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Market Collapse In Process? Billionaires Continue To Dump U.S. Stocks, Traders Are Betting Against U.S. Economy!! | InvestmentWatch
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  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:33
  Billionaires Dumping Stocks, Economist Knows WhyDespite the 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast.
  Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for U.S. stocks for quite some time, is dumping shares at an alarming rate. He recently complained of ''disappointing performance'' in dyed-in-the-wool American companies like Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, and Kraft Foods.
  In the latest filing for Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett has been drastically reducing his exposure to stocks that depend on consumer purchasing habits. Berkshire sold roughly 19 million shares of Johnson & Johnson, and reduced his overall stake in ''consumer product stocks'' by 21%. Berkshire Hathaway also sold its entire stake in California-based computer parts supplier Intel.
  With 70% of the U.S. economy dependent on consumer spending, Buffett's apparent lack of faith in these companies' future prospects is worrisome.
  Unfortunately Buffett isn't alone.
  Fellow billionaire John Paulson, who made a fortune betting on the subprime mortgage meltdown, is clearing out of U.S. stocks too. During the second quarter of the year, Paulson's hedge fund, Paulson & Co., dumped 14 million shares of JPMorgan Chase. The fund also dumped its entire position in discount retailer Family Dollar and consumer-goods maker Sara Lee'....No investors, let alone billionaires, will want to own stocks with falling profit margins and shrinking dividends. So if that's why Buffett, Paulson, and Soros are dumping stocks, they have decided to cash out early and leave Main Street investors holding the bag.
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  Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 percent of his stake in the Internet searchGoogle Inc. chairman Eric Schmidt plans to sell up to $2.51 billion of his share in the company, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late Friday.
  http://articles.marketwatch.com/2013-02-08/markets/36990257_1_shares-of-google-stock-eric-schmidt-plans
  Venezuela devalued its currency, the bolivar, the country's Finance Minister Jorge Giordani said Friday. President Hugo Chavez ordered the move from Cuba, the minister said
  http://articles.marketwatch.com/2013-02-08/markets/36989549_1_finance-minister-jorge-giordani-devalues-venezuela
  Could these be the signs of the upcoming market collapse people have been talking about? I don't know, but things could start to get interesting.
  An ominous contemporary warningSomething happened this week that brings back haunting memories of the 2001 put options of airline stocks, except this ''bet'' is against the entire U.S. economy. This week, an anonymous trader bought 100,000 put options on the ETF, which is an acronym for an exchange-traded fund. One commonly traded ETF is XLF, which, in the most unscientific and basic terms, is a group of funds that is like a barometer for the stock market.
  Now, such trades involving ETF-XLF are common, except when the put options (bets that the value of an asset is going to go down) are so large and so significant that they scream of insider knowledge with big flashing lights and arrows. This is one of those. In this case, it is a bet against the stock market, although this is admittedly a rather oversimplified explanation '' but you get the idea.
  According to professionals who watch this activity for a living, normal single trades involve maybe 500 contracts at most. That's why certain professionals took notice of an order this week of 100,000 put options, or 200 times the high trade volume of 500. It become even more curious when one considers that the trader is ''betting'' that the market will take a significant hit by the end of April. (The put options are dated for April 20 and 25, 2013, right around Hitler's birthday, for those of you who follow things like that.)
  Over the last week and a half, high level JP Morgan executives have dumped over $6 million in shares in what experts have described as 'unusual activity'.Anyone believe JPM's October 12th earnings report which beat expectations? Looks like accounting BS engineered to dump legacy positions on the general public.A chorus of high-level executives inside JPMorgan (JPM) are selling down their stakes in the company, in what some experts are citing as ''unusual'' activity within the nation's largest bank by deposits.
  CNBC reports that JPM execs have dumped $6 million in the past 10 days!
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Teen nearly dies smoking fake pot (CNN video)
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  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:20
  Crystal GreenI have been watching the jodi case and I can not believe the lies she is telling about our church and getting away with it. Like about our missionary's telling her that she should ask someone else to baptize her that is why she asked her ex boyfriend. That would never happened unless they felt for some reason she should not be in church. This should be farth questioned. In our church after a young missionary spends so much time to bring someone into the church which in 2 weeks of lessons hours spend with someone it is an honor to be asked to baptize that person. I was a missionary for our church and went out with these young people. I know this seems small but it shows her lieing. Wow I hope others from our church is seeing this also. This bothers me. The reason you are able to go threw with becomeing a member is based soully on trust and your word if you are having trouble with the coffee law you can not become a member until you are over it and feel you can live everyday without it. I am watching her lie about the church to cover her self make you wonder what else. Please call me and hear me out. Thank you for your time.
  February 6, 2013 at 2:55 pm |
Isn't this illegal???
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  W8BNLMemberPosts: 21
  According to a website I just viewed (http://www.catastrophenetwork.org/?p=1027#comment-8562) - they claim to have "developed" a "Standardized Coded Matrix for Prepper Communications". Now as I read the FCC Rules - it states:Sec. 97.113 Prohibited transmissions.
  (a) No amateur station shall transmit: (4) ... messages in codes or ciphers intended to obscure themeaning thereof, except as otherwise provided herein; ....
  But these guys have made available their "Secret" code matrix for PDF download on their website.
  I posted a reply to their article on their page quoting the above FCC Rules but it is "Awaiting Moderation".
  Any thoughts from you guys???
  73 de W8BNL - Tom
  AA4HAMemberPosts: 1061
  I would say it is, their intention is to "obscure" the purpose, intent and content of their communications.They really do not care about Joe Q Citizen listening in on them, they are afraid the 'govmnt will be listening in.
