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Researchers Claim To Have Sequenced Bigfoot DNA | Sci-Tech Today
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  Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:52
  A Texas veterinarian says she and fellow genetic researchers have confirmed the existence of "Bigfoot," though their findings have yet to pass peer review.Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, founder of DNA Diagnostics Inc. in the eastern Texas town of Timpson, said she and her team spent five years on their study of purported Bigfoot hair and concluded they have confirmed the existence of a hominin hybrid species, the legendary creature commonly called "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch," living in North America.
  There have been frequent-but-unsubstantiated claims of Bigfoot sightings over the years, including some grainy film clips.
  In a release posted on the company's Web site Saturday, the researchers say their DNA sequencing suggests the animal is a human relative that developed about 15,000 years ago as a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens with an unknown primate species.
  Ketchum said her team has sequenced three complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and concluded the species is a human hybrid.
  "Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next generation sequencing to obtain three whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples," she said in the release. "The genome sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA is a novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate species.
  "Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens."
  Genetic testing has already ruled out Homo neanderthalis and the Denisova hominin as contributors to Sasquatch mtDNA or nuDNA, she said.
  "The male progenitor that contributed the unknown sequence to this hybrid is unique as its DNA is more distantly removed from humans than other recently discovered hominins like the Denisovan individual," Ketchum said.
  "Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected. While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic of human and novel non-human sequence."
  She said further study is needed to "better characterize and understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA."
  Ketchum, who describes herself as a veterinarian with 27 years experience in genetics research, including forensics, wants public officials and law enforcement to recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous people.
  "Genetically, the Sasquatch are a human hybrid with unambiguously modern human maternal ancestry," she said. "Government at all levels must recognize them as an indigenous people and immediately protect their human and constitutional rights against those who would see in their physical and cultural differences a 'license' to hunt, trap or kill them."
  (C) 2012 United Press International under contract with YellowBrix. All rights reserved.
ACARS CONFIRMED - 9/11 AIRCRAFT AIRBORNE LONG AFTER CRASH
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  ACARS CONFIRMED - 9/11 AIRCRAFT AIRBORNE LONG AFTER CRASHUNITED 175 IN THE VICINITY OF HARRISBURG AND PITTSBURGH, PA
  (PilotsFor911Truth.org) - Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) is a device used to send messages to and from an aircraft. Very similar to text messages and email we use today, Air Traffic Control, the airline itself, and other airplanes can communicate with each other via this "texting" system. ACARS was developed in 1978 and is still used today. Similar to cell phone networks, the ACARS network has remote ground stations installed around the world to route messages from ATC, the airline, etc, to the aircraft depending on it's location and vice versa. ACARS Messages have been provided through the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) which demonstrate that the aircraft received messages through ground stations located in Harrisburg, PA, and then later routed through a ground station in Pittsburgh, 20 minutes after the aircraft allegedly impacted the South Tower in New York. How can messages be routed through such remote locations if the aircraft was in NY, not to mention how can messages be routed to an aircraft which allegedly crashed 20 minutes earlier? Pilots For 9/11 Truth have briefly touched on this subject in 9/11: Intercepted through the excellent research of "Woody Box", who initially discovered such alarming information in the released FOIA documents(1). We now have further information which confirms the aircraft was not in the vicinity of New York City when the attacks occurred.
  These are the 'text' (ACARS) messages in question -
  The format for these messages is pretty straight forward. To limit the technical details, we will explain the most important parts of the messages, however, for full Message Block Format Code standards, click here. The remote ground station (MDT in the message below) used to route the message to the aircraft, the time and date in which the message is sent (111259, meaning the 11th of Sept, at 1259Z or 0859 Eastern), the flight number (UA175), and the tail number of the airplane in which the message is intended (N612UA), are all highlighted in red. The underlined date and time is when the message was received by the airplane.
  This message was sent on Sept 11, at 1259Z (8:59AM Eastern) to United Flight 175, tail number N612UA, routed through the MDT remote ground station (Harrisburg International Airport, also known as Middleton).
  DDLXCXA SFOLM CHI58R SFOFRSAM.SFOLMUA 111259/JERCMDAN N612UA/GL MDT- QUSFOLMUA 1UA175 BOSLAXI HEARD OF A REPORTED INCIDENT ABOARD YOUR ACFT. PLZ VERIFY ALLIS NORMAL....THX 777SAMSFOLM JERRY TSEN
  ;09111259 108575 0543
  This message was sent on Sept 11, at 1303Z (9:03AM Eastern, the time of the crash) to United Flight 175, tail number N612UA, routed through the MDT remote ground station (Harrisburg International Airport, also known as Middleton).
  DDLXCXA CHIAK CH158R.CHIAKUA 111303/EDCMDAN N612UA/GL MDT- QUCHIYRUA 1UA175 BOSLAX- MESSAGE FROM CHIDD -HOW IS THE RIDE. ANY THING DISPATCH CAN DO FOR YOU...CHIDD ED BALLINGER
  ;09111303 108575 0545
  This message was also sent on Sept 11, at 1303Z (9:03AM Eastern, the time of the crash) to United Flight 175, tail number N612UA, routed through the MDT remote ground station (Harrisburg International Airport, also known as Middleton).
  DDLXCXA CHIYR CH158R.CHIYRUA 111303/ADCMDAN N612UA/GL MDT- QUCHIYRUA 1UA175 BOSLAX- MESSAGE FROM CHIDD -NY APROACH LOOKIN FOR YA ON 127.4CHIDD AD ROGERS
  ;09111303 108575 0546
  This message was sent on Sept 11, at 1323Z (9:23AM Eastern, 20 minutes after the time of the crash) to United Flight 175, tail number N612UA, routed through the PIT remote ground station (Pittsburgh International Airport).
  DDLXCXA CHIAK CH158R.CHIAKUA DA 111323/EDCMDAN N612UA/GL PIT- QUCHIYRUA 1UA175BOSLAX- MESSAGE FROM CHIDD -/BEWARE ANY COCKPIT INTROUSION: TWO AIRCAFT IN NY . HIT TRADE CNTER BUILDS...CHIDD ED BALLINGER
  ;09111323 108575 0574
  If one references the standard message block codes linked above, you will notice that a "Technical Acknowledgement" section should be present in ACARS messages. What this means, is that the ACARS system can confirm if the sent 'text' messages have been received or not without requiring any crew input to manually acknowledge the message was received. Similar to an email which may have bounced back, or your cell phone telling you that your text message failed to send, this automatic technical acknowledgement would let the reader know the message failed receipt, or if it were received. An ACK or NAK should be present denoting received or failed, respectively, according to standard message formats. Unfortunately, these standard codes are not available in the above messages. However, according to a Memorandum For The Record(2) quoting United Dispatcher Ed Ballinger, the second time stamp on the bottom of the message, at United Airlines, is the "Technical Acknowledgement" from the airplane that the message has been received -
  Mr. Ballinger stated that the ACARS messages have two times listed: the time sent and the time received. He stated that once he sends the message it is delivered to the addressed aircraft through AIRINC immediately. He is not aware of any delay in the aircraft receiving the message after he sends it.
  According to the above statement made by Mr. Ballinger, all of the above messages were received by the aircraft.
  The 9/11 Commission has claimed which messages have been received by the aircraft. According to a another Memorandum For The Record (MFR), four ACARS messages were sent between 8:59AM and 9:03AM on the morning of Sept 11, to United Flight 175. The MFR reads as follows(3) -
  1259:19Z A dispatcher-initiated message that reached the plane but not crew acknowledged stating "I heard of a reported incident."1259:29 Additional dispatcher-initiated message1259:30 Additional dispatcher-initiated message1303:17 Rogers-initiated message not received by the aircraft
  The first message at 1259:19Z, as stated, was received by the aircraft, but not crew acknowledged, which is not required as technical acknowledgements are automatic. This is referring to the message noted above sent through MDT by Jerry TSEN (First coded ACARS message at top). The second (1259:29Z) and third messages (1259:30Z) referenced in the MFR were not provided through the FOIA. The last message (1303:17Z) referenced in the MFR is claimed to not have been received by the aircraft according to the 9/11 Commission. However, all we have is their word, which contradicts the statement made by Ballinger and the Technical Acknowledgement time stamp. The coded Rogers initiated ACARS message is included above, third from the top. Of course, the 9/11 Commission cannot admit if the last message was received by the airplane as that would immediately indicate to anyone that the airplane did not crash into the South Tower at 09:03am.
  It is interesting to note that the Commission ignores the 9:03am ACARS message sent by Ed Ballinger routed through MDT (second ACARS message printed above), yet claims the 9:03am message sent by Rogers as not being received. Based on sequential numbers of the messages themselves, it is clear Ballinger's 9:03 message was sent before the Rogers message (0545 for Ballinger message, 0546 for Rogers, printed on bottom of the message), yet the Commission ignores Ballinger's message. Why would they ignore Ballinger's message, yet acknowledge Rogers? Is it because Ballinger's message was received by the airplane and they realized that an aircraft cannot receive an ACARS message at that distance and such low altitude? This message is more evidence the aircraft was in the vicinity of Harrisburg, and not NY. At least 3 ACARS messages were routed through MDT between 8:59 and 9:03am, and received by the airplane, according to the technical acknowledgement time stamps at the bottom of the messages.
