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IsueYou.com, Best part of waking up : fluoride in my cup
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  Best part of waking up : fluoride in my cup
  Thus, children in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low-fluoride areas.
  Conclusions: The results support the possibility of an adverse effect of high fluoride exposure on children's neurodevelopment. Future research should include detailed individual-level information on prenatal exposure, neurobehavioral performance, and covariates for adjustment.
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VIDEO-BBC News - French president hailed after Timbuktu Islamists ousted
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NPR's Nina Totenberg: 'Conservatives Want To Take a Knife To Hillary Clinton's Throat'
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  Bill explores the moral and legal implications of using drones to target our enemies -- both foreign and American -- as well as other intelligence issues with Vicki Divoll, a former general counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former deputy legal adviser to the C.I.A.'s Counterterrorism Center, and Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Bank of America Services Breakdown, 250K Twitter Accounts Hacked | Occupy America
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  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:07
  Some of Bank of America's 40 million customers "were unable to access their online banking accounts, mobile payment systems or the company's telephone call centers on Friday," reports the NYT. An internal breakdown, rather than a hacking attack, is suspected, but the bank continues to investigate.
  More from Reuters:
  Since last fall, U.S. bank websites have faced a blitz of "denial of service" attacks in which hacker activists disrupt operations by flooding them with information.
  Customers logging into Bank of America's website on Friday received a message that said the site was "temporarily unavailable." Some customers took to Twitter to vent their frustrations.
  Until...Twitter came under attack!
  In a blog post titled "Keeping Our Users Secure" from Bob Lord, Twitter's Director of Information Security:
  As you may have read, there's been a recent uptick in large-scale security attacks aimed at U.S. technology and media companies. Within the last two weeks, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal have chronicled breaches of their systems, and Apple and Mozilla have turned off Java by default in their browsers.
  This week, we detected unusual access patterns that led to us identifying unauthorized access attempts to Twitter user data. We discovered one live attack and were able to shut it down in process moments later. However, our investigation has thus far indicated that the attackers may have had access to limited user information '' usernames, email addresses, session tokens and encrypted/salted versions of passwords '' for approximately 250,000 users....We also echo the advisory from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and security experts to encourage users to disable Java on their computers in their browsers. For instructions on how to disable Java, read this recent Slate article.
  This attack was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident. The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked. For that reason we felt that it was important to publicize this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users.
The Democrat Race Lie | Black & Right
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  This whopper deserves all the attention it can get. Again, it shows the ignorance and contempt of the electorate liberals depend on.In 2010, Democrats gave their website a facelift and whitewash. Click on the screenshot above to see what they used to say about their civil rights history.
  Prior to 2010, the following is what readers got when they clicked on the Democrats.org ''History'' button'....
  Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws, and every law that protects workers. Most recently, Democrats stood together to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act.
  On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight. We support vigorous enforcement of existing laws, and remain committed to protecting fundamental civil rights in America.
  This is the kind of BS spewed by Democrats on a daily basis, and unfortunately the media and other so-called watchdogs are so apparently ignorant of American history, Democrats continue to LIE through their teeth to their constituents, and via academia, to our kids. Despite the truth being out there for years, it's probably not going to explode until some big shot news anchor gives us an ''explosive expose'' bringing us all those facts first, so he/she can proudly receive a Pulitzer'...
  While I have only scratched the surface of civil rights history, here's an except from yet another list of historical bullet points that dispute Democrat claims of civil rights support. As you read through it, remember, Democrats claim they ''are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'''...
  October 13, 1858During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states: ''I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my brother, or any kin to me whatever''; Douglas became Democratic Party's 1860 presidential nominee
  April 16, 1862 President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  July 17, 1862 Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy ''shall be forever free''
  January 31, 186513th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous Republican support, intense Democrat opposition
  April 8, 186513th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition
  November 22, 1865 Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting ''black codes,'' which institutionalized racial discrimination
  February 5, 1866U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement ''40 acres and a mule'' relief by distributing land to former slaves
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  April 9, 1866Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson's veto; Civil Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans, becomes law
  May 10, 1866U.S. House passes Republicans' 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no
  June 8, 1866U.S. Senate passes Republicans' 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  January 8, 1867 Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson's veto of law granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
  July 19, 1867Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson's veto of legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans
  March 30, 1868Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson, who declared: ''This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men''
  September 12, 1868Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and 24 other African-Americans in Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would later be reinstated by Republican Congress
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  October 7, 1868Republicans denounce Democratic Party's national campaign theme: ''This is a white man's country: Let white men rule''
  October 22, 1868While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR) is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan
  December 10, 1869 Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law granting women right to vote and to hold public office
  February 3, 1870After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition, Republicans' 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans regardless of race
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  May 31, 1870 President U.S. Grant signs Republicans' Enforcement Act, providing stiff penalties for depriving any American's civil rights
  June 22, 1870Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South
  September 6, 1870Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women's suffrage signed into law by Republican Gov. John Campbell
  February 28, 1871Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for African-American voters
  April 20, 1871Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  October 10, 1871Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting, African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands
  October 18, 1871After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux Klan
  November 18, 1872Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady Stanton that she voted for ''the Republican ticket, straight''
  January 17, 1874Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to racially integrate government
  September 14, 1874Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William Kellogg; 27 killed
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  March 1, 1875Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with 92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition
  January 10, 1878U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for women's suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where they belong
  February 8, 1894Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal Republicans' Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote
  January 15, 1901Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party's refusal to permit voting by African-Americans
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  May 29, 1902Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%
  February 12, 1909On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, African-American Republicans and women's suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the NAACP
  May 21, 1919Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no
  August 18, 1920Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled legislatures
  January 26, 1922House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  June 2, 1924Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans
  October 3, 1924Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National Convention
  June 12, 1929First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats across the country
  August 17, 1937Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S. Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background was hidden until after confirmation
  June 24, 1940Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  August 8, 1945Republicans condemn Harry Truman's surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan. The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a friend that ''The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.''
  September 30, 1953Earl Warren, California's three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education
  November 25, 1955Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel
  March 12, 1956Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation
  June 5, 1956Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in decision striking down ''blacks in the back of the bus'' law
  November 6, 1956African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President
  September 9, 1957President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party's 1957 Civil Rights Act
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  September 24, 1957Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public schools
  May 6, 1960President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans' Civil Rights Act of 1960, overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
  May 2, 1963Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over 2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights
  September 29, 1963Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High School
  June 9, 1964Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate
  ''Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans. That's why we've worked to pass every one of our nation's Civil Rights laws'... On every civil rights issue, Democrats have led the fight.''
  June 10, 1964Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists'--one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed.
  August 4, 1965Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of 1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote in favor
  February 19, 1976President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt's notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII
  September 15, 1981President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American participation in federal education programs
  June 29, 1982President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act
  August 10, 1988President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR
  November 21, 1991President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation
  August 20, 1996Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans' Contract With America, becomes law
  And let's not forget the words of liberal icon Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood'...
  We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population'....
  So the next time any Democrat claims they've been supportive of civil rights in America (and been so all along), ask them to explain their past. ''We've grown'' is not gonna cut it, considering they continue to lie about their past to this day, and only someone lacking in common sense would believe two distinct political parties could juxtaposition their stances on civil rights seemingly overnight.
  And I'm tired of the recitation that Southern Democrats became racist Republicans and took those tendencies with them. Even today, it never takes long for a Democrat to play the race card purely for political advantage.
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  About this episodeMore than 1,700 architects and engineers believe it was not planes that brought down the Twin Towers but a controlled explosive demolition. With testimony from 43 experts, they soberly present forensic evidence from architects, structural engineers, metallurgists, physicists and explosive experts. Their findings are startling and suggest serious errors and omissions in the official investigations by the 9/11 Commission.
Owl: US Pedophilia at Highest Levels '-- Catholic Archbishops as the Enablers '-- While FBI Turns a Blind Eye and Satanic Protestant Elite Syphon Kids from Child Protective Agencies with Insider Help
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  Who? Who?
  A very high-level protector of priest pederasts, Cardinal Mahoney of the LA diocese, is being kicked out of his job: ''Archbishop Jose Gomez said he had stripped his predecessor, the retired cardinal Roger Mahony, of all public and administrative duties.'' More details here:
  Catholic cardinal stripped of duties as LA diocese child abuse files released
  Boing-Boing said: ''The Archdiocese this week'...removed Cardinal Roger Mahony from his duties, for his role in enabling and keeping quiet the methodical and widespread molestation. The removal is ''unprecedented,'' but many victims and advocates believe Mahony deserves greater punishment. Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Curry, who helped Mahony hide abusers from police in the eighties, has resigned his post as regional bishop in Santa Barbara, California.''
  More significantly, 12,000 pages of files have been released by the diocese to the public ''more than a week after church records relating to 14 priests were unsealed as part of a separate civil suit, showing that church officials plotted to conceal the abuse from law enforcement agencies as late as 1987.''
  To access the released files, click at end of sentence, then scroll down the page to the section labeled ''Clergy Personnel Files'', and a list of names appears which link to the file of the named individual perpetrator priest:
  Access Released Files
  Most of the files are variously redacted, and many of the molesters have since died, but the files still offer some gruesome reading, given the victims were children and their molesters Roman Catholic priests.
  Phi Beta Iota: Pedophilia at the elite Banker '' Scion '' Cardinal level is the perfect storm and that storm is breaking upon us now. Every element of society has failed. When one recognizes that the US federal and state governments have been complicit in providing (selling) children in their care into these pedophilia rings, and that academia, civil society, the media, and the non-profit world have all been active participants in pedophilia operations as well as cover-ups, one must call into question the legitimacy of every part of society '-- ethics? We don't need no stinkin' ethics. Shut up, eat shit, and stay out of the way of these privileged elite for whom the White House has full pardons at the ready.
  See Also:
  Wild Ride Through Recent History Covered and Uncovered with John DeCamp (video interview)
  Paradigms of Failure [Chapter from ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig]
  Owl: Pedophilia as ''Privilege'' and ''Pure'' '-- Single Source Page for Glimpse of the Chasm Into Hell '-- Coast to Shining Satanic Coast '' FBI Complicit
  Mini-Me: Sandy Hook Analysis '' Cops, Criminals, CIA/FBI, Jesuits, Pedophiles, and Zionists '-- Opus Dei, Supreme Court, Joe Lieberman as Godfather 1.1
  Mini-Me: Carnal Knowledge of LBJ, CIA, Big Oil Et Al
  2013 Robert Steele: Reflections on Lincoln, Principle, Compromise, Autonomous Internet & Citizen Intelligence / Counter-Intelligence 2.0 with Meta-RECAP
Weekly Address: A Balanced Approach to Growing the Economy in 2013
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  The White House
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  February 02, 2013
  WASHINGTON, DC'-- In this week's address, President Obama called on Congress to work together on a balanced approach to reduce our deficit and promote economic growth and job creation. Our businesses created 2.2 million jobs last year, and we just learned that our economy created more jobs over the last few months than economists originally thought. Our economy is poised to expand in 2013 if Washington politics doesn't get in the way, and the President called on Congress to work together to keep moving us forward.
  The audio of the address and video of the address will be available online at www.whitehouse.gov at 6:00 a.m. ET, Saturday, February 2, 2013.
  Remarks of President Barack ObamaWeekly AddressThe White HouseFebruary 2, 2013
  Hi, everybody.
  In the coming weeks, we face some important decisions about how to pay down our debt in a way that grows our economy and creates good jobs '' decisions that will make a real difference in the strength and pace of our recovery.
  We began this year with economists and business leaders saying that we are poised to grow in 2013. And there are real signs of progress: Home prices are starting to climb again. Car sales are at a five-year high. Manufacturing is roaring back. Our businesses created 2.2 million jobs last year. And we just learned that our economy created more jobs over the last few months than economists originally thought.
  But this week, we also received the first estimate of America's economic growth over the last few months. And it reminded us that bad decisions in Washington can get in the way of our economic progress.
  We all agree that it's critical to cut unnecessary spending. But we can't just cut our way to prosperity. It hasn't worked in the past, and it won't work today. It could slow down our recovery. It could weaken our economy. And it could cost us jobs '' now, and in the future.
  What we need instead is a balanced approach; an approach that says let's cut what we can't afford but let's make the investments we can't afford to live without. Investments in education and infrastructure, research and development '' the things that will help America compete for the best jobs and new industries.