  It would be really easy for them to modify this into becoming a "one time pad" type system. (cipher)
  Ms. Tisha Hayes, AA4HALookout Mountain, Alabama
  KCJ9091MemberPosts: 239
  VD is a good one.
  JerryLow power and crappy antenna but I'm working on it.
  W6EMMemberPosts: 230
  Pactor 3 proprietary source code is not available. Only one source for P3 modems. I see little difference between this and P3, yet the FCC looks the other way.
  KD4LLAMemberPosts: 395
  If "the sh*t hits the fan" are you really going to worry about what the FCC has to say? Of course its illegal, along w/ speeding, smoking in a public bldg, and removing the tag from your pillow. Why politicians keep enacting these laws for I don't know. I guess it keeps some of **us** employed. From my understanding the "average Joe" breaks three felony laws before leaving the house in the morning. I don't have time to worry what someone does on 14.242 Mhz...Mike
  KB4QAAMemberPosts: 1170
  Pactor 3 proprietary source code is not available. Only one source for P3 modems. I see little difference between this and P3, yet the FCC looks the other way.
  The FCC's interpretation is that anyone can purchase the TNC, therefore nothing is encrypted with the intention hiding its contents.Nobody complained twenty years ago when Kantronics introduced G-tor.
  That said, I personally feel that all protocols used on ham bands should be openly published and available for any individual or manufacturer to use. This would eliminate Pactor II/III and D-Star unless they chose to be open.
  -To the original question: Yes, the code matrix they propose is inappropriate and violates the FCC regs.
  K1CJSMemberPosts: 4006
  If the code matrix is readily available for download at no cost, then they're not really trying to 'hide' anything, are they? The question asked was just that. Now, if the code was NOT available except to a select few that belonged to a group that it was next to impossible to join--THEN the intent of the code would be to hide their communications.This question highlights a real grey area in the FCC regs, and as others have said, other freely available coded ways of communications are used on the ham bands--with no questions asked. This code is simply another one of those.
  KG4RULPactor 3 proprietary source code is not available. Only one source for P3 modems. I see little difference between this and P3, yet the FCC looks the other way.
  The Pactor 3 protocol description is readily available. The SCS owned source code to implement Pactor 3 is intellectual property and is proprietary. You are free to write your own program to implement Pactor 3 based on the published protocol.K7RBWMemberPosts: 300
  If the code matrix is published, how is it any different than Q-codes? Like Q-codes or NTS message numbers, it sounds like a way to reduce the bandwidth (or band-length, I suppose) of a message.
  AA4PBMemberPosts: 11146
  However, there is an easy, low tech solution that allows you to safely communicate critical messages without worrying about them being intercepted. The answer is called a ''coded matrix.''It seems pretty clear that their intent is to "obscure the meaning".
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  KCJ9091,didn't quite know what to think of your "VD" reference until I looked at the PDF of the matrix.Hilarious that someone would use the Coded Matrix code (which is VD) to ask "Do you use the Preppers Coded Matrix", I was wondering if someone were to reply "no" but that can't happen...there isn't any "no" on the matrix.There's two codes for "yes" though!
  WX2SMemberPosts: 113
  SI is the code for "No/Not."SI is also the first two letters of SILLY, which this thing certainly is. For a less silly example, see the A B C Telegraphic Code.
  73,- WX2S
  KB4QAAMemberPosts: 1170
  1. Despite the code matrix being on the net, it is not widely known nor accepted2. They state the purpose is to prevent casual listeners from understanding the traffic being passed.3. They state the message may be double encrypted with the code matrix, for "Added security". There is no provision in the FCC regs for secure communications for amateur stations.By their own statements the purpose of this code is to obscure their communications.
  KASSYMemberPosts: 146
  If they have posted the codes and meanings on a website, then I do not think they are trying to intentionally obscure communications. They're just trying to save time, which is allowable.QSL?
  - k
  W6EMMemberPosts: 230
  Pactor 3 proprietary source code is not available. Only one source for P3 modems. I see little difference between this and P3, yet the FCC looks the other way.
  The Pactor 3 protocol description is readily available. Sure, protocols are things like levels, time durations, etc. A protocol isn't at issue here.The SCS owned source code to implement Pactor 3 is intellectual property and is proprietary.
  It is precisely the source code to produce a pactor 3 interchange that is at issue, and makes it an intentionally exclusive mode. A mode only available to those willing to "pay SCS' price." Fine for commerical, encoded exchanges, but not fine for amateur radio.
  You are free to write your own program to implement Pactor 3 based on the published protocol.
  And, just how would I do that? Buy an SCS black box, then try x to the nth combinations of the protocol data to determine ASCI characters and punctuation?Because SCS chooses not to release the code even via a license agreement pretty much makes it something intentionally kept esoteric. Not at all different than the code in question here.
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aangirfan: MISSING DOSSIER ON TOP CHILD ABUSE RINGS
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  Geoffrey Dickens MP, who died in 1995 aged 63, and who had dossiers on top pedophile rings The Sunday PeopleIn 1984, UK member of parliament Geoffrey Dickens gave the UK government a 50-page file detailing child abuse by a top people's pedophile ring.This adds to the suspicion that the top pedophile rings are being run by the British security service MI5.Leon Brittan, formerly the government minister in charge of the police and MI5Geoffrey Dickens was told that his allegations about paedophile rings, police misconduct and abuse of boys in a care home would be investigated.Dickens discussed the allegations with the then-Home Secretary Leon Brittan, during a half hour meeting.The dossier may contain information about the notorious Elm guest house boy brothel in London which was reportedly used by a former Home Secretary and people who had worked for MI5, such as Sir Anthony Blunt.Elm Guest House boy brothel in London.
