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  "What Israel Is Doing Now Is The Right Thing!"
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  What It's Like On The Ground In Gaza At The Moment
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  Congressman Ron Paul's Farewell Address In The House Of Representatives
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  Oil Platform Explodes Off the Coast of Louisiana (Updating).
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    Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:21
    The Coast Guard reports that an oil platform 17 miles southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana owned by the Houston-based firm Black Elk Energy caught fire this morning. According to the latest report, Two crewmembers are dead, four are in critical condition, and the Coast Guard is still looking for two who are missing. A total of 11 crew were airlifted and are in medical care. While it's impossible not to think immediately of 2010's Deep Water Horizon disaster, it looks like this tragedy won't lead to an environmental catastrophe.
    We're updating as we learn more from the Coast Guard, Black Elk Energy, and other sources on the ground.
    Update 11:45WWLTV reports that four people have been airlifted from the platform to the hospital. According to Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Councilman Chris Roberts there are no reports that any oil has spilled. It's a shallow water platform so it's much less dangerous than with deep water wells.
    Update 11:52
    There's a report that the two missing people jumped overboard.
    Upadte 11:54
    WWTV also has a statement form Black Elk Energy
    We cannot confirm or deny anything at this time, but we are assembling an incident command team right now," said Black Elk Energy asset manager Kirk Trascher
    Update 11:59
    WWL-TV has additional details straight from the Coast Guard...
    Coast Guard Captain Peter Gautier said there was believed to be 28 people on the platform at the time. He said there were rescues that were done by Coast Guard and Good Samaritans.
    Gautier said the platform was not actively producing oil and it is not believed that there is any chance for a major environmental disaster.
    Well, that's a promising so far.
    Update 12:03
    Just yesterday, BP agreed to a plea bargain with the government in which it would admit to criminal responsibility for the 2010 Deep Water Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and dumped untold millions of gallons of oil into the gulf. BP will pay $4.5 billion in fines. The company is still potentially on the hook for another $20-odd billion in civil penalties and damages. [WSJ]
    Update 12:06We've got a statement on from Black Elk Energy, which says still collecting information. "We have Black Elk personnel on the scene, and we will release a statement this afternoon," a representative told Gizmodo.
    Update 12:10
    Here's some background on Black Elk Energy's well operations from its website. It's a major player with many wells in the region of this disaster.
    Black Elk Energy holds interests in properties offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, located within Louisiana and Texas State and Federal waters with depths ranging from less than ten feet up to over 6,000 feet.
    Through a series of selective transactions, Black Elk Energy has grown to include an aggregate interest in more than 854 wells on 155 platforms located across 430 thousand gross acres offshore. Black Elk holds a significant acreage position in the Gulf of Mexico from the mouth of the Mississippi River to Mustang Island
    Update 12:14
    We spoke to United States Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Bobby Nash, who told us, "We'll deal with the environmental impact once everyone is accounted for."
    Update 12:20Here's an image of Black Elk's well and platform locations. The specific platform that exploded is highlighted with an arrow.
    Update 12:23
    We got in touch with EPA Region 6 headquarters in Dallas. According to the office's spokesman Dave Bary, this falls entirely under USCG jurisdiction. No EPA response at this time.
    Update 12:28
    Black Elk Energy's website is down. And it appears that it's not just the pressure of increased traffic got the best of it. It was taken down intentionally.
    Update 12:34
    As NBC points out, the Houston Chronicle just named Black Elk Energy one of the top small businesses in the region to work for.
    Update 12:41The fire on the platform is reportedly out.
    Update 12:48
    The Coast Guard is the source which says the fire is out. CBS reports that the USCG had two small boats, an airplane, and two helicopters sent to the area.
    Update 12:50
    As for the environmental response, the federal government is reportedly on it.
    David Smith, a spokesman for the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, said a team of environmental enforcement inspectors was dispatched from a Gulf Coast base by helicopter soon after the Coast Guard was notified of the emergency.
    There's a number of reasons we might not have as much to worry about in this case compared to others. First of all, this is a shallow water platform. Part of what made dealing with the Deep Water Horizon disaster so tough was the extreme depth.
    Also, the platform is a production platform, not a well. It's not actually tapped into the bottom of the ocean floor. It's not drilling. Even better, there was no active production at the time of the fire.
    Update 12:59
    Here's a video from Black Elk Energy's environmental initiative .
    Update 1:02
    WWL TV reports that it appears the accident happened while maintenance workers were cutting pipe. This could have created the spark that ignited the platform's highly flammable payload.
    Update 1:15The situation appears to have stabilized; the Coast Guard is still searching for the missing workers, and the full extent of the damage remains to be seen. We're in touch with representatives from the Coast Guard, Black Elk Energy, and the government and we'll update again when we can get some clarification on those points.
    Update 2:41The Black Elk Energy front page is back (the news page is still down. They've added the following statement to the front page:
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    Our thoughts and prayers are with those who are impacted. We have Black Elk personnel on the scene and en route. We are still collecting information at this time. We will release a statement this afternoon when we have more details.
    If more information is needed, please call 281-779-8459
    A kind statement. We couldn't agree more. Our condolences to those who lost loved ones in this tragedy.
    Update 3:30
    The Coast Guard now says that the production platform will spill no more than 28 gallons of oil into the gulf of Mexico. This more or less confirms earlier reports indicating that the accident will most likely not be a major ecological disaster. [Houston Business Journal]
    Update 5:15PM
    Here's the latest on the victims from the Coast Guard:
    Coast Guard crews are searching for two missing crewmembers following a platform explosion approximately 20 miles southeast of Grand Isle, Friday morning.
    Eleven crewmembers have been medevaced from the Black Elk Energy-owned platform to various local hospitals. Nine additional crewmembers were safely evacuated off the platform. The fire has been extinguished, and a sheen has been spotted in the area.
    We're still waiting on the official statement that's supposedly coming from Black Elk Energy.
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  Mile High mystery: UFO sightings in sky over Denver | KDVR.com '' Denver News, Weather & Sports from FOX 31 News in Denver, Colorado
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    Posted on: 9:37 pm, November 8, 2012, by Heidi Hemmat, updated on: 07:19pm, November 11, 2012
    DENVER '' It's a mile high mystery in the skies over Denver.
    Strange objects caught on camera flying over the city and nobody can explain it.
    We first learned about these sightings when a metro area man, who does not want to be identified brought us his home video. He captured the images on his digital camera from a hilltop in Federal Heights looking south toward downtown Denver.
    He said, ''The flying objects appear around noon or 1:00 p.m. at least a couple of times a week.'' The strangest part is they are flying too fast to see with the naked eye, but when we slowed down the video, several UFOs appear.
    We altered the color contrast to make it easier to see. You can take a look for yourself by watching the video clip.
    We wanted to verify the video we saw was legitimate and not doctored in anyway. So our photojournalist set up his camera in the same spot, and shot video from just before noon until just after 1:00 p.m. He also captured something unexplained on video.
    Aviation expert Steve Cowell is a former commercial pilot, instructor and FAA accident prevention counselor.
    He thought he would have a logical explanation, until he watched the video. ''That is not an airplane, that is not a helicopter, those are not birds, I can't identify it,'' he said. He also told us the objects are not insects.
    He said he knows of no aircraft that flies as fast. He did tell us there is one other possibility. ''Perhaps there's some sort of debris that is being raised up by some of the atmospheric winds.''
    But in his professional opinion, ''As it fits the definition, it's an unidentified flying object.''
    The FAA tracks all air traffic in Colorado and across the country. The FAA sent us a statement that says, ''We`ve checked with air traffic control and no one has had any reports of the activity you described'...nor have any of our employees observed anything of this nature either visually or on their radar displays.''
    The North American Aerospace Defense Command is located in Colorado Springs. It keeps an eye on the skies in case of an air attack against the United States.
    NORAD sent us this statement, ''Our Command Center reviewed their records and they did not have any noted air activity in the Denver area during the times you indicated.''
    The man who brought the video to our attention believes the UFOs are launching and landing near 56th Ave. and Clay Street in Denver. A Map shows only homes in the area.
    So are they UFOs? A secret military test? Floating debris?
    The answer is anything but clear. What do you think this UFO is? Join the conversation about this story on Facebook.
    Send your UFO pictures to tips@kdvr.com
    Want to see more UFO reports? National UFO Reporting Center
    Video below was shot by FOX31 Denver photojournalist Noah Skinner. The video zooms in on a fast moving object.
  Rice Cannot Be Questioned According to Dems | MRCTV
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    It appears Representative Clyburn got the ball rolling on the latest attempt by Democrats to play the race and gender cards. Representative Marcia Fudge, who is set to become the leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, accused Republicans of racism and sexism in their opposition to Rice's nomination for Secretary of State. Former Obama campaign advisor Mark Hannah took it a step further by accusing Republicans of only attacking African-American members of the Obama Administration.
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Thousands to videotape TSA pat downs in protest (video)
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  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) - A Birmingham man is among many who say the Transportation Security Administration's tactics are aggressive and invasive.Chris Key will take part in "Opt Out and Film Week." It's a national effort where people who share his views will voluntarily undergo pat downs at airports. They will videotape the encounters and post them online.
  "People don't realize when they give up a little bit of liberty for security, you lose both," Key said.
  "TSA takes its mission to protect the safety of the traveling public seriously and our officers will continue to uphold our high standards of professionalism during the busy holiday season and every day throughout the year," TSA said in a written statement.
  Key says the videos will show the pat downs are borderline sexual assault and are unnecessary for passenger safety.
  "We are reminded of the need for constant vigilance with instances such as the Christmas Day 2009 suicide bomber," TSA continued. TSA respects passengers right to exercise freedom of speech as well as the rights of fellow travelers trying to get to their destination safely and without unnecessary delay."
  "People have inalienable rights given to them by God and are supported by the Constitution and these things are being violated," Key said.
  Click here for more on "Opt Out and Film Week."Click here for more information on screenings from the TSA.
Israeli Airstrike Destroys Russia Today TV Channel Office in Gaza | World | RIA Novosti
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  MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) '' An Israeli airstrike on a media compound in the Gaza Strip has destroyed the office of Russia Today TV channel, the RT press office said on Sunday.
  The office of RT's Arabic-language channel Rusiya Al-Yaum was shelled by the Israeli forces early on Sunday. The TV channel's filming crew was not affected as they had left the Shawa building about an hour before the Israeli planes delivered the strike, the press office said.
  RT's office was located on the last, eleventh floor of the building, which also accommodates Britain's Sky News, Italian RAI, German ARD, Kuwait-TV and Palestinian news agencies.
  The crew has now moved to a less-affected floor of the center to continue their work.
Thousands of French Residents Protest Gay Marriage Bill | World | RIA Novosti
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  MOSCOW, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - Tens of thousands of French nationals on Saturday protested the French authorities' plans to legalize same-sex marriage and allow gay couples to adopt, media reported citing police.
  Some 70,000 people took part in protests on the streets of Paris, according to British broadcaster BBC. Demonstrations were also held in the cities of Lyon, Toulouse and Marseille. Catholic groups and other supporters of traditional family rights were among the participants.
  The Paris rally organizers put the number of those present at 200,000, the AFP reported. The agency quoted police as saying 22,000 protested in the southeastern city of Lyon and some 8,000 in the southern city of Marseille.
  During his election campaign, French President Francois Hollande had pledged to legalize gay marriages. His socialist government faced opposition from over 1,000 mayors and the Catholic Church, but still approved a relevant bill earlier in November. France's parliament is to discuss it in January.
  ''A child needs a father and a mother, he needs the paternal and the maternal side and with this bill that might not be possible any more,'' the BBC quoted one protestor, Marthe Vignault, as saying. ''That's the way it is and we can't go against nature.''
  Rallies supporting same-sex marriages were also held in the country Saturday.
The REAL Reason for the Assault In Gaza?
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  Why Israel Is Escalating the Assault on Gaza In NovemberWe noted yesterday that many speculate that the timing of the war in Gaza is because it is (1) after the U.S. elections and before the Israeli elections or (2) part of the run-up to a war with Iran.
  A third reason is also quite possible.
  Asia News reported last month:
  The debate on U.N. recognition of Palestine will be held in mid-November. This was announced two days ago by Vuk Jeremic, President of the U.N. General Assembly. ''The leaders of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) are going to engage in extensive discussions'', said Jeremic, ''coming to a conclusion as to what they want to do some time in November.''
  On November 6th '' before hostilities escalated in Gaza '' Anti War pointed out:
  Palestine's upgrade to UN ''non-member observer state'' status is virtually a foregone conclusion, with an overwhelming majority of the UN General Assembly expected to vote in favor and only a handful, led by the US and Israel, in opposition.
  The question then is what Israel's reaction will be, and the nation's cabinet met today to discuss possible ''punitive'' measures to punish the Palestinians for getting the enhanced level of recognition on the international stage.
  Exactly what the move will be remains unclear, and with Israel already not negotiating with the Palestinians and already expanding settlements, the number of options that will actually feel like ''punishment'' instead of just business as usual is limited.
  On November 8th, the Washington Post reported:
  The Palestinians took the first step toward raising their status at the United Nations from an observer to a nonmember observer state Thursday by circulating a draft resolution to the 193 U.N. member states and asking for their support.
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  There are no vetoes in the General Assembly and the resolution is almost certain to be approved by the world body which is dominated by countries sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Approval of the resolution would elevate the Palestinians to the same status as the Vatican. The draft resolution states that to date, 132 nations have recognized ''the State of Palestine.''
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  The upgraded status would add weight to Palestinian claims for a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, territories captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005.
  The Palestinians also hope to use their upgraded status to join additional U.N. bodies, such as the International Criminal Court, where they could attempt to prosecute Israel.
  At the same time, they have expressed fear of financial and diplomatic retaliation.
  Following last year's move by the Palestinians to join the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, the United States withheld funds from the organization, which amount to 22 percent of its budget. The U.S. also withheld money to the Palestinians, and the U.S. Congress has threatened similar sanctions if the Palestinians proceed to improve their status at the U.N. again.
  Israel also retaliated by accelerating settlement construction and withholding funds from the Palestinian government.
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  The draft resolution expresses hope that the Security Council will consider the application for full membership favorably.
  It ''reaffirms the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to independence in their State of Palestine on the basis of the pre-1967 borders.''
  And Reuters noted yesterday:
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Friday of launching an assault on the Gaza Strip to undermine his efforts to secure a diplomatic upgrade at the United Nations.
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  Abbas [said] he thought the escalating military campaign was aimed at sinking his own diplomatic maneuverings.
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  ''Everything that is happening is in order to block our endeavors to reach the United Nations,'' Abbas told journalists.
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  Abbas [is] recognized by the West as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip '....
  Despite the violence, he said he would push ahead with plans for a vote at the U.N. General Assembly before the end of the month to give the Palestinians the rank of an ''observer state'' within the world body rather than the present ''observer entity''.
  The upgrade would enhance Palestinians' legal rights at a time when peace negotiations with Israel have hit a wall over Israel's refusal to halt settlement building in territory where the Palestinians want their state.
  ''We are going to the United Nations to vote on the resolution of our becoming an observer state on the 29th of this month. Nothing will deter us,'' Abbas said.
  Both Israel and the United States have condemned the planned vote, which Abbas looks set to win, saying it violated the 1993 Oslo accords, which were intended to pave the way to a ''final status agreement'' within five years.
Saffron Rice
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  Saffron RicePosted on 17 November 2012 by Dave
  Afghani farmers began growing saffron to replace opium as a cash crop, but now the spice is suffering falling prices. The scam John Dvorak uncovered is that many spice merchants claim the saffron is from Iran, but it's really grown in Afghanistan and resold.
  Dvorak recommended uses saffron is seafood stews and rice dishes to color and flavor the rice. Dvorak summed it up, ''It's absolutely fantastic, one of the tastiest things you'll ever eat '' saffron rice!''
75,000 U.S. Troops May Be Needed to Grab Syria Chemical Arms - NYTimes.com
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  WASHINGTON '-- The Pentagon has told the Obama administration that any military effort to seize Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons would require upward of 75,000 troops, amid increasing concern that the militant group Hezbollah has set up small training camps close to some of the chemical weapons depots, according to senior American officials.
  The estimated size of the potential effort, provided to the White House by the military's Central Command and Joint Staff, called into question whether the United States would have the resources to act quickly if it detected the movement of chemical weapons and forced President Obama, as he said in August, to ''change my calculus'' about inserting American forces into Syria. So far Mr. Obama has avoided direct intervention into the most brutal civil conflict to emerge from the Arab Spring uprisings, and the Pentagon assessment was seen as likely to reinforce that reluctance.
  The White House on Thursday declined to comment on the Defense Department's assessment.
  The Pentagon has not yet been directed to draft detailed plans of how it could carry out such a mission, according to military officials. There are also contingency plans, officials say, for securing a more limited number of the Syrian chemical weapons depots, requiring fewer troops.
  The discovery that Hezbollah has set up camps close to some of the depots, however, has renewed concern that as the chaos in Syria deepens, the country's huge chemical weapons stockpiles could fall into the wrong hands. Hezbollah fighters have been training at ''a limited number of these sites,'' said one senior American official who has been briefed on the intelligence reports and spoke on the condition of anonymity. ''But the fear these weapons could fall into the wrong hands is our greatest concern.''
  So far, there is no evidence that Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon but has become increasingly active in protecting the government of President Bashar al-Assad, is making any effort to gain control over the chemical weapons. Its decision to train fighters close to the major chemical sites, some officials speculate, could be rooted in a bet that their camps will not be bombed if the West believes there is a risk of hitting the stockpiles.
  Mr. Assad has openly threatened to retaliate beyond his country's borders if outside forces try to break the current stalemate to unseat him, and there is renewed concern about whether he or his proxies might use the chemical weapons as their last shield. Officials say that attacks along the borders with Turkey and Israel have forced the administration to consider the risks of Syria's troubles spreading in the region.
  Mr. Obama has been clear for more than a year that he would resist direct American intervention, but in August he said one circumstance would cause him to revisit that position. ''A red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized,'' he said at a news conference. ''That would change my calculus.''
  Mr. Obama brought those concerns up again in a news conference on Wednesday, saying that the United States was in close contact with Turkey and Jordan ''and obviously Israel, which is having already grave concerns as we do about, for example, movements of chemical weapons that might occur in such a chaotic atmosphere and that could have an impact not just within Syria but on the region as a whole.''
  The American concerns have been heightened by another sign that Mr. Assad may be arming himself to strike out '-- Syria's continued imports of missile technology, even at a time when the Assad government is reeling under sanctions.
  Syria already has a vast arsenal of missiles able to reach Turkey or strike Israel, and in the past it has provided Hezbollah with missiles. But American officials voice concern over even modest improvements in Syria's missile stockpiles.
  American intelligence and security officials, in interviews in recent days, said that the United States had picked up evidence that North Korea had resumed providing Syria with some missile technology, including assistance with Scud missiles.
  A shipment of graphite cylinders that could be used in missiles and are suspected to have come from North Korea were found in May aboard a Chinese ship en route to Syria, Reuters reported Wednesday. North Korean technicians and engineers stationed in Syria have recently increased their efforts on a joint program to improve the Scud D missile's accuracy and the warhead's ability to defeat interceptors, IHS Jane's International Defense Review reported in June.
  Given the chaos in Syria, and Mr. Assad's daily effort to survive, it is not clear what condition the Syrian missile program is in. The Turkish military has expressed worry about Syria's ballistic missiles and its chemical weapons stocks. Concerned about this potential threat, Turkey and NATO nations have informally been discussing the possibility that some of the alliance's Patriot antimissile system could be sent to Turkey, which has no Patriot batteries of its own.
  Independent analysts expressed concern that if Mr. Assad is backed into a corner, he could use or threaten to use missiles tipped with chemical weapons against the rebels, despite the threat of Western intervention if he did.
  ''There is credible information that the Assad regime has been upgrading and expanding its chemical weapons arsenal, which needs to be maintained,'' said Emile Hokayem, a Middle East analyst at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. ''A credible delivery capability is also needed, hence the North Korean angle.''
  The estimation that it would take 75,000 troops to neutralize the chemical weapons grew out of what Mr. Obama, in his August news conference, referred to as extensive contingency planning for how the United States would respond if the chemical weapons were on the move or appeared vulnerable.
  ''The problem is that you can't just pick this stuff up and ship it out of the country,'' said one senior military official who has studied the problem. The chances of contamination of nearby Syrian towns, and of attacks on the effort to move the weapons, were simply too high. Because many of the containers holding the material are old, or of unknown reliability, the risk of leakage is high.
  As a result, the official said, much of the chemical stockpiles might have to be destroyed in place. That is a lengthy, dangerous job, and would require enormous force protection around the sites. When the United States went through similar efforts to destroy its own stockpiles '-- under strict environmental regulations that would likely not apply in Syria '-- the process took years.
  A second official familiar with the plans disputed the idea that all of the stockpiles would have to be destroyed in place. Some, he suggested, could be airlifted out for destruction elsewhere or burial at sea. ''There are several options,'' he said, ''but all carry varying degrees of risk.''
  That official said that rebel groups receiving nonlethal help from the United States have been asked to mark and secure any chemical weapons sites they come across.
  The United States has varying estimates of how many sites exist, with the C.I.A. estimating about three dozen and the military using figures in the high 40s.
  Officials said that the United States military had quietly sent a task force of more than 150 planners and other specialists to Jordan to help the armed forces there, among other things, to prepare for the possibility that Syria will lose control of its chemical weapons.
  Elisabeth Bumiller and Michael R. Gordon contributed reporting.
Alas, poor Drake's, this world, your like shall never see again.
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  Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:29
  Alas, poor Drake's, this world, your like shall never see again.Hostess cakes announced that they have closed their business today. The bakery baked it's last batch of Twinkies, Ring Dings, and Devil Dog's sometime yesterday. You can read about it here.
  I had a little Drake's Cake Wake here in Brooklyn this morning. My last coffee with a pack of Yodels, ever. I could give a flying damn about Hostess, their Twinkies or Ring Ding's (did you know that they had different names in different parts of the country at one time? or that one of the names was '-- REALLY!! '-- King Dongs?!), but Yodels'.... It doesn't matter what the frosting was made of, or the filling, eating a Yodel was a sensual experience. First, licking the chocolate frosting off the ends, and then peeling it with your teeth, to finally consume the naked chocolate cake and filling, and then wash this down with a gulp of hot coffee! This is a tragedy.
  Morning commutes will never be the same.