  Already, Republicans and Democrats have worked together to reduce our deficits by $2.5 trillion. That's a good start. But to get the rest of the way, we need a balanced set of reforms.
  For example, we need to lower the cost of health care in programs like Medicare that are the biggest drivers of our deficit, without just passing the burden off to seniors. And these reforms must go hand-in-hand with eliminating excess spending in our tax code, so that the wealthiest individuals and biggest corporations can't take advantage of loopholes and deductions that aren't available to most Americans.
  2013 can be a year of solid growth, more jobs, and higher wages. But that will only happen if we put a stop to self-inflicted wounds in Washington. Everyone in Washington needs to focus not on politics but on what's right for the country; on what's right for you and your families. That's how we'll get our economy growing faster. That's how we'll strengthen our middle class. And that's how we'll build a country that rewards the effort and determination of every single American.
  Thanks. And have a great weekend.
We don't need politicians in charge. With technology, it's time to put citizens first
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  Canadians feel disconnected from Parliament, according to an upcoming study from the democratic advocacy group Samara, and no wonder. The first week of the new sitting depressingly revealed that, despite promises of better behaviour, Question Period remains theatre so bad that it should have closed in Poughkeepsie.
  Debates are scripted and sterile. MPs appear to be puppets who exist only to bob up and down during votes, with the party whip pulling the strings.
  So what is to be done? Maybe nothing.
  Rather than fret over how to make the House more relevant and the Senate relevant at all, it may be better to explore how new technologies can put citizens, rather than politicians, in charge.
  Citizenville , a soon-to-be-published book by Gavin Newsom, California's lieutenant governor and the former mayor of San Francisco, envisions a truly fundamental transformation of government: from a vending machine, in which taxpayers put in their money and get services in return (with no recourse but to shake the machine in frustration if they doen't appear) to a platform, in which virtually all government data is available to all of us, to use as we see fit.
  ''The tools that have served us well for the past century or so are beginning to erode and collapse,'' Mr. Newsom said in an interview.
  ''We get so caught up in reform, which assumes we are using the same ingredients and just shifting them around, when people are looking for a whole new model.''
  If so, then the real challenge may be not how to reform the House of Commons but how to replace it.
  After all, Parliament hasn't really changed much since the 19th century; neither has government, except to get bigger. It continues to embrace what Mr. Newsom calls the broadcast model, in which politicians speak and citizens listen and obey. Every few years fewer and fewer of them vote; otherwise government and the people are solitudes.
  This is completely at odds with a world in which digital natives '' those raised in the age of social media, as opposed to digital immigrants, who are the rest of us '' inhabit a multi-platform world of sharing, listening, watching, talking and acting.
  Government, Mr. Newsom believes, should be like that. Every agency and office and department and ministry '' protecting only national security and personal privacy '' should be forced to hand over everything to the people. Every bit of data that every government has should be public and easily accessible.
  People should be free to use that data any way they see fit. They can create apps with it, make money off it, massage it collaboratively to propose ideas that bureaucrats have never dreamed of, even bypass government completely by collectively proposing and implementing solutions to local problems.
  The digital crowd should use the cloud to reshape government in its image.
  ''We still have this institutional framework, this hierarchical, top-down broadcast model in government that is anathema to the new roles that people are engaging with day to day in their private lives,'' Mr. Newsom maintains. ''So we have to start looking at a completely new paradigm.''
  There is much here to object to. Our globalized world, in which challenges and crises can emerge from nowhere, requiring decisions in days or even hours, has encouraged governments everywhere to centralize power, not disperse it.
  We live in a time of increasingly incompatible ideologies, which social media are sharpening more than softening.
  And no matter how participatory and dispersed political culture might become, sharp and ambitious people will learn how to use information to accumulate power for themselves and their friends.
  Mr. Newsom knows all this. He is, after all, a politician. Yet he has faith that digital natives will break down the partisan divides that so comfort digital immigrants.
  And for the rest, he believes we are just going to have to trust that things will turn out okay.
  ''The contours of this shift are just taking place, and no one knows how this will evolve,'' he concludes. ''But we are on a collision course with the future '... and government will have to realign itself to this new reality.''
  After all, the digital commonwealth smashes anything that defies it: It smashed the music industry; it is smashing newspapers and broadcasting; education is probably next. Do politicians and bureaucrats actually believe they will be immune?
  Either way, in a world where, as others have put it, Gutenberg has given way to Zuckerberg, perhaps the last thing we should be worrying about is how to make Question Period more civil, or parliamentary debates more relevant.
  It may be that they just don't matter anymore, and never will again.
  What's the one thing you would change about Parliament to make it more relevant?Tell us here
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WSPR on a Raspberry Pi using Raspbian
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  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:21
  I revisited this topic in my jan 28 2013 blog wspr-on-rpilapdock-under-raspian.html. The method below does not work due to issues with the "latest" revision of software on the svn. It works fine if revision 2840 is used Having got WSPR and WSJT working on my Ubuntu laptop, the next challenge was to get WSPR working on the more restricted Raspberry Pi
  First discovery was that a new version of the RPI image was available 2012-10-28-wheezy-raspbian.zip so that was downloaded and installed. At installation time I took the opportunity to overclock the board at 1GHz and in the same menu allow the memory space to fill ALL the memory card (if you dont you only have 2GB to use, even on a 16GB card!Searching the internet I came across a blog "Compiling WSPR on a Raspberry Pi" at http://timbertops.co.uk/blog/?p=88 I also found some improvement pointers at http://www.vk2mev.net/?p=96
  the "merged" steps (before I forgot how I did it) are:-
  sudoapt-get updatesudoapt-get install build-essential subversion python2.7-dev python-numpy python-imaging-tk python-pmw libportaudio2 portaudio19-dev libsamplerate0-dev gfortran cl-fftw3 python-dev hamlib-utilssvn co http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/wsjt/branches/wsprcd wspr./configure --with-portaudio-include-dir=/usr/include --with-portaudio-lib-dir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihfnext sudomakeprogramme created, now to consider hardware:-The RPI has an audio output but no audio input. Some have used $5 USB soundcards, but I did not have one in my collection. Fortunately I still had the I-MIC which I used with my Ipad to run ISDR. A web search revealed this should work with the RPI without any software updates. Plugging in the Imic it appeared in the list of audio playback and recording devices:- aplay -l**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA] Subdevices: 8/8 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Subdevice #1: subdevice #1 Subdevice #2: subdevice #2 Subdevice #3: subdevice #3 Subdevice #4: subdevice #4 Subdevice #5: subdevice #5 Subdevice #6: subdevice #6 Subdevice #7: subdevice #7card 1: system [iMic USB audio system], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0vi Makefile (edit wouldnt work on my machine on this file)FFLAGS = -g -O2 -fno-range-check -ffixed-line-length-none -Wall -Wno-character-truncation -Wno-conversion -Wtabs -fPIC -mfloat-abi=hardCFLAGS = -Wall -O0 -g -Wall -O0 -g -mfloat-abi=hardTo make sure the hardware floating point processor is used (speeds up decode), the Makefile created by configure needs editing.arecord -l**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****card 1: system [iMic USB audio system], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0time to launch WSPR:-wsprThe usual screen for WSPR3.0.1 appeared which looked like success. I selected the imic as audio in and audio out source in optionsHooked it up to the K3 and got decodes!Time to try Transmit. I usually key the transmitter via the radio RS232 port but although the RPI has an RS232 port it needed a level converter which I did not have. I resorted to using the K3 VOX with success and my signal was successfully decoded:-2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097139 +1 0 IO82uc 5 IX1CKN JN35pr 995 132 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097140 +3 0 IO82uc 5 EA2COA IN83 961 184 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097113 -22 1 IO82uc 5 GW7PEO IO83gh 156 330 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097110 -23 0 IO82uc 5 VK3GMZ QF22sf 17060 70 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097129 -9 1 IO82uc 5 LB1A JP50mt 1264 35 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097121 0 0 IO82uc 5 OH2MUI KP10wj 1843 50 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097181 -8 0 IO82uc 5 EW6BN KO45hm 2047 67 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097112 -2 0 IO82uc 5 LY2BOS KO24or 1833 70 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097118 -25 0 IO82uc 5 VU2LID MJ88lm 8527 93 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097096 -24 0 IO82uc 5 G4SFS IO81qf 100 193 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097097 -9 -1 IO82uc 5 LA9JO JP99gb 2177 22 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097086 -20 0 IO82uc 5 ON7KB JO21ei 466 98 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097104 -20 1 IO82uc 5 DG0OPK JO50gq 903 95 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097129 -21 0 IO82uc 5 DV1VHK PK04ll 10830 55 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097104 -11 0 IO82uc 5 OH2MZA KP20kf 1890 51 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097101 -5 0 IO82uc 5 OK/AD6XP JN89ff 1355 96 2012-11-03 16:10 G4FRE 14.097115 -21 0 IO82uc 5 DU1MGA PK04 10830 55 One thing I did discover during the above process was that although the RPI sets its clock via NTP this only happens if the internet connection is available at boot time. If you connect the internet lead after boot time the clock will be offThe observant will have noticed I did notadd "dwc_otg.speed=1" to cmdline.txt as recommended by VK2MEV. I did try it once, but when booting, the RPI didnt find the keyboard or USB mouse and hence wouldnt let me log in. I had to resort to removing the phrase from the SD card using my windows laptop to get it to boot properly
Life in Orwell-Huxleyville: Obama administration says aspartame good for kids
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  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:29
  Prison Planet.comFebruary 1, 2013
  The Obama administration's Department of Agriculture has released nutrition standards for ''competitive'' foods and has outlawed snacks considered unhealthy by the nanny state federal government.
  ''Regular soda is out, though high-schoolers may have access to diet versions,'' The Hill reports.
  That's right '' the government is recommending our kids drink soda laden with the deadly neurotoxin aspartame.
  As usual, the right hand of government has no idea what the left hand is doing'... or maybe it does.
  Aspartame is so dangerous and detrimental to health, even the FDA has failed to approve it '' for two decades running.
  Despite this, more than 6,000 products, consumed by over 100 million people worldwide, contain aspartame, including: soft drinks, chewable vitamins, sugar-free cough drops, sweeteners, yogurt and a lot of other food products.
  Aspartame is responsible for migraine headaches, changes in vision, nausea and vomiting, abdominal and joint pains, change in heart, depression, memory loss, seizure and even brain cancer.
  ''More than these complaints to the FDA, there are also around 10,000 documented reports of aspartame side effects and over 900 published studies on the health hazards,'' notes Dr. Joseph Mercola.
  So now the USDA is pulling traditional potato chips and candy out of schools and allowing them to be replaced with aspartame products that have a long history of causing all kinds of health problems and even death.
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Leaked Draft of Climate Report Shows U.N. Conceding Solar Activity May Play Significant Role in Global Warming | TheBlaze.com
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  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 03:47
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  In addition to revealing evidence of two decades of overestimated global warming, the recently leaked draft of a future U.N. report on climate change indicates that solar activity may play a larger role in global warming than previously thought.
  The assertion that the vast majority of global warming is the result of man-man greenhouse gas emissions as opposed to natural causes has been a hotly debated issue.
  ''[Results] do suggest the possibility of a much larger impact of solar variations on the stratosphere than previously thought, and some studies have suggested that this may lead to significant regional impacts on climate,'' reads a draft copy of the report put together by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
  Fox News identified the man who leaked the report at StopGreenSuicide blogger Alec Rawls. He told FoxNews.com that the discoveries about solar activity were his main motivation for the doc leak.
  ''The public needs to know now how the main premises and conclusions of the IPCC story line have been undercut by the IPCC itself,'' Rawls wrote on his website in December.
  More from FoxNews.com's conversation with Rawls:
  Rawls blames the U.N. for burying its point about the effect of the sun in Chapter 11 of the report.
  ''Even after the IPCC acknowledges extensive evidence for '... solar forcing beyond what they included in their models, they still make no attempt to account for this omission in their predictions. '... It's insane,'' he told FoxNews.com.
  Some skeptical climatologists say that the statement in the U.N. draft report is important, but not game-changing.''The solar component is real but not of sufficient magnitude to have driven most of the warming of the late 20th century,'' Pat
  Michaels, the former president of the American Association of State Climatologists, and current director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, told FoxNews.com.