  The last message sent at 9:23AM, routed through Pittsburgh, has been completely ignored by the 9/11 Commission as well. Although important to know whether the messages were received, it is equally if not more important to understand how they are routed, received or not.
  ACARS Networks are based on ARINC Standards for communications in the United States. ARINC is a provider of the communication protocol for ACARS networking. As ACARS networks are to Cell Phones, think of ARINC as perhaps a Verizon or AT&T. When a message is sent from the aircraft, or the ground, the message needs to be routed through remote ground stations as described above. Many remote ground stations (RGS) are located throughout the world. Here is a diagram of some of the stations located in the Northeast USA.
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  Comprehensive List Of ACARS Remote Ground Stations Worldwide - scribd source link - Page 100
  If you get on an airplane in say Chicago, headed for NY, you turn off your cell phone and off you go. When you arrive in NY, you turn on your cell phone and see you have a message waiting. Was this message routed through a cell tower in Chicago? No, you would never receive it, nor be alerted that you have a message waiting. It is routed through a cell tower in NY. How does the cell network know where you are?
  Although not exactly the same, but similar to how cell phones track your phone based on location, choosing the best cell towers to route messages to your phone, ACARS networks track the aircraft in flight and know where the aircraft is in order to route messages to the aircraft (or vice versa) through the best remote stations on the ground. When a message is sent from the ground or in flight, it is routed through a Central Processing System. This system determines the best routing to a ground station based on the aircraft location. Two types of flight tracking (or flight following) protocols are used for this process. Category A and B(5).
  First is Category A. This type of flight following uses Flight Tracking messages automatically sent from the aircraft, typically every 10 minutes. These messages are a data link and do not contain any text, therefore the customer airline does not receive these messages, they are used for Flight Tracking purposes only. When the Flight Tracking message is sent, the Central Processing System (CPS) recognizes which stations it has been sent through and picks the three best stations for routing messages to and from the aircraft. After roughly 10 minutes, another Flight Tracking message is sent from the aircraft, through a new set of ground stations in the vicinity of it's new location, and the Central Processing System dumps the old stations and replaces it with new stations better for routing messages to the aircraft. This process continues throughout the flight automatically.
  The second type of Flight Tracking, Category B, is a bit more simple. The aircraft continuously monitors all stations as it travels on it's course. The Central Processing System continuously chooses the best station for routing purposes while the aircraft is in flight. If the flight plan route is amended in flight, and a diversion is necessary, the Central Processing System chooses a new remote ground station along the diverted flight path based on this flight tracking protocol, tracking the aircraft.
  The reason for this type of flight tracking, Category A and B, is due to the fact aircraft divert from their flight plans all the time, daily. Some have argued that MDT and PIT were chosen for ground station routing due to the original planned route of flight, BOS to LAX. However, if ACARS routing was based on original flight planned route, aircraft diverting from their original route of flight would not be able to communicate via ACARS as they would quickly leave the areas in which remote ground stations have been chosen, rendering the network useless for the airline, and most importantly, the aircraft. On 9/11 especially, many aircraft were diverted from their original flight plans. If the ACARS network was solely based on flight planned route, 100's if not thousands of aircraft, would not have been able to communicate with their company and/or ATC via ACARS. Chaos would have ensued as ACARS communication is a valuable asset to facilitate aircraft operations and flight safety, and the skies would never have been cleared as quickly as reported.
  Some have further gone on to speculate that United Airlines Dispatchers routed the messages themselves based on flight planned route. Flight Tracking protocol as described renders this argument moot as the Dispatcher does not have control over ARINC routing of ACARS messages through remote ground stations. This type of premise is the equivalent of saying that when you call someone from your cell phone, you have the capability to choose which cell tower around the world you want your call to be routed. It's absurd. But for the sake of argument, we will explore this hypothesis.
  Dispatch Operations Centers monitor flight tracking of the aircraft in near real time on an Airspace Situational Display (ASD). The United Airlines ASD is refreshed every 60 seconds according to another Memorandum For The Record released by the 9/11 Commission(4)
  When asked about the technical capabilities of the ASD (airspace situational display) program used by the dispatchers on their monitors to track planes, all United representatives conferred that the program's display refreshes every 60 seconds.
  .....
  McCurdy recollected that at the time of the crash into tower 2, the display on Ballenger's monitor still showed UAL 175 at 31,000 ft, having just deviated from the normal flight plan and heading into a big turn back east.
  The reason Dispatchers have an ASD is due to the fact the aircraft across the globe deviate from their cleared flight plans daily due to weather, traffic, etc. With an ASD, Dispatchers can keep track of their flights and alert for weather (or other adverse conditions) along the route. Even if Dispatchers had the capability to choose which specific ground station to route a message, why would they choose MDT and then later PIT if the aircraft is diverting back to the east on their monitors? The answer is, they wouldn't. The hypothesis that Remote Ground Station routing is based on original flight plan is completely absurd and usually attempted by only those who obviously are not interested in the facts, instead need to speculate to hold onto their beliefs. As described, the Central Processing System routes messages through remote ground stations based on Flight Tracking Protocol(5).
  These are the ACARS remote ground station locations as compared with the flight path of United 175, including the diversion from the flight planned route due to the alleged "hijacking". An overlay of the RADES Radar data, also provided through FOIA, has been included to show the location of the Target Aircraft (TA) for the time when the first message was sent through Harrisburg. PA (MDT) and received by the aircraft, at 08:59:AM.
  "Converged with Target Aircraft" radar track showing where the tracks actually converge with "UA175" can be viewed in 9/11 Intercepted, or here based on the RADES Radar Data provided through FOIA(Click Image To Enlarge)
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  Distances from the Target Aircraft to the relative Remote Ground Stations (RGS) are included.
  As you can see, there are many stations surrounding the Target Aircraft which are much closer to the aircraft than MDT out in Harrisburg, PA. Twelve stations to be exact,
  1. ABE2. EWR3. MMU4. JFK5. LGA6. TEB7. PHL8. HPN9. ISP10. ILG11. ACY12. AVP
  All of which are nearly half the distance to the Target Aircraft than MDT is presently at 08:59 AM.
  There is no possible reason for the Central Processing System (CPS) to have chosen MDT for routing purposes based on Flight Tracking protocol described above, if this Target Aircraft truly were United Flight 175, N612UA. The twelve other stations would have had to been skipped over, and for some reason the CPS chose MDT way out in Pennsylvania. Another argument (read: speculation) is that all those other stations were "congested" at the time which is why the CPS chose MDT. First, in order for this to be true, all those stations would have to be "congested" at least four times over. As demonstrated by the MFR referenced above, as many as 4 messages were routed through MDT. What are the odds that all 12 ground stations were "congested" each and every time? This argument, if not absurd, is moot as when the CPS determines the best ground station based on flight tracking protocol, the message is placed into a queue routed through the best station and then sent in the order it was received. ACARS messages are not very large in terms of bytes. Multiple messages can be sent in less than a second. It is logical to queue the messages at a remote ground station which is closer to the aircraft than to route a message through a ground station much further away in which the aircraft may not receive based on distance and altitude. Ground stations can send messages up to 200 miles, but this is only guaranteed if the aircraft is above 29,000 feet, as stated in the MFR sourced above.
  When asked how the ACARS network chooses a Remote Ground Station for routing messages to an aircraft, FDR, Radar, ACARS Expert and Electrical Engineer Dennis Cimino had this to say,
  The aircraft are constantly in contact with whatever ground station is nearest to it, more or less in 'data link' mode, sending acknowledgements back and forth. In cases where multiple stations on the ground are within range, the dropped packet numbers decide which ground station gets the priority. not as sophisticated as N.T.D.S. (naval tactical data systems) but pretty close to that.
  On a more 'system' level, the ground stations are more or less in spread spectrum constant transmit mode like cell phones now use, so they won't step on each other continually. when an aircraft receiver's MDS (minimum discernible signal) sensitivity is achieved or reached out of the 'tangential' noise floor level, the aircraft's receiver then begins to try to data frame sync with the ground. then once that happens and two way 'ping pong' as data link persons refer to it, happens, then any queued messages get shipped to the receiving system and data relative to the aircraft's flight get sent back down to the ground.
  This corroborates the Flight Tracking Protocol as outlined above based on a July 2002 Newsletter published by ARINC titled The Global Link(5).
  Now that it is understood there were many ground stations which should have been chosen by the CPS before routing messages through MDT, why would the Central Processing System ever choose PIT as the next ground station for routing purposes if the aircraft was being tracked by the ACARS network to NYC? The answer is, it wouldn't.
  It is possible all messages can be fabricated, but that would attract multiple felony charges as well considering the information was provided through the Freedom Of Information Act and used as evidence to support the claims made by the 9/11 Commission. Pilots For 9/11 Truth encourage readers to contact an ARINC Specialist in your area to confirm or refute the above evidence offered. Contact information for an ARINC office near you can be located through a simple google search. Feel free to direct them to this site and article.
  Based on Flight Tracking protocol, the only reason the Central Processing System would choose to route messages through the ground stations located at MDT, then later PIT, over the numerous ground stations much closer and surrounding NYC, is due to the aircraft being in the vicinity of MDT, and then later, PIT. This means that the aircraft observed to strike the south tower, was not United 175.