'QATAR AIDED ATTACK ON GAZA'
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  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:59
  The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad, visited Gaza on 23 October 2012.During the visit, Qatar's Emir gifted a number of watches and ballpoint pens to Hamas leaders.
  Reportedly, "these watches and pens transmitted low-frequency signals to Israeli satellites.
  "The Israeli military then used the received signals to spot and assassinate senior Hamas officials."
  Locations of Hamas Leaders Identified during Qatari Emir's Recent ...
  Qatar's emir, who is known as the Fat Pig, has repeatedly met with Israeli leaders.
  The Emir is keen to invest large sums of money in Gaza, but he may wait until Israel has kicked the Palestinians out of Gaza and into Egypt.
  "Egypt's Morsi came to power via a CIA engineered Arab Spring."He is not a revolutionary but an Islamist pimp who follows USraeli orders when it comes to Syria, IMF loans, etc. "Syria has risked its life and wealth to aid and defend Palestine. "Check out the 'injured' male at around 2:11 and witness his remarkable recovery at around 2:42.
  "Is he part of an amateur dramatics society?"Just When The Public Think BBC Standards Can't Go Lower - SUBROSAThe Shah of Iran was toppled by the CIA and MI6, using the Muslim Brotherhood"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Avner Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades..."Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah.
  "Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin..."The Israeli government officially recognized a precursor to Hamas called Mujama Al-Islamiya, registering the group as a charity.
  "It allowed Mujama members to set up an Islamic university and build mosques, clubs and schools.
UKIP Nigel Farage- BBC Question Time, November 2012
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Ingress: Google's Strange New Game - BlackListedNews.com
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  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:27
  John Hanke is the head of Niantic Labs, the Google unit that created Ingress, a new global alternate reality game.
  Let's quickly look at some of what Hanke was up to before he worked at Google.
  After graduation from the University of Texas at Austin, Hanke, ''Worked in foreign affairs for the US Government in Washington, DC and Southeast Asia.'' Nice and vague. *wink* *wink*
  Hanke went on to become the CEO of Keyhole, Inc., a company that specialized in geospatial data visualization and had multiple connections to the black world. Keyhole, Inc. received financial backing from the CIA (via In-Q-Tel). Google acquired Keyhole, Inc. and the associated technologies became Google Earth, Google Maps, and other Google services.
  This is relatively bland so far, I know, but I'll leave it up to you to decide if any of the following is strange, given Hanke's long association with the U.S. Government.
  It might be helpful to keep Secrets in Plain Sight in mind as you wade into this one.
  In Ingress, Google wants people to be physically present at the locations that are in the game to confront, ''A mysterious energy,'' and to, ''Choose a side.''
  ''The Enlightened'' seek to embrace the power that this energy may bestow upon us.
  ''The Resistance'' struggle to defend, and protect what's left of our humanity.
  Fabian Bustamante, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the McCormick School of Engineering, has looked at using the type of technology used in Ingress for what he calls, ''Soft control.''
  He stated, ''We can 'soft control' users with gaming or social network incentives to drive them where we want them.''
  What's going on here?
  Rather than trying to guess about what might be happening here, I'm going to have to simply bask in the weirdness of this one for a while.
  Via: IGN:
  This world around you is not what it seems. Our future is at stake, and you must choose a side.
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  Google's top-secret Niantic Project has been picking up plenty of buzz lately around all the usual tech blogs. Since November 1st a Google-hosted investigation board has been stoking these fires with cryptic videos featuring ominous voiceovers that drop phrases like ''There's more to the world than you can see.'' A poster featuring encoded text superimposed over photos taken near CERN is another early post on this ''Sphere of Weirdness.''
  An independent wiki has even been set up to help sort out the signal from the noise. Reddit has also gotten in on the act.
  In a reveal sure to disappoint some (while alternately thrilling mobile gamers), Google has revealed that Project Niantic is in fact tied to the launch of a new location-based mobile game called Ingress, developed by Google itself.
The DHS And FBI Present: You Might Be A Terrorist If... (Hotel Guest Edition)
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  Source: Yaël's linkblog feed
  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:26
  from the glass-container-in-the-pool-area?-threat-level-upgraded-to-'orange' deptAs we seem to be told repeatedly, seeing something and saying something is perhaps the greatest duty an American citizen can perform in service to this country. It's simply not enough anymore to install an American flag in the front yard and purchase domestic vehicles. Now, every citizen should be keeping his eye out for (and on) his fellow citizens. The price of freedom may be eternal vigilance, but the price of security is endless paranoia.
  To that end, the DHS and the FBI have joined forces to compile a list of oddities that might well indicate you are sleeping one paper-thin wall away from death personified (via Bruce Schneier's fine blog).
  Possible indicators of terrorist behaviors at hotels: The observation of multiple indicators may represent'--based on the specific facts or circumstances'--possible terrorist behaviors at hotels:
  - Not providing professional or personal details on hotel registrations'--such as place of employment, contact information, or place of residence.
  [Place of employment? Seriously? "Alan Smithee, 123 Main Street, Anytown USA 5578H. Occupation: Death Hug Merchant."] - Using payphones for outgoing calls or making front desk requests in person to avoid using the room telephone.
  [Payphones? Are terrorists unaware of "burners?"]- Interest in using Internet cafes, despite hotel Internet availability.
  [This seems to suggest that the Feds have already let themselves in the back door on the (sometimes prohibitively expensive) hotel wi-fi.]- Non-VIPs who request that their presence at a hotel not be divulged.
  [Let me get this straight: normal, "non-VIP" people will just have their information divulged to whoever asks, simply because they're not "important" enough to deserve privacy? Perhaps that should be posted on a sign somewhere up by the check-in desk: "All guests are created equal, but some are more equal than others."]- Extending departure dates one day at a time for prolonged periods.
  [Something only a terrorist would do. Let me give you a real life, happened-to-me example: in town to visit the famous Mayo Clinic seeking medical help for my wife. What started out as three days turned into seven days, with the stay at the hotel being extended one day at a time. Open-ended hotel stays: not just for terrorists anymore.]- Refusal of housekeeping services for extended periods.
  [This I believe. No one wants to make their own bed.]- Extended stays with little baggage or unpacked luggage.
  [Unless the staff have been instructed to do a little snooping in every room, how would anyone know how much baggage someone brought and never unpacked? No doubt this will soon make its way onto propaganda posters: "HAVE YOU PACKED ENOUGH? Traveling light is traveling with terror."]- Access or attempted access to areas of the hotel normally restricted to staff.
  - Use of cash for large transactions or a credit card in someone else's name.
  - Requests for specific rooms, floors, or other locations in the hotel.
  [Close to the parking lot, ground floor. Convenience or criminal intent?]- Use of a third party to register.
  - Multiple visitors or deliveries to one individual or room.
  [Ruthless cabal or post-prom drinking party?]- Unusual interest in hotel access, including main and alternate entrances, emergency exits, and surrounding routes.
  [IN CASE OF FIRE, PLEASE REMAIN IGNORANT.]- Use of entrances and exits that avoid the lobby or other areas with cameras and hotel personnel.
  [Like the one nearest your vehicle?]- Attempting to access restricted parking areas with a vehicle or leaving unattended vehicles near the hotel building.
  [During your stay at the hotel, please remain in your vehicle at all times.]- Unusual interest in hotel staff operating procedures, shift changes, closed-circuit TV systems, fire alarms, and security systems.
  - Leaving the property for several days and then returning.
  - Abandoning a room and leaving behind clothing, toiletries, or other items.
  [You'd think the Feds would be happy to have CLUES and EVIDENCE just laying around.]- Noncompliance with other hotel policies.
  [Ah. The handy catch-all. If the other points don't directly implicate you, then maybe something from this list will!]So, to be a standup, non-terrorist citizen, here's what you need to do:
  Pack for two weeks if you're staying for two days. Park your vehicle a safe distance away from the hotel, perhaps across the street or at another hotel. Leaving your vehicle dangerously unattended, walk directly through the main entrance with hands open and displayed in a non-threatening manner.
  When registering, present as many forms of ID as possible. Be sure to mention where you work EVEN if no one asks. Brag if you have to. Hand out business cards to the staff. Let the desk clerk know that your stay here is no secret and that your room number should be given to anyone who asks, including those who don't ask. When asked if you have a room preference, answer with a bright, but unfrightening, "I've never had a 'preference' in my life! I'm easy to please and an American citizen!"
  Head directly to your room, carefully avoiding eye contact with doors marked "Employees Only." Immediately unpack all of your luggage. Make several phones calls using ONLY the in-room phone. Call the front desk several times so as to avoid appearing suspicious. Return to your unattended vehicle and clone yourself using existing, but non-potentially-dangerous technology. Make no sudden movements and keep your ID and passport displayed prominently. Return one of yourselves to your hotel room, again using the front entrance in a non-threatening, flag-waving manner.
  Stay in your room. Use the provided wi-fi. Avoid sites that use any form of encryption. Be careful not to stay in your room too long. When venturing out for something to eat or a non-suspicious conversation with the suspicious staff, avoid stairwells, hallways, exits/entrances, and connecting roads. On second thought, just stay in your room. This will make it easier to avoid being caught up in the middle of a personnel shift change.
  If you must leave your room, smile and wave at each and every security camera. Lift your shirt to display lack of weapons, explosives or identifiable scars and tattoos. If purchasing anything from the hotel, use only credit cards, checks or DNA. Return to your room using the most surveilled route. Use the in-room phone to order room service. Turn down the delivery when it comes, stating that you're trying to keep visitors and deliveries to a minimum. Apologize for not having any cash to tip with, but explain that this lack of cash directly contributes (not monetarily, of course) to the safety of everyone in the hotel. Repeat this apology to housekeeping when they arrive, being sure to answer the door before they get to the second knock. Try to ignore their just-out-of-earshot griping about having to clean around the scattered contents of four large suitcases. Smile in a non-threatening fashion and shrug as if to say, "LOOK AT HOW MUCH I DON'T HAVE TO HIDE."
  If you find that, despite your careful planning, your stay is going to be extended indefinitey, switch hotels. Pack all of your belongings carefully. Police the room for any stray socks, unused condoms or stealable toiletries. Turn the coffee maker OFF (if applicable). Leave in an unhurried fashion, but don't dawdle. Return to your attended vehicle and (most likely) dead clone. Drive to another hotel, preferably one a non-suspicious distance away and repeat the process. Once you return to your hometown, turn yourself into the nearest authorities for a thorough post-travel debriefing.
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Man with strange watch arrested at Calif. airport, charged with having bomb-making materials | Fox News
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  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:22
  OAKLAND, Calif. '' A Southern California man was arrested at Oakland International Airport after security officers found him wearing an unusual watch they said could be used to make a timing device for a bomb, authorities said Friday.
  Geoffrey McGann, 49, of Rancho Palos Verdes was taken into custody Thursday night after he tried to pass through airport security with an ornate watch that had switches, wires and fuses, according to Sgt. J.D. Nelson, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department.
  A bomb squad arrived within five minutes and determined there were no explosive materials in the watch, Nelson said. The checkpoint was closed while officers secured the area.
  McGann was taken to Santa Rita Jail in Dublin where he was charged with possessing materials to make an explosive device, sheriff's officials said. He was still in custody Friday night and could not be reached for comment.
  McGann told Transportation Security Administration officers that he's an artist and the watch is art, Nelson said.
  While no actual explosives were found, McGann was carrying potentially dangerous materials and appeared to have made alterations to his boots, which were unusually large and stuffed with layers of insoles, Nelson said.
  A profile for a person named Geoffrey McGann on the website LinkedIn.com lists him as the owner and creative director of a media production company called Generator Content. He attended the Art College Center of Design in Pasadena from 1984 to 1987, according to the website.
Twin #2 Linked to Military Lobbyist and Senator John Kerry
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  Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com
  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:21
  This is amazing, it just doesn't stop. The twin of Jill Kelley has been linked to a military lobbyist, who loaned the twin, Natalie Kawam, $300,000. There's also a link to Massachusetts Senator John Kerry.HuffPo has the story:
  Kelley's identical twin sister, Natalie Khawam, profited from her own lobbying connection. Bankruptcy records show that Gerald "Jerry" Harrington, a Rhode Island lobbyist and Democratic fundraiser, loaned Khawam $300,000 that she was unable to pay back.
  Khawam dated Harrington while she lived with her sister in Tampa, Fla., attending the many parties Kelley hosted for military officers stationed at nearby MacDill Air Force Base. At the time Harrington, too, had plenty of connections with the military. But not the social kind.
  Since 2010, Harrington's lobbying firm, Capitol City Group, has made $1.14 million from clients with lobbying interests in military spending and defense bills, according to disclosure reports.
  The largest of them is Picerne Military Housing, which constructs, sells, and manages housing on U.S. military bases. Since 2010, Harrington and his business partner have received $300,000 from Picerne, and an additional $40,000 from Picerne's subsidiary, Picerne Capital. In exchange, they actively lobbied Congress on 42 bills, ranging from military base construction to World War II memorials.
  Lobbying records also show that Harrington made $40,000 in the past two years lobbying the Department of Veterans Affairs and Congress on behalf of Radiation Therapy Services...
  Harrington helped introduce Khawam to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). A Kerry spokesperson told the Boston Herald that Kerry met Khawam "a couple of times" at an annual Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event on Martha's Vineyard.
Alabama Secessionist Blames Government for Closing Topless Car Wash
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:15
  An Alabama man who started a petition calling for the White House to allow his state to peacefully secede from the Union says he's angry that the government forced him to close his topless car wash.
  Disaffected Americans have created hundreds of ''We the People'' petitions on the White House website following President Barack Obama' re-election earlier this month. There have been petitions from each of the 50 states requesting permission to secede.
  WKRG-TV managed to track down Derrick Belcher, the man responsible for the petition calling for Alabama's secession.
  Gawker noted on Thursday that the 45-year-old trucking company manager was really just upset because his Euro Details topless car wash had been shut down by the government.
  But according to Al.com, it was the Mobile city government -- not the federal government -- that arrested Belcher and charged him with obscenity after the state of Alabama enacted an anti-obscenity law in 1998.
  "The government ripped my business away, and now they're choking America to death with rules and regulations," the secessionist explained.
  "The American people are being mistreated by the federal government and there is absolutley no reason why we shouldn't end this treatment from the federal government," he told WKRG-TV. ''And I guess there is a part of me that is angry because my government has mistreated me year after year after year, and I am fed up with it and I know there are several other people in this state and all across the country that are fed up with it as well.''
  At the time of publication, Belcher's petition for secession had 29,124 signatures, meeting the 25,000 threshold needed for a White House response.
Netanyahu Bet Wrong on Romney, Has Lost Neocon Petraeus Network; Gaza Aggression Is His Desperate Gambit in Advance of January 22 Vote '' Tell Him to Back Off
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:09
  Unless one has a Shakespeare or a Homer, the great epochs of peoples are lost upon the world.
  There was a battle in the Year of Our Lord in 1389, called the Battle of Blackbird's Field or the Battle of Kosovo on St. Vitus' Day also known as June 15th. On that the Ottoman Muslim Murad I brought tens of thousands of his hordes and elite enslaved Janissarian whites to the European Balkans for a battle which was devastating beyond all measure.
  Prince Lazar of the Serbians would lead his peoples in defense of their country, and upon that day, the two armies would smash into each other literally destroying each other, and destroying each leader to send an epic struggle of the ages for freedom for the Slavic peoples again and again.Again and again the Serbians would rise in revolt against the Muslim Turks and again and again, they would be slaughtered, defeated, enslaved, raped and murdered until two final epic battles in 1459 and 1450 crushed the Serbs.
  It would make no difference to the Serbs though, for where their warriors laid dead and their nation laid enslaved with no one to defend it, a new generation would arise and battle on, with each remembering their Slava, the day their family was redeemed in Christ.
  The Battle of Kosovo is the mark of Serbian Patriotism in all which was found and lost there. For in those years, the fires of the Serbian blood and the heartbeat of Serbian nationalism was never quenched but burned on to the time when they gained their namesake again in Serbia, and were once again slaughtered, maligned and attacked in another Kosovo war in which part of their lands were stolen from them again, as new conquerors wrote a tale of why Serbians should be slaves.
  The defense of all Europe against despotry of Islam, Nazism, Communism, Imperialism in all the feudal state has been fought, butchered and died over in the Serbian lands.
  It is the free child, free of Islam, Nazism, Communism and Imperialism who breathes that breath, because of the bloodied fields again and again of the Serbians who were crushed and rose again to the foe, when their original barbarians had laid rotting the graves of hell.
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  After the mass murder of the Polish Patriot Government by Vladamir Putin at a Polish mass murder memorial by crashing their passenger jet, B. Hussein Obama as an accomplice in the cover up, refused to offer any American investigative help.Mr. Obama then turned over all of Eastern Europe to the Putin rule and locked all Slavs behind the Iron Curtain again whom Ronald Reagan had freed.After Mohammed's death in 632, the new Muslim caliph, Abu Bakr, launched Islam into almost 1,500 years of continual imperialist, colonialist, bloody conquest and subjugation of others through invasion and war, a role Islam continues to this very day.
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New York Times Slams Obama For 'Lame' Flip-Flop On Economic Benefit Of Climate Action | NYTimes eXaminer
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  Source: Dave Winer's linkblog feed
  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:08
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  Source: Think Progress
  By Joe Romm:
  What a difference a few years '-- or even a few months '-- makes on the President's clarity about the false choice between jobs and environment:
  Obama (4/09): ''The choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline.''
  Obama (10/09): ''There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy '-- whenit's the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs.''
  Obama (3/12): ''There will always be people in this country who say we've got to choose between clean air and clean water and a growing economy, between doing right by our environment and putting people back to work. And I'm here to tell you that is a false choice. That is a false choice. With smart, sustainable policies, we can grow our economy today and protect our environment for ourselves and our children.
  Obama (11/12): ''There's no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices. And understandably, I think the American people right now have been so focused, and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth, that if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody is going to go for that. I won't go for that.''
  Uhh, Mr. President, that isn't ''the message'' '-- and it isn't even ''your message.'' Heck, it isn't even true!
  It's inaction that is costly (see IEA's Bombshell Warning: We're Headed Toward 11°F Global Warming and ''Delaying Action Is a False Economy'').
  John Broder at The New York Times has a good piece taking the president to task for his flip flop. Broder cites Obama's remarks on climate from his recent press conference (fourth quote above) and writes:
  This assertion '' that the nation cannot address its climate and environmental challenges while also dealing with jobs and the economy '' is at odds with the approach that Mr. Obama has taken since early in his presidency. He often touted the benefits of ''green jobs'' as an antidote to a stalled economy, and devoted some $90 billion of his 2009 stimulus package to a variety of measures that he said would save energy, clean up the atmosphere and create jobs.
  Earlier this year, Mr. Obama accused Republican critics of wrongly pitting the economy and the environment against each other'....
  Broder then cites the third quote above from March of this year. How soon they forget?
  But does the NY Times literally call this lame flip-flip by Obama ''lame''? Well, they managed to find some center-left climate blogger to do that for them:
  Joseph Romm, a former Energy Department official who runs the influential Climate Progress blog at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning research and advocacy group with close White House ties, pronounced the president's climate comments ''lame.''
  ''I think it's hard to know what's going on inside his head, because he certainly understands the issue,'' Mr. Romm said in a telephone interview. ''I think he thinks a tax deal is going to be very hard and he doesn't want to make it harder by injecting a carbon tax into the mix.''
  ''It was a very wishy-washy statement,'' he added. ''I just think his advisers are telling him to deflect the issue entirely.''
  The public also doesn't believe in this false choice (see ''Poll: 75 Percent of Americans Support Regulating CO2 As A Pollutant, 60 Percent Support Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax'').
  But the worst thing is that that president has articulated the absurd nature of this false choice better than almost any other leading political figure of our time. Go to the White House website and read the article from April 2009 with the banner headline:
  ''A Choice Between Prosperity and Decline''You can read the President's entire speech on the subject, which explains:
  Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy. We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural havoc across the landscape, or we can create jobs working to prevent its worst effects. We can hand over the jobs of the 21st century to our competitors, or we can confront what countries in Europe and Asia have already recognized as both a challenge and an opportunity: The nation that leads the world in creating new energy sources will be the nation that leads the 21st-century global economy.
  America can be that nation. America must be that nation.
  Where's that guy?
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Jill Kelley Tried to Stop ''Koran Frying'' by Radio Host ''on Behalf of Petraeus, Allen''
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  Source: Debbie Schlussel
  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:07
  By Debbie Schlussel
  When it comes to the koran, Gilberte Khawam a/k/a Jill Kelley doesn't believe in the First Amendment and was planning to hire a lawyer to sue to stop a radio host from frying the Muslim holy book that has inspired the murders of tens of thousands of innocents around the world, including thousands of Americans.
  Jill Kelley, Bimbo For Petraeus, Allen & allah, Tried to Stop First Amendment Rights & Koran FryingI was supposed to be a guest on the radio show of Tampa-based syndicated talk show host ''Bubba the Love Sponge'' a/k/a Todd Clem on the day that he and his stuff announced they were going to ''deep fat fry'' the koran. I want to make clear that I don't advocate that act. But we live in a free country, and I was scheduled to be on to talk about Islamic intolerance in America and support for Islamic terrorism on U.S. soil. I missed his producer's call, and I wasn't given a call back number, so by the time I finally called them, it was too late, even though they'd repeatedly announced I'd be on. But, apparently, it wasn't too late for Jill Kelley, Arab ''Christian'' dhimmi soldier for Islam to try to stop it. I already told you that she was the ''go to'' skank to host parties for Muslim nations attempting to influence our nation's top generals in favor of pro-Muslim, anti-Israel Middle East policy. And, now, we've learned that she claimed to be then-CIA Director David Petraeus' and General John Allen's protector of the koran.
  In March, Jill Kelley said U.S. Gen. John Allen needed her help.
  In emails obtained by the Tampa Bay Times, she claimed Allen, commander of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan, called and emailed her seeking assistance in tamping down a threat by disc jockey Bubba the Love Sponge Clem to ''deep fat fry'' a Koran. . . .
  In emails to Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, Kelley said . . . then-CIA director David Petraeus and Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward also contacted her about lending a hand.
  ''I have Petraeus & Allen both emailing me to get this dealt with,'' she wrote Buckhorn March 7.
  She follows up with another:
  ''Gen. Allen will be calling me from Afghanistan at 1pm on this- and our next step.''
  The Mayor replies: ''If it involves the radio station, we are working on it.''