  Member of Parliament Tom Watson is to ask the current Home Secretary, Theresa May, to find the Dickens dossier and show it to MPs.Geoffrey Dickens handed at least two dossiers to the Government.
  Dickens claimed to have solid evidence of a top people's paedophile network linking Parliament, Buckingham Palace and other top institutions.In 1981 Dickens named top diplomat Sir Peter Hayman as a paedophile.Hayman was linked to the Paedophile Information Exchange, which wanted the age of consent to be 4.Hayman worked for MI6 and was High Commissioner to Canada.
  Geoffrey PrimeGeoffrey Prime was spy for Britain and the Soviet Union; and thus presumably Israel
  He was eventually convicted of espionage as well as child sexual abuse.Sir Peter Hayman reportedly worked for the UK spy agency MI6 and was reportedly involved in child sexual abuse.
  The 'bad guys' have not just infiltrated the BBC, the Daily Mail and the Guardian.
  "At 9.51pm on Wednesday, an email popped into my inbox...
  "It was an attempt to steer me off any further reporting of the online naming of the figure or figures at the heart of the abuse scandal."And it came from a producer at the BBC."
  Spooky David Aaronovitch"David Aaronovitch published his column in the Times on Thurs Nov 8, 2012, entitled, 'Beware of a modern Salem over child abuse'..."Documents in the Belgium child rape and murder case pointed at the involvement of both Belgium AND Dutch politicians, judiciary and police '' all taking part in the Mark Dutroux child abuse scandal, but writers like Aaronovitch will tell you that it's just another 'conspiracy theory'...
  "Aaronovitch has a history of making some rather ridiculous statements...Whether defending the mythology of WMD's in Iraq ... or defending Israel's treatment of the Palestinians, Aaronovitch has a pretty shameless record as an establishment gatekeeper...
  In the summer of 1978, the homes of several Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) committee members were raided by the police.Five activists were charged with printing contact advertisements in their magazine 'Magpie' which were calculated to promote indecent acts between adults and children.
  It eventually became clear that one person had corresponded with most of the accused but had not been tried.
  After the trial, it emerged that there had been a cover-up: Mr "Henderson" had worked for MI6 and been a high commissioner in Canada.
  Sir Anthony Blunt, yet another pedophile spy.Mr "Henderson" was later revealed via Private Eye to be Sir Peter Hayman.In 1981, Geoffrey Dickens MP asked the Attorney-General "if he will prosecute Sir Peter Hayman under the Post Office Acts for sending and receiving pornographic material through the Royal Mail".
  The Attorney-General, Michael Havers replied, "I am in agreement with the Director of Public Prosecutions' (Sir Thomas Chalmers Hetherington QC) advice not to prosecute Sir Peter Hayman and the other persons with whom he had carried on an obscene correspondence."[5]
  Dickens asked, "How did such a potential blackmail risk come to hold highly sensitive posts at the MOD and NATO?"
  He also asked the Leader of the House (of Commons) to investigate the security implications of diaries found in the diplomat's London flat which contained accounts of sexual exploits"[6]
  There was much debate and condemnation in the World's press of these events[7]
  Thatcher with Skye McAlpinefelix said compare:
  Mr. Geoffrey Prime (Hansard, 15 November 1982)
  Mr.[Geoffrey] Dickens asked the Prime Minister whether Geoffrey Arthur Prime's membership of the Paedophile Information Exchange organisation was brought to the attention of the police or security agencies.
  The Prime Minister [Thatcher] replied:
  I understand that stories that the police found documents in Prime's house or garage indicating that he was a member of the paedophile information exchange are without foundation, and that nothing has been discovered to suggest that he was.
  Traitor Prime free after 19 years' jail - Telegraph
  Jan 2001;
  "Prime was also a member of the Paedophile Information Exchange and had a card index of 2,287 young girls whom he targeted by phone. He will be placed on the sex offenders' register and is expected to live in a Probation Service hostel."
  Just fancy that!
  In Pimlico, Dolphin Square has had some interesting residents, including David Steel, William Hague, Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies. Website for this image
  "David Steel was on Radio 4 yesterday, appearing on Any Questions, and stated clearly: 'in all my years as an MP, I never came across a single allegation of child sexual abuse.'
  "I know Lord Steel is old, but has he forgotten that he stood up in the House of Commons to defend the known Paedophile Information Exchange member, MI6 agent, and High Commissioner to Canada Sir Peter Hayman on the grounds that his name should not have been made public through Parliamentary Privillege?"
  rigorousintuition.ca '
  "'He gave us the names of two cabinet ministers he claimed he had sex with,' says Phil Taylor, the People's reporter who negotiated with Fashanu.Anonymous left this comment on the post ""NAME McALPINE GIVEN BY POLICE"":Deaths of former residents of children's homes in Clwyd:
  Robert Chapman, a former resident of Bryn Alyn, fell to his death from a railway bridge.Robert Arthur Smith, a former resident of Bryn Alyn, killed himself in May 1978, aged 16, by overdosing on painkillers.Barry Williams, former resident of Little Acton Assessment centre, Clywd, found dead in a flat where he lived in poverty, aged 21.Peter Davies died 1985.Adrian Johns, former resident of Bryn Alyn, died in a 1992 fire aged 32 in Brighton, Sussex. Verdict - unlawful killing.Heath Kelvin Jones, former resident of Bryn Alyn, found dead in 1992 in a bedsit, aged 18. Cause of death, acute respiratory failure due to solvent abuse.Peter Wynn hanged himself in January 1994, aged 27.