  "Converging Aircraft " radar tracks showing the targets converging can be viewed in9/11 Intercepted, or here based on the RADES Radar Data provided through FOIA(Click Image To Enlarge)
  All aircraft converging above can be viewed in the RADES Data or 9/11: Intercepted
  This evidence strengthens previous evidence uncovered by Pilots For 9/11 Truth that a standard 767 cannot remain in control, stable or hold together at the speeds reported by the NTSB for the South Tower aircraft(6). So, if UA175 was somewhere out in Pennsylvania when an aircraft was observed to strike the south tower, and a standard 767 cannot perform at such excessive speeds as reported, then where did the airplane come from which was observed to strike the South Tower? That is a great question and the reason we are still here after 10 years attempting to get answers for the day that changed our world, and will never go away until those questions are answered.
  Send this evidence to your Congress Representative, your Senators, Judges, Lawyers, print it out and hand it to your pilots when boarding a flight (Pilots love reading material while in cruise). Call into talk shows, tell them about this evidence. Grab our DVD's and make copies, hand them to friends, family, co-workers, etc. Demand a new investigation into the events of 9/11. The 9/11 Families, The 9/11 Victims, The American People, The World, deserves to know Truth about what happened on September, 11, 2001.
  Founded in August 2006, Pilots For 9/11 Truth is a growing organization of aviation professionals from around the globe. The organization has analyzed Data provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for the Pentagon Attack, the events in Shanksville, PA and the World Trade Center Attack along with other information provided by several government agencies through the Freedom Of Information Act. The data does not support what we have been told. Government Agencies refuse to comment. Pilots For 9/11 Truth do not offer theory or point blame at this point in time. However, there is a growing mountain of conflicting information and data in which government agencies and officials refuse to acknowledge. Pilots For 9/11 Truth continues to grow and exist only through your continued support. We thank you!
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Obama: 'Some Republicans in Congress' Holding Middle-Class Tax Cuts Hostage
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:05
  President Obama speaks to the American people from a busy factory floor in Pennsylvania about the urgent need to pass the middle class tax cuts, which will give families and businesses preparing for the holidays the certainty they need going into the New Year. Democrats and Republicans must come together to pass one thing that everyone agrees on'--extending income tax cuts for 98 percent of American families and 97 percent of small businesses, and there is no reason to wait. The President urges Congress to take action to help grow our economy and strengthen the middle class.
  "It's unacceptable for some Republicans in Congress to hold middle class tax cuts hostage simply because they refuse to let tax rates go up on the wealthiest Americans. And if you agree with me, then I could use your help. Let your congressman know what $2,000 means to you. Give them a call. Write them an email. Or tweet them using the hashtag ''My2K.'' That's My2K."
  This is the third straight week that President Obama takes his case for middle-class tax cuts, and tax hikes on the rich, straight to the American people in his weekly address.
  Obama explains:
  "The most pressing decision has to do with your taxes. See, at the end of the year, middle-class tax cuts are set to expire. And there are two things that can happen.
  First, if Congress does nothing, every family will see their income taxes automatically go up at the beginning of next year. A typical middle class family of four will see their income taxes rise by $2,200. We can't let that happen. Our families can't afford it, and neither can our economy.
  The second option is better. Right now, Congress can pass a law that would prevent a tax hike on the first $250,000 of everybody's income. Everybody. That means that 98% of Americans and 97% of small businesses wouldn't see their income taxes go up at all. And even the wealthiest Americans would get a tax cut on the first $250,000 of their incomes."
  That's right, Congress can do that right now this very moment...if they felt like it.
  "The Senate has already passed a bill to keep income taxes from going up on middle-class families. Democrats in the House are ready to do the same thing. And if we can just get a few House Republicans on board, I'll sign this bill as soon as Congress sends it my way."
  Obama finished his weekly address with a direct call to action, and makes clear exactly how much money is at stake:
  "Let your congressman know what $2,000 means to you. Give them a call. Write them an email. Or tweet them using the hashtag ''My2K.'' That's My2K."
  A full transcript of the President's weekly address is available here.
US-European Refugee Crisis Stuns Russia
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  A shocking report issued today by the Federal Migration Service (FMS) is warning that local services in Moscow and St. Petersburg are being ''overwhelmed'' due to the growing number of American and Western European refugees flooding into Russia, a situation, they say, was made even worse this past month with the reelection of President Obama.
  The FMS is the federal executive body that implements state policy on migration and also performs law enforcement functions, functions for control, supervision and provision of public services in the field of migration throughout all of Russia. Under Russian law, it is important to note, every foreign traveler must have a Russian-based sponsor, which could be a hotel, tour company, relative, employer, university, etc.
  According to this FMS report, however, a ''loophole'' to Russian immigration law was created in 2009 by then-President Medvedev's ''Go Russia!'' modernisation programme to diversify the economy on industries based on high technology and innovation when foreigners were allowed to, in essence, establish their own companies in Russia, and then sponsor themselves for immigration and eventual citizenship.
  This ''loophole'' was expanded last month, the FMS says, when Russia began its first 100 days as the newest member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which has its own rules and procedures governing the migration of business executives, workers and bankers between countries meant to create ''ease of migration'' in order to facilitate international commerce.
  One such example cited in this FMS report is the American based 3D digital theater technology giant RealD, who this past September established an office in Moscow, a move that was quickly followed by over 20 of its highest paid US and European executives sponsoring themselves for Russian migration and eventual citizenship.
  The reason for these American and Western European ''economic refugees'' flooding into the country, this report continues, is due to Russia having the world's best tax system that caps individual taxes at 13%, corporate taxes at 20%, and dividend income at 9%.
  Compared to the US tax system, which has rates as high as 40%, this report says, Russia's system of flat-rate taxes has created a mecca for American and Western European corporations and executives seeking to protect their vast wealth from their own governments who are going broke.
  Especially worrisome to American executives, the FMS says, is their governments debt of $16.3 trillion, a staggering amount made even worse this past week with their 3rd quarter reports showing a stunning collapse of personal spending, which in a country that bases 70% of its economy on consumer spending is ''beyond catastrophic.''
  Even worse, and as the United States continues its plunge into an economic abyss, new reports are warning that Obama is preparing to assume dictatorial powers over his nations economy while at the same time the US Congress is working on new laws to expand the power of their military forces to detain and jail civilians.
  To the reason such police state powers are needed in the United States, FMS analysts in this report say, is the Obama regime plan to seize the 401K and IRA retirement accounts of all American citizens such as has been done to the private retirement plans over the past 18 months to those living in Hungary, Ireland and France.
  Unbeknownst to the millions of Americans holding trillions of dollars in their private 401K and IRA retirement accounts, the draconian provisions established in the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, which gave then-President Franklin Roosevelt ''absolute control'' over his nations economy thus allowing him to seize all of the privately held gold of his citizens, were subsequently enshrined in the 1933 Banking Act that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and continues to be the ''law of the land'' in the United States to this very day.
  The use by Obama of his power to seize the bank accounts of any American citizen he so chooses, this report continues, was last exercised by him on 9 October when he signed an Executive Order giving his regime the power to do so under what he termed was his right as the United States was still in a state of ''national emergency.''
  One chillingly potential scenario outlined in this FMS report, as to how the Obama regime would begin seizing for itself all of the private retirement accounts belonging to US citizens, cites the planned 1 January 2013 expiration of FDIC's 100% insurance protection of all American citizens' bank accounts which many experts believe will cause a massive run on US banks as people begin to fear losing all of their money.
  With the median net worth of Americans reported this past week to have fallen to a 43-year low, combined with the lowest rate of US births since 1920, when such records began, FMS analysts state in this report that it is ''no wonder'' that US and European refugees have caused Moscow to become the 3rd most expensive city in the entire world to live in.
  And, while two-thirds of their nations millionaires were reported this past week to have left Britain to avoid a staggering 50% tax rate, and a flood of panicked French businessman are fleeing their country's savage tax rate of 75%, and rich Americans are reported to be renouncing their citizenship in record numbers, this FMS report warns that Russia should begin preparing its infrastructure to accommodate what is fast becoming the most unprecedented surge of refugees crossing the Motherlands borders in modern times.
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College faculty member, suspect among three killed in Wyoming - CNN.com
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  By the CNN Wire Staff
  updated 8:34 PM EST, Fri November 30, 2012
  Police Chief Chris Walsh said officers canvassing the building found two bodies in a third-floor classroom.
  STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  3 are dead at two separate, but related crime scenes, according to policeThey were killed by "a sharp-edged weapon," though authorities did not elaborateThe suspect "appeared to be completely alone," Casper's police chief says"This is the worst day of my career," the Casper College president says(CNN) -- A man fatally injured one person, then burst into a Wyoming college class Friday morning to kill another person and, ultimately, himself, police said.
  According to Casper police, "there were no firearms involved in the crime(s), and the (victims') injuries were caused by a sharp-edged weapon." It was not immediately clear how the three people -- one of whom was a Casper College faculty member -- were killed.
  "I've been a college administrator for about 40 years, (and) I can say without a doubt this is the worst day of my career," said college President Walter Nolte.
  Police Chief Chris Walsh did not immediately identify the three dead but said one was a woman and two were men, including the suspect. All of them knew each other, he added.