  She asks him if she should get a lawyer involved:
  ''I'm considering having my 1st Amendment filing suit against Bubba and the Producers,'' she wrote. . . . Clem did not follow through on his prank, he said, after interventions from Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee and Col. Jim Previtera, Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor and attorney Stephen Diaco.
  Yup, that's Jill Kelley's (and so many other Arabs') version of the First Amendment: freedom for me, but not for you.
  As I said the other day, when I wrote about Kelley's well-known function as the Pan-Arabist Party Girl, Gilberte ''Jill'' Khawam Kelley was more of a devious Mata Hari-esque agent of influence over our generals than an innocent, financially-troubled bimbo. On the other hand, the most appropriate Arabic word for her, Sharmuta [whore] is appropriate because it encompasses all of that. Even if she wasn't sleeping with generals, she was whoring herself out for the Islamic world.
  An effective Mata Hari, though, would have known to deal with Paula Broadwell's e-mail threats on her own, rather than be exposed. Now, her reign as Arab World Party Host has come to an unceremonious end.
  But I'm sure they'll find some other rhinoplasty victim to take her place.
Daily Press Briefing - November 16, 2012
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  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:22
  1:04 p.m. EST
  MS. NULAND: All right. There are far too many of you here for a Friday. Let me start by an appeal for mercy, still jetlagged as I am. I've got '' first of all, happy Friday. I've got a couple things at the top.
  First, to remind all of you that the Secretary is giving a speech on economic statecraft. It's actually tomorrow in Singapore, at the Singapore Management University, but in our time you'll be able to see it at about 9:30 this evening on our live stream feed. As the Secretary said in October, in New York, America's economic strength and our global leadership are a package deal. Tonight, in her speech, she'll be laying out some of the steps that we've been taking around the world to implement her vision of global statecraft. So I encourage all of you to tune in for that.
  Second, we want to take this opportunity to congratulate Kosovo on receiving membership '' a membership invitation today from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. This is something that the United States has long encouraged and sought for Kosovo, because EBRD membership will support the economic development and cooperation, growth and social stability, benefiting all the people of Kosovo and the Balkan region. We will continue to support Kosovo's integration into international organizations.
  Let's go to what's on your minds.
  QUESTION: I thought you were going to congratulate the Bills on beating the Dolphins last night, but I guess it's up to me to say that. (Laughter.)
  MS. NULAND: I congratulate you, Matt --
  QUESTION: Thank you.
  MS. NULAND: -- on having a good Bills night.
  QUESTION: Thank you. The Secretary, I understand, has been on the phone with a lot of people talking about the situation in Gaza. Can you tell us who she's called and what her message has been to them?
  MS. NULAND: Today, in Singapore, the Secretary spoke to Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman; she spoke to Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr '' that's their second call in as many days '' and she talked to Jordanian King Abdullah. Yesterday, as Mark made reference to, she spoke to Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu, and I think he mentioned to you that she had spoken, as I said, to Foreign Minister Amr as well on Wednesday.
  In all cases, her message has been the same, that we are urging a de-escalation of this conflict. We are urging those countries with influence on Hamas and other groups in Gaza to use that influence to get a de-escalation. As you know, rockets are continuing to be launched from Gaza, including today. We support, as Mark has said, as the President has said, as the Secretary has said, Israel's right to self-defense, and we obviously express our regret and sadness for the loss of life on all sides.
  QUESTION: Do you know on '' it's interesting, at least to me, that she's called the Egyptian Foreign Minister twice. Is that an indication that the first time, that she didn't think her message got through the first time to the Egyptians? Or was it that this call specifically had to do with the visit of the Prime Minister and what he had learned?
  MS. NULAND: No, I think it's the latter, Matt. As you know, Prime Minister Qandil was in Gaza today, so it was an opportunity to get an update on that visit and to get a sense from the Egyptians, in the wake of the visit, what further steps any of us can take to help de-escalation.
  QUESTION: And what further steps are there that you can take?
  MS. NULAND: Well, again, I think we are all in the same place '' the Egyptians are, the Turkish Government is. There are a number of other calls that we anticipate the Secretary will make in the coming 24 hours to other countries with influence to try to maximize the pressure we can bring to bear on Hamas to cease and desist. And we are encouraging anybody with influence to do that.
  QUESTION: Okay. But is '' on the basis of what the Secretary heard in the phone calls and any other contacts '' I presume there are a lot more contacts going on back and forth '' on the basis of those conversations, do you have any reason to hope that there will be, or believe that there will be, a de-escalation anytime soon?
  MS. NULAND: Well, I obviously don't have a crystal ball. I don't think anybody's happy with the current situation and the loss of innocent life on both sides. So it's a matter of the international community, and particularly regional states with influence, to do what they can to make clear to Hamas that this is not benefiting the cause of the Palestinian people and it's certainly not benefiting the cause of regional stability.
  QUESTION: All right. My last one on this.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: And it's your understanding from her conversations with the Egyptian Foreign Minister that they hear that message and they are passing it along to Hamas, and that what they're saying publicly, that this is Israeli aggression that can't stand, is not what they're saying to you privately?
  MS. NULAND: Well, I'm obviously not, from this podium, going to characterize the Egyptian view, nor am I going to speak for them and characterize our private diplomatic conversations. I will say that in all of the conversations that she has had, that the President had with President Morsi, we all agree on the need to de-escalate this conflict, and the question is for everybody to use the influence that they have to try to get there.
  QUESTION: Victoria?
  MS. NULAND: Please, Said.
  QUESTION: On de-escalating '' you keep saying de-escalating. Now, specifically, did you ask the Israelis or did you request that Israel does not conduct a land invasion of Gaza, which it is preparing to do?
  MS. NULAND: To reiterate, Israel has a right of self-defense. I am not going to get into our private messages with any of the parties that we've been speaking to --
  QUESTION: So, would the --
  MS. NULAND: -- beyond saying that we are seeking a de-escalation, we are seeking a peaceful settlement of this.
  QUESTION: So you would consider the land invasion of Gaza as part of Israel's right to self-defense?
  MS. NULAND: I am not going to speak about tactics or any of our messages privately to one side or the other. I'm also not going to speak about hypotheticals, Said.
  QUESTION: But are you --
  MS. NULAND: That was a good effort, though.
  QUESTION: All right. Okay. Are you concerned that this actually may sort of blow out of control in the whole region?
  MS. NULAND: I think we're all concerned about the level of violence. We're all concerned.
  Please, Jill.
  QUESTION: Toria, a senior cabinet official from Egypt is quoted as saying that in spite of the statements basically in support of the Palestinians, the peace treaty is still '' is not in jeopardy. Is that the U.S. understanding?
  MS. NULAND: Well, again, I'm not going to speak for the Egyptians, but as you know, the position that we have taken '' and we have had no indications to the contrary from President Morsi or anybody else '' is that it is very important for Egypt to live up to its international obligations, including the peace treaty. We have not had any indications that there is any difficulty on that question.
  Michel.
  QUESTION: On Egypt, how do you view the visit that Prime Minister '' Egyptian Prime Minister has made to Gaza, and in general, how do you view or do you assess the Egyptian role in Gaza?
  MS. NULAND: Well again, as it's very clear from the President's conversation with President Morsi, the two calls the Secretary's made to Foreign Minister Amr, we consider the Egyptian role key in any efforts to de-escalate. They have influence with Hamas, with the Palestinians in general, and we are encouraged that they are engaged fully in this, and we appreciate the fact that Prime Minister Kandil went personally to try to ameliorate the situation. And we'll continue to work with them on the efforts that we can all take to try to de-escalate.
  QUESTION: Have they coordinated the visit with Washington or with the Israelis?
  MS. NULAND: Well, I think both we and the Israelis were aware that the Prime Minister would make this visit, if that's what you're asking, Michel.
  QUESTION: Toria, I don't understand. Two weeks ago, you said it would be a bad idea for Erdogan to go to Gaza. You were not particularly enthusiastic about the Emir of Qatar going to Gaza. And now all of a sudden, it's a wonderful thing that the Egyptian Prime Minister went there?
  MS. NULAND: Matt, we have a different situation, obviously.
  QUESTION: Okay.
  MS. NULAND: We are in the process of trying to de-escalate a very, very dangerous situation between Gaza and Israel. So the purpose was completely different in this case, and can be helpful, we think.
  QUESTION: It can be helpful because they're talking to Hamas.
  MS. NULAND: Because they're talking to Hamas, they're talking about the danger of this kind of situation.
  QUESTION: So the way that Hamas gets a stamp of U.S. legitimacy in terms of being an interlocutor is to fire lots of rockets into Southern Israel, and then you're okay with people going to talk to them?
  MS. NULAND: We have a '' we have an extremely dangerous and volatile situation. We have a dangerous situation inside Gaza, we have a dangerous situation inside Israel. It is not a matter of legitimating violence. This is a matter of supporting diplomacy to get this to end, which is a different thing than what the visits were intended to do before this.
  QUESTION: But the --
  MS. NULAND: So we see a distinction between these.
  QUESTION: But the danger was there two weeks ago and three weeks ago as well, because as the Israelis will tell you very clearly, there were rockets being fired into Israel nonstop for the last months. So I guess I'm '' you see, then, that the escalation here is on the Israeli side? Because it sounds to me as though --
  MS. NULAND: Matt --
  QUESTION: No, no, listen. You're talking about '' you want people to de-escalate here. Are the Israelis part of the escalation, or is it only Hamas that is doing the escalation? Because --
  MS. NULAND: Well, first of all, as Mark said here '' whether it was Wednesday or yesterday, I can't recall '' we have had rockets launched throughout 2012. We had a sharp escalation in the kind of attacks that Israel was seeing over the course of this week. It called for urgent diplomacy; that's what the Egyptians are trying to do. There is no comparison between that and previous trips, which were more in the category of ''nice to see you'' trips.
  QUESTION: Toria?
  MS. NULAND: Please, yeah.
  QUESTION: A quick follow-up. You said '' you made a call on Hamas to cease and desist. If Hamas heeds that call, is Israel expected to also cease and desist immediately?
  MS. NULAND: Again, what the Israelis are doing is defending their country from these rocket attacks from Gaza, so --
  QUESTION: I understand. But if Hamas stops firing those rockets, do you expect Israel to stop its bombardment of Gaza?
  MS. NULAND: If there's no need for self-defense, then there's no need for self-defense, Said.
  QUESTION: Okay. And that's my '' just my last point, just to clarify.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: So you don't expect Israel to go into Gaza to sort of clean and clear and do all these things that they normally do afterwards?
  MS. NULAND: You're asking me to get into Israeli tactics of self-defense. I'm not going to do that.
  QUESTION: And I'm asking your expectation, what '' your expectation that Israel should also immediately cease?
  MS. NULAND: I'm not from this podium going to be dictating Israeli choices with regard to their self-defense.
  Samir.
  QUESTION: Toria, can I just ask what you're --
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: Just '' you say you're not '' you don't want to get into tactics. Does that mean that anything that Israel does and it says that it's self-defense is okay with you?
  MS. NULAND: I didn't say that. I said that I --
  QUESTION: That's what I '' exactly. That's what I want to make sure because --
  MS. NULAND: I didn't say that. I simply said that I was not going to be dictating tactics, which is what Said appeared to be trying to get us to do.
  (Phone rings.) Who's got a phone ringing in here? Somebody?
  QUESTION: Sorry.
  MS. NULAND: Samir.
  QUESTION: Did the Secretary call the Qataris, the Prime Minister or the Foreign Minister?
  MS. NULAND: She has not, but we expect that she will be in contact in the next 24 hours or so.
  QUESTION: (Inaudible.)
  MS. NULAND: Still on this subject, Said?
  QUESTION: Yes, on this subject. A hypothetical, I know you don't like '' (phone rings) --
  MS. NULAND: Sir, perhaps I could ask you to take the phone out of the room if it's going to ring?
  QUESTION: It's not my phone.
  MS. NULAND: Whose ring?
  QUESTION: I think it's in the control room in the back.
  QUESTION: Back behind the rack, around the --
  MS. NULAND: Interesting. All right.
  QUESTION: -- back there.
  QUESTION: Just a quick follow-up. I know you don't like hypotheticals.
  MS. NULAND: Say again?
  QUESTION: You don't like hypotheticals. Could I ask a hypothetical question?
  MS. NULAND: You can try, Said. I doubt I will answer it.
  QUESTION: Okay. Through the mediation with your good friends the Qataris, the Egyptians, and the Turks, Hamas moderates tremendously and gives up on rockets and so on. Will that be, like, an opening for direct contact with Hamas, with the United States?
  MS. NULAND: With our direct contact with Hamas?
  QUESTION: Yes, ma'am.
  MS. NULAND: You know what our conditions for contact with Hamas have been. They have not changed; they will not change in this circumstance. They need to recognize Israel's right to exist. They need to renounce violence and take those other measures that we've always called for.
  Samir.
  QUESTION: Do you see any role for Iran behind this escalation in Gaza?
  MS. NULAND: Beyond saying, again, what we have said before, which is that we see Iran playing a malign role not only in the region generally, but obviously in the context of Gaza, I don't have any particular comments to make here. But obviously, were they to cease and desist, which we don't expect, that would be helpful.
  QUESTION: Can we turn to Iran?
  MS. NULAND: Sorry, still '' Dana.
  QUESTION: I just wanted to be clear. So the United States does not have a problem with the Prime Minister's visit saying that the world needs to take action against Israel being an aggressor? That's helpful to the diplomacy?
  MS. NULAND: I'm not going to comment on the public statements that he made. What I am going to say is what we've said here all along, which is that we want Egypt, we are encouraging Egypt to use its influence on Hamas. Egypt made the decision that it would be helpful to send the Prime Minister to see what he could do. We've been in contact with them before, we've been in contact with them afterwards. That does not in any way indicate that we endorse public statements that were made in the context of that visit.
  QUESTION: Sorry, one quick follow-up.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: Today, the '' Israel's ambassador indicated that maybe Hamas '' I mean, maybe that Egypt --
  MS. NULAND: Israel's ambassador to the U.S.?
  QUESTION: Yes, sorry '' that perhaps Egypt doesn't have as much influence over Hamas as it previously has. He said that despite the visit, they haven't seen a change in Hamas's behavior; that part of the escalation is because over the course of the last few months, Egypt has negotiated ceasefires that Hamas has repeatedly violated. Is it the United States view as well that Egypt maybe does not have as much influence on Hamas as it has in the past?
  MS. NULAND: Well, obviously we wouldn't be working as closely with the Egyptians as we are if we didn't think that they had an important role to play here in encouraging and working for de-escalation. There are, as I said, a number of other countries in the region who we are encouraging also to use their influence.
  Please.
  QUESTION: That means that you view that Egypt is playing a positive role in this de-escalation, in the '' sorry, de-escalation of the situation and the violence in Gaza?
  MS. NULAND: Again, we have asked Egypt to do what it can. They are obviously trying to do what they can. I'm not going to put '' give individual nations a grade here if that's what you're asking for.
  Please.
  QUESTION: Victoria --
  MS. NULAND: Let's '' can we move on?
  QUESTION: New subject?
  MS. NULAND: Yeah. Go ahead, Goyal.
  QUESTION: Burma.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: Yesterday, Amnesty International had a protest at the White House as far as human rights and political prisoners and other changes in Burma which has not taken place, and what they're saying is that before U.S. gives stamps of approval, these '' they should consider their '' what people of Burma wants and they've been suffering for the last 20-plus years under the military dictatorship. And this is the views also of Aung San Suu Kyi.
  My question is now '' what steps do you think now, upcoming visits and all that, (inaudible) for the people of Burma that they will consider that the Burmese Government will fulfill their commitments?
  MS. NULAND: Well, first of all, let me refer you to the background briefing that was given at the White House yesterday talking about some of the goals of the President's upcoming visit. As you know, human rights promotion has been a key part of our conversation with Burma throughout this year of diplomacy that we've been conducting. We have been encouraged by the release of some political prisoners. We've been calling for the release of all of them. Even one political prisoner is one too many. I'm sure that those points will be made again in the context of the President's visit. As you know, we now have a formalized human rights dialogue with the Government of Burma, which we had never had before, looking not just at those issues but also the whole panoply of human rights issues, from labor rights to minority rights to improving the environment for all citizens of Burma, and we will continue to do that.
  QUESTION: As far as this visit is concerned, since China was the major supporters of Burmese military dictatorship, you think now they are talking with Chinese what their role will be in the future? Or they will stop all the support they've been (inaudible) to the military government?
  MS. NULAND: Well, we have used our bilateral dialogue with China to talk about the positive reform trajectory that we would like to see Burma on, that we think that this is in the interest of the entire region and something that '' a goal that we ought to share. But beyond that, I don't have anything particular.
  Jill.
  QUESTION: Iraq?
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: Can I ask on Burma?
  MS. NULAND: Yeah, sorry.
  QUESTION: When Secretary visits Burma next week, will she be the first Secretary of State to visit Burma twice?
  QUESTION: Yes.
  MS. NULAND: That may actually be right, Lalit. I think that may actually be right. Matt says it is. I haven't ''
  QUESTION: Okay. (Laughter.)
  MS. NULAND: I would guess it's probably true, yeah.
  QUESTION: (Inaudible) next week '' I mean Saturday.
  MS. NULAND: It's two --
  QUESTION: Nineteenth.
  MS. NULAND: It's actually Monday, I think --
  QUESTION: Monday?
  MS. NULAND: -- that they're in Burma, yeah.
  Jill.
  QUESTION: On Iraq, is it correct that Iraq has released '' I believe his last name is Daqduq? He's a --
  QUESTION: (Inaudible.)
  QUESTION: Uh-huh, Daqduq, a top Hezbollah operative. Senator McCain is saying it's an outrage; he apparently was responsible for the deaths of five Americans.
  MS. NULAND: Well, I'm going to refer you to the Iraqis for the precise status, but as you know, we continue to believe that Daqduq should be held accountable for his crimes. We've made this point very clearly to the Government of Iraq. We '' while we strongly object to his release, we've been informed by the Iraqis that they determined that they were no longer able to hold him under Iraqi law.
  QUESTION: So I'm sorry, does that mean that --
  MS. NULAND: So I guess '' yeah, he's '' they have said that he's been released, yeah. Never mind.
  QUESTION: Well, I mean, so basically, you're saying he shouldn't be? I mean, is there (inaudible)?
  MS. NULAND: Yeah. We were '' we didn't want it to happen and we were concerned about it. We said that to the Iraqis. They have said back to us that they didn't have a legal basis to continue to hold him. Let me add to that that as with other terrorists who we believe have committed crimes against Americans, we are going to continue to pursue all legal means to see that Daqduq sees justice for the crimes of which he is accused.
  QUESTION: How would you do that? What can you do?
  MS. NULAND: Well, again, it all depends on the circumstances, but we're going to continue to do what we can in this circumstance.
  QUESTION: Can you take any retaliatory action against Iraq?
  MS. NULAND: I'm not going to get into hypothetical issues here beyond saying that we've expressed our deep dissatisfaction with this action with the Government of Iraq. We do have to respect the role of the Iraqi judiciary.
  QUESTION: So does that '' when you say you're going to pursue all legal means, does that mean that this Mr. Daqduq might be driving in a car someday and get blown out of the air or blown --
  MS. NULAND: I'm obviously --
  QUESTION: -- or blown off the road? Would --
  MS. NULAND: I think I said all legal means and I'm not going to --
  QUESTION: Well --
  MS. NULAND: -- get into hypotheticals.
  QUESTION: Well, the drone '' the Administration says that drone strikes are legal, so all legal means could include that; correct?
  MS. NULAND: I am not going to get into anything along those lines.
  QUESTION: All right. Then the other thing about Daqduq is, is it all upsetting to you that after spending billions and billions of dollars to oust Saddam Hussein and create a democracy in Iraq, one the previous Administration was very, very high on, is it at all upsetting to you that you seem zero influence with this government now?
  MS. NULAND: First of all, I'm going to reject the premise of that. There are many, many things that we work together with the Iraqis on, both in terms of the internal situation in Iraq as well as our regional work together, not least of being Syria and our efforts to ensure that Iraqi air and land space is not abused to arm the Syrians. There are many things that we work together on. But as I said, we objected very strongly to this particular decision, and we've made that clear to the Iraqis.
  Please, Michel.
  QUESTION: Toria, do you ''
  MS. NULAND: Michel.
  QUESTION: Daqduq's lawyer has said that he left Baghdad, and he arrived to Beirut. Will you ask the Lebanese Government to arrest him?
  MS. NULAND: I'm not going to get into the details, but I will say that we've had contact with the Government of Lebanon on this issue.
  QUESTION: So would you describe the state of your relations with Iraq as being strained or being stable, or being fine?
  MS. NULAND: On this particular issue ''
  QUESTION: On all issues.
  MS. NULAND: -- we have a strong disagreement. As a general matter, we have a broad and deep cooperative relationship with the Iraqis.
  QUESTION: Okay. A former high official in the former Administration suggested your Administration has actually strained relations with Iraq, that you have not conducted yourself as well as should have been, and especially in concluding the kind of agreements that could have kept American forces in Iraq.
  MS. NULAND: Well, I think you know that we spoke to that issue at the time. Iraq is a sovereign country. We were obviously open to having a continued presence there, if the Iraqis had been supportive of that. They made a decision that they were not supportive of it, and we have to respect that as a sovereign nation.
  QUESTION: And lastly, the situation between the northern region of Kurdistan and the central government is quite volatile because of the oil issue. Are you doing anything to mediate between the two, the regional government and the central government?
  MS. NULAND: I wouldn't use the M-word. I would say that, as we have made clear here for many months, we are in contact with all of the different senior leaders and groups in Iraq. We encourage them to avail themselves of the process that's been established for them to talk to each other and try to work through these issues in the interest of all the Iraqi people. There are a number of '' there are lots of pieces of unfinished business, including the issue of oil rights, et cetera.
  QUESTION: Can we move to Iran?
  MS. NULAND: Yeah. Sorry. Jill, not in Iraq anymore?
  QUESTION: No, Iran.
  MS. NULAND: Iran?
  QUESTION: You will have seen the latest Directors General's report at the IAEA, and I'm wondering if you '' kind of what you make of it.
  MS. NULAND: Well, we've obviously seen the report. It was released to the Board of Governors today. My understanding is, though, that it's a confidential report. So we'll continue to discuss it with other board members, but I think I'm not going to get into the details here. You know that, for more than a year, the IAEA Board of Governors has been calling on Iran to intensify its efforts to come to agreement with them. That has not yet happened, so ''
  QUESTION: It's a confidential report? Really?
