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Principal At Catholic High School Steps Down After Allegations Of Child Sex Abuse
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Have Sex With Barack Obama
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:12
  Hollywood has trotted out celebrity after celebrity to back Barack Obama. But none has had a greater impact on the presidential race than Lena Dunham, creator and star of HBO's repulsive Girls. Dunham cut an ad for Obama in which she likened voting for the first time to losing one's virginity. ''Your first time shouldn't be with just anybody,'' she cooed to the camera. ''You want to do it with a great guy. It should be with a guy '... who really cares about and understands women.''
  And who is that cherished lover?
  Why, it's Barack Obama, of course! As Dunham describes Obama, ''A guy who cares about whether you get health insurance, and specifically whether you get birth control. The consequences are huge. You want to do it with a guy who brought the troops out of Iraq. You don't want a guy who says, 'Oh hey, I'm at the library studying,' when he's really out not signing the Lilly Ledbetter Act.'' And most importantly of all, Dunham says you don't want to be caught still being a voting virgin after the election: ''it's super uncool to be out and about and someone says, ''Did you vote,' and 'No, I didn't vote, I wasn't ready.'''
  Dunham is widely perceived in Hollywood as the voice of her generation. Which is to say, my generation. To which I say, paraphrasing Ronald Reagan, I'll sell my bonds.
  But this is how the Obama campaign '' and the left '' views young people. We're a bunch of sex-obsessed morons who don't care about the economy. We don't care about the future of the country. All we care about is condoms now, abortion later, and sexual freedom forever.
  But that's not us. That's our parents.
  The truth is that my generation does care about the economy. Half of us graduate from college without jobs to go to. More and more of us pile up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to get degrees in useless majors. Our college choices are rarely geared toward our future careers. We know that our taxes will be jacked up to pay for our parents' and grandparents' Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid payments. And we know that by the time we hit our parents' age, the chances of us receiving those social welfare benefits are slim and none.
  If we're not getting married at the same rate as our grandparents, that's our parents' fault. Back in 1960, 72 percent of all adults were married; by 2010, it was down to 51 percent. Overall, 6.8 out of every 1,000 members of the US population get married each year. In 1960, that number was 8.5. That's a substantial decline '' but that number really began to decline steadily in approximately 1970. Our parents thought marriage was taboo; they celebrated sexual profligacy. That's why so many more middle-aged women seem to care about abortion than younger women. Polls show that 59 percent of people aged 18-34 want serious restrictions on abortion; 58 percent of those aged 35-54 say they don't want serious restrictions. In other words, older people are more concerned with sex, abortion, and the rest of the Democratic social agenda than young people.
  The truth is that Lena Dunham isn't speaking to people of my generation. She's speaking to post-menopausal women who spent their youths annoyed that they didn't go to Woodstock, then got married, divorced, and married again '' and now vote liberal to maintain a ghostly connection with the good old days they have otherwise severed in their conspicuous consumption. There are few young adults seriously concerned about the availability of condoms. Kids in college know that free condoms are just a dorm resident advisor away. These scare tactics simply don't work.
  And we're not dumb enough to mistake sex for voting, either. Only our parents, who coined the notion that the personal is political, would make such an idiotic mistake. And only our parents worship politicians to the extent necessary to make decisions based on fantasies of which candidate they'd like to sleep with.
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Obama's Layoff Bomb
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:11
  In June, a diffident and self-deluded President Obama claimed that ''the private sector is doing fine.'' Last week, the private sector responded: Speak for yourself, buster. Who needs an ''October Surprise'' when the business headlines are broadcasting the imminent layoff bomb in neon lights?
  The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last Tuesday that employers issued 1,316 ''mass layoff actions'' (affecting 50 workers or more) in September; more than 122,000 workers were affected overall. USA Today financial reporter Matt Krantz wrote that ''(m)uch of the recent layoff activity is connected to what's been the slowest period of earnings growth since the third quarter of 2009.'' Some necessary restructuring is underway in response to the stagnant European economy. But more and more U.S. businesses are putting the blame '-- bravely and squarely '-- right where it belongs: on the obstructionist policies and regulatory schemes of the blame-shifter-in-chief.
  Last week, Ohio-based auto parts manufacturer Dana Holding Corp. warned employees of potential layoffs amid ''looming concern'' about the economy. President and CEO Roger Wood specifically mentioned the walloping burden of ''increasing taxes on small businesses'' and the need to ''offset increased costs that are placed on us through new laws and regulations.''
  Case in point: Obamacare. The mandate will cost Dana Holding Corp., which employs some 24,500 workers, ''approximately $24 million over the next six years in additional U.S. health care expenses.'' As Ohio Watchdog blogger Maggie Thurber reported, the firm's Toledo area corporate offices laid off seven white-collar employees last Friday; company insiders told her more were on the way. They are not alone.
  On Tuesday, Consol Energy issued a federally mandated layoff disclosure announcing its ''intent to idle its Miller Creek surface operations near Naugatuck, W.Va.'' The move will affect the company's Wiley Surface Mine, Wiley Creek Surface Mine, Minway Surface Mine, Minway Preparation Plant and Miller Creek Administration Group, all in Mingo County, W.Va. Despite state approval, cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and myriad other agencies, and a stellar safety record, Obama's EPA dragged its feet on the permit approval process. The impasse has forced layoffs of 145 Consol Energy employees that will hit at the end of the year. They are not alone.
  In August, Robert E. Murray, founder and CEO of Murray Energy Corporation in Ohio, blasted the White House anti-coal agenda for the layoffs and closure of his company's mine. He told Obama water-carrying CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien that ''the many regulations that (Obama) and his radical appointees and the U.S.
  EPA have put on the use of coal, there are dozens of them and collectively by his own energy administration, have closed 175 power plants.'' As O'Brien barked at her guest about purported environmental objections, Murray explained that ''we cannot get permits for these mines. They are delaying the issuance of permits. If you can't get the permit, you can't have the mine. '... I created those jobs, and I put the investment in that mine. And when it came time to lay the people off, I went up personally and talked to every one of them myself to lay them off. It's a human issue.''
  And it's an innovation issue, too. As I reported in February, Obamacare's impending 2.3 percent medical device excise tax has already wrought havoc on the industry:EPA have put on the use of coal, there are dozens of them and collectively by his own energy administration, have closed 175 power plants.'' As O'Brien barked at her guest about purported environmental objections, Murray explained that ''we cannot get permits for these mines. They are delaying the issuance of permits. If you can't get the permit, you can't have the mine. '... I created those jobs, and I put the investment in that mine. And when it came time to lay the people off, I went up personally and talked to every one of them myself to lay them off. It's a human issue.''
  Stryker, a maker of artificial hips and knees based in Kalamazoo, Mich., is slashing 5 percent of its global workforce (an estimated 1,000 workers) this coming year to reduce costs related to Obamacare's taxes and mandates.
  Covidien, a N.Y.-based surgical supplies manufacturer, recently announced layoffs of 200 American workers and plans to move some of its plant work to Mexico and Costa Rica, in part because of the coming tax hit.
  Mass.-based Zoll Medical Corp., which makes defibrillators and employs some 1,800 workers in the U.S. and around the world, says the medical device tax will cost the company between $5 million and $10 million a year.
  This July, Indiana's Cook Medical Inc. shelved plans to open five new plants because of the imminent medical device tax hit. They are not alone.
  The heads of Koch Industries, Westgate Resorts and ASG Software Solutions have all separately informed their employees of prosperity-undermining Obama economic politics. Left-wing groups have lambasted the executives for exercising their political free speech.
  But they have remained silent while the White House corruptocrats bribed federal defense contractors into delaying federally mandated layoff disclosures before the election. In a memo now being investigated on Capitol Hill, Obama promised to cover the legal fees of Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors if they ignored legal requirements to inform workers in advance about so-called sequestration cuts to the military's budget scheduled to kick in next year.
  Truth suppression is a time-honored Obama tactic, of course. Remember: The administration and its Democratic allies on Capitol Hill attempted to punish Deere, Caterpillar, Verizon and ATT in 2010 for disclosing how the costs of Obamacare taxes were hitting their bottom lines '-- even though they were simply following SEC disclosure requirements. The White House also tried to silence insurers who dared to inform their customers about how Obamacare was driving up premiums. Not this time.
  The administration's bully boys don't have enough whitewash and duct tape to cover up the past, present and future devastation of the president and his economic demolition team.
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Slaap zacht lief Nederland.
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  Geplaatst @ 1 november 2012Slaap zacht lief Nederland'....Hoe de 'elite' het spel speelt.De btw wordt verhoogd met 21%, de eigen bijdrage voor de zorg wordt verhoogd met 250,- euro per jaar en er komt een forenzen taks. Niet mis niet waar? De werkende bevolking wordt uitgemolken. Nederland reageert heftig verontrust. Even is er een radio stilte en dan'.....Tot iedereens opluchting wordt de forenzen taks terug gedraaid. En Nederland slaapt verder en vergeet daarbij de lasten verhoging van de 21% btw en het verhoogde eigen risico voor de zorg. Makkelijk gewonnen toch!De zorgpremies worden inkomensafhankelijk. Wat maar weinig mensen zich realiseren is dat dit al lang het geval was. Alleen kende de inkomensafhankelijke bijdrage voor de Zorgverzekeringswet een maximum bijdrage tot een inkomen van 33.427,- euro tot en met 2011. Dat is verhoogd in 2012 naar 50.000,- euro. De stiekeme wereld van de overheid. Nu is dat blijkbaar nog niet genoeg voor rupsje nooitgenoeg. Er moet een onbeperkte inkomensafhankelijke bijdrage komen.Ik durf er wat onder te verwedden dat dit terug gedraaid wordt naar opnieuw een maximum bijdrage van dit keer bijvoorbeeld 100.000,- euro en dat de zorgtoeslag definitief van de baan is.Makkelijk gewonnen toch? En Nederland slaapt weer rustig verder.Ik ben het er hartgrondig mee eens dat de zorgtoeslag moet verdwijnen. De huurtoeslag ook en de kinder opvang toeslag liever vandaag dan morgen. Hoezo moeten wij de opvang betalen van de kinderen waar jij voor gekozen hebt!Maar geef ons dan de kans om het zonder dat te doen! De zorg, wonen, energie, het is niet meer te betalen'....Waardoor komt het dat wij dit niet meer kunnen. Wat is er de oorzaak van dat wij dat een halve eeuw prima konden en nu opeens niet meer?De EU misschien minister president? De massa emigratie? De krankzinnige windmolens die meer kosten dan ze opleveren?Het is tot een onmogelijkheid gemaakt dat mensen met een modaal inkomen een normaal huis kunnen betalen,
'Transportbedrijven zakken verder in crisis'
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  DEN HAAG - Nederlandse transportbedrijven zakken steeds dieper weg in de financile malaise.Omzet, bedrijvigheid en winst dalen. Meer dan de helft van alle ondernemers vindt dat de situatie in de sector afgelopen maanden verder is verslechterd, en er is geen verbetering in zicht.
  Dat blijkt uit het woensdag gepubliceerd kwartaalbericht van brancheorganisatie Transport en Logistiek Nederland (TLN). Ruim 40 procent van de leden heeft weinig tot veel te weinig opdrachten. Volgens TLN is de orderportefeuille nu net zo slecht gevuld als op het dieptepunt van de crisis in het tweede kwartaal 2009.
  Vooral de sectoren die direct of indirect aan de bouw zijn gelinkt hebben het moeilijk. Het gaat hier om een kwart van al het wegvervoer in Nederland.Faillissementen
  In de periode juli tot en met september werden 55 faillissementen geteld in het goederenvervoer over de weg. Dit is 90 procent meer dan in dezelfde periode vorig jaar. In alle 3 de kwartalen van dit jaar tezamen viel voor 157 bedrijven het doek, tegen 125 een jaar eerder.
Leidt Sandy tot vechtende mensen in straten om voedsel ?
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  'It'll be the aftermath!'Zoals meteorologen voorspelden is monsterorkaan Sandy aangekomen bij de kust van Zuid Jersey met rukwinden van zo'n 130 km per uur. De preppers, al dan niet een beetje doorgeslagen, hebben het toch nog niet zo slecht bekeken: zij zijn tenminste goed voorbereid, juist in situaties als deze. Misschien hebben ze een goed ontwikkelde intu¯tie, of wellicht 'ge¯nspireerd' door apocalyptische films, hoe dan ook, enige voorbereiding en hamsteren van goederen is wellicht geen overbodige luxe. Lokale bewoners waarschuwen dat "nvoorbereide Amerikanen mogelijk in rellen terecht komen om basisgoederen zoals voedsel, benzine en water te bemachtigen.
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For some, massive US storm was a major money-making opportunity
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:45
  As historic storm Sandy pummeled the U.S. Northeast, knocking out power and crippling transportation in New York City and beyond, the enterprising American spirit was running high - mostly for good, though sometimes leading to accusations of gouging.
  Giovanni Hernandez, a tree surgeon working in affluent Millburn, New Jersey, said demand for his services had reached "madness" levels with hundreds of phone calls from people with damaged trees on their property.
  "People want us to show up right away but we can't get there because of all the power lines that are still on the ground," said Hernandez.
  Sandy was the largest storm to hit the United States in generations, killing at least 64 people and leaving millions without power. One disaster-modeling company said Sandy may have caused up to $15 billion in insured losses, and many small businesses will have suffered a lot of lost sales.
  But on Wednesday - the first day after the storm when people tried to return to some kind of routine - scads of businesses owners, street corner entrepreneurs and, occasionally, good old-fashioned hucksters, were out in force to make the most of a rare business opportunity.
  For some, the opportunities were natural and obvious. Bad news for homeowners is simply good news for construction firms and home supply retailers, many of whom have struggled in recent years as U.S. home prices slumped and unemployment rose.
  On Manhattan's Upper West Side, Beacon Paint & Hardware, a neighborhood staple, was inundated with customers on Wednesday, with long lines to get served.
  Gasoline and generators were in big demand across the region, where commuting is a fact of life. The queues at the pump were exacerbated because more than half of all gasoline service stations in the New York City area and New Jersey were shut because of depleted fuel supplies and power outages, industry officials said.
  Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of Chatham, New Jersey-based equities brokerage Themis Trading, said the roads were full of tension and angst.
  "It's like Mad Max, the movie," he said, referring to the 1979 film starring Mel Gibson that takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where fuel is at a premium.
  "Everyone's looking for gas and protecting their gas when they buy it. We were actually on line before getting an extra bunch of gas to makes sure our generator goes on. Gas and generators are gold. They're more popular than an iPhone on release day."
  The same could be said for livery drivers in New York. Black sedans and town cars were seen darting over to crowded bus stops in Manhattan's Inwood and Washington Heights neighborhoods to take on passengers tired of waiting for city buses, many of which were filled to capacity.
  Fares, though, had usually gone up. Taxi meters weren't always on, lower early-riser car parking fees had disappeared, and a coffee and a pastry in a small deli could cost substantially more than its normal price.
  Some store owners found they didn't need to do much to lure in customers feeling cooped up after spending hours indoors.
  Carl Darwisch, 45, and his cousin, Charlie, showed up Tuesday morning at their new store, Details Designer Shoe Outlet on the Upper West Side, to survey damage.
  But they noticed the streets were teeming with people, who had no work to attend and were looking for things to do.
  "I think it was cabin fever," Darwisch said from his packed store, adding that he sold more than 80 pairs of shoes.
  Likewise, Orva Shoes, on East 86th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues, was bustling with customers shopping for rain boots.
  Further downtown, L'Express, a restaurant on New York's Park Avenue at East 20th Street, set up a temporary counter outside its front door to sell $2 coffee. A sign proclaimed to passers-by: "We help you when there's no Starbucks," a reference to the popular coffee chain that closed its outlets during the storm.
  Larger stores around the region also tried to lure in customers during and after the storm. Barney's New York had a "Settle in with Style" sale that began at noon on Monday, just as the hurricane-force winds were starting to pick up.
  In a blast e-mail ad campaign, it offered sale prices on Japanese Sencha green tea, travel backgammon sets and $500 geometric throw blankets.
  Some people were clearly drowning their sorrows as business was brisk at area liquor stores, an opportunity that Brooklyn's Gnarly Vines Wines and Spirits was quick to take advantage of. The store was open Sunday through Tuesday and saw a steady stream of customers, even during periods of high wind.
  "Sunday was the busiest day of the year for us so far. Sales were almost as good as on last Christmas Eve," said store manager Ben Rosenthal, who said the store also worked through Hurricane Irene last year. "For us storms are basically the same as major holidays."
New Yorkers Cling to Hope of a
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:44
  With commutes that took hours, half-mile lines at suburban gas stations and city buses stuffed beyond capacity, the transportation systems in most of the region slowed to a crawl on Wednesday, amid promises that some subway and commuter rail services would be restored by the Thursday morning commute.
  On Wednesday night, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a transportation emergency and said all fares on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's commuter trains, subways and buses would be waived on Thursday and Friday.
  Beginning at 6 a.m., some service will resume on 14 of the city's 23 subway lines, but several critical lines - the No. 3 and 7 trains and the B, C, E, G and Q trains - remain entirely dark. Many trains will have gaps in their routes, including the No. 4 train, which will have no service between 42nd Street in Manhattan and Borough Hall in Brooklyn.
  And if New Yorkers want to try their luck at driving into Manhattan on Thursday, most will require company: Beginning at 6 a.m., the city planned to bar private vehicles carrying fewer than three people from entering Manhattan over most major bridges, like the Robert F. Kennedy, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Williamsburg Bridges.
  But on Wednesday, as many businesses resumed normal operations for the first time since the storm, commutes were a mess.
  "I left at 8:30 this morning and got here at 11:30," said Eddie Malae, 29, who drove from Forest Hills, Queens, to the salon on Lexington Avenue near 77th Street where he is a stylist. "And I did tricks, shortcuts."
  Mr. Cuomo said that the goal of the fare waiver was to help alleviate the kind of traffic that clogged city streets on Wednesday.
  "The gridlock was dangerous, frankly," Mr. Cuomo said.
What's In The Standing Water Across New Jersey
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"We Are Destroying The Planet!" Michael Moore pt.2
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"At Least With 9/11 You Knew There Was An Enemy Al Qaeda, Bin Laden... Whoever?" Michael Moore
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"We Are Destroying The Planet!" Michael Moore On Hurricane Sandy
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Historic Boxing Bout in Afghanistan
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  It was the night the whole of Afghanistan had been waiting for. National hero Hamid Rahimi defended his WBU middleweight belt against Tanzanian Said Mbelwa in the first ever professional boxing bout held in the country.
Why an Airline That Travelers Love Is Failing
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:33
  Virgin America Handout / APVirgin America is the equivalent of a TV show that's a hit with critics but risks being canceled because of failing to attract enough viewers. The San Francisco-based carrier is regularly voted to the top of ''best airline'' lists. But it is far from the best in the business at making money.
  On its website, Virgin America proudly displays the long list of travel awards it's won over the past few years'--best in-flight entertainment, best cabin staff, best cabin ambiance, best overall passenger experience, and so on. In the latest Conde Nast Traveler Readers' Choice survey, it's no surprise which carrier was named the top overall airline in the U.S. Yep, it's the child of British billionaire playboy Richard Branson, five-year-old Virgin America.
  For the uninitiated, the San Francisco Chronicle offered a portrait of what makes the airline so special:
  Boarding a Virgin America flight, bathed in 12 alternating shades of mood lighting and awash in globalized dance/trance music, is not unlike rolling into a late-night club, cocktail in hand. Unlike low-cost carriers that fly with single-class seats and service, Virgin America offers first class, premium economy and economy.
  (MORE:Popularity and Pay: Was Willy Loman Right About Being Well-Liked?)
  Virgin American stands out especially because the industry is dominated with trends pushing for more fees, fewer perks, and an overall degrading and deglamorizing of the flying experience. Years ago'--OK, decades ago'--it was laughable to compare buses with planes. But nowadays, the concept of a plane being little more than a ''bus in the sky'' is the industry standard.
  It's fairly remarkable than any airline can generate positive feelings among customers in today's travel scene. But while Virgin America may be well-liked, it may not be well-suited to compete.
  Reporting in August, the Chronicle noted that, despite all of its rewards and glowing reviews, since 2007 Virgin America has posted a net loss of $671 million, and an operating loss of $447 million. More recently, Bloomberg News reported that after large net losses in the second quarter of 2012, the airline would be cutting back flights and asking employees to take voluntary work leaves in early 2013.
  ''I'm surprised it has survived this long, given the huge losses accumulated to date,'' Scott Hamilton, managing director of aviation consulting firm Leeham Co., told Skift Travel IQ. ''I don't really see a place in the market for Virgin America.''
  (MORE:How Airline Fees Screw Over Travelers Who Don't Pay Them)
  Because Virgin America is young, it doesn't have a large a network of routes'--which is essential to attracting business travelers. And because Virgin America offers a premium product (leather seats, power outlets, fleet-wide Wi-Fi, live TV), its flights often aren't as cheap as competitors like Southwest and Alaska Airlines'--and low price is overwhelmingly important to leisure travelers. Speaking of competitors, they have regularly jumped into markets where Virgin America is operating, making it difficult if not impossible for Virgin America to be profitable.
  Mostly, Virgin America seems to have misread what travelers wanted most, and what they were willing to pay for. ''They had an assumption that consumers would choose product quality over price and convenience and network carriers responded with force,'' Hunter Keay, an analyst at Wolfe Trahan & Co., explained to Bloomberg.
  Standing in sharp contrast to Virgin America's struggles is the rise of Spirit Airlines. Along with its fellow fee-crazed cohort across the pond, Ryanair, Spirit has been an airline travelers love to hate for years. And yet, despite the common complaints about Spirit'--customers have to pay even for water, and could get hit with $100 fees for carry-on bags'--the airline is likely the most profitable of any in the U.S.
  (MORE:Sit Tight: How Airlines Are Cramming More Seats Onto Planes)
  So who is to blame if an airline that's comfortable and treats passengers well fails, while a carrier that annoys and nickel-and-dimes customers at every turn is a run-away success? We all are.
  Brad Tuttle is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @bradrtuttle. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
New Yorkers Have Forgotten How to Use Payphones -- Daily Intel
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:32
  Some never even knew, and they're frustratedly jamming quarters into the unfamiliar boxes to try to make them work now that blackouts and downed cellular sites have made smartphones untenable. "I lost a lot of coins," one woman told the Wall Street Journal's Ben Cohen. Finally, a break for the franchisees who own the city's remaining call boxes: "Phones that normally do two dollars a day are taking in $50 a day."
A simple DIY electrical generator for emergencies like this
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:30
  A simple DIY electrical generator for emergencies like thisIf you're like me, for decades you'e heard stories about Nikola Tesla developing a technology for generating electricity from the earth's electromagnetic field. You probably think it's an urban legend, or that it requires sophisticated equipment and skills.
  It's not an urban legend, and it's really simple to make. Here's how it works:
  Take a sheet of aluminum foil, and equally sized sheet of paper. Bond them together with tape or pritt glue stick, or whatever you have, so that you now have a sheet that is aluminum foil on one side, and paper on the other. Make sure the foil side is facing upwards.
  Attach a wire to one edge of the foil. Attach one of the wore or contacts from of a light bulb or led from a flashlight to the other end. Attach another wire to the other contact, and attach the other end of that wire to grounded metal object. After a second or so, the light should come on.
  This works best if you can place the foil sheet outdoors. It may not work if your roof or ceiling contain metal. It doesn't produce a lot of juice, but you should be able to see around the room by the light does produce.
  Forget about powering your house this way; the city of New York uses 9 GW/Hr, the earth generates a piddling 750 MW/Hr. But it does come in hand y in an emergency. Say ''Thank you Nicky!''
ANALGATE: Weapons of Anus Destruction
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:24
  There is a reality in Chris Stevens which no one but this blog is going to address and that is what part did the Obama gay agenda have in his murder in sexual connections and political payback inside this regime?
  It was absolutely no secret that Chris Stevens was gay. Thee entire diplomatic corp of the world knew he was a sodomite and those who would speak about it, were perplexed as to why Obama stationed an openly gay male inside Muslim nations where the very acts were a death sentence.
  Chris Stevens has a meteoric rise in the diplomatic corp starting with the Bush people. His premier station from the start was Israel and in the heat of situations, it was him that ended up in Libya.
  We know for a fact that Chris Stevens was briefing Sen. Inhofe of Oklahoma two weeks prior to what took place in Benghazi in meeting with this top Republican.We know for a fact that Chris Stevens was chosen especially to be sent into Benghazi to deal with another Barack Obama fiasco, in the recovering of piles of sophisticated munitions which Mr. Obama supplied to the terrorists.
  When this blog stated it was Obama hired mercenaries who oversaw the mass murder of the Khadaffi group, that is exactly what took place last year. This was not an act of natural selection but select assassination carried out by the Obama regime in a mass murder. This was not the natural law of nature, but the nature of the outlaw of Mr. Obama.
  That is what Chris Stevens walked into with three other Americans. They were told that this was a negotiation for weapons to keep the Obama regime from being embarrassed and implicated in handing sophisticated weapons into terrorists hands, which were starting to be negotiated with assassinate competitors around the globe.It is why this blog first reported that CIA Director David Patraeus lied to Congress about the smart mortar which murdered two people at the US Embassy ending the rampage there at 4 AM, because this is what this entire cast in trying to steal Libyan oil and hand Libya over to the Muslim Brohood had been engaged in, the literal arming of terrorists in Libya.
  It connects into Turkeygate, which was exposed here first in Obama has been running money and arms covertly through Islamic Turkey into Egypt and now having given Stinger missiles to terrorists in Syria.
  The Obama regime has been nothing but a conduit of drug trade, weapons, money and land to terrorists in quid pro quo for four years.
  Chris Stevens was supposed to be taken hostage by the "negotiators", who Mr. Obama was going to blame on the Khadaffi loyalists who have been negotiated with by the Libyan government.The SEALS were never to survive in being the rift between Christian America in the release of the Obama covert produced tape about Islam to intimidate Christians from voting for Romney. This was the rift Obama sought to create and exploit for the election theft in 2012.
  Stevens with the video cameras which were provided along with the chanting Muslim teenagers protesting this movie in ENGLISH, were to be the feeds to cable news setting the stage for all of this.You missed that did you not children in these terrorists had these cameras to record all of this for the world to see, all from the Obama campaign.
  B. Hussein honestly thought the operation was successful at first, but then he was afforded through his Muslim back channel, that if Mr. Obama attempted to intervene, his entire hostage taking campaign along with the weapons he had supplied terrorists would be put on display.That is why the terrorists blew the Embassy apart with that precision guided mortar, as it was given to them by Obama.
  It was the smoking mortar, and all B. Hussein could do was continue on his campaign talking points as that is all he had to cover up with.
  There is the question in this, in just how much of the Karl Rove puffy lips and Barack Obama puffy cheeks gay lifestyle had in promoting Chris Stevens to a situation he had no diplomatic business in.These terrorists knew exactly that Stevens was a fag, and that is why they anal raped him. That kind of information does not come from Afghanistan, but is fed directly by the diplomatic corp.
  Anderson Cooper by his reaction at CNN points to he knew Chris Stevens was gay and probably was once a sexual associate. Cooper in his teabagger lines smearing the Tea Party with Barack Hussein Obama using that exact word, means the talking point was bandied about among the Obama fag corp as their personal joke.
  Anderson Cooper outing Obama on CNN over the murder of Chris Stevens, means these bath house boys were bitch towel slapping each other.
  The question in this with lesbian Hillary Clinton with Huma Wiener, wife of sexual pervert Anthony Wiener, was the Chicago gay bath house which secured Rahm Emanuel his position in Washington, DC, transferred to 1600 Penn Avenue, in the advent of the Charlie Gibson of ABC news open shirt soap dropper interview with Barack Hussein Obama, the rolling over in bed with NBC anchor Brian Williams, and that just as John Kennedy had dope and sex parties at the White House, is that what Barack Hussein Obama was engaging in with body man Reggie Love while flossing his teeth, in the mutual sexual partner of Anderson Cooper of CNN and Barack Hussein Obama, was Chris Stevens, and it was the catalyst for his meteoric rise to power.
  Was one of the reasons Barack Hussein Obama was covering up what took place with Chris Stevens in Benghazi, was the same cover up with Donald Young and Lawrence Sinclair in Chicago, in Barack Obama was hiding a more intimate detail in Chris Stevens performed a Monica Lewinski on him in the Oval Office?
  Why is it in the reason Chris Stevens was in Libya on that staged night, that not one connection has been made in his visiting the White House, DOD, CIA headquarters in briefings on getting those weapons back Mr. Obama supplied his Libyan terrrorists?For those who do not know of such ventures, no Ambassador is going to not be briefed and coordinated directly with out of 1600 Penn Avenue, when it is a White House operation overthowing Khadaffi and it involves illegal arms transfers to terrorists, and the mission is how to cover up that crime.
  Chris Stevens met with more than Hillary Clinton on this, as he would need to know exact weaponry to be inquired about, and he would need a direct affirmation from the Oval Office, because if he was ever outed or caught working deals to acquire weapons from terrorists on his own, he would be indicted as this arms trade just like Iran Contra would blow back directly to those who started it at the White House.
  Leon Panetta, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, David Patraeus or Chris Stevens can not hand out weapons to terrorists. That comes from one person and that person is Barack Hussein Obama, as he has been doing for years.
  That is the reality in this, and the question asked exclusively now in this Lame Cherry blog in matter and anti matter is...........
  Just what kind of homosexual relationship did Chris Stevens and Barack Obama have, and what part did it have in his advancement in Libya, and what part did it have in the cover up of these four American's murders?
  That is the question which must not be asked alone, but answers demanded of it.
  How much of ANALGATE started bent over in the White House in the mixing of the fluids of state and the feces of press?
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  Obama's 9 11 Call
The Drag Queen
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:22
  As continued exclusives in matter anti matter from this blog......
  When Mitt Romney was outed as part of a series of strawmen, the reality is strawmen can also all fall down in office as George W. Bush did in massive spending and compromise with Teddy Kennedy in massive spending.
  Mitt Romney is the engineered drag queen of the 2012 elections in he was by design a Mormon anti Christian without a polarization of a national base to nationalize the elections.This was all designed to keep Obamacare and the other Obama executive orders in place as this blog exclusively pointed would happen in a deadlocked Senate.
  Gridlock is what we want folks.Rush Limbaugh
  Mitt Romney if he was a Conservative like Sarah Palin would have had a 60% polling number in landslide victory over Obama. Her coat tails would have bround in a 70 vote super majority into the Senate and wipe out margin of Republicans in the House.Sarah Palin and a GOP would have impeached most the Supreme Court for the traitors they are led by blackmailed John Roberts.This could not be though and Romney has done his damnedist with Karl Rove to puffy lips this election in destroying the GOP>
  Look at Minnesota which in 2010 elected a GOP super majority in their state Congress. That Horse Face Klobachar out there has a 20 point lead on the GOP challenger. Romney is not contesting the state........hell in North Dakota the GOP Rick Berg replacement for Kent penis head Conrad is having a horrid time with another Obama skirt named Heidkamp or some kind of Nazi name.Point is these women were up Obama's rectum and they should be wiped out, and yet with Romney not having any coat tails like Ronald Reagan, the result is a Senate which very likely is going to be Harry Reid led again for this compromise that Paul Ryan keeps promising you to settle for.
  That is why Karl Rove submarined Todd Akin in Missouri. It was by these patricians who installed Obama and kept him in there protecting him, and that goes for Mark Levin who shouts down callers saying Romney would win by 60 to 70 percent and Levin doing all he could to submarine Birthers.
  Mitt Romney deliberately for the Mormon Patricians decapitated the Chirstian Conservative head of the GOP and is now making certain the undertow wipes out the GOP from a historic landslide.
  Hell you know Romney in being outed here in not being Christian and forcing the Mormon Inquisition on Christians, set up that meeting with Bill Graham for a picture as the heat got too bad for him in this blog exposing him.Do not be fooled though, if Romney steals this back from Obama it will Mitt doing the HW impersonation in telling the Christians to all go to hell.
  I told you long ago that Mitt Romney is going to be George H. W. Bush reincarnated backed by that Texas oil baron money that Prescott Bush took over.
  Mitt Romney is the Drag Queen of the GOP, and you can not find one place in this country that Romney has helped one Republican. His process is to just get hisself installed and then to rename things Obama, and chisel his name on them as Mitt the Mormon, telling you it is all better now.
  The reason for exposing all of this is to turn up the heat on these barons and tycoons, to start acting human in dropping energy prices and to get rid of Obamacare and start making firearms a cheap national pasttime........with the CAVEAT that when the recovery does come, they do not rape the people of their money again in another bust as has already been engineered.
  My children, Obama knows a marginal Keynesian recovery is coming, just like Buffett told you it would. You can only strangle things so long before people need things. Obama does not want Romney taking credit for this natural trend. This blog wants Romney to do a Reagan recovery and deflate prices and make your savings grow as was proven could be accomplished in the 1980's with great prosperous effect.
  Only by this lone voice in the wilderness speaking of these things so you know, and you tell a dozen more, and they tell 100 more, will any real change take place as what changes these patricians is the concern you are going to really revolt.......so they compromise and give you a few more dollars to keep you at home and not in the streets.
  Now you know more of this which is being played out. As explained, I do not really care who steals this election, as it is already projected out in you get screwed one way or the other. The Truth though will be told as that is my commission for now.
  nuff said
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US Homeland Security sued for drone details
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  Source: Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:26
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation said Wednesday it has sued the US Department of Homeland Security to obtain details about Predator drones on loan to domestic police departments.
  EFF Internet freedom and privacy champions contended that they filed suit in federal court in San Francisco because the DHS failed to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request for the information.
  A DHS division uses unmanned drones in the United States to patrol borders but reports indicate that missions are being flown on behalf of local and federal law enforcement agencies, according to the EFF.
  "Drones are a powerful surveillance tool that can be used to gather extensive data about you and your activities," said EFF Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch.
  "The public needs to know more about how and why these Predator drones are being used to watch US citizens."
  The EFF is also suing the US Federal Aviation Administration for the latest information about authorizations it has issued for public drone flights.
  (c) 2012 AFP
Everything you wanted to know about the money behind the most expensive election in U.S. history
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  Source: BlackListedNews.com
  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:25
  The 2012 election will not only be the most expensive election in U.S. history, the cost will tower over the next most expensive election by more than $700 million.Earlier this year, the Center for Responsive Politics estimated that the 2012 election would cost $5.8 billion -- an estimate that already made it the most expensive in history -- but with less than a week to go before the election, CRP is revising the estimate upwards. According to CRP's new analysis of Federal Election Commission data, this election will likely cost $6 billion.The most significant difference compared with earlier cycles is the unprecedented money being raised and spent by outside - and ostensibly independent - organizations, which we are predicting will spend more than $970 million."In the new campaign finance landscape post-Citizens United, we're seeing historic spending levels spurred by outside groups dominated by a small number of individuals and organizations making exceptional contributions," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics.Not only is the total cost of the election record breaking, but the rate at which spending has increased -- and continues to increase -- in the closing weeks of the election is as well. In particular, outside groups are spending furiously. Spending by these groups, for and against the two main presidential candidates, has grown from $19 million per week in early September to $33 million per week in early October to $70 million during the week beginning October 21.The presidential election alone accounts for $2.6 billion, which is actually a decrease from 2008 when, all told, nearly $2.8 billion was directed at the presidential race. In 2012, presidential candidates along with major party committees are expected to spend about $2 billion. Outside organizations that report spending to the Federal Election Commission are predicted to spend more than $528 million to influence the presidential race. Spending by the party convention host committees and public funding for the conventions totaled $142 million.Spending in congressional races is projected to increase slightly in 2012. House and Senate candidates combined will spend about $1.82 billion, up from $1.81 in 2010. House campaign spending alone will total nearly $1.1 billion, a slight increase of 3 percent more over 2010. In the Senate, spending by candidates will approach $743 million, which is down about 7 percent compared to 2010.The increase in the House is mainly among Republican candidates and is accounted for by the big increase in Republican House members due to the 2010 wave election. Incumbents outraise their challengers, in general, and freshmen often raise more than other incumbents because their first reelection campaign is seen as their most difficult. This year is proving no different.Congressional races are being affected by the huge increase in outside spending as well. For just the week beginning October 20, outside spending in the 59 House contests rated either toss up or leaning to one party or the other by Real Clear Politics totaled $41 millionTogether, all candidates for Congress have raised more than $1.7 billion, based on data available from the FEC as of October 30, 2012. Incumbents have a sizable advantage, the Center found, with the average incumbent senator raising $11 million over his or her six-year term, compared to $1.2 million for the average challenger, an advantage of nearly 10-to-1. Candidates in open seats raised more than $2.5 million on average. In the House, the average incumbent raised $1.5 million compared to just $245,000 for average challenger. Candidates vying for open seats in the House raised, on average, more than $453,000. Self-funding candidates have spent more than $200 million of their own money to run for office in 2012.Republican candidates have raised more than their Democratic counterparts in both chambers this election cycle. Republican House candidates have also raised more on average -- $712,000 to $594,000, --though Democrats did better than Republicans in the Senate, on average, raising $3.8 million to Republicans' $2.6 million on average. Overall it appears Republicans will end up collecting $1.1 billion, or 55 percent of the money raised by congressional candidates in 2012. In 2010 overall, Republicans outraised their Democratic counterparts by 15%.Despite heavy losses by incumbents in the 2010 "wave election," 2012 is likely to see reelection rates climb back to their usual high levels. Since 1992, House election rates never dipped below 94 percent until they fell to 85 percent in 2010. In the Senate, where reelection rates are more variable, incumbents have nevertheless won in at least 79 percent of their races over the past two decades. Incumbents won reelection 84 percent of the time in 2010.The potential for huge outside amounts, sometimes realized, sometimes not, has likely helped drive all committees and outside groups involved in these elections to redouble their efforts to collect more money. Outside organizations are predicted to spend $187 million in House races and $258 million in Senate races.Of the $970 million to be spent by outside groups, super PACs (which make only "independent expenditures" and report both their donors and spending to the Federal Election Commission) have, so far, spent $540 million and politically active nonprofits and others have spent $351 million.HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OFF THE BOOKSWhat remains unknown -- and may never fully be accounted for -- is how much money secretive ''shadow money'' organizations spent, with some investing massive sums on ads, but also on unreported and purportedly "non-political" activities, as the election neared. It may take years to determine how much they spent. Furthermore, it likely will never be known who provided the vast majority of this money, which includes at least $203 million in the last two months.
  "One thing we can say for certain is that the transparency the Supreme Court relied upon to justify this new framework has been sorely lacking," said Krumholz.