  Climate change activists though say this is just a ''trick'' put forth by ''climate contrarians.''
  ''I see climate contrarians try this trick almost every time a big new solar study comes out. They somehow tend to neglect mentioning that solar variation is smaller than the heat-trapping power of carbon dioxide,'' Aaron Huertas of the Union of Concerned Scientists told FoxNews.com.
  ''The basic evidence is that solar activity has varied a bit while global temperature keeps going up,'' he added.
  Meanwhile, Rawls argues that solar activity remains at a historically high level, enough to continue warming the earth without an increase in activity.
  ''The simplest way to put it is: If you put a pot on the stove at the maximum temperature, and leave it on at that temperature '-- are you telling me that the pot won't keep warming?''
  To read FoxNews.com's entire report, click here.
Panetta: US needs to keep up drone war
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  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:28
  By Agence France-PresseFriday, February 1, 2013 23:10 EST
  The United States will have to keep up an open-ended drone war against Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan and elsewhere to prevent another terror attack on America, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.
  The assassination of Al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia with unmanned, robotic aircraft has provoked widespread criticism from human rights groups and some US allies, but Panetta said the US campaign has been effective.
  Asked if the CIA ''targeted killings'' should be curtailed in coming years, Panetta told AFP in an interview that there was still a need to continue the drone strikes more than a decade since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
  ''I think it depends on the nature of the threat that we're confronting. We are in a war. We're in a war on terrorism and we've been in that war since 9/11.
  ''The whole purpose of our operations were aimed at those who attacked this country and killed 3,000 innocent people in New York as well as 200 people here at the Pentagon,'' said Panetta, who is days away from retiring as Pentagon chief.
  Before taking over as defense secretary, Panetta oversaw a dramatic increase in drone raids in Pakistan as head of the CIA from 2009-2011.
  ''I think we had a responsibility to use whatever technology we could to be able to go after those who not only conducted that attack but were planning to continue to attack this country,'' he said.
  ''It's been an important part of our operations against Al-Qaeda, not just in Pakistan, but also in Yemen, in Somalia and I think it ought to continue to be a tool we ought to use where necessary,'' he said.
  ''And also where we can use it in conjunction with other countries that are pursuing the same goal,'' said Panetta, citing Yemen's strong support for drone strikes.
  The CIA drone bombing raids, by Predator and Reaper aircraft armed with Hellfire missiles, have caused an unknown number of civilian casualties and prompted accusations that Washington is carrying out extrajudicial killings in the shadows with no genuine oversight by courts or lawmakers.
  Panetta, who as CIA director presided over the successful raid that killed Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, said the campaign still needed to be regularly reviewed but did not say he favored turning over the spy agency's drone war to the military.
  Some critics have called for giving the US military authority over the drone air strikes, which would require openly reporting every operation.
  ''Having said that, we always need to continue to look at it, to make sure we develop the right standards, that we're abiding by the laws of this country, that we're doing it in a way that hopefully can be a little more transparent with the American people.''
  But he said ''to protect this country'' it was not enough to have operations carried out openly by the military.
  Secret action led by the CIA was also needed ''when you got those kind of operations where, because of the nature of the country you're in or the nature of the situation you're dealing with, it's got to be covert.''
SANDY HOOK AND THE MEDIA
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  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:23
  Fake.The Guardian had an article by the spooky Oliver Burkeman entitled:
  Sandy Hook 'truthers'.
  (The Guardian's circulation has dropped to 204,222 copies sold per day.)
  Here are some of the comments:
  TyroneSandalphon
  "The rifle is the smoking gun"Dr. H. Wayne Carver... stated ... that these bullets were fired from a "long weapon" meaning a rifle...No rifle was found anywhere near Lanza's body or anywhere inside the school...
  If Lanza, killed the children with a rifle [long weapon] and then shot himself with a hand gun. How did this rifle end up back in his car? ...
  TyroneSandalphon
  So far the only physical evidence we have seen, is... bullet holes in a car parked outside the the school...
  Have a look at the helicopter video footage of the crime scene shot an hour after the attack, turn the sound down and tell me what you see...
  It all looks so leisurely, where is all the support?...
  When the school was supposedly evacuated why is there no footage of the 500+ people that were claimed to be in the building?
  CIA?VivaGeorgeWashington
  ...ASKING WHERE BODIES ARE IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY...
  ASKING THE MEDIA TO FOLLOW UP ON THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE SOLE SURVIVOR (Natalie Hammond) IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY...
  indigopete
  Many of the people being interviewed appear to be actors - plain and simple as that. The interviews appear wholly un-genuine. The question is why ?...
  indigopete
  Only a year ago, those who were claiming Jimmy Saville was a pedophile were being readily dismissed and ridiculed...
  indigopete
  ...There are unlamented tragedies happening every minute and yet you choose to defend "the old man who helped protect children in the aftermath" because that's who's you've been told to be concerned about by the world's media.
  It's no wonder the word "sheeple" has emerged...
  If you're feeling overwhelming compassion for the victims and "outrage" at those who challenge the official account of events then you can be pretty sure it's because that's what you're supposed to feel...
  Satanic sign?
  indigopete
  Did criminal cabals in the US government create fake satellite photos of troops amassing on the Kuwait border when there were in fact none?
  Did they coach witnesses to produce false testimony and made-up stories about babies in incubators?...
  Billybobbybob
  Shame Oliver Burkeman can't back up his empty comments with any factual evidence. Boring, predictable response of a paid agent, much like is boring predictable column on a Saturday. Utter drivel.
  WarPigSinFin
  Corrupt governments have staged false flag events to further political agendas since the beginning of human history.
  You may want to start with the following bits of history: Nero's Great Fire of Rome, the explosion of the USS Maine used to justify the Spanish-American War, the Manchurian Incident, Hitler's Reichstag Fire, Hitler's fake Polish invasion of Gleiwitz, US foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, Operation Northwoods, the Gulf of Tonkin incident used to justify entering the Vietnam War, most of the major school shootings including Columbine, and what really happened on 9/11/2001...
  Gene Rosen is catching flak because his story keeps changing. Study the situation for yourself, and you may discover that this "poor old man" is actually an actor who is lying to all of us. Here's a great place to start... http://www.oilfreefun.com/2012/12/sandy-hook-hoax-corrupt-government-gun.html
  VivaGeorgeWashington
  ...Dr. Wayne Carver said that the victims families could not be permitted to see the bodies of their own children? That's conventional to you? Is it conventional for the press NOT to follow up on ACTUAL EVIDENCE (helicopter VIDEO and eyewitness testimony) of multiple shooters? Yeah, sounds REAL conventional. Is it conventional for the media NOT to follow up and at least TRY to get the testimony (or at least confirm the whereabouts!) of the SOLE Sandy Hook Survivor (Natalie Hammond?). PLEASE ENLIGHTEN US!
  Montz Meitzler
  ...My first reaction was oh wow, this is terrible; then, like everybody else, I wanted to see the image of the killer. And we were given it: Ryan Lanza....
  Then the story with the guns changed.
  Then the story with the break-in vs. the suspect being buzzed in changed.
  Then the story about his mom working at the school changed...
  Then we get this faded image of a kid who looks like he's 12 who, although the initial report said his room was neat and tidy, now apparently left a smashed his hard drive and computer in his room. No internet trail. No fingerprint left behind. Still no motive....
  We have helicopter footage of a man with camo pants running into the woods. What's up with that? Oh, police say he had nothing to do with the killing, ok.
  But then wait: there's the smiling and laughing father of the murdered daughter. The odd behavior of the other two parents.
  The police force coming right out and saying that those who begin their own investigations will be prosecuted.
  Odd...this is followed by further inconsistencies, a very unusual interview with the coroner who gives conflicting answers, the oddity about the suspect car not belonging to the suspect, the strange "live crisis" enactment posted on the FBI's website, scheduled to take place on the day of the shooting around the same location.
  Then there's the Facebook tribute pages for the victims, which were made before the victims were even pronounced dead. Or the other one, made before the shooting even began. Odd.
  Then there's the odd helicopter footage. Where are the children being escorted out of the school? And so on.
  VivaGeorgeWashington
  OLIVER BURKEMAN We are APPALLED by your pathetic, ham-handed attempt to obfuscate and cloud the real unanswered questions about Sandy Hook and your lack of diligence in reporting and investigation!
  ... There's ZERO evidence that Adam Lanza committed this crime.
  There are ZERO eyewitness that saw him commit these shootings.
  The public has not been presented ONE cell phone recording, not one 911 call recording, NOT ONE MINUTE of security camera footage!
  We've not seen ONE picture of blood, bullets, bullet holes, broken glass, bodies or even body bags (the parents weren't even allowed to see the bodies of their children...
  The only police audio recording we have indicates that multiple shooters were apprehended and 'proned out' (first reponder's words including 'they're coming at me!') on the floor...
  Who actually witnessed Adam Lanza at the school? Who actually identified Adam Lanza's body?
  Where are Diane Day and Carrie Usher, the only ones quoted as seeing the principal leaving the office to go to the front of the school?
  ...Where the HELL is NATALIE HAMMOND, the one survivor? The last we heard of her she was in some unnamed hospital . . nobody's seen or heard from her since before Christmas - GIVE ME A BREAK!!
  educatt
  ...This is my nomination for anomaly #1, aka raw helicopter footage:
  Montz Meitzler
  F*ck you Guardian, and f*ck your attempt to mainstream your judgementalism...
  ...and what do we have after Sandy Hook? Just a police officer telling us that we will be prosecuted for questioning the official story, after the media and police couldn't get the story right. 4 guns. No, 3. No, 2 and a gun in the trunk...
  And where are the photos? ... how about school's surveillance tapes? Nothing.
  ... Here's a piece of reality: nearly 200 children were killed in drone strikes authorized by the Obama administration...
  LibbyMitchell1
  More controlled media garbage attempting to hoodwink the people.
  Why was an RIP Facebook page to Victoria Soto started on 10th December 2012? That's FOUR days before the shooting.
  The laughing parent Robbie Parker seen on video laughing and then working himself for his speech. How could he start a Facebook page collecting money for his daughter on the day she was allegedly shot?
  Where are the two men who were arrested, one in the wood and the other outside the school?
  Where is the video of Adam Lanza smashing his way into the school? Was the video not working that day just like it wasn't working in any of the underground stations or the bus blown up in 7/7.
  Why did they say Lanza was found with 2 handguns and the rifle was in his car only to say he used the rifle to shoot his victims. Why did they then say he had two rifles and a shotgun with him?
  How did he carry all these rifles and ammo?
  How did he manage to reload the guns so quickly - he discharged 100's of bullets. I belonged a gun club and I can say with certainty you can't reload magazines that quickly. There is no mention of multiple magazines.
  Funny the man arrested in the woods was wearing the same type of clothes as Adam Lanza.
  Funny one of the school teachers mentioned two men running by the gym.
  I have not seen a single actual tear shed in any of the interviews. Lots of touching eyes but NO tears. If it were my child there would be floods of tears.
  ... We don't have a free press. We have controlled media which lies to us.
  BAZZA123
  How is that 6 kids were dropped off at a mans house by a "bus driver" '
  ...I'm just gonna stop here at a man's house who I don't know, but he looks friendly and we can go inside and have cookies and juice...
  The Hero of this story G Rosen ..took them inside his house for over an hour.
  He lived just across the way from the Fire Dept, where everyone was gathering...
  Was the bus driver reprimanded? Did He/She run out of gas? Was this obstruction of ongoing criminal investigation?
PBS Anchor Tries, Fails to Get Al Gore to Blame Corporations for Lack of Global Warming Discussion in Media
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NBC: Chicago Gun Restrictions Ineffective Because of Gun Rights Elsewhere
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Farewell Remarks to State Department Employees
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  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:15
  DEPUTY SECRETARY BURNS: Good afternoon, everyone. Madam Secretary, four years ago, I stood on this same spot and had the honor of introducing you to the men and women of the Department of State. From that first day on, you've touched the lives of millions and millions of people around the world, you have left a profoundly positive mark on American foreign policy, and you have done enormous good for all of us and for the country we serve. We will miss you deeply, but none of us '' (applause) '' but none of us will ever forget your extraordinary leadership, and each of us will always be deeply proud to say that we served in Hillary Clinton's State Department. (Applause.)And so now it's my great honor to introduce, one last time, the 67th Secretary of State of the United States of America, Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Applause.)
  SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. Thank you. Well, just standing here looking out at all of you, the people I have been honored to serve and lead and work with over the last four years, is an incredible experience.
  When I came into this building as the Secretary of State four years ago and received such a warm welcome, I knew there was something really special about this place, and that having the honor to lead the State Department and USAID would be unique and singular, exciting and challenging. It has been all of those things and so much more. I cannot fully express how grateful I am to those with whom I have spent many hours here in Washington, around the world, and in airplanes. (Laughter.)
  But I'm proud of the work we've done to elevate diplomacy and development, to serve the nation we all love, to understand the challenges, the threats, and the opportunities that the United States faces, and to work with all our heart and all of our might to make sure that America is secure, that our interests are promoted, and our values are respected. As I look back over these past four years, I am very proud of the work we have done together.
  Of course, we live in very complex and even dangerous times, as we saw again just today at our Embassy in Ankara, where we were attacked and lost one of our Foreign Service nationals and others injured. But I spoke with the Ambassador and the team there, I spoke with my Turkish counterpart, and I told them how much we valued their commitment and their sacrifice.
  I know that the world we are trying to help bring into being in the 21st century will have many difficult days, but I am more optimistic today than I was when I stood here four years ago, because I have seen, day after day, the many contributions that our diplomats and development experts are making to help ensure that this century provides the kind of peace, progress, and prosperity that not just the United States, but the entire world, especially young people, so richly deserve. I am very proud to have been Secretary of State.
  I will miss you. I will probably be dialing Ops just to talk. (Laughter and applause.) I will wonder what you all are doing, because I know that because of your efforts day after day, we are making a real difference. But I leave this Department confident '' confident about the direction we have set, confident that the process of the QDDR, which we started for the first time, has enabled us to ask hard questions about what we do, how we do it, and whether we can do it even better. Because State and AID have to always be learning organizations. We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to the President, we owe it to the American people. And so I will be an advocate from outside for the work that you continue to do here and at AID.
  So it's been quite a challenging week saying goodbye to so many people and knowing that I will not have the opportunity to continue being part of this amazing team. But I am so grateful that we've had a chance to contribute in each of our ways to making our country and our world stronger, safer, fairer, and better.
  Those of you who are staying, as many of you will, please know that I hope you will redouble your efforts to do all that you can to demonstrate unequivocally why diplomacy and development are right up there with defense; how, when we think about who we are as Americans, it's because we are united and committed across our government to do whatever is required to fulfill the missions we have assumed as public officials and public servants.
  So next week, I would expect that all of you will be as focused and dedicated for Secretary Kerry as you have been for me, and that you will continue to serve President Obama and our nation with the same level of professionalism and commitment that I have seen firsthand.
  On a personal basis, let me wish all of you the very best, whether you've been here a week or 30 or even 40 years, Pat. (Laughter.) Let me give you the very best wishes that I can, because I'm proud to have been a part of you. I leave thinking of the nearly 70,000 people that I was honored to serve and lead as part of a huge extended family. And I hope that you will continue to make yourselves, make me, and make our country proud.
  Thank you all, and God bless you. (Applause.)
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Disgraceful: Chris Matthews Smears John McCain as an 'Angry' Vietnam Vet Having a 'Flashback'
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  Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:09
  Liberal anchor Chris Matthews on Friday stooped to the lowest level, smearing John McCain as an "angry" Vietnam veteran who is having a "flashback." Resorting to the cheapest of stereotypes, the Hardball host attempted to explain why McCain so aggressively opposed Chuck Hagel's nomination to be Secretary of State.
  Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2013/02/01/disgraceful-chris-matthews-smears-john-mccain-angry-vietnam-vet-havi
VA study finds more veterans committing suicide - The Washington Post
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  Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:17
  Every day about 22 veterans in the United States kill themselves, a rate that is about 20 percent higher than the Department of Veterans Affairs' 2007 estimate, according to a two-year study by a VA researcher.
  The VA study indicates that more than two-thirds of the veterans who commit suicide are 50 or older, suggesting that the increase in veterans' suicides is not primarily driven by those returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  ''There is a perception that we have a veterans' suicide epidemic on our hands. I don't think that is true,'' said Robert Bossarte, an epidemiologist with the VA who did the study. ''The rate is going up in the country, and veterans are a part of it.'' The number of suicides overall in the United States increased by nearly 11 percent between 2007 and 2010, the study says.
  As a result, the percentage of veterans who die by suicide has decreased slightly since 1999, even though the total number of veterans who kill themselves has gone up, the study says.
  VA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki said his agency would continue to strengthen suicide prevention efforts. ''The mental health and well-being of our courageous men and women who have served the nation is the highest priority for VA, and even one suicide is one too many,'' he said in a statement.
  The study follows long-standing criticism that the agency has moved far too slowly even to figure out how many veterans kill themselves. ''If the VA wants to get its arms around this problem, why does it have such a small number of people working on it?'' asked retired Col. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, a former Army psychiatrist. ''This is a start, but it is a faint start. It is not enough.''
  Bossarte said much work remains to be done to understand the data, especially concerning the suicide risk among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. They constitute a minority of an overall veteran population that skews older, but recent studies have suggested that those who served in recent conflicts are 30 percent to 200 percent more likely to commit suicide than their ­non-veteran peers.
  An earlier VA estimate of 18 veterans' suicides a day, which was disclosed during a 2008 lawsuit, has long been cited by lawmakers and the department's critics as evidence of the agency's failings. A federal appeals court pointed to it as evidence of the VA's ''unchecked incompetence.'' The VA countered that the number, based on old and incomplete data, was not reliable.
  To calculate the veterans' suicide rate, Bossarte and his sole assistant spent more than two years, starting in October 2010, cajoling state governments to turn over death certificates for the more than 400,000 Americans who have killed themselves since 1999. Forty-two states have provided data or agreed to do so; the study is based on information from 21 that has been assembled into a database.
  Bossarte said that men in their 50s '-- a group that includes a large percentage of the veteran population'-- have been especially hard-hit by the national increase in suicide. The veterans' suicide rate is about three times the overall national rate, but about the same percentage of male veterans in their 50s kill themselves as do non-veteran men of that age, according to the VA data.
Leftists demand 100 percent tax on the rich
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  Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:11
  Published: 1 Feb 13 10:25 CET | Print versionOnline: http://www.thelocal.de/money/20130201-47703.html
  Germany's socialist Left party want a 100 percent tax on anyone earning over '‚¬500,000 and will be including the policy in their general election campaign platform, a newspaper reported on Friday.
  ''We are suggesting that no-one should earn over 40 times the societal minimum,'' said The Left's co-leader Katja Kipping in the party's draft election platform, which was seen by regional newspaper the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung.The party paper said the total tax on those taking home over '‚¬40,000 per month would be used to fund social welfare and investing in the country's future.
  ''Explosive inequality is threatening democracy,'' said co-leader Bernd Riexinger. ''I call capping income at half a million euros a democracy tax.''
  The upcoming campaign for Germany's election in September was going to be one focused on wealth redistribution, said Riexinger.
  The Left, born from a merger of former East German communists and disgruntled trade unionists, has struggled to raise its profile under its new leadership after failing to make political capital from the global financial crisis. It sits in the Bundestag and several state parliaments, but failed to win representation in Lower Saxony last month.
  Tacking hard to the left with its 100 percent tax idea could mean the party has given up all hope of tempting the centre-left Social Democrats into a coalition at the federal level after this September's general election.
  French President Francois Hollande tried recently to impose a 75 percent tax on top earners, but was struck down by the country's courts.
  DPA/The Local/jcw
Disturbing: Burger King Admits Burgers Contain Horsemeat
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  Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:03
  In a piece of highly disturbing news, Burger King has now admitted after continuous denial that it has actually been selling UK customers both burgers and Whoppers that contain horsemeat. This admission comes just after The Guardian reports that Burger King reps offered a round of 'absolute assurances' to customers that it did not ever use horsemeat in its products.
  A series of tests done on the burger products now reveal that Burger King has been issuing completely phony statements, with burgers made for the fast food chain from the Irish company Silvercrest containing measurable levels of horsemeat. It's important to note this is the same company that processes meat for Tesco, Asda, and the Co-op. The managers at Silvercrest have been revealed to be utilizing non-approved ingredients within their burger assortment '' even for 'household brands'.
  Burger King Admits to Horsemeat in Whoppers, Burgers
  Burger King admitted just a few hours ago that the samples did in fact contain horsemeat:
  ''Four samples recently taken from the Silvercrest plant have shown the presence of very small trace levels of equine DNA'... we have established that Silvercrest used a small percentage of beef imported from a non-approved supplier in Poland. This is a clear violation of our specifications, and we have terminated our relationship with them.''
  It is not yet clear which of these top brands could be containing such concerning ingredients as horse meat and other 'meat cut offs'. What is known is that tens of thousands of burgers from suppliers like Silvercrest and others in Germany have been shipped into Burger King alone to meet demand just in the UK. According to the Daily Mail report on the study results, the horsemeat contamination can be traced back to a full year, or at least since last May.
  The investigation into this issue started after the Food Safety Authority of Ireland found that burgers out of Ireland contained horsemeat. The disturbing findings highlight yet another reason not to consumer fast food, which contains a host of problematic substances such as ingredients banned in other nations.
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Red Mass Group:: Obama, Romney, and GOP Technology: A Chilling Analysis
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  BACKGROUND AND SOURCE MATERIALThis article is based on many public sources and several private ones with strong connections to the people who have built campaign technology for President Obama over the past several years. Fortunately, most of the useful information is public, thanks to Engage, TechPresident and Ars Technica. Links to all their great work is at the bottom of this article. (I don't know a single technology person in the Romney campaign and they have revealed little about their operations. But I can tell much of what happened by the public information and the spending reports. I also, as a Romney supporter, used a lot of their public-facing tools.)INTRODUCTION: BACK TO 2008I remember the 2008 campaign between then-Senators Obama and John McCain. In my professional world, we were all buzzing about what technologies would be used, as this appeared to be the first big election where Internet technology would finally play a major role. I had a few friends who were working (though Blue State Digital) for Senator Obama. I knew no one who worked for Senator McCain.
  At the time, web technology was aimed at making a better website, offer some organizing tools, do some analytics, and spreading the word though email and social media channels. There was talk about radical changes to GOTV, but that was a ways off. It was still the "digital" side of the campaign, and new technology didn't flow through the entire campaign operation at that time.
  The first thing I noticed was a difference in technology and resources. First, the McCain campaign only had a small number of people on the digital side (perhaps a dozen). The Obama campaign had many more people involved (close to 100). That's the part people remember. But there was another thing that only we technology folks would notice: different kinds of software. McCain's main website and tools were built on a kind of Microsoft technology that you would see from a medium-sized bank. Obama's tools were simple but flexible "open source" components that were part of a worldwide network of interesting and innovative products.
  After the 2008 election, Republicans saw that they were quite behind the Democrats in social media and a few other areas. They decided that we would have to do better next time. But four years later, we found that we were even further behind. That's right, a brilliant graduate of Harvard Business School with a billion dollars ended up further behind his opponent, who spent less than half the amount of money he did, but fielded an operation four times as large.
  So how the hell did this happen? You're going to find out.DIGRESSION: OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
  There is one big, new tech concept that you must understand that is at the very heart of the Internet software development world. Almost all of the basic components that startups use are free. Yes, after decades of dominance by IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and many others, we are now in a world where free, community-based software is were all the innovation and action is at. I'm serious. For example: almost all of the software components that power Facebook worldwide is free. That doesn't mean you will know how to use it. The metaphor is this: I can walk you in the front door of Home Depot and say, "Take anything you want. You can build a beautiful mansion with what's in here." Could you build a mansion? Probably not. But the materials won't cost you a thing. That's what Internet software is like now. Most of the best stuff costs nothing. You just have to know how to use it. Unfortunately, almost all of the best people who can build those mansions of software are not Republicans. And that's a huge problem. (More on that later.)
  WHAT ROLE DID TECH PLAY?
  Most people think of technology as a website. Perhaps a collaboration platform, like some offices use to post events and share documents. But that is not accurate anymore. I coined the following phrase months ago:
  "We are living in an information technology revolution and politics is the ultimate information war."