  MS. NULAND: It is.
  QUESTION: I would have ventured to guess it's in the email box of everyone in this room.
  MS. NULAND: It may well be, but --
  QUESTION: And it's also '' but I mean, not only from '' sent from people who are part of the IAEA, but think tanks. This is about as confidential as a newspaper is confidential. So I don't understand why you can't comment on it. Everyone else is.
  MS. NULAND: Suffice it to say that these reports often leak. That doesn't mean that we can disregard the integrity of the process within the IAEA, which is that these reports are supposed to be confidential.
  Lalit.
  QUESTION: On Afghanistan.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: Pakistan today released around 14 Taliban detainees. How do you see this process? Is it going to be helpful in the reconciliation, or you're concerned about such terrorists being released?
  MS. NULAND: I think '' didn't Mark speak to that issue yesterday? I thought that he did.
  QUESTION: Yeah. That was about the agreement reached between the two countries.
  MS. NULAND: It was about ''
  QUESTION: It was about the agreement that the two countries had reached last week, early this week, but today there was '' these prisoners were released.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah. I don't have any particular comment on this set of releases. You know where we have been on the issue of reconciliation. We continue to support an Afghan-led process. We've been clear about that, but it's the Taliban who have been saying since March that they are suspending their participation in that.
  Please. Jill.
  QUESTION: Russia.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: PNTR.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: Magnitsky. So is this progress or is this '' how would you evaluate '' where does the State Department think it falls?
  MS. NULAND: You're talking about the bill before the House now?
  QUESTION: Right, which I think passed.
  MS. NULAND: Did it? I mean, before I came down here, it had not yet '' we understood that the vote was going to be this afternoon. Is that right?
  QUESTION: I thought PNTR had.
  MS. NULAND: Well, it's all part of the package now, right?
  QUESTION: Yeah, and then Magnitsky, I think they were still doing it.
  MS. NULAND: Let me just say from here that we strongly support HR-6156, which to my understanding is going to be voted today. I don't think it has yet been voted. It would terminate the application of Jackson-Vanik to Russia and Moldova and would authorize the President to extend permanent normal trade relations to both countries. As you know, this fixes a problem for us, among other things, since Russia joined the WTO, where all of our competitors enjoy the full benefits of the fact that Russia is in the WTO, but we don't, because we've got these restrictions on Russia. It also now includes the Magnitsky provisions, which have been wrapped in, which would apply to Russia.
  Please, Michel.
  QUESTION: On Jordan.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated today in Amman and called for the ouster of King Abdullah. How do you view these calls? And are you worried about the situation in Jordan?
  MS. NULAND: Well, obviously, we are continuing to monitor the protests that have been going on in Jordan in recent days in response to the fuel prices increases announced by the government on November 13th. As I mentioned, the Secretary spoke to King Abdullah today. They spoke, obviously, about the situation in Gaza, but they also spoke about the internal situation inside of Jordan. Among other things, the Secretary commended the Jordanian Government's efforts to address their economic challenges and the King's commitment to reform. I think you know that these fuel-price increases were necessary to address Jordan's fiscal challenges and to comply by the terms of their IMF standby arrangement. Jordan's economic challenges are substantial; economic reform is necessary. There is always some pain that comes with these things, but it's a necessary pain in this case.
  In terms of the protests, obviously we support the right of peaceful protest, we just want to see them remain peaceful.
  QUESTION: Are you planning to provide Jordan with more aids '' financially?
  MS. NULAND: Oh, well, I think you know that we have supported Jordan in its reform efforts quite generously, and we anticipate continuing to be able to do that.
  QUESTION: I want to see if I can get you '' are you at all concerned that something that '' that what's happening in Jordan could '' is either related to or could become like what happened in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen?
  MS. NULAND: Our reading of this situation is a little bit different. In the case of '' you're talking about Tunisia, fruit vendor before the --
  QUESTION: Well, I'm talking about whether you see a serious threat to the King, the King's '' his '' the government that he '' that's there, and stability?
  MS. NULAND: We see this particular situation somewhat differently. In the case of Tunis, you had a population that was massively frustrated with the lack of reform and the lack of attention to the people's needs. In the case of Jordan, you have a government that is wrestling with reform, trying to meet obligations for reform, both to their own people and to the IMF. There's obviously some pain involved, and that has resulted in some reaction. But this is a government that is endeavoring to reform.
  QUESTION: Okay. So you don't see a connection between King Abdullah and the government there and, say '' how quickly we forget. I've forgotten the guy's name in Tunisia '' or Mubarak, or --
  MS. NULAND: The tactical situation is considerably different.
  QUESTION: All right. And then just one more thing on Jordan. You said that the '' about the pain, there's always some pain, but this is necessary pain. Why is it that the United States Government is telling the people of Jordan what they have to suffer through?
  MS. NULAND: It's the IMF who's made clear that the kinds of subsidies that the government has been providing are not sustainable for a modern economy, and that adjustments need to be made. We have supported the IMF, as in this case, and we support King Abdullah and his government in the change that they're trying to implement inside Jordan, which they've got to do in order to modernize the state.
  QUESTION: Well, that's all well and good, but if I'm a Jordanian and I sit here and listen to the Spokeswoman for the State Department say that this is ''necessary pain,'' that's just '' who are you to tell me what's necessary and what's not?
  MS. NULAND: Again, this is a set of reforms that need to be undertaken. It's not easy. It's never easy. It's not easy in the European context; it's not easy in the American context when we have to make adjustments to deal with our fiscal situation. But all of us are having to deal with these things in one way or another these days.
  Please, Said.
  QUESTION: (Inaudible) that these protests are economically driven and not politically driven? In other words, because they've cut off subsidies and so on.
  MS. NULAND: The timing appears to be a reaction to the fuel-price increases.
  QUESTION: But often, if you talk to people who protest when subsidies are cut off, they feel like it's because there's a big discrepancy between those that are elite and have money, and the subsidy is one of the few things that they benefit from, which I think is kind of a follow-up to Matt's question, which is: Are you concerned that the masses in Jordan, who maybe feel like they've been economically marginalized by the elite, don't see the reforms happening soon enough?
  MS. NULAND: Again, without getting into the weeds of the Jordanian reform process, we have supported the King and the government's efforts to reform the political and economic system in Jordan. This is something that we think is necessary to modernize the state. It's obviously up to Jordanians to ensure that the pace is right, that the choices are right, that over time this is going to lead to an improvement in the quality of life for citizens. We have supported the IMF's work with Jordan to support their reform effort and will continue to do that. But these '' as I said, it doesn't matter where you're trying to make fiscal reforms; it is often difficult and it has to be worked through.
  QUESTION: Sorry, one follow-up to that. In terms of the pain that you were speaking about that is sort of '' that the economy '' that the people have to feel '' what within the reforms do you '' can you speak to that the elite has sort of felt in terms of these reforms?
  MS. NULAND: Again, I'm not in a position here to evaluate the entire reform package in Jordan. But this is --
  QUESTION: But you did say that, I mean, the entire '' but you are sort of evaluating the subsidies being cut as being part of that reform package.
  MS. NULAND: But this is part of a larger package that is affecting the entire economy and the entire population.
  Please, Scott.
  QUESTION: Does the United States have any reaction to the decision in The Hague today, the ruling overturning the war crimes verdicts against Croatian generals Gotovina and Markac?
  MS. NULAND: I do. See if I can find it. We note the judgment of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. We fully support ICTY and we accept its ruling.
  QUESTION: So we were in the Balkans, and Secretary Clinton was talking about how the three Serbian leaders need to work it out. I mean, does this, in your mind, complicate the U.S. push to reconcile Serbia, Croatia, Kosovo, the Balkans in general?
  MS. NULAND: Well, again, when we created ICTY as an international community and as a trans-Atlantic community, we all supported it. It was so that these accusations could be adjudicated in a manner that was open and that was transparent. So it's therefore incumbent on all of us to support the process and support the outcomes.
  Let me take this opportunity to clear up somewhat of a misconception in the Balkans as well. Let me just say that the United States did not play any role in the Gotovina and Markac cases. We did not submit any briefs on behalf of either the prosecution or the defense, and we don't have any particular comment on any issue in this case, but we do respect ICTY and we respect its rulings.
  Please.
  QUESTION: Toria, could you please provide us with an update on the status of the Accountability Review Board that's looking into the Benghazi attack?
  QUESTION: Just before you do that, can I just '' this is extremely quick. Just on the generals, the Croatian generals: You have in the past, in other cases, submitted briefs to the court, though, correct?
  MS. NULAND: We have, but in this case we did not.
  QUESTION: So you just didn't care in this case?
  MS. NULAND: In this case we didn't have anything to add to the court's proceedings.
  QUESTION: One way or the other?
  MS. NULAND: That's my understanding, yes.
  QUESTION: All right.
  MS. NULAND: Please.
  QUESTION: Yes. Well, I'm just looking for an update on the status of it '' how often is the board meeting now? When was the last time it met, for instance?
  MS. NULAND: I think that Ambassador Pickering, who's chairman of the board, released a statement yesterday making clear that the board is continuing to work, that they have everything that they need. I don't think we're going to be commenting about exactly how their sessions are proceeding. I think if they have anything to say on that, they'll let you know.
  QUESTION: Syria?
  MS. NULAND: Please, Said. Yes.
  QUESTION: Victoria, the other day former Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, told NPR that it was unconscionable that you don't have diplomats in Syria on the ground now to do what they should be doing, conveying proper information, and so on. Do you agree with that assessment?
  MS. NULAND: I didn't see that statement by Ambassador Crocker. I think he --
  QUESTION: It was not a statement. He was participating in a conference and then NPR interviewed him on this issue.
  MS. NULAND: Again, I didn't see those comments. Obviously, it's not our first choice not to be represented in Syria, and we stayed as long as possibly could until our mission ended up right in the line of fire, and the government in Syria was unable or unwilling to protect it.
  QUESTION: Okay, just to follow up on the Embassy in Syria, those who are locally-employed, how do you stay in touch with them? How do you make sure that their safety is maintained?
  MS. NULAND: Beyond saying that we maintain our strong relationship and contacts with them, I'm not going to get into any security issues. That wouldn't be helpful.
  Please, Jill.
  QUESTION: On Benghazi, there has been a lot today on the talking points with Susan Rice. Did State participate in any way in putting those talking points together?
  MS. NULAND: I don't have anything additional for you on this subject at all one way or the other, Jill. I'm sorry.
  Please.
  QUESTION: Two Tibetans died in self-immolation in China today. There has been no respite to it '' this '' I think more than 50 have died so far. Do you have anything on that? Have you brought this to the Chinese of late, the newly (inaudible) has come up?
  MS. NULAND: Well, I think you know, Lalit, that we regularly raise our concern about the Tibetan self-immolations with Chinese authorities. We encourage China to work with authorities in Tibet to address the grievances of the people and to protect the cultural diversity of their country. So this is obviously '' and to address the worsening human rights situation in Tibet '' we will continue to do that.
  QUESTION: And how did they respond when you raised these issues with them?
  MS. NULAND: Well, I'm obviously not going to speak for them, but this is something that comes up regularly when we talk about human rights in China.
  QUESTION: Just a follow-up quickly.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: What (inaudible) are saying now really that we live now in 21st century and world is changing and freedoms are going around the globe, but as far as China's rule is imposing more and more stricter on them, and the time has come for the United Nations and the United States and the world to stand for them now because it's been going on for 50-plus years and otherwise violence will continue and China will continue to press because Chinese think that the way freedom is going around the globe, including the Middle East and all that, that it may not happen in China.
  MS. NULAND: Well, I think we've been clear for decades about our commitment to human rights in Tibet, that we want to see China address the underlying problems there, the threats to the distinctive culture and linguistic identity of the Tibetan people, and our grave concern about the fact that people would feel so desperate as to resort to self-immolation.
  QUESTION: Is human rights or freedom for the people of Tibet, because they are asking for freedom '' full freedom which they would have been freed for 50 years ago?
  MS. NULAND: Well, our view of the status of Tibet hasn't changed, but we want to see the human rights situation there and throughout China improve.
  Please.
  QUESTION: On Japan, it looks like there's going to be another leadership change next month there. I'm wondering what you expect from that, and just more broadly, where you expect U.S.-Japan relations to go in the President's second term.
  MS. NULAND: Well, Japan has one of the strongest democracies around, so we have worked very, very well with this government. We expect that we will work well with whomever the Japanese people choose to elect, and we will be following closely obviously.
  QUESTION: And the broader question, just where you expect things to go for next '' for the President's second term.
  MS. NULAND: Well, again, I think we're going to have '' we've just had an election in the U.S.; we're obviously going to have an election in Japan. We are the closest of allies; that is important for the United States, it's important for Japan, but it's also important for the region. So we anticipate that whomever the Japanese people elect, that relationship will remain critical to both of us.
  Please.
  QUESTION: I'm sorry, also a broader question on Libya. What is the shape of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya at the moment?
  MS. NULAND: What do you mean, ''what is the shape?''
  QUESTION: I mean, in what way has it changed since September 11th and where do you see it going? Are you deploying more staff? Are you planning to change the shape of the mission there at all?
  MS. NULAND: Well, we've spoken about this before. As you know, we were compelled to close our post in Benghazi. We had a reduction in staff in Tripoli. We have a new charge d'affaire, Larry Pope, who's an extremely able and experienced diplomat. So we are now in the process of continuing to evaluate the security situation, working with the Libyans on that. But we are also continuing a broad array of programs that we have with Libya to support their democratic development.
  Anything else? Matt.
  QUESTION: Yeah, I've got '' I need to go back to Gaza just for one very quick second, and it's on phone calls.
  Realizing that you don't have any contacts with Hamas, has there been any contact between the senior '' the Secretary or anyone senior with any Palestinians, like West Bank Palestinians, since Ambassador Hale met with Abbas on Wednesday in Switzerland that you know of?
  MS. NULAND: I'm assuming that our Consul General in Jerusalem has been in regular and constant contact --
  QUESTION: I mean, people in Washington.
  MS. NULAND: -- with the Palestinian Authority. To my knowledge --
  QUESTION: So your efforts --
  MS. NULAND: Our last contact with President Abbas was obviously when David Hale saw him earlier this week. But I --
  QUESTION: Right. That was on Wednesday. So your efforts to get the Palestinians, or certain Palestinians, to stop firing rockets into southern Israel don't involve conversations with any Palestinians, correct?
  MS. NULAND: Wednesday, we had --
  QUESTION: Well, that was not --
  MS. NULAND: -- a full bilateral meeting between President Abbas and --
  QUESTION: -- the readout from that meeting didn't have anything to do with Hamas. It all had to do with the UN bid for recognition. Are you saying that there's --
  MS. NULAND: Well, there was certainly a conversation about the violence in Gaza in that meeting, and there have been ongoing contacts between our Consul General and the Palestinians.
  QUESTION: And then my last one which is half a world away from that, you are aware maybe '' or maybe you're not '' that Alan Gross and his wife have filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Government and against the contractor who he was employed by but that USAID had '' he wants some $60 million, says that he was sent to Cuba without any proper training and that that constitutes gross negligence on behalf of not only his contractor, but the U.S. Government, specifically USAID, which is, of course, part of the State Department family. Does this have any merit?
  MS. NULAND: I'm going to take that one, Matt. I was not aware that there was a lawsuit filed. Let me see if we have any comment on that here, or whether that's now a Justice Department matter.
  QUESTION: (Inaudible) Victoria (inaudible) follow-up on a question that Matt raised. Next week, Ban Ki-moon will be visiting Ramallah. Is he discussing the content of what his '' the purpose of his visit? Is he trying to talk the Palestinians out of going to the UN, to the best of your knowledge?
  MS. NULAND: I'm going to send you to Ban Ki-moon to go through what his brief is. But obviously, we've been very clear with the Secretary General, as we've been with the Palestinians, how we feel about a renewed effort in New York. We don't think it's going to bring them any closer to a state, and we think it's going to make the environment much tougher.
  QUESTION: I actually have one more Latin American question.
  MS. NULAND: Yeah.
  QUESTION: And if you don't have anything on it, maybe you could take it. It's on Honduras.
  MS. NULAND: Okay.
  QUESTION: Political intimidation, repression '' apparently, I believe, a litany of recent events, mainly directed towards one opposition party. Do you have anything to say about those incidents specifically or more broadly about just the political environment in Honduras right now?
  MS. NULAND: I don't have anything on the political environment in Honduras. Let me take it and see if we have anything we'd like to say.
  Thanks.
  QUESTION: Thank you.
  MS. NULAND: All right.
  (The briefing was concluded at 1:52 p.m.)
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Lame Cherry right again about Jill Kelley
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:19
  My children, who was it but your popular girl who told you to stop looking at the mammoth mammaries of Jill Kelley and start focusing on her honeypot Lebanese associations in SOMEONE WAS PROTECTING HER FROM INSIDE THE OBAMA REGIME.
  That is a statement and not a question for the monkeys in the Ulsterman zoo.
  Now 24 hours later is the Drudge featured breaking story of Jill Kelley was eating our or is it eaten out at the White House three times this year.
  The reason Jill Kelley phoned the FBI and the FBI jumped for her, was the intimate connection to B. Hussein Obama. As stated from the start, exclusively only from this blog, exactly according to the Kremlin protocols and the same scenario J. Edgar Hoover utilized, Jill Kelley has all the stretch marks of a minder which infests regimes in intimate data mining to keep tabs on powerful people, blackmail them and to extract information from them.
  This blog broke this story again by God's Grace and the reality is the media is still catching up.
  Goodness people, we have a war on terror, involving Muslims and Middle Eastern associates. Obama has good and bad terrorists. Jill Kelley is all over a top security hub and is attached to powerful men on the right in Patraeus and Rubio, and she is sitting down to dinner with Barack Obama.....all in being Middle Eastern in heritage.Where do you think her loyalties lie and with her family's massive debt bills, who is keeping the creditors at bay.....as Patraeus is showing up in court to defend Jill Kelley's sister in a nasty custody hearing....after being fondled under the table.
  In 1970, Director J. Edgar Hoover would have arrested this entire bunch, and been banging on 1600 Penn Avenue with warrants to find out the connection of Lebanese Kelley to Lebanese Obama Osseiran, as the connection now looms in the reality, the top man at CIA and top for Europe have been removed due to the machinations of two Lebanese inside America during a war on terror involving these people's namesakes.
  You never even bothered did you in figuring out in the Wrath of the Khans in the picture of what was in the crystal ball.........look at it, as days ago this blog posted the above PHOTO OF OBAMA PINNING A MEDAL ON JILL KELLEY'S NECK AT THE WHITE HOUSE.Yeah photoshopped, but that is proof once again this blog breaks stories and if one is paying attention to the cryptic, you too can live in the future.
  Lame Cherry right again, in another matter anti matter exclusive.
  What was that like 4 this week alone.......Woodward had ONE.
  All credit to God.
  agtG 259
  The monkey tourists really owe me my children ANALGATE, BUTTRAEUSGATE and let us call this one YOU OWE ME A BLESSED DONATION GATE......nah how about OBAMASCAM.
Woman: Thermostat replaced before Indiana blast | KSTP TV
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  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:04
  (AP) INDIANAPOLIS - The woman who lived in the home believed at the center of a deadly Indianapolis explosion doesn't believe the furnace was the source of the blast.
  Monserrate Shirley told The Associated Press Tuesday that she had her thermostat replaced recently, correcting a problem heating the home. But she says the furnace was fine.
  John Shirley of Noblesville has said his daughter, who lived there, had told him they were having furnace problems. The estranged couple co-owned the home.
  Monserrate Shirley also said she smelled a strange odor outside before the blast but doesn't know if it was natural gas.
  She and her daughter were not home when the explosion happened Saturday, killing two people and decimating their neighborhood.
  Investigators said they believe gas was involved are focusing on appliances.
  (Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Investigators turn attention to individual houses, appliances
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  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:58
  The investigation into a deadly explosion on the city's south side continues. The Indiana Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that they do believe natural gas is involved.
  The National Transportation Safety Board and Citizens Gas both said they didn't find any evidence of a gas-line leak but that doesn't rule out gas-powered appliances.
  DHS Chief Gary Coons released the following statement:
  "Our investigators believe natural gas is involved. They are currently in the process of recovering the appliances from destroyed homes to help determine the cause. Based on the NTSB statement, our focus is on the houses and appliances."
  Natural gas can power grills, stoves and fireplaces, among several other appliances.
  The NTSB said they will no longer be involved in the investigation since leaks weren't found in the lines or valves leading up to the epicenter of the blast.
  The NTSB typically investigates transportation accidents, involving highway, ship and railroad crashes. However, the agency also probes pipeline accidents, because pipelines are considered a mode of transportation.
  The exact cause of the explosion is still being investigated. Officials from the Indianapolis Division of Homeland Security, Code Enforcement and Citizens Energy refused to speculate about the cause of the explosion. They also couldn't confirm reports that the home in question had a high amount of gas consumption or a faulty furnace, as the homeowner reported.
  Indianapolis Fire Department Public Information Officer Capt. Rita Burris said the department is awaiting test results from utility sources and the fire investigations section.
  Two residents, Jennifer and Dion Longworth, died following the explosion and subsequent fire. Approximately 200 residents were also evacuated from their houses. During a briefing Monday, investigators stated 29 of the 80 affected homes remained uninhabitable.
Cause of deadly Indianapolis blast remains unclear
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  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:57
  Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the National Transportation Safety Board and the U.S. Department of Transportation Board who joined Indianapolis officials and Citizens Gas in the search for the cause of in Saturday night's house explosion in Richmond Hill, a southern suburb of Indianapolis are still puzzled over what caused the deadly blast.
  The explosion that killed two people and hospitalized seven others was initially believed to be caused by a natural gas leak. However, experts say it is usually immediately evident whether the blast was caused by natural gas. Investigators did not find any evidence of a gas-line leak, but said that doesn't rule out gas-powered appliances.
  Experts say the explosion showed some signs that are not typical in a natural gas explosion caused by an appliance. The blast could be tied to a faulty furnace, if conditions were right.
  In a statement released by the Indianapolis Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, the agency's Director, Gary Coons said:
  ''Investigators believe natural gas is involved'' and that they were ''recovering the appliances from destroyed homes to help determine the cause. Based on the NTSB statement, our focus is on the houses and appliances."
  The NTSB said their investigation is complete, since no leaks were discovered in the pipelines or valves leading up to the epicenter of the blast.