  In addition to the spending reported by nonprofits, however, at least $100-200 million more has been spent by these groups on "issue advocacy" that identifies a federal candidate, but was not required to be reported to the FEC. This is of concern because a number of these organizations -- particularly those that have organized since the Citizens United ruling, are spending huge sums and have super PAC counterparts -- are primarily political in nature. More disturbing than the secret spending (some of which can be pieced together based on studies of political ads and will eventually be summarized in tax reports to the Internal Revenue Service), is the secret source of this money. With no requirements to disclose where the money is coming from, voters in 2012 have been left with no real means to judge the credibility of the message or consider any hidden agendas leading those donors to give.The largest of these groups include American Crossroads and its nonprofit "social welfare" counterpart, Crossroads GPS, organizations conceived of by GOP strategist Karl Rove which together have reported spending more than $158 million on independent expenditures and electioneering communications. Restore Our Future, the super PAC supporting Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has spent nearly as much, $125 million, on independent expenditures. Next on the list, but spending less than half as much, is Priorities USA Action, the super PAC supporting President Barack Obama. The US Chamber of Commerce, a 501(c)6 nonprofit and one of the most powerful interest groups in U.S. politics, reported spending $35 million on electoral activity, but routinely spends tens of millions more on unreported "issue advocacy" that target federal candidates. The fifth top spender is another 501(c)4 "social welfare" organization, Americans for Prosperity, which has spent about $34 million on political ads, but perhaps more importantly built a massive ground operation to get out the conservative vote.SAME SOURCES, NEW STRATEGIESDifferent candidates and different political committees used a variety of tactics.President Obama's campaign kept much of its fundraising in-house, churning to collect millions of small donations at least $214.3 million. The campaign also heavily tapped networks of wealthy and powerful supporters, known as bundlers, who combined to raise at least $180.1 million.The Romney campaign never reached historic levels of fundraising but was aligned with powerful outside spending groups. While the campaign raised just $389 million (only a relatively small fraction, $70.8 million, raised from small donors), Romney's campaign was undoubtedly buoyed by the support of Restore Our Future, which raised $131.6 million. It has spent one out of every five super PAC dollars this cycle."In reaction, candidates feel pressure to raise more funds," said Bob Biersack, senior fellow at the Center for Responsive Politics. "Everybody reacts to this new environment by getting as much money as they can."The sources for money fueling the presidential campaign in 2012 reflect the same basic interests that fed the coffers of candidates in the 2008 presidential campaign. In 2008, among business, labor and ideological interests, the top 3 sectors providing funds to all presidential candidates were: Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, delivering $141.2 million (54 percent to Democrats); Lawyers and Lobbyists, with $100.7 million (78.2 percent to Democrats); and Miscellaneous Business interests, giving $86.6 million (63.6 percent to Democrats). Business interests account for about 62 percent of all contributions to all presidential candidates, with ideological, labor and other interests making up the rest.In 2012, these same top sectors lead the list, with some important differences. FIRE delivered only $80.7 million to a smaller field of Republican candidates and only a single Democratic contender. More important, though, was how that money was distributed. This time, 76 percent of that went to all Republican candidates and 65 percent went to Romney alone. To date, Romney holds an advantage over Obama among financial interests by a margin of 5-to-2. Instead of Lawyers and Lobbyists, Miscellaneous Business is second contributing $52.2 million (60.2 percent to Republicans); and Lawyers and Lobbyists places third with $42.4 million (61.7 percent to Democrats).Once again, within the financial sector, the primary powerhouse is Wall Street, which delivered $28 million to date this cycle. But, after heartily backing Obama four years ago, securities and investment firms pivoted sharply and threw their financial support behind Romney in 2012, sending him the lion's share -- $19.6 million -- more than 3 times the amount contributed to Obama.Lawyers and Law Firms supplied similar support in 2012, sending $40.2 million total to presidential candidates, but unlike Wall Street, Lawyers stuck with their favored candidate of 2008, sending Obama $25.7 million through October 17. While far less than the $46.5 million lavished on the Obama campaign in 2008, Obama's 2012 haul from lawyers is still more than twice as much as Romney has so far received. The only other industry or interest group to deliver $20 million or more to the Obama campaign is Education. Education-related interests provided Obama with $20.1 million out of $24.3 million to all presidential candidates this cycle.As in past cycles, when including all itemized donations, (beyond Business, Labor and Ideological interests), topping the Center's 2012 list of big donors to all presidential candidates are contributors who list their occupation as "retired," giving $121.3 million, divided nearly evenly between Obama and Romney: $54.5 million to Obama and $56.4 to Romney, with the rest distributed among other presidential candidates.These major categories of top campaign support are reflected in the list of top organizations supporting the Obama and Romney campaigns. Employees of the University of California have contributed more than $1 million to the Obama campaign and 5 other universities are also among his top 20 organizational donors, along with 4 leading tech companies and government employees. Most of Romney's top donors, on the other hand, are financial interests (16 of 20), the top 5 of which are all heavy hitters on Wall Street.RISE OF THE WEALTHY DONOROne important difference in fundraising for the two presidential campaigns has been the emphasis on small donors by the Obama campaign. Every presidential campaign focuses on maximum contributions from individuals, now commonly raised through joint-fundraising organizations receiving up to $75,800 from each individual, often delivered by bundlers seeking to demonstrate the extent of their support for a particular candidate. Less common is the ability of the Obama campaign to raise about 30% of his contributions in amounts less than $200 per person - more than $214 million through October 17 and three times the amount raised by Romney in similar amounts.While small donors have played a role in this campaign, it remains extraordinarily unusual for Americans to contribute to political candidates, and the rise of unlimited contributions for outside spending has further concentrated financial participation in politics this year. For example, fewer than 40 donors to outside groups have given more than $200 million to those groups - while at least 350,000 people were needed to reach the $71 million in small donations to the Romney campaign. It's also important to note that President Obama raised nearly twice as much money from donors giving more than $200 as he did from those giving $200 or less and Gov. Romney raised nearly 4.5 times as much from large individual donors than he did from small donors.Women donors have also played an increasingly important role in presidential campaigns in recent cycles, and this cycle is no different. Continuing a rising trend over recent years, women donors have given 36% of the overall itemized individual money to the major party nominees, with the Obama campaign approaching gender parity, raising 44.2 percent of its itemized contributions from women, whereas Romney raised 28.5 percent from women giving more than $200.Our estimates are based on comparisons between activity through September 30 and total cycle activity for past campaigns. These multipliers from the 2008 Presidential cycle have been employed to estimate this cycle's totals based on activity through September 2012.ABOUT THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE POLITICSCelebrating its 30th year in 2013, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. The nonpartisan, nonprofit Center aims to create a more educated voter, an involved citizenry and a more responsive government. CRP's award-winning website, OpenSecrets.org, is the most comprehensive resource for campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere. For other organizations and news media, CRP's exclusive data powers their online features tracking money in politics. CRP relies on support from a combination of foundation grants and individual contributions. The Center accepts no contributions from businesses, labor unions or trade associations.For more info call 202-354-0111 or email press@crp.org.
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AMSAT - AO-27 and UO-14: Answers to Frequently-Asked Questions
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  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:22
  by Ray Soifer, W2RS
  Since my article on AO-27 was published in the January 1998 issue of QST, I have received many inquiries from readers, some of whom were experiencing difficulty in hearing or working through them.
  Most of those who wrote in are now hearing and working through AO-27 and SO-50 with no problems. From our shared experiences, here are the suggestions they found helpful most often:
  You Need Good EquipmentAO-27 transmits with a power output of 0.5 W into a quarter-wavelength whip antenna. The power output of SO-50 is approximately 3 dB lower, into a quarter-wavelength whip canted inward at a 45-degree angle.
  Both satellites are approximately 500 miles (800 km) distant when directly overhead and over 2,000 miles (3,200 km) distant when near the horizon. This means that you will need a good receiver and antenna in order to hear them.
  "Rubber Duck" Antennas Give Poor ResultsThe "rubber duck" antennas with which most handheld radios are supplied are not large enough to hear AO-27 or SO-50, except under ideal conditions.
  Half-Wave Whip Antennas WorkAs mentioned in my article, a half-wavelength whip antenna has worked very well for me on AO-27. Dual-band whips which operate as a half-wavelength at 70 cm include the MFJ-1717, the Comet SMA-24 (or BNC-24) and the Diamond RH-77CA, among others.
  Some Other Antennas Not RecommendedFixed and mobile vertical antennas are not recommended, because they cannot be tilted to follow the polarization of the incoming signal. With these antennas, results on AO-27 are very marginal.
  Quarter-wavelength and 5/8-wavelength whips also are not recommended, because unlike a half-wavelength antenna, they require a ground plane to achieve their designed patterns and a hand-held transceiver does not provide one.
  Receiver Sensitivity RequiredFor use on AO-27 with a half-wavelength whip, your receiver sensitivity at 436 MHz should be at least 0.18 uV for 12 dB SINAD, which corresponds to the approximate signal strength of AO-27 at 10 degrees elevation when your whip antenna is correctly positioned for the polarization of the incoming signal. At the horizon, AO-27's signal strength, under similar conditions, is approximately 0.13 uV. Most modern, high-quality amateur radio transceivers will meet these specifications if designed to operate at this frequency (i.e., without modifications). Most scanners, and most radios which have had to be modified to cover 436 MHz, will not.
  As mentioned earlier, SO-50's power output is significantly lower than that of AO-27. My experience has been that to hear and work SO-50 with a half-wavelength whip, its elevation angle should be at least 30 degrees.
  Arrow Antennas Highly RecommendedIf you want a larger, better antenna than a whip, the Arrow 146/437-10 dual-band handheld beam provides forward gain of approximately 10.3 dBd at 70 cm and 4.6 dBd at 2 meters (measured at the CSVHFS test range in 2001), and is highly recommended. I have one, and it works very well. With the Arrow, I can work SO-50 down to about 10 degrees elevation, and AO-27 nearly all the way out to the horizon.
  For further information, write to Al Lowe, N0IMW, the owner of Arrow Antenna, at (new address) 911 East Fox Farm Road #2, Cheyenne WY 82007, by e-mail at arrow146@aol.com, or visit his web page at http://www.arrowantennas.com.
  Try Using Ground-Reflection GainReflections from the ground or other conductive surfaces (such as a car body) can improve your received and transmitted signals by up to 6 dB. That's why you'll sometimes see hams who are working AO-27 with whip antennas moving their whips around as if they were dowsers looking for the next water well. Give it a try! In order to do this, however, you'll want to use a speaker-mike (or better yet, a headset with a boom mike attached) so you don't have to keep your handheld radio near your mouth and ears.
  Check Your FrequencyCheck your frequency -- AO-27 and SO-50 transmit FM on about 436.795 MHz, plus/minus Doppler shift of up to 10 kHz on either side. Their uplink frequency is 145.850 MHz, plus/minus Doppler corrections of up to approximately 3.4 kHz.
  SO-50's 67 Hz Tone SquelchSO-50 employs tone squelch (CTCSS) on its uplink, so set your transmitter for a tone of 67 Hz (also known as PL XZ). When it's turned on, no CTCSS tone is required to access AO-27.
  Open Your SquelchAO-27 and SO-50 signals are unlikely to be strong enough to trip the squelch on most FM receivers. So, be sure to open your receiver's squelch all the way before you begin listening.
  Try a High Pass FirstTry listening on a pass for which the maximum elevation angle is at least 30 degrees above the horizon, until you're sure that your receiver and antenna are capable of hearing the weaker, farther-out passes.
  When AO-27 is Turned OnIf you still aren't hearing AO-27, you could be listening when the satellite isn't turned on. AO-27's command stations maintain a Web page, http://www.ao27.org, providing current information on the satellite's status and operating schedule. Be sure to check it regularly.
  Use a Tracking Program to Predict PassesAlso, check your satellite tracking program to be sure that you have the proper Keplerian elements loaded and that your QTH file is correct. The exact times when the satellites are in range will vary from day to day -- that's why you need software to track the satellite for you. For best results, Keplerian elements should be updated at least once a month. If you don't have a tracking program, check out the ones available through AMSAT for a donation or for free download.
  Can I Get Tracking Information on the Web?Tracking predictions for the current day (only) may also be obtained by visiting http://www.heavens-above.com and following the instructions you'll find there. That is not an AMSAT web site, so no promises, but it's working as I write this.
  Don't Transmit Until You Can Hear VoicesAO-27 and SO-50 are very popular. Unless you happen to be operating from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, central Siberia or some other extremely isolated place, you are likely to find it fully occupied whenever it is in range. Please wait until you can hear the other hams who are using it, then give your callsign during an "over", much as you might when entering a conversation in progress on your local repeater. If you detect a carrier but cannot hear voices, do not call CQ. The satellite is probably in use but its downlink signal is simply too weak at your station at that particular time. If you transmit under such conditions, you may cause interference to others who are using the bird.
  Love Those Oceans!If you're fortunate enough to be operating from a place within, say, a few hundred miles of the coastline, you'll probably find it easier to get into AO-27 and SO-50 with low power when the satellites are out over the ocean than when they're overhead or passing over central North America or Europe. That's because there will be fewer stations within the footprint to compete with you, and most of your competitors will be farther from the satellite than you are so the inverse-square law of signal strengths will work to your advantage.
  How to Program the Yaesu FT-50R/RDMany readers have written to ask how I programmed the Yaesu FT-50R/RD to transmit and receive on different bands. Follow the directions under "Custom Tx Offset" in the instruction manual. In the edition I have, they appear on page 26. Sorry, I haven't tried it with other radios so please ask someone who owns a radio like the one you have, or the manufacturer.
  What Other Satellites Can You Work?Another frequently-asked question is "What other satellites can I hear and work with my AO-27/SO-50 equipment?" The answer changes over time, so check the latest AMSAT News Service bulletins (particularly the satellite status), and the AMSAT-NA web site http://www.amsat.org/, for the latest information.
  UoSAT-OSCAR 11You might want to try listening for the research and beacon satellite UoSAT-OSCAR 11, which transmits on 145.826 MHz. UO-11, however, does not have two-way communications capabilities. Check http://www.amsat.org/ for more information.
  ARISSAt this writing, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is operating FM voice and packet with a downlink at 145.800 MHz. Voice uplinks are 145.200 over ITU Region 1 (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and 144.490 elsewhere. I have worked them several times with a handheld transceiver and whip antenna. Although packet operation is outside the scope of this discussion, the worldwide packet uplink is 145.990. See the AMSAT and ARISS web sites for more information.
  More New Satellites on the WayThere are plans afoot for more LEO FM satellites. AMSAT expects to have AMSAT-OSCAR E (also known as ECHO) in orbit later in 2004. Again, AMSAT News Service bulletins and http://www.amsat.org/ are your best information sources.
  I hope these suggestions prove helpful. CU on AO-27 and SO-50!
  73, Ray, W2RSw2rs@amsat.org
  Updated January 9, 2004
Scientists look at climate change, the superstorm
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  Source: Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories
  Thu, 01 Nov 2012 02:20
  This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, shows superstorm Sandy slowly moving westward while weakening across southern Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service said a foot and more of snow was reported in lower elevations of West Virginia, where most towns and roads are. High elevations in the mountains were getting more than two feet and a blizzard warning for more than a dozen counties was in effect until Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/NOAA)
  Climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer stood along the Hudson River and watched his research come to life as Hurricane Sandy blew through New York.
  Just eight months earlier, the Princeton University professor reported that what used to be once-in-a-century devastating floods in New York City would soon happen every three to 20 years. He blamed global warming for pushing up sea levels and changing hurricane patterns.
  New York "is now highly vulnerable to extreme hurricane-surge flooding," he wrote.
  For more than a dozen years, Oppenheimer and other climate scientists have been warning about the risk for big storms and serious flooding in New York. A 2000 federal report about global warming's effect on the United States warned specifically of that possibility.
  Still, they say it's unfair to blame climate change for Sandy and the destruction it left behind. They cautioned that they cannot yet conclusively link a single storm to global warming, and any connection is not as clear and simple as environmental activists might contend.
  "The ingredients of this storm seem a little bit cooked by climate change, but the overall storm is difficult to attribute to global warming," Canada's University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver said.
  Some individual parts of Sandy and its wrath seem to be influenced by climate change, several climate scientists said.
  First, there's sea level rise. Water levels around New York are a nearly a foot (0.3 meters) higher than they were 100 years ago, said Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann.
  Add to that the temperature of the Atlantic Ocean, which is about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (.8 degrees Celsius) warmer on average than a century ago, said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University. Warm water fuels hurricanes.
  And Sandy zipped north along a warmer-than-normal Gulf Stream that travels from the Caribbean to Ireland, said Jeff Masters, meteorology director for the private service Weather Underground.
  Meteorologists are also noticing more hurricanes late in the season and even after the season. A 2008 study said the Atlantic hurricane season seems to be starting earlier and lasting longer but found no explicit link to global warming. Normally there are 11 named Atlantic storms. The past two years have seen 19 and 18 named storms. This year, with one month to go, there are 19.
  After years of disagreement, climate scientists and hurricane experts have concluded that as the climate warms, there will be fewer total hurricanes. But those storms that do develop will be stronger and wetter.
  Sandy took an unprecedented sharp left turn into New Jersey. Usually storms keep heading north and turn east harmlessly out to sea. But a strong ridge of high pressure centered over Greenland blocked Sandy from going north or east, according to the National Hurricane Center.
  Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, an expert in how a warming Arctic affects extreme weather patterns, said recent warming in the Arctic may have played a role in enlarging or prolonging that high pressure area. But she cautioned it's not clear whether the warming really had that influence on Sandy.
  While components of Sandy seem connected to global warming, "mostly it's natural, I'd say it's 80, 90 percent natural," said Gerald North, a climate professor at Texas A&M University. "These things do happen, like the drought. It's a natural thing."
  On Tuesday, both New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said they couldn't help but notice that extreme events like Sandy are causing them more and more trouble.
  "What is clear is that the storms that we've experienced in the last year or so, around this country and around the world, are much more severe than before," Bloomberg said. "Whether that's global warming or what, I don't know. But we'll have to address those issues."
  Cuomo called the changes "a new reality."
  "Anyone who says that there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns I think is denying reality," Cuomo said. "I told the president the other day: 'We have a 100-year flood every two years now.'"
  For his published research, Oppenheimer looked at New York City's record flood of 1821. Sandy flooded even higher. This week's damage was augmented by the past century's sea level rise, which was higher than the world average because of unusual coastal geography and ocean currents. Oppenheimer walked from his Manhattan home to the river Monday evening to watch the storm.
  "We sort of knew it could happen, but you know that's different from actually standing there and watching it happen," Oppenheimer said from a cell phone. "You don't really imagine what this looks like until you see it."
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Lifehacker.com Updates: Donate to Hurricane Sandy Victims with a Simple Text Message
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  By Tessa Miller
  There's no doubt you've been reading (and seeing) a lot about Hurricane Sandy's destruction today. Figuring out how to help after a massive natural disaster can be tough, especially if you're far away from the damage. Thankfully, several relief organizations allow for quick $10 donations through text message.
  The American Red Cross: The Red Cross is managing extensive relief for Sandy victims, from manning shelters to organizing blood drives. To make a quick $10 donation, text REDCROSS to 90999. This will show up on your phone bill or be automatically deducted from your prepaid plan. If you want to cancel the donation, text STOP to 90999. The Salvation Army: Like the Red Cross, the Salvation Army is also providing food and shelter in Sandy's wake. To pitch in $10, text STORM to 80888. They'll ask you to confirm, so respond ''Yes.'' The American Humane Association: Give $10 to victims' pets in need of food or shelter by texting HUMANE to 80888. Direct Relief International: Direct Relief helps out with medical supplies and assistance. To make a $10 donation, text RELIEF to 27722. Know other organizations taking SMS donations? Let us know on Twitter.
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  Photo remixed from The Salvation Army and Pixel Embargo (Shutterstock).
Sobbing Little Girl Sick & Tired of 'Bronco Bama' and Mitt Romney - YouTube
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Napolitano: US financial institutions 'actively under attack' by hackers - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
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  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday warned that some of the largest U.S. financial institutions "are actively under attack" from cyber hackers.
  While Napolitano sounded the alarm about the attacks at a cybersecurity event hosted by TheWashington Post, she declined to provide any details about them.
  "Right now, financial institutions are actively under attack. We know that. I'm not giving you any classified information," she said. "I will say this has involved some of our nation's largest institutions. We've also had our stock exchanges attacked over the last [few] years, so we know ... there are vulnerabilities. We're working with them on that."When asked by Post editor Mary Jordan about whether hackers are stealing information or money from banks, Napolitano answered "yes" and then quickly added, "I really don't want to go into that per se."
  "All I want to say is that there are active matters going on with financial institutions," she said.
  The public websites of Wells Fargo, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others were hit by a series of denial of service attacks this fall, which made their sites inaccessible to customers. A denial of service attack inundates a Web server with large numbers of page requests until the site fails to load. It does not let the hackers siphon sensitive information from its victim.
  After Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on the East Coast, Napolitano said people should look than no further than the damage caused by the massive storm to understand the need to boost the nation's cybersecurity protections.
  "One of the possible areas of attack, of course, is attacks on our nation's control systems '-- the control systems the operate our utilities, our water plants, our pipelines, our financial institutions," Napolitano said. "If you think that a critical systems attack that takes down a utility even for a few hours is not serious, just look at what is happening now that Mother Nature has taken out those utilities."
  "The urgency and the immediacy of the cyber problem; the cyberattacks that we are undergoing and continuing to undergo can not be overestimated," she said.
  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversees the protection of unclassified computer networks for civilian agencies. The Obama administration has tasked DHS with coordinating cybersecurity efforts between the federal government and private industry.
  Napolitano said President Obama has made cybersecurity a priority and invested money into DHS's cyber programs, noting that the department's workforce has increased roughly 600 percent over the last few years. The president has also "constantly asked for double-digit increases in the cyber budget" at the department and it is actively looking to hire more skilled cybersecurity professionals.
  The DHS secretary also called for Congress to pass legislation that would help protect the nation's critical infrastructure from cyberattacks and said there may be another attempt during the lame-duck session to pass a bill that failed in the Senate this August. However, Napolitano cautioned that the likelihood of the Senate taking another crack at the bill "probably depends on the outcome of Tuesday's election."
  Senate Republicans blocked the bill because they argued it would add additional costs onto businesses and saddle them with new security rules.
  She said that "when" President Obama is reelected, "I think he will have to consider an executive order that covers many of the areas that legislation would cover."
  Yet she warned that an executive order "is not a compete substitute for legislation" and "there are some things that only legislation can provide," such as liability protection for companies that follow a set of cybersecurity best practices.
  Congressional Republicans have spoken out against the White House issuing a cyber order and argued that Congress should handle the issue on its own instead.
Tucker Carlson's Hurricane Sandy Analysis So Stupid Even Bret Baier Questions It
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  I went to Real Time with Arianna Huffington and hung out with Tucker Carlson in the green room during the Valerie Plame story. We talked for about twenty minutes and he seemed like a really nice guy. Unfortunately he's not the same person on teevee. He joined Bret Baier on Fox News' Special Report yesterday and made the ludicrous assumption that some independents would vote for Romney because the ugly images on their TVs would hammer home the sense that America is going in the wrong direction. It was so stupid that Bret Baier felt the need to push back against his analysis, and I don't think I've ever seen Baier do something like that.
  Carlson: I think on the margins this probably hurts Obama a little bit in that it adds to the general feeling that things are amiss in American. In specific terms I think in one swing state affected by the storm, Pennsylvania. And if there's one place you could see the effect of the Hurricane hurting voting turnout would be in Philadelphia, maybe on the margins that helps the Romney campaign in the state of PA.
  Baier: Let me push back. It hurts because 'things are amiss in America,' because a hurricane --
  Carlson: Look, I'm in no sense suggesting people are rationally going to conclude Obama is responsible for the hurricane, of course not. But, if you are looking for a key candidate, the incumbent, and asking, 'Am I happy with the state of the country right now?', it's possible on the margins to affect a tiny group of undecided voters at this stage that, the fact that there's a hurricane and ugly pictures on television will add to the cumulative effect that America isn't going in the right direction.
  Baier: Although response and how the response has gone arguably you had New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who said the president's done very well and it's going smooth.
  My God, being made to look like a dummy on Fox is something a host will rarely do to a conservative guest, but in Tucker's case Bret made the exception. Having to explain that you weren't in any way channeling Pat Robertson made him look feeble. Carlson, please go back to attacking Jon Stewart for bashing CNBC and Jim Cramer.
Remarks With Croatian President Ivo Josipovic After Their Meeting
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  MODERATOR: (In Croatian.)PRESIDENT JOSIPOVIC: (Via interpreter) (In progress) '' profile itself as a democratic (inaudible). We are today a member of NATO, soon to be a member of the EU, and this shows that the support from the American side has been very meaningful. We've discussed our bilateral relations that are excellent, however there is a great potential for enhancing our economic cooperation. I'm very pleased that from you, Secretary of State, I've heard major interest of the American side in cooperation in the economy. There is, of course, a problem of the actual openness to investment, but we are aware that the Croatian Government is preparing a number of measures to facilitate investments in Croatia, and I am sure that there will be a major number of American investors who will come and invest in Croatia.
  We have discussed our cooperation within NATO, which is a very important framework for our partnership, and Mrs. Clinton has shown great interest in the Croatian assessment of the situation in the region and the possibility of Croatia as a neighboring country and soon to become a member of the EU contributing to further stabilization of the European future of the entire region. I reiterated our view that a continued enlargement process is Croatia's vital interest and that also within the EU we should do everything for our neighbors to get support and to be tomorrow together with us in the EU. I thank the U.S. Secretary and her delegation for extremely open and constructive talk.
  SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Mr. President, and it indeed is an honor for me to be here on my first official visit to Zagreb as Secretary of State and to celebrate the exemplary partnership between our two countries, which, as you say, dates back now 20 years. Earlier today I also had the opportunity to meet with the Prime Minister, and in both meetings we discussed a range of critical issues where our countries work side-by-side to advance peace and prosperity throughout the region. The United States is very proud to have the opportunity to work with Croatia in NATO, and we are looking forward to Croatia's joining the European Union next year.
  For more than 20 years the United States has stood with the people of Croatia to overcome the wars and destruction of the 1990s and to rebuild your country. But this is really the work of all of the people in this country, because you made a fundamental decision early on. You decided you wanted to join the transatlantic institutions and be part of Europe, a Europe that is whole, free, and at peace. So yes, today you are not only a full member of NATO and you will be joining the European Union, but you serve as an anchor of stability and prosperity in the region and demonstrate unequivocally what people and political leaders can accomplish when they work together toward a shared goal.
  Nations around the world today are making the difficult transition to democracy, and they can look to you, they can look to Croatia, as a model. This country has taken great strides to combat corruption and uphold the rule of law, from prosecuting domestic war crimes cases to reforming your justice sector. Croatia has also made it a priority to include ethnic minorities and ensure opportunities for all of your citizens. And I would like to commend the Croatian Government, Mr. President, for leading the decade of Roma inclusion this year. Whenever Roma people cannot fully participate in their communities, whether that's getting an equal education, electing political representatives, or having the same opportunities to contribute to the economic and political lives of their countries, whole societies lose out. Because when more people in more places can contribute their talents, that adds immeasurably to what everyone is able to do. So thank you for taking on one of Europe's most persistent challenges.
  I also want to commend Croatia's efforts to establish a regional housing program with Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. This is a significant step toward reconciliation with honor, and the United States is proud to contribute to your efforts. More importantly, tens of thousands of refugees who are still displaced by wars can now look forward to a better future.
  Of course, there is still work to do to close the chapter on refugees and other important challenges, and we strongly support efforts here in this region and in particular Croatia's to combat corruption and organized crime, strengthen the independence of your judiciary, and privatize state enterprises in order to open up the economy. We encourage Croatia to share your experience with your neighbors, as you have a lot of lessons that can be useful to them.
  Now, as the President said, to continue building a thriving, modern democracy, you need to have your economy keep growing. So we are strongly in support of any ways to improve your business environment and attract more investors, particularly investors from the United States. You have proven time and time again you have the political will and persistence to make tough choices that deliver concrete results.
  I also wish to thank you, Mr. President, and through you the people of Croatia, for the contributions you have made to NATO, UN and EU peacekeeping missions around the world. In Afghanistan, more than 300 Croatian troops serve alongside Americans and others as part of the International Security Assistance Force. And I appreciate greatly the sacrifices Croatia has made and your commitment to see the security transition through with ISAF to give the Afghan people a chance to build their own institutions and secure their own country.
  Now, I brought with me quite a delegation, Mr. President. I was pleased that our new Ambassador, Ken Merten, was able to get here in time for my arrival. He's been on the job about five days. And I was particularly pleased to bring with me the highest-ranking Croatian American in the United States Government, Capricia Penavic Marshall, who is our Chief of Protocol, who has been a longtime friend and associate of mine and whose father, Frank, has regaled me with many stories about growing up in Croatia.
  So it's not only a partnership. It's not only that we are members of NATO together. It's not only that our soldiers serve side-by-side. It is also the bonds of friendship and family and real cultural affinity that Americans and Croatians share. And Mr. President, we look forward to celebrating Croatia's accession to the EU in the very near future.
  Thank you very much.
  MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Now we'll take questions. (Inaudible), a question to the President and the State Secretary.
  QUESTION: (Via interpreter) A question to the President and State Secretary: When on the first of July next year when the Croats wake up, in spite of the objections of the Slovenians, do you expect us to be a member of the EU with a special assignment in the region?
  And the second question, based on '' for the U.S. Secretary: Your former ambassador, when leaving Croatia, said that there is an anti-business climate in Croatia and that the U.S. has the lowest investment in Croatia compared to other (inaudible). Does the Obama Administration see any progress over the last period of years, or is this country still in an anti-business climate? Does it pervade here?
  PRESIDENT JOSIPOVIC: (Via interpreter) I am quite sure that on the first of July, we will wake up in the EU next year. And I am sure that Croatia will be a successful member of the EU, which means not to benefit honey and milk, but we will have to show what we can do. It's a major opportunity for us, but it's up to us to show how we will take advantage of it.
  We will have an important task in the region in our own interest. Croatia's best interest is that our neighbors also accede to the EU, of course, provided that they fulfill the EU requirements. This is important to us for the sake of peace, security, but also for the economic considerations, free movement of goods, people, among the neighboring countries and friends.
  SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, certainly in my discussions with both the President and the Prime Minister, they expressed equally the same confidence that you will be a member of the European Union. And we certainly strongly support that, as we have over the last several years.
  Regarding the economic, commercial, business, and investment climate, I think it's important in today's world that everyone look for ways to create jobs, restore competitiveness, and spur renewed economic growth. That is particularly important here in Croatia because you have an educated workforce, you have a developed infrastructure, you have a very favorable geographic position, you are a promising destination for investment. But you also have a very high rate of unemployment for young people that could be addressed by opening up your business sector to greater competition.
  We see potential for increasing trade and investment between Croatia and the United States. And as I discussed with the Prime Minister and the President, we urge Croatia to make necessary reforms: to increase transparency, to reduce bureaucratic hurdles wherever you can, to continue with privatization in an appropriate fashion, to make it easy to start a new business, to encourage young people to be entrepreneurs, to look for energy independence, which will give you advantages vis-a-vis the rest of Europe because of your long coastline, to explore liquefied natural gas and deepening your port.
  We stand ready to assist in any way. We already have several business development programs in place. Last year, we brought people together from the United States and across the region for an annual business and investment conference known as the Brown Forum, named in honor of the late former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. So we stand ready to encourage American investment in Croatia. And I must say we think that there's a great potential here, but there do have to be continuing economic reforms which, if undertaken and implemented, will give Croatia a significant advantage vis-a-vis the rest of Europe, particularly southern Europe and especially the Balkans.
  So we don't urge you to do this for us, we urge this to do it for you, but we think it will also benefit American businesses and investors because they will find Croatia a very attractive place to do business with all of the assets you have.
  MODERATOR: Andy.
  QUESTION: Secretary, if I could ask you about Syria. Mr. Brahimi's attempt at a ceasefire has evidently failed, and the violence is increasing again. What are your views on what needs to be done now to bring the violence down?
  And turning to next week's opposition conference in Doha, what gives you confidence, if you have any at all, that this could produce the beginnings of a government in waiting where the SNC has failed to do that? And are you sure that your key allies, including Turkey, are ready to swing behind whatever is the outcome of Doha? Thank you.
  SECRETARY CLINTON: Well Andy, those are all very important and timely questions. And I want to start by thanking Croatia for their assistance in dealing with the extremely difficult problems presented by both Syria and Iran.
  Look, I sincerely regret, but I, unfortunately, was not surprised by the failure of the latest ceasefire attempt. Despite its reported commitment to the UN Special Envoy, Mr. Brahimi, the Assad regime did not suspend its use of advanced weaponry against the Syrian people for even one day. And the shelling in the suburbs of Damascus was as bad last weekend as at any time in the conflict.
  So while we urge Special Envoy Brahimi to do whatever he can in Moscow and Beijing to convince them to change course and support stronger UN action, we cannot and will not wait for that. Instead, our efforts, and those of our partners in the EU and the Arab League, are focused on pressuring the regime through increasing and tightening sanctions, meeting the humanitarian needs of the Syrian people who are displaced, assisting those countries that they seek refuge in, and helping the opposition unite behind a shared, effective strategy that can resist the regime's violence and begin to provide for a political transition that can demonstrate more clearly than has been possible up until now what the future holds for the Syrian people once the Assad regime is gone.
  So we are working very hard with many different elements from the opposition '' yes, inside Syria as well as outside Syria. Some of you might remember I hosted a meeting in New York during the UN General Assembly. We facilitated the smuggling-out of a few representatives of the Syrian internal opposition in order for them to explain to the countries gathered why they must be at the table. This cannot be an opposition represented by people who have many good attributes but have, in many instances, not been inside Syria for 20, 30, or 40 years. There has to be a representation of those who are on the frontlines, fighting and dying today to obtain their freedom.
  And there needs to be an opposition leadership structure that is dedicated to representing and protecting all Syrians. It is not a secret that many inside Syria are worried about what comes next. They have no love lost for the Assad regime, but they worry, rightly so, about the future. And so there needs to be an opposition that can speak to every segment and every geographic part of Syria. And we also need an opposition that will be on record strongly resisting the efforts by extremists to hijack the Syrian revolution. There are disturbing reports of extremists going into Syria and attempting to take over what has been a legitimate revolution against a repressive regime for their own purposes.
  So the Arab League-sponsored meetings, starting in Doha next week, will be an important next step. I have been constantly involved with my counterparts, both in the EU and in the Arab League, in particular with the hosts of the meeting next week in Qatar. We have recommended names and organizations that we believe should be included in any leadership structure. We've made it clear that the SNC can no longer be viewed as the visible leader of the opposition. They can be part of a larger opposition, but that opposition must include people from inside Syria and others who have a legitimate voice that needs to be heard. So our efforts are very focused on that right now. Thank you.
  MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) This completes the statements for the press. Thank you.
Remarks With Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and EU High Representative Catherine Ashton
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  PRIME MINISTER THACI: (Via interpreter) Honorable Secretary Clinton, allow me to express my condolences and those of the Kosovar people for the consequences of the hurricane. We pray for them, and we are visit the U.S. '' will soon (inaudible) after this hurricane.Honorable Lady Ashton, Secretary Clinton, 13 years ago, Kosovo was a country that was totally devastated with over a million of its citizens driven away from their homes and thousands of people missing, many unspoken. Thirteen years ago, Honorable Secretary Clinton, you visited my citizens in refugee camps here. Those pictures are unforgettable. Today, you visit them in their own state in the independent and sovereign Kosovo. Kosovo and its citizens will be eternally grateful to the United States of America and the countries of the European Union for the powerful support that they gave to Kosovo on its long journey to freedom and independence.
  Despite the significant progress we have made in '' together in these 13 years of freedom and the four and a half years of independence, today Kosovo is still not the Kosovo of our dreams. We are persistently working for a European Kosovo, for a Euro-Atlantic Kosovo. We are conscious that we need to do more. There's a lot of work to do in the rule of law, combating corruption and organized crime. Much work is still expected from us increasing the welfare of our citizens, and (inaudible) including minority communities in the public and institutional (inaudible).
  Although extraordinary success has been made in integrating Serbian citizens in the south of the country, still a challenge remains in the north. I am a Prime Minister, Prime Minister of all citizens, both the citizens in the north and in south. And I guarantee (inaudible) to all. We will work extensively in attractive development projects for our citizens in that part of the country as well. We will continue to extend our hand of cooperation and provide services to all. But despite our willingness, the presence of illegal structures financed by Serbia makes our work very difficult there.
  Honorable media representatives, I assured Baroness Ashton and Secretary Clinton that the institutions of Kosovo will meet all criteria in order that we may implement the will of the citizens of Kosovo and our vision to integrate as soon as possible in the European Union and in NATO. EU integration has no other alternative. Honorable Ashton, I assure you that Kosovo will continually provide positive arguments so that your work in pushing Kosovo's EU agenda forward will be easier. We elaborated together, together with Secretary Clinton and Baroness Ashton, that the process of normalizing relations between the State of Kosovo and the State of Serbia is a determining factor of the Europeanization of the region. Kosovo is determined in this process. But let us be clear that (inaudible) will not go back; the state of Kosovo is being consolidated and strengthened every day. Kosovo's independence and its territorial integrity and the (inaudible) state organization are internationally recognized facts and undisputable.
  There are, however, many things that are in the interest of both countries and in the interest of the citizens of both states. Dialogue is the only way forward to integrate into the EU, and it is the main determining catalyzer to integrate in this '' in the EU. And normalizing relations between Kosovo and Serbia, it goes in the best interests of Kosovo, of Serbia, of the region. It is also in the best interest for powerful investment from the EU and the U.S., and also in the interest of peace and regional stability and also for the Euro-Atlantic perspective.
  So citizens in Kosovo, in Serbia, and in the region, after opening this chapter, will have more hope and more confidence in the future '' Euro-Atlantic future of Kosovo.
  MODERATOR: Now we invite the Honorable Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton for a press statement.
  SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much. And Prime Minister, I'm delighted to be back in Pristina. I am also reminded, as you did, of my visit 13 years ago to refugee camps where the people who are now proud citizens of a new, independent state had fled to save their lives. I'm not sure any people has made as much progress in such a short period of time as the Kosovar people. The United States has been with you on every step of your journey, and we will remain as your partner and your friend as you continue forward.
  Ever since I visited two years ago, I've been looking forward to returning and continuing the conversations that I've had over 13 years with the leaders and people of Kosovo about the future that you are building. I'm here today with the High Representative of the European Union, Cathy Ashton, because the United States fully supports the aspirations of the Kosovar people to be integrated into Europe and the Euro-Atlantic Alliance. We believe the dialogue that the Prime Minister has begun with Cathy Ashton and the Prime Minister of Serbia is absolutely essential. It provides the path to long-term stability, prosperity, and peace for people here and throughout the region. So we are working closely with the European Union and High Representative Ashton to advance the political dialogue that has begun.
  And I personally want to commend the Prime Minister. Prime Minister Thaci took a political risk '' I know a little bit about political risks '' in going to this meeting in Brussels. It was the right decision. It was courageous and it was smart. I also want to commend your President. President Jahjaga has represented Kosovo very well around the world. She has changed minds and hearts about Kosovo and about your future.
  My message yesterday in Belgrade is the same as my message here today in Pristina. The United States urges all parties to continue to work to implement the agreements reached to date, to reach agreements in new areas, and to advance concrete measures to normalize relations. Normalization of relations is key to future progress for both Serbia and Kosovo. But we believe in the United States that these steps taken by Kosovo are especially important for you. We think that moving toward the European Union will give you the rewards for the hard work, the sacrifice of the people of this generation and the past and future generations to come. So I urge Kosovo's leaders to continue to carry out negotiations in good faith. Certainly, addressing the concerns of the Kosovo Serbs will be critical. I will meet with a group of ethnic Serb returnees later today, and will convey America's commitment to helping build a future in Kosovo and throughout the region where all people of all backgrounds have a chance to succeed.
  Let me be absolutely clear, not only here in Pristina but to anyone listening or watching throughout the region: The United States is firmly committed to Kosovo's sovereignty and territorial integrity and to seeing the rule of law extend throughout Kosovo. We oppose any discussion of territorial changes or reopening Kosovo's independent status. These matters are not up for discussion. The boundaries of an independent, sovereign Kosovo are clear and set. I appreciate the Prime Minister saying that he is the Prime Minister of the north and of the south, and we look forward to assisting the Prime Minister, his government, and the people of Kosovo as they translate that commitment into reality in both the north and the south.
  The United States is very proud of our friendship with Kosovo. We see a country that is young not only in terms of years of being a state, but in terms of demography. You have a young population. The young men and women of Kosovo whom I had a chance to meet with two years ago, when I was here, deserve to be fully integrated into Europe. And that is our goal for you. We want to continue working with you to build and strengthen your democratic institutions and advance the economic welfare of your people. I believe in Kosovo's future, and the United States remains deeply committed to your success.