  This time, in 2012, Team Obama took technology to everything it did: communication, door-knocking, organizing, voter targeting and preferences, polling, advertising, fundraising, and a whole new level of GOTV. There would be a giant backbone of voter data that would flow through every activity and it would be so knowledgable and so good at predicting what to do, that the wisdom of political consultants would be irrelevant. Here's a great quote from someone at TechPresident who interviewed the staff:
  "The core of the campaign was not flashy or even particularly innovative except in the willingness of senior staff to listen to numbers people rather than to consultants acting on old-fashioned political intuition."
  That's right: this time, it would be hard numbers, not political strategists, that would dictate everything they would do. Republicans heard about this approach months ahead of time and laughed at it. WSJ Columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan was one of the ones who didn't get it until after the election, and then wrote, regretfully:
  "I referred to a recent hiring notice from the Obama 2012 campaign. It read like politics as done by Martians:
  The 'Analytics Department' is looking for 'predictive Modeling/Data Mining' specialists to join the campaign's 'multi-disciplinary team of statisticians,' which will use 'predictive modeling' to anticipate the behavior of the electorate. 'We will analyze millions of interactions a day, learning from terabytes of historical data, running thousands of experiments, to inform campaign strategy and critical decisions.'
  This struck me as "high tech and bloodless." I didn't quite say it, but it all struck me as inhuman, unlike any politics I'd ever seen.It was unlike any politics I'd ever seen. And it won the 2012 campaign. Those "Martians" were reinventing how national campaigns are done. They didn't just write a new political chapter with their Internet outreach, vote-tracking data-mining and voter engagement, especially in the battleground states. They wrote a whole new book. And it was a masterpiece. " [1]
  (But when I saw that hiring notice, I said, "Oh my God - are they really going to apply that stuff to campaigns now?" My mind swirled.)Here's another great quote from that TechPresident article:
  "This campaign had enough data to be able to make differentiated strategy decisions at small geographic levels," one campaign staffer told techPresident. "The unsung heroes were all the team leaders and volunteers who were entering data nightly, and then strategizing with the data coming back from HQ." [2]
  One more item for all those people who keep talking about the value of door-knocking over technology: the Obama and Romney people built technology so that the door-knockers would have info on their phones right before they knocked, and the ability to add data from the door visit into the system in front of that house. Quote from Obama campaign manager Jim Messina: "I mean, the best data for us was things that we collected at the doors."
  Oh - and social media.... if you think Facebook is just about sharing, you won't believe the things the Obama people figured out how to do. Let's start with just sharing. They didn't just figure out who to share stuff with, as both campaigns knew how to do. They were looking at your friends, too, which matters as they figured out that 98% of all Facebook users know someone who likes President Obama.
  "The prototype used a script to check a given supporter's Facebook friends list against what the campaign knew about those friends. The campaign could use the merged data to create arbitrary scores that indicated which of a user's Facebook friends the campaign would like to present with a given piece of content." [3]
  It gets more advanced than that:
  "Applying the same principles to get out the vote, Obama for America asked its supporters who had been signed up for the OfA Facebook application to pick potential voters from among their friends in swing states and urge them to get to the ballot box or register to vote. In the final days before the election and on election day, the application flooded its users with notifications asking them to reach out on the campaign's behalf. Officials told Time's Michael Scherer that a staggering 20 percent of people asked by their friends to register, vote or take another activity went ahead and did it." [3]
  For the youth vote, they realized that 85% of all young voters were friends with someone already in their Facebook database. All they had to do was use their data to figure out which friends of friends were in which states, and then use targeted sharing to get content to them.[4]
  We don't have the numbers, but I have heard that thousands of people were gotten to the polls in this way in swing states. When you look at the margin of victory, you being to say, "Whoa....did Facebook technology hand any of the states to Obama?" I don't know.
  I could go on and on, but I hope you see that this was a level of technology that campaigns had never seen before. (And I didn't even get to their amazing email and fundraising stuff. For example, while Romney had 2-3 million people on their email list, Obama had 16 million. And what percentage of Obama's 16 million got to the polls to vote? 99% !!! So for those of you who think direct mail is irreplaceable, think again.)
  HOW DID OBAMA AND ROMNEY SPEND THEIR MONEY?
  As the old saying goes, if you watch how people spend their money, you see their priorities.
  Ars Technica did a complete breakdown of the spending of both campaigns. (See links 5+6 below) But I will try to sum up the data. Note that it isn't easy to clearly say what is and is not technology, but the exact numbers are not important in this analysis.
  Romney: $23.6 million (at least - not counting some data management stuff that was expensive.)
  They spent money to have other people build and handle stuff, keeping only a few things and a few employees in-house. Everything was software as a service. According to reports, he paid his tech people a lot less than Obama did. [5]
  Obama: $11.3 million
  Obama spent $9.3 million on technology and services. $2 million on internal tech payroll - this is a major and crucial difference from Romney. They paid their people more, though most took a pay cut from their regular software jobs to join the campaign. Obama spent $1.4 million on hosting they managed themselves (Amazon Web Services) - compared to Romney's $21,000. (But Romney probably paid MindShift - a BestBuy company, several hundred thousand dollars for them to host stuff for them.) [6]
  WHAT WERE OTHER DIFFERENCES IN THEIR APPROACHES?Well, for one, Obama's people decided to hire a fantastic CEO from a startup named Threadless to be their Chief Technology Officer. Harper Reed is one weird, but super-smart guy. Here is his picture: (this is one of the less-scary ones of him)
  Can you picture the Romney people hiring someone like him to manage their technology? I didn't think so.
  Other than Reed, the biggest difference was that Romney outsourced his problems for other firms to handle. Obama hired people to build solutions internally. But there were many others. Romney hired firms run by people he had previous ties with. As Ars Technica put it, he hired his friends. [5] When it came to in-house technologists, Obama hired senior people and paid them more. Romney hired more junior people and paid them less.
  Obama's in-house organization was huge! He had 200 digital people - website people, social media, etc. He had 50 more developers and 50 more analytics people. This crew made up about 1/3 of all Obama campaign staff! Romney had a small fraction of that.
  Obama's people used open source tools and proven designs. "Key in maximizing the value of the Obama campaign's IT spending was its use of open source tools and open architectures. Linux-particularly Ubuntu-was used as the server operating system of choice." [6]
  Obama's team changed technologies a lot; they customized; they innovated. They did a lot with cloud computing, while Romney's people used more traditional hosting in Boston and Waltham.
  Obama's team did practice drills for major IT meltdowns so they would be prepared. They had a complete copy of their entire infrastructure moved to the West Coast when Hurricane Sandy hit. (This is an incredible feat.)
  Obama set up a field office in SF for tech help got 100 volunteers and many did serious work and built real applications.
  Obama's team opened up to outside people and the press about what it was doing, both before, and especially after the election.
  Obama's people, before they started the campaign tech effort, toured Silicon Valley startups to find out best practices for the things they knew they needed to do. They wanted to be innovative, but they didn't want to do something that was not already working elsewhere.
  Obama's people decided that instead of trying to combine third-party software services that were not designed to work together, that they would build their own giant data integration tool that would combine everything every part of the campaign knew about every voter, donor, and volunteer into one giant system that all applications could tie into. There is no way to overstate how powerful this was. Every email, every phone call, every web advertisement, every website visit, every Facebook connection, and every door knocker would know everything about everyone and could do individual personalization on the spot. This was what "Project Narwhal" was. It is the holy grail of all political activity. It improved efficiency across the entire country and it probably, over time, won the election for Obama. I don't say that carelessly. (Now you understand what 50 analytics guys can do full-time when they have every piece of data about everybody in America, eh?)
  HOW DID SPENDING AND APPROACH AFFECT EXECUTION?
  Obama's people, who were from the internet startup world, hired heavily from their social networks and brought in people from America's most innovative firms. They brought those ideas and hard-won experience into the campaign. They didn't need to be taught how to create architecture for rapid growth. They knew already.
  In terms of reliability, Obama's infrastructure suffered 30 minutes of downtime for the entire campaign. And zero on election day. Romney's people had some outages, and terrible problems on Election Day with GOTV.
  By building a unified set of data services, Obama's people were able to constantly and easily add new things to the campaign without worrying about the data layer as Romney's people did. Every new application therefore took much less time than it did for Romney.
  Obama's people focused on using simple components that were easy to understand. This, along with their data services, allowed them to create the San Francisco field office and get people contributing and writing real applications to help the campaign. There was no way Romney could have easily added outside help, even if they wanted to.
  HOW FAR AHEAD ARE THE DEMOCRATS IN TECHNOLOGY?
  If we are talking about the tech of the parties in general, that's hard to say. My guess is that the Democratic Party is, in general, a couple of years ahead, based on things I have read. However, in terms of judging the campaign technology of Romney and Obama, I think that the Obama people are at least three years ahead. Probably four.
  But talking about the number of years doesn't tell the whole story. The Democrats already have an entire ecosystem of political technology going on. It's everything from all of Blue State Digital's stuff to NGP VAN to ActBlue to a lot more. Some of the stuff they have built, such as NationBuilder, is available to all. Most is not.
  They have an ethos of using technology to enable individual people to stand up to big corporations and the wealthy. It motivates them to keep moving forward and building new things.
  The other big issue is people. Most of the best technology people in America are either Democrats or non-Republicans. The numbers are startling. Nate Silver covered this issue in an article named, "In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens GOP Campaigns." [7] The donation chart below tells the story:
  But I knew this without even seeing those numbers. Not all my friends in the tech elite are Democrats. But almost none are Republicans. In this state, I know of only one other top technology guy who is Republican - even though I am sure there are some more. (There are all kinds of ordinary programmers of all political parties. But those people are not going to build Narwhal.)
  The reality is that even though the great software developers of America care about the economy and freedom and innovation and don't like a lot of government regulation, the GOP brand is just too toxic. I try to talk them out of their impressions. But they just say, "Ed, they are not like you." (They being the people on TV and in the news.) Also, the high-tech world is a diverse and tolerant culture. Diversity and tolerance are not what we Republicans are known for. If we want to reach out to the technology innovators, we are going to have to change our image and also address some of their policy concerns. (More below on that.)
  WILL OBAMA'S TECHNOLOGY TRICKLE DOWN?
  That's the big question. Much has been written about whether Obama's campaign will give all they built to the open source community, where they got so many of the components they used to begin with.
  The answer right now seems to be no. However, through their social networks, the ideas and architecture are already spreading. Also, they claimed they used components already in use at the well-known startups, and we (computer geeks) already know what those shops are using. (Take Narwhal for instance. I think I have some idea what it would look like. But no, I cannot go build that for you.)
  I imagine that some of these techniques and tools will be shared with the major Democratic players (ActBlue and Blue State Digital) and also that the successor organization to OFA will get some components as well. I don't think state parties will get anything directly, but they may get some of this functionality through the big vendors' state-level products. For instance, Obama's team did a lot with fundraising (though I didn't talk about it) and I wouldn't be surprised if that got transferred to ActBlue, and the Massachusetts Democrats, who don't use ActBlue now for local races, can start using that anytime. (They use it for PACs and statewide races at the moment.)
  WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN?
  There are so many things we can learn from all this.
  - Technology is no longer an add-on to a campaign. It drives all activities in a campaign.
  - Romney's people didn't pay attention to the lessons of the past (2008), when Obama's people struggled with GOTV technology and lots of data issues. (Obama's people were very surprised at this, as these lessons were public.) We must keep up with these things. We must study what Obama's people did in 2012 in great detail. (I have included all good public information at the bottom of this article.)
  - Outsourcing everything means you lose control and the ability to adapt to changing conditions. We need to hire technology guys into party operations and large campaigns and pay them well.
  - We need to build things in iterations, testing all along the way, using simple building blocks. No more building something big for a long while and then releasing it. Too risky.
  - We need to keep up with what the startups are doing in technology and translate those things into political uses.
  - We need to get involved with the online communities that are out there that share innovation, such as Github - used heavily by Obama's team and not Romney's. We also must get a feel for how these places operate so we can build our own Republican communities of technology.
  - We need to stop using so much commercial software and use a lot more free, open source software.
  - We need to embrace the new world of analytics and social science research in voter preferences and targeting. We need to cultivate a network of people who have these skills.