  His teenage friend, Danus McKinlay, was found dying outside the City Chambers building. THE MYSTERY OF STEVEN PURCELL
  Brendon Randalls, former Bryn Estyn resident, died aged 27 from alcohol abuse in April 1994. Allegedly the victim of a serious sexual offence.Richard Williams was found dead in a car aged 18 in July 1994. Alleged to have suffered maltreatment while in care.Craig Wilson hanged himself in November 1994 aged 16.Lee Johns, also known as Lee Homberg , former resident of Bryn Alyn where it was alleged he had been sexually abused. Died in February 1995 aged 37.Mark Humphries hanged himself in February 1995 aged 31. Allegations of sexual abuse against care workers.Simon Birley, former resident of Bryn Estyn, was found hanging in May 1995 aged 27. Allegations he had been sexually abused by care worker.Tony Wallis found dead 1996.Organised child abuse took place at Bryn Estyn Children's Home, not far from where Gary Speed was born and not far from where Gary Speed died.Scallywag Magazine alleged that:
  MI5 used to take foreign diplomats to North Wales children's homes, give them boys to 'play' with, secretly filmed them as they buggered, abused and tortured boys, then kept the tapes as evidence.
  Missing Madeleine McCann in Everton shirt. (thanks toAferrismoon for the link)
  Justin FashanuJustin Fashanu was a top soccer player who came out as gay.
  Justin was the son of a Nigerian barrister living in England.
  When his parents split up Justin was sent to a Barnardo's children's home.
  When Justin was five, he and his brother were fostered by Alf and Betty Jackson and were brought up in Norfolk.
  Justin became the first black footballer to command a £1m transfer fee. (Justin Fashanu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
  In 1990, after his career had gone downhill, due to an injury, Justin claimed to have had an affair with a married Conservative MP.After moving to the United States, Justin, in 1998, was reportedly involved with a seventeen-year-old boy who reportedly accused him of sexual assault.
  Reportedly, Justin, in a suicide note, stated that the sex was consensual.
  On the morning of 3 May 1998, Justin was found hanged in a deserted lock-up garage, in Shoreditch, London, after reportedly visiting Chariots Roman Spa, a local gay sauna.
  "'He gave us the names of two cabinet ministers he claimed he had sex with,' says Phil Taylor, the People's reporter who negotiated with Fashanu."
  Justin's niece. BBC's gay footballers documentary scores high in ratings Gay Star ..."John and Justin were born and raised in the UK, living with foster parents for a significant period of their youth. John grew up with a speech problem and to him Justin wasn't just an older brother. He was also his confidante, best friend and role model.
  "Sadly, as their lives developed and they both became professional footballers, their relationship became strained. Most significantly in 1990, when Justin took the radical, but very courageous decision to "come out" openly in the press with his homosexuality."
  BBC - BBC Three - Blog: Britain's Gay Footballers
  The following is from a forum discussing the "Stephen Milligan MP & Justin Fashanu Murders"."It was alleged at the time by Scallywag magazine that Stephen Milligan was originally approached by the security services to attempt to dissuade a well-known footballer coming towards the end of his career from continuing to hawk his story of gay sex sessions with two then serving cabinet ministers around Fleet Street.
  "Milligan was a well respected MP and part time journalist.
  Milligan allegedly approached the footballer who was not prepared to drop his attempts to sell the story."Milligan allegedly reported back to the security services who informed Milligan that unless the footballer did keep matters quiet he would be eliminated.
  "Apparently there was more to the story than simply the gay sex aspect, the introduction of the footballer to the cabinet ministers was allegedly arranged by a third party who had very close links with an extremely powerful paedophile ring.
  "The implication was that the cabinet ministers may also have been involved with the paedophile ring although this was not confirmed in the Scallywag report, however it was very clearly hinted at...
  "The cabinet ministers involved were very high profile indeed and the alleged paedophile link, if revealed, would have had a catastrophic effect on not only public confidence in domestic government but would have had repercussions on the image of Britain right around the world...
  "Milligan was allegedly informed by the security services that, his efforts at dissuasion having failed, the footballer would be killed with his death being made to look like an accident.
  Milligan then allegedly threatened the security services that, if anything happened, he would tell the whole story to The Sunday Times."Shortly afterwards Stephen Milligan died, having apparently hanged himself..."
  ~~Wilhelm '
  "Newsnight was going to tell us, but didn't, about a senior conservative who worked for the Thatcher government who was a child molester.
  "Maybe the BBC is planning a tribute over Christmas to Lord McAlpine and Derek Laud, just like they did with Jimmy Savile."
  Calls grow for a wider public inquiry on child protectionSpectator.co.uk (blog) - 6 Nov 2012
  Vincent S. aged 10 yrs, from Grafton Children's Home, was taken to Elm Guest House and to a house in Bexhill.ELM GUEST HOUSE; STINGEMORE; McSWEENEY...The Missing Masonic Child Abuser - Rebecca Television
  REBECCA publishes Britain's first ever Masonic Directory.
  http://www.christian.org.uk/wp-content/downloads/lost-out-of-care.html
Beyonce's Half Time Ritual EXPOSED! (The Real Occult Translation)
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  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:56
  I guess the heat from exposing Beyonce & the NFL falls on me yet again. This website, which I have created, is evil. It is not good for people to read. After each post, I am waking up with scratches all over my body. I beg you; get off this HollywoodIlluminatiDotCom.
  In fact, this is the last post. I AM BACK IN RETIREMENT!
  O.k. This is what happened in the New Orleans Superdome & I really had this post written days ago but thought twice about publishing it. I think Alex Jones did the best & his team (infowars) knew the most but you have be to a very well-trained student of deep magick to decode the meanings of these rituals & even Beyonce didnt notice certain things because while Beyonce did one ritual, for a short time during her Destiny Childs performance, there was a larger ritual, which she wasnt aware of, that was taking place.