  Authorities got their first call shortly after 9 a.m. MT (11 a.m. ET) about "a traumatic injury on the campus of Casper College." About 33 law enforcement officers from various agencies arrived within minutes, according to Walsh.
  Casper College subsequently went on lockdown, as did the Natrona County Schools, as authorities tried to ascertain what happened.
  As they canvassed the Wold Physical Science Center building, officers found two dead bodies in a third-floor classroom, the police chief said.
  Meanwhile, two minutes after that first call, police learned of another "traumatic injury" at a site off-campus. Police are working under the assumption that this death is related to the other two and that the man behind all the violence is dead.
  "There is no one at large, and there's no threat of violence or anything like that," Walsh told reporters early Friday afternoon.
  The police chief said the suspect was not a current Casper College student, although he didn't elaborate or explain how the three dead knew each other. Walsh did say "the suspect appeared to be completely alone."
Matt Ridley on Climate Change and Warm Medieval Times | Mind & Matter - WSJ.com
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  Sun, 02 Dec 2012 03:46
  A flurry of recent scientific papers has tried to measure the warmth of the "Medieval Warm Period" (MWP) of about 1,000 years ago. Scientists have long debated whether it was cooler or warmer than today, and whether the warmth was global or regional. The point for nonscientists: If recent warming has precedents, some might find it less alarming.
  John S. DykesIf recent warmth has precedents, some might find it less alarming.
  Until the late 1990s, researchers generally agreed that the MWP was warmer than today and that the "Little Ice Age" of 1500-1800 was colder. Then in 2001 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change adopted the "hockey stick" graph devised by Michael Mann at the University of Virginia and colleagues.
  Using temperature indicators such as tree rings and lake sediments, the graph rewrote history by showing little warmth in the 11th century and little cold in the 17th, but a sharp spike in late-20th-century temperatures. That graph helped to persuade many people (such as me) that recent temperature rises were unprecedented in scale and speed in at least 1,400 years.
  But critics of the graph pointed out that it used a statistical technique that overemphasized hockey-stick shaped data from unreliable indicators, such as tree rings in bristlecone pine trees and Scandinavian lake sediments influenced by 20th-century land-use changes. Four recent studies have now rehabilitated the MWP as a period of unusual warmth, though they disagree on whether it was as warm or warmer than today.
  Jan Esper of the University of Mainz and his colleagues looked at pine wood densities from Sweden and Finland and found "evidence for substantial warmth during Roman and medieval times, larger in extent and longer in duration than 20th-century warmth." Bo Christiansen of the Danish Meteorological Institute and Fredrik Ljungqvist of Stockholm University looked at 32 indicators across the Northern Hemisphere and found the level of warmth during the peak of the MWP "in the second half of the 10th century equaling or slightly exceeding the mid-20th century warming."
  Thomas Melvin of the University of East Anglia and colleagues reanalyzed one of the tree samples from Sweden used in the "hockey stick" and concluded: "We can infer the existence of generally warm summers in the 10th and 11th centuries, similar to the level of those in the 20th century."
  A fourth study of creatures called diatoms in Chinese lake sediments found that the period "between ca. A.D. 1150 and 1200 was the warmest interval of the past 1,000 years."
  Taken together, these studies cast doubt on the IPCC's conclusion in 2007 that "the evidence is not sufficient to support a conclusion that [Northern] hemispheric mean temperatures were as warm, or the extent of warm regions as expansive, as those in the 20th century as a whole, during any period in medieval times."
  But was the medieval warm period confined to the Northern Hemisphere?
  I consulted a database of papers collated by the climate-skeptic website CO2Science.org, run by the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a nonprofit research center in Tempe, Ariz. The database contains numerous published studies of isotopes and other indicators in caves, lake sediments and other samples from Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and Antarctica that find the MWP warmer than today. Two Antarctic studies, for instance, concluded that current warming "is not yet as extreme in nature as the MWP" and that "the present state of reduced ice on the western Antarctic Peninsula is not unprecedented." A far smaller number of studies, such as one from Lake Tanganyika, found the MWP cooler than today.
  It remains possible that today's warming is different from that of the Middle Ages. For example, while summers might have been warmer then, winters might be warmer today (if today's warming is caused by carbon dioxide, that should be true). And of course, it is the future, not the past, that scientists expect to be dangerous. Nonetheless, the evidence increasingly vindicates the scientists who first discovered the Medieval Warm Period.
Sneed: Hillary Clinton no fan of Susan Rice, prefers Kerry for State - Chicago Sun-Times
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  American Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice speaks to reporters after a Security Council meeting on the situation in Libya, Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo)
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  The Rice Report...
  The big question: Who would Secretary of State Hillary Clinton like to get her job?
  It ain't embattled U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who is dealing with the way she handled the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
  Sneed is told if Hillary had to choose between Rice and U.S. Sen. John Kerry, who is head of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, she would prefer Kerry.
  ''Hillary is not close to Rice, who is tough '-- but is not the friendliest person,'' said a top White House source. ''And Hillary's brief comment recently that Rice had done 'a great job' was considered underwhelming and tepid,'' the source added.
  ''It would be hard for President Obama to back away from Rice, but he's dealing with what's known as ''the Club of the Senate,'' which includes powerful U.S. Sen. John McCain '-- a Republican '-- who is adamantly against Rice and a big supporter of Kerry's.
  Royal ranting...
  What's in a name: Kate Middleton, a k a the Duchess of Cambridge, just disclosed her nickname when she was a child came from her prep school's pet guinea pigs. ''There was one called Pip and one called Squeak, so my sister was called Pip and I was Squeak,'' she said. Now, aren't you glad you read this column?
  The Quinn Bin...
  Ya can't win: Gov. Pat Quinn, who listens to his own drummer to protect the people of Illinois, banned paper towels from the state office bathrooms at the Thompson Center in order to do the ''green'' thing '-- and had air hand dryers installed. '—†The result: People who used the paper towels to exit bathrooms without touching the door complained. '—†The result: A contraption called ''StepNpull'' has now been purchased and attached to every bathroom door to solve the germy knob problem.
  Be still my tongue.
  Lassie's Dead!!!
  Bow Ow! The last dog to play Lassie in a movie '-- a collie named ''Mason,'' who lived on a Collie breeding farm in northern Minnesota, died Thanksgiving Day. '—†Stat chat... The 9-year-old Collie, who starred in the 2006 movie ''Lassie'' (natch), was the first dog to play Lassie who wasn't directly related to the original heroic canine. The film, which was shot in Ireland, featured actors Peter O'Toole and Samantha Morton.
  Small town USA...
  Leave it to a gaggle of residents of the North Shore's tony Winnetka, who marched Friday to protest a Petco store which may locate near their favorite boutique pet store called Noah's Ark.
  The irrepressible Angie DeMars, who has owned Noah's Ark for the past 10 years, claims she was not spearheading the protest '-- but was gratified by word 800 residents had signed a petition to protect her business ''from being cannibalized if Petco gets a lease,'' she said.
  At last peek, Angie's fans were armed with signs en route to the Village Hall '-- for their pet angel who pays for pet adoptions and village animal control issues out of her own pocket '-- and holds the hands of her customers when their animal has to be euthanized.
  Tipsville...
  Sneed hears longtime Waukegan State Sen. Terry Link is running for mayor of his hometown '-- but only for one term.
  '—† To wit: ''I'm concerned about the exodus of jobs and businesses '-- only to see the same businesses open shop in wealthier parts of Lake County,'' Link told Sneed. ''I have a beautiful home here and I've seen property values decline. I also am a guy who can get Chicago, Springfield and Washington to return my phone calls,'' he said.
  '—† Ka-ching? Is Link, who's been a leading voice on bringing a casino to the area, planning to use any additional power to leverage a license to Waukegan?
  '—† Answer: ''Nope. Absolutely not.''
  Sneedlings...
  Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald will be the keynote speaker at Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez' swearing in Monday at the Criminal Courts building... Saturday's birthdays: Woody Allen, 77; Bette Midler, 67; and Leslie Hindman, priceless. Sunday's birthdays: Britney Spears, 31; Ozzy Osbourne, 64; and Cathy Lee Crosby, 66.
Republicans Ignoring Real Reason to Possibly Oppose Rice Nomination
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  Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:45
  Republicans have been having a hissy fit over the potential nomination of Ambassador Susan Rice for Secretary of State, and I agree with Rachel Maddow, Karoli and others' assessment that the likely reason we're seeing the "three amigos" and company on television screaming about her being unqualified, is they want Sen. John Kerry nominated instead so Scott Brown can potentially make his way back into the Senate.
  What has been ignored by all of them and by the better part, but not all of our corporate media, is a real reason to have issues with her nomination, and that's her conflict of interest over the Keystone XL pipeline.
  From Democracy Now's headlines this Thursday: Report: Susan Rice Holds Stock in Keystone XL Oil Firm:
  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is receiving criticism of a different kind after it was revealed she holds up to $600,000 worth of stock in the firm behind the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline. TransCanada is seeking federal permission to transport Canadian tar sands oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast. If confirmed as secretary of state, Rice could play a key role in determining the fate of the pipeline.
  I think if Ambassador Rice would like the job as Secretary of State, she needs to be divesting herself of those stocks, and if she doesn't and is nominated, she may find herself having problems with more Senators than just McCain, Graham and Ayotte, who look like they've all lost their freaking minds over this Benghazi nonsense.