  The Indianapolis Fire Department is currently awaiting test results from its fire investigations section and Citizens Gas conducted an investigation as well. A spokesman for the utility said they received no calls prior to the blast from residents in the area to indicate danger, such as smelling rotten eggs, which occurs when a chemical added to natural gas, which is odorless.
  On Wednesday, an attorney for the owner of the home at the core of the blast said the owner's 12-year-old daughter recalled smelling a strange odor "off and on" for weeks prior to the house explosion.
  Identifying the actual cause of the powerful blast that was reportedly felt as far as three miles away could take time as investigators sift through severely damaged homes - some completely leveled for any clues that point to faulty appliances with gas leaks. It is possible they may never be able to pinpoint the cause.
  Forensics consultant, Jay Siegel said finding the pieces and putting them back together is a "giant puzzle." Siegel said:
  "It seldom happens that there'll be no fragment left of a gas appliance if it explodes," Siegel said. "Most often you will find large pieces of the appliance somewhere around. It may not be at the point of origin. It may be somewhere else in the house, hurtled through the wall."
Technocracy's Endgame: Global Smart Grid
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  Source: Set You Free News
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:31
  The PPJ Gazette
  The dark horse of the New World Order is not Com­mu­nism, Socialism or Fas­cism: It is Technocracy.
  The devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of Smart Grid tech­nology in the U.S.'‰'''‰reinventing the elec­trical grid with Wifi-enabled dig­ital power meters'‰'''‰is pro­ceeding at break­neck speed.
  Although Smart Grid is the result of years of gov­ern­ment plan­ning, the recent kickoff was made pos­sible through mas­sive ''green'' grants that were qui­etly included in Pres­i­dent Obama's eco­nomic stim­ulus package starting in 2009.
  These lucra­tive grants have drawn in a host of cor­po­rate players, from utility com­pa­nies to dig­ital meter man­u­fac­turers to con­trol soft­ware ven­dors. Global com­pa­nies like IBM, GE and Siemens are putting their full effort behind the ''build-out'' that will con­sol­i­date all of America into a single, inte­grated, communication-enabled elec­tric delivery and mon­i­toring system, col­lec­tively called Smart Grid.
  Pro­po­nents of Smart Grid claim that it will empower the con­sumer to better manage his or her power con­sump­tion and hence, costs. The utility com­pa­nies will there­fore be more effi­cient in bal­ancing power loads and require­ments across diverse markets.
  How­ever, like car­nival barkers, these Smart Grid hock­sters never reveal where or how Smart­Grid came into being, nor what the ulti­mate endgame aims to achieve; per­haps most of them have no idea either, but simply repeat the mantra as if they know what they are talking about.
  In Smart­Grid: The Imple­men­ta­tion of Tech­noc­racy?, I revealed the back­ground of both Tech­noc­racy and Smart Grid, and most impor­tantly, the links between them. Smart Grid is born out of Tech­noc­racy and not the other way around.
  Tech­noc­racy is a total­i­tarian system of gov­ern­ment where sci­en­tists, engi­neers and tech­ni­cians mon­itor and con­trol all facets of per­sonal and civic life'‰'''‰eco­nomic, social and polit­ical. Herein lies the real danger: Who are these unelected con­trollers and why should anyone believe that they would be benev­o­lent dic­ta­tors instead of tyrants? Amer­i­cans are a freedom-loving people who would cer­tainly reject Technocracy's stealth takeover, if only they were aware of it. Indeed, Amer­i­cans did point­edly reject Tech­noc­racy in the 1930'²s!
  Thirty years ago, a researcher's mantra was ''Follow the money, follow the power.'' This must now be restated: ''Follow the energy, follow the power.''
  Require­mentsIn 1932, Tech­noc­racy, Inc. called for the destruc­tion of price-based eco­nomic sys­tems and the cre­ation of an energy-based accounting system that would mea­sure inputs and out­puts of human activity in terms of energy pro­duc­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion and con­sump­tion. The require­ments for a suc­cessful system was co-authored by M. King Hub­bert, a young geo-physicist who later devel­oped ''Hubbert's Peak Oil Theory'' that pro­vided intel­lec­tual backing for the modern envi­ron­mental or ''green'' movement.
  Specif­i­cally, Hub­bert detailed the require­ments for a suc­cessful imple­men­ta­tion of Technocracy:
  ''Reg­ister on a con­tin­uous 24 hour-per-day basis the total net con­ver­sion of energy.''By means of the reg­is­tra­tion of energy con­verted and con­sumed, make pos­sible a bal­anced load.''Pro­vide a con­tin­uous inven­tory of all pro­duc­tion and consumption''Pro­vide a spe­cific reg­is­tra­tion of the type, kind, etc., of all goods and ser­vices, where pro­duced and where used''Pro­vide spe­cific reg­is­tra­tion of the con­sump­tion of each indi­vidual, plus a record and descrip­tion of the indi­vidual.'' [Scott, Howard et al, Tech­noc­racy Study Source, p. 232]Of course, the tech­nology to ful­fill these require­ments did not exist in 1932. How­ever, it is worth noting that Tech­noc­racy Inc.'s lead­er­ship was inti­mately familiar with the early work of Inter­na­tional Busi­ness Machine's (IBM) com­puting tech­nology. They clearly envi­sioned a time in the future where the advance­ment of the tech­nology would meet the min­imum level nec­es­sary to imple­ment these requirements.
  That day of advanced tech­nology has come and the project is now called Smart Grid. The endgame is to imple­ment a mod­ern­ized ver­sion of his­toric Tech­noc­racy on a national, con­ti­nental and global basis.
  It is strongly rec­om­mended that the reader care­fully review Smart­Grid: The Imple­men­ta­tion of Tech­noc­racy andCarbon Cur­rency: A New Begin­ning for Tech­noc­racy? to gain a solid per­spec­tive on the his­tor­ical aspect of Technocracy.
  Some would argue that it is mere coin­ci­dence that these require­ments are fully met with Smart Grid tech­nology. How­ever, the rea­sons for the exis­tence of Tech­noc­racy in the 1930'²s are the same rea­sons given today: Energy effi­ciency, load bal­ancing, fair­ness, alle­vi­ating poverty and hunger, etc.
  The feigned con­cern for those in poverty and hunger in the under­de­vel­oped nations is hollow. Tech­noc­racy is point­edly amoral in its prac­tice: The means (their sci­en­tific method/process) jus­ti­fies the end, what­ever the end might turn out to be.
  Going GlobalIn addi­tion to the United States, Smart Grid is being imple­mented in both Canada and Mexico. Plan­ners are working on stan­dards that will inte­grate all of North America into a single, uni­fied Smart Grid system.
  More­over, there is a serious ini­tia­tive underway to create a Global Smart Grid that will inte­grate all the con­ti­nents on the globe!
  The Global Energy Net­work Insti­tute (GENI) presents this Dymaxion ' Map of the world from the per­spec­tive of the North Pole that reveals the global grid cur­rently under con­struc­tion. The only part of planet earth left untouched is Antarc­tica. The yellow lines rep­re­sent high-voltage elec­trical trans­mis­sion links that are capable of trans­fer­ring large amounts of energy from con­ti­nent to continent.
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Google's former head of patents moves to U.S. Patent Office
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  Source: CNET News
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:30
  Michelle Lee has criticized holes in a system that allows patent trolls to file lawsuits against companies.
  Michelle Lee, a vocal critic of a system too welcoming of frivolous patent lawsuits, is joining the public sector as the head of a new Silicon Valley patent office.The news first got tweeted by Santa Clara University School of Law professor Eric Goldman This should make for some interesting discussion. Lee, who used to be in charge of Google's patent strategy, is on record criticizing the ease with which patent trolls have been able to file patent lawsuits. She has argued that system is set up so that "the temptations and opportunities for abuse have gotten too high," allowing attorneys and plaintiffs to rake in big paydays. "Before 1990, there had been just one patent damage award of over $100 million," she noted in a Google blog post. "Since 1990, there have been at least 15, with at least five topping $500 million."Since last April, Lee has served on an ad advisory board to the USPTO.
TSA Week in Review: Replica Claymore Landmine Discovered at Tulsa (TUL)
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  Source: The TSA Blog
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:27
  Inert Ordnance and Grenades Etc. '' We continue to find inert hand grenades and other weaponry on weekly basis. Please keep in mind that if an item looks like a realistic bomb, grenade, mine, etc., it is prohibited - real or not. When these items are found at a checkpoint or in checked baggage, they can cause significant delays. I know they are cool novelty items, but it is best not to take them on a plane. Read here and here on why inert items cause problems.A replica Claymore mine was detected in a checked bag at Tulsa (TUL). It was determined to be inert and had the word ''dummy'' scrawled upon it. Two inert detonators were detected in carry-on bags at San Diego (SAN) and Denver (DEN).An HG-1 training grenade in an instructor's checked bag caused the checked baggage area at Bradley (BDL) to be closed for 20 minutes.3 inert grenades were discovered this week. Two in checked baggage at Seattle (SEA) & Anchorage (ANC), and the other in a carry-on bag at Oklahoma City (OKC).Items in the Strangest Places ''It's important to check your bags prior to traveling. If a prohibited item is discovered in your bag, you could be cited and possibly arrested by local law enforcement. Here are a few examples from this week where prohibited items were found in strange places. A pocketknife was discovered in a potato chip can at Austin (AUS). New cutting edge flavor?What Not to Say at an Airport '' Statements like these not only delay the people who said them but can also inconvenience many other passengers if the checkpoint or terminal has to be evacuated:An Atlanta passenger approached a flight attendant and asked her if she had ever been hijacked before.Stun Guns '' Two stun guns were discovered in carry-on bags at checkpoints around the nation: Detroit (DTW), Burbank (BUR)Miscellaneous Prohibited Items - In addition to all of the other prohibited items we find weekly, our Officers also regularly find firearm components, realistic replica firearms, bb and pellet guns, Airsoft guns, brass knuckles, ammunition, batons, and a lot of sharp pointy things -- to mention a few'...Firearms - Here are pictures of some of the firearms our Officers found in carry-on baggage since I posted last Friday. See a complete list below. Unfortunately these sorts of occurrences are all too frequent which is why we talk about these finds. Sure, it's great to share the things that our officers are finding, but at the same time, each time we find a dangerous item, the throughput is slowed down and a passenger that likely had no ill intent ends up with a citation or in some cases is even arrested. This is a friendly reminder to please leave these items at home. Just because we find a prohibited item on an individual does not mean they had bad intentions, that's for the law enforcement officer to decide. In many cases, people simply forgot they had these items.If you have a travel related issue or question that needs an immediate answer, you can contact us byclicking here.
Attorneys: Obama's 'secret' cyber security law may allow 'military deployment within the U.S.'
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  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:22
  Source: RawStoryThe White House on Wednesday receieved a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request (PDF link) from two attorneys with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), demanding that President Barack Obama release the text of what they called a ''secret'' new cyber security law that appears to enable ''military deployment within the United States.''
  The FOIA was filed in response to an article that appeared in The Washington Post this week, claiming that Obama issued a secret directive shortly before the elections that empowers the military to ''vet any operations outside government and defense networks'' for cyber security purposes.
  However, because the exact text of the directive remains a secret, nobody can really say exactly what it does. That was somewhat disconcerting to American Civil Liberties Union legislative counsel Michelle Richardson, who told Raw Story on Wednesday that without the text, ''it's hard to see what they mean.''
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With Amazon Publishing Stonewalled By Retailers, Tim Ferriss Taps BitTorrent To Market His New Book.
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  Source: DaDenMan news feed
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:20
  Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, and a stalemate between Amazon and big retailers, including Barnes & Noble, over the sale of books from the online giant's publishing imprint is giving a fillip to BitTorrent '-- once a hotbed of piracy, and now a straight-laced and legal content distribution network '-- as a platform for marketing books. Tim Ferriss, one of the author's signed to the Amazon imprint, has inked a deal with BitTorrent to promote his latest work, The 4-Hour Chef, a publishing deal first announced in August 2011 for hardover, e-book and audio editions of the book.
  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  BitTorrent says it currently has 160 million monthly active users '-- ''more users than Hulu, Netflix and Spotify combined,'' it claims, driving between 20% and 40% of all internet traffic. It has been building up a marketing business it calls Bundles, in which it offers users content related to a recent launch of an entertainment or media brand. It looks like Bundles have mainly been used for music launches for groups like Counting Crows, Pretty Lights and Death Grips.
  For music, BitTorrent appears to be doing well. According to Musicmetric, the BitTorrent network oversaw 405 million (legal) music downloads in the first six months of this year. Of those, 124 million were through working with musicians directly to make Bundles. ''We're really excited to work with Tim to see if we can add the same kind of value for one of the most talented authors in book publishing,'' said Eric Klinker, CEO of BitTorrent, in a statement.
  According to a BitTorrent blog post announcing the news, to coincide with the book being launched on November 20, BitTorrent users
  ''will get exclusive access to media from Tim: content from the book, as well as unpublished material. We'll be distributing the writer's process: the photos, drafts, videos and recipes that shaped Tim's journey. And we'll be asking users to support Tim and the Amazon imprint.''
  The 4-Hour Chef is the latest in a series of 4-Hour self-help/pop-education books from Ferriss. This one is described as a ''practical and unusual guide to mastering both cooking and life,'' and is a compilation of recipes from famous people from all walks of life, glued together by Ferriss' narrative. The four hours, incidentally, is meant to be a riposte to the belief that it takes 10,000 hours of learning time to master something.
  A BitTorrent spokesperson says that this deal is directly with Ferriss himself, not Amazon, so it's not clear whether there will be more Amazon books coming through this particular marketing channel. He also tells me that this is not the first book that has been marketed by BitTorrent.
  Given that Amazon is what it is, it's not clear who this deal will benefit more, best-selling author Ferriss/e-tailing leviathan Amazon or BitTorrent. But, yes, it will be an interesting look at whether a video/music network can be an effective place to package and distribute content bundles to promote books, and as more artists and content creators take to BitTorrent to do this, the more viable this becomes as another revenue stream for the company. ''The nature of publishing has fundamentally changed,'' Tim Ferriss said in a statement. ''The business models and marketing must change to reflect what consumers want'... BitTorrent is a technology and ecosystem that is part of this sustainable future for content. There's no turning back, and I want to embrace the change-makers.''
  BitTorrent creates advanced, innovative technologies to efficiently move large files across the Internet. The company's two main products today include the original BitTorrent software and the tiny-but-mighty µTorrent, which combined boast over 150+ million users. BitTorrent is based in San Francisco, Calif. and is backed by Accel Partners and DCM. BitTorrent is a globally-recognized creator of software and technology designed to help help people find, share and move digital media over the Internet. The company has built an orchestrated ecosystem...
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Why BP Isn't a Criminal
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  Source: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:15
  Why BP Isn't a CriminalPosted on Nov 16, 2012ideum(CC-BY)Tugboats battle flames on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010.
  By Robert Reich
  This post originally ran on Robert Reich's Web page, www.robertreich.org.
  Justice Department just entered into the largest criminal settlement in U.S. history with BP. The oil giant pleaded guilty to 14 criminal counts, including manslaughter, and agreed to pay $4 billion over the next five years.
  This is loony.
  Mind you, I'm appalled by the carelessness and indifference of the BP executives responsible for the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 people April 20, 2010, and unleashed the worst oil spill in American history.
  But it defies logic to make BP itself the criminal. Corporations aren't people. They can't know right from wrong. They're incapable of criminal intent. They have no brains. They're legal fictions '-- pieces of paper filed away in a vault in some bank.
  Holding corporations criminally liable reinforces the same fallacy that gave us Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, in which five justices decided corporations are people under the First Amendment and therefore can spend unlimited amounts on an election. Even if 49 percent of their shareholders are foreign citizens, corporations now have a constitutional right to affect the outcome of U.S. elections.We don't know exactly how much corporate money was spent on the last election but it's a fair guess that were it not for Citizen's United, the House of Representatives might now be under control of Democrats, and Senate Democrats might have a filibuster-proof majority.
  The perfidious notion that corporations are people can lead to even more bizarre results. If corporations are people and they're headquartered in the United States, then presumably corporations are citizens. That means they have a right to vote as well.
  I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.
  Can we please get a grip? The only sentient beings in a corporation are the people who run them or work for them. When it comes to criminality, they're the ones who should be punished.
  Punishing corporations as a whole almost always ends up harming innocent people '' especially employees who lose their jobs because the corporation has to trim costs, and retirees whose savings shrink because their shares in the corporation lose value.
  Remember the accounting firm Arthur Andersen, convicted in 2002 of obstruction of justice when certain partners destroyed records of the auditing work they did for Enron as the energy giant was imploding? After the firm was convicted, its clients abandoned it and the firm went under. The vast majority of its employees had nothing to do with Enron but lost their jobs anyway. Yet the real perpetrators came out fine. Andersen's CEO moved to a lucrative job in a private-equity firm, and other senior partners formed a new accounting firm.
  Likewise, the people responsible for BP's deaths and oil spill weren't BP's rank-and-file employees or its shareholders. They were the executives who turned a blind eye to safety while in pursuit of their own rising stock options, and who conspired with oil-services giant Halliburton to cut corners on deep water drilling when they knew damn well they were taking risks for the sake of fatter profits.
  They're the ones who should be punished. Failure to punish them simply invites more of the same kind of criminal negligence by executives more interested in lining their pockets than protecting their workers and the environment. (Today brought another tragedy in the Gulf when an oil rig exploded off Louisiana '-- killing at least two workers and sending four others to hospitals Friday; two others were believed to be missing.)
  But the Justice Department's criminal settlement with BP gives these top executives a free pass '-- allowing the public to believe justice has been done.
  Instead of going after the real criminals, the Department has gone after the schleps who got caught up in the mess. It's filed manslaughter charges against two BP rig supervisors for allegedly ignoring warning signs of the blowout that set fire to the rig, which later sank. And against a former BP vice president who allegedly lied to Congress when he repeated BP's public claim that the leak was limited to 5,000 barrels of oil per day when in fact it was more than 60,000 barrels.
  The Department's $4 billion criminal settlement with BP isn't big enough to affect the oil giant anyway. BP's market capitalization is $128 billion. Yesterday, BP's stock price closed at $40.30 a share, up 0.35 percent from the day before the settlement was announced.
  Robert B. Reich, chancellor's professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, was secretary of labor in the Clinton administration. Time magazine named him one of the 10 most effective Cabinet secretaries of the last century. He has written 13 books, including the best-sellers ''Aftershock'' and ''The Work of Nations.'' His latest, ''Beyond Outrage,'' is now out in paperback. He is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine and chairman of Common Cause.
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Evil! Google Is Stacking Search Results In Favor Of Fracking
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:14
  Hey Google, don't be evil! This is exactly the kind of thing we were afraid would happen without strict net neutrality rules -- and lo and behold, here it is: The search engine is helping the gas lobby support fracking by stacking search results with pro-fracking ads that look like search results. And as this Truthout article says, it's having a negative effect on how peer-reviewed fracking research is perceived by the public:
  For more than 17 months, Robert Howarth, an ecology professor at Cornell, has had a Google problem. Howarth is the chief author of an important paper on the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a controversial method of obtaining natural gas. The paper concludes that the practice is not a clean way to extract domestic energy, as many allege, and has an even greater carbon footprint than coal. The paper's conclusions poke holes in some of the most common talking points used by supporters of fracking and made major headlines, including a large and prominently placed article in The New York Times in April 2011. Howarth, along with one of his co-authors, Anthony Ingraffea, and activist actor Mark Ruffalo, were ranked by Time as among the 100 "people who matter" in 2011.
  The paper also got the attention of the gas lobby. Most notably, America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA). Soon after the paper was released, Howarth and others noticed a disturbing phenomenon on Google. Every time Professor Howarth's name was placed into a Google search engine, the first thing that appeared was an ad from ANGA, devoted strictly to hampering the credibility of Howarth's research. The page was listed as an ad but at a quick glance, it simply looked like the top search result. As of the time of this writing, late October, the ad still displayed that way.
  The ad, and the ability of industry to use Google ads for these purposes, raises important questions about the role that Google and other prominent search engines will have on important political and scientific discourse. Do Google and other companies have a responsibility to the public to consider the way their search engine can be used to advance the interests of certain industries? This method naturally empowers wealthy industries to dominate Google search results given their massive resources and vested financial interests in the way in which science is discussed in the public sphere. And the company does ultimately answer to shareholders and not to the public at large. Given this reality, what can we expect from Google and other corporate giants of the Internet world when it comes to providing valuable information that serves the public?
  The content of the ad includes attacks that Howarth is "not credentialed to do the kind of chemical analysis required for this field of study," his research is "not well documented" and his conclusions "extreme." They also argue that the vast majority of scientists are skeptical of Howarth's conclusions.
  In an interview with Truthout, Howarth meticulously refuted the statements in the ad, saying they are "very misleading" and argues that, contrary to what is portrayed in the ad, "many more scientists agree with and support our research than disagree with it." Howarth claims the ad has been alarmingly effective at shaping the debate on the issue and disrupting his career.
  "The ad is incredibly unethical. It is a deliberate attempt to distort and suppress information and to intimidate me and also any other scientist who has research results that the gas industry may not like," he said. "Whenever anyone Googles my name to find out more about me and our research, they get the ad. This means that anyone who might want to apply to get a Ph.D. with me at Cornell will see this highly biased, distorted set of information. Applications to my lab are way down."
  Many younger scientists, Howarth said, have expressed trepidation at researching the fracking issue for fear of a rebuttal from the industry. "That is incredibly damaging in the long run."
  He also has noticed an impact on media coverage of the issue. "Any reporter who wants to interview me will see the ANGA ad. As a result, their questions tend to focus on having me respond to the criticisms, rather than objectively present our research," he said. "It turns our research into a 'he said-he said' framework, where everything is controversial and questioned '... even basic facts become controversial because of the ad. Our research is diminished, the public is misled."
  It is easy to find evidence of the media being influenced by the ad. Under the aforementioned ANGA ad, Google search listings under Howarth's name, using the term "fracking," are largely dominated by articles amplifying its content. A Forbes article that repeats many of the ad's claims and mockingly claims that The New York Times turned Howarth into an "anti-fracking rockstar," is a typical example.
  Mr. Ingraffea, a co-author of the piece (but whose name does not get the same treatment on Google), says the ads serve to "diminish the peer-review process" and thus weaken the public's understanding of the science behind fracking. "We try to talk to Google about this. The company has a lot of valuable products. We would like to know if they understand the implications of these ads," he said.