  The Illuminati is getting so hard core and ''insider'' that it is just to point that one has to know what they are looking at. When I watch these rituals, I don't simply see the symbols and hear the music but there's an actual language being spoken. Like ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, the symbols aren't pretty little pictures that one puts together like a puzzle but instead the symbols project a spoken language into the mind of the viewer, just as clear as if someone was standing up in a University Class Hall and giving a lecture.
  The reason why the ancients used symbols is because the spoken language is a limitation of thought. What would take an entire chapter of a book to explain by writing words, can be summed up with the use of symbols.
  Lucifer has the world under a spell & for some strange reason people, since the beginning of time, have always thought that Lucifer was someone that could be bargained with.
  Decade after decade, since the 1900'²s in the U.S., we see these desperate peasants getting promised fame & political fortune, if they would only put this or that policy into place. We got The Federal Reserve through this weakness & corruption.
  BEYONCE'S NFL RITUAL'...'...BEYOND THE PYRAMID HAND SIGN
  In Beyonce's Half Time Show, we see many inverted Pyramids, which means a ''die off''. We see the opening with certain people being allowed to rush the stage and be near Beyonce, while she is performing.
  Unlike the Madonna's Half Time Show where we saw the audience participating with the holding up of lights, in Beyonce's half time show, we only see Beyonce and these mindless followers, who are holding up the pyramid sign and feeling like the luckiest people alive because they were allowed to be near the ''Beyonce''.
  Remember that while Madonna's Ritual looked like it was about ''Love & Peace'' it was really about world-wide acceptance of Lucifer & a world wide war. The U.N./NATO/EU and US has invaded nearly every country on this planet, since Madonna's Ritual. The US Pentagon invaded, just last month, over 40 countries in Africa alone. Lucifer makes something look one way but it always turns out to mean something else.
  She (Beyonce) is not a member of the public, she isnt representing a Freemason or member of the so called ''super political/media class'' but instead Beyonce is being used to represent the top level Illuminati Elite in this ritual. She is dam near being used to represent Lucifer himself! Lucifer in the flesh!
  What this ''super class'' of audience break off, which were allowed to rush the stage at the start of the ritual, doesn't realize is that while they hold up the Pyramid and hang on to this hope of being included in this New World Order of Lucifer, the pyramids coming down from the Super dome and hitting the stage are inverted at the start of the NFL Show & ITS THE MAIN PYRAMID'....AN INVERTED PYRAMID. Go back and watch the light formation at the start of Beyonce's Ritual.
  What they also fail to realize is that while they may feel special and a part of the ''super class'' is that Beyonce is at one point, standing in the middle of an occult circle, that is made up of flames.
  An occult circle of flames, is basically used in occult to protect the magician that has called upon Lucifer, which means that anything within the circle is protected, while these demonic entities are allowed to unleash their evil onto anything outside the circle or on a direct target that is set by the magician.
  Notice that Beyonce is in the circle (with Kelly Rowland and Michelle) and the supposedly ''super class'' is not within this circle.
  What does this mean? It means just what I said it means; which is that hardly no one from this ''super class'' is standing in this circle. The so called ''super class'' that serves Lucifer are next up on his list for target.
  So, for all of you people in politics, CIA, media, religious fields, academic/technology fields and Hollywood that think your phone will ring & that Lucifer will usher you off into secret under ground bases as he outlines to you a bio-weapon or nuclear holocaust? Well, think again.
  The Pyramid is inverted via the lighting arrangement. The public has disappeared into the tip of the pyramid, which is now at the bottom, while the wider base of the pyramid is now at the top.
  Beyonce is the ''elite'' protected in the magical circle, and the wannabe elites or supposedly ''super class'' are not allowed within this circle but are instead left unprotected, along with oohing, ahhing and holding up a now irrelevant pyramid, from an era (present day), that is now being made obsolete in the New World Order.
  We even see Beyonce, the metaphor used to represent the top level elites aka The Illuminati, multiplying and re-populating as the lights go out on the ''Super Class'' & general public. This again means a ''die off'' of the world & the re-populating of Lucifer's children. There is even the Black & White Freemason Back Drop.
  All of the pyramid hand signs and Freemason bullshit is a some what fake out. They have absolutely nothing to do with the actually encrypted occult ritual.
  The Super dome was plunged into darkness for 33 minutes by Beyonce and all I hear are these 33rd Degree Freemasons, that work in the media, entertainment, government & athletic fields appearing to think that this was some type of compliment and a recognition of power by the REAL elites. Ummm'....oh boy. How sad are you people? How pathetic? How misled? How naive?
  Every idiot and their mama in entertainment, government and sports is a 33rd Degree Freemason but yet Beyonce, who is used to represent the top level elites or Illuminati not only tossed you away into darkness but basically the intricate details of this Half Time Ritual is to inform these Freemasons and supposedly ''Super Class'' that the real inner Illuminati and New World Order doesn't intend to include nor protect them.
  So, what is this ritual calling for? An inverted pyramid of lights, the audience unseen and left in darkness, with about 100 chosen people left drooling at the stage & holding up a pyramid sign as Beyonce reflects the pyramid sign back; while being protected from those adoring fans in a magical circle made up of flames? NUCLEAR WAR!
  Nuclear war will come in the dead of night. They will not call Hollywood Elites, they will not call Lords, they will not call media elites nor will they call the President of the U.S. or Beyonce; to be hidden away in under ground shelters. YOU ALL WILL DIE! POW BITCHES! LUCIFER IS ONE DIRTY ASS BASTARD'.....HUH?
  That's how you break down a ritual! That's how you break down a ritual!