Rep. Candice Miller Selected as Chair of the Committee on House Administration | Congresswoman Candice Miller
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  WASHINGTON '' U.S. Representative Candice Miller (MI-10) today made the following statement upon being appointed the new Chairman of the Committee on House Administration.
  Chairman Miller said: ''I am both humbled and honored by the confidence Speaker Boehner has shown in me to take on the Chairmanship of the Committee on House Administration. This committee has the responsibility to ensure that the House runs in an effective and efficient manner which is vital as we work to meet the many challenges facing this great nation. Most importantly, this committee has jurisdiction over the federal election process and I am absolutely committed to making certain that we enact rules to ensure this nation continues to have open, free and fair elections.
  ''My past record and experience as Chief Elections Officer during my time as Michigan's Secretary of State will assist me in accomplishing the many challenges set before us and ensuring that we effectively lead in the area of elections as that is the foundation for our democracy. This is a challenge that I am eager to take up and ready to get to work on day one.''
  In Speaker John Boehner's announcement of Miller's appointment, the Speaker said:''From ensuring the House runs efficiently and smoothly, to making Congress more open and accessible, Candice has a big job ahead as chairman of the House Administration Committee. In her new post, Candice will provide the leadership needed to keep operating costs down, save taxpayer dollars, and help lawmakers use new technology to better engage with their constituents. And her experience as Michigan Secretary of State will be invaluable given the committee's oversight of campaign finance and election laws.
  ''Having helped implement new legislative data standards, approved the use of new low-cost digital tools for Members of Congress, and more, the House Administration Committee has been at the forefront of many of our open government initiatives. I know we'll continue to make big advances with Candice at the helm.''
  Representative Miller's career in public service reflects a long history of efficiency and effectiveness '' from her early roots on the Harrison Township Board of Trustees to her current responsibilities representing Michigan's 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Miller serves on the House Homeland Security Committee and the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. She is also a member of the Majority Deputy Whip Team.
  Prior to her election to Congress, Miller became known for her record on effective and cost efficient government. Miller was first elected as Harrison Township Board of Trustees in 1979; in 1980, she served as Harrison Township Supervisor; and in 1992, she was elected Macomb County Treasurer. In 1994, Miller was elected and served two terms as Michigan's Secretary of State. As Secretary of State, Miller's reforms enhanced Michigan's elections system and she implemented a statewide uniform voting system. The Ford '' Carter National Commission on Federal Election Reform cited Miller's Michigan Qualified Voter File as a national model for how to administer free, fair, and open elections.
  Note: The Committee on House Administration was established in 1947 and is charged with the oversight of federal elections and the day-to-day operations of the House of Representatives.
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Julian Castro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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  Julin Castro (Spanish pronunciation: [xul'jaÅ‹]hoo-lee-AHN;[1] born September 16, 1974) is an Americanpolitician and the current Mayor ofSan Antonio. Castro served on the San Antonio City Council for four years before becoming Mayor. He is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School.
  Castro was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. His twin brother, Joaqu­n Castro, is a Congressman-elect.
  [edit]Early life and educationCastro was born in San Antonio, Texas, on September 16, 1974,[2] to Maria "Rosie" Castro and Jessie Guzman.[3] He is the identical twin brother of politician Joaqu­n Castro.[2] His mother was a Chicano political activist who helped establish the chicano political party La Raza Unida.[4] She ran unsuccessfully for San Antonio City Council in 1971.[2] Castro has said, "My mother is probably the biggest reason that my brother and I are in public service. Growing up, she would take us to a lot of rallies and organizational meetings and other things that are very boring for an 8-, 9-, 10-year-old".[5] His father, Jessie Guzman, was a community activist in the 1970s and a retired math teacher. Never married, Rosie and Jessie separated when Castro was eight years old.[4] Castro was raised on the west side of San Antonio. His family's San Antonio roots trace back to 1920, when his grandmother, Victoria Castro, joined extended family members there as a 6-year-old orphan from northern Mexico.[2]
  Castro was a sports buff growing up, as he collected trading cards and played football and basketball before taking up tennis in high school.[6] He had received an offer to play tennis at Trinity University, a NCAA Division III school.[7] Castro skipped his sophomore year[8] and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1992,[9] ranking ninth in his class.[4] He graduated in 1996 from Stanford University, majoring in political science and communication. He said he began thinking about entering politics while at Stanford,[4] where he and his brother launched their first campaigns and won student senate seats, tying for the highest number of votes.[2] Castro has credited affirmative action for his admission into Stanford, telling The New York Times, "Joaqu­n and I got into Stanford because of affirmative action. I scored 1,210 on my SATs, which was lower than the median matriculating student. But I did fine in college and in law school. So did Joaqu­n. I'm a strong supporter of affirmative action because I've seen it work in my own life".[10] Castro entered Harvard Law School in 1997 and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 2000.[11][12] His brother graduated from both schools with him.[4]
  [edit]Political career[edit]City councilCastro was elected to the San Antonio City Council in 2001, winning 61 percent of the vote against five other candidates for an open seat. He was the youngest city councilman in San Antonio history, surpassing former mayor and Housing and Urban Development secretary Henry Cisneros, who won his council seat in 1975 when he was 27-years-old. Castro represented District 7, a precinct on the city's west side with 115,000 residents. The population was 70 percent Hispanic and included a large number of senior citizens.[13] As a councilman from 2001 to 2005, he had opposed a PGA-approved golf course and large-scale real estate development on the city's outer rim.[14]
  [edit]MayorCastro ran for Mayor of San Antonio in 2005 and was widely viewed as the front runner in a field that also included retired judge Phil Hardberger and conservative city councilman Carroll Schubert. Castro received a plurality of the vote in the May 2005 primary election, but was defeated by approximately 4000 votes by Hardberger who received 51.5% of the votes in the June 2005 runoff.[15][16]
  Castro ran for Mayor of San Antonio again in 2009, announcing his candidacy on November 5, 2008. Castro won the May 9th election with 56.23% of the vote.[17] Castro is the fifth Latinomayor in the history of San Antonio. He became the youngest mayor ever to head one of America's 50 largest cities (San Antonio was, at the time, ranked seventh).[18]
  Castro was re-elected in 2011, running against four candidates and receiving 82% of the vote.[19] Voter turnout was around 7 percent of registered voters in the City of San Antonio, Texas.[19]
  [edit]National politicsIn September of 2012, Castro delivered the keynote address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. [20][21] He is the first Hispanic ever to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention.[22]
  [edit]Personal lifeCastro married Erica Lira Castro in 2007. Their daughter was born in 2009.[4]
  [edit]References^Forsyth, Jim (2012-07-31). "Democratic orator Castro symbolizes Hispanic rise". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/31/us-usa-campaign-castro-idUSBRE86U1NR20120731. Retrieved 2012-09-04.^ abcdeMacLaggan, Corrie (2012-09-03). "For San Antonio mayor, reflections of American Dream in convention speech". Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/03/us-usa-campaign-castro-idUSBRE8820A220120903. Retrieved 2012-09-03.^"Interview with Julian Castro". University of Texas San Antonio. 2005-11-09. http://digital.utsa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15125coll4/id/2016. Retrieved 2012-08-31.^ abcdefJefferson, Greg. "What makes Castro run? It depends who is asked". San Antonio Express-News. Archived from the original on 2009-03-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20090324003514/http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/What_makes_Castro_run_It_depends_who_is_asked.html. Retrieved 2009-08-17.^Fernandez, Manny (2012-09-03). "A Spotlight With Precedent Beckons a Mayor From Texas". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/us/politics/democratic-convention-spotlight-beckons-san-antonio-mayor.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2012-09-04.^Baugh, Josh; Gary Martin (2012-08-26). "Democrats view Castro as rising star". San Antonio Express-News. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/The-new-faces-of-their-parties-3815734.php#page-2. Retrieved 2012-09-03.^Garrett, Robert T. (2012-09-03). "Texan Julin Castro brings life of contrasts to Democratic convention speech". The Dallas Morning News. http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/national-politics/20120903-texan-julian-castro-brings-life-of-contrasts-to-democratic-convention-speech.ece. Retrieved 2012-09-04.^Lee, Oliver (2012-08-01). "7 Things to Know About San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro". TakePart. http://www.takepart.com/article/2012/08/01/7-things-know-about-san-antonio-mayor-julian-castro. Retrieved 2012-09-03.^Duel, Chris (2012-09-01). "VIDEO & PHOTOS: Julin & Joaqu­n Castro's Sendoff to Democratic National Convention". San Antonio Express-News. http://blog.mysanantonio.com/chris-duel/2012/09/video-photos-julian-joaquin-castros-sendoff-to-democratic-national-convention/. Retrieved 2012-09-03.^Chafets, Zev (2010-05-09). "The Post-Hispanic Hispanic Politician". The New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09Mayor-t.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2012-08-31.^Welch, Ben (2002). "Their Politics Is Local". Harvard Law Bulletin. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/2002/fall/feature_3-2.html. Retrieved 2012-09-04.^"Speaker Biographies". Harvard Law School. 2012-08-27. http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/reunions/12fall/latino/speakers.html. Retrieved 2012-09-04.^Milanese, Marisa (2001). "'Man on a Fast Track'". Stanford Magazine. http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=39260. Retrieved 2012-09-04.^Russell, Jan Jarboe (2010-05-01). "Alamo Heights". Texas Monthly. http://www.texasmonthly.com/2010-05-01/letterfromsanantonio.php. Retrieved 2012-09-04.^"New mayor sets high goals for San Antonio". Houston Chronicle. June 9, 2005. http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/New-mayor-sets-high-goals-for-San-Antonio-1505990.php. Retrieved 5 September 2012.^http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-15-san-antonio_x.htm^http://www.bexar.org/el45A.HTM^"Expectations High For Young Latino Mayor". NPR. January 27, 2011. http://www.npr.org/2011/01/27/133277384/Expectations-High-For-Young-Latino-Mayor. Retrieved 6 October 2012.^ abhttp://elections.bexar.org/reports/PDF/May%202011%20-%20Election%20Totals%20Report.HTM^Henderson, Nia-Malika (July 31, 2012). "Julian Castro, Latino mayor of San Antonio, to keynote DNC convention". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/latino-mayor-to-keynote-dnc-convention/2012/07/31/gJQA3fpqNX_story.html. Retrieved August 01, 2012.^Tau, Byron (July 31, 2012). "Julian Castro to deliver DNC keynote". Politico. http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/07/julian-castro-to-deliver-dnc-keynote-130589.html. Retrieved August 01, 2012.^Lilley, Sandra (September 5, 2012) "Julian Castro becomes first Hispanic to deliver keynote for Democrats", NBC News. Retrieved September 5, 2012.[edit]External links Michael Bloomberg (I)New York City, NYAntonio Villaraigosa (D)Los Angeles, CARahm Emanuel (D)Chicago, ILAnnise Parker (D) Houston, TXMichael Nutter (D)Philadelphia, PAGreg Stanton (D)Phoenix, AZJulian Castro (D)San Antonio, TXJerry Sanders (R)San Diego, CAMike Rawlings (D)Dallas, TXChuck Reed (D)San Jose, CAAlvin Brown (D)Jacksonville, FLGregory A. Ballard (R)Indianapolis, INEd Lee (D)San Francisco, CALee Leffingwell (D) Austin, TXMichael B. 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Obama Warns Congress: "I've Been Keeping My Own Naughty And Nice List"
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  "Joe Biden was in Costco and he wanted to buy some of this stuff, but I told him he had too much work to do. I wasn't going to have him building roller coasters all day long. Now, of course, Santa delivers everywhere. I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington, so you should keep your eye on who gets some K'NEX this year. There are going to be some members of Congress who get them, and some who don't," President Obama said Friday at a rally where he pushed Congress to avoid the fiscal cliff.
Lame Cherry Dux Right Again
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:26
  The picture reveals it all in the reality that Mitt Romney won the 2012 election as he is in charge in this picture in Obama is the one in the submissive pose.Obama is working a deal to keep Romney silent, but of benefit, along with Aspen Institute Paul Ryan as the spin machine leads all of you away from revolution over election theft.
  Romney knows he was a strawman now and has settled into it.
  My children, did I not inform you that the internal polling all showed that Mitt Romney had the 2016 election in the bag?Is this not why all the big name Conservatives went out stating that Obama was going down and yet somehow Obama pulled off a win.
  The reality is as this septic story finally catches up to what this blog published immediately on election eve that Barack Obama stole the 2012 elections has been proven. Now what is taking place is talking points in once again trying to explain away missing voters and misjudged voting blocks.Sure the latinos are a problem as you know a latino when polled always says they are voting for Mormon Romney over Obama, but in the voting booth they have a sinister plan whereby they will stick it to whitey Romney by really voting for Obama...............
  How ludicrous is that for an analogy that somehow Mexicans say they are voting GOP and somehow all their votes turn up for Obama.........like Obama's 1000% voting blocks in Florida and Ohio.
  One month after this blog broke this story, the sifting through the votes has finally started to reveal the fraud of Obama in not only flipping the votes for hisself from Romney, but a new protocol which wiped George Allen from the map.This was done with full cooperation of Karl Rove, because the last thing Jeb Bush wants showing up in 2016 is an incumbent Conservative with Jewish roots and Ronald Reagan appeal out of Virginia to wipe the Rovians and Rand Paul from the primaries.
  Yes another Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive. The Rovians exactly as in 2008 worked with Obama to not only wipe out the Conservatives like Sarah Palin and strawmen like McCain, but went after George Allen and other key Tea Party Conservatives, as in 2010, leaving the field bare for Jeb Bush.
  I told you that this was set up over a decade ago, and now you are witnessing it's fruition. They are doing their damnedest now to splinter you to 3rd parties, as Jeb Bush builds his sodomland coalition. I will have more on this in details as it is already in the drafts, but the reality is they are rebuilding the GOP from the anus up, and it is Puffy Lips Rove who is doing it. Obama being assisted in stealing this national election and the deflections taking place, ALONG WITH THE TAXATION OF YOU TO OBLIVION SO YOU WILL NOT HAVE ANY MONEY TO FUND COMPETITORS or ever attend a Tea Party event again, is all a part of this deflection from Analgate and Boxgate in the illegal electioneering of 2012.
  They have you in the gulag and the idiotry who could have funded the media wing of this blog, and set Lame Cherry up to do the wide scale mission are to blame for this. It really is a pisser in what Angus Jones a Christian on 2 1/2 Perverts gets paid 350,000 an episode and for two of those paychecks I could have been set up, set up the media wing to bring the Truth to all as a real Conservative outlet, and all of the Christians would have been protected and organized to roll this back, but chimps hang onto their bananas and pick shit off their asses and call them dates.
  I'm telling you that 2004, had Rove flipping votes for Bush43. Obama's folks knew it and they signed with Rove to wipe out McCain as Bush hated him. That was 2008. 2010 saw the first trial tests in state elections in Harry Reid flipping votes against Sharron Angel, and 2012 saw a coordinated effort of both the wiping out of the presidential and congressional elections to form this Obama block which would not repeal anything Obama.Fair elections have ceased and this Triple SSS of Sequoia, Scytl and SOE will start in 2014 picking the majority of the Congressional elections to protect Obama and set it up for Jeb Bush to run against Hillary Clinton.
  Obama pulled something across the board with Axelrod and Jarrett on the Rove model of local rural elections which was stunning and it wiped Romney out. The reality is that rural votes disappeared in Ohio, and that means in other areas like North Dakota, Missouri and Virginia. The vote registration is not being checked in this wholesale fraud. There is not any way that rural Romney voters over Rick Santorum suddenly stayed home on election day in giving Obama the win.Romney flipped those votes in the primary and Obama knew it, and Obama simply wiped them out and Romney could not say a word for the fraud he was guilty of.
  Do not look for Congress to do anything, as the crooks there who "won " are in the majority and are not about to face re elections where a furious public will throw all of them out of office.
  Yes you are being told now the results were flawed. It was latinos who are the problem and yet they do not vote in numbers to make the kind of difference for these Obama election theft results. Then there is the data pointing to Obama got his landslide by old white geezers voting mass for Obama over Romney in Iowa and New Hampshire. I warned you children this past summer about the fraud taking place in criminal Iowa and it linked to all of this other fraud. There were target states in GOP measure and the GOP did nothing to stop it or investigate it.......just like John Kasich in Ohio.
  Ask yourself again, how is it these tabulators of votes know exactly the race of every person voting, unless it is mapped off of census data coordinated with actual name recognition into software protocols to provide an illusion of "what the reasons were Romney was wiped out along with Conservatives".
  Lame Cherry proven right again. Mitt Romney has settled now for in his straw attire for having wiped out Conservatives, restructured the GOP, cemented in Romneycare and Nationalized America, as his spoils as his making noises would have him in prison for vote flipping in the primaries and what he did in destroying Conservatives in 2008 and 2012 with Ron Paul.
  Mitt Romney's Mexican Mission is complete. He will return to reap the spoils of the Obama regime and in 2016 audition for some cabinet post. Obama offered him "Head Pooper Scooper for Bobama", but Mano declined as Mexicans are getting the better paying jobs now in America.
  Every explanation in this is full of dichotomy and propaganda which does not add up, no more than left hand Obama shaking Romney with his right hand while his left hand is playing with his dick being aroused by the white Mexican in the room.
  Did this blog not tell you children that Muchelle's gaydar went off in Obama was attracted to Mitt Romney? Is posted in the archives here in the photo. There is Obama with his hands in his pants while rosey palm massaging Mitt.
  Lame Cherry right again.
  Obama stole the 2012 elections, Romney has gotten his bribe in being defacto el presidente and all of you are being led by the Pied Pipers toward the deepening abyss of Obama.
  agtG 251y
  By Rachel Rose HartmanInternal polling showing leads over Barack Obama in New Hampshire and Colorado helped instill confidence in the Mitt Romney campaign on Election Day, according to final polling data revealed by Noam Scheiber of the New Republic.It had previously been revealed that the campaign believed its candidate would carry North Carolina, Florida and Virginia. But data from polling conducted the weekend before Election Day reveals that the campaign also expected clear wins in New Hampshire and Colorado, both of which Romney lost.Polling for Iowa showed a tied race, but Romney lost by nearly 6 percentage points.The campaign has stated it misjudged turnout and its demographic makeup, which the campaign's chief pollster Neil Newhouse suggested was responsible for these flawed poll results. "The Colorado Latino vote was extraordinarily challenging," Newhouse told Scheiber. "As it was in Florida."But Scheiber notes New Hampshire and Iowa "are both predominantly white states, and Obama won both whites and older voters in each of them." Also, Latinos were only 14 percent of the electorate in Colorado.Scheiber also reports that the campaign may have incorrectly judged momentum for Romney.