  Now for me and my family, and many of my fellow Americans, this is more than a matter of foreign policy. It is deeply personal. As I was driving in from the airport last evening, I saw that enormous statue of my husband '' (laughter) '' standing next to the store called Hillary. (Laughter.) I had a chance to visit both of them last time. It looks like the store is doing well, which I was very happy to see. But we have a personal commitment to your success, and we also know that getting into the European Union is not easy. There have to be changes made. And it's not only changes by the government, but also changes by the people. But we also know Kosovo's future lies in Europe, and we are anxious to see you move as quickly as possible in that direction.
  So we will stand with you as you make key reforms to improve governance that brings you closer to full Euro-Atlantic integration. We will stand with you as you work with Serbia to resolve practical problems and overcome obstacles, and we will be there for you as you take the necessary steps toward the future you so richly deserve.
  Thank you.
  MODERATOR: Now I would kindly pass the floor for a press statement to Honorable Lady Catherine Ashton.
  HIGH REPRESENTATIVE ASHTON: Well, thank you very much. Can I first of all say how delighted I am to be back, and especially delighted to be back with Secretary Clinton, my friend Hillary, who I know has a very special place in the hearts of the people of Kosovo. Prime Minister, it's always a pleasure to see you and to have the opportunity to continue our work together.
  On this particular trip, a common theme has been our view of the importance of seeing the countries we visited being part of the European Union. And to the people of Kosovo, I say the same thing: Your future lies with the European Union, and we are eager to see you realize that ambition. As Secretary Clinton said, the road is not easy. Every country that comes into the European Union will tell you it gets harder before it gets easier. There are many things that need to be done. But they're worth doing because at the end of it, you will have a country that is stronger economically, stronger politically, where the rule of law is observed correctly, where human rights are fully respected. And though I would also say that all countries need to continue to be vigilant and to continue on the journey that they are to take in these regards, nonetheless you will arrive at the European Union with great strength. And I personally look forward to that day very much.
  The dialogue that we have begun is not easy. It's not easy for the Prime Minister; it's not easy for the Prime Minister of Serbia, Prime Minister Dacic, either. And I know that for the people of Kosovo, with the history and the fears that you have, it's not easy, either. But we commit to you that this dialogue is about making lives better. It's about normalizing life so that the people who live in the north can go about their daily lives feeling part of a community, feeling part in their lives of a society. And it's about doing so by sitting down and talking, and talking openly and freely.
  And I have to say to all of you that I believe your Prime Minister was extremely brave to come to Brussels and to be willing to come into the room and have that conversation. I also believe the Prime Minister of Serbia was brave, too. It was a good meeting. It was a first good meeting. There will be more, and soon. And its purpose will be, as I have said, to make things better. I hope you will give him your full support. I hope the Prime Minister can count on all the politicians and the people to go forward, and in doing so, to know that it's not just the European Union that will be working hard on this, but that we will be in close contact with our friends, our partners in the United States of America, who play such a vital role in supporting not just Kosovo, but actually the European Union as a whole.
  So thank you very much, Prime Minister, for all that you're doing. Secretary Clinton, as this is our last press conference on this particular trip, what a pleasure it's been to travel with you and to work so closely with you. And to all of you, I wish this country every possible success.
  MODERATOR: Thank you. (Inaudible.)
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Outrage In The Powerless Zone: A Dispatch From Downtown Manhattan: Gothamist
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:50
  Mayor Bloomberg said last night that we've come to "the end of the downside" of Hurricane Sandy'--hey, if you can spare $150 and a cab ride, you can join him at the very first Brooklyn Nets game tomorrow. But power in Lower Manhattan won't be restored for "days," and plenty of people are still facing a mandatory evacuation, if they're not dodging glass shards or pitch black stairwells. While many of us will gripe about having to work from brightly-lit homes within feet of the machine that keeps food and alcoholic beverages cold, let's remember that for many people living downtown, Sandy is still here.
  Jonathan Maimon lives in Downtown Brooklyn, where he commutes to his job as a associate portfolio manager for a mutual fund based in Jersey City. Maimon spent six years in Manhattan and calls it "a place that I'm pretty close with emotionally," which is why he made a meandering five-hour, 12 mile run across Lower Manhattan to survey the damage. Based on what he saw, he thinks that perhaps the city is moving on too quickly."There were no Red Cross vehicles, not a lot of city vehicles around to reach out to people and ask them what services they needed," Maimon says. "It was just pedestrians walking around and exploring. People were very calm, very friendly, you know how people are in New York. But what was shocking is that there was no food. Nothing was open. And then they have to go home to apartments without power."
  Maimon adds, "And the most serious thing to me is elderly or disabled people in high rise buildings'--this affects you if you're rich or poor. There's not a lot of ways for them to get out safely. I'm kinda worried about the city not really knowing how many of those people are out there." That's why he wrote this letter to us. "The mayor just said that the worst of the storm was behind us, which is factually true," Maimon adds. "But I personally think the worst is yet to come. Not having power is going to wear people down." Here's his letter [UPDATE: Help is on the way, people of the Powerless Zones]:
  I just returned from Manhattan. I ran for 5 hours with stops, covering 12 miles in total, scoping the island from west to east. You will not hear these stories from the Mayor or Governor; these are my observations, informed by discussions with real people who live in lower Manhattan:
  1) Virtually every retailer, restaurant and grocery store south of 38th street is CLOSED. This is in an area covering 8 square miles. I only observed a handful of bodegas in Soho and the East Village, along with Ben's Pizza on W3rd and MacDougal serving customers. Whole Foods Union Square had a sign reading ''because there is no electricity, we cannot open.'' There is no food, other than what you have in your refrigerator.
  2) To that point, there are close to 400,000 people living below 38th street without power. The mayor earlier said it could be 3 days without power; some Con Ed guys I spoke with in the East Village think it could be longer. Nobody knows.
  3) No working traffic lights in this region (drivers are generally being cautious and appropriately yielding to pedestrians). Apartment stairwells are pitch black. High rises have no elevator access.
  4) For now, this is an economic crisis - hourly workers cannot be paid, freelancers have no clients, small businesses have no sales, office buildings are shuttered. In my estimate, the lost output is $1 billion dollars EVERY SINGLE DAY that goes by without power for lower Manhattan. Included in this number is the shutdown of our major airports and transportation system. (Note that NYC's economy generates $2.8 bn daily and over $1 trillion annually - which makes it the world's 17th largest economy, if it was a country).
  5) There is no running water or flushing toilets for people living in the Jacob Riis Houses and surrounding NYCHA buildings on the Lower East Side. In my estimate, this is roughly 20,000 people. One family I spoke with is packing their bags and moving to Brooklyn until services are restored. But it did not appear that all residents were evacuating, even as their toilets did not flush.
  6) I did not witness a single Red Cross Truck or FEMA Vehicle or in lower Manhattan. Recall the assistance these agencies provided after 9/11 - this is NOT HAPPENING. There are bound to be hundreds of elderly people, rich and poor, who live on the upper floors of buildings with elevators that are now disabled. IF POWER IS NOT RESTORED, THIS WILL MOVE FROM BEING AN ECONOMIC DISASTER TO A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER.
  7) If you think Chinatown normally has an unpleasant odor, imagine what it smells like 24 hours following no refrigeration. Street vendors were trying to unload perishables at bargain prices. I saw a fish weighing roughly 20 pounds and spanning 3 feet from head to tail go to a buyer for $1 dollar. $1 dollar!!!!! [Here's video he sent us.]
  8) The substation responsible for the outage is a huge facility. It spans an entire avenue from Avenue C to D and a length of street from 13th to 14th. If crews have to inspect every coil and wire, it might be MORE THAN THREE DAYS UNTIL POWER IS RESTORED. Additionally, the site did not appear staffed with many Con Ed workers. As a note, the 2003 blackout lasted 15 hours.
  9) The water from the storm surge was invariably contaminated - floating garbage, wood pieces from the dock, and possibly sewage. One Nuyorican woman who lived on Avenue C near 12th street noted the water level peaked above her waist. She was still visibly shaken this afternoon. She also recalled a huge noise at 8 pm when the substation failed. The sky, in her words, turned from black to green
  10) There were some very generous things. Northern Spy Food Co. served lunch to everyone who lined up outside their restaurant at Avenue A and 12th street - polenta, pork buns, chicken, biscuits and freshly baked cookies. They get props in my book; all this food was served to locals at no charge.
The Analgate Oasis
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:34
  I contemplate about people like Anderson Cooper, Martha Raditz, Jake Tapper or Bill Plant in just what lies they tell themselves at night for their Obama over Benghazi?
  How much can they ignore? Was it easy when Lawrence Sinclair was made a political prisoner, held in prison, held with threats of life imprisonment for crimes he never committed, had his benefits taken away, was hounded by Biden's Delaware Syndicate to silence him, was hounded by Obamaniacs with death threats in being a gay sexual associate of Mr. Obama.......all to cover up Obama's past?
  Was it easy to ignore about murdered Donald Young in his being another sexual associate of Mr. Obama?
  How about Rod Blagojevich set up and his family destroyed? How about John Edwards for bucking the Obama machine?
  What about dead Trayvon Martin as part of the Obama wilding campaign?
  Just how many dead bodies, how many attacks on gays, does it take, before someone in this ilk of Obama puppy press even has a twinge of guilt?
  Bill Plant has absolutely none as he was water boy in asking the Obama lead question over the big hurricane event. Not one of these, sodomite reporters included gives a damn nor has any conscience in knowing that Americans begging for help were left to be slaughtered as Obama did not lift a finger.
  Forget for a moment as "conspiracy theory" in the ANALGATE reality of this story exclusively exposed here, in none of these people will mention Obama election theft and 300 million in terror funds in 2008, or that the voting machines are puking out Obama votes when cast for Romney in North Carolina and Ohio, but what about Lara Logan left to be gang raped in Egypt to send a message to reporters to shut up, exactly the way the white reporters were parked outside Louis Farrakhan's home by Obama to scare them.
  Does Jake Tapper jack off to the videos of Lara Logan or does he just ignore all of these Obama crimes, as if he ever asked a question, would it mean he would get the anal rape and fired the next day?
  Is it about money or what the hell is it, as you have heard about the "reporters" at the Obama debates drunk and cheering when Obama asked about Romney's money. Is this what it is, in a group of rap page rapists getting off on gang rape of Sarah Palin, the same way some nigger mob in LA gets off on raping some latino girl who ventures into their hood from her hood, so she 'deserves it'.
  What is it really in this satanic ilk of the press, that sees their own gay people raped and murdered, sees their own female reporters raped and terrorized, sees Obama doing this to all of his "enemies" and none of them conclude they are on the same list if Obama decides they need to be made an example of........or perhaps be part of a hostage situation for his poll numbers and it all goes wrong when Obama's al Qaeda shows up and murders the lot instead.
  Normal people, like you, even if it was your neighbors who were horrid Obama voters, you would feel awful if you saw your police constantly coming in, beating up, raping and murdering them, as you would know it was not right, and you would not be writing editorials to the newspaper praising them, as you could just not lie like that.
  Yet, there is Jake Tapper doing just that. Brian Williams tucking in Obama on Air Force One saying how hard Obama has it to sleep on luxury jet in the high life.On the contrary NBC mocks Mitt Romney for collecting food for the people of the hurricane.
  Something is missing in these "reporters" as they are psychotic and not human. These creatures are just as much sociopath as Obama.
  From a reality point of fact, Chris Stevens was beyond foolish in taking a position as a gay male in a Muslim nation as this type of reaction would undo all American policy with Muslims. It was beyond stupid for Hillary Clinton to allow the assigment. Yet this is not a moral or pro gay question, when it is Americans who were left to be murdered without anyone raising a hand to help them from this regime.
  The reality is, that is what an Anderson Cooper is backing in all of these instances is the reality of, they think it is acceptable to leave people to be slaughtered when they are begging for help, just like Les Aspen and Bill Clinton in Blackhawk Down in Somalia.
  For not one reporter to literally snap on a live interview where the message would get out, and to say, "Hey I'm not going to take this anymore, not going to cover up for Obama, because people are being murdered and I just can not absorb this without saying anything", is a testimony in how absolutely animalistic all of this is from these reporters for Obama.
  None of them are quitting, but keep collecting that paycheck and keeping silent as that is what is more important to them is their egos on camera and protecting this criminal Obama.
  The ends do not justify the means, and as the piles of raped and murdered grow, this ilk just keeps on protecting B. Hussein Obama rapine, as he consumes the very people all of these reporters claim they are the ones protecting.
  Reality wise, anyone who is still voting for Obama after Benghazi, there is nothing inside them but some type of satanic soul.
  There can be no condemnation of these creatures though, because condemning a fiend without conscience is like telling a wolf it is evil to eat it's own young. They are vacuous to the concept for what is moral as is a Ted Bundy.
  Honestly, these reporters trouble me as they are psychotic in they can know murders too place and Obama watched it all, and his reaction was to press it as a campaign issue, and there was not one thought of what those people went through in Benghazi in their last hours nor what these people's families are going through.
  These are the real ghosts of Halloween in the ghoul yard and Obama's treat of anal rape is apparently their national treat of murder they get off on.
  nuff said
  agtG
President Obama & Gov Chris Christie Survey Hurricane Damage In New Jersey
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Analgate: Quid Pro & Ho
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:43
  When one examines the murder of Sheik bin Laden's corpse, it's head is a dead Muslim, it's body is a pile of seals and it's anus is Benghazi Libya. It is all the same whore and it's price has been before thee entire world.
  Forget or overlook for a moment that 300 million dollars in illegal bribes of credit card fraudulent electronic currency which the Obama 2008 campaign took in illegally and these Muslim Brotherhood donors have been awarded with nations from Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Afghanistan, with work on Syria and Israel.
  Remember though what this diversion from Barack Hussein Obama's forged birth documents, the fraud of installing this Designer Negro into 1600 Penn Avenue and the costs of keeping this Eurasian asset of the global elite in power.This is not blackmailing John Roberts of the Supreme Court for Obamacare. This is not bribes to Nancy Pelosi and Darrell Issa for no investigations of Obama. This is not even about billions in bribes to Obama donors for "green" projects which funnel back into the Obama billion dollar campaign. This is tangibles of what takes place when a fraud like Barry Chin starts utilizing the resources of these United States to keep hisself in power and how it spirals out of existence in his rising to the terror leader of al Qaeda run out of Washington, DC.
  This will be broken down into three segments explaining all of this in Joseph Farah English as those brats whose heads hurt in reading this poetic nuance, do need to get this information as this is all too much for their little souls to ingest.Barack Obama is like Adolf Hitler in understanding that the mob of little people can never rise to tell the whopper lies which Obama does, so they are too frightened to question the lies of Mr. Obama, and the mob requires being told what they are witnessing is criminal, so they know these actions are criminal.
  SEGMENT 1: THE MURDER OF SHEIK BIN LADEN'S CORPSE
  The is the king pin of all of this as it ties into all the bribes and murders which followed. There are two realities in this in either the Sheik was assassinated by a Pakistani a decade ago as was reported or was as this blog noted, the Sheik survived and was in Xiangxang China for a number of years under medical care from the Chicoms.Xiangxang has merit in evidence by what took place in the bin Laden compound, meaning B. Hussein Obama made certain to leave billions of dollars in stealth research on the ground there for the Chinese communists to confiscate.
  This was the Chicoms payment for the handing over of the bin Laden DNA, which they possessed and why Obama dithered on this, and it was why as this blog exposed that Mr. Obama could not have known it was the Sheik's DNA when he reported it, as it would have taken hours longer to run the tests, even if it was in downtown London, and weeks longer coming out of Pakistan.
  Pakistan received in 2011 as a bribe from this operation, over 7 billion dollars. That was a tremendous spike in foreign aid as the combined total was "only" 20 billion dollars over the 10 years since it started in the war on terror.
  U.S. Aid to Pakistan Falls Short of Goals, Officials Say - NYTimes.comwww.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/02pakistan.htmlMay 1, 2011 '' A $7.5 billion aid package, intended to bolster Pakistan's government and win friends for the United States, is foundering on fears of corruption ...This is what the Pakistani's bribe was for the shooting of the actors in the bin Laden compound, so a medical technician would be able to examine a body which would then be dumped into the ocean, hiding the evidence, that this was not the Sheik.U.S. Aides Believe China Examined Stealth Copter - NYTimes.comwww.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/world/asia/15copter.htmlAug 14, 2011 '' Officials believe Pakistan let Chinese engineers photograph the ... Part of a damaged helicopter at Osama bin Laden's compound after the ...So for the murder of a corpse, to hide Barack Obama's birth certificate, the blood on his hands Obama had 5 actors murdered, it cost 7.5 billion dollars in bribes to Pakistan, and several hundred billion dollars in stealth technology handed over to the Chicoms for the bin Laden DNA.SEGMENT 2: THE MURDER OF THE TEAM SIX NAVY SEALS
  Since the inception of the Obama regime, he has had a simple deal worked out with al Qaeda which has been exclusively covered only here.
  The deal was in several parts:
  The taking over the trafficking of the world drug trade for the elites.The positioning of US Soldiers to be easily murdered by new combat protocols.The handing over of Nationalist Muslim nations for their Shira ruleThe assassinations of Muslim competitors utilizing the US militaryIt was the agreement of the combat protocols which is what got Team Six mass murdered, as the "affront" to the Ca'an al Qaeda leadership in one of their corpses being murdered, even if it was paid for Obama actors was something they would not abide by.In the agreement, US Soldiers would be slaughtered in Asia, and al Qaeda would not come into America proper and disrupt the illusion that Mr. Obama was a Nobel man of peace. Ca'an in their outrage immediately started initiating plans of retaliation for this breach of the Obama agreement, and to which the Sharia insiders inside the Obama regime, who have been from Day One feeding al Qaeda direct information, along with feeding information to Iran's Persian communists which allowed them to murder all of the Iranian Patriots in their uprising, took it upon themselves for Mr. Obama to coordinate an operation for the gung ho SEALS.The rules murdering our troops - NYPOST.comwww.nypost.com/p/news/.../item_u935ECKNWXpLK8C5D96pdNSep 24, 2009 '' In Afghanistan, our leaders are complicit in the death of each soldier, ... to the Obama Way of War by imposing rules of engagement that could ...The SEALS overstepped their boundaries when Mr. Obama sent them in to murder the corpse of bin Laden. They were exposed after that, especially when they were outed by the regime. Ca'an al Qaeda wanted blood in this sport and deliberately demanded all of Team Six, so an operation was instituted in al Qaeda would attack a US asset in a canyon, draw in American support, and in the firefight, orders would be given from the "overseer of al Qaeda protocols" to send in Team Six in one transport.Seal Team 6 Copter Shoot Down: Is the CIA Erasing Evidence of the ...johngaltfla.com/.../seal-team-6-copter-shoot-down-is-the-cia-erasing- ...By John Galt August 7, 2011 09:30 ET. As many of my readers and listeners know, I am not much for conspiracies from the extreme woo-woo land, but every now ...Knowing the flight route was simple as all US forces have directional beacons on them, and the al Qaeda missile donors were tracking the flight, and it was a simple matter of locking onto the helo, and another Obama debt was paid for his forged birth documents.SEGMENT 3: CAMPAIGN 2012 BENGHAZI HOSTAGE TAKING
  Segment 3 was an operation which "dawned" when the Sheik bin Laden card was removed by Dr. Jerome Corsi in the forced outing of the Obama Birth Abstract. There had to be a replacement October Surprise for the Obama campaign to gain a spike in the polls, and it was deemed by Obama's "dreams" that an event to eclipse George W. Bush on 9 11 and an event to erase Jimmy Carter's 1980 hostage crisis would be placed before the public in messiah Obama performing another chest thumping miracle.
  For those who missed it, that Ben Afleck propaganda about the 1980 hostage crisis in Argo, or whatever that name of the movie was, dovetailed into this, as the second film in the Obama propaganda, as Obama would be successful in hostage rescue where Carter only appeared so in the Afleck flick.
  All American security was removed months previously to set the stage for this event. B. Hussein had been absent from security briefings to make certain he could blame others. Ca'an was brought out of Pakistan, through Egypt and into Libya to guide this operation, utilizing the Benghazi terrorists who Obama Soros had leveraged Col. Khadaffi to release, so they would assassinate him and his followers.
  Cover for this operation was "fighting Khadaffi's last hold outs", but Ca'an knew the mission and decided as the bidding was taking place, that they would tadpole Obama up his rectum and just murder the Americans, because, Obama would be caught flat in wanting the hostages taken, and by the time he figured out what was taking place, he would just have to sit and watch as al Qaeda had the blackmail information to force Obama into a cover up.
  Benghazi was supposed to be hostages taken. Obama looking concerned for awhile. Videos released to make it high drama. The luring out of Romney to make the Carter association with Obama, and then just before the debate, Obama would sweep in with SEALS, murder the Muslims, and have Chris Stevens and the SEALS on the White House lawn for two days, so when Debate Night One arrived, Mr. Obama would arrive on stage towering over a politically castrated Mormon Romney.......whose followers had caused all of this with that Christian Muslim bashing tape which found it's way into production via Mockingbird assets.
  What ensued though was the continuing legacy of the illegitimacy of Barack Hussein Obama AKA Barry Chin, all from his not being a Natural Born Citizen which set all of this off in Forgegate to now Analgate.
  Egypt would receive almost a half a billion more in Obama hush money to cover up their knowledge that Ca'an al Qaeda had been given carte blanche from Obama to travel through Egypt for the Benghazi operation.
  US Move to Give Egypt $450 Million in Aid... - The New York Timeswww.nytimes.com/.../white-house-move-to-give-egypt-450-million-i...Sep 28, 2012 '' Lawmakers wary of foreign aid in general, and of Egypt's new... that her office issued even before the administration announced the package......and my children do not forget TURKEYGATE which was exclusively exposed here in B. Hussein has been funnelling US money into Turkey to be used in these Muslim Brohood wars for Obama's payback of that 300 million dollars he was bribed with in 2008.This is catastrophically dangerous as Turkey not only is the conduit for Egyptian aid to fill in the gaps, but Turkey is supplying al Qaeda with US Stinger missiles that can shoot down more US, European and Jewish passenger planes.Egypt: Turkey to Provide $2 Billion in Aid - WSJ.comonline.wsj.com/.../SB1000087239639044451730457765385241881...Sep 15, 2012 '' Turkey will provide a $2 billion aid package to help Egypt finance ... The new administration of Egypt's new president, Mohammed Morsi, is also ...This entire Obama regime exposed in ANALGATE is beyond out of control. It is murder incorporated with murderous SEAL of approval.Russia claims Syria rebels have U.S.-made Stinger missiles | The ...www.rawstory.com/.../russia-claims-syria-rebels-have-u-s-made-sting...5 days ago '' ''We have provided no Stingers of any kind to Syria, nor will we,'' said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. ''If the Russian ...For all of the blood on Mr. Obama's hands in this, this blog fully blames all of those from Chris Matthews to Rush Limbaugh for their complicity in this. It is Mark Levin enabling Obama as Ann Coulter lied about the Birthers and smeared them. It is Robert Morton of World Tribune shutting the door on this blog as much as Huffington Post did, in this mass cover up of the crimes of Barack Hussein Obama, as the funding was being threatened to be cut off, if any of that "toxic Lame Cherry" stuffThis is the story of Benghazi and the criminal animal it is. It is years in the making and it is only possible by GOP silence, enabling by right wingers like Mark Levin and the absolute water carrying of gay groups who should have stopped Mr. Obama when he illegally made Lawrence Sinclair a political prisoner to all the Chris Matthews, Ann Coulter and Joy Behar types.Barack Obama could only have accomplished all of this by Bill Plant, Martha Radditz and Jake Tapper. They guilt and blood is fully on all of these people's hands.
  Team Six sold it's soul to a false messiah for the glory of "getting" bin Laden, and it got them mass murdered by their Obama's protectors.
  All of this makes me nauseated to ghetto green vomit puke. The masses are a group of little people who require being told in their fears that what they see actually is criminal in bribes, murder and the overthrowing of the US government which is left. They can not comprehend when faced with a myriad of headlines stating bluntly that US Soldiers are being wholesale murdered that it is a real Obama plan to murder them.The mob can not comprehend that when they see billions in new moneys going to Muslim nations that it is hush money for Obama staged events which blew up in the regime's face.The mob can not comprehend such heinous misbehavior, because all they can do is f*ck their married co workers spouse or steal cans of Pepsi from the company store room.
  Guilt over Pepsi makes Obama guilt less something the mob cares to face, so the escalation continues as Foster Freiss has his Mormon whore and Robert Morton has his World Tribune intelligence feed from Mockingbird and Mark Levin has his fido treats as Rush Limbaugh fondles his blondeberry.
  What follows is my children what this blog has warned you of. There is a Dr. Germ who released a new weaponized version of West Nile from Saddam's stores as much as an Arab germ bomb. There is the next phase of the Islamocommunist nuclear bombs. There is all of this coming now in the Barack Obama payment plan and America will pay for this as it escalates.Without B. Hussein at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, these WMD's are coming to America as al Qaeda and Eurasia will have no reason to not bring down America, as the Obama golden goose is finished whether Obama is in office or not.
  You need to be told these things my children, as the mob does not want to deal with the Designer Negro and his policy he has left as his illegitimate legacy on the American grave.
  Barack Obama has left America in utter ruin as this blog predicted would take place by Inspiration in 2009. This failed occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will face impeachment if he steals this election
  You now have the information in complete connect the dots in exclusives only found here tying this all up, and viewed from the Obama Abyss.
  The Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusives continue by God's Grace.
  agtG 262
The Spanish Right
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:43
  Jerry Perenchio and Paul Singer magnify the two diametrically opposed views of what the Republican Party and the American Right are about.
  Mr. Perenchio is founder of Univision, the Spanish language television station and Paul Singer is a hedge fund tycoon.
  While they are both billionaires and donate to the GOP, the problems in this arise in what Paul Singer does with his cash is found homosexual pacts which are behind all of this dribbling going on in Mark Levin and his fill ins, to Rush Limbaugh and Elton John and the constant Ann Coulter apologists, all of which are busy smearing the Birthers who were proven spot on about Obama document forgeries, which all has kept beloved leader in power to spread his Marxist mayhem in American and around the globe.
  Jerry Pernechio though instead accomplishes a different approach. His work is just that. As Darrell Issa sat on the Obama Fast and Furious crimes for two years, it was Univsion, the Spanish language station which went out and investigated this. They uncovered piles of dead Mexican children and piles more of these Obama firearms which the regime dumped on the border.
  Think of that for a moment in real journalism. Not coming from white ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS, FOX or the New York Times or Wall Street Journal which are all either being blackmailed by Obama or are co conspirators, but the reality is this was a brown skin station, caring about what is happening to Latinos, caring about America, caring about Fast and Furious which DID THE JOB OF THE US CONGRESS and the FBI in uncovering this regime's crimes.
  For 4 long years Americans have endured violence, terrorism, federal police and cirmes while the world has suffered the same from Poland, Egypt, Libya, Afghanistan, Mexico and Kenya, and all we have been entertained with is the "right" telling us Obama is legitimate in Ann Coulter and Obama bowing, apologizing and grinning about the crimes he has gotten away with.
  It is reprehensible in the crooked, cowardly and covert media across the board which from day one has not done a thing but enable Barack Obama. The entire courts, congress and the justice system is as guilty as the 98% of the media in protecting this thug Obama.
  Consider in a few short months, Univsion not only exposed more Obama crimes, but found the guns which Obama has apparently not disclosed. Darrell Issa has done nothing and all of this is either incompetence or co conspiratorial crimes.
  What kind of America is it, when the only news coming out of it, is based in English Conservative press, the only major regime investigations are done by Spanish language stations and the only press in America is a Conservative blog found here.
  America has no journalists or commentators. They have only Obama parrots and those who are backing the GOP are more interested in buying the GOP for gay policyThe sorry state of America is the American left has been hijacked by secular Islam in Obama adn the American right has been hijacked by the Karl Rove puffy lips billionaires.
  The reality is America can not stand and is dead in the Obama Abyss from this selfish insanity. Sharia Marxism meets the Gayback Socialism and if one examines history from Greece to Rome to Moscow to Peking, those ideologies destroy the nations they take over and they disappear from history.
  If only America had more Spanish speaking investigations taking place as Chris Wallace only seems to be able to find time for smart comments on Mike Gallagher's faux Conservative program.
  Founding pacs for a sex act? Founding Libya and Egypt on Islamocommunism funding to Obama? How utterly insane is all of this as the world shatters and appears as a vapour of smoke.
  Univision did the work no one else did, because all other sources are protecting this Obama regime in their endless parade of crimes. Just what has funding gay pacs did for America?
  Mr. Obama imprisons Lawrence Sinclair. Mr. Obama has Donald Young dead in Chicago and never bothered to have it investigated. Mr. Obama puts gays in the military to get them shot. Mr. Obama gets Ambassador Chris Stevens anal raped and shot.
  The way to Govern America is by exposing crimes and not promoting genital exposure. Jerry Pernechio's creation did what all these frauds would not do. That is the GOP America needs and not this gay billionaires club who keeps this fag Obama in power as their listless Mitt Romney from Mexico says nothing about his dead people nor Obama's massive crimes.
  Does this gay group even comprehend the damage they have done to the world ? Apparently none of this matters to them as Univision does the job which no one else will do, and it is doing in hopping around on one leg. with one eye, one arm and one investigation into Obama crimes when there should be dozens.
  Bravo for Univision, the only media outlet who is not filthy in the Obama feces penis protection racket.
  agtG
God damn Teachers
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:42
  I monitor things in shit hole states, because one can find out how the Obama union thugs are plotting things after being run out of Wisconsin. In that, I found something which just stunned me as I was reading about the measures and amendments for one dead decomposing George Marxist McGovern, the political father of B. Hussein Obama which can not be believed.
  It was once said that a Republic was dead when the people found out they could vote themselves money. It can now be stated that Nazi Amerika is dead when unions figured out they could hide behind children and vote themselves massive pay increases.
  Now mind you this is from Republican South Dakota, but do not make the mistake of thinking this is Teddy Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan America GOP. No this is that Rovian claque who praises Tom Daschle and Tim Johnson with a dumb ass Governor named Daugaard or something who looks like he should be in cornfield scaring away crows as that is his operational IQ.
  I will go through the "citizen's ballot" in South Dakota so it is not confused by Rush Limbaugh for Um Dakota in Bismark, North Dakota or Mark Levin goes into meltdown in ranting why someone in Minnesota can hear a radio station in Fargo, ND.......which borders Minnesota.
  Ok Amendment M guts the South Dakota Constitution, because gaming casinos have not paid enough teachers say to pay them millions of dollars.
  Amendment N is the crooks in Congress deciding how much they can be paid for travel, as five cents a mile is not enough, along with like 60,000 in salaries for working a few days.
  Amendment O is the teachers stealing all the money from the sale of some cement plant the state sold, so instead of 12 million a year to the general fund, the teachers get an entire 4% into their extortion.
  Amendment P, this one is about a balanced budget, but it looks sort of like a clever attempt to tax the hell out of people as while it states budgets can not surpass predicted incomes as is already state law, it stealth could be these teachers again running budget overruns by the state congress they agreed to allow to steal money in reparations, so that they all can raise taxes to pay for their looting.
  Measure 15 is about superfund being established for education funding and half going to medical stuff.......I suppose so teachers get even more free healthcare.
  Law 14 is about a superfund for developments which is green stuff like wind energy and lab research........once again Obama crap if it was any good could get funding from a bank, but they instead want to screw taxpayers for it to filter moneys to unions.
  Law 16, and this takes like 6 fricking pages and is about rewarding children with scholarships it says.........until one gets to the next pages and it too is about giving bonuses for teachers to do their jobs they are already paid too damn much for in the first place.
  I mentioned this before ok. Police, Firefighters and Teachers are the biggest god damned racket in the universe in THEY ARE ALL PART TIME JOBS. Police are either eating donuts or terrorizing innocent people in speed traps. Firefighters are either sleeping or taking test runs in their trucks. Teachers if you figure it, work barely 6 hours a day at 30 hours a week and only 9 months a year, without Christmas vacations, holidays off, school breaks of spring and fall, and weather days.They earn like 50 bucks an hour and turn out these idiots called Americans now who think Obama is historic.
  Only larger scam is politicians, and as one can see in South Dakota, the crooks spent the past Obama summer filing petitions to steal money.
  Teachers are thee most stupid group of people on the planet. They need to be paid 12 months out of the year in rationed payments, because they are too stupid to be paid 9 months and allocate funds like normal people. They have had this union scam going to steal money from taxpayer for years in claiming they need more money to do the job when the reality is they all should be fired for the job they do in donating all those union dues back to Obama and the liberals.
  This apparently is what each of us in our remaining 49 states have to look forward to is the coming organized theft of taxpayer money for teachers an their cohorts who are being rewarded to. This links directly to Obama and Bill Ayers trying to get at the education money in Chicago years ago. It is the way this all gets funded and apparently in this exclusive there is afoot in this cow pie state a move to get that GOP state back into communist hands by this teacher scam.
  I have never in all my research witnessed this kind of organized larceny in a half dozen laws and each one is geared to steal money for one group or reward the government for helping in the theft.
  You have to remember this is John Thune and Kristi Noem's state. Noem who this blog got elected and about all she got accomplished was looking prett for 2 years. Well at least was not Stephie Herseth Sandlin ugly who seems to have disappeared back to Tom Daschle DC as none of my operatives in cow pie Dakota has seen that baby butcher skulking about for a year and a half.
  Any way, this America is gone to hell and the demons are running banshee wild, as now they have decided to make Constitutional law a crime by utilizing it to steal money and bash citizens over the head in the gulag who are not giving enough pounds of flesh.
  This is the same GOP state which kept voting down Pro Life laws, which Herseth Sandlin was illegally behind.
  It is past time these extorters of cash in these sacred bovines be exposed for the frauds they are. Sure we need teachers, firefighters and police, but why is it farmers, truckers, soldiers etc.... can't vote themselves retirement packages, health benefits and laws dumping money into their labor efforts?Food is sort of an emergency item, as well as getting things to you, just like fighting wars.
  I told you before that this Obama group overthrew America by taking over hick states of low population. They are back at it again in South Dakota. They accomplish it there and it is coming to your hole in Siberia.
  nuff said
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Surveillance and Accountability - NYTimes.com
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  Nearly seven years after the disclosure of President George W. Bush's secret program of spying on Americans without a warrant, the Supreme Court is about to hear arguments on whether judges can even consider the constitutionality of doing this kind of dragnet surveillance without adequate rules to protect people's rights.
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  President Obama's solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., will be calling on the court to toss out the case based on a particularly cynical Catch-22: Because the wiretaps are secret and no one can say for certain that their calls have been or will be monitored, no one has standing to bring suit over the surveillance. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected that avoidance of accountability, and so should the Supreme Court.
  The lawsuit the Justice Department is trying so hard to block concerns the 2008 statute amending the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The new law retroactively approved Mr. Bush's legally dubious warrantless wiretapping and conferred immunity from prosecution on the telephone companies that cooperated in the program.
  The measure gave the government broad and unprecedented power to intercept the communications of Americans without individualized warrants based on probable cause or any administrative finding of a terrorism connection. It lowered the burden of proof for government wiretapping of suspects, weakened judicial supervision, and failed to set adequate limits on retention and dissemination of acquired information. The statute discarded traditional constitutional protections for the privacy of innocent people, and chilled the exercise of the core democratic rights of free speech and association.
  It would not require a legal stretch for the court to find that the plaintiffs had standing to sue. The plaintiffs are lawyers and human rights, labor, legal and media organizations engaged in work that requires them to be in communication with colleagues, clients, journalistic sources, victims of human rights abuses and others outside the United States. They have a reasonable fear of government monitoring of sensitive conversations, based on the law's vacuum-cleaner approach to surveillance and the identities and locations of their contacts.
  They have taken expensive and burdensome steps to avoid the risk of government eavesdropping, demonstrating tangible injury. For lawyers, an ethical obligation to safeguard client confidences requires such protective actions. Under existing Supreme Court doctrine, plaintiffs who have been harmed by government conduct are allowed to bring suit, even if, as here, they may not be direct targets. As the Supreme Court recognized in an important 1972 case, the invoking of national security to justify warrantless surveillance only heightens the need for searching judicial review.
  Technically, the only question before the court is the fairly narrow-sounding issue of standing that it has agreed to hear. But should the court acquiesce to the government's cramped reading of standing, the larger implications should be clear to everyone. As a practical matter, it would foreclose any meaningful judicial review of the warrantless wiretapping statute, perhaps permanently. The damage to the nation's system of checks and balances, which relies on independent court scrutiny of laws as a safeguard against legislative and executive branch overreaching that disrespects constitutional rights, would be serious.
Sandy Didn't Shut Down the Supreme Court: Two Very Important Cases to Know About | A Lightning War for Liberty
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  While much of the Northeastern United States remains in a state of virtual paralysis, the Supreme Court has stayed open, and two very important cases went before it yesterday. Americans should be well aware of both of them. The first revolves around warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens. The second has to do with whether or not you can resell stuff that you own without the permission of the corporation that originally manufactured it. The most pathetic part of both of these cases is that they are legitimate cases to begin with, but in post 9/11 America, where the sheeple have been forced to give up their rights in order to save their rights, I suppose nothing should surprise me.
  The New York Times published an excellent editorial yesterday on the first case. Here are some excerpts:
  President Obama's solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., will be calling on the court to toss out the case based on a particularly cynical Catch-22: Because the wiretaps are secret and no one can say for certain that their calls have been or will be monitored, no one has standing to bring suit over the surveillance.
  The measure (the 2008 amendment to FISA ) gave the government broad and unprecedented power to intercept the communications of Americans without individualized warrants based on probable cause or any administrative finding of a terrorism connection. It lowered the burden of proof for government wiretapping of suspects, weakened judicial supervision, and failed to set adequate limits on retention and dissemination of acquired information. The statute discarded traditional constitutional protections for the privacy of innocent people, and chilled the exercise of the core democratic rights of free speech and association.
  Think about what you just read above. The Department of Justice claims that Americans cannot sue regarding warrantless wiretapping because they cannot prove they are being monitored. They cannot prove they are being monitored because the information is kept secret!
  For some commentary on the second case, I look to the EFF (the electronic frontier foundation):
  The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in Kirtsaeng v. Wiley & Sons Company, a case that could further undermine the ''first sale doctrine.'' First sale, described in section 109 of the US Copyright Act, gives people the right to resell, lend, or give away the works that they've bought, even if those works contain copyrighted elements.
  The effects of such a dubious interpretation could be far-reaching for American consumers, and it appears several Supreme Court Justices were appropriately concerned about the implications of Wiley's proposed geographic limit on first sale. Of course, it's unwise to predict how the Court will decide a case based solely on comments during the oral arguments, but they can provide insight into what factors the Justices are considering. Today the Court mirrored our concerns about the right of Americans to resell the goods that they've legally acquired '-- from books to smartphones to cars '-- just because those goods happen to contain copyrighted materials and were manufactured overseas.
  The Court also appropriately persisted in asking questions about the perverse incentive that Wiley's interpretation would provide to manufacturers in moving their production overseas.
  Let's make sure these cases go the right way.
  Full New York Times article here.
  Full EFF article here.
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Is Sandy a taste of things to come? - CNN.com
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  New York will be "highly vulnerable" when future storms hit, professor saysMany argue "soft infrastructure," like tidal marshes and islands, would helpLoss of summer Arctic ice cover also adds to the problem"Sandy is a foretaste of things to come," Princeton professor says(CNN) -- We should not be surprised. That's the view of many climate scientists as they survey the destruction wrought by the superstorm that ravaged the Northeast this week. The melting of Arctic ice, rising sea levels, the warming atmosphere and changes to weather patterns are a potent combination likely to produce storms and tidal surges of unprecedented intensity, according to many experts.
  Recognizing the threat, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is developing a strategy for mitigating the growing risk from storm surges and flooding along the city's 500 miles of coastline. In such a densely-populated area of so much expensive real estate, surrounded by a complex web of estuaries, tides and ocean, it is a huge challenge. And in the face of global changes, even a city as inventive as New York can only do so much.
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted in 2007 that the global average sea level would rise between seven and 23 inches by the end of this century. More recent projections suggest that the melting of sea ice could mean a rise in excess of 30 inches. The New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force translated that into a local projection of 2 to 5 inches by the 2020s, and with rapid Arctic ice melt the rise could be as much as 5 to 10 inches over the next fifteen years. Combine that with a trend toward more intense storms and New York is "highly vulnerable," professor Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University told CNN.
  Superstorm Sandy breaks records
  "(Superstorm) Sandy is a foretaste of things to come," he predicted, "from the combination of bigger storms and higher sea levels, both of which contribute equally to the growing threat."
  New York dodged a bullet by inches last year as the remnants of Hurricane Irene bore down. Ben Orlove, director of the master's program in Climate and Society at Columbia University, wrote on CNN.com: "Irene also arrived at a time of especially high tides, and its storm surge came within inches of flooding the sea wall. Storms and tides are natural, but sea level rise is not. As it continues, New York grows more vulnerable."
  Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences, recently modeled the effect of climate change on storm surges for the New York area. In a paper published by Nature in February, he and three colleagues concluded that the "storm of the century" would become the storm of "every twenty years or less."
  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo appears to agree.
  "After what happened, what has been happening in the last few years, I don't think anyone can sit back anymore and say 'Well, I'm shocked at that weather pattern,'" he said Tuesday.
  The conclusion of Oppenheimer and his colleagues is that storms will become larger and more powerful.
  "Climate change will probably increase storm intensity and size simultaneously, resulting in a significant intensification of storm surges," they wrote. Sandy had a diameter of some 900 miles, much larger than most storms.
  A study of the New York area in 2010 led by Guy Nordenson, an architect and structural engineer whose offices are in lower Manhattan, concluded: "There is a prevalent risk that the city will be severely paralyzed due to the predicted inundation and wave action associated with storm surge."
  In addition, salt-water intrusion could compromise the quality of drinking water and weaken ecosystems, Nordenson and others concluded in the book "On the Water: Palisade Bay."
  Sandy changes lives forever -- here are three of their stories
  But the answer, they argue, is not solely in engineering. "Cities fortify their coasts to protect real estate at the expense of nature ... the hard engineering habit has proven costly, unreliable and ineffective."
  Nordenson is serving on a task force set up by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to study ways of giving New York a more resilient waterfront. He told CNN that the region needs a combination of strategies that includes more "soft infrastructure." New York is losing tidal marshes at a rapid pace, partly because of the rise in sea level but also because of development.
  Among the big ideas in "On the Water: Palisade Bay": create an archipelago of islands and reefs in the New York-New Jersey Upper Bay to dampen powerful storm currents, the islands being "fingered" (with many inlets) and combining tidal marshes and parks.
  Nordenson points to the example of the Netherlands and cities like Hamburg that incorporate flood plains into their planning. Similarly Hurricane Katrina showed the importance of preserving Gulf coastal swamps. He hopes a project with the New York Port Authority to begin using dredged material for natural barriers will get underway soon.
  Nordenson and his team of engineers, architects and designers showed some of their ideas at the Museum of Modern Art for an exhibition called "Rising Currents."
  At the local level, the Nature Conservancy is working with communities in Long Island to identify the risks from rising sea levels and protect wetlands. Sarene Marshall, who leads the Conservancy's Global Climate Change Team, estimates that every dollar spent in preventive measures saves $5 in disaster recovery, and that long-term investment in natural infrastructure is more effective than hard engineering. She points to the value of the humble oyster reef, nature's version of the sea wall.
  Paul Greenburg, writing in The New York Times Tuesday, echoes her point, saying that in previous centuries "a bivalve population that numbered in the trillions ... played a critical role in stabilizing the shoreline from Washington to Boston."
  The Nature Conservancy estimates such reefs can reduce the storm risks for 7 million Americans living on the shore.
  But islands, oysters and other measures to mitigate storm surges can't isolate New York from trends thousands of miles away in the Arctic. A growing body of evidence links the disappearance of summer ice cover in the Arctic with changing weather patterns.
  Online conversations about Sandy feature God, prayer and atheism
  Over the past three decades, about 1.3 million square miles of Arctic sea ice has disappeared, equivalent to 42 percent of the area of the lower 48 states.
  Climate models previously projected that the Arctic might lose almost all of its summer ice cover by 2100, but some scientists believe the trend is now accelerating and that it will be gone long before then.
  "In addition to the extent of sea ice, what remains is thinner than it used to be," said Walter Meier of the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado.
  Less sea ice means warmer water. Sea surface temperatures off the coast of the northeast United States are now the highest ever recorded.
  "It's like leaving the fridge door open," said Meier. The only way to restrain the process would be to moderate temperature increases, which in turn would depend on lowering carbon dioxide emissions.
  Jennifer Francis at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University has shown that a warmer Arctic tends to slow the jet stream, causing it to meander and in turn prolong weather patterns. It's called Arctic amplification, and it may be helping entrench drought in the northwest United States and lead to warmer summers in the Northern Hemisphere.
  But there may be another effect.
  "Larger swings in the jet stream allow frigid air from the Arctic to plunge farther south, as well as warm, moist tropical air to penetrate northward," Francis wrote in Yale University's Environment 360 blog. That's pretty much what happened this week, a spectacular collision of Arctic and tropical weather fronts.
  A recent article in the journal Oceanography shed more light on the consequences of Arctic ice melt. Charles Greene at Cornell University and others wrote that fundamental changes in the behavior of the jet stream will "stack the deck in favor of severe winter weather outbreaks in the United States and Europe into the foreseeable future."
  Given the scale of the challenge, Oppenheimer and others believe there needs to be urgent remedial action to mitigate the effects, such as raising subway entrances and reinforcing the lower floors of buildings. At the moment, Oppenheimer said, there's a lot of evaluating hazards and too little action to address them.
  After a sudden deluge in 2007 that closed part of the subway system, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority committed more than $30 million to raise ventilation grates and redesign the entrances to some subway stations. It's also spent heavily on pumps, but a substantial surge would soon overcome such remedial measures. And beside the subway lines, power transformers and fiber-optic networks are vulnerable to flooding.
  More ambitious actions would have far-reaching political and economic consequences. New York State's Sea Level Rise Task Force was created in 2007 and delivered its report to the legislature on the last day of 2010. Among its key recommendations was greater reliance on natural protection such as marshland and a tightening of zoning laws to prevent the loss of such features.
  New York City disagreed with the panel's more critical recommendations, saying they did "not recognize the differences between undeveloped areas and densely populated cities." The city's own task force rejected the idea of limiting development as prohibitively expensive.
  Opinion: Don't let superstorm sway your vote
  Douglas Hill of the Storm Surge Research Group at Stony Brook University has proposed a chain of massive sea barriers in Long Island Sound that could be closed to prevent flooding whenever a storm surge threatens. One would be close to the Verrazano Narrows bridge. (The Thames Barrier in London performs such a role in a more modest way.) But the cost would probably exceed $10 billion; a barrier in Venice cost $7 billion.
  Among other options: tougher regulations on where industrial and chemical plants can be situated, improving the design of buildings to make lower levels flood-proof (known as freeboard in the insurance industry) and "soft edges" that better break wave action.
  Stronger and maybe higher seawalls around more vulnerable parts of Manhattan might also help. The current seawalls are about 4 to 5 feet above the average sea level. Many were built at the beginning of the last century. A New York Times article from August 1901 marveled at "The Massive Sea Wall Which Will Encompass Manhattan."
  "It will be many generations, perhaps centuries, before the wall ... will have to be rebuilt or will even require any extensive repairs," the Times reported then. That was before climate change became part of the lexicon. New York City's "Vision 2020" plan warned that sea walls and other shoreline structures are likely to need more frequent repair because of more damaging storms.
  Whether Sandy will drive the issue of climate change up the political agenda seems doubtful. According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 67% of Americans believe the Earth is warming, up slightly since 2010, but that's 10 percentage points less than in 2006. Among both Democrats and Republicans, the percentage has declined, as has the number (now 64%) who say it's a serious problem.
  Sarene Marshall of the Nature Conservancy says the lack of debate about climate change in the presidential election campaign has been "unfortunate," but believes that Americans are getting to the point of recognizing what they see for what it is.
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The secret to a perfect smile? Chopsticks, Chinese officials are told - Behind The Wall
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  Chinese customs officers get a lesson in perfecting their smile, by holding chopsticks between their teeth.
  By Le Li, NBC News
  Women of true beauty do not reveal their teeth when they are smiling, according to a traditional Chinese adage.
  Not anymore, one government bureau has decided.
  During a "How to Smile" course organized by the Dalian Port Inspection Station in China's northeastern province of Liaoning, customs officers were given the strange assignment of holding a chopstick between their teeth as they grinned.
  "The purpose is to perfect their smiles," Zhang Tianbao told NBC News. Zhang, the political officer in charge of the Dalian station, said that seeing one's pearly whites was imperative to a beautiful smile.
  "The best result is that they can show eight teeth while they are smiling," he said.
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  This is not the first time China has gone academic on what constitutes a good smile. Yang Jinbo, the etiquette adviser for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, explained how the transition was made.
  "China is part of the international world, we change our traditional culture so that the international world will understand that we're friendly."
  NBC News' Yanzhou Liu contributed to this report.
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TagMyBully.com
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  We are pleased to announce the launch of TagMyBully.com (TMB). TMB is the first website of its kind that lets victims, parents and friends identify bullies. The real names of bullies are shown in the bully database, however the name of the person who submitted the information is kept confidential.
  I started TMB because I was a victim who was bullied in high school. Hearing about acne every day gets pretty maddening after a while and depression and seclusion soon followed. The experience spurned an idea: how can I identify the bully without singling myself out and hopefully, persuade the bully to stop? Thus, TMB was born.
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  "Look, the city is extremely vulnerable to damaging storm surges just for its geography, and climate change is increasing that risk," said Ben Strauss, director of the sea level rise program at the research group Climate Central in Princeton, N.J. ''Three of the top 10 highest floods at the Battery since 1900 happened in the last two and a half years. If that's not a wake-up call to take this seriously, I don't know what is."
  With an almost eerie foreshadowing, the dangers laid out by scientists as they tried to press public officials for change in recent years describes what happened this week: Subway tunnels filled with water, just as they warned. Tens of thousands of people in Manhattan lost power. The city shut down.
  What scientists, who have devoted years of research to the subject, now fear most is that, as soon as the cleanup from this storm is over, the public will move on.
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is known worldwide for his broad environmental vision. But one former official said it had been difficult to move from theoretical planning to concrete actions, and it was hoped that the storm this week would change that.
  ''A fair question to ask is, have we been as focused as we need to be for emergency preparations,'' said the former official, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to jeopardize ties to the administration. "We've just been lucky. We need hardening for the risk we've always faced. Until things happen, people aren't willing to pay for it."
  A state report on rising sea levels, issued on the last day of Gov. David A. Paterson's administration in 2010, suggested that erecting structural barriers to restrain floodwaters could be part of a broader approach, along with relocating buildings and people farther from the coasts.
  Mr. Bloomberg, during a briefing Tuesday, said he was consumed now with the urgent task of getting the city going again, and it was too soon to determine what steps should be taken.
  Storm surge barriers represent the most dramatic potential change. They have been installed in Europe and some American cities and are designed to close during a storm to block surging waters from reaching shore.
  Under a proposal put forth by the Storm Surge Research Group at Stony Brook University in 2004, large portions of the city could be protected by three movable barriers installed at the upper end of the East River near the Throgs Neck Bridge, under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and at the mouth of the Arthur Kill between Staten Island and New Jersey.
  Still, some experts consider the barriers a last resort, and urge more modest changes, including subway floodgates. Task forces convened by the city and state have pushed to make the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Consolidated Edison systems more resistant to storm damage. Some of that work is under way: After a deluge paralyzed the subways for several hours in 2007, the transit agency spent $34 million on some flood protections. No additional state money has been forthcoming for an overhaul.
  Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution said that the city, to its credit, had developed a coastal storm plan that treated seriously the city's susceptibility, given its 520-mile coastline. But he said that ''most of that focuses on mapping a response to the disaster after it already occurs.''
The Kids ISO 14000 Programme
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  What is it ?Why is it so special ?Who created it ?What's ISO's involvement ?What's the link with ISO 14000 ?Who supports it ?How does it work ?What exactly's in the programme ?How is integrity maintained ?What results does it achieve ?What if we want to participate ?What's the path forward ?Whom do we contact ?
  The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme
  Develops environmental awareness among children and young peopleTeaches them to implement environmental management based on the ISO 14000 approach in their homes and communities, andPpens them to the value of networking with young people in other schools, communities and countries in order to bring the force of collective action to global environmental issues.Twenty per cent of the world's population is aged between 10 and 19. Clearly, what children and young people think and do about the environment today will influence the environment they live in tomorrow. The environmental awareness they develop when they are young will shape the impact they make on the environment as adults.
  The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme begins by developing environmental awareness - but goes much further. What makes it special is that it nurtures autonomous, "environmentally mature" children and young people who are confident in their ability to act positively on the environment.
  They learn by their own experience that their actions can have a beneficial impact on the environment. In addition, they learn to network with children in other schools, communities and countries and so discover that collective action can be a force multiplier for resolving global environmental issues.
  The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme was created by Prof. Takaya Kawabe and Ms. Miyuki Koyama, respectively President and Secretary-General of the Japanese non-profit, non-governmental organization ArTech which operates the programme.
  ArTechPresidentProf. Takaya Kawabe (right)and Secretary-GeneralMs. Miyuki Koyama (left)Prof. Kawabe explains:"Following the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, the United Nations announced plans to launch the 'Decade of Education for Sustainable Development' for 2005-2015. It is evident that the environmental education of children and young peoples is now one of the keys for the solution of global environmental problems and for achieving sustainable development."
  In October 2002, ISO signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ArTech giving permission for the use of its name in the title of The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme and allowing ArTech to use the ISO logo to demonstrate the organization's support.In October 2003, ISO signed a new MoU under which ISO Central Secretariat pledged active support by using its communication media to promote the programme, and by encouraging its dissemination worldwide through ISO's network of national standards institutes in 148 countries.ISO Secretary-General Alan Bryden commented: "Just about everyone is agreed on the need to 'do something' to control the negative impacts of man's activities on the environment. Practical tools for achieving this, and for improving environmental performance, are provided by International Standards like the ISO 14001 environmental management system standard that is implemented by more than 50 000 organizations in 118 countries."
  "Therefore, it is normal that ISO should respond positively to ArTech's desire for cooperation because its programme demonstrates even to young children that the small, practical steps they take can have incremental, positive results."
  The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme teaches children to put into practice the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle which is the operating principle of the ISO 14000 standards on environmental management systems. The children learn to use the PDCA cycle to establish environmental baselines (such as domestic water consumption), set targets to reduce negative impacts and monitor implementation of measures to achieve the targets.
  Co-founder of the programme, Prof. Takaya Kawabe, commented: "In many cases in Japan, the parents of children participating in the programme work in business organizations that are implementing ISO 14001, and the families live in municipalities certified to ISO 14001, or seeking certification."
  '"ISO 14001 enjoys recognition on the international scale as a tool for improving environmental performance. ArTech is therefore happy to incorporate reference to the ISO 14000 family in the name of its programme because it aims on the international scale at educating children to the practical measures they can take to improve the environment, first in their homes, then in their communities."
  In addition to ISO, The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme receives practical support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the United Nations University (which has cooperated since the launch of the programme).
  It has received expressions of support from the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) and the Japanese Environment Ministry (MOE).
  Support has come from a number of Japanese business organizations and the Japanese operations of multinational companies.
  Launched in Japan in 2000, the programme is now on its way to becoming an international one. By December 2003, schools or other organizations (including ISO national member institutes) from many countries were preparing to, or expressing strong interest in, implementing or supporting the programme.
  First of all, children and young people participating in The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme learn to apply the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle at the heart of the ISO 14000 environmental management system standards. They do so by implementing PDCA in their own homes to:
  -measure environmental aspects such as water and energy consumption
  -set targets to reduce negative impacts-achieve concrete results and compare them with the target-draw lessons from the experience in order to make further improvements.Children thus learn by experience that they can reduce negative environmental impacts and improve environmental performance.
  Next, in cases where the children's parents work in organizations pursuing certification to ISO 14001, there is a potential for synergy between programmes in the work place and activities at home. The possibilities are increased when they live in a community where the local authority too is promoting the use of ISO 14001. This creates opportunities for joint action programmes between schools, enterprises and local government.
  In any case, The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme encourages participants to network with children engaged in the programme in other schools and communities, both nationally and internationally. Children learn by direct experience that cooperation and team work, regardless of frontiers multiplies the efficiency and effectiveness of their environmental management efforts.
  Throughout the programme, there is an emphasis on feedback and two-way communication between the children and their teachers. This helps to build self-confidence in the young people which will serve them well as they grow up, giving them the strength to tackle environmental and other challenges in their adult lives.
  The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme is a powerful learning tool. Here and now, it helps children to achieve measurable environmental results on their own doorsteps. For tomorrow, it forms responsible, environmentally mature citizens with a global perspective.
  The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle is the operating principle of ISO's management system standards for the environment (ISO 14000) and quality (ISO 9000).
  The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme begins with training of "Eco-Kids' Instructors" who, in turn, train teachers at schools that have decided to participate. The teachers learn how to manage the programme in their classes and how to use the programme workbooks and evaluation manuals.
  The programme is suitable for children from the age of 10. It comprises four levels:
  1The Introductory Level enhances the environmental sensitivity and awareness of children. It also introduces them to the methodology of environmental management based on the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle of the ISO 14000 environmental management standards. It takes about two weeks to complete this level. 2The Primary Level introduces the PDCA cycle to the participating children's families who put it into practice together in the family home. For example, with the help of their families, the children establish environmental baselines (such as domestic water or energy consumption, or amount of waste generated by the household), set targets to reduce negative impacts, and monitor their implementation. Their actions are recorded in their workbooks for evaluation by their teachers. This level takes about eight weeks. 3The Middle Level develops greater mastery of the ISO 14000 PDCA approach to environmental management by applying it to regional environmental issues. The young people practise its implementation in a project on which they work as a group. Working through this level takes from several months to one year. 4The Highest Level again has the young people applying the ISO 14000 approach to regional environmental issues, but this time in collaboration with other groups in foreign countries. Duration is one to two years.After the participants complete their workbooks or projects, these are sent to ArTech for evaluation and marking by the Eco-Kids' Instructors and then returned to the children. This recognition of the children's work and positive feedback valorises them and encourages them to continue.
  On successful completion of the primary, middle and highest levels, the young people are invited to an award ceremony where they receive a certificate from The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme International Committee, which is appointed by ArTech and comprises representatives of organizations cooperating on, or supporting the programme.
  The three guiding principles for implementation of The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme, in whatever country it takes place, are the following:
  1. Retain the essential points of the original concept and the aims of the programme in the workbooks at each level.
  Develop an understanding of the programme in its totality, which consists of instructors, workbook, training course, manual for evaluation, manual for teachers.
  2. Take account of the different geographic, climatic and socio-economic characteristics in different countries and regions, and respect cultural differences.
  Obviously, from country to country, or even between regions, there may be important differences in heating and cooling systems. These need to be taken into account in preparing the workbooks. In addition to the physical environment, the different technologies used are products of the 'wisdom' of the national or regional culture and this heritage must be understood and respected to ensure the relevance and effectiveness of the programme.
  3. Nurture a "sense of togetherness" for working on global environmental issues.
  The ultimate target of the programme is to form a worldwide network of 'environmen­tally mature' children. It is well known that environmental ­problems know no frontiers and that, for example, one country acting alone cannot stop global warming. Therefore, it is crucial for children to understand the need to work together to resolve global environmental issues.
  The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme has achieved the following results during three years' operation (2000-2003) in Japan:
  Increasing participation
  The programme was launched in 2000, when 450 children took part in a pilot project. By the third quarter of 2003, more than 50 000 Japanese schoolchildren had participated.A clear trend has been established: once a local government administration or local education authority holds a pilot project in one school, the programme spreads to other schools and municipalities throughout the administrative area, and from there to neighbouring provinces.With the above ripple effect, the number of Eco-Kids Instructors trained to support the programme increases - which stimulates further growth.Growing awareness
  Improved communication
  Participating children require the cooperation of their families in implementing the programme in their households. This increases the number of exchanges - by as much as 85% in one household studied - and generally improves communication within the family.One Japanese city is using the programme in its efforts to reduce crime by young offenders because it believes that improved communication within families removes one of the factors that can drive young people to crime.Reduced emissions
  Reductions of carbon dioxide emissions of 10-15% per household have been demonstrated.Synergy with enterprise and community environmental programmes
  Business and local government organizations in Japan have taken a keen interest in The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme. Reaching their employees and citizens in their homes, it complements, reinforces, or even multiplies their own enterprise or community programmes and efforts to build environmental awareness and in their own ISO 14001 implementation programmes.Value-added learning
  The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme has proved to be effective when used in combination with other environmental programmes, such as nature study and conservation.The programme has been shown to be value-adding and enhancing in its effect. For example, one survey showed that children who had participated were keener to reduce the number of plastic bags used at supermarkets.The programme has also proved to interact well with other school subjects. For example, programme workbooks have been used in national and foreign language teaching, and the programme has also inspired environmental themes for drama classes.As the creator and overall coordinator of the programme, ArTech is the initial contact for enquiries about participating in, or supporting the programme, about whether it is operating in a particular country, whether any partnerships have been established with local organizations, and about the availability of material in the national language.
  ISO is encouraging the national standards institutes that make up its membership to become programme facilitators and national partners of ArTech.
  In the public sector, ISO members could consider contacting and establishing partnerships around the programme with ministries and other administrations - central, regional and local - responsible for areas such as education, youth, the environment, trade, consumers, national heritage and culture.
  In the private sector, potential partners and sponsors could include industry and business associations, individual businesses and consumer organizations.
  Once the programme material is available in the national language, a typical implementation in a school, or other organization, would take place as follows.
  An Eco-Kids' Instructor visits the establishment and provides the following explanations of the programme:
  1 The aims.2 The contents.3 How to implement the programme.4 How to instruct teachers whose classes participate.5 How to evaluate the workbooks after completion by the children.6 How to return the evaluation sheets to the children with their workbooks.7 How to lead children to the next level (Primary Level).8 How to obtain the international certificate of The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme.9 How to manage the instructors of Level 1, Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4.10 How to organize training courses for the instructors.11 Which programme manuals are available.If the school decides to go ahead, then it signs a contract with ArTech and designates a representative for training at an Eco-Kids' Instructor.ArTech then provides the following:
  1 Manual for evaluation of the Introductory Level workbook.2 Manual for printing the evaluation sheets for the children who complete the workbook.3 Sample of the Introductory Level workbook.4 Sample of the Primary Level workbook.5 Manual for evaluation of the Primary Level workbook.6 Teacher's manual.7 Other information as requested.Launched in Japan in 2000, The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme is scheduled for its international roll-out in 2004 with the development of programme material in English for subsequent national adoptions and translations.
  Primary contact for The Kids' ISO 14000 Programme:
  Prof. Takaya KawabePresident and Secretary-GeneralArTech (International Art & Technology Cooperation Organization)Tomigaya 1-39-2, Suite 104Shibuya-kuTokyoJapan 151-0063
  Tel.FaxE-mailWeb
  + 81 3 3467 6250+ 81 3 3467 62 77kawabe@artech.or.jpwww.artech.or.jp
Obama Orders Mass Confiscations In Wake Of Superstorm
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  A stunning report prepared by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) on the Sandy Superstorm that has pummeled the United States over the past 5 days states that President Obama has granted permission for US government officials and military personal to ''plunder at will'' from the private stores and belongings of any American citizen or business they deem necessary for disaster relief.
  Though the effects and costs of this massive superstorm are yet to be fully determined, initial estimates put the death toll in the US at 50, describe ''unthinkable'' damage over $50 billion, up to 25,000 people still trapped by massive floodwaters in New Jersey, massive snowfalls that have buried whole towns, and a New York City subway system experts warn may not be fully operational for up to 3 weeks.
  The authority cited by Obama to begin this unprecedented confiscation of private property, this report says, rests in a little known to the American people Executive Order signed by their President on16 March of this year titled National Defense Resources Preparedness which grants to himself the power to do virtually anything he deems necessary.
  Even worse about this Executive Order, according to the Washington Blog's news site, it that it claims executive authority to seize all US resources and persons, including during peacetime, for self-declared ''national defense'' and claims the power to place any American into military or ''allocated'' labor use.
  This GRU report further states that this tyrannical Obama Executive Order joins others he has signed claiming that he can Constitutionally assassinate Americans upon his non-reviewable dictate, claims he can Constitutionally disappear Americans and then appoint a tribunal with death sentence authority (unless unlimited detention is their choice), and allows him to Constitutionally control-drown (waterboard) anyone he declares a ''terrorist''.
  Even in the days before this superstorm hit, this report continues, Obama solidified his dictatorial hold on America with his signing of an Executive Order on 26 October titled Establishing the White House Homeland Security Partnership Council which, according to the InfoWars.com news site, establishes a White House Security Partnership Council which they call classic fascism, or what the World War II leader of fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) called corporatism '-- the ''merger of state and corporate power.''
  Interesting to note is that in the days prior to this superstorm striking the American homeland, a US National Guard whistleblower alerted InfoWars.com Nightly News producer Rob Dew on 29 October that hoarders were to be treated like terrorists.
  To the exact confiscation efforts currently ongoing by US officials and military personal in the superstorm hit areas, this GRU report says, are ''scavenging teams'' made up of US National Guard troops and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees who after all residents are cleared from an area are then confiscating weapons, ammunition, food stores, water, generators, and any such other items they deem needed for their efforts.
  Important to note, this report says, is the use of these FEMA troops whose Latin motto, Pace Ac Bello Merita, has an exact meaning of ''peace and also war are just'', but which GRU experts liken more to the feared World War II Nazi Storm Troopers whose power was unlimited.
  To the American people themselves being told by their ''mainstream'' media about these mass thefts it doesn't appear likely either as new reports are emerging of the continued Obama crackdown on the truth being told, including:
  1.) Former Governor Jesse Ventura recently revealing that a show set to air as part of his popular Conspiracy Theory series that exposed how TSA body scanners were a major cancer threat was canceled by Time Warner-owned TruTV.
  2.) A recent programme on the Obama supported MSNBC news channel where the host, Mo Rocca, described America's Founding Fathers as ''deadbeat dads.''
  To the warning given to them by one of these Founding Fathers, James Madison (1651-1836), that said, ''A mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits (of government) is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.'', the American people have, clearly, failed to heed.
  To the future which they now face under a leader with unlimited power, and who is not afraid to use it, the American people, sadly, are soon to learn one of the harshest lessons history can teach'...and as, perhaps, best described by the Great American Patriot and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) who said: ''Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.''
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Obama's Wars Aren't Over
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  On the campaign trail of a war-weary nation, Obama is running as the man who successfully concluded three wars. This assertion, like so many others, only works if you close your eyes, stick your head deep in the sand and count to a few million.
  Wars, unlike elections, do not begin and end on schedule. They begin and end when the enemy says they do. While Obama asserts that three wars are over, Al Qaeda has a different point of view on the matter. And as long as it remains able to carry on its war, then the war isn't over.
  Obama's boasts of quickly and cleanly wrapping up the Libyan War with no loss of American lives ended on September 11, 2012, when four Americans were murdered by the Islamic militias that he had allowed to take over in Benghazi. The threat of the militias was well known, but disregarded, because it interfered with the image of a quick and successful war.
  In his own mind, Obama was still running against Bush, and Libya was a demonstration that, unlike Bush, he could pull off regime change without offending Muslims or alienating the international community. But like Iraq, the Libyan War did not end with any of Obama's Mission Accomplished speeches. With no serious plans made for what would happen after the fall of Gaddafi, the real power ended up not in the hands of the government that he expected to take over, but in the hands of the jihadists who had done most of the real fighting.
  The Libyan War is not over. The Benghazi consulate attack is a down payment on a conflict that now appears likely to top the Iraq War. The fall of Gaddafi has already led to an Al Qaeda takeover of half of Mali. France is pushing to lead an intervention in Mali and there has been some discussion of American trainers coming back to help the Mali government.
  If the Islamists not only retain their hold on Benghazi, but succeed in taking Tripoli, then Libya along with Mali will become a new Afghanistan, except with oil revenues and a favorable location for launching attacks on Mediterranean shipping and on neighboring Europe. And at that point the US will be forced to refight a Libyan War that will look less like Yugoslavia and more like Afghanistan.
  And what of Afghanistan, the one remaining conflict that Obama promises us will end on 2014? Like most of Obama's promises, not only can't you take it to the bank, but if you write it as a check it will bounce higher than his unemployment numbers.
  Obama isn't really ending the Afghanistan War; he's ending his part of the war. Obama will have all the troops from his failed Afghanistan surge home by 2014 while leaving behind an estimated 25,000 troops there to try and protect a corrupt Afghan government that is in no shape to hold off the Taliban.
  If that seems like a lot, it's more than the number of troops that Bush had in Afghanistan in 2006. When Obama says that he will end the war and bring all the troops home in 2014, what he really means is that he will bring home the extra troops that he sent there with while keeping all the troops that Bush had there.
  Despite what Obama has said in debates and on the campaign trail, the Taliban are not beaten and the Afghans are not ready to take over. The only reason that the Taliban haven't taken Kabul is because of the ISAF forces. We can't pull out without handing a victory to the Taliban, and after Obama's attempts at winning over the ''moderate'' Taliban failed, he has no choice but to stay in, while lying about it.
  There is no actual timetable for ending the War in Afghanistan because there is no plan for defeating the Taliban. Without either defeating or co-opting the Taliban, the only remaining option is a complete unilateral withdrawal followed by the Taliban taking over.
  Finally there's Iraq. Obama built his political career on attacks on the Iraq War. And unlike Afghanistan and Libya, he did eventually withdraw from Iraq. But just because the United States withdrew from Iraq, did not mean that Iraq withdrew from the United States.
  Obama falsely claimed that his Iraq to Afghanistan pivot was motivated by a need to focus on battling Al Qaeda. In truth, Al Qaeda had a much larger presence in Iraq than it did in Afghanistan and its Iraqi franchise has continued carrying out large scale suicide bombings and has even found ways to continue murdering Americans after Obama's botched withdrawal.
  A core group of the Benghazi consulate attackers were from Al Qaeda in Iraq, according to reports, and AQI bomb makers prepared explosives for a massive attack on the American embassy in Jordan.
  The ghosts of Baghdad caught up to Obama in Benghazi and that won't be the last attack on Americans carried out by Al Qaeda in Iraq. Nor are we through with Iraq as a country. While nothing that happens there makes the news anymore, Iraq has joined the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis of Shiite terror. And Iraq's recent purchase of Russian aircraft will give it the freedom to attack American manufactured aircraft.
  If Obama attempts to intervene in Syria, the result is likely to be a second or third Iraq War. But even if he doesn't, the growing tensions between Iraqi Kurdistan and the Shiite federal government may drag us in anyway. For now, Obama has backed the Shiite federalists in their dispute with the Kurds, but as Maliki moves into the Russian orbit, we will have a choice between opposing Iran's Iraqi clients in the coming Iraqi civil war or abandoning our Sunni and Kurdish allies to a Shiite slaughter.
  Obama will have the option of staying out of the Iraqi civil war, but not of pretending that everything was wrapped up neatly with a pink ribbon when he pulled out.
  Whatever one's opinion of these three wars may be, Obama's claims that these wars are over is insultingly dishonest. Wars only end when an enemy is defeated or no longer has the incentive to fight. Neither of those conditions obtains in Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya. Not only have our enemies not been defeated, but they have been given more power and scope for planning the next wave of atrocities.
  September 11, 2012, was a wake up call. If we don't pay attention to it, there will be worse things waiting for us than burning embassies.
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Tyranny of the Healthy
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  As he begins his commentary in the New York Times, a former Obama Administration official offers a breathtaking suggestion for American health care.
  ''We need death panels.''
  Having arrested his readers' attention, Steven Rattner explains.
  ''Well, not death panels, exactly, but unless we start allocating health care resources more prudently '-- rationing, by its proper name '-- the exploding cost of Medicare will swamp the federal budget.''
  Rattner, a former Treasury Department counselor who helped design the $82 billion bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, has extensive experience on Wall Street and in journalism '-- but none in medical practice or administration.
  Nevertheless, Rattner offers an example for American health care to follow.
  ''Take Britain, which provides universal coverage with spending at proportionately almost half of American levels,'' Rattner writes. ''Its National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence uses a complex quality-adjusted life year system to put an explicit value (up to about $48,000 per year) on a treatment's ability to extend life.''
  That example '-- which President Obama's Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) imitates '-- will produce devastating social consequences.
  Britain's National Health Service (NHS), the single-payer model Rattner endorses, routinely sacrifices the elderly and the seriously ill on the altar of cost containment.
  British newspapers constantly expose the NHS. In June, the Daily Mail reported that about 130,000 elderly patients '-- many of whom could be saved '-- die every year after doctors arbitrarily impose a treatment protocol for the terminally ill. That protocol, the Liverpool Care Pathway, allows doctors to replace water and intravenous feeding with automatic morphine injections that cause death in an average of 33 hours.
  ''Patients are frequently put on the pathway without a proper analysis of their condition,'' said Dr. Patrick Pullicino, a consulting neurologist and professor of clinical neurosciences at the University of Kent.
  ''Very likely, many elderly patients who could live substantially longer are being killed by the LCP,'' Pullicino told the Royal Society of Medicine. ''If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway, we accept that euthanasia is part of the standard way of dying as it is now associated with 29 per cent of NHS deaths.''
  The article elicited 462 comments on the Daily Mail's Web site.
  ''I have a very good understanding of the L.C.P,'' writes Alyson White from Yorkshire. ''My Nan was still able to eat and drink small amounts, until a Syringe Driver was placed in her arm. She never woke again after that'....My Nan was not terminally ill, the L.C.P. is misused and sadly so many thousands of vulnerable people are dying prematurely and unnaturally.''
  Bea from Manchester saw the LCP applied to ''a relative who simply suffered a small stroke and was fully alert, able to converse and move her right side of her body,'' she writes. '''... we witnessed all food and fluids removed, morphine in large amounts introduced and the family left to watch her die, not in 33 hours, but over a week of suffering.
  ''If I did that to my dog I would be reported and taken to Court.''
  Both the Daily Mail and the Guardian also reported in June that 90 percent of NHS hospitals limit the number of surgeries their doctors perform to save money '-- including hip and knee replacements, and cataract removal. Both newspapers cited reports from GP Magazine, a periodical for British doctors, and the Labour Party.
  With waiting lists for surgeries routine in Britain, the policy ''means patients face joining a waiting list to even get on the surgery waiting list,'' wrote the Daily Mail's Claire Bates.
  Andy Burnham, the secretary of state for health in Labour's shadow cabinet, said the Labour Party is ''presenting new evidence of crude, random rationing across the NHS in England, going far wider and deeper than '... suggested.''
  Such restrictions affect not only the elderly, as Linda from Scotland wrote on the Daily Mail's site (lack of punctuation in original):
  ''I Am in my 30s have a young family to look after in constant pain for over a year suspected slipped discs denied MRI and surgery even though i can barely walk or work and told all they can do is send me on my way with codeine and other addictive drugs . I am struggling to keep my life together not easy when i can barely lift my baby son. thanks Nhs for nothing.''
  Not only does the NHS effectively prohibit many surgeries. In 2005, the Telegraph reported that NHS consultants refuse to recommend new cancer treatments and drugs '-- though they have passed clinical trials, can save lives and could be purchased privately.
  Why? Because Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence '-- which Rattner praises '-- had yet to review them.
  ''We have been begging the health service to make the latest cancer drugs available,'' said Dr. Harpreet Wasan, an oncologist at London's Hammersmith Hospital. ''They allow patients to survive longer and it seems unfair they are not available. These drugs are superior to existing drugs and patients should have access to them.''
  NHS even limits traditional cancer treatments. The Telegraph again reported in June that women older than 65 are less likely to receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and are more likely to die from breast cancer. Women older than 70 are less likely to have breast tumors surgically removed.
  In the same article, the Telegraph reported that a 2009 study by the King's Fund, a charitable health foundation, revealed these findings:
  '' Elderly patients waited longer in emergency rooms, went to intensive care less often and underwent surgery after a traumatic injury less often.
  '' Elderly patients who suffered heart attacks and strokes received fewer examinations and less treatment.
  As a result, victims of cancer and cardiac arrest are far more likely to die in Britain than in almost any other developed nation.
  According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's 2009 survey on health-care standards, a British woman stands a 78.5 percent chance of surviving breast cancer after five years; the percentage for an American woman was 90.5, best in the group. A British victim of bowel cancer has just a 51.6 percent chance of surviving after five years compared to 65.5 percent in the United States '-- again, best in the category.
  Finally, 6.3 percent of Britons who have heart attacks will die within 30 minutes of admission to a hospital. Only South Korea, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have worse rates.
  Sir William Wells, a former NHS regional director, diagnosed the fundamental problem: ''The big trouble with a state monopoly is that it builds in massive inefficiencies and inward-looking culture.''
  Yet even the Church of England supports NHS at the expense of the vulnerable. Bishop Tom Butler, vice-chairman of the church's Mission and Public Affairs Council, said in 2006 that letting severely ill or disabled newborns die would be more compassionate '-- and less expensive.
  ''The principle of justice,'' Butler wrote, ''inevitably means that the potential cost of treatment itself, the longer term costs of health care and education and opportunity cost to the NHS in terms of saving other lives have to be considered.''
  Compare the bishop's remarks to Rattner's belief that ''elderly Americans are not entitled to every conceivable medical procedure or pharmaceutical.''
  Compare them to those made at the NHS's 60th anniversary in 2008 by Dr. Donald Berwick, former administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services who resigned in December.
  ''I am romantic about the NHS; I love it,'' said Berwick, who added he ''cannot believe that the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do.''
  Compare them to the current president's views. While running for the Senate in 2003, Obama told the Illinois AFL-CIO:
  ''I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program'....But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately'....''
  During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama subtly expressed his desire to end private health insurance to the SEIU in 2007:
  '''...I don't think we're going to be able to eliminate employer coverage immediately. There's going to be potentially some transition process. I can envision a decade out or 15 years out or 20 years out where we've got a much more portable system'....And I think we've got to facilitate that and let individuals make that choice to transition out of employer coverage.'' (emphases added)
  But as the NHS illustrates, universal coverage through a government monopoly is a lie. What good is such ''coverage'' when patients' legitimate needs constitute threats to state accountants and bureaucrats?
  In the zeal to expand coverage, do we want patients and their families to have as many choices as possible in deciding how to manage their own care? Or do we allow Berwick's ''leaders'' to make those decisions for us '-- and, ultimately, decide who lives and who dies?
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Governor Chris Christie Strongly Praises Obama's Response to Sandy; Could Christie's Comments Tip the Election?
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  Here's a headline story including an interview on Fox news that caught me by surprise: New Jersey Chris Christie Praises Obama, Doesn't 'Give a Damn' about Election Day
  The presidential candidates have canceled all campaign events on Tuesday, but Republican New Jersey Chris Christie seemed to be stumping for President Barack Obama by appearing on several networks to praise the federal response to Hurricane Sandy.
  In an interview on NBC, Christie called Obama "outstanding" for expediting relief efforts. He also told MSNBC that Obama "deserves great credit. He gave me his number at the White House and told me to call him if I needed anything," Christie said.
  The New Jersey governor even took his message to Fox News, saying that Obama had helped "tremendously."
  "I spoke to the president three times yesterday," he explained. "He called me for the last time at midnight last night asking what he could do. I said, if you can expedite designating New Jersey as a major disaster area that that would help us to get federal money and resources in here as quickly as possible to help clean up the damage here."
  Chris Christie VideoWill Christie's Comments Tip the Election?
  New Jersey, Christie's home state is solidly in the Obama column. However, storm-damaged Virginia is in a virtual dead heat. Praise from Governor Christie certainly cannot hurt Obama's election chances.
  Mathematically, I do not believe Romney can win if he loses either Ohio or Virginia. Romney certainly cannot win if he loses both of them.
  Here is question of the day: Is this genuine praise or is Christie looking to run for president in four years? I suggest both.
  Regardless, widespread perception that Obama is doing a good job in response to Sandy, fueled by gushing praise from Christie may be enough to tip Virginia into the Obama column, and the election right with it.
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FACEBOOK CENSORS NAVY SEALS TO PROTECT OBAMA ON BENGHAZI-GATE
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:56
  FACEBOOK CENSORS NAVY SEALS TO PROTECT OBAMA ON BENGHAZI-GATE
  Here's what Ward told me:
  We created and posted this meme on Saturday after news broke that Obama had known and denied SEALS the backup they requested.
  Once the meme was up it garnered 30,000 shares, approx. 24,000 likes, and was read by hundreds of thousands of people '-- all within 24 hrs. On Sunday, I went into the SOS Facebook page to post something else and found a warning from Facebook that we had violated Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities with our meme. So I copied the warning, put it on the meme as as caption, and re-posted the meme to the Facebook page.
  Along with the re-posted meme, Ward put a link to the Facebook ''feedback comment'' inbox so visitors to the SOS page could send a message to Facebook if they were as outraged over the meme being jerked down as he was.
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Where's The Gold?: German Politicians Demand to See Gold in US Federal Reserve
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  Source: StratRisks
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:49
  Source: DS
  Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann wanted to personally convince Peter Gauweiler that the German gold was still where it should be. Early this summer, the head of Germany's central bank took the obstinate politician from the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), a party that is a member of the government coalition in Berlin, and a number of his colleagues into the Bundesbank's inner sanctum: the gold vault.
  There, 6,000 gold bars are stacked on industrial-strength shelves in a purpose-built building in Frankfurt. An additional 76,000 bars of bullion are stored in four safe boxes, in sealed containers.
  But even this personal inspection wasn't enough to reassure the visiting member of parliament '-- on the contrary: ''The Bundesbank monitors its domestic gold in an exemplary fashion,'' Gauweiler says, ''and this makes it all the more incomprehensible that the bank doesn't look after its reserves abroad.''
  For quite some time now, Gauweiler has been pestering the government and the Bundesbank with questions concerning where and how the country's reserves are stored, and how often they are checked. He has submitted requests and commissioned reports on the topic.
  Last week, Gauweiler celebrated his greatest triumph to date in his gold campaign, which has been a source of some amusement for many fellow German politicians: A secret report by the Federal Audit Office had been made public '-- and it contained stern criticism of the German central bank in Frankfurt. The Bonn-based auditors urged a better inventory system, including quality checks.
  This demand, which even the bank's inspectors saw as nothing more than routine, alarmed the Berlin political establishment. Indeed, the partially blacked-out report read like the prologue to an espionage thriller in which the stunned central bankers could end up standing in front of empty vaults in the US.
  'Grotesque Debate'
  For decades, German central bankers have contented themselves with written affirmations from their American colleagues that the gold still remains where it is said to be stored. According to the report, the bar list from New York stems from ''1979/1980.'' The report also noted that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York refuses to allow the gold's owners to view their own reserves.
  Not surprisingly, this prompted strong reactions in Berlin: The relevant Bundesbank board member Carl-Ludwig Thiele was summoned to Berlin to provide an explanation to the parliamentary budget committee. Heinz-Peter Haustein of the business-friendly Free Democratic Party (FDP) was even quoted by Germany's mass-circulation Bild newspaper as saying that ''all the gold has to be shipped back.''
  The Bundesbank's otherwise reserved Thiele said that he found at least ''part of the debate'' to be ''rather grotesque.'' His financial institution currently has more pressing problems. Bundesbank head Weidmann, for example, is desperately fighting the European Central Bank (ECB) decision to buy unlimited quantities of sovereign bonds from crisis-ridden countries as a way of lowering their borrowing costs. In addition, the Bundesbank has already pumped nearly '‚¬700 billion ($906 billion) into primarily southern European countries as part of the euro-zone central bank transfers known as Target II.
  Germany's gold reserves are currently worth some '‚¬144 billion and are not stored ''with dubious business partners,'' as Thiele stresses, but rather with ''highly respected central bankers.''
  Special Connection
  There is in fact nothing unusual about how Germany deals with the precious metal. Many other central banks store a portion of their gold reserves abroad. The Netherlands, for example, places its trust in its colleagues in Ottawa, New York and London.
  But the relationship Germans have with their gold is a special one. Germany hoards nearly 3,600 metric tons of the precious metal '-- only the US has more. Much of this gold treasure was amassed under the Bretton Woods international monetary system, in which the dollar served as the world's key currency and was directly convertible to fixed quantities of gold.
  Before the gold standard was terminated in 1971, the current account surpluses generated by Germany's ''economic miracle'' were partially balanced out in gold. Thousands of US bars of gold alone were transferred to German ownership.
  But since the euro is not backed by gold, such vast reserves are actually no longer necessary. Nevertheless, the Germans continue to resolutely defend them '-- and every attempt to use this treasure has been met with dismay.
  There has been no lack of proposals: Former German President Roman Herzog wanted to sell the gold to form the basis for a capital-based nursing care insurance scheme. In 2002, FDP parliamentary floor leader Rainer Br¼derle proposed a fund for natural disasters. Former Bundesbank head Ernst Welteke added to the debate by suggesting the foundation of a national educational fund. But none of these ideas were ever taken seriously.
  Most recently, German Chancellor Angela Merkel of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) shot down an idea by the euro partners to use the reserves as collateral for euro bonds.
  Strict Security
  As a result, in addition to safeguarding the reserves of over 60 countries, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York continues to hold 1,536 metric tons of German gold '-- or nearly half of Berlin's reserves. This enormous hoard of gold is stored in the fifth subfloor of the bank's building on Liberty Street, 25 meters (80 feet) below street level, and 15 meters below sea level. According to the bank's website, the vault rests on the bedrock of Manhattan Island.
  Tourists are allowed to venture below street level to see the vault. After descending in an elevator, they stand in front of an enormous steel cylinder that pivots like a door in a 140-ton steel-and-concrete frame. But not even the owners are allowed to view their own gold. According to the Federal Audit Office report, the Fed explained that ''in the interest of security and of the control process'' no ''viewings'' are possible.
  Finally, in 2007, ''following numerous enquiries,'' Bundesbank staff members were allowed to see the facility, but they reportedly only made it to the anteroom of the German reserves.
  In fact, auditors from the Bundesbank made a second visit in May 2011. This time one of the nine compartments was also opened, in which the German gold bars are densely stacked. A few were pulled out and weighed. But this part of the report has been blacked out '-- out of consideration for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
  ''I would like more transparency on the issue,'' says Bundesbank board member Thiele. The Americans are very sensitive, though, when it comes to security procedures in their gold storage facilities. In their second major depository, the legendary Fort Knox, practically no one in recent decades has been allowed to view the gold reserves.
  Fuelling Legends
  Such intense secrecy fuels legends. Many conspiracy theorists have suspected for decades that the German gold has long since disappeared. Others believe that it has been lent out. They contend that there are only promissory notes of little worth stored in the bank's vaults.
  Another myth that has been making the rounds in nationalist-oriented German circles is that the US refused to hand over the treasure and threatened during the Cold War to withdraw its troops from Germany if the Germans demanded their gold back. Former Bundesbank head Karl Blessing, according to the theory, had to provide the US written confirmation that he would never do such a thing.
  This letter, as it happens, actually exists, as Blessing confirmed in his last interview with SPIEGEL in 1971 '-- except it doesn't concern the German gold, but rather US gold reserves. Until 1971, every dollar could be exchanged for the precious metal. Blessing thus promised the US Federal Reserve that he would no longer convert the colossal German dollar reserves to gold because this would have caused the currency's value to plummet.
  Today, this historic document is even available online. But that hasn't silenced those who oppose stockpiling German gold abroad. Instead, the debate over a collapse of strictly paper-based currency is experiencing a renaissance '-- as is the dispute over the gold reserves. Even Green Party financial expert Gerhard Schick has joined the fray: ''I think the question of how much gold is available in an emergency is a valid concern.''
  Outlandish Idea
  From a purely logistical perspective, though, returning the reserves seems outlandish. One cannot simply pack 1,500 tons of gold into an Airbus A380 super-jumbo jet and fly it back to Germany.
  The Bundesbank also objects to this notion for another reason. It says the gold is supposed to act as an emergency buffer. In the extreme situation of a currency collapse, the bankers say that the gold bars could easily and quickly be exchanged on location for pounds or dollars to pay urgent bills.
  In a bid to calm the debate, the Bundesbank has pledged to bring back and inspect 150 tons of gold from abroad over the next three years. Furthermore, there are plans to count and weigh the gold bars stored in one of the nine chambers at the Fed in New York '-- although no date has been set for this.
  Bundesbank board member Thiele was also recently in New York where he took a look behind one of the vault doors. He had good news for the members of the parliamentary budget committee: ''There was no paper in there, just gold.''
  But that's not enough for CSU politician Gauweiler. He's only prepared to put the matter to rest when the central bank has thoroughly inspected all the German reserves throughout the entire world. His credo: ''The Bundesbank is independent, but it can't do what it wants.''
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The real state of health care insurance for the middle class and the USA
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:47
  My wife has been paying BCBS health insurance premiums under COBRA since Oct 1, 2011, from her personal checking account.
  My wife found out yesterday, 10/29/2012, that her coverage had been cancelled since her BCBS card was rejected by her pharmacy. A call to BSBS (Bluecross Blue shield) resulted in them telling her that her insurance had been retroactively cancelled to Sept 1, 2012. BCBS has cashed her premium checks including her last check on Oct 29, 2012 for November 2012. BCBS is telling her that they are refunding her premiums after Sept 1, 2012 and will ask for reimbursements for any hospital and doctors bills they have paid.
  I have never received any official notification from BCBS or my former company that her insurance coverage was to be cancelled until today.
  The insurance coverage was through BCBS and the state of Missouri COBRA and most of the sizable claims are all a few days after Sept 1, 2012.
  What a mess the health insurance business is in today!
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7.7 Earthquake Hits Where The Worlds Largest Geoengineering Experiment Took Place
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  Source: Conscious Life News
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:45
  Posted by Heartmind_Featured_, WeatherTuesday, October 30th, 2012Terry Wilson | Canadian Awareness Network
  A 7.7 Earthquake hit the coast of British Columbia on Saturday night, and there has since been as many as 40 aftershocks today. Including one that measured 6.4 in magnitude. The quake sent many residents on the coast, fleeing for higher ground due to tsunami warnings. That where issued as far away as Hawaii.
  The Earthquake originated on the island of Haida Gwaii, other wise know as the Queen Charlotte Islands region. The islands are located along the Queen Charlotte Fault, which is an active transform fault that produces significant earthquakes every 3''30 years. (the last major one happening in 1949, that measure 8.1 in magnitude)
  As soon as I caught the news of this quake today, the first thing that came to mind was. Wasn't Haida Gwaii recently in the news?Worlds Largest Geoengineering Test Conducted Off Canadian West Coast''In July 2012 a private businessman named Russ George, or as the Vancouver Sun has dubbed him the ''rogue climate hacker''. Dumped over 100 tonnes of iron into the pacific ocean, just off the coast of British Columbia (Haida Gwaii) in the largest ever geoengineering experiment'...''
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Tweede breuk voor Caroline
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  Source: Telegraaf.nl - prive
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:44
  wo 31 okt 2012, 06:00
  door Wilma Nanninga m.m.v. Vanessa BontjeAMSTERDAM - Caroline Tensen en Peter Gallas zijn uit elkaar. De 48-jarige presentatrice heeft de relatie na elf jaar verbroken en woont weer alleen.
  De liefde was op'', zegt Caroline zachtjes. 'žWe brengen niet meer het mooiste in elkaar naar boven. We hebben heel veel gepraat, gewikt en gewogen, maar toch de knoop doorgehakt. We wonen al niet meer samen.''
  De presentatrice vertelt kalm (C)(C)n keer haar verhaal: 'žIk heb nog steeds af en toe een zwak moment. Maar de tranen zijn eigenlijk op. Peter en ik hebben ook samen veel gehuild. Je wilt toch niet dat een relatie mislukt. Peter had misschien het langst van ons twee de hoop dat we het toch zouden redden. Maar ik ben wellicht nuchterder: zachte heelmeesters maken stinkende wonden. Achteraf denk ik ook dat het beter was het nu te doen, dan te wachten tot vlak voor de feestdagen of zo.''
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Rachel Maddow Calls For Nationally Funded Infrastructure Project To Bury All Problem Power Lines
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:43
Dancers Invade CNN's Hurricane Sandy Coverage
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:41
  Whenever there is a live event happening there's always the chance of either something going wrong or something that the networks aren't planning for. And usually, it's because someone doesn't take the weather warnings seriously.
  Not sure who thought it was a good idea to go dancing in the rushing waters of the biggest storm to hit the East Coast in years, but they found a camera to let everyone else see them do it.
Documents Found in Meth House Bare Inner Workings of Dark Money Group
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:40
  Watch Big Sky, Big Money, an investigation with Marketplace on PBS.
  By Kim Barker, ProPublica, and Rick Young and Emma Schwartz, Frontline Oct. 29, 2012
  This post was co-published with PBS' Frontline.
  The boxes landed in the office of Montana investigators in March 2011.
  Found in a meth house in Colorado, they were somewhat of a mystery, holding files on 23 conservative candidates in state races in Montana. They were filled with candidate surveys and mailers that said they were paid for by campaigns, and fliers and bank records from outside spending groups. One folder was labeled "Montana $ Bomb."
  The documents pointed to one outside group pulling the candidates' strings: a social welfare nonprofit called Western Tradition Partnership, or WTP.
  Altogether, the records added up to possible illegal "coordination" between the nonprofit and candidates for office in 2008 and 2010, said a Montana investigator and a former Federal Election Commission chairman who reviewed the material. Outside groups are allowed to spend money on political campaigns, but not to coordinate with candidates.
  "My opinion, for what it's worth, is that WTP was running a lot of these campaigns," said investigator Julie Steab of the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices, who initially received the boxes from Colorado.
  The boxes were examined by Frontline and ProPublica as part of an investigation into the growing influence on elections of dark money groups, tax-exempt organizations that can accept unlimited contributions and do not have to identify their donors. The documents offer a rare glimpse into the world of dark money, showing how Western Tradition Partnership appealed to donors, interacted with candidates and helped shape their election efforts.
  Though WTP's spending has been at the state level, it's best-known nationally for bringing a lawsuit that successfully challenged Montana's ban on corporate spending in elections, extending the provisions of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision to all states.
  The tax code allows nonprofits like WTP to engage in some political activity, but they are supposed to have social welfare as their primary purpose. As reported previously by ProPublica and Frontline, when WTP applied for recognition of its tax-exempt status, it told the IRS under penalty of perjury that it would not directly or indirectly attempt to influence elections '-- even though it already had.
  The group is now locked in an ongoing dispute with Montana authorities, who ruled in October 2010 that the nonprofit should have registered as a political committee and should have to disclose its donors. WTP sued. A hearing is set for March.
  In the meantime, the group has changed its name to American Tradition Partnership, reflecting its larger ambitions. This month, it sent Montana voters a mailer in the form of a newspaper called the Montana Statesman that claimed to be the state's "largest & most trusted news source."
  The front page accused the Democratic gubernatorial candidate of being soft on sex offenders.
  Donny Ferguson, American Tradition Partnership's spokesman and executive director, did not specifically address the documents found in Colorado or allegations of coordination made against WTP.
  "American Tradition Partnership always obeys every letter of every applicable law," he wrote in an emailed response to questions. "ATP does not, and never will, endorse candidates or urge voters to vote for or against candidates. ... These false allegations are old hat."
  On its website, the group says its primary purpose is issue advocacy and combating radical environmentalists, whom it sometimes calls "gang green." It describes itself as a grassroots group backed by a broad membership of small donors.
  When asked about the documents found in Colorado, Jim Brown, a lawyer for the group, said he was unfamiliar with them.
  After being shown some of the documents by Frontline, Brown, in a follow-up email, said his review indicated that they appeared to belong to a company called Direct Mail. Direct Mail and Communications is a print shop in Livingston, Mont., run by a one-time key player in WTP and his wife.
  Brown urged Frontline to turn over the documents. "If the documents are purported to be what you say they are, then you may knowingly be in possession of stolen property," Brown wrote.
  The records are in the hands of the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices, which considers them public and reviewable upon request.
  * * *
  In the anything-goes world of modern campaign finance, outside groups face one major restriction: They are not allowed to coordinate with candidates. That's because contributions to candidates and parties are still capped to limit donors' direct influence, while contributions to outside groups are unlimited.
  The Federal Election Commission has a three-pronged test for proving coordination: Did an outside group pay for ads, phone calls or mailers? Did these materials tell people to vote for or against a candidate, or praise or criticize a candidate in the weeks before an election? Finally, did the candidate, or a representative, agree to the expenditure?
  Many concerns have been raised about coordination in this election because of close ties between outside groups and campaigns. Super PACs supporting President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney are run by their former staffers. Super PACs and campaigns have used the same consultants, who insist in interviews that they have firewalls.
  Proving coordination is extremely difficult, however. Since 2007, the FEC has investigated 64 complaints of coordination, but found against candidates and groups only three times, fining them a total of $107,000, a review of FEC enforcement actions shows.
  Montana, which has similar rules, also receives few complaints about such activity, Steab said.
  The boxes from Colorado contained a mixture of documents from candidates and outside groups.
  Folders labeled with the names of Montana candidates held drafts and final letters of support signed by candidates' wives and drafts and final copies of mailers marked as being paid for by the campaigns. The folders often appeared to have had an accounting of what had been sent and paid for scrawled on the front.
  Several folders included copies of the signatures of candidates and their wives. "Use this one," someone wrote in red pen next to a cut-out rectangle on a page with five signatures from one candidate.
  Steab, the Montana investigator, said she believed these cut-out signatures were then affixed to fliers from the candidates.
  Besides material from the campaigns, the boxes also contained mailers on 2008 and 2010 races in Colorado and Montana from Western Tradition Partnership and six other groups. There were bank statements for several groups, including the Coalition for Energy and the Environment, the Alliance of Montana Taxpayers and the Conservative Victory Fund.
  In all the documents, one name repeatedly popped up: Christian LeFer. Even though two Montana Republican politicians founded WTP, investigators determined that LeFer was the man behind the scenes.
  LeFer, who is described as WTP's director of strategic programming in memos in 2009, said in an email that the documents "appear to be stolen property" and that, as he'd had no access to them, he couldn't respond to most of ProPublica's questions, "which seem to be based on an erroneous and fanciful interpretation of what they mean."
  LeFer did not address whether WTP had coordinated with candidates. Although former employees and candidates said LeFer helped his wife run Direct Mail and Communications '-- the printing company that Brown, the lawyer, suggested was the owner of the boxes of documents found in Colorado '-- LeFer said he did not "run or direct the activities" there.
  Direct Mail listed its principal office address in Montana filings as being the same Colorado address WTP initially used.
  Two outside groups with documents in the boxes '-- the Montana Committee to Protect the Unborn and Montana Citizens for Right to Work '-- listed their addresses on bank statements as the same post-office box in Livingston used by LeFer and Direct Mail. LeFer was also the executive director of Montana Citizens for Right to Work, an anti-union group.
  Former state Rep. Ed Butcher said LeFer and Western Tradition Partnership aided candidates with no experience.
  "They'll come in, if candidates want some help, they'll come in and help them," said Butcher, who described LeFer as "a Karl Rove type political strategist" who "stays in the background."
  Butcher's file in the Colorado boxes was labeled "Butcher Primary '08 mail samples." It included an email from LeFer to Butcher with a survey about unions. There was a campaign donation form, and drafts of fliers and a letter from Butcher's campaign.
  A "wife questionnaire" for Butcher's wife Pam said she met her husband "on a blind date arranged by his buddy that neither of us wanted." The questionnaire listed her children's names and that she had been taking care of her disabled mother for five years.
  A letter on pink paper from Pam Butcher was in a file marked "wife letters." The letter, which contained much of the information in the questionnaire, was marked as being paid for by Butcher's campaign.
  Butcher said his wife might have run her letter past LeFer. "He may have asked, 'Do you need any help?' and she said, 'Yeah, I need to get this family letter out,'" said Butcher, who won the Republican primary in 2008 by 20 votes.
  A folder for another successful candidate, Mike Miller, included a fax cover sheet from Miller to LeFer, forwarding Miller's filled-out Montana candidate surveys for two outside groups, the National Gun Owners Alliance and the National League of Taxpayers. It also held a candidate survey asking Miller if he had any research about his opponent, including "any recent scandals."
  Miller confirmed to Frontline that LeFer was an unpaid adviser on his campaign, but would not elaborate further.
  Trevor Potter, a former federal election commissioner who now runs the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group that advocates for more restrictions on money in politics, reviewed the documents found in the boxes.
  "This is the sort of information that is, in fact, campaign strategy, campaign plans that candidates cannot share with an outside group without making it coordinated," Potter said.
  "You need to know more, but certainly if I were back in my FEC days as a commissioner, I would say we had grounds to proceed with an investigation and put people under oath and show them these documents, and ask where they came from and where they were."
  * * *
  After the 2008 election, Montana started investigating whether WTP should have disclosed its donors.
  The inquiry progressed slowly until 2010, when a former WTP contractor handed over internal fundraising records, saying she was worried about what the group was doing.
  The documents showed that the group raised money specifically by telling people and corporations that they could give unlimited amounts in secret.
  "The only thing we plan on reporting is our success to contributors like you who can see the benefits of a program like this," said one document, a 2010 election briefing to read to potential donors. "You can just sit back on election night and see what a difference you've made."
  A target list of potential donors included an executive at a talc mine, the Montana representative of an international mining group and a Colorado executive for a global gold-mining company.
  One note about a potential donor advised: "Married rich, hard to get a hold of. Have a beer with him." Another said: "Owns big ranch, signed a hit piece I wrote on cty cmms'r last year (don't mention), should give $$ $10,000 ask."
  Other notes suggested that solicitors "See Christian" or "Talk to Christian," apparently references to LeFer.
  The documents cited the group's success in 2008, saying in a confidential grassroots membership development proposal that 28 Montana state legislators "rode into office in 100% support of WTP's responsible development agenda."
  By 2010, the partnership was active in state races in Montana and Colorado.
  That October, Montana authorities said Western Tradition Partnership had violated campaign-finance law and should be fined. They said the group's purpose in 2008 was "not to discuss issues, but to directly influence candidate elections through surreptitious means."
  The Montana investigation also said the evidence was overwhelming that WTP had established the Coalition for Energy and the Environment, known as CEE, as a "sham organization" to act as a front for expenditures actually made by WTP.
  But the investigation also found that "sufficient evidence has not been disclosed to establish coordination between WTP/CEE and any candidate. Concern and healthy skepticism is warranted, however."
  That was before the boxes from Colorado turned up.
  A convicted felon named Mark Siebel said he stumbled on them inside a known meth house near Denver at some point in late 2010.
  It's not clear how they got there. Siebel said a friend found them in a stolen car. After reading through some of the documents, he reached out to people he thought might be interested in them '-- primarily Colorado candidates attacked by Western Tradition Partnership. A lawyer married to one of the candidates shipped the boxes off to Montana investigators.
  By that time, however, the Montana probe into the group's activities in the 2008 election was over. Steab also said that there was no way to determine for certain where the documents were from and who owned them. There was no whistleblower, and no information about how the records ended up in Colorado.
  Despite this, Steab said, she found the documents very telling.
  "It looks to me that there was a lot of coordination '-- but I don't know that it's coordination that everyone is aware of in all cases," she said. She said she spoke to one candidate who told her he was upset about all the negative mailers against his opponent.
  This year, American Tradition Partnership is as active as ever. It's suing to try to overturn contribution limits in Montana, so far unsuccessfully. The group sent out mailers attacking candidates before the June primary in Montana, reporting none of them to the state as political expenditures. It later put out a press release saying that 12 of the 14 candidates it backed had won.
  For the general election, the group appears to be targeting Montana's attorney general, Steve Bullock, the Democratic candidate for governor. As attorney general, Bullock fought the partnership's lawsuits against the state, including the one that ended up in the Supreme Court.
  The first issue of the partnership's Montana Statesman newspaper, dated Oct. 7, which a group press release said was sent to 180,000 voters, featured four photographs on the front page: Three of registered sex offenders, and one of Bullock, accusing him of allowing one in four sex offenders to go unregistered. "Bullock admits failure," the headline announced. A full-page ad accused Bullock of taking illegal corporate contributions and of "criminal hypocrisy."
  The Statesman's editor and publisher is none other than Ferguson, the partnership's executive director, described as an "award-winning newspaper veteran" who has been "commended by other newspapers for his 'honest, intelligent and issue-oriented' approach."
  Ferguson didn't respond to a question about his journalism credentials.
  "Conservative group American Tradition Partnership now one of nation's biggest media outlets," said a press release on the group's website, adding that the newspaper would publish "several" editions through Election Day and into 2013.
Mitt Romney Asked 14(?) Times If He Would Eliminate FEMA And He Refuses To Answer
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Thread: Obama and Christie FTW
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:36
  1. If you haven't watched the Frontline 2-hour election special, the rest of this might not make much sense. It's really worth watching.
  2. I just caught up on the politics of the day. I didn't want to, but then two pieces came out at almost exactly the same time, a few hours ago, that shifted my perspective. One from Jonathan Chait at New York, and the other by Charles Pierce at Esquire. They both said in different but equally convincing ways that the response to Sandy is political and to view it any other way is wrong.
  3. The timing is amazing, obviously.
  4. It couldn't be more dramatic in the context of the election. Because the problem being given to Obama is one he's perfectly suited for. It's the one he wanted when he arrived in Washington in 2009 and thought he had been given, in the economic collapse. Unfortunately for all of us, the Republicans responded very negatively to Obama (understatement). This was made very clear in the Frontline report (see #1). I hadn't understood how the Republicans despised him. It wasn't just expedient. They actually hated him. I didn't get this because I didn't feel that way about Obama. But I certainly have felt that way about other politicians.
  They were right in some ways. Obama believed he was transformative. That was a mistake. He should have tried to make a difference in the context of what Washington was, not what he wished it to be. He was vulnerable and naive, and they took advantage of it.
  5. Enter Christie.
  6. Unlike the Republicans in Washinton in 2009, he wants to work with Obama. Really wants to, it's not fake.
  7. Why? Because he likes being governor of NJ, and here's his chance to do that in an incredible way, with all the money of the US govt available to him. All the planets lined up for Gov Christie. And Obama, seeing the opportunity (totally) says oh shit I'm getting the checkbook, and I'm going to spend the money and I got a Republican to play the game with me. "How much do you want?" he asks Christie. He gets to throw a Hail Mary pass, with almost no political cost, certainly none before the election. (I'd love to see Romney complain that Obama was spending too much on New Jersey, esp with the pictures on CNN likely to come in the days ahead. This isn't Benghazi or even Katrina. Our networks have lots of cameras and reporters in the NYC area. Even Republicans on Wall Street will want the money to be spent now. Look where the flooding happened.)
  8. This is what Obama is good at. Getting lots of governors, Republican and Democratic, to work with him. To let him lead and organize them. Use his intellect. Lead the team. (Give them money.) He did it at Harvard. And at Columbia and in high school. This is what he loves.
  9. Now here's the ridiculous part. It's probably something that Romney would be great at too. It's exactly the kind of job he seeks out. It's the way he sees himself. Disaster strikes, and Romney comes in and saves the day -- through management, competence, consensus. If this crisis, exactly this crisis, happened in February and Romney was President, he'd be Christie's buddy too, with the checkbook open ready to fill in whatever number Chris asks him to. But he won't get to do it, and he knows it, and it must absolutely drive him crazy!
  10. Christie will get to rebuild New Jersey with federal money. Before this his state was broke. Now it'll be rich. Jobs galore. He gets to be hero. And I bet he doesn't like Romney, on a personal level. And I bet he does like Obama.
  11. Watch the Frontline report. :-)
And... The Blackmailer Of The Year Award Goes To...
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Obama's Sinking Ship
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:29
  My children, this is real raw data in mailings from the Obama Biden campaign, and as this blog exclusively noted in their giving away merchandise early this week, there are now these two letters from Obama's main operatives.
  The first is from Ann Habershaw begging for 5 dollar donations, because Mitt Romney has 45 million more in the bank, which is Obama running in the red ink, but notice in this the cryptic phrase of waking up on November 7th with no regrets.
  The internal polling for Obama is even more horrendous than is being made public.
  Hey,
  Listen -- we're not there yet, and I'm not one to sugarcoat things.
  Mitt Romney and the Republicans entered the last leg of this campaign with $45 million more in the bank than us. That's a problem, no matter where the polls stand.
  It is simply not an option in my mind to come this far just to have the other side buy this election at the very last minute. We have the momentum in this race, but it's going to take every single one of us -- and that means you, my friend -- stepping up and taking ownership of this campaign.
  Chip in $5 or more before our final budget deadline at the end of the week (yep, you heard right) to make sure we can give our amazing organizers and volunteers what they need for these last, and most important, seven days:
  Here's to waking up on November 7th with no regrets.
  Ann Marie
  Ann Marie HabershawChief Operating OfficerObama for America
  P.S. -- Two supporters and their guests will be flown out to Chicago next week to meet President Obama and watch his Election Night speech from the front row.
  Second there is this loser email from Minnesota, in that Obama felon who was impersonating me in signing up for these mailings by Mitch Stewart. The key doomsday phrase in this one is "If everybody shows up to help get out the vote, I know we'll win this."
  This is an absolute disaster for Obama in the things coming out of his own campaign telling the world they have lost.For real data, Obama is stuck at 47% in the polling. He can not break that number. The tracking polls nationwide all show that democrats are getting out the early voting by a two to one margin, BUT ROMNEY IS LEADING IN THE VOTE COUNT BY DOUBLE DIGITS.
  That means democrats are voting for Romney and not Obama.
  To further this, the GOP efforts are focusing on election day voters in that vote, meaning the GOP numbers should hold.
  Obama stole 2008 and could do it again, but the literal polling data is all showing a reality that even with this 49 49 tie the press is chanting about, in those skewed polling numbers, which always sample ten percent more liberals, Romney is beating Obama.
  Friend --
  It's crunch time. We're planning ahead for Election Day, and we need to know how many people from Duluth will be able to make it out to volunteer.
  So I've got a quick question for you:
  Will you be coming?
  We'll be making calls and having conversations with voters to get them out to the polls. If everybody shows up to help get out the vote, I know we'll win this.
  That's why it's urgent that we have as many volunteers out there as possible, and fill every shift. So we need to know if you're in.
  Commit now, and let us know you'll be a part of this:
  Thanks,
  Mitch
  Mitch StewartBattleground States DirectorObama for America
  What is strange about this Duluth email is Duluth is old democratic Iron Range country, and Minnesota supposedly has that horse face Senator chic who was led about by Obama as his nag in 2009, in a 20 point lead. Obama is supposed to be ahead in Minnesota, and yet they are worried about not garnering Minnesota.Obama's ship is sinking and this hurricane swamped him. He has no momentum except going down. That is what his campaigns are telegraphing in they apparently are preparing already for Hillary 2016 with Bill hitting the trail for her now under the guise for Obama.
  agtG 218
Speed Up Youtube Video Streaming on iPhone, iPad with TCP Optimizer [Cydia Tweak]
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 05:27
  You must be facing the problem of slow video streaming on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch especially with Youtube Application. The performance of video streaming overall is worst on iDevices and they require definite improvement. Now there is a solution for this but to increase the video stream speed on your iPhone you may require to take a step to Jailbreak your device. If you are running on any Beta versions of iOS 6 then follow the method given by us to Jailbreak your device, [Jailbreak iOS 6 Beta 3 10A5355d Using Redsn0w 0.9.13dev3 on iPhone, iPod] If you do not want to Jailbreak then forget about enhancing speed.
  We already know that Cydia Apps or Tweaks provide you something useful for customers. Such like apps are not allowed to be kept on Apple App Store that's why they take shape of Tweaks. These tweaks are better because they provide you more utility at much better rates or even Free of cost.
  If you have a Jailbroken device, you then you need to Install Cydia, [How to Install Cydia on iOS 6 Beta 3 10A5355d]. Now you need to add http://cydia.pushfix.info/ in Cydia. Once the resources are refreshed, search for TCP Optimizer Cydia Tweak in the list, tap install and confirm. TCP Optimizer is all new Tweak released on jailbreak Cydia App Store and this app claims to claims to dramatically reduce the load time on Youtube videos.
  This great app optimizes your iDevice on the following values:
  TCP Receive Buffer is increasedDisable TCP delayed ACK'sDoubled the possible un-ACK packets (from 8 to 16 packagesIncreases the package sizeThis application has the ability to change the original settings built in by iOS. TCP Optimizer enhances the speed of the TCP reciever buffer from 131072 to 292000, disabling TCP delayed ACK's, allowing a maximum of 16 un-ACK'd packets instead of 8. It also makes some changes in default package size from 512 to 1460. The app also makes some other changes inside the device which not only helps in increasing Youtube Streaming speed but also WiFi internet speed. Such kind of alterations are never appreciated by Apple, that is the reason you need to Jailbreak your device. You have seen that by default, Apple has kept receiver buffer at low rate and Apple does not officially allow any app developer to fiddle with their settings. Those who do not like to Jailbreak their devices will have to watch Youtube videos at slower speeds.
  Also Read: Draw Pictures in Messages to Send to Friends with Grafiti [Cydia Tweak]
  There are no known side effects of the installation but if you Jailbreak your device, a caution is that this process will void your warranty. If you are more interested in keeping the warranty element in your own hands and prefer watching slow videos, there is no need to Jailbreak it. As told earlier that there are no side effects caused by this Cydia Tweak but if you run into some problem, just remove the package through Cydia and then restart the device completely. This process will take you back to the original position from where you started.
  TCP Optimizer Cydia Tweak is compatible with devices having iOS 3.1.2 or above and available Free of cost.
VIDEO: Strict US voting laws affect millions
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:33
  When Americans go to the polls in the 2012 presidential election, in some states they will be asked to show photo identification and proof of citizenship for the first time.
  Other new laws prevent citizens from registering to vote on election day.
  More than a dozen states have changed their voting laws since 2011 in an attempt to prevent voter fraud. Critics argue that the low number of cases of fraud do not justify the impact these new laws might have on millions of voters.
  The BBC takes a look at the numbers behind voting registration in the US and who is most likely to be impacted by stricter rules.
  Produced by the BBC's Franz Strasser.
  The BBC will be providing full online live results of the US presidential election on 6 November.Follow our coverage here
  Brennan Center for Justice: Voting Laws Roundup
Obama ordered DHS to control hurricanes
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:23
  http://theintelhub.com/2012/10/30/obama-ordered-dhs-to-control-hurricanes/
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MSNCB disgusted Romney collects supplies for hurricane victims instead of just sending cash
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:22
  MSNCB disgusted Romney collects supplies for hurricane victims instead of just sending cash
  When the clip concluded, Bashir said, ''Mayor Reed, so the Red Cross knows what it's doing. Did he, did you detect perhaps a subtle dig there on Mr. Romney who spent today going against the guidelines established by the Red Cross and holding a campaign rally in Ohio that was dressed up like a charity drive collecting food and other supplies when the Red Cross expressly asked people not to do that?''
  Imagine that. A presidential candidate who gives millions of dollars a year to charity does a storm relief event in Ohio, and an MSNBC anchor is disgusted by it because the Red Cross would prefer people donating cash.
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Admiral James Lyons '' We Need Full Disclosure On Benghazi NOW
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The Latest "Jobs Report" Conspiracy: Hurricane to Delay Report Untill After Election
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  (via ThinkProgress)
  Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Tweeted the following message yesterday (Oct 29, 2012):
  Credit: ThinkProgress
  ...suggesting that the Obama Administration has directed the Dept of Labor to withhold the October Jobs Report (which he is certain will be bad) until after the election and to blame Hurricane Sandy for the delay. "The Fiscal Times" website is predicting a "weak" yet still positive "124,000 jobs created" for October... a 10,000 job improvement over the September jobs report that resulted in a 0.2% drop in the UE rate.
  The DoL says the report is still scheduled for its normal Friday release despite being closed on Monday for the storm. Grassley likely jumped to his ridiculous conclusion based upon a report on "The Hill" blog questioning whether or not the report may be delayed due to the storm. (not unlike Romney quoting an incorrect blog-posting claiming Jeep was "moving all production to China" based on a blogger that misread a Bloomberg headline touting Chrysler's "return to China".)
  Remember that just last month, Republicans falsely accused the Obama Administration of tweaking the unemployment rate down to 7.8% as a pre-election ploy. NOW they are accusing the administration of plans to "delay the report" for political advantage.
  First, they accused the administration of fudging the numbers. NOW they are accusing them of "withholding" the numbers. If the Administration had the power to "fudge the numbers for political gain", why wouldn't they simply "fudge" the numbers again rather than leave the appearance they are hiding something prior to the election?
  No one ever accused the GOP of making sense.
People Being Rescued From Rooftops In New Jersey After Levee Breaks
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This is what Lame Cherry winning looks like
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:12
  My children, do not Thomas Dewey your way to being complacent, but this is what Lame Cherry winning looks like in a long 4 years of Obama jihadist terrorism against America waving bye bye to Obama.
  You know the Obama voters are furious when one is hearing about cock punching by them.
  Personally punching one in the penis, does not accomplish a great deal. Certainly not as much as a testees shot, but them perhaps the balless liberals have their Obama nutsacks so far up the gullet that none of them have ever taken a shot to the gonads.
  Michael Moore/MoveOn.org: We will burn this motherf*cker down and c*ck-punch Romney... Storm Upends Campaign Plans...
  ELECTION PROJECTION: R 52% O 47%...
  Personally in operations, I do enjoy this part of this most in the cleaning up of the board. There is great satisfaction in this human chess to see the powerful moving by direction and implementing the plans as Mr. Obama is now a prisoner in his "president of some nation".
  If this goes according to operations, Mr. Obama is going to rue the day he ever took the bait in bastardizing the US Presidency and raping the American Virgin. He will long to be dictator of dung heap Kenya, if this unfolds as it can.
  Do not get caught up in storms nor in looking to a week away in elections. Savor this, as you have worked for this as this is what the real powers have engineered.They desire you to be aware of their work. They desire for you to appreciate their efforts in engineering all of this. They desire for an audience to join in this feast to acknowledge the intricacies in all of this.
  They have gone out on a limb. Put themselves in jeopardy and still are. If this buggers up yet, they are going to have to pay for their sins in not following Obama. There is real danger in this yet, and that is what makes this so enjoyable as things are not certain really and one must cherish every slow turn of this spit to remember the 2008 election theft, the tyrant Obama with boots on the throat, global fraud, murder and lies, and now it comes down to the despot Obama locked in his thorn boma of roses trapped by another storm demon, as the gods of the storms really hate this guy for upsetting the dominion and principalities.
  This is the start of the Obama erosion. Every day that the "associates" will pin down Mr. Obama under house arrest, means one more day in one more percentage point for Mormon Romney and the GOP.
  This is the time of body shots to just toll away on the opponent and make them go down on their own, to punish them for the crimes of two centuries.