House panel to reintroduce controversial cyber bill, setting up White House fight
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  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:40
  The leaders of the House Intelligence Committee plan to re-introduce on Wednesday a controversial cybersecurity bill that has faced pushback from the White House.
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said Friday that they plan to re-introduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) next week during a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The bill is aimed at improving information-sharing about cyber threats between government and industry so cyberattacks can be thwarted in real time.
  The bill that Rogers and Ruppersberger plan to introduce next week will be identical to the version of CISPA that passed the House last spring.
  The White House issued a veto threat against CISPA before it was taken up on the House floor last year, saying the president's top advisers would recommend that he veto the bill if it came to his desk. It's unclear whether the White House would issue a similar threat this time around due to its concern over a lack of privacy protections in the bill.
  A spokeswoman for the White House did not respond to a request for comment on what action it planned to take.
  The bill would allow the government, namely the intelligence community, to share classified cyber threat information with the private sector so companies can protect their computer systems and networks from cyberattacks. It would also encourage companies to share anonymous cyber-threat information with one another, and provide liability protection for businesses so they don't get hit with legal action for sharing data about cyber threats. From left to right: House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) and Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). The two plan to reintroduce CISPA legislation during a speech next week | File photos, Greg Nash/The HillIn a statement, Rogers said the recent cyberattacks against U.S. banks and newspapers have highlighted the need for Congress to pass the information-sharing bill.
  ''American businesses are under siege," Rogers said. "We need to provide American companies the information they need to better protect their networks from these dangerous cyber threats. It is time to stop admiring this problem and deal with it immediately.''
  The bill was "developed in close consultation with a broad range of private sector companies, trade groups, privacy and civil liberties advocates, and the executive branch," according to the House Intelligence Committee leaders.
  Last year CISPA enjoyed support from a range of industry groups and companies, including Facebook, AT&T and Oracle. But civil-liberties groups and privacy advocates rallied hard against CISPA last year, arguing that the measure lacked sufficient privacy protections and would increase the pool of people's electronic communications flowing to the military and secretive National Security Agency.
  Despite the veto threat and pushback that CISPA received, the bill boasted 112 co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle and cleared the House. The bill went untouched in the Senate, largely because the upper chamber was working on its own comprehensive measure last year.
  In a speech earlier this week, Rogers attempted to head off the privacy concerns raised about the bill last year.
  "We're talking about exchanging packets of information, zeroes and ones, if you will, one hundred millions times a second," he said. "So some notion that this is a horrible invasion of content reading is wrong. It is not even close to that."
  But privacy and civil-liberties advocates expect to revive their efforts to fight against the bill this year. Michelle Richardson, a legislative counsel in the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington office, argued that CISPA opponents have the White House veto threat on their side. Privacy advocates also backed the information-sharing section of a cybersecurity bill in the Senate last year, which the House Intelligence Committee could use as a template for their legislation, she said.
  "I think it's a different ballgame this time," Richardson said. "I feel emboldened after what happened in the Senate last fall and [with] the veto threat."
  "I don't think this sort of broad and unaccountable approach to information sharing [legislation] is going to go anywhere," she added.
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  Stylish baskets that hold everything from Chimay to Chihuahuas.'--Jen Sherry
  This lightweight bamboo-slat basket attaches via a quick-release handlebar mount, making removal a snap. At the beach? Chain your bike to a boardwalk rack, remove the basket, and throw the shoulder strap over your head to carry your towel, sundries, and Hollywood trash rag down to the sand for a day of sun, surf, and relaxation.
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BBC World Service - Hillary Clinton's Journey, Hillary Clinton's Journey
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  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:08
  BBC State Department Corresponenet Kim Ghattas analyses Hillary Clinton's record as America's chief diplomat and conducts an in-depth interview about her past, present and future. She talks to insiders, Clinton's diplomatic counterparts and critics, to chart how Mrs Clinton swiftly changed direction from the chief rival to Barack Obama to his most loyal lieutenant. Kim charts the Secretary of State's incredible work rate, with her visits to 112 countries and 2,000 hours in the air. Influential figures like the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu praise her record, describing her as "a person who listens carefully. Being a Secretary of State of a global power sometimes seems to be easy because you are representing a global power but it has its own difficulties." Others, like Elliot Abrams, deputy national security advisor under George W Bush are less impressed. "I don't think that Secretary Clinton has been a very consequential Secretary of State," he says. "I think she'll be remembered mostly as a celebrity. And as a world traveller, you know the person with the greatest number of frequent flyer miles."
  Finally, we hear from Mrs Clinton herself, who gives her views on US foreign policy and reveals the tension behind tricky diplomatic moments, like the defection of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. Despite speculation that she will run for the presidency, she will only reveal her short-term plans '' to catch up on sleep and on watching TV home improvement shows.
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Documents: Alleged San Jose Bomber Suffers From Mental Illness
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  (NBCNews) '' Court documents obtained by NBC Bay Area on Friday reveal the troubled past of the San Jose man charged with targeting an Oakland bank because he was waging a jihad on America: the one-time window washer suffered from bipolar disease and substance abuse, along with being paranoid that people were out to get him.
  The FBI arrested Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, on Friday after they said he tried to bomb a Bank of America in Oakland, not knowing that the bomb was fake and he had been the target of an undercover operation for months. His federal public defender declined comment.
  However, one civil rights expert, Zahra Billoo, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Santa Clara, said that this smells of entrapment and is especially upsetting because the defendant has mental health issues.
  ''Did the FBI take a [mentally ill] aspirational terrorist, make him an operational terrorist and then thwart their own plot?'' Billoo asked. ''CAIR has been saying this for years now: It's the FBI's job to stop operational terrorists. It's not the FBI's job to enable aspirational ones.''