Krauthammer Compares Fiscal Cliff Negotiations to Confederate Army Surrender Terms
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  Leave it to Charles Krauthammer, and Fox News, to compare the so-called 'fiscal cliff' negotiations to the terms of surrender that ended the Civil War. Krauthammer ended with the thought that Republicans should just walk away because they were in such a strong position of leverage when the economy heads back into a tailspin as a result. This is the type of mindset that not only the conservative pundits have but also some Republican politicians. The smarter among them though realize the folly of Krauthammer's pontificating and are looking for a deal --any deal-- that won't get them lynched by their own supporters. They know Obama has them in a bind and are looking for a face-saving option.
  CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's not just a bad deal, this is really an insulting deal. What Geithner offered, what you showed on the screen, Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox, and he lost the Civil War. The Democrats won by 3% of the vote and they did not hold the House, Republicans won the house. So this is not exactly unconditional surrender, but that is what the administration is asking of the Republicans.
  This idea -- there are not only no cuts in this, there's an increase in spending with a new stimulus. I mean, this is almost unheard of. What do they expect? They obviously expect the Republicans will cave on everything. I think the Republicans ought to simply walk away. The president is the president. He's the leader. They are demanding that the Republicans explain all the cuts that they want to make.
  We had that movie a year-and-a-half ago where Paul Ryan presented a budget, a serious real budget with real cuts. Obama was supposed to gave speech where he would respond with a counter offer. And what did he do? He gave a speech where he had Ryan sitting in the front row. He called the Ryan proposal un-American, insulted him, offered nothing, and ran on Mediscare in the next 18 months.
  And they expect the Republicans are going to do this again? The Republicans are going to walk on this. And I think they have leverage. Yes, for Congressional Democrats it will help them in the future if Republicans absorb the blame because we will have a recession. But Obama is not running again unlike the Congressional Democrats. He's going to have a recession, 9% unemployment, 2 million more unemployed, and a second term that's going to be a ruin. That is not a good proposition if you are Barack Obama.
Santelli Throws a Tantrum and Storms Off Air Because Pro-Obama CEO Paying Dividends Before Tax Hikes
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  CNBC on-air editor Rick Santelli, who is credited with helping to launch the tea party movement, flew into a rage and stomped off camera on Friday because a supporter of President Obama plans to pay shareholders a dividend before taxes are scheduled to go up at the end of the year.
  During a discussion on CNBC's Squawk Box, senior economic reporter Steve Liesman observed that the government could "extract more from the wealthy and even from business" as a part a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
  Santelli interrupted by pointing to a Wall Street Journal op-ed that criticized former Costco CEO Jim Sinegal because the company he founded intends to pay out dividends before before the Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year.
  "He spoke at the Democratic National Convention!" Santelli shouted. "You know, doesn't that bug you a little bit? It's very depressing that people that claim the president's fairness, those wealthy people that he wants to go after? They escape it. They escape it."
  Liesman replied by calling attention to a separate Wall Street Journal op-ed that "has a list of GDP by year and completely leaves out the eight years of the Bush administration."
  "You know what? Don't give me the switcheroo!" Santelli yelled. "I'm not talking about that one. I'm talking about the one below it, Steve."
  "I'm talking about the one above it," Liesman taunted. "I'm rising above it."
  "Of course you are because it's so reprehensible!" Santelli exclaimed. "It's reprehensible that people go to Charlotte and say, 'fairness' and then they run to try to beat the tax man!"
  "He's doing his job," Liesman noted.
  "Shame on them!" Santelli howled as he threw his copy of The Wall Street Journal at the camera. "I can't even talk about it anymore!"
  With that, the on-air editor turned and stormed off the air.
Lindsay Lohan Drunk For Days & Depressed Over TV Movie Bomb Before Arrest
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  By David Perel - Executive Vice President/Managing Editor Radar
  Lindsay Lohan was drunk FOR DAYS and depressed over the horrific reviews of her TV movie Liz & Dick before adding to her ever-growing arrest record by punching a woman in a New York club, RadarOnline.com is reporting.
  The falling star was on a two-day bender before going off and allegedly slugging a psychic in Avenue, a New York bar, according to a new report in the New York Post.
  PHOTOS: Lindsay Arrested For Assault In New York
  The news that Lindsay, 26, had been wasted for two days comes after RadarOnline broke thestory Thursday that she was drunk and had been doing cocaine immediately before the arrest.
  ''Lindsay was completely out of control. She was drinking way too much booze and was doing cocaine," an insider told Radar.
  PHOTOS: Lindsay's Mugshot Hall Of Fame
  Lindsay received scathing reviews for her TV movie about Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, setting off her latest bender.
  As her new legal drama plays out, the never-changing dynamic pitting her father Michael Lohan against her mother Dina is also making headlines.
  PHOTOS: Lindsay Shows Off Retro Two-Piece In Miami
  Lindsay is in ''a dark place'' in life, Michael told Radar exclusively after the arrest. He says Dina has stymied his efforts to get their daughter help.
  Dina, meanwhile, said she is ''proud'' of the connection her children share and said tough times make the family bond stronger.
  But the only bond that may be relevant to Lindsay is the one she will have to post to get out of jail soon. Her latest legal woes are sending her back to a California court where she face probation violation charges from a misdemeanor necklace theft case.
  PHOTOS: Lindsay Lohan Through The Years
  And as Radar reported exclusively, she is now hoping to avoid jail by going to rehab for six months, a move endorsed by many close to her.
  Lindsay's manager and agent have been telling her for months that she must go to rehab to save her life,'' a source close to her told Radar.
  Her latest arrest came after she slugged Florida psychic Tiffany Eve Mitchell, believing the woman stole her sister's handbag containing $10,000 in cash, according to the Post.
  PHOTOS: Lindsay Lohan Arrested For Assault In NYC
  ''Give me back my purse,'' Lindsay screamed at Mitchell, one eyewitness told the Post. But the purse was exactly where Lindsay had left it, the source said, adding the star ''was too drunk to remember where it was.''
  Mitchell was at the club with her husband Wayne Stevens and a law enforcement source told the Post that Lohan pushed Mitchell and cursed at her and
  Mitchell pushed back, as Stevens tried to calm the situation.
  PHOTOS: Lindsay Suffers Nip Slip On Set Of Liz & Dick
  A very short time later Lohan walked over and punched the psychic in the face.
  Steven told ABC about his wife: ''She's all swollen.''
  PHOTOS: Lindsay Lohan's Shocking Bad Hair Day
  Lindsay was charged with misdemeanor assault and sources close to her deny she was drunk, even going so far as to call her ''a victim of someone trying to capture their 15 minutes of fame.''
  Lindsay's assistant Gavin Doyle broke ranks with the star after her arrest and tweeted: ''@lindsaylohan after bailing you out last night I HOPE and PRAY you get the help you so desperately need.'' He later added: "Life is NOT a movie it's a reality that needs to be faced."
  Multiple reports claim Lindsay kicked Gavin out of the car after police released her.
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Bradley Manning Says He Has Been Tortured
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Bradley Manning Says US Govt Has Treated Him So Badly At One Point He Thought He Was Going To Die
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Maddow: Will Obama Close GITMO In His Second Term As POTUS?
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Susan Rice Has Stake in Keystone Pipeline - NYTimes.com
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  Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:07
  Should Susan E. Rice, the United Nations ambassador, be nominated for Secretary of State, one issue likely to arise during confirmation hearings, aside from the lethal attack on the American Mission in Benghazi, Libya, is her large stock holdings in TransCanada, the company seeking an American permit to build the proposed the Keystone XL pipeline.
  According to financial disclosure documents filed in May, Ms. Rice owns from $300,000 to $600,000 worth of stock in the Canadian pipeline company (See Page 5).
  Because the State Department oversees transboundary pipelines, the Secretary of State is ultimately responsible for determining whether Keystone XL should go forward.
  But her stock holdings in TransCanada, first reported by the Sunlight Foundation and Onearth.org, an environmental publication affiliated with the Natural Resources Defense Council, would surely complicate the issue.
  According to the United States Office of Government Ethics, federal law requires executive branch employees to be recused from matters ''if it would have a direct and predictable effect on the employee's own financial interests or on certain financial interests that are treated as the employee's own.''
  The ethics agency also advises that employees may be directed to divest financial investments if they pose a substantial conflict.
  Last year, Ms. Rice and her husband earned between $7,500 and $25,000 on their investments in TransCanada, according to financial disclosure forms (which require officials to provide only a range of investments and earnings).
  ''We need a full team at the State Department, including the secretary, to be free of any conflicts of interest when it comes to tar sands and TransCanada,'' said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council, which opposes Keystone XL.
  ''I think she would need to sell her stock, and we would fully expect her to do that.''
  Ms. Rice has not been nominated by President Obama to head the State Department, but she is said to be among his top choices.
  Mr. Obama recently leapt to Ms. Rice's defense as Congressional Republicans ramped up criticism of her handling of the attack on American diplomats in Benghazi, Libya.