  - We need to discuss technology out in the open. Obama's people let a lot of what they were doing out into the community so they could get feedback and help.
  CAN WE REPUBLICANS CATCH UP?
  The short answer is no. Getting to yes would be a long and hard road. Some of that journey actually has nothing to do with technology. Here is my prescription for Chairman Priebus:
  - Begin building the infrastructure for the 2016 GOP Presidential Nominee now. Start by commissioning some people to create a Republican version of Narwhal.
  - Elevate technologists to the most valuable of all Republican activists. Create nationwide programs to gather them together, share best practices, and produce components. Foster technology projects across state Republican parties. Invite in all kinds of groups on the right, including Ron Paul's supporters and the Tea Party. Nothing unites people like technology projects.
  - Create a nationwide repository for voter data tools that can link to and work with the data from GOP Data Center (the successor to Voter Vault).
  - Start supporting the voter information file from NationBuilder. I know that seems crazy. But the party should have a community of people who use that data and build apps on it. I predict that by 2014, the data and applications in there will be far more valuable than anything in GOP Data Center.
  - Technologists have policy needs that neither party is serving. If we had a platform that included them, they would have a strong reason to support the party. What are these desires? Copyright and patent reform, an open web (build on what Darrell Issa is doing), prevent things like SOPA and PIPA, and increase the amount of high-tech visas. These things - plus California's new high taxes - will help change the perception of Republicans.
  - Start to offer technology training to activists who want to learn computer programming. Do what Code for America does. (They are a non-profit that teaches people to code and then loans them to cities to build applications for better government.) Find people, train them with great free resources like Code Academy, do some in-person training and programming contests, and then put them to work on great projects. There are regular computer programmers who have boring jobs who would love to work on cool projects with the cool stuff that they know is used at Facebook, Twitter, Etsy, and Google. We should give them some opportunities.
  Well, that is all I have to say about this for now. I didn't even cover the whole story or lots of other things they built. But I think this is enough for my fellow Republicans to start taking technology much more seriously.
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  References
  1. Noonan: "About those 2012 Political Predictions" Link here.
  2. TechPresident: "The Obama Campaign's Legacy: Listen, Experiment, and Analyze Everything" Link here: http://techpresident.com/news/...
  3. TechPresident: "How Obama for America Made Its Facebook Friends into Effective Advocates" Link here: http://techpresident.com/news/...
  4. Inside the Cave: The most comprehensive look at the Obama campaigns technology is an astounding 93-page slide presentation from Engage Research, available for download here: http://www.engagedc.com/inside...
  5. Ars Technica: "Romney campaign got its IT from Best Buy, Staples, and Friends" Link here: http://arstechnica.com/informa...
  This is a great breakdown of all the spending that Romney's campaign did on technology. It shows what decisions were made - like buying stuff from friends instead of best-of-breed.
  6. Ars Technica: "How Team Obama's Tech Efficiency Left Romney IT in the Dust." Link here : http://arstechnica.com/informa...
  This is the spending breakdown for Obama.
  7. New York Times (Nate Silver) "In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens GOP Campaigns" Link here: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.n...
  This article makes the case that if almost every top techie is a Democrat, then we are not going to be able to compete in a tech-driven political world.
  OTHER GREAT RESOURCES
  Slate "Obama's White Whale" - Feb. 15, 2012 Link is: http://www.slate.com/articles/...
  This article is about the building of Project Narwhal - a unified database of voters, volunteers, and donors for every application (email, advertising, social media and more) to share everything about everyone. It was astonishing in scope.
  Ars Technica "Inside Team Romney's Whale of an IT meltdown" Link here: http://arstechnica.com/informa...
  This article is about the failure of Orca - the Romney campaign's GOTV platform, that was supposed to be a competitor to some of what Narwhal was doing. This meltdown is the party of the story most people know about already.
  Giga-Om: "How Mobile and IT Mismanagement Failed Mitt Romney " Link here: http://gigaom.com/2012/11/10/h...
  This article has an awesome screenshot of the Orca mobile app.
  Ars Technica "Built to win: Deep inside Obama's campaign tech" Link is: http://arstechnica.com/informa...
  This is a wonderful article with a great overview of the technologies the Obama people used, especially in how Narwhal and Dashboard were built.
  Ars Technica: "Which Consultants Built Romney's Project Orca? None of them" Link here: http://arstechnica.com/informa...
  This article reveals that in-house people built Orca, not outside consultants.
  Ars Technica: "Orca was no fail-whale..." Link is: http://arstechnica.com/informa...
  Here, Romney digital director Moffett says that Orca wasn't that big a failure and admits his company didn't have the talent to build it and that he didn't see the orca code until election day.
  Huffington Post: "What's next for Obama's technology?" Link here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
  This is about the issue of what is done with this infrastructure and if it should be given to other Democratic groups.
  TechPresident "Democratic Politics and the Innovator's Dilemna." Link here: http://techpresident.com/news/...
  This is about the edge the Democrats have developed in technology and the issues involved in managing it and protecting it.
Congress Targets Contractors and Overseas Crimes
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  WASHINGTON -- With thousands of civilian contractors remaining in Iraq and Afghanistan, Justice Department officials want Congress to resolve a legal issue they say obstructs efforts to prosecute any such workers who rape, kill or commit other serious crimes abroad.
  Scofflaw Pentagon employees and contractors supporting the American war mission overseas are subject to federal prosecution in the U.S., but a nonmilitary contractor who breaks the law may fall outside the Justice Department's jurisdiction. Lawmakers who have pushed in the past to extend the reach of U.S. criminal law plan to renew their efforts this session with bills to make civilian contractors and employees liable to federal prosecution for acts including murder, arson and bribery.
  Federal prosecutors believe clearer and more uniform rules are needed to resolve a jurisdictional question made murkier by the end of the Iraq war and the ongoing reduction of troops in Afghanistan. The issue caused problems for authorities during the first prosecution of Blackwater contractors accused in 2007 shootings in Baghdad and could again be a stumbling block as prosecutors seek a new indictment in the case.
  "There still is this great vulnerability if these contractors get into some kind of scrape, some kind of problem, and there's no clear legal path to deal with it. That can be a serious problem," said Rep. David Price, a North Carolina Democrat who plans to reintroduce legislation called the Civilian Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act. "We just need to give this the priority it deserves."
  Previous attempts to close the gap have stalled amid debate over who should be shielded from prosecution and under what circumstances. The House bill didn't get out of committee last session, though similar legislation passed the chamber several years ago. The Senate bill cleared the Judiciary Committee but never reached the floor, tied up in part by uncertainty over how to protect certain contractors and employees, including intelligence agents and law enforcement officials, whose job responsibilities might require them to skirt the law.
  "We should not require agents to pay for defense attorneys and risk jail time at the political whim of the Justice Department," Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the committee's top Republican, said at a 2011 hearing.
  Prosecutors have had some success using an existing law, the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, to target soldiers and military contractors who commit crimes. Defendants successfully prosecuted include Steven D. Green, a U.S. soldier convicted in the deaths of an Iraqi family, and Jorge Thornton, a contractor accused of abusive sexual contact at an Iraq military base. The law also covers contractors and employees for agencies other than the Defense Department provided their roles related to the overseas war effort.
  But Justice officials say that statute, passed by Congress in 2000 in response to a child sex abuse case at an Army base in Germany, is too narrow because it doesn't extend to non-Pentagon contractors whose roles aren't in support of the American war mission overseas. That means contractors with no attachment to the military would be exempt from prosecution. It's easier to establish in active war zones that a contractor's role supports the war effort, but the waning U.S. military presence in those nations will make that case even harder to prove for American prosecutors.
  The last U.S. troops left Iraq in 2011, and President Barack Obama has said the American combat role in Afghanistan will end in 2014, though thousands of contractors remain to work jobs ranging from construction to diplomatic security. The State Department alone says it has 10,000 contractors in both countries.
  "Cases that would otherwise be straightforward can turn into complex investigations focusing not just on the underlying criminal conduct, but also on the scope of the defendant's employment, his or her specific work duties, and other jurisdiction-related facts," Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer told the Senate Judiciary Committee at the 2011 hearing.
  "These inquiries about the scope of a particular defendant's employment can be extremely challenging and resource-intensive, given that they often need to be conducted in war zones or under other difficult circumstances," he added.
  The issue has come up in several prominent investigations, including after the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, when some prison officials avoided prosecution because they were Interior Department contractors.
  It also resurfaced after diplomatic security contractors working for Blackwater Worldwide were charged with opening fire in Baghdad's Nisoor Square and killing 17 Iraqis. The Justice Department brought charges under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, but defense lawyers accused them of stretching the statute because the contractors worked under a State Department contract, reported to State officials and provided diplomatic -- not military -- services.
  A judge dismissed the case on grounds that prosecutors mishandled evidence but didn't rule on the jurisdictional question. The Justice Department says it's seeking a new indictment after an appeals court overturned the dismissal. The judge's decision leaves unresolved the debate over contractor accountability, enabling defense lawyers to challenge any new charges on the same grounds.
  "If Congress wants to be sure, it shouldn't be relying on the willingness of the federal courts to give a generous reading to past legislation. It ought to be explicit rather than leaving things to chance because if there's a loophole any court of appeals in the country may pounce on it," said Eugene Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School.
  The legislation has the support of the contracting industry, which says weeding out rogue members from its ranks creates a culture of accountability, as well as the intelligence community and Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Judiciary Committee chairman. Leahy agreed in the last session to exempt from prosecution intelligence agents who break the law in the course of their jobs, but he balked at extending the same protection to law enforcement officials.
  Geoffrey Corn, a law professor at the South Texas College of Law and former Army lieutenant colonel, said questions of jurisdiction may have been less pressing in past decades when Americans maintained a large military and contractor presence in countries whose legal systems were seen as more credible and comparable to the U.S. judiciary. Now, though, federal prosecutors would rather pursue justice in American courts than leave it the host nation, where prosecution may be ineffective -- or even non-existent.
  In Iraq, for instance, foreign contractors were protected from prosecution until a security pact that took effect in January 2009 lifted immunity.
  "When we started peacekeeping missions, war on terror, there's a huge dilemma that's created, and that is, we're conducting these operations in environments where there is not a mature host nation legal system," Corn said.
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CBS Shills For Dem Senator Accused in Underage Prostitute Scandal, Wonders If It's a 'Smear Campaign'
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Rep. Moore: 'Notion' of Right to Bear Arms Shouldn't Lead to Submarine Ownership
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  Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) was recently seen on FOX6 in Wisconsin discussing the role government has in gun ownership.
  ''Where are we going with this? I mean, do individuals get to own nuclear weapons? Do they get to own submarines, with this notion that they have a right to bear arms? No.''
  I'm not aware of any great clamor of Americans desiring their own nuclear weapons. The laws in place governing the possession, storage and transportation of plutonium and uranium isotopes make that a difficult endeavor.
  But, can you purchase a submarine?
  Actually yes.
  They are quite expensive, but if you have the money you can buy a submarine. There's no criminal background check involved in regards to submarine ownership. You don't even need a license to operate one.
  So, does Rep. Moore's comments mean that she wants to put restrictions on the ownership of submarines?
>> How Republicans got clobbered in tech in two images and a few links - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
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  From a highly informative post, Obama, Romney, and GOP Technology: A Chilling Analysis at Red Mass Group:
  This post is about technology, but is written for a non-technical audience.
  You may think you know what happened with the technology of the Obama and Romney campaigns because of what you read about Orca. You don't know. This article is incredibly long. It will be worth it, and you will never look at technology and politics in the same way. If someone knows where to post or put this so that the RNC sees it, please do so. I am designating this content under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. Distribute freely with attribution.
  Here are two images from the post:
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  Then stay away from sharp objects and ledges.
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Nederlandse marine vindt opvolger Sea King gebrekkig - Het Nieuwsblad
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  De Nederlandse Koninklijke Marine vaart noodgedwongen uit met oude Belgische helikopters aan boord, omdat de fonkelnieuwe NH-90-helikopters vol technische gebreken zitten. Slecht nieuws voor Belgi? Ook ons leger bestelde immers acht NH-90's om de oude Sea Kings te vervangen.