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AUDIO: Foxes 'a big problem' - councillor
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Los Angeles Police to Reopen Dorner Case
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  LOS ANGELES '-- The Los Angeles Police Department will reopen its investigation into the 2007 episode that led to the firing of Christopher J. Dorner, the former police officer who is wanted in three killings, department officials said Saturday night.
  Mr. Dorner pledged revenge against Los Angeles police officers in a manifesto he posted online, in which he also claimed that racism in the department had led to his dismissal. He is wanted in connection with the killing of a former police captain's daughter and her fianc(C) last Sunday and the shooting death of a Riverside, Calif., police officer on Thursday morning.
  ''I am aware of the ghosts of the L.A.P.D.'s past, and one of my biggest concerns is that they will be resurrected by Dorner's allegations of racism within the department,'' Chief Charlie Beck said in a written statement.
  ''Therefore, I feel we need to also publicly address Dorner's allegations regarding his termination,'' he said. ''I do this not to appease a murderer. I do it to reassure the public that their Police Department is transparent and fair in all the things we do.''
  The killings and Mr. Dorner's online manifesto have reopened old wounds for some black residents here, even as they condemned the violence. For decades, the Los Angeles Police Department was known nationwide for racism and corruption. And memories are still fresh of the riots in 1992 that followed the beating of a black man, Rodney King, by white police officers. The beating was caught on videotape and broadcast around the country.
  In explaining why he chose to reopen Mr. Dorner's case, Chief Beck acknowledged his department's difficult history.
  ''The Los Angeles Police Department has made tremendous strides in gaining the trust and confidence of the people we serve,'' he said in his statement, and he conceded that ''Dorner's actions may cause a pause in our increasingly positive relationship with the community.''
  Mr. Dorner, who joined the Police Department in 2005, was fired in 2008 for giving false statements, after he accused his training officer of kicking a suspect. He sued the department for wrongful termination, and lost at trial and again on appeal.
  The decision to review Mr. Dorner's termination marks a reversal from the tone Chief Beck struck just two days ago, when he was asked about Mr. Dorner's accusations of racism at a news conference.
  ''You're talking about a homicide suspect who has committed atrocious crimes,'' he said. ''If you want to give any attribution to his ramblings on the Internet, go right ahead. But I do not.''
  Asked about Mr. Dorner's efforts to clear his name, Chief Beck said, point blank, ''It's not going to happen.''
  Joe Domanick, at professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, and author of ''To Protect and To Serve,'' a history of the Los Angeles Police Department, said that Chief's Beck and his predecessor as police chief, William Bratton, had gone a long way toward repairing relations with the black and Latino communities in Los Angeles.
  But, he added, ''Old suspicions die hard.''
  ''The history of the L.A.P.D. with the African-American community has been so fraught with mistrust and abuse and hatred on both sides,'' Mr. Domanick said. ''Charlie Beck is a very savvy guy, who really understands community relations and community policing. Right now, it's in his interest to quell these rumors.''
  An episode on Thursday morning, in which two women delivering newspapers in Torrance, Calif., were shot by Los Angeles police officers who mistook their vehicle for Mr. Dorner's pickup truck, made the need for Chief Beck to reach out to the community even greater, Mr. Domanick said.
  One of the women, Emma Hernandez, 71, who was struck by two bullets in her back, was released from the hospital on Friday night, according to her lawyer. Her daughter, Margie Carranza, 47, suffered an wound to her hand. Chief Beck met with the two women on Saturday and told them that the department had arranged for the donation of a new truck for them, Cmdr. Andrew Smith said.
  Their lawyer, Glen T. Jonas, said their pickup truck was hit with dozens of rounds, though he could not confirm exactly how many. Los Angeles police officers were investigating the shooting, officials said, and would not release details.
  Police officials here on Saturday also announced the formation of a task force that will bring together officers from Los Angeles, Irvine, and Riverside as well as from the F.B.I., the United States Marshal Service and other agencies in the hunt for Mr. Dorner.
  The search has already taken law enforcement officers from dozens of agencies, including from San Diego and Riverside and Nevada.
Greek police Photoshop away bruises in mug shots, prompting public outcry | The Verge
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  A Greek prosecutor has asked for an investigation into whether retouched mug shots are covering up evidence of police brutality, Reuters reports. Earlier in February, four young men were arrested during an attempted armed bank robbery, and photos taken at the time of their arrest show heavy bruises or split lips. Mug shots released not long afterwards, though, didn't match up '-- they'd been poorly Photoshopped, with injuries apparently gone.
  Critics have accused police of singling out and beating the suspects, then altering photographs to downplay the extent of their injuries. "My son '-- and the others arrested '-- was not treated like every other law violator but with particular hatred because he is an anarchist," says the mother of one of the suspects. Two of the men are accused of being part of the Conspiracy of Fire Cells, an anarchist group linked with several firebombings.
  "If they hadn't been Photoshopped... then the photos wouldn't have been published in the first place."
  The police aren't denying the injuries, but they say they were incurred during the arrest, not as retribution. Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias also defended the use of Photoshop. "If they hadn't been Photoshopped," he said, "in order to make them resemble an image that the average person would recognize them in, then the photos wouldn't have been published in the first place."
Federal Register | Unexpected Urgent Refugee and Migration Needs Relating to Syria
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  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 2(c)(1) of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (the ''Act''), as amended (22 U.S.C. 2601(c)(1)), I hereby determine, pursuant to section 2(c)(1) of the Act, that it is important to the national interest to furnish assistance under the Act, in an amount not to exceed $15 million from the United States Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund, for the purpose of meeting unexpected urgent refugee and migration needs, including by contributions to international, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations and payment of administrative expenses of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the Department of State, resulting from the crisis in Syria.