  Ms. Rice's office at the United States Mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on her stock holdings. And TransCanada said it was not in a position to speak about potential nominees.
  ''That is a matter for the president of the United States,'' said Grady Semmens, a spokesman for the company.
  Ms. Rice, whose husband is Canadian, also has stock in other Canadian energy companies whose pipeline projects would fall under the jurisdiction of the State Department.
  Federal filings show that Ms. Rice and her husband own at least $1.5 million worth of holdings in Enbridge, which transports Canadian oil sands crude through the United States. The company was heavily criticized by environmental groups after a 2010 pipeline spill dumped more than 840,000 gallons of oil near Marshall, Mich., leading to the closure of a 39-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River.
  The fate of the Keystone XL, which would ship oil sands crude from Alberta to the Gulf Coast, is expected to be one of the most controversial decisions for the new Secretary of State.
Petraeus: 'I Screwed Up Royally' CBS DC
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  WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) '-- Former CIA Director David Petraeus reveals that he ''screwed up royally'' in having an affair with his biographer.
  According to the New York Post, the four-star general said in a letter to retired Brig. Gen. James Shelton that his wife of the past 37 years, Holly, will be staying with him despite the affair with Paula Broadwell.
  ''I screwed up royally,'' Petraeus said in the letter, the Post reports. ''Team Petraeus will survive though [I] have obviously created enormous difficulty for us. Holly is, however, once again demonstrating how incredibly fortunate I was to marry her.''
  Petraeus, 60, resigned as CIA director after an FBI investigation into his relationship with Broadwell.
  Broadwell is still being investigated by the FBI over classified documents found on her laptop and in her home, which investigators believe the author gathered while researching her biography of Petraeus in Afghanistan. Investigators say many of the documents are old and may no longer be classified despite their labels, and say Broadwell told them she did not get them from Petraeus.
  The FBI stumbled onto their relationship after tracking anonymous emails Broadwell allegedly sent to Tampa socialite Jill Kelley, warning Kelley to stay away from Petraeus and Afghanistan war commander Gen. John Allen.
  The FBI found no reason to further investigate Petraeus, but the CIA is now investigating whether the former director behaved inappropriately, such as possibly using agency resources to further the affair.
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aangirfan: 'OBAMA TO SIDE WITH IRAN, SYRIA AND RUSSIA; REASON FOR SACKING GENERALS'
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  Mr. and Mrs. Kerry and Mr. and Mrs. Assad, during a private lunch in a restaurant in Damascus in 2009. Here is Thierry Meyssan's view of what will be Obama's foreign policy.It is not necessarily our view.
  Obama II: the Purge of the Generals and the Pact - with Russia, Iran and Syria against China.With greater legitimacy brought about by his re-election, President Barack Obama is preparing to launch a new foreign policy.1.The relative economic weakness of the United States.2. The need to give up the idea of the USA governing the world alone.US forces will continue their departure from Europe, and their partial withdrawal from the Middle East, so that more can now be positioned around China.The idea is to weaken the Russian-Chinese alliance and get Russia to share the burden of the Middle East.
  Therefore, the USA is ready to implement the agreement on Syria concluded on 30 June in Geneva.(This means the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force; and keeping in power Bashar al-Assad, who is popular with his people).This new foreign policy faces strong resistance in Washington.
  In July, organized leaks in the press had scuppered the Geneva Agreement and Kofi Annan was forced to resign. This sabotage seems to have been organised by a group of senior officers who do not accept the end of their dream of global empire.At no time was this issue raised during the presidential election campaign; the two main candidates agree on the new policy, but disagree on the way to present it.Obama, on the night of his victory began a purge which had been quietly prepared for months.General David Petraeus resigned as Director of the CIA. The heads of many other senior officers roll in the dust...One thinks also, for instance of the premature death of General Omar Suleiman (Egypt).... or the attack against Prince Bandar bin Sultan (Saudi Arabia), seven days later.Assad and his friend Kerry.It remains for Barack Obama to compose his new cabinet by finding men and women able to accept the new policy. It relies primarily on former Democratic candidate for president and current chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate, John Kerry. Already Moscow has stated that his appointment would be welcomed. Above all, Kerry is known for being "an admirer of President Bashar al-Assad" ( The Washington Post ); they have often met in previous years [ 1 ].The question is whether the Democrats can accept losing a Senate seat, and if Kerry will be the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Defense...John Brennan, known for its particularly dirty and brutal methods, could become the next CIA director. He would be responsible for turning the page of the Bush years by:1. Liquidating the jihadists, who worked for the CIA2. Dismantling Saudi Arabia, which is no longer useful... Zionist, and yet realist, Antony Blinken could become national security adviser.This could awaken the plan... to make peace in the Middle East based on ... Assad.
Presidential Memorandum -- National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs | The White House
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  The White House
  Office of the Press Secretary
  For Immediate Release
  November 21, 2012
  MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
  SUBJECT: National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs
  This Presidential Memorandum transmits the National Insider Threat Policy and Minimum Standards for Executive Branch Insider Threat Programs (Minimum Standards) to provide direction and guidance to promote the development of effective insider threat programs within departments and agencies to deter, detect, and mitigate actions by employees who may represent a threat to national security. These threats encompass potential espionage, violent acts against the Government or the Nation, and unauthorized disclosure of classified information, including the vast amounts of classified data available on interconnected United States Government computer networks and systems.
  The Minimum Standards provide departments and agencies with the minimum elements necessary to establish effective insider threat programs. These elements include the capability to gather, integrate, and centrally analyze and respond to key threat-related information; monitor employee use of classified networks; provide the workforce with insider threat awareness training; and protect the civil liberties and privacy of all personnel.
  The resulting insider threat capabilities will strengthen the protection of classified information across the executive branch and reinforce our defenses against both adversaries and insiders who misuse their access and endanger our national security.
  BARACK OBAMA
Federal Register | Request for Information: Establish a Public-Private Collaboration, ''Drug Development Initiative'' (DDI), for New Pharmacological Treatments for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
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  The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ORD publishes this Request for Information (RFI) to solicit interest in forming public-private collaborations to develop new pharmacological treatments for PTSD. ORD is interested in developing collaborations with organizations that are interested in pursuing clinical trials specifically focused on PTSD. Such research would be detailed through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) under the authority of the Federal Technology Transfer Act of 1986 (FTTA), 99, codified as amended in scattered sections of title 15, United States Code (U.S.C.). The CRADA will delineate the collaboration for PTSD treatment intended to test new drugs to benefit Veterans.
  This notice will remain open to accept inquiries and responses.
  Interested parties should contact Theresa Gleason, Ph.D., Senior Program Manager, Clinical Science Research and Development Service at (202) 443-5697 or by email at CLINreview@va.gov to provide an intention to participate. Please use the subject line: ''DDI.''
  ORD has long supported a robust research portfolio of studies focused on understanding and treating PTSD, a disorder prevalent in Veterans. VA research has contributed extensively to advancing knowledge regarding the neurobiological underpinnings and leading advances in treatment research through clinical trials, especially in the area of psychotherapeutic approaches. Our program has the capability to conduct small/early to large/definitive multi-site clinical trials with the support of the VA Cooperative Studies Program. To identify and test new drug therapies for PTSD and to address the continuing need to treat Veterans with this disorder is of high interest to VA. This RFI is an invitation for responses from entities interested in participating in this DDI focused on new pharmacological treatments for PTSD.
  Collaborations will be delineated via a CRADA under the authority of the FTTA at 15 U.S.C. 3710a. Under the FTTA, VA and the entity may exchange personnel, services, facilities, equipment, intellectual property, or other resources. No Federal funds may be provided to any third party collaborator, but the VA laboratory is authorized to accept funds. VA may grant to the collaborator party a license or an assignment to inventions made under the CRADA. We will select collaborators based on a mutually beneficial relationship that is fair and equitable and scientifically sound with the goal of advancing treatment for PTSD.
  Responses to this RFI should include the following information:
  a. Company profile;
  b. Name, contact, and function of company representative; and
  c. Brief rationale for proposed compound as candidate to be tested as new treatment for PTSD. Please do not include proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information in your response, but provide scientific basis for the use of the compound and the general status of testing completed to date in human subjects (if any).
  We will evaluate DDI responses for interest. Selected potential collaborators may be invited to discussions to develop a CRADA and plan potential trials. Non-selected respondents will not receive additional feedback other than a non-selected notice. Special consideration will be given to small business firms and consortia involving small business firms. Preference will be given to businesses located in the United States which agree that products embodying inventions made under the CRADA will be manufactured substantially in the United States as provided for in 15 U.S.C. 3710a(c)(4).
  This RFI does not obligate VA to enter into a CRADA with any respondent. VA reserves the right to establish a CRADA based on scientific analysis and capabilities found by way of this announcement or other searches if determined to be in the best interest of the government.
  Approved: November 26, 2012.
  John R. Gingrich,
  Chief of Staff, Department of Veterans Affairs.
  [FR Doc. 2012-28917 Filed 11-28-12; 8:45 am]
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Newly released emails say no sailors watched bin Laden's burial at sea after Navy SEAL raid - The Washington Post
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  WASHINGTON '-- Internal e-mails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony.
  The e-mails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader's death. The e-mails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department.