  You remember Cindy Sheehan dragged around in her mental condition to beat George W. Bush over the head. You remember all the lies about Iraq WMD's not existing when they were removed and W. having to take the punishment for taking Saddam's bribes from the elites. You remember Michael Moore housing senile Charleton Heston. You remember all that savagery and barbary of all that Obama represents in babies pulled live from the womb and murdered to Fort Hood with no justice. You remember it all, and then know that Michael Moore, Chris Matthews, David Letterman, that entire cocktail crowd have been made fools like all the blacks and hispanics, all the hot pussy white hags who voted for Obama.You remember the lies they have to tell themselves now, as they slowly twist in the winds of Obama and are furious cock punchers now in they know they lost and that the entire world knows what damn cursed fools they are.
  Enjoy this in those who were from the start of this fraud in standing with Lawrence Sinclair who is the one who started all of this and suffered more than most. The Americans who stood against Obama have lost their health, their homes, their families, their jobs and their savings exactly like the Founders.
  This Obama ilk knows they have lost. Now is the time to rub it in. Worry them. Make them sit in their puke and vomit of booze, pizza and dope overdosing, so they do not show up on election day in saying "F*ck you Obama" in blaming their wet dream for all of their faustian flourish.
  I will not vote for Mitt Romney even if this blog has handed him a victory he only has to show up for now.
  Barack Obama is incarcerated at 1600 Penn Gitmo, a prisoner of the Rose Garden, and an entire hurricane epitaph to his abyss. He has idiots for followers in the abyss. His elite loathe him for the bastard he is. John Boehner is scowling in having to deal with Americans again in their demands will arise for rolling back Obama.
  The Obama ilk will hate Mitt Romney as they hated George Bush, because they can not hate the reality of themselves.Lame Cherry
  You Obama voters are losers. You are the refuse of the animal kingdom. You are fools made madcap by Obama without the hatter's excuse.You can spy on me and log me out of my site in criminal stalking, but it does not change who you are and what you are.
  You are evil Obama voters and you have harmed the good in God's World.
  The reality is.............the Obama voters should be donating to their Father Confessor Lame Cherry in the Mother Superior with all they have, as piles of cash is not going to do them any good in hell.........and that hurricane is just the start of the Obama wash of what is coming due them from the matrix.
  What comes around goes around.
  Who do you think is going to intercede better for you sinners........your anti messiah Obama or Lame Cherry?
  My children, you have my blessing. Enjoy what is beginning in the removal of Mr. Obama.
  The rest of you brats God saw. Deuteronomy 28. tick tock tick tock.
  agtG 274
  Etvidi etecce equus pallidusetqui sedebat desupernomenilli Mors,et Infernus sequebatureum.
  Revelationem;sexocto
Obama Actually Uses Own Campaign Slogan In Response To Hurricane Sandy '' TWICE
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:10
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Clinton: Romney Wrong to Hit Obama for Promising 'to Turn Back the Seas'
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:08
  Former President Bill Clinton, using the backdrop of Hurricane Sandy, blasted Mitt Romney for criticizing Barack Obama's unkept promise of "turn[ing] back the seas":
  "I was actually listening closely to what the candidates said in these debates," said Clinton at a campaign event today in Minnesota. "In the first debate, the triumph of the moderate Mitt Romney. You remember what he did? He ridiculed the President. Ridiculed the President for his efforts to fight global warming in economically beneficial ways. He said 'Oh, you're going to turn back the seas.' In my part of America, we would like it if someone could've done that yesterday. All up and down the East Coast, there are mayors, many of them Republicans, who are being told, 'You've got to move these houses back away from the ocean. You've got to lift them up. Climate change is going to raise the water levels on a permanent basis. If you want your town insured, you have to do this.' In the real world, Barack Obama's policies work better."
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:04
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The Laura Ingraham Syndrome
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 01:02
  I was just listening to Laura Ingraham and as is typical of hot blondes who think they got where they are in life, they offer advice about career choices like to dipshits who want to be bakers because they love it and then find out it is hard ass work and hate it.To assist dear Laura, the following is what all of you know already about life and work.
  First Laura Ingraham got to where she is in life by being a Nordic blonde who Richard Nixon lusted after first and her brain came along for the paycheck, and is how she got to be a spokesbabe on the McNeil Lehrer News Hour, unlike 100 million other qualified women who were not attractive.Oprah got her job as groups of women were not threatened by a fat ass ugly black bitch lezbo who was not going to be any competition for the manfriends and husbands.
  Ingraham is where she is now, because she has control issues and after auditioning that limp dick Dinesh D'Souza for the Obama role of green card boy husband, she chose instead to adopt kids and forgo the man thing as men scare her who won't put up with her bitchy moods.
  Everyone here reading this knows what work is, work is a place where employers never hire people who can work, but instead worthless shit to validate corporate id's.
  You know what is employed are ass kissers to make the boss feel good and laugh at their stupid jokes. Then there are the fat, bald lazy dolts who are not going to look too good to make the boss look stupid, and then there is always the eye candy and toy candy, both male and female, for the lezbos and lounge lizards to masturbate over.....and then the thin veneer of Asians and Whites from the Midwest who work their asses off, so the rest of these lazy bastards and bitches can look good and get a paycheck.
  Laura Ingraham has of course this same structure about her in subordinate males she is "married" to and can boss around to validate her, like that simp producer who lies about bio fuels as he gets his talking points from Rush Limbaugh.Hell Limbaugh marries his bottle blonde daughters, because he is afraid of women and they grow up and get tired of his acting like a 10 year old boy on pecker dope.
  Is just what this is and always has been.
  According to Ingraham, if you speak Obamese and go be an engineer as China will be something for that job interaction, you will of course then have a great job.
  Yeah right, and you know how that goes as there are five jobs at engineer firm, and two go to Bearick and Muchelle who can't add up the fingers on both hands, one goes to some hot ass in a short skirt as she promises to suck the boss, one goes to some snail who is working on the Hoover Dam prints yet, and one goes to an Asian who is doing all the work as the boss smiles about all the money he is being paid.
  You on the other hand, have just spent a hundred grand on education and learned Obamese, and are waiting around for interviews that will never come as it is an insiders game.
  Look at this blog in being the best and having the most breaking stories. It has no big money donors like Foster Friess who buys whores like Romney for a million bucks and never is heard a Ben Afleck word as that trash does not want their sins exposed for complete assholes they are.
  People with talent never are given a thing in this life. This blog still gets told it should learn to speak English, and yet it is successful due to the fact that people who are intelligent, who do not hide behind college degrees actually comprehend the language spoken here and are not so anal retentive they fear to actually think.
  Laura Ingraham has the best talk head show around. She whines far too much and she has started to think she actually got what she has on merit. Laura Ingraham got where she is by people wanting to f*ck her and the closest they could do that was listening to her.Rush Limbaugh got where he was by following a scripted message that stole from numerous people like this blog as he tried to prop himself up in gay shit for showing his beaver to the camera like being a whore for 24.
  Limbaugh just rode Morton Downey......that was his name I think, not the former Iron Man doper, but that Clark Kent guy with the teeth from the Andrew Dice Clay stage personas, and Mockingbird paid him a fat guy salary because he could parrot his parents Conservative ideals.
  You can either build something you want to do or you can start working the system of "who you know" to get a job, and then do the work, and go home not so exhausted and do the things you enjoy like baking or pretending you are me.
  There is not one of the famous people you see before you, who does not have a thousand better people who could do that job. I would quantify that with me, as I know of no other, but if God put His Spirit into someone, hammered the hell out of them to the point of suicide, humiliated them, mixed in various parts of the Virgin Mary and Ezekiel, then they could do this too here. All Prophets though are different and why they read different from Isaiah prose to Daniel humility.
  All of these rich people do bother me, because since the Dotcom bust, Americans have had a hell of a time and been going down hill ever since trying to hang on. Laura Ingraham talks about "going to school" like that just happens without selling your soul in loans. She talks like doing things the way she says will open the doors to prosperity, when she has never been a big assed, cross eyed, ugly, chicken shit brown haired woman with the same qualifications Richard Nixon showed the door to.
  How many women did Richard Nixon interview for the job Laura Ingraham was given for her looks? Richard Nixon was savvy in he knew he wanted Nordic boner appeal to help resurrect his public persona from Watergate.See it all just works out and in deluded Laura Ingraham's mind, she actually thinks she was hired and had doors opened for her, because she actually passed classes.....of course she worked so much harder in university too in why she was so successful and it was not her looks which influenced the professors......just like she gets Obama book deals, because both of them are such intellectual titans.
  I'm not saying Laura Ingraham is not a nice person. I'm dealing the reality though that Laura Ingraham like most people success was awarded to, that they got there not on merit, but on exterior reasons they will not discuss because even Donald Trump does not want to be known he traded on being a good looking young guy in New York who had the bass tacks New York wanted, along with all the bribes he shelled out for his projects.
  Laura Ingraham was hired and people wanted to have her around Conservativedom, because more people thought she was pretty than ugly. People listen to her, not for her whining voice, but because she espouses things they already are thinking, and they put up with her deceptions in how to get a job, because her being a blonde idiot is not so bad when weighed against her sex appeal.
  Oh and by the way, Laura Ingraham never donated to this blog either. I doubt after this bubble burster she will either......but then hey, I'm sure she was going to invite all of us over for turkey on Thanksgiving as she is just that kind of girl and is why Richard Nixon hired her in the first place.
  I wonder what she wore to that interview as she blinked those big blue eyes all pouty, looking vulnerable under those bangs framing it all.......
  6 figures Laura.
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Hundreds Trapped On Fire Island
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Romney Camp Going Off The Fact Checking Rails In Ohio
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  Source: Dave Winer's linkblog feed
  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:58
  Benjy Sarlin October 30, 2012, 5:02 PMThis post has been updated.
  In the final days of the 2012 race, Mitt Romney's campaign is really making good on its pollster's August promise to ignore fact checkers. To close the deal in the Ohio, Team Romney is blitzing the state with a series of wildly deceptive statements and ads suggesting that Chrysler is moving local jobs to China.
  The latest is an unannounced radio spot, audio of which was posted by the Greg Sargent on Tuesday. The spot asks whether Obama rescued the auto industry for ''Ohio '-- or China?''
  ''Now comes word that Chrysler plans to start making Jeeps in '-- you guessed it '-- China,'' the ad's narrator says. ''What happened to the promises made to autoworkers in Toledo and throughout Ohio '-- the same hard-working men and women who were told that Obama's auto bailout would help them?''
  The radio spot is a supercharged version of an earlier television ad, also unannounced, that drew unusually widespread condemnation in the local and national press for tying a planned expansion of Jeep operations in China to the fate of Jeep workers in Ohio. And that ad jumped off similar statements Romney made earlier while campaigning in Ohio.
  Chrysler, Jeep's parent company, has publicly condemned Romney's claims as false, writing on its website that they have ''no intention of shifting production of its Jeep models out of North America to China'' and that any expansion in Asia is to serve Asian markets. In fact, they are adding over 1,000 jobs to their Toledo factory as part of a $500 million investment in upgrading its capacity.
  After Romney continued to suggest otherwise in ads, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne personally called him out for ''inaccurate'' claims.
  ''Jeep is one of our truly global brands with uniquely American roots. This will never change. So much so that we committed that the iconic Wrangler nameplate, currently produced in our Toledo, Ohio plant, will never see full production outside the United States,'' Marchionne said on Tuesday. ''Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand.''
  GM didn't take well to the ad either, bristling at the notion that the auto rescue '-- which the Center for Automotive research estimated saved 1 million US jobs '-- encouraged outsourcing.
  ''We've clearly entered some parallel universe during these last few days,'' GM spokesman Greg Martin told the Detroit Free Press. ''No amount of campaign politics at its cynical worst will diminish our record of creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back to this country.''
  Detroit News reporter David Sherpardson reported some more choice words from GM over the ad, quoting a representative who said ''At this stage, we're looking at a Hubble telescope-length distances between campaign ads and reality'....GM's creating jobs in the US and repatriating profits back to this country should be a source of bipartisan pride.''
  Things have been getting dicy in the fact check department in general this week in Ohio. In addition to Romney's repeated claim that he'd have saved the auto industry largely with private funds, a scenario experts say would have been impossible during the financial crisis, one of his top surrogates suggested on Monday that a Romney administration would have little effect on abortion laws. Romney supporter Norm Coleman told a Jewish group in the state on Monday that Roe v. Wade would never be reversed under Romney, despite Romney's frequent criticism of the decision.
  In a blast from the past, the Romney campaign is also reviving ads (unannounced, yet again) that feature a debunked claim that Obama ''gutted'' welfare work requirements. Romney's original welfare attack in the summer was savaged in the press as inaccurate, prompting Romney's pollster Neil Newhouse to respond that ''we're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.''
  The Obama campaign, which has its own ad out countering Romney's in the state, has tried to suggest that the campaign's dismissiveness towards fact checks suggests they're behind in the state and getting desperate. The Romney campaign insists that the race is a toss up and that they're expanding the electoral map elsewhere to places like Pennsylvania and Minnesota as well.
  Update: Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith released a statement responding to the latest Romney ads:
  ''Now that his false claims about Jeep moving to China have been debunked, Mitt Romney's desperation has brought him back to his old welfare lie - showing once again that there's nothing he won't say to win this election. The welfare attack he repeats in his new ad has been called false by every major fact-checking organization, President Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and a Republican architect of welfare reform. If the American people can't trust Mitt Romney's words in his campaign ads, how could they ever trust him with the presidency?''
  2012, 2012 presidential campaignBenjy SarlinBenjy Sarlin is a reporter for Talking Points Memo and co-writes the campaign blog, TPM2012. He previously reported for The Daily Beast/Newsweek as their Washington Correspondent and covered local politics for the New York Sun.
Romney Ball Caps Made in China, Obama's Made in USA
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  Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:58
  Classic, a facebook friend posted the pics of the caps, and some idiot comes along who's so stupid and angry, he can hardly write a cohesive statement posts this comment below it:
  Danny Smith - O yeah so vote for a Muslim who hates America and this is only because the unions have this fool in their back pockets!!!
  about an hour ago · Like
  Everyone (who's sane) responded asking WTF.
Obama's Feet Stink (Freedom Feens rap song with Rich Black) - YouTube
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  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:36
PressTV - Houthi leader condemns US drone attack in northern Yemen
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  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 23:29
  The leader of Yemen's Houthi group has condemned a recent US assassination drone attack in the northern province of Sa'ada, which left three people dead.
  Abdolmalek al-Houthi described the attack as a ring in the chain of constant US air intrusions against Yemen.
  At least three people were killed after a US drone fired rockets at three separate targets in Wadi al-Abu Jabara, some 250 kilometers north of the Yemeni capital, on Sunday. Tribal sources say the victims were civilians.
  Meanwhile, Ansarallah movement has accused the Sana'a government of cooperating with the US and covering up its aggressions in Yemen.
  Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets in Sa'ada on Monday to protest against the US drone attack and urged the government to cut ties with Washington.
  "The US crime in Wadi al-Abu Jabara is a prelude to new US strikes in new areas, encouraged by the silence and complicity of the so-called reconciliation government," a Houthi leader said to the crowd.
  Washington uses its assassination drones in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia, claiming that they target the terrorists while the attacks mostly led to massive civilian casualties.
  The United Nations has censured the US drone attacks as targeted killings, stressing that they flout international law.
  According to a recent report by Yemen's National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms, over 300 people have been killed in US drone attacks carried out in the southern regions of the country so far in 2012.
  Reports, however, say that the CIA is seeking to expand its covert drone attacks in Yemen, despite the fact that the airstrikes mostly result in civilian casualties.
  HM/MA
Analgate: Obama's Ca'an
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  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:17
  Pronounced saw AN it is QAL, to tread and to tramp, the warrior, the fighter in the ancient roots my children, it is Barack Hussein Obama's elite "good terrorists" he has been murdering since 2009 the "bad terrorists" who will not agree to this dope trade finance and national Muslim and Jewish lands for not implementing attacks upon Secular Muslim Barack Hussein Obama's America.If you can comprehend this, these are thee Obama elite satrap guards who are the enforcers for the Muslim Brotherhood and who are the satrapy guards who control al Qaeda proper for B. Hussein Obama's reign from 1600 Penn Avenue.When this blog broke the story that Obama was the leader of al Qaeda, this is the hierarchy which Obama rules from in his Berlin overtones for the Eurasian masters he bows to.
  For those who think this is farfetched, examine the evidence which has been placed here in exclusives tracking all of this as no one else has.
  The Team Six Navy SEALS, were sent into bin Laden's stand in compound to assassinate an actor. Soon after Team Six was loaded entirely onto one helicopter which was dispatched in response to an al Qaeda attack on a US asset.The entire Team was mass assassinated and was only covered here in operational protocols, for in order for this to take place, the terrorists would have had to have prior planning knowledge to know where to hit, how to hit, where to station their missile launchers, all knowing that Team Six would be deployed in response, what flight pattern to expect and where that helo would vector exactly to obtain a kill shot on it.
  That is coordinated inside information my children of US military operations. That is devil in the details intelligence which can only come from a finite number of sources in Peking, the UN, Moscow, London or Washington, DC.This is more than moles dispatching information or they would have been outed. This is planned strategy as in placing US Soldiers in firebases at the bottom of mountains so terrorists can fire down into them.This is policy of US Soldiers being ordered to wait until they are fired on first by terrorists.This is a policy of feeding US Soldiers psycho drugs so their medical response will be to commit suicide.
  The satrap guard is Ca'an or Saw AN. It was what was privy to the Afghanistan negotiations to turn it back over to communist rule. It was what Richard Holbrooke before his heart was pulled in his assassination was screaming about from his hospital room, "Stop the damn war!", because Holbrooke knew what futility was taking place. It was all a sham.
  For those who need refreshment of mind in being new, Richard Holbrooke died from a heart condition which could only take place if he fell from a great height or was in car crash as his heart suffered that type of trauma. He did not get that from having a meeting with Hillary Clinton.Just so you are aware again of things which do not add up as the puppy press reports Andrew Breitbart dead and moves on to another Obama historic moment.
  Ca'an was the operatoinal elites behind the murder of Team Six using combined inside information and quid pro quo from the Obama regime.
  For those who have a difficult time comprehending such heinous things could even come from the Obama regime, just remind yourself of Benghazi in the facts that two US security personel, CIA SEALS were under fire for 7 hours in the US Embassy, and Barack Obama did not dispatch one measure of assistance, but left them to be murdered too.Thousands of US Soldiers have been left to be murdered in these Obama cleansing wars as much as Khadaffi and his supporters, to 30,000 dead Syrians. This is about barbaric death, as much as the bin Laden compound and those women and children left to walk and crawl through ponds of urine, excrement, saliva and blood in those 5 dead terrorist actors executed there to hide Mr. Obama's forged birth documents.
  Ca'an is the elite guard, but it is more in the 'political minders' of this religious fanatic order, in they are the dispensers of the quid pro quo for Obama political victories in a few dead Muslims means piles of dead SEALS in payment.
  It was Ca'an which was dispatched to begin dealing with Col. Khadaffi's fighters. They are in Syria too in this al Qaeda group of elite terrorists attempting to murder the Assad Baathist leadership.They currently have been awarded from Turkey American Stinger missiles in Turkeygate exclusively exposed here. They have access to every WMD from Egypt, Libya, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen and Syria.
  Ca'an is a known entity and flies carte blanche out of Pakistan as it did into Egypt, where it was waved through, as 'necessary American assets' in having the Obama regime's declaration of "protected assets".As was exclusively reported here, Ca'an touched down in Egypt and were taxied to the Libyan border for a special mission, which was to occur on the 9 11 anniversary at Benghazi in taking of American hostages.
  Too many cooks spoiled the pot, but from Ca'an's view, they were not going to benefit Obama who they figured out was going to assassinate them. They were not going to deal with the Casey Associates in releasing the hostages after January 2013. They were not there to murder Khadaffi forces who this was to be blamed on as Obama kicked around a dead Colonel. They were not there to help Libyan radicals. The formulation on the new intelligence they were being fed was, "They could murder the Americans who were supposed to be hostages and Obama would not be able to do a thing about it, as he instigated thee entire plan for his 2012 campaign to undo the ghosts of bin Laden and Jimmy Carter".
  Exactly as in the murder of Team Six, the Benghazi operation was filled with insider information from knowing which intersections to place heavy munitions on. Knowing where the safe houses were. KNOWING THAT THERE WOULD BE NO OBAMA RESPONSE TO RESCUE THE HOSTAGES AS IT WAS AGREED UPON, and knowing where Libyan security would be dispatched from to neutralize it.
  Ca'an could afford to take it's own sweet time in a 7 hour operation which ended in a "smart" mortar round into the Embassy, because they knew no one was going to be sending in any rescue.
  The reality is, the chanting Muslim teenagers about that Muslim video were paid stooges by the Obama regime to give it that "intimidate the Christian persona" as what this campaign event against Romney was all about.Every Muslim there was being funded by US taxpayers via the Obama re election campaign. That is why all the stories from Libya were pointing fingers in four directions as all were involved and the Libyans did not want to be the ones blamed for this botched Obama operation.
  B. Hussein, as you have seen the camera work of Chris Stevens dragged about with the false flag talking points, was supposed to have that headline of being removed, but what was taking place was the reality of the talking point was sent out, but the digital showed his murder.That is how this unraveled as Obama was running this as a campaign event he intended to exploit for 2 weeks in the hope he could still mould it and fashion it as intended. That is what was behind that enormous bribe to Egypt in the Egyptians knew Ca'an had been desposited on their soil by Obama for this Libyan operation and they could agreed to keep silent for a half a billion dollar more in bribes.
  Obama took off for his campaign stops the next day, and was joking, because that was what was deemed best to try and ignore this. That campaign stop was supposed to be Obama looking grave with the video of Chris Stevens ramping up the gay vote and voters to support Obama. When the feeds came in, that all the Americans were dead, it was the regime's talking points to stick with the original blame the Christians plan, but it soon became like Trayvon Martin in that hoodie event for Obama intimidation, that nothing was matching up to what the regime was propagandizing about.
  Ca'an was back across the Egyptian border before 9 am the next morning. The Libyans who sold this operation out were executed five days later as the posse figured out what had taken place.
  It is the impossible situation in this and Ca'an knows this, as Obama has been utilizing, working with and deploying them in concerted efforts. This is the group which has been showing up in all of Obama's revolutions to start the murder and mayhem.
  There is something in this about one of them liking to travel "western attire" as he enjoys the lizard skin of taking on the persona of his victims. These assets though are all western trained and professional. It is why Team Six is dead and is why Benghazi turned out the way it did.
  You know now the inner workings of this Obama terror squad in the order which he runs out of 1600 Penn Avenue. More information than you Americans were ever intended to comprehend.It all fits into place though once you know the rules of the game and how it is being played. It makes sense of the things you have been watching which did not make sense.It is always much easier when you follow the rules and know the patterns.
  Another Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive which money can not buy apparently as the rich can not donate the five, six and seven figure sums they can afford to get this information out and save their sorry asses, and leave it to the poor who have nothing left to donate.
  Let us review my children and ungrateful brats, your new words. ANALGATE, SADDAMIZE and CA'AN.
  It is my undiscovered country and I can name the creatures any bloody well name I choose.
  Lame Cherry
  agtG 318Y
The CONpromise
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:12
  Hillarycare was the first step to get you thinking on this two decades ago and you celebrated when it went kaput. Problem is children, it never was meant to be installed as something worse was coming in Obamacare.
  Obama was installed on the timeline and railroaded it through in medical rape so bad there would be a revolution over it in 2010.........guess what, you voted for it to be gone and your GOP and Rovians kept it all in place lying to you.
  Paul Ryan has explained exactly what will happen if Mitt Romney gets into 1600 Penn Avenue. Romney lied to Michele Bachmann in saying he would repeal it, and now we have "compromise" in what Romney did exactly in Massachusettes.What did Romney do? A first version of Obamacare.
  What Romney will do is by design in a stalemated Senate by Karl Rove design, is to shuffle a few things so you think Obamacare is kaput and repealed, but it will all be in place which it was meant to do to murder you legally, hammer small businesses so the socio conglomerates have no competition, and you slowly will be ruined as you are cut off on the vine and will in sickness and poverty be herded into the inner reaches of the American Gulag.
  This is what Tavsitock and Stanford do. They are psychological masters at this protocol in knowing how far to push, how to create a Tea Party so you pick up ballots and not guns to save yourselves and when some caller on Mark Levin says, that he thinks Romney will win by 60 to 70 percent, there is Mockingbird to talk it down to a few points, as that is what this has all been engineered to "win" by to keep the masses thinking there is this deadlock in America. It is all conditioned response and you are Pavlov's dog in not figuring out they are making you bark and wag your tail on command
  It is all set up in exactly the way this blog said it would play out in the "close election" and the reasoning behind it. In reality, a Conservative Palin or Reagan would have a 40 point lead on Obama in trouncing him, and making these elections Gingrich nationalized, but as you note the Rovians and Romneycrats have made certain this is Mitt on the heel and the toes of the GOP Congress are digging in for their lives trying to hang on.
  This hierarchy destroyed the Tea Party candidates in 2010 by Sen. Cornyn of Texas bleeding them dry for liberal GOP candidates who lost. This was deliberate in the ten year plan by the Rovians and the fruition of this, THEY TOLD YOU THE TEA PARTY WOULD DIE IN A FEW YEARS and by them it did. It took them that long to strangle it and to show them the GOP would betray them again in Congress by not doing a thing.
  They would give you Mano Romney and Aspen Ryan, and all of you would languish as the big picture is settling for a fraud like Romney who will then keep Obamacare in place as Romneycare AS IT WAS INTENDED ALL ALONG.
  Why do you think Romney decapitated the GOP Conservative Leadership? It was because he is a liberal Mexican who hates American Conserervative Christians.The LDS is the beaner religion of Catholicism of the imported English who flocked to America to follow Joseph Smith to that sand hell of Utah.
  That is the reality. The Compromise in what Ryan has informed you is coming, and you will have cemented into place all of Obama Marxism under a pretty name.
  Romney is not going to roll back high priced BATF gun licenses to put guns back into people's hands. Romney is not going to bring back cheap energy so you have money to donate to Conservatives. Romney is not going back to Reagan healthcare in cheap care and people getting well. Mitt Romney is the CONman PROMISE of the feudal lords to make you think that scary nig in Obama Chinoid Barry Chin is gone, so you all settle down for a few years in getting used to the chains so they can come put a big 666 brand on your foreheads.
  nuff said 241
CNN: High-Tech Tracking Of Hurricane Sandy
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Giants Fans Get Rowdy In San Francisco
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Terror Drill In Seattle Simulates Terrorist Chemical Attack On A Train
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University Of Washington Professor Working To Make Time Travel A Reality
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Prostitution Could Stop Being A Crime In Seattle! At Least For The Prostitute
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Wild Pigs Causing Accidents On America's Fastest Highway
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B. Hussein Obama flees Florida Threat
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:55
  The election analysis of Blood Root, the Nevada gamer is about as spot on in the trends of all of this election theft. It visits the John McCain 10 million vote win in 2008, but we all know what Obama did in stealing that election in flipping votes.
  Mitt Romney could have sealed this win long ago by simply stating, "Hey I'm a Mormon, but I believe Jesus is my Savior in thee Son of God, but I represent all Americans and this is my personal view and it is no longer open to discussion".That lie would have given him a landslide.Romney though chose the stalemate 50 50 America as the elite want the world to think America is 50% normal people and 50% Obama perverts.
  The hurricane is a draw draw in this. If the security starts shooting people, disarming people like Katrina, or people start dying from freezing to death or Obama's plane runs over some child, then this is a disaster for Obama. He cuddles it too close and it is what Bush41 was put through in Florida in being damned one way or the other.Nothing worse than a cold damn rain, compared to a warm damn rain to make people pissed off at the powers in charge.
  This suppresses voters for Obama as these are Obama states. Working voters will get to the polls and their neighborhoods will be secure. The welfare voters will be trapped at home and no early voting.
  The tally is a 3 to 12 point literal vote win for Romney. Romney is trending at winning the swing states. Obama is stuck at 47% and can not rise above it. Romney for the first time is on Obama's coat tails, actually breaking 50 plus, and that vote margin is something he never cracked as Americans do not like him........they just do not like Obama more.
  Catholics are no help in splitting 50 50. Obama was correct in this will come down to the illegal Mexcian vote, but that group is not at all happy with Obama. The christian vote is breaking hard for Romney and will show up at the polls.
  Romney as this blog stated as straw man has no coat tails to help the GOP. Rove is looking at his engineered barely taking the Senate to keep all things Obama in place as this was devised a decade ago. Obama does have coat tails and his tails will elect Republicans.
  Berg in North Dakota is trending toward an 8 point win over the Obama girl there. Todd Akin in Missouri is the boy for Obama's coat tails. Obama does bad, and Akin wins over Claire. It does come down to the reality though of Scytl voting machines.Scytl can flip the magic 10 million. Beyond that problems start arising.
  Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Wisconsin will fall to Romney without Scytl. If this would run another two weeks, Minnesota would fall for Romney too.
  This blog predicted a Romney electoral college landslide early last summer.
  Obama is effectively broke as reports noted, and as this blog wrote in the Day Obama Died in his give away of his merchandise. Romney has around 100 million dollars to unleash on Obama in campaign ads.Mitt Romney can THANK LAME CHERRY for the work here in early 2012 in pointing out that Obama's donor list did not match the number he needed for another billion dollar campaign......meaning this blog gummed up the election donor fraud works early for Obama, and now this has given Mitt Romney his monetary edge as this blog took away Obama's ability to raise fraud money.
  So for those who, including Mano Romney do not agree with the correct assessments here, this blog will not bend to lies, but serves God's Truth. I may not vote for Mormon Romney, but if Mitt Romney steals this back from B. Hussein Obama, it is the work of this blog which built the structure he is now operating out of.Romney might be too arrogant to figure it out and his supporters to ignorant, but Mitt Romney owes me the White House, as this blog did the trench work so he and the misses could look squeaky Mormon.
  UPDATE: HMS Bounty sinks off NC coast; crew abandoned ship; 2 missing...
  Do not miss the Obama bad omen and bad omen for America in this ship sinking in this epic storm.
  Obama is making Air Force One trips now and not making any campaign stops. Jarrett and Axelrod are just flying the Birdie around now to give him something to do according to Matt Drudge, and as an exclusive ONLY HERE, they are not allowing Obama out as there is angst in those Intelligence branches of highly trained professionals over Team Six and Benghazi.The Obama scuff event has been removed off the ledger as it has been deemed in polls that voters would feel remorse in the scuffer failing at it and the event now would only hurt Obama, as his liberals and blacks are looking for a way to not vote for B. Hussein.The regime though is again very concerned over the grumbling they are hearing from the trained assassins in the civilian and the military. That is why the Florida flight was just a flight.
  O Flies to FL Sunday, back to DC Monday -- with no campaign stop?
  Another Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive.
  Chief surrogate campaigner Bill Clinton will attend the Orlando event in Obama's place.UPDATE: Obama has also cancelled a campaign appearance scheduled for Tuesday in Green Bay, the White House announced.
  Barry Chin is being stalked by elements of the aquatic kind and it is not a hurricane.......and one more thing, Obama once again picked Detroit to win the World Series. Once again Obama's pick was the kiss of absolute death in the Giants obliterated the Tigers in a sweep. It went extra innings but the Giants won. That portends equally bad for Obama.
  I do expect some odd event to happen for Obama to turn voters off in the next week.
  Ok my children, go play as you have received the big SEAL news of the day connected to ANALGATE
  agtG 270
  PS:
  Notice Carney says the return is due to ''deteriorating weather conditions.'' That is, Obama is probably returning early less to ''monitor the preparations'' than out of concern by officials that they might not have been able to get him back into Washington if they waited until the afternoon.
  Air Force One is a tactical transport device, designed to fly in hurricane, blizzard, EMP pulse and nuclear war. It can handle any weather or war situation. It can fly at almost 180 degrees up or down. This was not about weather. This exclusive broken here was about the fallout from SEAL Team Six and Benghazi.B. Hussein has a real scuff event and this is not just a warning as was broken here in the Marine One diversion of autumn 2011.
  nuff said in another Lame Cherry matter anti matter series of exclusives
  agtG 257, front end loaded, power 6's, downloaded to deuces. power ends in sequence.
decapitating a king
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  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:49
  The suicide and murder of King Saul is a most interesting vanishing point in a people chosen leader of Israel subverting the Will of God.
  Saul was a weak person for being the tallest, most popular of men. He descended into pettiness, thinking himself greater than God and in the last days was inquiring of witches as God had chosen His leader.
  In that, the last hours of King Saul or descriptions of him are telling.
  It begins on Mount Gilboa with his sons in battle against the Philistines. The record states that the archers wounded him.Saul was known to have armour, but in a later period Ahab had an archer wound him at the joints of the armour, and it would seem that the Philistine archers must have been amassed and it they numbered 1000, they could effectively if having 100 arrows per quiver deliver literally four thousand eight hundred arrows per minute. It literally could rain arrows as an archer could shoot four arrows every five seconds.Accuracy would not matter in this flock shooting as massed troops receiving massed volleys of metal tipped arrows would provide the desired effect.
  In this, even with armour, the "chance" would be that arms, legs, feet and neck could be effectively pierced. Even if the archers were not massed, the reality is enough damage could be inflicted on a human body to "worry" a body.
  Arrows with metal tips could indeed puncture armour if it was brass and later the English long bow worked on armour in piercing it at considerable distances. The point in reality is Saul could have been wounded to the extent he would order his armour bearer to kill him, so that he would not be captured.Saul might have not been capable of walking. He was though afraid of falling wounded into the hands of the Philistines and being like Khadaffi in roughed up before murdered or his wounds ending his life.
  It was at this point his story states his armour bearer would not kill him, so Saul fell on this own sword, at which point the armour bearer committed suicide too.
  A further account in Samuel progresses with a foreigner finding Saul, and Saul stating that he was "dizzy" and that the foreigner should kill Saul, to which he did.The foreigner was probably looting the bodies and in taking from Saul his crown and things, in presenting them to David, Saul's rival, he thought he would be rewarded.David had the assassin killed.
  At this point, the Philistines arrive on the scene and decapitate Saul's corpse, parade his head around and hang his body, with his son's on the wall of their city.
  The men of Israel then go and retrieve the bodies, cremate them and then bury the bones.
  In all of this, King Saul, appears to have been wounded sufficiently to not flee. He must have suffered some would where he presumed he would die in a liver piercing or an arrow might have come from an above trajectory as arrows for distance were fired as such and might have pierced in he upper torso into a high lung. That would indeed cause incapciation in coughing up blood.
  Saul falling on his sword must have pierced himself in the upper abdomen and not in the rib area. Correct dispatching would be to center the sword on the left or right side by the heart, next to the sternum, planting the sword but in the soil and thrusting the torso forward.This should open major veins or arteries in which one drowns in their own blood or dies from loss of blood in internal bleeding within minutes.
  The Romans executed Marc Antony down through his armour by the neck into this region.
  Saul though apparently was not having any of this go his way, and the foreigner did inflict the final wound would was probably a chest thrust, as the Philistines came later and cut Saul's head off.
  In that it is interesting in, Saul was dead and the Philistines discovered this event in picking over the battlefield. They had no idea what had taken place. That too hints that this was some type of archer attack on the battlefield which slaughter the Saulite royal household.
  A ruler chosen by a nation and rejecting God. It all started out so exuberant, as no one was like Saul and in the end, Saul was desperately attempting suicide and could not accomplish the simple task when all hope was gone.
  agtG
ANALGATE: THE GERBIL UP BARACK'S BUTT
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  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:34
  In a continued exclusives of Lame Cherry matter anti matter......
  As was first reported here, B. Hussein Obama fled Florida from attending campaign events due to the reality credible threat sources emerged in the exact details as was revealed here when he was on his "Minnesota Junket" a year ago.When Mr. Obama then spent an entire night on Air Force one it had to do with the facts that he has had on his ledger "Obama scuff events" in a graduated scale since autumn 2008 when BATF arrested those two dope heads and had them confessing Obama was a Martian, all to intimidate and suppress the white vote.
  The Minnesota events of last year were designed to take this ledger event from Mr. Obama, and the exclusive of the diversion of Marine One was to reinforce the message from these sources that Mr. Obama would not be allowed to conduct there operations as a matter of 2012 election theft.
  When Mr. Obama was attempting the Benghazi hostage situation to seal his victory before Debate Night 1, followed up with fraud jobs reporting numbers which involved on major population state did not even report job claims, which is what gave the great job numbers of 8.7%, there was on the Obama ledger, the fag file as exclusively broken here, the reality of game changer scuff event when the intimidation of white Christian voters failed in the Benghazi murders.
  We now know as with other revelations first proven here, that there were videos of Benghazi, that Mr. Obama watched it live in the middle of the night. He did nothing to rescue the Americans there. This terror attack lasted almost 8 hours and in response, Mr. Obama jetted off to a Nevada campaign rally, and was telling jokes.
  In knowing that nothing has stopped Mr. Obama from vacationing in Condom Bombers, Ford Hood Masssacres, states flooded out, do not be led into the falacy that Mr. Obama cut off a Florida and Wisconsin election rally, and sent in Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, to fill in.
  Bill Clinton loves this that Obama has been penned in by the credible threats in being a hostage of the Rose Garden, as Bill Clinton was aware of the Marine One diversion, and do not forget that Bill Clinton was behind that Bart Sestak election fraud which tagged to Mr. Obama via Rahm Emanuel in the Pennsylvania elections as was exclusively reported here.
  In that proof of understanding in patterns, the following is what was initiated.
  Certain elements who have been upset over the events of the mass murder of Team Six have been making waves for the past months. The events of Benghazi in Obama's failed hostage taking and anal rape of Chris Stevens which caused the murder of American assets in Libya, is what set this situation in motion for the Florida flight.The hurricane was perfect cover for this, as this blog wills to make clear, the group behind this credible threat, have no intention of a Grassy Knoll event. Their purpose is to disrupt Obama's election theft at this key juncture by their own operational blackmail in enjoying the situation of making him be Jimmy Carter of the Rose Garden prison of 1980.These days are crucial for Obama election theft, and this group has literally shaved off several days now which are the precise time that voters cement their vote.
  There are 3 packages involved in this which makes this all click.
  The first package points to the real Sheik bin Laden corpse murder which Andrew Breitbart was assassinated over.
  Package two deals with the mass murder of Team Six with seeing is believing digital in who fed the Ca'an terrorists the operational information which blew their helo out of the sky.
  Package three contains the Benghazi revelations of ANALGATE in this was a Barack Obama initiated campaign event for a hostage rescue.
  These packages are designed to be released on scene of an Barry Chin scuff event with full internet release for the world to see. Putting a KATE as a signature would gain the public's attention in missing Barry Chin, while the real political assassination was the information packages at the scene bleeding out over days.
  Mr. Obama left US assets for hours, begging for help, and did nothing as he tried to cover up his crimes of this hostage campaign event. The group behind this, fully want Mr. Obama to twist slowly for days in watching the events unfold as things are taken from him, while he is in his Gitmo Rose Garden........some have said in jest this is Operation Gitmo Obama.
  The deft of this was the "press conference" on Tuesday, October 29, when Bill Plant, the old sod from CBS decided to be given one hanger pitch to Obama, so Obama could explain the reason he fled Florida and was hiding in the White House was because he cared about people getting food and help.Once again, this is the person who has had no time for any Americans in any disasters and has gone out of his way to make things worse in traffic jams in blizzards, just so Barry could get a piece of cherry pie.
  Barack Hussein Obama has had an October Surprise reverse engineered upon him. It is stealth and perfectly subtle and nothing like Lawrence Walsh indicting Bush41 cabinet members to install Bill Clinton, nor B. Hussein's super depression meltdown in 2008 for his foreign agent installation.
  Do not miss the satire, amusement and cat playing with the mouse in this though, in this credible threat surfaced on October 29th, the anniversary of the planned Stock Market crash by the same financiers who installed Barack Obama. It was 83 years later, but the Wall Street Insiders who had a diversionary hand in this, did their own "special date' as Sheik bin Laden and B. Hussein Obama chose September 11th for their operations.That date alone points to this being not a reactionary model, but this was projected out several weeks ago to send a direct message to Barack Obama.