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Manhunt for Ex-Cop, Reservist Accused of Killing 3
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:29
  LOS ANGELES -- A fired police officer who threatened to bring "warfare" to the Los Angeles Police Department went on a shooting rampage that left a policeman and two others dead and set off an extraordinary manhunt that had three states and Mexico on alert.
  The search Thursday for Christopher Dorner led hair-trigger officers to mistakenly shoot at innocent citizens and forced police to guard their own.
  But the focus of police efforts shifted Thursday afternoon to the snowy mountains around Big Bear Lake, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) east of Los Angeles, where police found Dorner's burned-out pickup truck and tracks leading away from the vehicle.
  San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said 125 officers were going door to door and attempting to track the suspect, and that a SWAT team was providing added security to those in the community. Schools were put on lockdown while investigators examined the vehicle and spread out across the area.
  "He could be anywhere at this point, and that's why we're searching door to door," McMahon said, adding that the manhunt would continue "as long as we can." A snow storm was expected in the region with temperatures dipping into the teens overnight.
  Said LAPD Assistant Chief Michel Moore: "This complex and violent investigation has led to this mountain."
  The pickup was to be processed at a crime lab Thursday evening and examined by investigators from multiple agencies.
  Throughout the day, thousands of heavily armed officers patrolled highways throughout Southern California, while some stood guard outside the homes of people police say Dorner vowed to attack in a rant posted online. Electronic billboards, which usually alert motorists about the commute, urged them to call emergency services if they saw him.
  "I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" to Los Angeles Police Department officers, on or off duty, said the manifesto. It also asserted: "Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared. That's what this is about, my name. A man is nothing without his name."
  Dorner, 33, had several weapons including an assault rifle, said police Chief Charlie Beck, who urged him to surrender at a news conference held amid heightened security in an underground room at police headquarters.
  "Of course he knows what he's doing; we trained him. He was also a member of the armed forces," he said. "It is extremely worrisome and scary."
  The nearly 10,000-member LAPD dispatched officers to protect more than 40 potential targets, including police officers and their families. The department also pulled officers from motorcycle duty, fearing they would make for easy targets.
  "I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I'm terminating yours," the manifesto said.
  At one point, officers guarding one location mistakenly opened fire on a pickup truck, believing it matched the description of Dorner's dark-colored 2005 Nissan Titan. Two occupants were injured.
  The chief said there had been a "night of extreme tragedy in the Los Angeles area" and that the department was taking measures to ensure the safety of officers.
  The search for Dorner, who was fired from the LAPD in 2008 for making false statements, began after he was linked to a weekend killing in which one of the victims was the daughter of a former police captain who had represented him during his disciplinary hearing. Thursday was the anniversary of his first day on the job at the department eight years ago.
  Monica Quan and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, were found shot in their car at a parking structure at their condominium on Sunday in Irvine. Quan, 28, was an assistant women's basketball coach at Cal State Fullerton. Lawrence, 27, was a public safety officer at the University of Southern California.
  Police said Dorner implicated himself in the couple's killings in the manifesto posted on Facebook. They believe he was the one who wrote it because there were details in it only he would know.
  In the post, Dorner wrote that he knew he would be vilified by the LAPD and the news media, but that "unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name."
  Dorner was with the LAPD from 2005 until 2008.
  According to documents from a court of appeals hearing, Dorner was fired from the LAPD after he made a complaint against his field training officer, Sgt. Teresa Evans. Dorner said that in the course of an arrest, Evans kicked suspect Christopher Gettler, a schizophrenic with severe dementia.
  Richard Gettler, the schizophrenic man's father, gave testimony that supported Dorner's claim. After his son was returned home on July 28, 2007, Richard Gettler asked "if he had been in a fight because his face was puffy" and his son responded that he was kicked twice in the chest by a police officer.
  Quan's father, a former LAPD captain who became a lawyer in retirement, represented Dorner in front of the Board of Rights, a tribunal that ruled against Dorner, police said. Randal Quan retired in 2002 and later served as chief of police at Cal Poly Pomona before he started practicing law. Quan did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
  Dorner said in his online rant that after his dismissal that he lost everything, including his relationships with his mother, sister and close friends.
  "Self-preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago," the manifesto said. "I was told by my mother that sometimes bad things happen to good people. I refuse to accept that."
  Dorner said he would use all of his training to avoid capture and track his targets.
  Dorner also had served in the Naval Reserves, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records, and took a leave from the LAPD and deployed to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007.
  "I will utilize every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordinance and survival training I've been given," the manifesto read. "You have misjudged a sleeping giant."
  Earlier Thursday, two LAPD officers en route to provide security to one of Dorner's possible targets, were flagged down by a resident at a gas station in Corona who reporting seeing the suspect. The officers then followed a pickup truck until it stopped. The driver, believed to be Dorner, got out and fired a rifle, police said. A bullet grazed an officer's head.
  Later, two officers on routine patrol in neighboring Riverside were ambushed at a stoplight by a motorist who drove up next to them and opened fire with a rifle. One died and the other was seriously wounded but was expected to survive, Riverside police Chief Sergio Diaz said.
  Diaz said news organizations should withhold the officers' names because the suspect had made clear that he considers police and their families "fair game."
  The hunt for Dorner also led to two errant shootings in the pre-dawn darkness Thursday.
  LAPD officers guarding a target named in the manifesto shot and wounded two women in suburban Torrance who were in a pickup truck, authorities said. Beck said one woman was in stable condition with two gunshot wounds and the other was being released after treatment.
  "Tragically we believe this was a case of mistaken identity by the officers," