Moscow to provide proof.
  ''We have provided no Stingers of any kind to Syria, nor will we,'' said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. ''If the Russian Federation has evidence of Stingers in the hands of the opposition, we'd like to see it''.
  Makarov said it was possible that these and other weapons could have been delivered to the rebels from abroad on several means of transport, including passenger planes.
  ''For this, all kinds of transport could be activated, including civil aviation. This is a serious matter,'' Makarov said.
  US broadcaster NBC News reported in July that the rebel Free Syrian Army had obtained two dozen surface-to-air missiles (man-portable air-defence systems known as MANPADS), delivered via Turkey.
  ''The Americans say that they have not delivered anything to the rebels,'' said Makarov.
  ''But we have reliable information that the Syrian rebels have foreign-made MANPADS, including American ones.''
  Nuland, meanwhile, noted that of all the images Washington has seen of MANPADS and MANPAD-like equipment in Syria ''has been exclusively of a Soviet Warsaw Pact vintage '' the SA-7 type vintage.''
  ''We have not seen evidence of Stingers,'' she said.
  Makarov's comments come as Russia is under sustained pressure from the West, Turkey and Assad's foes in the Arab world to cut its military cooperation with the Syrian regime.
  Turkey earlier this month forced a Syrian Air passenger plane en route from Moscow to Damascus to land in Ankara on the grounds it was carrying an illegal Russian cargo for Syria.
  Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the cargo confiscated by Ankara before the plane was allowed to leave was ''war equipment''. Russia has insisted the cargo was perfectly legal radar technology.
  President Vladimir Putin last week defended Russia's right to trade weapons with whomever it wanted, so long as sales did not break any sanctions from the UN Security Council where Moscow has a permanent, veto-wielding seat.
  ''In all other cases, no one can on any pretext dictate to Russia or any other state with whom and how it should trade,'' Putin said.
  Moscow has refused to take sides against Assad, condemning the West and Turkey for making clear their support for the rebels battling his regime.
Elderly face cash access strife
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  Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:29
  25 October 2012Last updated at09:17 ETElderly and disabled people struggle to access cash and resort to sharing their personal banking details, research has claimed.
  They find it difficult using new technology and cash machines, and may find it tough getting to bank branches.
  So they end up sharing passwords, card details and Pin numbers with family and friends, the report for the Payments Council said.
  This compromises their financial security, the report concludes.
  Cash machine troubleThe research, written by consultants Policis and charity Toynbee Hall, studied the experiences of people in the UK aged over 80, or who had cognitive, physical or sensory impairments.
  They found examples of practical problems these people faced with trying to cope with their personal finances.
  These included the lack of disabled parking at bank branches, difficulties using ATMs that differed in design, and challenges using internet banking.
  Cash machines were a particular problem for some who found the buttons fiddly, found the screens hard to read, and were unable to remember a Pin code.
  The report concluded that, as well as these problems, some people had a lack of confidence using new technology, and were unaware of some schemes available to them, such as chip and signature, rather than chip and pin cards.
  "This research paints a vivid picture of the range of challenges that are faced by older and disabled people and will play a crucial role in ensuring their needs are placed front and centre of plans to improve our payment systems," said Stephen Locke, a director of the Payments Council.
  "Our focus is on how barriers can be removed and where different choices could help people overcome the obstacles they are experiencing."
  The lack of options for elderly and disabled people was a key factor in the Payments Council backtracking on a plan to phase out chequebooks.
Eyewitnesses Describe 7.7 Earthquake And Tsunami Evacuation In British Columbia
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Drones To Patrol the Streets of Seattle [video]
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:15
  Posted by clnews_Featured_, News Flash, VideosSaturday, October 27th, 2012The efficiency of unmanned aircraft is becoming a popular tactic for spying on and targeting America's enemies abroad, but recently the Seattle Police Department has been granted permission to use drones to patrol the streets of the city. On Thursday night, the Seattle Police Department invited members of the community to look at the craft. Many voiced their opposition to the new strategy.
  Trevor Timm, activist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, joins RTwith more on the matter.
  See also: Drones in the Hood '' Seattle Police set to launch infrared capable drones
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CNN Mocks Third-Party Candidates [video]
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  Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:13
  Posted by clnews_Featured_, Controlled Media, VideosSaturday, October 27th, 2012The two-party system has dominated the airwaves for decades. The last time a third-party candidate shared the stage with a Democrat and Republican was when Ross Perot was campaigning for the White House. Recently on CNN, the third-party candidates were referred to ''also-rans.'' Then, the commentator said that Rocky Anderson was ''running for the president of the Justice Party.'' Gary Johnson was given some air time but was grilled for his stance on certain issues and called a ''spoiler.''
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Barnes & Noble Customer's Personal Information Hacked
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Syrian Government Agrees To 4 Day Ceasefire
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Syrian Ceasefire Apparently Broken
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Cannibal Cop Used Patrol Car To Spy On Potential Victims
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Obama Calls Romney A "Bullshitter"!
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Scientists Name 19 New Speices Of Ferns After Lady GaGa
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ALL OK IN HAWAII SO FAR
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Could Be 3 To 5 Hours Before ALL CLEAR Given On Hawaiian Tsunami Evacuations
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TSUNAMI PARTY WOOHOO!
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