  Bill Clinton rubbing this in with glee in having to hold up "that bright boy's behind" with white man Joe Biden, is not lost in any of this, as Mr. Obama was forced to be Jimmy Carter at this critical juncture. Obama can not make up this time as voters decisions are made.Bill Clinton reminds them of what a real black President was in success and Joe Biden reminds them of all the thug Obama could never measure up to, without looking like a bully.
  This is one of thee best intelligence operations ever devised on American soil. It is better than the Obama "enemies of the state" gambits in his attempt to destroy John Edwards by Axelrod leaks in torturing cancer stricken Elizabeth Edwards and using that baby in the mix, as Obama released Holder and Justice to wipe out Edwards from a 2012 challenge.
  This was a whisper, a promise of a KATE signature, which if Mr. Obama did not fly back to his Rose Garden prison, he would have a trail led back to a book depository with a video library of three packages explaining directly the crimes involved in Sheik bin Laden's corpse murder attached to Andrew Breitbart, the mass murder of SEAL Team Six and the Benghazi hostage fiasco which became ANALGATE.
  That is the way real intelligence operations are run. Just a whisper and the puppet dances marionette all on their own, accomplishing self suicide as was the intent of the operation.This group is tracking Mr. Obama in operations in swing states. It is why he waved off Wisconsin, as "they" are ready with their flash drive packages to be found.
  It is most interesting all of these visitors to my brier patch. I do like the company as one bumps into so many intelligent types who like to sing.
  Oh let's sing a song......
  Or just pretend we did.
  agtG 251Y
Con Ed power plant explosion during Superstorm Sandy
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  Source: Atomic Insights
  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:33
  My guess is that this video footage of a dramatic explosion at a Consolidated Edison natural gas fired power station during Superstorm Sandy is destined to be far less famous than the footage of the brief hydrogen explosions at Fukushima Daiichi following the Sendai earthquake and tsunami.
  Thermal power plants, by their very nature, are places where there is a great deal of stored energy. There are ways to make them more resilient; nuclear plants have generally invested far more in that effort than their fossil fuel competitors. I wonder if this particular Con Ed plant is one that might have been a nuclear plant if the focused opposition had not spread fear, uncertainty and doubt during an epic battle in the earliest days of nuclear energy development.
  During that battle David E. Lilienthal, who had been the first chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, but was no fan of the technology reportedly told the committee holding a hearing on the proposed plant:
  ''I would not dream of living in the borough of Queens if there were a large atomic power plant in that region, because there is an alternative '-- a conventional thermal power plant as to which there are no risks.''
  Also on my radar screen this morning is another Gundersen effort to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about nuclear energy by implying that Superstorm Sandy puts Oyster Creek and other nuclear plants at risk of a Fukushima-like incident. Will Davis wrote an excellent response on ANS Nuclear cafe titled Spent Fuel Pool at Oyster Creek.
NYT: 'Big Storm Requires Big Government', Not Katrina Redux
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:32
  The New York Times editorial board, on the day Hurricane Sandy wreaks havoc in the Big Apple, aims at Mitt Romney's crotch and gives him a good, hard kick. Good! I'm tired of so-called "news" organizations that treat the crap that spews from right-wing zombies as if it's worthy of intelligent consideration. Let's kill the Romney/Ryan/Cantor Randian wet dream once and for all:
  Disaster coordination is one of the most vital functions of ''big government,'' which is why Mitt Romney wants to eliminate it. At a Republican primary debate last year, Mr. Romney was asked whether emergency management was a function that should be returned to the states. He not only agreed, he went further.
  ''Absolutely,'' he said. ''Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better.'' Mr. Romney not only believes that states acting independently can handle the response to a vast East Coast storm better than Washington, but that profit-making companies can do an even better job. He said it was ''immoral'' for the federal government to do all these things if it means increasing the debt.
  It's an absurd notion, but it's fully in line with decades of Republican resistance to federal emergency planning. FEMA, created by President Jimmy Carter, was elevated to cabinet rank in the Bill Clinton administration, but was then demoted by President George W. Bush, who neglected it, subsumed it into the Department of Homeland Security, and placed it in the control of political hacks. The disaster of Hurricane Katrina was just waiting to happen.
  The agency was put back in working order by President Obama, but ideology still blinds Republicans to its value. Many don't like the idea of free aid for poor people, or they think people should pay for their bad decisions, which this week includes living on the East Coast.
  Over the last two years, Congressional Republicans have forced a 43 percent reduction in the primary FEMA grants that pay for disaster preparedness. Representatives Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and other House Republicans have repeatedly tried to refuse FEMA's budget requests when disasters are more expensive than predicted, or have demanded that other valuable programs be cut to pay for them. The Ryan budget, which Mr. Romney praised as ''an excellent piece of work,'' would result in severe cutbacks to the agency, as would the Republican-instigated sequester, which would cut disaster relief by 8.2 percent on top of earlier reductions.
  Does Mr. Romney really believe that financially strapped states would do a better job than a properly functioning federal agency? Who would make decisions about where to send federal aid? Or perhaps there would be no federal aid, and every state would bear the burden of billions of dollars in damages. After Mr. Romney's 2011 remarks recirculated on Monday, his nervous campaign announced that he does not want to abolish FEMA, though he still believes states should be in charge of emergency management. Those in Hurricane Sandy's path are fortunate that, for now, that ideology has not replaced sound policy.
  "Give it to the states"? The "reconstruction" of New Orleans was a feeding frenzy for politically-connected Republican sharks. Ridiculous profits, often for work that was never done. Illegal destruction of properties that were than handed over to the developers. And the work that was done, was done selectively -- as in, how well connected are you?
  No. No, no, a thousand times no.
Thread: This is what climate change looks like.
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  Source: Dave Winer
  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:33
  To partisans: The issue isn't whether Romney wanted to kill FEMA, it's that we're having an election without climate change as an issue.
  It should be the dominant issue.
  As usual, people want to blame the leaders, but we get as much bullshit as we demand from them. If we decided that climate change was the issue, it would be.
  Time for the American electorate to grow a pair and take responsibility
Inside the Mormon Illuminati & US Military Cult (The Final Illuminati Chapter for America)
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  Source: hollywoodilluminatidotcom
  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:06
  A guy named Webster Tarpley was on The Alex Jones Show and he brought up The Mormon Prophesy of the White Horse. I never really got too much into the Illuminati Aspect of the Mormons because most people don't know enough about how the Founding Fathers took America from the European Illuminati to even begin to understand how we got the Mormon Cult.
  Webster Tarpley hit on enough of true and key points about the Mormon Illuminati and MItt Romney, that I will go ahead and co-sign his check being that Alex Jones wasnt really giving him the time of day, almost to give the impression that Webster Tarpley was lying. Theres not many people qualified to speak on the Illuminati, like Webster Tarpley and I am not going to leave him on the battle field by himself.
  The religion that I am most asked to talk about is by far the Mormon Faith. When your a young dude, no older than 19 & you are socialized with certain aspect of the Illuminati, like I was back in the day, it is very difficult to unload a bunch of dirt about these people but I did it with Prince William, so I may as well close out these Illuminati Chronicles with the Mormon Post. When I talked about Prince William, to be honest I cried and puked up, because you feel a gut wrenching betrayal but fuck it. Reality and history is way more unpleasant than what many people wish to believe or admit.
  I am not even going to put up any naked photos of Rihanna or Ashton Kutcher to make this intriguing, but instead I will leave it as straight text because most people dont have the attention span to read straight text and to be honest, I dont want you to read it.
  After the La. Global Oil Company Illuminati Cults and before I fell into the Hollywood Illuminati, there was an in-between time that I happen to get mixed in with the Military/Mormon Illuminati Cult. And through all of this combined Illuminati exposure, this is how I got an intellectual grip on the REAL Illuminati and not just little aspects. I know everything that there is to know about how shit works.
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  The only thing that I liked about the U.S. Marine Corp was the sex and the guns. In fact one armory at Camp Pendelton was like 50 ft up in the air and like 50 ft below the ground. America has lots and lots and lots of guns!
  But of course with me, nothing is normal, because I wasnt even out of boot camp before the Illuminati came knocking. I was kinda a local celebrity in my home town, in global oil company run classes in high school and all of that shit followed me out to Ca. State. They knew who I was before I even arrived & they were going to toss me straight into cultural intelligence.
  Already having grown tired of what appeared to be endless and unnecessary hikes, with full fucking gear, through the hills which run up and down San Diego County, I came upon a scam to get myself re-assigned to a desk job.
  I noticed a Navy Doctor had a Voodoo Doll and a sticker from Tulane University in New Orleans hanging and posting up in his office. At the time, my sister was attending Tulane University in New Orleans so I knew that I had my doc.
  I lied and said that I was having shortness of breath and even though he knew that I was lying, simply because I provided him with good conversation on New Orleans, he signed a form saying that I couldn't do any more hikes for that month.
  It appeared that the legal dept where they handled all of the scandalous files on the personnel in that area of Camp Pendelton needed someone that could file and type. Now being that I used to write editorials for my local small town paper, while in High School, I appeared to be the only person in that entire military base that knew how to use a type writer being that in the early 1990'²s most schools didn't require students to type home work & owning a lap top computer was not a common thing around that time. I owned a computer since the 1980'²s but most households in America, didnt have home computers until the mid to late 90'²s.
  In fact the more I think about it, there was only a full blooded Native American Guy from New Mexico & myself that actually typed over 15 words per minute and as a result we were just in and out of military offices typing up shit that made no sense, simply because some officer wanted to pretend that they had something important to say.
  So, I sat in the office and listened to some Staff Sergeant whine about Singer/Actress & Hollywood Liberal Barbara Streisand and how he wish that this ''dumb liberal bitch would just move out of the country.'' I gave myself classified clearance and started reading disciplinary files simply because higher-ups are so fucking stupid and never paying attention to anything.
  I knew what Corporal was beating up his wife, what Sergeant had a cocaine problem, what private got busted jacking off with another private on the base and which private first class went out, took GHB with a prostitute in Mexico, was robbed and then he and his buddy got back on base and couldn't pass the piss test.
  I make it a point to be ''in the know'' which is why I can tell you the shit that I tell you on HollywoodIlluminatiDotCom. I cant just be a player in part of a larger scheme without me knowing what the entire scheme is, so that I can make a choice to see if I want to play the part.
  In the US Military we had religious services for Protestants or Catholics. Even from my boot camp days, they would basically yell out ''Protestants to the right and Catholics to the left.'' And believe it or not, this Protestant/Catholic Title covered 99% of all the guys in the Marine Corp. So, I was going over with the Catholics but for some reason I was directed to go some place else.
  I was instructed to go into a little room and there waited some Nation of Islam Types and some Islamic Studies. Now, at that time I had no urban friends. I didn't know too much about urban culture except that they were people that lived in government created zones or neighborhoods and didn't really own anything except the latest pair of Air Jordans.
  There is just nothing intriguing to me about urban America. I don't find it glamorous and the only reason why I even live in West Hollywood is because parts of L.A. is a mix or urban and rural meaning that even if you live 2 minutes from Sunset Strip you are still only another 2 minutes away from dirt roads and horses.
  The only urban blacks that I knew were my cousins that lived in New Orleans and even they lived in these middle class and gated communities which many blacks lived in before Katrina, around Jefferson Parish & my other cousins lived in the better parts of Uptown New Orleans. But I did have one cousin that got a girl pregnant in high school, got Section 8 (because his mon & step dad wanted them to live in a garage) and became a drug dealer for some out of state white men. They were flying in the drugs at a private airport in Louisiana State!
  None the less, I simply didn't get along with the Islamic ''teachers'' because a couple of 40 year old Muslim Black Men talking to me like I was an inmate about some silly Muslim politics, was so far below my IQ level that I quit the studies and they were mad.
  The urban culture of America, I don't care if its rap culture or dressed up NY mess like Sex in the City, it is so artificial, manufactured and fake that it cant even be considered a culture. There is just nothing about urban life that is of benefit or that isn't controlled by handlers, in fact most of the people on tv, which do shows out of NYC do not actually live in NYC but instead they live up in places like Westchester County, which is looks more rural than suburban.When I lived with my sister up in Westchester County area of NY, I may as well have been living in Kentucky because those homes are surrounded by some scary looking wooded areas. The Northern Suburbs of Manhattan are so dam rural, that one could lost among a forest.
  So, all of these people that are trying to sell you this glamorous life of these mega-cities like Manhattan aren't living there and the only reason why you see so many Jews living in Manhattan is because the Jews were ghettoized in Europe. The American Jews are nothing but ghetto garbage and the shit that they try to sell about Manhattan or Chicago is shit that I aint buying. So, they enjoy breathing in dead skin cells and rust fragments, which are all of the things that one inhales from living in Manhattan.
  I lived in NYC for like 3 months and I just had to leave that city and go up into Westchester and tell my sister to get her sofa ready, because mega cities like NY are filty & the reason why people pay $3000.00 per month to live in a NYC closet is because they use media to sell filth and trick you into thinking that it is ''hip & high end culture''!
  The same way that the Illuminati uses music, films, tv, news and even religion to sell you Satan is the same way that the Illuminati uses music,films and tv to sell apartments in NYC for 20 million dollars.
  Looking back on it in hind sight, I now know that the CIA recruits from the military pool.
  The US and British Intelligence runs all of the radical Islamacist and trains them. The US and British Intelligence runs all of the hate groups, nation of Islam, ADL, Jewish civil rights groups, black civil rights groups, La Raza, UN NGO's and Non profits and even the Ku Klux Klan is run by the same people. The same people that run the ADL, Nation of Islam, Green Peace, Amnesty International & Children International are the same people that run the Ku Klux Klan.
  If I wouldn't be so dam inquisitive, kept my mouth shut and would be the type to just go-along to get-along with the Illuminati, I could've been the next Osama Bin Laden. I could have millions of dollars, do the finest of British/German made heroine grown in Afghanistan, fuck 10 different women a night (or men because all of these Islamic Radical CIA/British Tokens swing both ways) and most importantly I could have inspired young, dumb, full of cum Muslim men all over the world to blow up targets and scare some white people with the promise of virgin girls in heaven. Could've been so beautiful.
  Me sitting up at the US Pentagon and drinking French Wine with Dick Cheney and discussing the most evil parts of our brilliant minds. I could've gotten bail out money and own an estate in South America, like Bush, complete with a private water supply as the oil companies frack the fuck out the US with toxic chemicals.
  So after not taking that bait, in came the Mormons. And these guys had free access to everything. Number one, they were white rural guys and I was from a white rural town in La State. The Mormon guys were calm, centered & smart sounding. Gifted mind control artist, instantly I loved them'...until I found out about their ritual system.
  Number two, while the Catholic Priest was some old 70 year old white guy, the Protestant Preachers were old 50 year old white guys and the Islam people were moody 45 year old black guys, the Mormons were of military age and basically they just blended into the barracks. The Mormons, all though not enlisted in the military, looked like any other guy.
  The Mormon recruiters were in the barracks on week nights (which a special exception was made only for them), they would sit in the bunk (bed) with you and even be in the showers with you. The US Military is nothing but one big frat. The entire Mormon Faith is a cover for an anti-American Intelligence Organization that was created by England.
  They were doing their littler missionary work, so they were young, not married and basically they all lived together being that these young Mormon guys cant get married or even have sex (all though they do) until after completing these recruitment. Basically they had the exact same lifestyle as young guy enlisted in the military.
  Prior to encountering these Mormon Guys, the only thing that I knew about Mormons was that they some how managed to carve out these un-official territories in the U.S. and had 10 wives.
  They were impressed because I was going to every meeting and really reading The Book of Mormon.
  And to make a long story short, I got really into the Mormon Philosophy for a couple of years. No other group in America could so openly carve out territories and the reason why the Mormons were able to succeed at this is because they were funded with a lot of money from the European Royal Families that wanted to counter the American Revolution.
  On an instinctive level I knew that the Mormon Faith was an illuminati religion that was a safe-guard by Illuminati out of Europe to stop the Founding Fathers from being successful in created an independent America.
  The United States is a huge country and even after the American Revolution when we fought off the British, the chances of being able to stop the European Intelligence from starting counter movements, even if it took them hundreds of years, was virtually impossible.
  Ever since 1776 the United States has been under attack and most of these attacks are cleverly disguised under the guise of religion or immigration.
  Each time that the Illuminati wanted to destroy, take down or re-colonize a society, they used religion and immigration. Rome took Western Europe via religion and immigration of non-indigenous Europeans and even when the Illuminati made the choice to end Rome, we saw even more flooding of Western European with ethnic darker whites, which help install the European Royal Families.
  No civilization simply ends or starts up by accident; PEOPLE END THEM OR START THEM.
  The Mormon Faith is not an American Faith and has nothing to do with American Heritage and to be honest if our Founding Fathers were still alive today, the only country that would be aligned with, as of right now, would be Russia. Russia is very anti-Illuminati and Russia has also fought the same anti-Illuminati fight, sometimes in a very successful manner, that our Founding Fathers had to fight.
  Once the Illuminati out of Europe got wind that they would not be able to hold America due to our Founding Fathers, they started a cult up in the NY Area which said that Jews were of Satan and needed to be killed or baptized & that Jews had a soul that was so evil that even after death the Mormon God wants the Mormon Church to baptise Jews. So, this is why Mormons baptise dead jews.
  Some jews think that this is a funny practice to look upon as a joke but these people are deadly serious about thinking that present day jews are the scum of the Earth. And you wonder why Netanyahu (the leader of Israel) is best friends with a Mormon like Mitt Romney? Netanyahu is barely someone that likes Jews. Most of Netanyahu friends are people like Mitt Romney or Messianic Circles that are anti-Jewish.
  They also wrote that Native Americans were the real Jews and that anyone with dark skin was cursed and dark due to being of sin. What many people interpret as Mormons saying ''blacks are dark due to sin'' it is actually not just blacks, which the Mormons attribute this ''sin blood line'' to but it is also Jews (which tended to be darker than indigenous Europeans), blacks, Hispanics and Indians-in other words all of the people which the Europeans wanted to enslave or kill. It is quite brilliant if you really sat down and think about it.
  The Mormon Leaders that were recruited as a counter-movement against a newly formed America that was to be independent from Europe's Tyranny, were rewarded with child brides and numerous wives. If you look at how Jihad Propaganda and Osama Bin Laden (which was an agent for the British and CIA) recruited suicide bombers and terrorist, you keep hearing the promise of 17 Muslim Virgins waiting for them in heaven. This is not something that was created by Islam or the Islam faith but instead this narrative was a recycled narrative that was created by the CIA and European Intelligence.
  Like I said, all of this shit is fake. Organize Religion is fake and its all of the same dumb shit being used on the same dumb people over and over again.
  Religions were the main tool of Illuminati control and domination and for the most part it has worked really well.
  With Judaism and Christianity (even the Jesus Myth aspect of Christianity) I can at least look back and find out how they took earlier text, remixed it and then created the religions. Even with Islam, we can look at Judaism and Christianity and reverse engineer the text and motives. Even in New Age Circles, one can trace a lot of the texts from India but there is nothing that supports Mormonism.
  These so called Mormon Prophesies (all that call for ending America) are based on nothing other than some Illuminati from Europe pulling propaganda out of their ass!
  I mean these people literally pull shit out of their ass and people believe it! How in the hell can anyone believe that Space Aliens, which used GMO food to extend their life, created human slaves to work in gold mines & lived in castles located in Southern Iraq and happen to all look like Prince William be something that is real. How can anyone not understand that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to sit around, create fake artifacts and then put them on display at a University or Museum in order to achieve a political objective?
  I try to explain to people the simplest of shit, which is good ole fashion evil about the Illuminati and people argue with me but some Europeans weave tales of Prince William Space Aliens that created man-kind to work in mineral mines, keep in mind that Prince William and the British Royals own nearly every single mineral mine in the world, and the public just eats it up like I-Hop Pancakes? I mean really?
  There are Mormon Temples that contain five stories of secret rooms beneath the ground, where they have child sacrifice and molestation rituals. Not because Mormonism is some old and inspired religion, because it isn't, being that Mormonism strictly was forms by the Illuminati to counter the Founding Fathers' America, but instead these Mormons are just doing this stuff because they are crazy.
  Yeah, there is some Hebrew found in Native American Cultures but this wasn't something that Joseph Smith came up with but instead early Americans (which were Illuminati) knew this history because all one had to do was study texts from Sudan and West Africa, to see that Jewish Africa reached all the way from Ethiopia, into Egypt and over into parts of present day America.
  Even before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, if one went to parts of Mexico and Central America, we find Native ''Latinos'' that were mixed with African. So, even before Africans were supposedly first brought over to ''The New World'' there evidently was some Africans living in the Americas and clearly there were some Native Americans that had contact with Africa, which is why you often find writings that resemble Hebrew or hieroglyphics in Native American Culture.
  The same Illuminati that gave us the Christian Crusades, which mass murdered millions of people are also the same ones that gave us the Islamic Crusades. The same Dutch Illuminati that gave us slavery and the salve trade into the Americas are also the same ones that gave us the Holocaust and now these people want to fight the last battle to destroy America and they are activating their Mormon Card.
  The entire CIA at lower levels, are drawn from the Mormon Population. Even if we look at where the CIA (which is foreign European owned terrorist organization) is putting up all of these new spy centers, they are popping up in Utah and in other Mormon Strong Holds.
  The job of a Mormon, since day one, was to destroy the US Constitution, break up America and to steal it from the Founding Fathers, which the Mormons view as terrorist, and the descendants of the Founding Fathers and give this county back over to the Illuminati in Europe.
  Every crime and egregious act of genocide in history, including the Sept 11 Terrorist Attacks, were orchestrated by the very same shadow groups which the Founding Fathers fought of in 1776. They will NEVER leave us in peace. America just pisses them off, particularly if you are not from an immigrant that arrived after 1930.
  These people that gave us the Civil War, genocide of blacks, poor whites and native Americans, religions that preach a love of prosperity, Mid East Wars, slavery, prisons, drugs and even the ''Bath Salt'' synthetic drugs are a creation by the British and moved into the US by Mormons working at the CIA, are the same ones that want to finally end this country and they want to use the Mormons to do it.
  Unless you have ancestors that date back to Pre-Revolution America, you don't have the same genetic memory because you are basically from some place else, and the Illuminati knows this. You cant smell the flames until it is your flesh burning.
  These European Illuminati have kicked out these peasants from their life of bondage in Europe, made them think that they were going to have lives in America that would give them significance for generations to come, only to use these immigrants to help install a system that all but guarantees that their kids and grand kids are now put back into European Peasant Bondage, except this bondage will happen to them in America instead of London, Italy or Ireland.
  These people are brilliant and this Mormon Scam, is so dam genius that I hate to even expose it. The Mormon Bomb planted into America by the Illuminati is SO FUCKING GOOD that I HATE to even discuss it.
"The East Antarctic Is Adding Ice So Much Ice there's No Problem... BALLS!"
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  Tue, 30 Oct 2012 04:03
"When Obama Gets Re-Elected HE'S GONNA GO BACK TO GIVING THEM EVERYTHING!"
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Obama SCUFF
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:44
  Follow up dispatch: UP YOUR GERBIL
  In the continuing breaking stories concerning the Florida Flight of Mr. B. Hussein Obama as he was captured on the 28th October, we now have more details concerning his capture.
  We know for a fact from a letter B. Hussein personally drafted and sent to me, his friend, that he was taken into custody after negotiations with federal officials at 6:42 PM and after a restless nights haggling, was imprisoned at the Rose Garden on the early morning of October 29th..
  Barack Obama 6:42 PM
  To lamecherry Larry_Sinclair_Supporter Friend --This is a serious storm, but we are going to do what it takes to keep people safe and secure, and make sure the communities affected get the assistance they need. FEMA is working with state and local governments to respond effectively. We all owe a debt of thanks to the first responders who will be dealing with the immediate impact of the storm.
  If you live in the storm's path, please listen to state and local authorities about where and how to take shelter and stay safe -- and encourage your friends and family to do the same. If you are asked to evacuate, please take that seriously.
  For more information on how to prepare for this storm, visit GITMO.gov.
  And if you'd like to find out how to support relief efforts where they're needed most, please visit the Red Cross or your local relief organization:
  http://FREE_BARACK_ OBAMA_ FROM_ THE_ ROSE_ GARDEN/Red-Cross
  Michelle and I are keeping everyone in the affected areas in our thoughts and prayers. Be safe.
  Barack
  Barack Obama was taken into custody on October 28th, 2012 and placed under house arrest at the Rose Garden, under the cover of monitoring the Big Blow Job Sandy story which Bill Plant of CBS news was chosen to be propaganda spokesbabe for.
  CONFUSION: O Flies to FL Sunday, back to DC Monday -- with no campaign stop?
  CLINTON: Sandy 'nothing compared to the storm we'll face' if R elected...
  Father of Slain SEAL to president: 'Better to Die a Hero Than Live a Coward'...Apparently Mr. Obama after the above threat disagrees in it is better be a coward than to have bullets fired at one whose tracers lead back to.........shhhhhh. Coming tomorrow as Lame Cherry has broken this story.
  Bill Clinton is now President in Abstentia Defacto leader of America, and is making campaign stops for his wife, Dame Hamrod Clinton, for the 2016 run.
  Mr. Obama is under extreme duress at this time, as being messiah, all know he would wade out into Sandy and make it calm, as a true messiah would if he only had not been imprisoned by the workings of ANALGATE.
  Rumor has it from this blog, that Mr. Obama is in preparation for his Albanian Exile
  This blog wants to assure all Americans and Obama voters, that Mr. Obama is safe. He has plenty of Cheetos, Mum Jarrett is flicking his remote and he is awaiting orders for a furlough.
  We all are thankful Mr. Obama is our living coward and is quite safe being protected by his prison guards, formerly known as the Secret Service.
  Lame Cherry4 hours ago '' Mitt Romney can THANK LAME CHERRY for the work here in early 2012 in pointing out that Obama's donor list did not match the number he ...Yes Mr. Mitt Romney can thank Lame Cherry in appropriate donations in 6 and 7 figures starting with Foster Freiss, and Mr. Obama can thank this blog for keeping hisself safe all of these years, as his naming me a friend is better than George Nouri getting an Obama Award.Yes Baby of the plasmas, you are correct in your posts. It is Mr. Obama's Mideast dirty laundry which has brought this to the Rose Garden Prison Planet and now Mitt Romney is the warden in waiting all due to efforts led by this blog no one reads and all quote.
  Historic Mr. Obama made Air Force One a PRISON FLIGHT.
  Yes another sodomite male facing anal retention for not bending over for Mr. Obama in outing Mr. Obama watching the live sex scenes from a drone over Benghazi of Chris Stevens getting the soap dropped.
  ANDERSON COOPER'S DAYTIME SHOW CANCELED...
  Can we save the gay men by this Rose Garden Imprisonment.
  Can we save the Latins and Afroids from Rose Garden slavery?
  OBAMA: Black, Hispanic kids are 'our future workforce'...
  Click in soon for more exclusives in the behind the scenes intrigue, in while others are watching the weather, the real story is what Mr. Obama fled from, who his captors now are, and what prickers of a cell Mr. Cheetos Palms Obama endures now with his Gitmo brothers.
  GOP hints at 'massive cover-up' over Libya attack...
  President takes 'offense'...
  Wow the GOP tourists are really gaining courage. It is almost like they are not hiding behind this popular girl's skirt any longer, but almost as if there is some triangular force, some lion of the sea, now directing things.
  Iran has Pictures of Restricted Israeli Areas...
  Taken By Drones...
  Military bases, 'sensitive'sites...
  Now I wonder if this has something to do with Mr. Obama's house arrest as this blog exclusively told you children that the drone in south Israel did not come from Lebanon, but elsewhere and that elsewhere got itself a drone delivered to it by Mr. Obama earlier this year for quid pro quo, just like that Stealth helo was given to the Chicoms in the bin Laden stage event......
  It all seems to tie in. I wonder if Obama likes bondage sex?
  I hope you are wondering what October 29th has to do with this.........soon you will know.
  Exclusives, Exclusives, Exclusives......how can one blog have all of these exclusives and everyone else has none!
  God given Inspiration is how!!!!!!!
  More to come.....
  Not nuff said.
  agtG 258
The No Agenda Myth - NYTimes.com
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  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:53
  I feel a rising tide of ennui. America is in the last, numbing days of an excruciating slog to Election Day and some of my tribe '-- the jaded scribes, the blogging sages and caffeinated cable chatterers '-- have run out of patience, poor babies. Searching for the source of their malaise, beyond the dubious science of the polls and the mean spirits of the campaigns and the emptiness of the slogans and our own limited attention spans, those of my ilk have come up with this high-minded diagnosis: the candidates have No Agenda.
  They say: ''It's a good time to follow the candidates if you like elections about nothing.'' And: ''Obama's greatest weakness is that his proposals for the future are nonexistent.'' And: ''The president did not lay out a second-term agenda ... And that is where he is the weakest.'' And: ''People say, I want to vote for him, but he hasn't told me what he's going to do.'' And, by the way: ''You don't get that from Mitt Romney, either.'' I've heard it countless times and, truth be told, probably said it myself once or twice. No Agenda!
  When President Obama's campaign last week issued a 20-page booklet of its intentions, it was dismissed in my own newspaper for containing ''no new proposals,'' and in The Wall Street Journal as a ''glossy'' pitch to critics who say ''Mr. Obama hasn't fully explained what he hopes to accomplish if re-elected.'' Romney has made the ostensible lack of an Obama agenda the heart of his closing argument. That's shrewd politics. The No Agenda meme works nicely for Romney. If Obama has no agenda then he is, by default, the candidate of the status quo, and the status quo is a painfully slow recovery, a hovering debt crisis and a worrisome world. Obama's retort is that Romney is trying to hide his agenda '-- dressing a pack of wolves in sheep's clothing.
  But Romney, with or without an agenda, is the candidate who has not presided over a time of national anxiety, and therefore he is the de facto candidate of change. Or as the new slogan has it, ''Big Change.''
  Let us breathe deeply and clear our minds.
  There are plenty of legitimate reasons voters (and the media) should be disenchanted by the candidates and the campaign, but the idea that we'll be voting in the dark is not one of them. Yes, the candidates have been reluctant to publish some unpleasant details of their policies. [See footnote 1] Most presidential candidates in modern times don't, for the understandable reason that details can be cherry-picked for attack ads. Yes, identifying Romney's plan requires some guesswork, because he has been at various times all things to all voters. And yes, Obama has been short on grand man-to-the-moon promises and on the pulse-quickening oratory our weary commentariat requires. He sometimes seems to have misread Mario Cuomo's famous guidance: he governs in prose and campaigns in prose.
  And yet, can we really say we don't know what to expect from these two men?
  With Obama, we can anticipate that the unfinished business of universal health care and the re-regulation of the Wall Street casino will be finished. We can expect investments in education, infrastructure and innovation, followed by a gradual, balanced attack on deficits that includes higher taxes on the wealthiest. (And this time he will have a hefty stick to apply to a recalcitrant Congress: the fiscal cliff, which forces Congress to compromise or share the blame for the ensuing havoc.) We can expect the Pentagon, after winding down two wars, to bank a peace dividend. If Obama is re-elected, especially if he is elected with substantial Latino support, we can expect that he will try to deliver on his postponed promise of comprehensive immigration reform. The fact that these objectives represent a continuation of his first term does not mean he is aiming low. These are ambitious goals.
  If Romney is elected, there will be tension between his inner pragmatist and the stubborn extremists in his own party, but we can fairly expect a rollback of universal health care in favor of the rough marketplace, and at least a partial dismantling of regulations on banks, extractive industries and whatever other industries squeal about job-killing red tape. We can expect a lowering of the safety net, especially a retrenchment of Medicaid and a marketization of Medicare. His deficit plan will rely on draconian spending cuts and on the supply-side superstition that tax cuts automatically produce growth. Romney will be somewhat more enthusiastic about oil and coal, and will put less faith in renewables. The military will not want. You can expect another Scalia or two on the Supreme Court, the defunding of Planned Parenthood and a social agenda aimed at appeasing the evangelical base, mainly by letting the states decide. On foreign policy Romney has gravitated toward Obama's caution, and I tend to believe him, if only because whoever is president will have his hands too full at home to embark on a war in Iran or Syria as long as it is avoidable. [See footnote 2]
  There's more, but you get the idea. Two agendas; compare and contrast.
  The second thing to say is that an ''agenda'' is at best a rough guide to what a president will do, given the constraints imposed by Congress, curveballs pitched by fate, and what presidents learn on the job. Presidents surprise you, and surprise themselves. Obama really meant to close Guantnamo; he lost that one. I think he intended to reform immigration until other priorities took his energy. Libya was certainly not high on his 2008 agenda.
  And that is why '-- third point '-- we don't elect agendas, we don't elect platforms, we don't even elect parties to the presidency. This is not a referendum or a ballot initiative. Indeed, we are skeptical of agendas. If either candidate had announced in his final weeks some grandiose initiative of the kind the pundits prescribe, we'd have mocked it as October-surprise gimmickry, a sign of desperation. We elect the human being we trust to have our best interests in mind. We choose a direction, a disposition, a set of instincts and convictions and competencies.
  When voters tell pundits, and pundits tell us, that they are frustrated that the candidates lack an agenda, they are just saying they wish we could foretell the future. If we could do that, a lot of pundits would be out of business.
  '
  Footnote 1: The most familiar example of withholding details, of course, is Romney's refusal to identify which tax breaks he would eliminate to offset the revenues lost by reducing income tax rates. He knows perfectly well that tax deductions for things like home mortgages and charitable donations are popular and well defended by lobbyists. But lost in that whole discussion was one of the more interesting ideas of the campaign season.
  Romney said that rather than abolish popular tax breaks, he would cap deductions at a fixed amount; at various times he tossed out $17,000, $25,000 and $50,000 as possible limits.
  The inescapable problem with Romney's plan, as the impartial Tax Policy Center calculated, is that the math doesn't work. Even if you eliminate all personal deductions, you recoup less than half of the $4 trillion to $5 trillion cost of his plan to lower income tax rates by 20 percent. Capping deductions recoups even less.
  But that doesn't mean capping deductions is a bad idea. It is a lot easier than taking on the constituencies and lobbyists defending each specific tax break. It's simple, politically doable and highly progressive. In short, as the Tax Policy Center's Roberton Williams and Howard Gleckman have explained on the center's blog, while it doesn't raise the amount Romney needs to make his math work, it's an excellent way to raise revenues. Obama should think about grabbing it.
  Footnote 2: If I had to bet which candidate was more likely to launch airstrikes against Iran or to up the military ante in Syria, I'd be inclined to give a slight edge to Obama. He has already crossed the daunting psychological threshold of dispensing death: surge troops, drone strikes, the Bin Laden raid. Romney talks tough, but has never had to make the hard decision to use force, which is easier said than done.
Apocalyptoween
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  Source: Clusterfuck Nation
  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:33
  With little to do while waiting for something possibly very bad to happen people tend to get jokey. That was how I felt about the election until Hurricane Sandy came along. For one thing, I happened to travel (by car - how else?) last week from Bennington through Brattleboro, Vermont, and down into a de-industrialized corner of northwestern Massachusetts. There were at least three major highway bridge re-construction projects (and many lesser ones) still underway along the route from last year's Hurricane Irene, which devastated Vermont. There's a fair chance that Vermont will get whacked again, undoing a billion dollars of work along the same mountain river roads. How demoralizing will that be? And where does the local share of the money come from? I remember, too, being in Wilkes-Barre, in Eastern Pennsylvania just a few years ago and seeing that the city never actually recovered from floods induced by Hurricane Agnes in 1972, which coincided with the beginning of the end of the local coal industry. The downtown was functionally dead, with a zombie overlay of social services, wig shops, and street people conversing with themselves. It appears that Hurricane Sandy is going to rip through the same region again, then curl east into my part of upstate New York and finally slog into the same new England states that got bashed last year. Then, of course, there is the question of what happens to New York City in the next 48 hours, a potential enormity too vast to quantify from here (not to mention Washington DC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington, and the toxic waste dump formerly known as New Jersey). My own main worry, sitting here in comfort, in a well-lighted room, is how widespread the electric power outages might be and how long might they last -- conceivably even through the election. Surely, Mr. Obama is pacing nervously now in some deep underground White House command center, worrying about what might be required if there is no electricity to run the voting machines across the nation's most populous region, or if many hundreds of thousands of voters get stranded at home by broken bridges and washed-out roads, or how many votes his government might lose if the juice stays on but he can't relieve the anticipated misery fast enough... with the idiot Romney kibitzing from the sideline. I don't know if the US can take that kind of disruption and come out the other side the same way it went in. The systems that keep us going are already in trouble, some of them already teetering, like the airline industry, which can barely keep going with jet fuel clocking at 40 percent of its operating costs due to $90-a-barrel oil. The political system itself is more fragile than we might suppose, despite the seemingly despotic reach of surveillance, the size of the government payroll, and the amazing complacency of the sports-and-fructose-saturated public. Few believe in the two major parties, or what they pretend to stand for, including many officers and foot-soldiers in those parties. If the system finds itself unable to hold an election on the day specified by the constitution, what happens then? Another trip to the Supreme Court. Uh-oh.... Anyway, Hurricane Sandy and all it portends this Monday morning is a nice distraction from all the other things un-winding, tottering, and fracturing in so many advanced nations. Promises of massive (and improbable) bailouts have kept the financial meltdown of Europe a few degrees below critical mass for a couple of months, but the thermometer is inching upward with the ominous Catalan regional election in Spain tipping well toward the secessionists, and Greece whirling around the economic drain, with all of its previous bail-out money merely yo-yoing back to the client banks of the "troika" that arranged the bail-outs, and countries like Italy, Portugal, and Ireland whistling past the graveyard beyond the news media's peripheral vision. And then there is China with its government transition hugger-mugger, its empty make-work cities, its crony banking system unaccountable to anyone, and its extremely modest reserves of its own oil to run the whole hastily constructed shootin' match. They have been working earnestly in plain sight - off the news media's radar screen - to construct a resource extraction empire in Africa, but then they will be stuck with the job of defending 12,000 mile supply lines. Good luck with that. Finally, there is the nauseating spectacle of the presidential election itself, with two creatures of corporate capture pretending to represent the interests of some hypothetical majority who wish to remain the slaves of WalMart and Goldman Sachs. If Hurricane Sandy causes such massive disruption as to interfere with the election, perhaps that will be a good thing - a sudden, unavoidable re-thinking of our ossified institutional customs, and a thrust into the emergent history of the future.____________________________________
Trapped in lifts - 10 of your stories
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  Source: BBC News - Home
  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:04
  28 October 2012Last updated at20:05 ETA recent story about why people feel awkward in lifts - or elevators as they are known in the US - triggered a big response from our readers. Many wrote in to share stories of being trapped.
  Read the original story here: Why do we behave so oddly in lifts?
  Brian Acott, Arkholme, UK I was once trapped in a lift in an old office block. I rang the alarm for ages but no one responded so, in a "Bruce Willis" moment, I forced the doors open - only to find I was just a couple of inches off the ground floor. I walked out with what little dignity I had left.
  Don, Gatineau, Canada I grew up on Long Island and when I was 11 my mother, my two younger brothers and my aunt were in the city. The adults decided to take us to the top of the Empire State Building as us kids had not been there. The elevator got stuck between the 55th and 56th floor. We shared the elevator with two Danish women who had a two-year-old with them. I always remember they let him relieve himself in the corner. We were stuck for about 90 minutes and for some reason no one panicked. Finally we made our way to the top and enjoyed the view. The next day my aunt noticed she had a few burst veins in her legs, I suppose from the [raised blood] pressure.