  De krant vindt dat er 'Fyra-achtige toestanden' op til zijn, omdat de levering van de nieuwe toestellen al jarenlang vertraagd is. Bovendien zouden de heli's vaak met panne aan de grond blijven staan en gebreken vertonen. De situatie is zo erg dat de Nederlandse Koninklijke Marine de fonkelnieuwe helikopters voor missies laat staan, en oude Belgische heli's mee aan boord neemt.
  De berichten over de fonkelnieuwe Nederlandse NH-90's betekenen ook slecht nieuws voor ons land. Defensie wil de oude Belgische Sea Kings in 2014 immers vervangen door diezelfde 'gebrekkige' NH-90-helikopters. Kostenplaatje: meer dan 300 miljoen euro.
  Kritiek allesbehalve nieuw
  De kritiek op de nieuwe NH-90-helikopters is niet nieuw. De NH-90 werd al in 2011 'te zwaar, te klein, en slechts beperkt inzetbaar' genoemd door onder meer de Nederlandse en Duitse krijgsmacht. De helikopters zouden minder gewicht en dus minder militairen kunnen meenemen en ook landen op een fregat zou niet lukken.
  Volgens een rapport over Defensie, dat in november 2012 gelekt werd, is de NH-90 bovendien te duur voor wat hij moet gaan verwezenlijken voor het Belgische leger. 'De NH-90 voor search and rescue-taken gebruiken, komt op hetzelfde neer als naar de kruidenier om de hoek gaan met een Rolls Royce', klonk het in het rapport.
  Defensie was er in beide gevallen als de kippen bij om de kritiek te weerleggen. Generaal-majoor Claude Van de Voorde noemde de rapporten in 2011 achterhaald en verklaarde dat de tekortkomingen reeds werden aangepast. De kritiek op de aankoop van de NH-90 werd door hooggeplaatste bronnen binnen Defensie ook genuanceerd. 'Dat is inderdaad een zeer polyvalente heli waar je veel meer mee kan doen dan Search and Rescue. Maar je kan niet voor elke taak een aparte huis-tuin-en-keukenhelikopter aankopen'.
  De NH90 wordt gefabriceerd door een bedrijvenconsortium van Eurocopter, Agusta-Westland en Fokker. Nederland krijgt in totaal 20 NH-90-helikopters, waarvan er inmiddels acht zijn geleverd. Belgi heeft 8 NH-90-helikopters besteld.
A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in recognition and celebration of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. (S. 203) - GovTrack.us
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A bill to require a report on the designation of Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organization, and for other purposes. (S. 198) - GovTrack.us
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aangirfan: CHEMICAL WEAPON ATTACK - DAILY MAIL
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  This image of the article was captured by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton who read the story and thought that it may well disappear given the content. She was right.This was the original Daily Mail link for the article:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270219/U-S-planned-launch-chemical-weapon-attack-Syria-blame-Assad.html
  Syria is not a war caused by 'rebels' within the country just as the Libya 'revolution' was not.
  They are part of a systematic fake 'Arab Spring' takeover of the whole of Africa and the Middle and Near East by forces working through the United States, Israel and NATO (all the same thing if you go high enough or deep enough). I have been exposing this plan in my books for years and what is now happening in Mali and planned for country after country in Africa orchestrated through the US AFRICOM network is all part of this. Watch out South Africa because they want you, too. They want everything because they are insane.They manufacture a different excuse for each new country although with Libya and Syria it was exactly the same.
  'Rebels' funded and armed by the US and NATO (via Qatar) start attacking government targets and when the government returns fire the forces behind the 'rebels' scream through their compliant and ignorant media 'Gadhafi/Assad is killing his own people'. They then use this 'humanitarian' excuse to send the boys in to slaughter the innocent and steal oil reserves and other assets.They did this in Libya and they have been desperate to do this in Syria but it has not been as easy as they thought and so they planned to covertly arrange a chemical attack so they could say 'we have to send in NATO to stop Assad killing his own people with chemical weapons'.
  No wonder the Daily Mail article has been removed so quickly. When their game is exposed they lose their cover stories.
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Benghazi Attack and Ambassador Stevens: Why ''The Sound of Silence''? | Global Research
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  ''Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.'' (George Santayana, 1863-1952.)
  A meticulous piecing together of the events in Benghazi leading to the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, three colleagues and either seven or ten Libyan personnel, on 11th September, has been presented by Mark Robertson and Finian Cunningham, cutting through ''fog'', hypocrisies and misinformation. (i.)
  The events in Benghazi have been presented in the media as a spontaneous uprising caused by rage at the sewer level ''film'', The Innocence of Muslims. However, quoting one of the surviving, but badly injured Libyan personnel, Robertson and Cunningham note his words:
  ''The Americans would have left if there had been protesters, but there wasn't a single 'anti.' The area was totally quiet until about 9:35 pm, when as many as 125 men attacked with machine guns, grenades, RPGs, and anti-aircraft weapons. They threw grenades into the villas, wounding me and knocking me down. Then they stormed through the facility's main gate, moving from villa to villa.''
  The article also points out that this was not an official US Consulate, but a bunch of rented dwellings with little reinforcement of doors and windows as would usually be the case. That soundly negates the claim that ''U.S. sovereignty'' was attacked, justifying in U.S. Administration eyes, as ever, more bombs from the air and ''boots on the ground.''
  Paying tribute to Ambassador Stevens the day after his death (ii) Hillary Clinton, it has to be said, probably explained the reason for his murder to the world: ''In the early days of the Libyan revolution, I asked Chris to be our envoy to the rebel opposition. He arrived on a cargo ship in the port of Benghazi and began building our relationship with Libya's revolutionaries.''
  President Obama in tribute confirmed: ''With characteristic skill '... and resolve, he built partnerships with Libyan revolutionaries '... I think both Secretary Clinton and I relied deeply on his knowledge of the situation on the ground there. '' With hindsight a tragic lack of judgement all round. And what happened to that Nobel Peace Prize?
  The President concluded: ''Today we mourn four more Americans who represent the very best of the United States of America.'' (iii)
  Thus, with US government backing, the Ambassador plotted with a bunch of insurgents and terrorists the overthrow of yet another sovereign government. ''The world needs more Chris Stevens'', said Madam Clinton. ''He would be remembered as a hero by many nations '... in a noble and necessary'' mission, she concluded.
  Clearly there are Libyans in their ruined country who do not see it quite that way. As Iraq of course, they will be ''dead enders'', as Afghanistan ''rogue elements'', and another illegal, ill judged, finally to be defeated, U.S. quagmire looms.
  However, in the immediate, consider some questions. Assuming quotes from the survivor are correct, unprotected buildings, including that or those housing the Ambassador and American colleagues, were attacked with hand grenades, rocket propelled grenades and anti-aircraft weapons, then buildings were stormed and set ablaze.
  Hand grenades blow bits off people, or blow them to bits depending on the distance of the body from the impact. RPGs destroy tanks, yet alone people, anti-aircraft weapons are designed to damage and bring down aircraft. It seems however, the Ambassador did miraculously survive, some of the gruesome pictures are appear authentic. What remained of the others?
  Allowing for the chaos of the immediate aftermath of the attack, the varying accounts are multiple: the Ambassador was killed in the building; he was rescued and driven to hospital, the car shot through the window; he was rescued and carried on shoulders to hospital. On arrival he was breathing but suffering from severe smoke installation; he was already dead '' much later later, he was noted to be covered in soot.
  U.S. planes finally land to collect the bodies. There seems to be no independent verification, no pictures from to be found of this heroic rescue.. Four coffins were subsequently shown at Andrews Air Force Base, their arrival marked by a ''solemn ceremony.''
  Then, near silence. The Ambassador, given the words of the President and his Secretary of State was surely to be given a State funeral. His colleagues' passing also likely to be attended by Washington officials.
  A search finally revealed that the funeral for Glen Doherty, the former Navy SEAL, turned contractor, was held in Winchester, Mass., on Wednesday 19th September. There is no mention of any official Washington Presence.(iv)
  The following day the funeral of his colleague, serving SEAL Tyrone Woods, was held in San Diego, with little national coverage. (v)
  In a nation which lets its grief hang out as no other, oddly, daily searches find no funeral announcements for Ambassador Stevens or U.S. Air Force veteran Sean Smith, with ten years as an information management officer in what has been since 2009, Hillary Clinton's State Department.
  It is also impossible to forget those pictures claimed to be of the unconscious or dead Ambassador being dragged through Benghazi.
  With two deceased shrouded in silence, it is worth noting Germany's Der Algemeiner's coverage of 16th September: ''The blogo-sphere is buzzing with a shocking unconfirmed report, originating from Lebanese based news website Tayyar, that Christopher Stevens, the US Ambassador to Libya was '.... dragged through the streets before being murdered on 11th September.
  The report originally cited the AFP news agency, however after AFP issued a denial saying: ''That report falsely quoted our news agency'', the website apologized, but said its still stands behind the report.''
  The report (vi) is in fact more graphic and explicit, claiming the attack mirrored that on Colonel Quaddafi, whereabouts of whose remains have never been discovered.
  It is still early days, but it is impossible not to reflect on stories recounted by Reginald Keys- who challenged Tony Blair in the 2005 UK election '' who lost a son in Iraq, and of others bereaved, of coffins coming back to the UK encasing stones, not bodies, or a single limb, which the grieving were asked to identify. Both the U.S. and U.K. have been found to have buried remains in land-fill, rather than return them to relatives. (e.g. vii.)
  If there are, as one bereaved American father stated of his son: ''throw away soldiers'', perhaps there are also ''throw away'' Ambassadors and their staff when things go wrong.
  The U.S. Administration has also failed to acknowledge the Libyans they employed who died. When General Taguba was investigating the horrors of Abu Ghraib he was told by an official that the murdered, tortured and abused: ''were only Iraqis.'' Were these allies of Ambassador Stevens: ''only Libyans''?
  In a terrible irony, the air waves have been noting that the last U.S. Ambassador to be murdered, was in 1979. The circumstances are never mentioned. He was Adolph Dubbs, appointed U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan in 1978.
  On 14th February 1979 he was kidnapped by four armed militia posing as police. He was held in room 117 of the Kabul Hotel (now the Kabul Serena Hotel.) All negotiations failed and he was killed an exchange of gunfire hours later.
  The wretched victims in Benghazi are of another U.S. folly. Ironically, Quaddafi's take over of Libya, which at the time of his murder had the highest standard of living in Africa, was bloodless. America's aspirations of democracy, liberation and freedom (read asset stripping) involves unending rivers of blood. Theirs and the decimated ''liberated.''
  There are countless questions surrounding another terrible incident.
  And lessons are never learned.
  Notes
  i. http://www.globalresearch.ca/libyas-green-resistance-did-it-and-nato-powers-are-covering-up/
  ii. http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2012/09/20120912135847.html#ixzz27Btl1UU6
  iii. http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/full-text-president-obama-s-remarks-on-the-death-of-u-s-ambassador-to-libya-20120912
  iv. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57515952/funeral-for-ex-seal-killed-in-libyan-consulate-attack-held-in-mass/
  v. http://www.kgw.com/news/national/Funeral-Thursday-for-SEAL-killed-in-embassy-attack-170373926.html
  vi. http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/09/16/website-us- ambassador-stevens-raped-and-dragged-in-street-warning-graphic-photo/
  vii. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-air-force-used-secret-landfill-site-to-bury-soldiers-6274456.html
Jimstonefreelance.com - The new root of truth.
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  Jim Stone, Freelance Journalist, with extensive help from James Farganne and Darren Brown, Sep 13 2012.
  This will no doubt get plastered all over the web, but like just about anything I put up, it originated here. WE TOTALLY HAVE THE SCAMMING MEDIA BY THE BALLS HERE, WE CAN WAKE UP THE SHEEP WITH THIS, ARCHIVE AND POST!!!
  PermalinkSo how, PRAY TELL, was a U.S. consulate raided there, people murdered there, and butt raped in the name of Mohammed? This is BEYOND wag the dog!Here is the link to the Department of State web site, with a complete list of All U.S. embassies, consulates, and diplomatic missions world wide.http://www.usembassy.gov/ There is one in Libya, obviously in Tripoli. And I will state right now that I have that Embassy page saved and captured, in case someone decides to bury this by faking Benghazi in for a while.To further bolster this fact, Here is Google Maps of Benghazi Libya. Delete Benghazi Libya from the search window, and type the word EMBASSY or CONSULATE there. Because one does not exist in Benghazi, it will throw you to an alternative location near you. Here is the Wikipedia list, no doubt soon to be faked, it will happen fast here Wont last long and if any fakes get thrown in, well, there are TONS of lists out there, and I will just snag another. They can't bury this lie.