Fajr 5 - The Hamas Rocket That Threatens Millions of Israelis - YouTube
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  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:53
CNBC: 'Jon Corzine Is A Criminal And He Belongs In Prison' - Home - The Daily Bail
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  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:14
  Must watch TV.
  "I'm 100% convinced he is a criminal, and he does belong in jail."
  Rick Santelli and James Koutoulas react to the House report on MF Global released yesterday. Excellent discussion all the way to the end. CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler and Goldman Sachs get trashed. Bart Chilton is lauded.
Video. Auto's spelen tikkertje op de snelweg
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  Source: GeenStijl
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:05
  Je kan er zo veel miljoenen verslindende campagnes tegenaan gooien als je wilt, maar niets kan beter duidelijk maken dat sms'en, bellen of de ochtendkrant lezen achter het stuur een dom idee is, dan een dashcamfilmpje met een hoog 'WOW dat ging maar NET goed'-gehalte. Kan geen in scene gezette oma op de motorkap tegenop. En al helemaal geen website vol belerend taalgebruik over het bedienen van elektronische apparaten in relatie tot waarnemingsvermogens en rijprestaties. Daar wil je alleen maar harder door van het talud af rijden. Enniewee. Bovenstaande Seat Altea (toch?) lijkt even afgeleid, corrigeert amateuristisch en komt toch soort van goed weg. Deze invloedrijke twitteraar zal voorlopig niemand meer mentionen tijdens het rijden. Hopen we. Van Rossem | 16-11-12 | 20:29 | Link | stylesheet is fucked up
  doskabouter | 16-11-12 | 20:32Wie niet weg is is gezien.
  Normpje | 16-11-12 | 20:32Krijg toch een beetje het idee dat ze *allebei* al telefonerend de krant aan het lezen waren.
  Godsammekraken | 16-11-12 | 20:32En die kloothommel rijdt vervolgens door?
  gemeentereiniging | 16-11-12 | 20:33Man man man wat een kwaliteit video
  exclusief | 16-11-12 | 20:33en dan ook gewoon doorrijden, wat een stelletje tikmongolen rijden er toch in NL. 80% is het rijbewijs niet waard.
  Dikkie_Dik | 16-11-12 | 20:33Ik denk vrouw aan stuur die makeup aan doen is en de krultang in der handen hebt...
  NouJaZeg! | 16-11-12 | 20:33Triest dat dit filmpje als op zichzelf staand item wordt gepresenteerd. Nog triester dat ik de moeite neem hierop te reageren.
  _pacman_ | 16-11-12 | 20:35De Gezalfde, Kempi, zou Koos Spee keihard van de weg rijden. En daar zou Dijkgraaf geen antwoord op hebben.Dat is geloof. Ook in een lego-wereld.
  Kansleaus | 16-11-12 | 20:35sphotos-f.ak.fbcdn.net...
  Godsammekraken | 16-11-12 | 20:36Droevige is dat die mongool altijd zal ontkennen dat hij op de andere rijbaan kwam. Ik moet ook maar eens zo'n dashcam kopen.
  bennutzat | 16-11-12 | 20:38Het wordt pas leuk als ook motoren meedoen.
  Eurotokkie | 16-11-12 | 20:39De Profeet uit Woensel-West(ikea), zou hier een gebalanceerd en evenwichtig antwoord op geven. Zoals Christus gekruisigd werd, zit Hij nu tussen vier muren.Free Kempi!!1!!1!
  Kansleaus | 16-11-12 | 20:40Logisch. Die betruttelende zeurborden langs de snelweg brengen mij ook altijd op het idee dat ik dringend nog even moet smsen.
  vetkleppert | 16-11-12 | 20:41De man op de linker rijbaan is de allergrootste mongeaul van de twee. Anticiperend rijden Ho maar....Nederlanders kunnen niet autorijden, dat blijkt maar weer.
  Wees_eens_creatief | 16-11-12 | 20:42@Eurotokkie | 16-11-12 | 20:39Nee dank je, wij blijven liever heel.
  He pik | 16-11-12 | 20:42Linkjes zijn aangereden?
  miko | 16-11-12 | 20:43Wees_eens_creatief | 16-11-12 | 20:42
  Ik weet niet maar meneer op de rechter baan wil gewoon niet ingehaald worden.
  Eurotokkie | 16-11-12 | 20:44Tikkie, jij bent hem.
  rechtvaardigerechter | 16-11-12 | 20:44Wel even het embed divje afsluiten van Rossem.
  Onderwereldfiguur | 16-11-12 | 20:44Keurig in bedwang gehouden.Dat had slechter af kunnen lopen.Nu nog eventjes een parkeerplek opzoeken voor de nodige formulieren.
  prince | 16-11-12 | 20:44Wat moet je anders dan surfen, twitteren en smsen, 99,5 sukkelend over de vijfbaans A2.
  vetkleppert | 16-11-12 | 20:46He pik | 16-11-12 | 20:42
  klaverblad rijden is natuurlijk veel meer fun dantikkertje.
  Eurotokkie | 16-11-12 | 20:46Pleur op met die commercials.
  Schreeuwmeeuw | 16-11-12 | 20:49Waar zijn de kantijnen.. steletje lutsers bij Geenstijl.. ik Snap de text niet..
  Crematorium-de-Asbak | 16-11-12 | 20:51vetkleppert | 16-11-12 | 20:46 |
  Ik zal een nepbord met 130 planten langs de A2 , dan zijn bezuinigen niet meer nodig .
  Eurotokkie | 16-11-12 | 20:53Andere optie: Meneer/mevrouw in de Ibiza/Altea/Whatever was ge¯rriteerd door de auto achter hem/haar vanwege kleven oid en besloot de achterligger terug te pakken. Die Seat ging namelijk wel erg beheerst naar links en vervolgens duurt het erg lang voordat hij weer naar zijn eigen baan kruipt, dus wellicht toch opzet in het spel.
  Tinio | 16-11-12 | 20:53Eurotokkie | 16-11-12 | 20:46 | + 0Waar kan ik een paar klaverblaadjes vinden?
  mrlol. | 16-11-12 | 20:54En natuurlijk is het wederom een volkswagen.
  reageerbuis | 16-11-12 | 20:56mrlol. | 16-11-12 | 20:54 | | + 0 -www.youtube.com...
  Eurotokkie | 16-11-12 | 20:56Maar nu de vraag. Waar is linker auto na 0:09?
  Life_Of_Slice | 16-11-12 | 20:57Ik verwachtte het Paulusma filmpje onder de oma op motorkap link.
  aardappelninja | 16-11-12 | 20:57Zo zie je maar weer, zo'n dashcam is niet alleen handig als bewijs voor verzekering of rechtbank (wanneer er weer een eenstreper vervelend is), maar je haalt er ook de frontpage van Geenstijl mee.
  kapotte_stofzuiger | 16-11-12 | 21:02Wees_eens_creatief | 16-11-12 | 20:42 | + -2
  Ah... 11e van de 11e is geweest, de trollen mogen weer naar buiten?
  Arhedis-Varkenjaab | 16-11-12 | 21:04Reageer ookJe bent ingelogd als: (Uitloggen)
  Probeer trouwens eens de totaal officieuze niet-ondersteunde third-party GeenStijl extension die compleet niet door ons ondersteund wordt en volledig op eigen risico is.
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REPUBLICAN INSIDER: ''Petraeus Gave Us An Opportunity '' Now We Need All Of Your Help'' - The Ulsterman Report
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  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:58
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HAITI: Assassinated Cop Led Kidnapping Ring from Police Station
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  Source: Global Research
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:45
  Heavily armed assailants gunned down Police Division Inspector Yves Michel Bellefleur in a hail of bullets on the morning of Fri., Nov. 9 near the G(C)rald Bataille circle in Tabarre.
  A police spokesman and some media have presented the killing as a response from criminals to the Oct. 22 arrest of prominent Haitian businessman Clifford Brandt and several others '' including policemen and ex-policemen '' for kidnapping.
  However, a former police official told Ha¯ti Libert(C) that Inspector Bellefleur was in fact working with Clifford Brandt's criminal organization and led a kidnapping ring based in the police station of Pernier, which, not coincidentally, is the same neighborhood that Clifford Brandt's abductees, Coralie and Nicolas Moscoso, were found and freed (see Ha¯ti Libert(C), Oct. 31, 2012).
  Most alarmingly, a kidnapping victim of Bellefleur had denounced the cop and some of his associates to the Haitian National Police (PNH) immediately following his release last April, but apparently no action was ever taken.
  ''I think that Bellefleur was rubbed out because, if he was arrested, he might have revealed the names of powerful people, as Brandt is maybe doing now,'' said the former police official, who requested anonymity.
  A few hours later in the afternoon of Nov. 9, another policeman, Johnby Mathieu, was shot dead by unidentified armed men near the police outpost at Portail Saint-Joseph, in the capital's commercial center.
  ''These assassinations are happening in a context of struggle against major criminality,'' said Frantz Lerebours, the PNH's spokesman.
  The lack of action against Bellefleur reflects, at the very least, negligence on the part of the PNH's former Director General Mario Andr(C)sol and his successor Godson Or(C)lus, who replaced Andr(C)sol on Aug. 15, 2012.
  ''In April 2012, Emane 'Jacques' Jean-Louis, the owner of Sourire Rent-a-Car in the capital's Tabarre district, was kidnapped,'' reported Ha¯ti Libert(C) on Aug. 15, 2012. ''His family eventually paid the kidnappers about $800,000 in ransom, and he was freed. But, immediately following his release, Emane took legal action against the PNH for the involvement of police officers in his kidnapping, according to the former high-ranking police official who requested that he not be named. Emane provided the license plate number of a police vehicle used and the names of several of the policemen involved. Up until now, there has been no action by the police to arrest any of those that Emane accuses of having helped kidnap him.''
  In his complaint, Jean-Louis denounced Inspector Bellefleur as the leader of the kidnappers based in the Pernier police station.
  Ha¯ti Libert(C) asked Chief Or(C)lus about Jean-Louis's complaint again in a Sep. 16 interview. ''We have zero tolerance'' for cops found to be involved in kidnapping, Or(C)lus responded. ''When we find them, we arrest them, and we put them in prison.''
  The question remains: did either Or(C)lus or Andr(C)sol investigate Jean-Louis's complaint. If not, why not? If so, why wasn't he arrested?
  ''Bellefleur was working alongside Clifford Brandt in kidnappings,'' said the former police official. ''Six months ago, Emane Jean-Louis gave to authorities, in a formal complaint, the names of the policemen, including that of Yves Michel Bellefleur, who kidnapped him. Why was nothing ever done to arrest them? It seems it wasn't until the Moscoso kids were kidnapped that the police took any action, and that was apparently only done because the U.S. authorities became involved.''
  On Nov. 13, Mario Andr(C)sol gave an interview to Radio Kiskeya to denounce the death threats he claims have been made against him and the Internet rumors that he was placed under house arrest. He dismissed rumors that he had been interrogated by FBI agents, who are presently in Haiti, about the Brandt affair. Andr(C)sol said that his security detail had been reinforced by the PNH because of death-threats he has received in recent weeks.
  Andr(C)sol also saluted ''the memory'' of the late Inspector Bellefleur. Is it really possible that he was unaware of Emane Jean-Louis's complaint against Bellefleur?
  When he was riddled with bullets, Bellefleur was still the head of the Pernier police station, located near the old military academy on the northern fringes of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
  ''Bellefleur had just dropped his children at school, he was in civilian clothes, and he was killed by gunmen traveling in a vehicle with tinted windows and a 'service of the state' [government] license plate'' said PNH spokesman Lerebours. According to witnesses at the scene, Bellefleur was hit by many bullets, his attackers had automatic weapons, and they were in a Toyota all-terrain vehicle, commonly called in Haiti a ''Zoreken'' (Shark bone).
  According to Radio Vision 2000, Lerebours said on Nov. 13 that ''the first elements in the police investigation'' into Bellefleur's murder ''reveal links with organized crime networks in the country,'' but he ''was still not able to say whether it involved [Brandt's] powerful gang network recently dismantled by the police.''
  Are the police incapable of establishing the links between Bellefleur and Brandt's organization, or are they trying to cover-up the links?
  Meanwhile, PNH spokesman Lerebours told the press that Johnby Mathieu, 29, was an Agent I with the Central Command of Street Police (DCPR). He was killed by four bullets, two in the throat, two in his arms. Mathieu had graduated with the PNH's 21st promotion. He was dressed in civilian clothes when shot by assailants who got away. Justice of the peace Fritz Dilia inspected the crime scene before the body was removed.
Nance teleurgesteld
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  Source: Telegraaf.nl - prive
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:44
  vr 16 nov 2012, 20:10
  van onze redactieAMSTERDAM - Voormalig SBS-presentatrice Nance Coolen is op zijn zachtst gezegd not amused met de beslissing van SBS om een nieuw seizoen van Sterren Dansen op het IJs te maken.
  Toen Nance vorig jaar werd ontslagen bij SBS kreeg ze te horen dat er geen programma's meer voor haar waren en dat Sterren Dansen op het Ijs, dat ze samen met Gerard Joling presenteerde, niet meer terug zou komen op televisie.
  "Vooropgesteld dat ik Sterren Dansen op het IJs een fantastisch programma vind en het leuk vind dat het weer terugkomt, ben ik toch teleurgesteld dat SBS niet de keuze heeft gemaakt om mij naast Gerard te vragen voor een duopresentatie", zo vertelt Nance aan RTL Boulevard.
  "Met pijn in mijn hart heb ik dit besluit op internet moeten lezen. Gelukkig voel ik me gesteund door de vele mailtjes die ik mag ontvangen van mensen die het ook jammer vinden."
  (C) 1996-2012 Telegraaf Media Nederland | Landelijke Media B.V., Amsterdam.Alle rechten voorbehouden.e-mail: redactie-i@telegraaf.nlPrivacy | Cookies | Disclaimer
How they killed America in 2013
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:48
  As another Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive.........
  My children, what is about to be revealed here is simple, but it is the final stage in the destruction or the change of America which B. Hussein Obama AKA has been installed into the White House for.
  It is not as the naive point to in Second Amendment, as that is in all honesty a red herring and has been one for some time to distract the shortsighted. It will probably seem unsexy and confound most and not be interesting, as this is exactly the reason it was chosen as the final nail in the coffin of America.It was why Obamacare was initiated in the 1960's and it was aimed at the second group, as the first group was wiped out in 1977 in the Jimmy Carter years by design.
  Without further drama in this, the way the Obama regime will finish off America is they are in the process of wiping out small business in America, as that is the last engine of freedom and without that, America will not arise as a world power again.
  In the 1970's it was by design in cheap money handed out to farmers, followed by massive inflation spikes which removed the ownership of land from the many to the few, destroying the Jefferson model.
  As of 2012, the operation of the feudal state is by taxation and Obamacare to close small business, leaving only the conglomerate monopoly to provide services and goods, with the product being of Chicom origin.
  This might not sound like much, but it is the Stalin model in which he murdered by starvation and freezing 60 million Soviet farmers to destroy their ability to be competition to the government. That was what was about Obama going after hidden American assets in Switzerland in 2009. It is about taking away the money and the power to generate money, so there is never going to be a political class rise up which is not of the order.
  All of this is designed so the Americans will not see it coming nor note it, as it is not filled with guns nor drama. It will simply be cutting off and killing America from Benjamin Franklin commerce which built America.As I have noted, "they" have poisons which can eradicate like Andrew Breitbart, they have radar waves which can scramble your brains or explode your heart, they have satellites to pick you off one by one. That is why the GPS logged every home a few years ago in the census. This is a culling of years by attrition, as they require a gradual reduction, in a sort of survival of the fittest mortals who will be bred for their ability to serve.
  It is the way this has always been done though. The slow legal way of using American law against the victims, so that when their final hours of freedom come, they will convict themselves from acting out and just close up shop, thinking they are failures and in humiliation go off and presume they deserve no liberty.
  That is what this is all about with Obama and his feudal order. The destruction of small businesses. People know it is there and see it coming. No one though has explained why it is in Stalinist terms of why the target is American small business.I have tried to explain how America is not something which one can just recreate. How it took from 1492 to literally 1817 before real trade began in America, meaning commerce which generated wealth in the old "your ship came in".That is almost 300 years of failures from every empire in Europe, and it was not until the American Yankee Trader began that God blessed things. It was not until the Civil War that American industry arose and made her a competitor on the world stage.
  America has had removed it's manufacturing. America has it's agriculture working slave labor for Monsanto poisons and now the last form of freedom will be removed in the destruction of the small business infrastructure. It is all before the eyes of the Yanks and they have not figured it out yet, that it is a literal mass terror event, but because it is taxes and laws, and not bullets and state police, none of their red alerts are going off to try and save themselves.
  That is what that Patreaus pony circus show is about in not just distracting about ANALGATE, but if the "watergate hearings" are there, Obama will beat them as Clinton did, and in the end, the small business people will be ruined as the political class thinks that getting Obama out of office will solve anything............just as you are told to wait for 2014 elections and then you will get B. Hussein.Darrell Issa in 2010 promised you Gun Runner to get Holder and Obama.............
  How'd that hopey changey thing turn out for ya'll in 2012 there pilgrims?
  So this is how they are going to accomplish it and are basically 13 months from completing it. You will be given drama to distract you while the Great Death March begins. There is not going to be masses of dead like under Stalin, but simply people dying in mass spread out as they will not attract attention...............dying from broken dreams and poison Thanksgiving turkeys.
  Obama's Hollywood has conditioned you to think it will all be SWAT smashing down your front doors, but that is now how it has been done in America. It is just a banker or tax man driving you out of business, an empty shop, and if someone like Gordon Kahl arises as the protocols figure, they edge him to act out, then blow him to hell like the Branch Davidians in exposing what a "kook" they are, and it sways the masses to accept their chains.
  Once this is accomplished nothing will matter. Few know that India was controlled by a few white men when the entire country was teaming with firearms. An amnesty would be called for weapon ownership if a tiger or leopard would chew up too many niggers (English term for Indians) and then the countryside would be bristling with them. The Indians had guns and chose subjection for the paddy and someone deciding the decisions for them.Americans in majority are conditioned exactly the same now. People in 1776 and 1861 revolted over tea taxes and the federal government daring to limit states rights. 2012 has wholesale worse than that, and the Americans just are led like dogs on a collar as a leash is no longer necessary.
  There is nothing sexy about taxes ruining small business by design to destroy America, and that is why it was chosen. Nothing appealing in Bruce Willis turning out the lights of his porn shop and if Brad Pitt starred in it, Pitt would just tell Americans it was all for the better and they should clap on the chains too.
  Lame Cherry exclusive, how they killed America.
  agtG 336YYY
Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict | Betabeat
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  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:41
  (Screencap: Twitter)
  After announcing their intention to attack Hamas on Twitter, the Israeli Defense Force began military operations in Gaza yesterday. The Alqassam Brigades, Hamas's military arm, also has a Twitter account, and the two have been engaging in a sparring match on the platform that elevates typically meaningless Twitter tiffs into the stuff of WWIII nightmares.
  Aside from updating their followers on the death toll and the status of military strikes, both accounts have tweeted photos of children (warning: both links are graphic) injured or killed in the conflict. The IDF is letting no social media channel go untouched. They've been uploading photos of their operations to Flickr and Pinterest and publishing status updates to their official Facebook page. They also just started a Tumblr account that is littered with pro-Israel propaganda, including a photo showing a cartoon of an Israeli family in the crosshairs of a Hamas target with the message ''Israeli civilians are Hamas's target.''
  Spreading information and even propaganda through social media channels in times of violent conflict is new territory for internet companies. The Arab Spring is often cited as Twitter's defining moment. In that case, Middle Eastern citizens used the service to communicate with each other and the press in order to foment revolution against totalitarian governments.
  But this time, it's different. As Peter Kafka of AllThingsD noted, Israel is, in essence, ''using the Internet as weapon,'' employing the same tactics as dissidents in the Arab Spring to spread a message without a middleman. There is something grotesque and disturbing about two parties with a long history of conflict live-narrating the launching of bombs that kill civilians and destroy communities. There is no empowerment or revolution here: just a dark, sinking feeling as we watch the bloodshed unfold in real time.
  And the platforms that are allowing both the IDF and Alqassam Brigades to spread their messages? Faced with a new frontier of social media manipulation, neither YouTube or Twitter really knows what to do.
  (Screencap: Tumblr)
  It's difficult to nail down whether or not the content disseminated by both the Hamas and IDF accounts violates Twitter's terms of service. One Twitter rule explicitly bans the ''direct, specific threats of violence against others,'' which certain IDF tweets do seem to violate. The Daily Dot reports that the IDF Spokesperson Twitter account was temporarily suspended for about 40 minutes today, but was then reinstated. As Twitter doesn't comment on the status of individual accounts, it's difficult to suss out what the reasoning behind this was; perhaps it was automatically suspended after being flagged for removal by users. Whatever the case, it's back up now, tweeting about the rockets flying between Tel Aviv and Gaza. (A fake account, @IDFSpokesman, has been suspended.)
  YouTube, meanwhile, also temporarily banned a video uploaded by the IDF that shows a ''pinpoint strike'' that killed Ahmed Jabari, one of Hamas's military leaders. The video was put back up after AllThingsD pointed it out. YouTube told them:
  ''With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call. When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it.''
  As one social media analyst told the BBC, the actions of both the IDF and Alqassam Brigades on Twitter put the service in a difficult position. ''They want to preserve their position as a carrier service that doesn't editorialize,'' he said. ''On the other hand, they have terms and conditions that must be adhered to.''
  ''This is not a decision a couple of hundred engineers in North California want to be making,'' he added.
  And yet, as hashtagged insults and news of bombs continue to fly across these services, it's a decision social media platforms may have to make sooner or later.
  Jessica Roy is a reporter for Betabeat and the New York Observer. Follow Jessica on Twitter or via RSS. jroy@observer.com
From Russia With PR - ProPublica
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  Connect with Facebook to share articles you read on ProPublica. Learn more >>Enable Social ReadingRussia's President Vladimir Putin, left, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev watch a parade in Moscow's Red Square in May. Russia has paid public-relations firm Ketchum almost $23 million since 2006. (STR/AFP/GettyImages)
  Several opinion columns praising Russia and published in the last two years on CNBC's web site and the Huffington Post were written by seemingly independent professionals but were placed on behalf of the Russian government by its public-relations firm, Ketchum.
  The columns, written by two businessmen, a lawyer, and an academic, heap praise on the Russian government for its ''ambitious modernization strategy'' and ''enforcement of laws designed to better protect business and reduce corruption.'' One of the CNBC opinion pieces, authored by an executive at a Moscow-based investment bank, concludes that ''Russia may well be the most dynamic place on the continent.''
  There's nothing unusual about Ketchum's work on behalf of Russia. Public relations firms constantly peddle op-eds on behalf of politicians, corporations, and governments. Rarely if ever do publications disclose the role of a PR firm in placing an op-ed, so it's unusual to get a glimpse behind the scenes and see how an op-ed was generated.
  What readers of the CNBC and Huffington Post pieces did not know '-- but Justice Department foreign agent registration filings by Ketchum show '-- is that the columns were placed by the public-relations firm working on a contract with the Russian government to, among other things, promote the country ''as a place favorable for foreign investments.''
  In at least one case, a Ketchum subcontractor reached out to a writer and offered to place his columns in media outlets. The writer, Adrian Pabst, a lecturer in politics at the University of Kent, said that his views were his own and that he was not influenced or paid by Ketchum.
  A spokesman for CNBC, which published the pieces on the Guest Blog section of its website, declined to comment. A Huffington Post spokesman said the column placed by Ketchum did not violate the site's policy.
  Ketchum spokeswoman Jackie Burton told ProPublica that when the firm corresponds with experts or the media on behalf of Russia, ''consistent with Ketchum's policies and industry standards, we clearly state that we represent the Russian Federation.''
  Russia, often criticized for human rights abuses and corruption, paid handsomely for the public-relations work. From mid-2006 to mid-2012, Ketchum received almost $23 million in fees and expenses on the Russia account and an additional $17 million on the account of Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled energy giant, according to foreign agent filings.
  Op-ed editors interviewed by ProPublica said they work to include full disclosure of relevant financial interests or conflicts '-- or decline to run pieces that read like advertorial.
  ''People write op-eds because they have agendas. Separating out what's an ethical agenda from an unethical agenda is really tough,'' says Sue Horton, op-ed editor of the Los Angeles Times.
  Horton said the role of the Russian government's public-relations firm in placing the CNBC and Huffington Post op-eds "absolutely seems like something the reader would want to know.''
  The op-eds placed by Ketchum for Russia, according to the filings, are:
  A March 2010 CNBC piece by Peter Gerendasi, then managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia, that praises the government of then-President Dmitry Medvedev for its ''strategic priorities [of] diversification, innovation, promoting small business, supporting families and strengthening the country's financial system so that it can provide the investment capital that will enable business to grow and people to realize their potential.'' Gerendasi declined to comment on the piece and PricewaterhouseCoopers said it did not pay Ketchum to place the piece and declined to comment further.An April 2010 CNBC piece by Kingsmill Bond, then chief strategist at the Moscow investment bank Troika Dialog, that ran under the headline ''Russia'--Europe's Bright Light of Growth.'' It called Russia possibly ''the most dynamic place on the continent'' for investors. Bond, now at Citigroup, told ProPublica he could not recall Ketchum's role in the piece.A September 2010 Huffington Post piece, titled ''President Medvedev's Project Of Modernization,'' by Pabst, the University of Kent academic. While acknowledging human rights and corruption problems, the thrust of Pabst's op-ed was praise for Medvedev's ''transformational vision for Russia's domestic politics and foreign policy.'' Pabst told ProPublica he was contacted by a Kethcum subcontractor, Portland Communications, and that he was not paid to write the piece. The piece, as well as another he wrote for a web site run by Ketchum, ''reflect my own ideas and arguments,'' he said in an email.A January 2012 CNBC piece by Laura Brank, the head of the Russia practice for the international law firm Dechert. Brank praised the Russian government for working to overcome the perception of an inhospitable investment climate ''through the implementation and enforcement of laws designed to better protect business and reduce corruption.'' Brank did not respond to requests for comment.While Ketchum maintains it always identifies its client when dealing with the media, the 2010 email sent by Ketchum to Huffington Post pitching the Pabst column did not mention that Russia was the firm's client. (See the full email.)
  ''Below is a piece from Adrian Pabst, a leading Russia scholar in Europe,'' wrote then-Ketchum Vice President Matt Stearns, who is now at UnitedHealth Group.
  Ketchum says that Stearns had in previous correspondence identified Russia as his client to the Huffington Post editor. The company did not provide that correspondence.
  Huffington Post spokesman Rhoades Alderson said the site has a policy requiring bloggers to disclose any financial conflicts of interest related to the issue they are writing about, but Pabst did not violate the policy.
  ''The job of our blog editors is to make sure all of our posts add value for our readers,'' Alderson said in a statement. ''Part of that is making judgment calls about the transparency of each blogger's motive, even in cases when there is no technical violation of the disclosure policy. A submission by a PR firm raises flags but is not automatically disqualified if the blog adds value and is in keeping with our guidelines.''
  Placement of op-eds is a standard part of the influence game, but it's rare for readers ever to find out who is behind the curtain.
  In 2011, top public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller came under criticism after it asked a blogger to author an op-ed criticizing Google's privacy standards. Burson was working on a contract for Facebook at the time.
  Public-relations firms have also been known to write op-eds and have them placed under the byline of a third party, and even to pay experts to write favorable op-eds. There's no evidence Ketchum paid any of the authors of the Russia op-eds or that it ghost-wrote them.
Hostess closes St. Louis plant : Stltoday
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  Hostess Brands permanently closed three bakeries Monday, including a plant in St. Louis where 365 jobs were cut, in response to a bakers' union strike that started Friday.
  The bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder bread said it's trying to avert liquidating the entire company, and it shuttered three plants that were no longer able to produce and deliver products because of picket lines. The other plant closures are in Seattle and Cincinnati, where a combined 262 jobs were cut.
  ''We deeply regret this decision, but we have repeatedly explained that we will close facilities that are no longer able to produce and deliver products because of a work stoppage '-- and that we will close the entire company if widespread strikes cripple our business,'' Hostess CEO Gregory Rayburn said in a statement.
  Wholesale baker Hostess Brands, which is based in Irving, Texas, filed for bankruptcy in January and has fought with labor groups over contract changes throughout the year.
  Thousands of members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike beginning on Friday at plants across the country, including Oakland, Calif.; Seattle; and Orlando, Fla. The union represents about 5,680 of Hostess' 18,300 employees.
  On Monday morning, more than two dozen Hostess workers stood on a sidewalk outside the St. Louis bakery on North Broadway, refusing to cross the picket line set by striking bakers' union members from Columbus, Ind. Some of Hostess' St. Louis employees said they had worked at the plant that makes Hostess cakes and Nature's Pride and Wonder breads for decades but were honoring the picket line to protest cuts to their salaries and other benefits.
  The St. Louis Bakers Union Local 4 represents 200 employees at the plant at 6301 North Broadway.
  The contract changes cut wages and benefits by up to 32 percent, with an immediate 8 percent wage reduction, the bakers' union said. Union officials contend Hostess stopped making contributions to the workers' pensions last year, and 92 percent of union members voted to reject the contract in September. A judge in Hostess' bankruptcy ruled Hostess could impose the concessions.
  ''The BCTGM International Union stands in full and uncompromising support of our striking members,'' BCTGM International President Frank Hurt said in a statement Friday. Local union officials declined to comment. The BCTGM officials could not be reached for comment Monday.
  Twenty-three of Hostess' 36 plants had picket lines on Monday. About half of the 23 plants with picket lines were still able to produce and deliver products, said Hostess spokesman Lance Ignon. Some management and union workers who were not striking stepped in to do the work of those not crossing the picket lines.
  Hostess said a widespread strike could cause the company to liquidate all of its assets.
  ''If we're not able to resolve this issue, the company will probably liquidate everything in a matter of days,'' Ignon said of the strike. ''There's a misconception that there is a buyer set to buy Hostess. That is simply not the case. There is no white knight waiting to purchase Hostess and willing to provide better wage and compensation packages.''
  Customers in St. Louis will continue to have products shipped to the area from other Hostess bakeries, the company said.
  The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Oakland: 145 workers affected by Hostess nationwide plant closures - San Jose Mercury News
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  Click photo to enlargeHostess products are shown on Nov. 15, 2012, in Chicago. Hostess has warned striking workers with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union that it will move to liquidate the company if plant operations don't return to normal levels by this afternoon.Hostess Brands says it's going out of business after striking workers across the country crippled its ability to make its Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Wonder Bread and other snacks.
  The company had warned employees that it would file a motion with U.S. Bankruptcy Court Friday seeking permission to shutter its operations and sell assets if plants didn't resume normal operations by a Thursday evening deadline.
  The closing would mean the loss of about 18,500 jobs, 145 of which belong to workers at Oakland's Colombo Bakery, located in East Oakland near Interstate 880..
  "Many people have worked incredibly long and hard to keep this from happening, but now Hostess Brands has no other alternative than to begin the process of winding down and preparing for the sale of our iconic brands," CEO Gregory Rayburn said in a letter to employees posted on the company website. He added that all employees will eventually lose their jobs, "some sooner than others."
  David Morgan, one of 70 bakers at Oakland's Colombo Bakery, expressed optimism about the potential liquidation as he continued picketing in front of the plant, despite already knowing that he was going to lose his job.
  "I knew something like this would happen," Morgan said. "Voting no and going on strike was my only chance to voice my opinion."
  Morgan and other employees are hopeful that private investors will come forth and try to save the iconic brands so many have grown to love, and are hopeful for
  the possibility that this may not be the end."Just because the CEO makes a statement that they're going to force liquidation doesn't mean the judge is going to accept it. The judge could tell them renegotiate," Morgan said. "If not, we will get jobs. If there are no Hostess products on the shelves, the store will call others to fill the shelf space."
  Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, shuttered bakery operations at its 33 factories effective immediately and said its stores will remain open for several days to sell already packaged products. The privately held company filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in less than a decade.
  "Unfortunately, because we are in bankruptcy, there are severe limits on the assistance the (company) can offer you at this time," Rayburn wrote.
  Thousands of members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike last week after rejecting in September a contract offer that slashed wages and benefits. Hostess said Friday the company is unprofitable "under its current cost structure, much of which is determined by union wages and pension costs."
  A union representative did not immediately return a call from the Associated Press seeking comment on the company's announcement.
  The company had already reached a contract agreement with its largest union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The Teamsters had urged the bakery union this week to hold a secret ballot on whether to continue striking.
  Hostess, founded in 1930, was fighting battles beyond labor costs. Competition is increasing in the snack space and Americans are increasingly conscious about healthy eating. Hostess also makes Dolly Madison, Drake's and Nature's Pride snacks.
  Hostess had said that production at about a dozen of its plants were seriously affected by the strike. Three plants were closed earlier this week.
  In spite of company comment stating that all production would come to an immediate halt, the smell of baking sweetbread wafted through the air as the Colombo bakers marched on.
  "I believe in the union," said Margarita Robles, a 25-year company employee. "I will stay here until the last minute to see what happens after the negotiations. It's not so much a question of getting more, I just don't want anything else taken away from us"
  Staff writers Erin Ivie and Harry Harris contributed to this report.
  Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Obama: TWINKIEGATE
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  My children, you are seeing the effects of Barack and Muchelle Obama in their jihad against Americans, in the fact that Mr. Obama's thugocracy led by unions destroyed the Hostess line in their 1/3rd of the employees demanding pay increases, when the company was asking for cuts due to Obamacare.No company is going to stay in business when after funding Obamacare, EPA, OSHA and other regime mandates to end up losing money or working for minimum wage.
  The union reply was these people will find other jobs. Where will this be China? As that is what this is all Buffett about in more imported poison products from China, like that poison pet food in PETGATE exposed here.
  Hostess to close, blames striking workers
  San Jose Mercury News'Ž- 54 minutes agoHostess Brands says it s going out of business after striking workers across the country crippled its ability to make its Twinkies, Ding Dongs,What this entails in the Obama Asian Regime is a bigger scandal than ANALGATE, because this has been a conspiracy by the Obama regime, and while Obama handles the Holder and union thug angle to help the imported poison food suppliers, the reality is it is Michelle Robinson Obama who did the psychological poisoning of Americans to not buy Hostess.
  Hostess closes St. Louis plant : Stltodaywww.stltoday.com/.../hostess-closes.../article_a27e262c-ee54-5bf1-9f...3 days ago ''Hostess Brands permanently closed three bakeries Monday, including a plant in St. Louis where 365 jobs were cut, in response to a bakers' ...The evidence from Michael Bloomberg going after sugar drinks to Muchelle Obama terrorizing fat children in her crusade as Obama wolfed down cherry pies, is that the reason people stopped buying Hostess Twinkies, Cupcakes and Ding Dongs was the war on sugar.Only this blog covered the epic rise in sugar in America which was equal to the rise in gas prices. It was all from this Obama regime and all designed to drive key American industry out of business or take it over by Monsanto frankenfood products.This has all been covered here exclusively, but the reality is Asian Barry Chin, with the international unions, using Obamacare has destroyed an American Institution. No more Ho Ho's sponsoring another Amerincan institution like Charlie Brown cartoon holiday specials as Barack Hussein Obama has killed off Miss Twinkie.
  Perhaps if it was Fondle Me Elmo at PBS raping 18 year old boys behind the muppets, Obama would have kept Hostess around, but the reality is, Obama and Obama destroyed Hostess deliberately and they will continue this trend in wiping out the multi state American corporations who are a threat politically in having funds to donate to American candidates to oppose the regime.
  You now see the Obama regime in Purge Action and how they will continue to do this across the board. The companies trying to deal with Obamacare mandates who try and survive will have the unions cripple them and throw everyone on the streets as companies can not survive.
  This is all deliberate and has been planned out. The union thugs will be "taken care of" in the Obama apparatus and will do better in being on this paid vacation before Obama rewards them with new positions. This is going to advance now from Stalinist Obama as he has graduated fully from a Marxist, exactly as this blog predicted his psychological profile would devolve.
  Happy Baracksgiving and Muchelley Christmas from the Obama regime in deliberately unleashing this all for psychological effect in this psychological and worker jihad in America.
  Soros takes your American grain. Fills it with rat shit. Buffett hauls it to port. Chinese ships take it to some poison factory in Peking. Make Little Ho Ho's for Walmart. The Ho Ho's are back on a Cosco container and poisoning you as you pay Barry Chin's homeland of China to eat YOUR OWN FOOD.*rat shit is cheaper than grain and it grinds up to be hidden in flours.
  The rationed death of American companies. The murder of Miss Twinkie.
  Once again a Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive as only exposed and explained here.
  agtG 301
Dentist jailed after terrorist material and recipes to make explosives found on computer in £500k Hazel Grove house | Manchester Evening News - menmedia.co.uk
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  A dentist has been jailed for two years for having a catalogue of terrorist material on his computer.
  Dr Umer Farooq, 34, was said to have an interest in manuals on explosives, guns, poisons and unarmed combat beyond that of curiosity. He pleaded guilty to 14 counts of possessing material likely to be useful in terrorism.
  The Old Bailey was told this included copies of al-Qaeda magazine Inspire, the Terrorist Handbook Of Explosives, and other documents.
  John Sandiford, prosecuting, said the Pakistani national had been doing a two-year Masters degree course in public health at university in Wrexham, North Wales.
  He was soon to go back to Pakistan when in June police raided the £500,000 home of a family member where he was lodging in Bramhall Moor Lane, Hazel Grove.
  His computer files had been encrypted and officers were only able to access them after finding a reference in another computer.
  Timothy Green, defending, said most of the material was freely available on the internet.
  But Mr Justice Fulford said: "He had some worrying interests. He had been reading or posting terrorist-related material for some time - even such matters as records of nuclear sites in the United States.
  "He may not be a terrorist in that he has not been actively involved in terrorist acts but he is, in his interests, a fellow traveller."
  Farooq was served with deportation documents and will be sent back to Pakistan after serving his sentence.
  Detective Superintendent Mark Smith said: "We may never know the true intent behind Farooq's actions. Only he knows why he accessed materials on how to construct viable explosive devices.
  "However, I do want to reassure people that we did not discover any evidence of genuine attack-planning, nor anything to suggest that Farooq was planning to construct such a device. It might have been pure fantasy on his part for whatever reason, but I want to stress there was no threat to any of our communities.
  "I also want to make it clear that we believe Farooq was acting alone. We have no intelligence to suggest he was linked to or belonged to a terrorist cell. Equally, I want to make it absolutely clear there are no suspicions whatsoever about the family members he was staying with.
  "We must always recognise the dangers posed by the relatively easy access to these online publications which contain instructions on how to make viable explosive devices from everyday household items.
  "That is why the North West Counter Terrorism Unit will always act on credible information that extremist websites are being accessed and we will never hesitate when there is evidence of possible terrorist activity. That is the very reason we arrested Farooq when we did - there can be no delay.
  "And anyone who is found to be accessing bomb-making manuals, whether they plan to build them or just out of morbid curiosity, faces a prison sentence."
CIA Drug Profits-Russian ''Honeypot'' Spies Linked To Obama Coup
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  By:Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
  An interesting Federal Security Services (FSB) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin's firing of Deputy Defense Ministers Dmitry Chushkin and Yelena Kozlova yesterday were ''directly related'' to their actions in helping the United States uncover the full depth of the coup-plot launched against President Barack Obama by a large number of top US Military officers and their fascist backers.
  The firing of these two Deputy Defense Ministers follows in the wake of last weeks ouster by Putin of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov for his actions in allowing the release of information relating to this coup-plot to US authorities loyal to Obama from ''secure'' Russian sources having ''highly placed'' access to some of Americas top military and intelligence officials, and as we had reported on in our 6 November report ''Obama Coup Plot Slams Into Russia.''
  The ''secure'' and ''highly placed'' sources referred to in the FSB report (otherwise known as ''Honeypot Spies'') are the Lebanese twin sisters Jill (Kelley) and Natalie Khawam[photo 2nd left]whose father, John Khawam, brought with him to the United States when he emigrated from Lebanon in the 1970's.
  FSB analysts in this report state that John ''Abdul-Basir'' Khawam was a ''known asset'' of the Soviet-era Committee for State Security (KGB) whose ''Americanized'' daughters Jill and Natalie (both closely linked to top US Military and intelligence officers) were, likewise, trained by master spy Anna Vasil'yevna Kushchyenko, otherwise known as Anna Chapman.
  Kushchyenko was residing in New York when she was arrested by the Obama regime along with nine other Russian spies on 27 June 2010, on suspicion of working for the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Kushchyenko pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the US Attorney General, and was deported back to Russia on 8 July 2010, as part of a prisoner swap.
  Jill and Natalie Khawam, this report continues, were reported by the SVR to have been ''turned'' by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into counterspies and allowed to continue their assignments in the United States after Kushcyyenko's arrest, though SVR analysts, in an appended memorandum to this report, allege that both of these women continued to ''follow their assignments.''
  The Obama regime, in not trusting the CIA to properly monitor these two Honeypot Spies, this report says, led the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to assign a specialized team to watch over them headed by one of their top counter-terror agents, Frederick W. Humphries II, who uncovered the Millenium Terror Plot, in 1999, that prevented an Algerian al Qaeda member from bombing Los Angeles International Airport.
  Important to note in the Obama regime not trusting the CIA, and why Humphries (the FBI's top al Qaeda expert) was assigned to watch over these Honeypot Spies, was fully documented in the 2008 BBC's killer documentary ''The Power of Nightmares'' wherein top CIA officials openly admit, ''al-Qaeda is a total and complete fabrication, never having existed at any time.''[Note: To this date the US continues to ban this programme from being shown in America.]
  To the number of top US Military officers ousted this past month by the Obama regime for their parts in this coup-plot, this report continues, it was expanded this past week when US Army General William ''Kip'' Ward was forced to resign and Lieutenant Colonel Paula Broadwell had her home searched by the FBI and her security clearances revoked.
  This FSB report, however, states that Lieutenant Colonel Broadwell was, in fact, an FBI agent herself assigned to Humphries counter-terror team as a counter-agent whose mission was to ''explode'' the coup-plot against Obama from within. Propaganda US media reports, though, will only admit that Lieutenant Colonel Broadwell applied to the FBI 6 years ago, passed a polygraph test, and was offered an appointment.
  As we have continued to report on this growing coup-plot (including our reports ''Obama Topples Top Coup Leader After Washington Gunbattle,'' ''Obama Fires Top Admiral As Coup Plot Fears Grows'' and ''Obama Overthrow Plot Widens As US Martial Law Fears Grow'') the ouster by the Obama regime of many of its top military officers continues at an unprecedented pace.
  Likewise, the ouster this past week of the three top defense officials in Russia by Putin caught up this US coup-plot continues to astound both Russian FSB and GRU analysts.
  In order to head off even more chaos as this coup-plot continues to expand in both Russia and the United States, this report says, Putin ''unexpectedly'' called Obama Tuesday evening to invite him to the Kremlin, an invitation the American President readily accepted.
  Important to note, also, this report says, is that Obama, in an effort to placate those US Military forces still loyal to him, yesterday signed a secret Executive Order that, in essence, gives his Department of Defense near total control over the entire Internet.
  To the critical issue involved in this coup-plot, FSB analysts in this report say, are the massive profits made by the CIA through their global drug empire that are now put in danger by Obama, and now put into the forefront by the many US States that have voted, or are planning to vote, on decriminalizing marijuana.
  Former US Congressman and Presidential candidate Ron Paul has been virtually alone among all American politicians warning of the CIA's global drug empire and its dangers to the Untied States giving evidence of how for nearly a decade the CIA helped spread crack cocaine in negro ghettos, and last December (2011) warned that drug trafficking is ''a gold mine for people who want to raise money in the underground government in order to finance projects that they can't get legitimately. It is very clear that the CIA has been very much involved with drug dealings.''
  Unbeknownst to the American people about how dangerous this issue has become, is the fact that the United States government, since 1942, has held the exclusive global rights to marijuana through US Patent number: 2304669, and which they reinforced their ownership over in the months prior to the 11 September 2001 attacks with US Patent number: 6630507 which, in part, says:
  ''Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia. Nonpsychoactivecannabinoids, such as cannabidoil, are particularly advantageous to use because they avoid toxicity that is encountered with psychoactive cannabinoids at high doses useful in the method of the present invention.''
  With marijuana laws set to be abolished in the United States, and soon to follow globally, during Obama's second term, this report concludes, the battle over which part of the US government is allowed to utilize these patents now held by the CIA will very likely determine the fate of that entire nation.