  Continue reading the main story''Start QuoteI had 8% mobile phone charge left so I rang my sister, who wasted 6% of it laughing at our predicament ''
  End QuoteClare SayanSheffield, UKLynn Hnat, Kenilworth, UK I got stuck in a lift with my 18-month-old baby. The thing is, I am deaf. I did push the buttons and was able to tell that someone was there but had no idea what they were saying. I just repeated, "I am stuck with a baby and I am deaf, I cannot hear... please send someone out." I just repeated this again and again, over two hours. I entertained my boy with Bob the Builder, saying that he (Bob) will come and get us. Finally, after two hours, we got the doors to open. There should be some text or screen that can let deaf people know what is happening.
  Philippos Frangos, Limassol, Cyprus I am the owner of a lift company in Cyprus. A few years ago we had finished installing a lift in a prestigious villa in a village up on the mountains. It was Friday afternoon and the villa owner was coming to stay in her home the next day. I was there with one technician and helped him adjust the lift. We went up and down countless times and everything seemed to be in order. We picked up all our tools and were about to leave the villa, being the last people there, when we got trapped in the lift on the very last trip. You see, it happens to all of us. It was not possible to call for help so we had to get out on our own. We practically dismantled half the cabin from inside before we could get out!
  Claire Sayan, Sheffield, UK I had taken my three children to see Santa at Meadowhall on Christmas Eve when we got stuck in a lift between floors. I pressed the alarm button which rang through to the lift makers. I was played a recorded message that said "We are now closed until the New Year, have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year"! I had 8% mobile phone charge left so I rang my sister, who wasted 6% of it laughing at our predicament before I finally made her listen long enough to ask her to ring the shopping centre itself and inform them of our whereabouts. My children thought we were going to have to spend Christmas in the lift. We were stuck for half an hour before they winched us down.
  Colin, Edinburgh, Scotland I got stuck in the lift at my flat, with a female friend, on New Year's morning after a fine Edinburgh Hogmanay. Found it the ideal place to practise salsa. The confined space creates the ideal level of intimacy required to get the steps right. Of course, you have to hum the same tune.
  Kenny Wheeler, Swindon, UK I was once stuck in the lift at my place of work, a local college. It must have been for around 35-40 minutes. After pressing the alarm button several times, I came to the conclusion that no-one was going to come in a hurry. So I updated my Facebook status to let my friends know to ring the college and tell them I was stuck in the lift. Ten people "liked" my status before thankfully one person who I worked with contacted the appropriate people and I was freed.
  Continue reading the main storyElevator etiquette elsewhereIn our original story, we explored why people felt awkward in lifts. Several readers wrote in to describe how people behave where they are:
  "Get in a lift in Switzerland, France, or Italy and people will greet you as you enter, smile graciously and wish you a good day as you leave the lift. If you don't participate, people think you are rude and cold." Matt, London
  "An odd custom I observed in Madrid is that everyone says goodbye when exiting - even though nobody talks whilst on board. It is the same awkwardness as everywhere else." Claudette, Madrid
  "Every day I enter a lift in a multi-national organisation, where various conflicting lift etiquette cultures meet. The French expect you to say "bonjour" when you enter and "au revoir" when you leave. The Finns (and most Nordics) prefer silence and are uncomfortable if someone forces them to interact by saying "bonjour". I am definitely a Nordic on this issue." Henry Wickens, Luxembourg
  Anon, Plymouth, UK I was once stuck in a small lift for about two hours with four other people. The fact that there were other people there made the ordeal less frightening, even though it was crowded, but my biggest fear was how I was going to urinate because I was the only female. The men were happy to pee down the shaft. It annoys me that those alarm buttons never seem to work, because no-one responded. Eventually one of the guys phoned the police, who said they would help, but never came. After about two hours, one of the guys finally realised how to open the second set of doors. We found ourselves between two floors, and jumped down to the lower one. Had we not rescued ourselves, I don't know how long we would've been there, since no-one seemed to care that we were stuck in there. Luckily I was able to control my bladder for the entire duration.
  Lydia Kari, Nairobi, Kenya The lift got stuck between the 13th and 14th floor. It was just me and a guy who was high on something. I panicked and must have pressed the alarm enough times but at the same time tried not to show this guy I was more scared of him than the lift getting stuck. When the lift operators came I could not wait for them to work on it, despite them requesting me to be patient. They did what they could and pulled us out manually because of my persistence.
  Jude Awdry, Princes Risborough, UK When travelling on a ferry between Plymouth and Santander, my young daughter was feeling very seasick. We went in the lift to go back to our cabin when it stopped and was stuck. We were eventually released but not before she had been violently sick several times!
Fads during my lifetime
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  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:00
  Until recently I still use POTs telephone here. Its was only wire to the switching station in town where it gets converted to work with the fiber optic system.
  Now I have my telephone with the cable company but my 1920's era candle stick phones still work. One of the candle sticks has a rotary dial on it and the other does not.I do have a Trakfone cell phone but there are rarely ever any 'units' on it. I still use that to text fairly often. I do e-mail several family members. Its the only way I know of to send pictures.
  I used to write several page long letters to my siblings but haven't done that in a long time now. e-mail has replaced that pretty much completely.I also still use my 35mm SLR camera fairly often. Our local Walmart still has a one hour photo shop. My digital camera is so cheap it doesn't take very good pictures. Usually the film pictures come out much better.Just last summer I finally sold my beta max tape machine and all my tapes to a collector. I still use my VHS VCR occasionally. I've never owned a tivo or those other recording devices.Just a tad over a year ago I bought a cute little POC Chinese hand held portable BC/SW band radio. For its size and price its a darn handy thing. I do wish it had a BFO in it tho.
  Also until just this summer i was using a CRT monitor on my 'good' computer currently I'm using two LCD and one CRT on it. This computer 'the old one in the bedroom' has a CRT as well. It is the largest newest CRT I own.
  Just before the transition to digital TV I bought the largest CRT TV I could afford and we are still using it. From what I have been hearing soon the only TV's that will work, even with cable, will be the High Definition ones.
  My niece just bought a Ford Focus with a manual transmission. her first 'new' car, 5 years ago, was a Focus with a manual. I was shocked when she got that one and really surprised when she got this new one also with a manual.
  I do have and use an MP3 player and burn CD's all the time. I don't really remember when the last time I listened to commercial radio broadcasts for any length of time was. When I was younger all I wanted was to be able to listen to the same few tunes on WLS every night.
  Now I listen to the same few tunes on a CD whenever I want.
The Biggest Storm Ever to Hit the US?
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  Source: LewRockwell.com
  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:58
  by Beth Stebner and James NyeDaily Mail
  As President Barack Obama warned on Sunday that Hurricane Sandy was a 'serious and big storm' weather forecasters said that tens of million of people across 800 miles of the East Coast need to prepare for the event which could be the largest ever storm to hit the United States.
  Sandy, expected to come ashore late on Monday, could deliver a harsh blow to major cities in its target zone including New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore and Boston. Its center was forecast to strike New York-New Jersey area and then move inland toward Philadelphia and the rest of Pennsylvania.
  The sheer size of the storm meant its effects would be felt from the mid-Atlantic states to New England. Officials warned of widespread power outages that could last for days.
  And with several state of emergencies already in existence across the country, New York City's MTA announced that subway and bus operations would begin to close down at 7 p.m. on Sunday as Mayor Bloomberg ordered the mandatory evacuations of 375,000 people from low-lying coastal areas.
  The closure of New York City's mass transport network for the second time in two years and only the second time in history will mean that almost 12 million people in the wealthiest city in the U.S. will be prevented from taking their usual route to work by the oncoming storm system.
  Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he ordered an evacuation of the low-lying areas along the edges of the city including parts of lower Manhattan, sections of Brooklyn and Staten Island, and the Rockaways in Queens.
  He said 72 evacuation centres had been created around the city and he also ordered the closure of schools.
  Lower Manhattan, the Rockaways and a low-lying area of Queens are the first areas to be evacuated.
  'If you don't evacuate, you are not only endangering your life, you are also endangering the lives of the first responders who are going in to rescue you,' he said at a news conference Sunday.'... This is a serious and dangerous storm.'
  But, he said, those who didn't leave wouldn't be arrested.
  If forecasts hold, and especially if the storm surge coincides with high tide, the effects should be much more severe for the city said Klaus Jacob, a Columbia University researcher who has advised the city on coastal risks.
  While the storm may not be the worst-case scenario, Jacob said he expected the subway system, as well as underground electrical systems and neighborhoods in Lower Manhattan, to be at least partially flooded.
  The City that Never Sleeps will suspend its train, subway and bus service Sunday night ahead of Hurricane Sandy, which is expected to bring strong winds and dangerous flooding to the East Coast, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at a news conference.
  'If it turns and moves off, great. Really great. But if not then we will be prepared for it,' said a cautious Cuomo.
  'The transportation system is the lifeblood of the New York City region, and suspending all service is not a step I take lightly.
  'But keeping New Yorkers safe is the first priority, and the best way to do that is to make sure they are out of harm's way before gale-force winds can start wreaking havoc on trains and buses.'
  The service is expected to resume operations about 12 hours after the storm ends, officials said at the news conference '' which would put services on track to resume for Tuesday afternoon.
  New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority said service on subways will be curtailed beginning at 7 p.m. EDT. The bus network will begin shutting down within the next two hours.
  Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad will start their finals trains by 7 p.m. from terminal locations. Stations will close once the last trains pass through.
  With a daily ridership of more than 5 million, New York City's subway system is by far the largest in the U.S., and many New Yorkers do not have cars and depend on subways and buses to get to work, school and around town.
  In addition New Jersey Transit announced they will implement a gradual system-wide shutdown of all bus, rail, light rail and Access Link service, ahead of the massive storm bearing down on the state.
  Governor Chris Christie announced the plans Sunday afternoon. He says the shutdown will start at 4 p.m. Sunday and continue through 2 a.m. Monday.
  The service suspension process requires the relocation and securing of buses, rail equipment and other NJ Transit assets away from flood-prone areas. It also requires complete coordination with state and local officials throughout the process.
  Administration officials also say the Atlantic City Rail Line will suspend operations at 4 p.m. Sunday due to the rapidly deteriorating weather conditions and the continued evacuation of Atlantic City.
  The measures announced in New York City come as governors from North Carolina to Connecticut declared states of emergency ahead of Sandy's arrival
  Forecasters said on its current projected track, Sandy is most likely to hit anywhere between Delaware and the New York/New Jersey area but said it was too early to pinpoint where the storm, which has the potential to be the biggest to hit the mainland, would make landfall.
  'We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people,' said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Magnificent Magnesium
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  Source: LewRockwell.com
  Mon, 29 Oct 2012 04:57
  by Katherine CzappThe Weston A. Price Foundation
  Magnesium is an alkaline earth metal, the eighth most abundant mineral found in the earth's crust. Because of its ready solubility in water, magnesium is the third most abundant mineral in sea water, after sodium and chloride. In the human body, magnesium is the eleventh most plentiful element by mass '' measuring about two ounces. Most magnesium contained in the body is found in the skeleton and teeth '' at least 60 to 65 percent of the total. Nearly the entire remaining amount resides in muscle tissues and cells, while only one percent is contained in our blood.
  The importance of magnesium ions for all life itself, as well as for overall vibrant health, is hard to overstate. Magnesium is required to give the ''spark of life'' to metabolic functions involving the creation of energy and its transport (ATP, the body's fundamental energy currency), and the creation of proteins '' the nucleic acid chemistry of life '' RNA and DNA, in all known living organisms. In plants, a magnesium ion is found at the center of every chlorophyll molecule, vital for the creation of energy from sunlight. Magnesium is an essential element for both animals and plants, involved in literally hundreds of enzymatic reactions affecting virtually all aspects of life.
  Every single cell in the human body demands adequate magnesium to function, or it will perish. Strong bones and teeth, balanced hormones, a healthy nervous and cardiovascular system, well-functioning detoxification pathways and much more depend upon cellular magnesium sufficiency. Soft tissue containing the highest concentrations of magnesium in the body include the brain and the heart '' two organs that produce a large amount of electrical activity, and which can be especially vulnerable to magnesium insufficiency.
  Magnesium works in concert with calcium to regulate electrical impulses in the cell '' magnesium concentration inside healthy cells is ten thousand times greater than calcium, and there are crucial reasons for this safeguard. Cellular calcium channels allow that mineral to enter the cell only as long as needed to conduct an impulse; it is ushered out immediately by magnesium once its task is fulfilled. This vigilance is necessary to prevent calcium accumulation in the cell, which could cause dangerous hyper-excitability, calcification, cell dysfunction and even cell death. When excess calcium enters the cells because of insufficient magnesium, muscle contraction is sustained for too long, and we suffer, for example, twitches and tics in mild cases. When magnesium deficiency becomes chronic, we suffer the symptoms of heart disease such as angina pectoris, hypertension and arrhythmia, or the spasms and contractions characteristic of asthma, migraine headache or painful menstrual cramping.
  Magnesium operates as a natural calcium channel blocker and is responsible for relaxation '' counter to calcium's contraction. Thus magnesium is pivotally important to the healthy functioning of our parasympathetic nervous system. It may be hard to believe, but our bodies were actually designed to operate for the most part in a calm, relaxed parasympathetic state, rather than in the heart-pounding, stress- and adrenaline-driven mode of sympathetic nervous system dominance that is nearly constant for many of us today, and which uses up great quantities of magnesium.
  Magnesium is so important to so many vital body functions, and its deficiency is integrally involved in so many diseases, that more than one researcher has dubbed magnesium a miracle in its ability to resolve or improve numerous disorders. The current list of disorders with direct and confirmed relationships to chronic and acute magnesium deficiency is long, and includes many diseases whose conventional medical treatment does not commonly address magnesium insufficiency (see below). Ongoing research promises to uncover further associations between magnesium deficiency and other illnesses.
  MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY IS ENDEMICUnfortunately, it is difficult to reliably supply our bodies with sufficient magnesium, even from a good, balanced whole foods diet. First of all, modern agricultural methods favor the universal use of NPK fertilizers (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium). Both potassium and phosphorus are antagonists of magnesium in the soil, and on calcareous soils create a relative magnesium deficiency (the magnesium present is bound and therefore unavailable to the crop). On sandy or loamy soils that are slightly acid, an actual magnesium deficiency often exists, as the magnesium leaches from the soil and is also unavailable to the crop. This leaching also occurs in response to acid rain. Magnesium, in fact, is one of the most depleted minerals in farm soils. To add insult to injury, new plant hybrids are continually introduced that have been bred to survive on these mineral-depleted soils. Of course, when mineral-depleted crops are eaten by animals or by us, they will sooner or later cause disease. Even though organically raised crops should be a better bet nutritionally, this isn't always the case, and it pays in terms of your health to learn how your farmer replenishes the minerals on his fields.
  ''Do you know that most of us today are suffering from certain dangerous diet deficiencies which cannot be remedied until depleted soils from which our food comes are brought back into proper mineral balance? The alarming fact is that foods (fruits, vegetables, grains) now being raised on millions of acres of land that no longer contain enough of certain minerals are starving us '' no matter how much of them we eat. The truth is that our foods vary enormously in value, and some of them aren't worth eating as food.'' These words of warning are from the 74th Congress, 2nd session, Senate document number 264, of 1936. It is truly sobering to learn that the decline in soil mineral balance was a topic of serious national concern more than seventy years ago, and the deficit has been affecting us '' while steadily getting worse '' since our grandparents' generation.
  Magnesium and other nutrients are diminished or lost in produce after harvest, through handling, refrigeration, transport and storage, even if all these steps were done ''properly.'' Buying produce and then storing it for days in your own refrigerator continues the nutrient loss, whether the produce is from the supermarket or your local farmers' market.
  Food processing causes enormous loss of magnesium in foods that are commonly fairly good sources of it, such as leafy greens, nuts, seeds and whole grains. Most of the magnesium in grain '' found in the bran and germ '' is lost in milling whole grains for white flour, which is used nearly exclusively for hundreds of devitalized processed food items. When nuts and seeds are roasted or their oils extracted, magnesium is lost. Cooking greens causes whatever magnesium they might contain to leach into the cooking water. Foods tend to lose less calcium than magnesium through these processes, adding to a troublesome dietary calcium overload that we will discuss shortly.
  Fluoride in drinking water binds with magnesium, creating a nearly insoluble mineral compound that ends up deposited in the bones, where its brittleness increases the risk of fractures. Water, in fact, could be an excellent source of magnesium '' if it comes from deep wells that have magnesium at their source, or from mineral-rich glacial runoff. Urban sources of drinking water are usually from surface water, such as rivers and streams, which are low in magnesium. Even many bottled mineral waters are quite low in magnesium, or have a very high concentration of calcium, or both.
  A diet of processed, synthetic foods, high sugar content, alcohol and soda drinks all ''waste'' magnesium, as a lot of it is required for the metabolism and detoxification of these largely fake foods. According to Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, the body requires at least twenty-eight molecules of magnesium to metabolize a single molecule of glucose. Phosphates in carbonated drinks and processed meats (so-called ''luncheon meats'' and hot dogs) bind with magnesium to create the insoluble magnesium phosphate, which is unusable by the body.
  Tannins, oxalates, and phytic acid all bind with magnesium, making it unavailable to the body unless extra care is taken to neutralize some of these compounds during food preparation. It is interesting to note that foods commonly containing magnesium (provided they were grown in mineral-rich soil) also contain lots of these anti-nutrients, such as spinach (oxalates) and whole grains (phytates).
  Many commonly prescribed pharmaceutical drugs cause the body to lose magnesium via the urine, such as diuretics for hypertension; birth control pills; insulin; digitalis; tetracycline and some other antibiotics; and corticosteroids and bronchodilators for asthma. With the loss of magnesium, all of the symptoms being ''treated'' by these drugs over time inevitably become worse.
  Magnesium absorption is impeded with the use of supplemental iron. If you take calcium supplements, your need for magnesium increases, and in fact calcium will not be properly absorbed or metabolized if adequate magnesium is missing, and will mostly end up dangerously deposited in soft tissues. Magnesium is responsible for converting vitamin D to the active form that allows calcium to be absorbed, and also regulates calcium's transport to hard tissues where it belongs. Lactose is another inhibitor of magnesium absorption (and milk is not a good source of the mineral to begin with), along with excess potassium, phosphorus and sodium.
  Mental and physical stress, with its related continuous flow of adrenaline, uses up magnesium rapidly, as adrenaline affects heart rate, blood pressure, vascular constriction and muscle contraction '' actions that all demand steady supplies of magnesium for smooth function. The nervous system depends upon sufficient magnesium for its calming effects, including restful sleep. Hibernating animals, by the way, maintain very high levels of magnesium. Magnesium deficiency will accelerate a vicious cycle and amplify the effects of chronic stress, leading to more anxiety, irritability, fatigue and insomnia '' many of the symptoms of adrenal exhaustion '' as well as to hypertension and heart pains '' symptoms of heart disease.
  Depression is related to stress and magnesium deficiency as well. Serotonin, the ''feel good'' hormone, requires magnesium in its delicate balance of release and reception by cells in the brain. Only when adequate levels are present can we enjoy mental and emotional equilibrium.
  For reasons not fully understood, the body does not retain magnesium very well; certainly not as well as it holds onto calcium or iron, for example. Heavy sweating from endurance sports such as marathon running or strenuous exercise workouts can dangerously deplete magnesium stores and other electrolytes '' although calcium is not wasted, by the way '' resulting in trembling, faintness and even seizures and death. The drenching sweats that some menopausal women suffer cause magnesium loss as well, and their diminishing magnesium levels worsen their jagged nerves, sleep disturbances, panic attacks, body aches and depression. If these women have been tempted to consume modern soy products in a misguided attempt to moderate their symptoms, they will in fact lose even more magnesium because it will be bound to the abundant phytates in these concoctions.
  A healthy gut environment is necessary for proper absorption of magnesium from the diet. Irritable bowel syndrome, leaky gut, candidiasis and other gut disorders can severely limit the amount of magnesium that the body will be able to absorb. Older adults often experience decreased stomach hydrochloric acid production, which can impair mineral absorption in general. And with so many treating their ''heartburn'' with antacids, a healthy digestive environment is hard to maintain.
  CALCIUM AND MAGNESIUM PARTNERSHIPBoth calcium and magnesium are necessary for the healthy body '' in proper balance to one another, as well as to other necessary minerals. Considered biochemical antagonists, one cannot act without eliciting the opposite reaction of the other. Yet calcium and magnesium must both be present in balanced amounts for either one to function normally in the body. Some researchers suggest that the healthy ratio of calcium to magnesium in the diet should be 2:1. Others consider 1:1 to reflect ratios that we evolved with based on our diet prior to the advent of agriculture. In modern industrialized countries the ratio from diet is from 5:1 to as much as 15:1. The imbalance of these two very important minerals produces many dire consequences in the body that are often overlooked by medical practitioners when treating the disease states they cause.
  Aside from the intricate electrical dance that calcium and magnesium perform together, magnesium is necessary to keep calcium in solution in the body, preventing its inappropriate deposition in soft tissues. As long as we have sufficient hydrochloric acid in our stomachs we can dissolve calcium from the foods we eat. After calcium leaves the acidic environment of the stomach and enters the alkaline milieu of the small intestine however, it is magnesium that is necessary to keep calcium soluble. Without sufficient magnesium, a whole host of physiological aberrations can occur with serious health consequences.
  As Dr. Carolyn Dean, author of The Magnesium Miracle, explains, ''In the large intestine it [precipitated calcium] interferes with peristalsis, which results in constipation. When calcium precipitates out in the kidneys and combines with phosphorus or oxalic acid, kidney stones are formed. Calcium can deposit in the lining of the bladder and prevent it from fully relaxing, and therefore from filling completely with urine. This leads to frequent urination problems, especially in older people. Calcium can precipitate out of the blood and deposit in the lining of the arteries, causing hardening (arteriosclerosis). . . It can coat and stiffen. . . plaque in the arteries. . . [and] can cause blood pressure to rise as well as increase the risk of heart attack and stroke. Calcium can even deposit in the brain. Many researchers are investigating it as a possible cause of dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Calcium can deposit in the lining of the bronchial tubes and cause asthma symptoms. Calcium in extracellular fluid. . . can decrease the permeability of cell membranes. This makes it increasingly difficult for glucose (a large molecule) to pass through the cell membrane to be converted to ATP in the cells' mitochondria. High glucose levels created by excess calcium may be misdiagnosed as diabetes.''
  MAGNESIUM IS A POTENT DETOXIFIERMagnesium is utilized by the body for all sorts of detoxification pathways and is necessary for the neutralization of toxins, overly acidic conditions that arise in the body, and for protection from heavy metals. It plays a vital role in protecting us from the onslaught of man-made chemicals all around us. Glutathione, an antioxidant normally produced by the body and a detoxifier of mercury, lead and arsenic among others, requires magnesium for its synthesis. According to Mark Sircus, in Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, a deficiency of magnesium increases free radical generation in the body and ''causes glutathione loss, which is not affordable because glutathione helps to defend the body against damage from cigarette smoking, exposure to radiation, cancer chemotherapy, and toxins such as alcohol and just about everything else.''
  When our bodies are replete with magnesium (and in balance with the other essential minerals) we are protected from heavy metal deposition and the development of associated neurological diseases. As Dr. Carolyn Dean explains, ''Research indicates that ample magnesium will protect brain cells from the damaging effects of aluminum, beryllium, cadmium, lead, mercury and nickel. We also know that low levels of brain magnesium contribute to the deposition of heavy metals in the brain that heralds Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. It appears that the metals compete with magnesium for entry into the brain cells. If magnesium is low, metals gain access much more readily.
  ''There is also competition in the small intestine for absorption of minerals. If there is enough magnesium, aluminum won't be absorbed.''
  MAGNESIUM DEFICIENCY IN TOOTH DECAY AND OSTEOPOROSISAsk anyone '' your neighbor or even your dentist or doctor '' what bones and teeth require to be strong and healthy, and you will undoubtedly hear the response, ''Plenty of calcium.'' Bones and teeth certainly do require calcium '' as well as phosphorus and magnesium, but without adequate amounts of the latter, calcium will not be deposited in these hard tissues, and the structures will not be sound. ''When you load up your system with excess calcium,'' writes William Quesnell, in Minerals: the Essential Link to Health, ''you shut down magnesium's ability to activate thyrocalcitonin, a hormone that under normal circumstances would send calcium to your bones.'' Instead of providing benefits to the body, the displaced calcium actually becomes toxic, causing trouble in soft tissues of the kinds we've already discussed.
  Numerous studies, in fact, have established the fact that it is dietary magnesium, not calcium, (and certainly not fluoride) that creates glassy hard tooth enamel that resists decay, and strong and resilient bones. Regardless of the amount of calcium you consume, your teeth can only form hard enamel if magnesium is available in sufficient quantities.
  According to J. I. Rodale, in Magnesium: the Nutrient that Could Change Your Life, ''For years it was believed that high intakes of calcium and phosphorus inhibited decay by strengthening the enamel. Recent evidence, however, indicates that an increase in these two elements is useless unless we increase our magnesium intake at the same time. It has even been observed that dental structures beneath the surface can dissolve when additional amounts of calcium and phosphorus diffuse through the enamel at different rates. Thus milk, poor in magnesium, but high in the other two elements, not only interferes with magnesium metabolism, but also antagonizes the mineral responsible for decay prevention.''
  To revisit Deaf Smith County, Texas, and the justly famous residents whose teeth refused to succumb to decay, Rodale quotes the observations of Dr. Lewis Barnett, presented in a paper before the Texas Medical Association in Dallas, 1952. Dr. Barnett, an orthopedic surgeon, remarked on the low incidence of tooth decay and rapid healing of broken bones among these residents, and offered this explanation: ''[The local] water and foods have a very high magnesium and iodine content and recently we have proven that all of the trace minerals known to be essential are present in the water and foods grown in that area.'' Further, Dr. Barnett had found that the magnesium bone content of the average Deaf Smith County resident was up to five times higher than that of a resident of Dallas, while the concentrations of calcium and phosphorus were about the same in both groups. His observations led him to state that ''[o]ne of the most important aspects of the disease osteoporosis has been almost totally overlooked. That aspect is the role played by magnesium.''
  Rodale emphasizes the fact that Dr. Barnett gave much of the credit for these health benefits to the high magnesium content of the local water, and noted many signs of superior bone development among people in the area: ''Dr. Barnett makes mention of the fact that people in older years frequently have fracture of the cervical neck of the femur and these are very difficult to heal in many localities. However, he noted that this fracture rarely occurs in Deaf Smith County, whereas it was common in Dallas County, Texas, where he also practiced. When a fracture did occur in Deaf Smith, healing was easy and rapid even in people eighty to one hundred years old. In contrast, fractures in Dallas were common and very difficult to heal, if not impossible.''
  Over fifty years ago Dr. Barnett tested the magnesium levels of five thousand people and found sixty percent of them to be deficient. How much more of the population is deficient today, when all of the negative conditions contributing to that deficiency have been certainly amplified?
  FOOD SOURCES OF MAGNESIUMAs we've mentioned, if farm soils are well-mineralized, leafy green vegetables, seeds, tree nuts and whole grains are fairly good sources of magnesium. Certain wild-crafted forage foods really stand out, however, such as nettles (860 mg per 100 grams) and chickweed (529 mg per 100 grams), and add many tonic and nutritive benefits to both human and livestock diets largely due to their high mineral content. Kelp, ancient denizen of the sea, contains spectacular levels, as do most sea vegetables. Remember that they are continually bathed in a solution whose third most abundant mineral is magnesium. And authentic, unrefined sea salt is a very good source of magnesium, along with trace minerals. Utilizing bone broths on a daily basis will provide another excellent source of minerals, including magnesium, in a highly assimilable form.
  STRATEGIES FOR MAGNESIUM SUPPLEMENTATIONEven with ideal digestive conditions, only a percentage of magnesium in foods will be absorbed '' less when amounts in the body are adequate and more if there is a deficiency. This is also true of magnesium supplements, and there are many of them on the market to confuse you. For the average person, magnesium supplementation is safe to experiment with on your own, especially if you know you have symptoms that could be related to magnesium deficiency or are under extra stress, and so on. Excess magnesium is excreted in urine and the stool, and the most common response to too much magnesium is loose stools. Those with renal insufficiency or kidney disease, extremely slow heart rate, or bowel obstruction should avoid magnesium therapy.
  General dosage recommendations range from about 3 to 10 milligrams per pound of body weight, depending upon physical condition, requirements for growth (as in children), and degree of symptoms.
  Oral magnesium supplements are available in organic salt chelates, such as magnesium citrate and magnesium malate. These are fairly well absorbed, especially in powder forms to which you add water and can tailor your dosage. It is important to divide your dosage during the day so that you do not load your body with too much magnesium in any single dose. Carolyn Dean recommends taking your first dose early in the morning and another in the late afternoon '' these correspond to times when magnesium levels are low in the body. Is it just a coincidence that these times of low magnesium and low energy also correspond to the cultural rituals of morning coffee and afternoon tea?
  Loose stools indicate you are not absorbing the magnesium, but that it is acting as a laxative. When the magnesium travels through the intestines in less than twelve hours, it is merely excreted rather than absorbed. If you find you cannot overcome the laxative effect by varying your dosages, you may want to try an oral supplement that is chelated to an amino acid, such as magnesium taurate and magnesium glycinate, which some consider to be better absorbed than the salt forms and less likely to cause loose stools. For those who need a little help with digestion, such as young children, older adults, and anyone with reduced stomach acid or bowel dysbiosis, consider homeopathic magnesium, also referred to as tissue salts or cell salts. Magnesia phosphorica 6X is the appropriate dosage, and it works to usher magnesium into the cells where it belongs. It is also indicated as a remedy for muscle spasms and cramps of many varieties. Mag phos can help reduce and eliminate loose stools while you are supplementing with oral magnesium, giving you a positive sign that your body is indeed taking the magnesium into the cells.
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  In the spirit of rainbow unity, in not questioning the mental state of the Obama Afroid, and to ward off all charges of racism, this blog supports the calls of the Obama Hoodie Niggazi in burning down their neighborhoods in terroristic threats if beloved leader, B. Hussein is not able to once again steal another election as has been his entire career of election theft.
  No one should question these Obama Nigs in their rapine, but we should all in concordance, offer up suggestions to make this a venture sure to emulate the scorched earth policy of another thousand year historical figure in Adolf Hitler, Nazi, like Barry Chin, National Socialist in falling a bit short on the centuries mark of the things they founded.
  First, the Afroid should be careful not to burn down mansions like Louis Farrakhan's as Louis has worked very hard to be rich like Jeremiah Wright, Bill Cosby, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Whoopie Goldberg and other American blacks who have birth certificates, unlike B. Hussein. So please Niggazi Hoodies, do not burn down these upstanding Samuel L. Jackson mansions, as all of their fine white things will have to be replaced, and some things in life just can not be replicated.
  Second, the Niggazi neighborhood burner, should take along some precautionary things like good gloves so one's hands are not bloodied in breaking glass, safety glasses so the Niggazi eyes are protected and yes, even some good tennis shoes, not for running mind you, but so their feet do not get cut.Cut feet would leave footprints to be followed and of course, they might cause an infection and in all the burned out neighborhoods a Niggazi might not be able to get medical treatment.
  Third, in the spirit of ghetto green vomit Obama, please Niggazi hordes for Barack, find a nice green car to borrow to haul all of your loot home with. We must have a clean environment and with Mr. Obama building all these green cars white folks do not want, they are just waiting for you to do your part in driving them off and giving them new homes.
  Fourth, be careful in the fires, as a firestorm might ensue and bbq all of you fine Afroids and that is not what any of us want. While a fire extinguisher would be too cumbersom and of course no good against a 100 foot high flame city blocks wide, some caution in your burning should make this a safe venture for your most necessary reparations as Mr. Obama seems to have only had time for farmers, and you street corner welfare machines must have your part in this too.
  Fifth, please remember that Skittles are not a weapon, as Trayvon Martin forgot. Do not stalk and attack people who look white, as they might be armed Mexicans who are black too, who will shoot you dead.Stay in your own neighborhoods where you know only blacks will be, and all those frumper white women who are looking to punish themselves in shacking up with some VD infested dick.
  Sixth, if you care to emulate Mr. Obama's other children of skin color in the Middle East, please make certain in murdering your local leaders like Col. Khadaffi to not put it on camera as it takes the compassion away from white liberals, even Mark Levin did not like that sort of thing.And..........please remember to borrow a few jars of Vaseline if you are going to be indulging in Mr. Obama's favorite sexual time in sodomite sex or for you less educated Afroids, that would be backdoor sex up the butt. No one wants any of you Niggazi in rape of some person's anus to get a sore from lack of lubrication, so instead of car oil, just make certain you get yourself some Vaseline or perhaps some Kraft mayo as Kraft like testing food products on dead baby tissue and more black babies are aborted than any other race, so put your dick where the Mayo never rises.
  Seventh, Matches. Nothing is worse then trying to burn down a nation and not having anything to start a fire with. Matches can get wet and if it is cold, even lighters will not work due to butane not evaporating.
  Eighth, please when stealing prescription drugs be careful as not all drugs are equal in some might kill you. In fact, the problem is you might get stoned at Walmart and one of your Niggazi might just burn the place down around you.It is not all free televisions, computers and dope when on goes scorched earth for Obama.
  Ninth, I know all of these suggestions seem like Obama executive orders in taking away all of your fun, but the reality is this is not WATTS or Rodney King type situations. Yes Eric Holder backed all of you, but look at poor Trayvon Martin. Look at poor Jesse Jackson now in his own Obama gulag. It has not been easy for these infamous blacks under Obama, and you must follow some rules for the first time in your life, to make this Obama Pyre something to profit by and enjoy.
  You Niggazi must comprehend that if you do this correctly, no one will ever vote for a black again for a generation. This is a good thing really, as it will make Barack Obama really historical, as he would be quite non noted if say Colin Powell is elected next, then Eric Holder, then Jesse Jackson jr........you see being black and at the White House will be like during the slave years in all the servants around, so Mr. Obama's scorched earth wants this as a historic note where he will be the alpha and the omega, the first and last, Designer Negro, created by white folks.
  I sincerely hope these suggestions assist this Obama final solution. A solution which all can support in think of all the rats and cockroaches in your neighborhoods which will be exterminated by your fires. Then all that garbage, all that urnine and feces stained beds from 1960 will be gone. It will give that Joe Biden, "nice smelling Negro" that all white liberals sniff for.
  We can all agree with Barack Obama and Eric Holder policy in blacks burning down their neighborhoods if Mr. Obama fails again as a quasi black man in stealing this election, all in racial unity in all of us getting along.
  Just do not attack Mexicans with Skittles. Do not go into white communities where you will be shot, and do not burn yourselves up, and this can be a historic November 7th which will outshine Martin King day, just like Riala Odinga's day in which his communists burned down Kenya when he lost an election.
  Watch the wind, so that you do not have the fire burn toward you and keep the lights running for traffic control, so this is all orderly and no one is stuck in the inferno.I realize that Mr. Obama should have provided all of you some type of riot suggestions to help you out, but hisself has been so busy trying to take hostages and rape homos in Libya, that the distraction has no doubt hampered all of this Obama looking out for you.
  I know you Afroids have done well in shifting for yourself after Mr. Obama handed you a few turkeys in 2008, but this is a new venture for you and you can not count on things like Wisconsin wilding of white folks being the same as starting fires in your communities organized for Obama.
  Just put this on your smart phone, keep it charged and then you can follow the directions and you will not even have to read or remember any of these safety precautions. You can instead nap until November 7th as you have had your community leaders already voting for you, and invest your time in eating, doping and having sex. Situation normal, but Mr. Obama wants you well rested for your scorched earth marking the end of his regime.
  Please my Afroids be careful and perhaps you can have some of your token white friends read this for you, as they like hanging with you to feel superior, and it would make them feel that way in reading English which you can not speak.
  Oh and you ugly black women, please wear your Muchelle bondage belts in support of this. Be united, be strong, show your black pride in Obama.
  agtG
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  You'd think health insurance CEOs would be chilling the bubbly with Republican Mitt Romney's improved election prospects, but instead they're in a quandary.
  Although the industry hates parts of President Barack Obama's health care law, major outfits such as UnitedHealth Group and BlueCross Blue Shield also stand to rake in billions of dollars from new customers who'll get health insurance under the law. The companies already have invested tens of millions to carry it out.
  Were Romney elected, insurers would be in for months of uncertainty as his administration gets used to Washington and tries to make good on his promise repeal Obama's law. Simultaneously, federal and state bureaucrats and the health care industry would face a rush of legal deadlines for putting into place the major pieces of what Republicans deride as "Obamacare."
  Would they follow the law on the books or the one in the works? What would federal courts tell them to do?
  The answers probably would hinge on an always unwieldy Congress.
  Things could get grim for the industry if Republicans succeed in repealing the Affordable Care Act's subsidies and mandates, but leave standing its requirement that insurers cover people with health problems. If that's the outcome, the industry fears people literally could get health insurance on the way to the emergency room, and that would drive up premiums.
  "There are a lot of dollars and a lot of staff time that's been put into place to make this thing operational," G. William Hoagland, until recently a Cigna vice president, said of the health care law.
  Insurers "are not going to be out there saying, 'Repeal, repeal, repeal,'" added Hoagland, who oversaw public policy at the health insurance company. "They will probably try to find the particular provisions that cause them heartburn, but not throw the baby out with the bath water."
  The Romney campaign isn't laying out specifics on how the candidate would carry out his repeal promise, other than to say the push would begin on his first day in office. Romney has hinted that he wants to help people with medical conditions, doesn't say what parts of the health care law he'd keep.
  Likewise, America's Health Insurance Plans, the major industry trade group, isn't talking about what its members are telling the Romney campaign, though informal discussions are under way through intermediaries. Insurers like Romney's plan to privatize Medicare, and some point out that it looks a lot like Obama's approach to covering the uninsured.
  Robert Laszewski, an industry consultant and blogger, says the tension is becoming unbearable.
  "I spend a lot of time in executive offices and board rooms, and they are good Republicans who would like to see Romney win," said Laszewski. "But they are scared to death about what he's going to do."
  There is no consensus among Republicans in Congress on how to replace Obama's law, much less anything like a bipartisan middle ground on health care, a necessity if the House retains its GOP majority and the Senate remains in Democratic hands.
  In contrast, Obama's law is starting to look more and more like a tangible business opportunity. In a little over a year, some 30 million uninsured people will start getting coverage through a mix of subsidized private insurance for middle-class households and expanded Medicaid for low-income people. Many of the new Medicaid recipients would get signed up in commercial managed care companies.
  A recent PricewaterhouseCoopers study estimated the new markets would be worth $50 billion to $60 billion in premiums in 2014, and as much as $230 billion annually within seven years.
  Under the law, insurance companies would have to accept all applicants, including the sick. But the companies also would have a steady stream of younger, healthier customers required to buy their products, with the aid of new government subsidies. That finally could bring stability to the individual and small-business insurance markets.
  At a time when employer coverage has been eroding, government programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and now Obama's law are becoming the growth engines for the industry's bottom line. The trend seems too big to derail, says Morningstar analyst Matthew Coffina, who tracks the health insurance industry.
  "I think it's limited what they'll be able to accomplish in terms of repeal," said Coffina. "We have to remember that Romney implemented very similar legislation" as governor of Massachusetts.
  If Romney wins he's more likely to reduce the scope and scale of the law, Coffina added. Possibilities include delaying all or parts of the new coverage, particularly a Medicaid expansion that GOP governors don't like.
  The industry has three items in particular it wants stripped out: cuts to Medicare Advantage private insurance plans; a requirement that insurers spend 80 percent of premiums on medical care or rebate the difference to their customers; and new taxes on insurance companies. But CEOs don't share the visceral objection that many Republicans have to a bigger government role in health care.
  Industry executives "are Republicans in the sense that they're worried about the bottom line and they want to retain private sector involvement," said Hoagland, the former Cigna vice president. "But some of their bottom line is now driven by Medicare and Medicaid. So it's not like they're red or blue. It's more like purple."
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