  No wonder the Libyans are pissed! Is ANY of this real? Are there ANY embassy raids or riots happening ANYWHERE? This kind of desperate lying would indeed be used if an attack on Iran was SO IMMINENT THAT THE CONSEQUENCES OF GETTING CAUGHT IN THE LIE ARE IRRELEVANT. All they need is to fake it till they make the vote, and then say OOPS, we got the story wrong.
  This begs the question, WHERE did the pictures and video come from? Answer. The U.S. and Israel are so guilty of so many war crimes that this type of footage is commonplace in archives. Since the consulate does not exist, they can put up any picture of any building they want and call it that, and no one is going to say "that is not what it looks like".
  Many of you are worried about what is coming next. They handed us the silver bullet. Please use this bullet to shoot out the heart of the media werewolf, THIS IS THE BIG CHANCE. This lie is SO BRAZEN and SO OBVIOUS that it should be enough to tip the balance and destroy the credibility of CNN, FOX, ABC, YOU NAME IT, ONCE AND FOR ALL WITH ANYONE. Don't miss this chance, because once awaken to the fact that the media really does lie, a blinded lamb will often go bull stomping crazy.
  And with the darkness of this hour, we definitely need it.
  This article has withstood the scrutiny of several people on the forum who worked through the night to protect the credibility of this web site (and I thank them). One of them pointed out THIS ARTICLE, which speaks of the reopening of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli on August 27, which had to be rebuilt new after the war. Don't let this confuse you, there is no Benghazi embassy, consulate, or diplomatic mission too new to be in any record.GO HANG THEM.
  On top of this, the various news agencies can't even get the location of the consulate straight, proof of a bullshit story.The Daily Mail says it's hereAnd the Guardian says it's here (you have to click the little arrow that says next to make their animation work.
  Since the consulate is a fiction, both pictures will do because NO ONE is going to be able to check up on the story anyway. Last I heard, the State Department is no longer answering questions with regard to the embassy, probably because people can't figure out where it really is.
  Article dated 6-6-2012 speaks of a "Benghazi embassy", which in the current wag is being called a "consulate" or "mission".One of the forum members found what may have been a toe dip propaganda piece dated 6-6 2012, where a story of a bombing against this "benghazi embassy" was floated to see if anyone would call the media on it's bullshit. There was no significant coverage of this topic on ANY American news outlet, which I believe is fishy. If you were going to do a test run for a fictitious embassy, it would be best to do it in a limited way. My guess is they floated this story ahead of time to see if it would hold up before using this fictitious embassy for a major propaganda run in the U.S. and I simply do not believe CNNNBCABCFOXASS would not have been ALL OVER such a bombing. No comments from the President? Yeah right! Let's see a photo of this "Benghazi embassy" dated prior to Sep11. Even these articles dated June 6 do not have that, nor have we found any pictures anywhere else.And if this "Benghazi embassy" was around 4 months ago, how long before that did it exist? Why are they calling it an "embassy" in this article, and a consulate/mission in the current rip? How long would it take the state department, Wikipedia, and all other web sites, including ones that update daily, to show this "mission?" Is (a minimum) of four months enough? Oh, I know, it was run by OSAMA BIN LADEN, and therefore was not a favorite, and he is crazy, which is why it has been called a CONSULATE, an EMBASSY, and a "DIPLOMATIC MISSION" in the various reports, three representations so different that they are not the same thing at all! That works in fiction I guess!9/13/12A reminder to Israel - Giving the world ANOTHER Fukushima will be politically unpopular, and this time you WILL get caught, even among the totally unawareThe attacks on the U.S. embassies are virtually assured to be Mossad operationsIsrael has a long history of staging false flag events. Don't be fooled, there are NOT riots all over the Arab world simply because of a stupid movie insulting Mohammed. The Muslims deal with that all the time and are not so thin skinned. It's a virtual certainty Israel is banking on Americans being stupid enough to fall for it, and to fall for it WOULD be stupid because:The first embassy attack came on 911, which is an Israeli terror holiday, and a day of dread for Muslims. It also is embedded in the American psyche, and there really are a lot of "chicken brains" out there who might fall for such a coincidence.
  In addition to this, Canada suddenly shuttered it's Iranian embassy in a very childish and abrupt way, with no provocation to justify it. Look for a false flag in Canada once Israel is done having fun in the Arab world, to turn public opinion against Iran. As it is, many Americans are unable to discern the difference between Iran and Bahrain, or any other Islamic nation. I'd bet a $50 that over half of the war mongering crowd could not find Iran on a globe.
  Then there was the idiotic Hezbollah bust at the Mexican border, COME ON NOW, THAT was stupid! The only thing Hezbollah would be able to get through the Mexican desert would be an old duffel bag on a retired Honda three wheeler. But we just GOTTA have that sleeper cell cover story for that new false flag terror attack likely to soon happen on American or Canadian soil.
  Most importantlyYesterday a report came out of Israel that they had MASSIVELY mobilized their military. And WAY TOO SOON for any "you insulted Mohammed" riots to cause it. All this stuff is coinciding around a singularity in time, a singularity which has Israel at it's center as a probable culprit. And the outlook is not so good. Here is the report out of Israel, which will be followed with my final comments -From Steve Quayle Alerts"My brother and his family live in Jerusalem - he is a minister - his office is close to one of Israel 's largest underground military bases.
  He called me last night which is very unusual - usually it is email.
  He called to tell me that he is sending his family back to the US immediately due to what he is seeing happen within the last week and what he is being told by his military contacts in both the Israel and US military.
  He said he is seeing with his own eyes military movements the likes of which he has never seen in his 20+ years in Israel .
  What he called a massive redeployment and protective tactics of forces is underway.
  Over the last two days he has seen anti-aircraft missile deployments throughout the Jerusalem area including 3 mobile units that he can see from his office windows.
  In addition, he has seen very large Israeli armored columns moving fast toward the Sinia where Egypt has now moved in Armor.
  There are reports of the top military leaders meeting with Israel 's Sr. Rabi which is something that has happened preceding every prior military campaign.
  His admonition is to watch carefully and pray for Israel and its people.
  He is convinced that barring something extraordinary Israel will attack Iran - with or without the US - and very soon.
  It is the belief in Israel that Obama does not stand with Israel but with the Arab countries.
  He has told me before that Israel will saber rattle from time to time but that this time is very different from what he is seeing and hearing.
  He was at the Wailing Wall 2 days ago and there were hundreds of IDF soldiers there. As he was leaving he passed at least 20 military buses full of soldiers in route to the wall.
  He has never seen this before either."
  My comments
  Israel is a nation that won't stick it's neck out when it could get it's head cut off. Iran could easily do that. So expect Israel to use their nuclear weapons as an opening volley, and to do it in a despicable way that levels Iran. Don't be surprised by a death toll over 10 million if Israel goes ahead with this. Israel will NOT target only Iran's nuclear facilities, Israel will attempt to smash Iran in it's entirety, and absolutely will if they believe that a sneak nuclear attack would prevent a single Jewish death. Iran has tens of thousands of missiles capable of reaching Israel, and prior to all of Israel and America's game playing in Syria, there were additional tens of thousands more there. With Syria neutralized, Israel is now free to go in and destroy Iran, and America has already previously stated and agreed that if Iran does even ONE thing to Israel to defend itself, America will step in and smash Iran on Israel's behalf.
  In conjunction with this attack, expect Israel to cut the sub sea internet cable that connects Iran to the outside world, so the atrocities will be slow to be revealed, that is IF they are EVER revealed.
  The following is not intended to be understood by most readers
  There is a way to know if nukes were used, cut cable or not. I suggest now is a good time for anyone who has a storage scope to set it up to capture the EMP signature of any nuclear weapons in use. The EMP signature has nothing to do with the seismic signature. To capture an EMP signature, just go to the hardware store and buy a spool of Romex electrical wire, leave it in a coil, and hook ONE end of One of the conductors in it up to the scope input, and the other end of the SAME conductor to ground. Set the scope up for event capture, and if you have a multi channel scope, set one channel to capture an event that is at 10 mhz, and will be 8 cycles in length, another channel for the same at 1 mhz, and another channel at 100 khz, if available. Romex has 3 conductors. EMP's vary. So that will cover all possible ranges the emp from a nuke could show up at.
  Of course, you will need to put a coil with at least a few millihenries of inductance on the ground side, and perhaps a 1 nanofarad capacitor at the scope input, and that type of setup will want to pick up all types of environmental noise but if you play with it to reduce the noise or build any sort of circuit to tune out the noise it ought to work. If you are the type that would have that sort of test equipment you should be able to come up with something that will work with whatever situation you have. Obviously, if you want to capture the higher frequency, a smaller coil would be used. I am suggesting a coil to mitigate the need for an enormous antenna.
  Unfortunately I can't tell you how strong a signal is going to be, so guess. If you scope has headroom, use it. You stand NO chance of blowing up a scope using it this way because scopes are robust and Iran for most people is on the other side of the world and the signal is likely to be very weak. It will appear as a sinewave that starts with a peak, tapers to a lower peak on the next cycle, a lower peak on the next cycle, down to extinction right around cycle 8. Look at the wave on the front of a Dorito's bag. That is the stylized EMP from the Sumatra nuke. I never got down to the details on that one with this site, but that wave shape on the front of a doritos bag is in fact a nuclear EMP waveform that has been italicized, and it is the one that India published for the boxing day tsunami.
  On your scope, THIS is what you are looking for:
  Of course, this has been stylized, this wave form will be oriented straight up and down on your scope and not leaning, and not italicized. I guess the joke is "atomic crunch". This became the Dorito's logo approximately five months after the boxing day tsunami. This came in at around 10 MHZ because the nuke was detonated under water. Most likely this joke was pulled at a lower level and the upper management is unaware. The "elite" get a laugh out of putting their crimes in plain sight.
  Hopefully if people set up their scopes to capture this, Israel will not dare because if enough people capture this it will not stay hidden, and secrecy for these people is 95 percent of victory. There are a gazillion storage scopes out there, unlike seismographs which are easy to control and censor on account of scarcity. Absent Romex, even a coil of speaker wire will probably do, any coil of wire with an inductance low enough to not block a 10 mhz signal or one of the lower frequencies (I would suggest setting it up for 1 mhz if your scope only has 1 channel) and it will be hit and miss results because there is no way to know the specifics of a nuclear EMP, and if you don't know which bomb and how it will be detonated (air burst, surface burst, sub surface burst) it will take a bit of luck to capture it. Air bursts are asymmetrical if close to the ground, and sub surface bursts tend to be symmetrical and at a higher frequency because the EMP will be shaped by it's environment and a confined environment will push the frequency up. I could go into the why aspect but I don't want to write a book right now and if what I have written here is not clear to you, ignore it, this is meant to be understood by a fraction of one percent of the people out there, which will hopefully be enough to deter Israel from doing it.
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DutchNews.nl - Ernst & Young commissioned to investigate match fixing in Holland.
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  Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:57
  Ernst & Young commissioned to investigate match fixing in HollandWednesday 30 January 2013
  The health and sports ministry has commissioned Ernst & Young, together with two professors, to investigate reports of match fixing in Dutch sport, free newspaper Spits reports on Wednesday.
  Sports law professor Marjan Olfers and criminology professor Toine Spapens will lead the project, which will last three months, the paper said.
  Sports minister Edith Schippers decided last summer to set up the investigation, following on from a hotline she had set up for athletes to report bribes.
  The researchers will talk to athletes, officials, sports associations and gambling bodies in an effort to find out if the problem exists or is widespread in the Netherlands.
  Real chance
  Last June, Labour MP Jeroen Recourt told the NRC there is a 'very real chance' that Dutch football is embroiled in major match fixing. The MP said tips point to corruption centering on the Jupiler League (first division).
  Recourt claimed to have being given 'multiple' tips about match fixing in the Netherlands but declined to give further information.
  In 2010, European football body Uefa said it had not found any evidence of match fixing in the Dutch first division, following reports two matches were under investigation.
  Earlier storiesVery real chance of match fixing in the Netherlands, says Labour MP
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