  To the American people themselves, being deluded that this titanic struggle being waged is about sexual dealings by their propaganda ''mainstream'' media, the outcome couldn't be grimmer as they have, once again, become pawns in this game due to their continued, and obliging, ignorance.
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Delray Beach man gets 10 years for BoyAhoy sex chat with 'teen' - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
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  A Delray Beach man who used a web app called BoyAhoy to send steamy messages and pictures to a cop posing as a 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
  John Michael Romero Mendoza, 26, was sentenced earlier this week by Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks in West Palm Beach federal court.
  Mendoza pleaded guilty Aug. 13 to enticement. The plea came two months after his arrest at a Boca Raton shopping center in June, according to court filings.
  Mendoza's downfall began on June 6, when he began chatting with an undercover officer on a gay social networking application called BoyAhoy.
  "Hi sexy how u doing," Mendoza wrote to the officer, with the conversation heating up quickly, court documents said.
  The officer wrote back to Mendoza, saying he was 15. "I'm 18 '' 3 years. Get it hehe," the cop wrote before sending a picture of his profile page.
  "Don't be nervous sweetie," Mendoza wrote, asking about the undercover officer's genitalia. After sending a photograph of his penis, Mendoza asked "Do you like it" and "can I have ur phone #".
  The two agreed to talk by phone, with Mendoza calling the undercover cop. The two had a "sexually explicit conversation" and Mendoza said he did't "mind that you're 15," according to court documents.
  Talking later on BoyAhoy, Mendoza asked the undercover officer '-- whom he thought to be a teen '-- to ride his bike to meet him, court records say. Mendoza offered a massage and oral sex in return.
  They agreed to meet at a shopping center on Palmetto Park Road just east of Interstate 95.
  But when Mendoza arrived at the shopping center on June 7, there was no 15-year-old boy, just a few Boca Raton police officers waiting to arrest him.
  Police also noted that Mendoza's vehicle contained condoms, lubricants and pornographic magazines in plain view, according the court documents.
  After being read his rights, Mendoza admitted to sending a photograph of his penis to a person he thought was a 15-year-old boy.
  In addition to the 10-year sentence, Middlebrooks also recommended that Mendoza undergo a 500-hour drug treatment program while incarcerated and five years of supervised release after he serves his time.
  Pre-sentencing letters addressed to the judge from Mendoza's family paint a picture of a life marred by back luck and bad judgment. A former altar boy, Mendoza was a victim of bullying who fell in with the wrong crowd of people, suffered a near-fatal car crash and a long recovery, and was the primary companion and caregiver of his sick mother.
  The family members were appealing for leniency for Mendoza at his sentencing Tuesday, who was facing the prospect of spending life in prison.
  "My son, John Michael, lives with me and takes care of me," wrote Consolacion Mendoza in a letter to the judge dated Oct. 17. "When I am sick and cannot get up, he cooks, cleans and feed(s) me. He is a thoughtful, loving, kind and caring person."
  bsclarkson@tribune.com, 561-243-6609, Twitter @BrettClarkson_
Israel spy scandal politician in running for CIA director - YouTube
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  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:27
Why do Obama and Eric Holder not care about the Lebanese connections
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:40
  Now that you have thought about it........
  Jill Kelley and her twin sister Natalie Khawam grew up in the Philadelphia area, daughters of a Lebanese immigrant couple who owned a local restaurant.
  Lebanese huh? Wonder where you have heard the Osseiran connection before. Guess Mrs. Kelley only likes tasting Cuban men and not being Cuban.
  Jill Kelley Cozies Up to Marco Rubio at Fundraiser | Fox News Latinolatino.foxnews.com/.../jill-kelley-cozies-up-to-marco-rubio-at-fundra...5 hours ago '' TAMPA, FL - NOVEMBER 13: Jill Kelley leaves her home on ... also used her connections to cozy up to Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio, ...Why do Obama and Eric Holder not care about the Lebanese connections?
  agtG
Psyops Cherry Pitted Plant
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:38
  Tiger Lily informs me after a grueling day that Lame Cherry is now a psyops plant......
  A psychological operation is one in which a populace is introduced to a thought process in order to move that populace to a conclusion.
  Example: Benjamin Franklin printing up fliers to print up money to convince the population to expand money supply.
  Example: That Ugly Yank convincing South Vietnamese to vote for the American candidate.
  It is no secret this blog runs psyops tests as it is an expert in forensic psychology. It is why in 2008 the major media went wild over body language communication after this blogger explained the liberals at the Denver convention correctly and CBS put out bogus information to counter the correct information posted here.
  Psyops are designed to persuade on various triggers, based on primal facts, but not sound reasoning.
  This popular girl attracts a great deal of attention by having a private conversation here. The problem being why is it in proven facts, why do the cartel lords and priests care so much what takes place here, if Lame Cherry is working for them?Would I not be like Alex Jones, Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh etc... in having no Chris Matthews problems with emails, veins in my eyes exploding, if I was one of them?
  It is always an interesting study the "reaction" from the monkeys when they discover Lame Cherry in the weeds, in some scream loudly upon finding the blog using their limited views. Interesting in the new monkeys are posting this blog is Obamite, when this blog is the one which stopped Mr. Obama.
  If one couches accusations in intelligence, then one fears their own intelligence.If one couches their point in psychology, then one fears psychological manipulation.If one couches their point in gender, then one fears that gender.
  My children, I suppose I should not have told you that as now you will be reading Ulsterman and all the other posts about this popular girl in a new light, and now diagnosing for yourselves what psychosis the detractors are revealing.
  Perhaps, you too are learning to be forensic psychologists and will see how this all operates beyond the always experts.
  Interesting is it not, what eh, in Baby and the Plasmas are really focused on the women and the complaint this blog had about Obama in all his crimes as there were no women to make his scandals interesting.
  See the dangerously powerful people operating behind the scenes do amuse themselves with this blog, and they do perform for me in thinking my ideas are their own. Yes Lame Cherry did assist in constructing the psychological dimensions of the Patraeus and Allen romp by manipulating the minds of the elite as that is where the amusement is.There is no amusement in manipulating the monkeys as it is far too easy.
  Lame Cherry21 seconds ago '' 3 hours ago '' They took the Lame Cherry and brought in the girls. I told you Obama crimes have no women and why they are not interesting. I would prefer someone accusing me of being a psychological operation conducted by God planted here in this weed patch to attempt to save my children from satan's demise plotted for them.Never has been a secret what this blog is about. It fills in the gaps to entertain the children until Prophesy is so apparent it can not be denied.
  I have a solution for the ants at my picnic. Donate to the blog 750,000 dollars, and if the Lord wills, I will go off with Tiger Lily away from all of this and leave you to Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh and whatever other flavors who never manipulate you.
  That sounds extremely fair in my being so dangerous.......in knowing exactly where you reside, what you are doing right now and what your next thoughts will be.
  Yes you are uncomfortable and in denial, questioning how I could know that, and you do not want to believe I have such power.
  America is finished. The remnant remains to be pulled down. Is it better to wait for the Obama time line or to progress it on your time line?Answer the question my monkeys, tick tock, tick tock.
  Nom de Deiu, if you can not quickly answer the obvious, then how can you discern the complexity of the Lame Cherry.
  That is rhetorical my monkeys as now everyone is reading your posted thoughts analyzing just what is being revealed in them.
  Last week I was accused of being Webster Tarpley.
  Oh and for those interfering with this blog, if you had any God relevant sense, you would be afraid, as the demons and the minions are in monitoring what takes place here, as fear is what drives the attention. If what was here, did not matter, they would not attempt to hinder what takes place here.
  Tools of satan come in uninspired forms. Those who know this blog are of God and those who do not are not of God.
  agtG 307Y, God really does pay attention to all what is said.
Thread: Seamless + NYMag reviews
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  Source: Dave Winer's linkblog feed
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 03:03
  When I'm looking for a restaurant in NY, I often turn to New York Magazine's reviews because they are concise and when they pick a restaurant it's usually pretty good, imho of course.
  But, when it's time to order a delivery, and having food delivered is a way of life in NYC, I'm stuck using the reviews at Seamless or Delivery. Let me just say that the tastes of their users and mine are not the same. I'd much rather eat food from NYMag-recommended restaurants.
  So could we please have a melding of good criticism and a great commerce website? Integration would be fantastic, not only with restaurants but with movie listings. I like to use movies.google.com. Unfortunately the reviewers they link to from each movie are, again, not my favorites. For that I go to the NY Times, mostly. I'm learning to use other sources now that I have a movies river, thanks to NakedJen's recommendations of movie review sites, and an evening I spent browsing around a month ago.
  Hey why not hook in Amazon's recommendation engine. That's what Chris Dixon and Caterina Fake were working on at Hunch. "Here are some nearby restaurants we bet you'd like." You gotta know the world is going that way.
  I guess the bottom line is there's still a lot of integration to do among the various data sources on the net.
  PS: Don't forget OpenTable. :-)
  PPS: One more thing -- can we get an RSS feed for Frank Rich's columns. It's a serious omission. Thanks. :-)
Sen. Saxby Chambliss gives insight into closed-door Benghazi briefing; terrorist attack 'crystal clear' on Day 1
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  Source: Twitchy » US Politics
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:39
  When Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss emerged from today's closed-door sessions for lawmakers on the events in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, Fox News cameras were waiting. Among the insight that Chambliss was willing to share was that those involved knew immediately that the assault on the U.S. consulate and CIA annex was a premeditated terrorist attack.
  So, if it was obvious from Day 1 that the attack didn't arise from a ''spontaneous'' protest over a YouTube video, how does that explain Amb. Susan Rice's many Sunday morning appearances repeating that theory?
  That's the question we'd all like to hear answered, but it seems we'll have to wait a bit longer.
  What about the emerging story that the CIA was holding Libyan prisoners at the annex in Benghazi '-- a story which was spread by David Petraeus biographer Paula Broadwell at a speech in Denver and emerged in the wake of his resignation over their affair?
  Petraeus is scheduled to testify tomorrow morning. That session will be closed to the public, but hopefully cameras will be waiting outside the door; we've waited long enough already for answers.
US Awaits Possible Russian Retaliation Over Magnitsky Act
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  Source: RIA Novosti
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:38
  WASHINGTON, November 16 (By Carl Schreck for RIA Novosti) - The White House has been less than enthusiastic about proposed legislation in the US Congress linking normalized trade relations with Russia to the so-called ''Magnitsky Act,'' a bill aimed at punishing Russian officials suspected of corruption.
  But with the combined bill expected to be passed by the US House of Representatives on Friday'--and the US Senate expected to give its stamp of approval after that'--President Barack Obama is expected to sign it into law anyway.
  The question in Washington now is: What's Russia going to do about it?
  US officials, lawmakers and business lobbies are broadly united in their consensus that enacting permanent normalized trade relations (PNTR) with Russia will provide a boost for American exporters.
  But the decision to link PNTR to the Magnitsky Act, named for a whistleblowing lawyer who died in a Moscow jail three years ago, has angered top Russian officials, who accuse the United States of meddling in their country's internal affairs.
  The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday vowed to ''react toughly'' to this ''this unfriendly provocative act,'' but it remains unclear exactly what this reaction will be and what impact it might have on bilateral ties.
  The most ''unfortunate outcome'' would be a Russian response that ''disrupts US-Russian economic relations,'' said Cliff Kupchan, head of the Russia and CIS team at Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy in New York City.
  ''If Russia responds with some proportionate blacklist of its own, my view is that the issue will be contained,'' Kupchan said. ''If Russia responds with an extremely expansive bill based on multiple criteria, it would negatively affect relations.''
  The bill to go before the House of Representatives on Friday would deny visas to'--and freeze the assets of'--officials suspected of involvement in Magnitsky's death and other alleged human rights abuses.
  The Obama administration has maintained that the US government already has mechanisms in place to punish such individuals and has tried in vain to keep the Magnitsky bill separate from the PNTR issues.
  Russia joined the World Trade Association (WTO) in August, and as a fellow WTO member, the United States must normalize trade relations with Russia in order to allow American businesses to fully capitalize on opportunities in the Russian market.
  These advantages could be diminished by punitive bureaucratic measures targeting US companies doing business in Russia as a response to the Magnitsky Act, Carroll Colley, a Washington-based analyst for Eurasia Group, wrote in an essay published Thursday on the Foreign Policy website.
  The measures could include ''unannounced tax inspections of U.S. companies, delayed or denied licensing or registration procedures, and other bureaucratic complications,'' Colley wrote.
  Human rights have long been an issue in US relations with the Soviet Union and Russia, and it would be unrealistic for anyone to expect this to change anytime soon, James Collins, a former US ambassador to Russia under President Bill Clinton, told RIA Novosti.
  ''The real question is whether the two governments can find reasonably effective ways to manage both the places where we agree and where we disagree,'' Collins said. ''Or they don't, and instead let this become a disruptive part of the relationship.''
Blog: Vivid dreams.
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  Source: Dave Winer
  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:02
  Something switched over for me recently, wish I knew what it was -- but I'm not spending as much time writing code. Instead I'm writing blog posts and hanging out, reading and doing a lot of sleeping. And because there's been so much sleep there's been a lot of dreams. And sometimes I remember little bits of dreams that at the time I thought were interesting or profound.
  It seems significant when the narrator in my dream is my father. I wonder later if this is just my version of him inside me, or if there's some method of communication between the subconscious and the dead.
  Sometimes it freaks me out that people in my dream see things about me that I don't myself see, in the dream. How could this be, I wonder -- because the other people are really me. It's as if my subconscious has written a play that my conscious self knows nothing about.
  And lately my dreams have had a long-gone lover in them, and we're re-living the agonizing last days of our relationship. I woke this morning with a real, sad, and unhappy question. What if this was the love of your life, and you didn't know it then.
  We say "no regrets" so casuallly, but is life anything but regrets?
  And then I had a mathematical dream, wondering if time travel would be so entertaining to us if we hadn't invented awkward language for time that suggests that it could possibly be a two-direction thing.
  Stories about time travel are fun, probably because we live with so much with regret. What if there were the possibility of going back and doing it again, knowing what you know now. When you're young you don't even know what that idea means. It's not like life imparts all that much wisdom, no -- it's what you know about yourself that matters. This was the big one Dave. We know that now. Be more loving, more caring -- spend the time to avoid misunderstanding. Don't give up so easy. Or give up easier. Try something else because what you did the first time around didn't work. If only. If only life were like programming, where you could do it three or four times, each time learning from what you did wrong and choosing not to do it again. Or if I could travel back in time and have a talk with those two young people and find out what's really in their hearts. Force them together in an embrace so they can talk love instead of hurt.
  It doesn't get any less confusing. But as you go forward things are done, they're finished. Books are closed and life goes on -- until it doesn't.
  I can still tell the stories about the people I miss, the loves of my life who are no more. The friends who are gone, the people who are just stories now, just actors in my dreams.
  Apparently I have more important work right now that writing new code. :-)
BBC News - Dave Lee Travis arrested on suspicion of sexual offences
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No More Skipping Your Medicine -- FDA Approves First Digital Pill - Forbes
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  Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:45
  Approved by the FDA, a sand-sized chip sends a signal via cell phone to doctors to let them know when and if medication was taken.
  The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a device that is integrated into pills and let's doctors know when patients take their medicine '' and when they don't. Adherence to prescriptions is a serious problem, as about half of all patients don't take medications the way they're supposed to. But with patients doctors now becoming big brother, that statistic could change drastically.
  The device, made by Proteus Digital Health, is a silicon chip about the size of a sand particle. With no battery and no sensor, it is powered by the body itself. The chip contains small amounts of copper and magnesium. After being ingested the chip will interact with digestive juices to produce a voltage that can be read from the surface of the skin through a detector patch, which then sends a signal via mobile phone to inform the doctor that the pill has been taken. Sensors on the chip also detect heart rate and can estimate the patient's amount of physical activity. More than just a way for doctors to look over their patients' shoulders, it will allow doctors to better assess if a person is responding to a given dose, or if that dose needs to be adjusted.
  After clinical trials that began in 2009, the FDA approval follows approval from European regulatory approval in August 2010. Right now the FDA has only approved the chip for placebo pills, which were used in trials showing the chip to be safe and highly accurate. Proteus hopes to gain approval to use the digestible chip with other medicines. Andrew Thompson, chief executive of Proteus, says the chip has already been tested with treatments for tuberculosis, mental health, heart failure, hypertension, and diabetes.
  The company is currently working with makers of metformin, a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes and the most commonly prescribed drug in the world. The company also plans on adding a wireless glucose meter to their device so that dosage amount and frequency can be correlated with changes in blood glucose levels.
  The FDA approval could foster the development and approval of other ingestible sensors.
  They would also like to digitize the drugs taken to treat neurological disorders. Disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Huntington's Disease often require patients to receive drugs regularly '' sometimes several times per day '' and for extended periods of time. Ensuring that these patients are adhering to the prescribed regimen could greatly improve quality of life for some.
  Transplant patients, who often have to take immunosuppressive drugs for long periods following surgery, could also potentially benefit from digitizing their medicine.
  Ingestible body sensors have been discussed for a while now, but Proteus' digital pills are the first ingestible sensor to be approved by the FDA, according to Nature. This first step toward regulated ingestible sensors will undoubtedly be followed by others. The Programmable Bio-Nano-Chip developed by Rice University scientists can detect heart disease or cancer from a saliva sample. If the chips were ever permanently implanted into the body, they could provide an early alarm system for these diseases long before symptoms are detected by the patient. Scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston are developing a pill-sized robot that is remotely powered by an MRI machine to swim through the gut and look for the molecular signs of gastrointestinal cancer.
  The first demonstration involved a placebo, but surely drug companies are eager to digitize their pills '' and make sure patients empty out their prescriptions when they're supposed to. Although possible, it is hard to imagine a complication would arise when the device is used with, say, Lipitor, that did not arise with the placebo. The usual FDA bottleneck could be loosened with the first incorporation into a bonafide drug.
  The possible uses for ingestible sensors is as varied as the body itself. As with computer chips, ingestible chips will follow the exponential path of Moore's Law and be able to sense more with less in the future. The FDA ruling could do much to get the technology on the fast track.
  [image credits: Nature and Proteus Digital Health]images: Nature and Proteus Digital Health
David Petraeus Scandal - CIA Drone Attacks
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  Source: Dave Winer's linkblog feed
  Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:15
  David Petraeus's sex scandal isn't the real scandal. Petraeus did what other figures like him have done '-- only they never had the same capacity to execute hundreds of people.
  ''I hear that Petraeus likes it,'' a source told me. ''I hear he likes to be in the room when it happens.''
  He wasn't talking about sex. He was talking to me a good six months before the revelation of the affair between General David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, and so he wasn't commenting on Petraeus's bedroom enthusiasms. He was talking, instead, about killing. He was talking about drones. He was relaying a rumor, which is why I never used his comment in the story that I was writing about ''The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama.'' I repeat it here to provide context for the ongoing discussion of what was at stake not just in the fall of David Petraeus but also in his rise '-- for the ongoing journalistic enterprise of finding ''the real scandal'' underneath the scandal of one 60 year-old man's affair with a younger woman.
  A kind of consensus has emerged in the last few days among purveyors of sophisticated analysis charged with writing about David Petraeus. The sex scandal is not the real scandal. The real scandal is either the combination of prurience and priggishness that drives men of competence and talent out of positions of public responsibility because of their private behavior, or the fact that ''private behavior'' barely exists anymore, given the ease with which the FBI sought and received access to the personal email correspondence of Broadwell and Petraeus.
  I agree that these ''real scandals'' are scandals indeed, and cause for ongoing concern about the health of the republic. But they are not the real scandal. In yesterday's iteration of his ongoing online conversation with Gail Collins, David Brooks said that Petraeus ''didn't do anything that the legendary C.I.A. director Allen Dulles didn't do dozens of times over. Dulles had an affair with a member of the royal family of a foreign government, for crying out loud.''
  This is an inapt comparison. For while Petraeus might have done what Dulles did, in committing a sexual indiscretion, Dulles didn't have the capacity to do what Petraeus did. He didn't have the capacity to transform the CIA into a paramilitary organization distinctive for its lethality and lack of accountability '-- the killing machine that spearheads the Lethal Presidency. He didn't have the capacity to order, and then preside over, the executions of hundreds of people.
  Petraeus did, until the revelations of his affair. After President Obama '-- and perhaps White House counterterrorism advisor William Brennan and Special Ops panjandrum William McRaven '-- Petraeus was the primary driver of a policy that has established killing as the option of first resort in the war against Al-Qaeda and its proxies. He did not institute the data-driven ''signature strikes'' that have become the CIA's specialty, but he clashed with the State Department over them, and he was relentless in his efforts to make sure that the inherently expansive Lethal Presidency kept expanding. The revelation that President Obama managed a ''kill list'' from the Oval Office rightly drew a great deal of attention; but just as remarkable were the killings in which the President had no direct hand. It has been estimated that the White House has ordered about a third of the targeted killings that have taken place under the Obama Administration; the rest have come at the behest of JSOC and the CIA. The President was consulted about the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, and ordered it to be carried out on September 30, 2011; apparently he was not consulted about the drone strike that two weeks later killed al-Awlaki's son Abdulrahman, a 16-year-old American citizen never associated with terrorism.
  From the beginning, the architects of the Lethal Presidency have justified their ownership of the power of life and death by promising that they will use the power reluctantly, wisely, dispassionately, with precision and restraint. Indeed, they have claimed nearly superhuman powers of discrimination to counterbalance the power they have come to possess, to the extent that nothing could be more threatening to their power than the entrance of unruly human passions. Americans ambivalent about the prerogatives of the Lethal Presidency might experience a moment of unwelcome clarity if they found out that the President was killing people out of political expediency; they should feel no less uncomfortable now that they've found out that David Petraeus was killing people while also trying to extend his sexual potency.
  In truth, we upped the moral ante on the executive branch when we gave it the power to kill people unilaterally and in secret. The media's deification of General David Petraeus turned out to be wishful thinking, a collective psychological projection necessary to allow him to keep killing without answering questions. He couldn't be human, because we gave him inhuman powers. Now he turns out to be very human indeed; now he turns out, in more ways than one, to have ''liked it.'' It is not a titillating revelation but rather a horrifying one, for to understand how deeply David Petraeus was embedded with the Lethal Presidency we need only look at the scorecard:
  To the best of our knowledge, the United States has carried out no drone strikes since his fall.
BREAKING: Israel Under Attack '' Missiles Hit Tel Aviv
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  Source: The Ulsterman Report
  Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:57
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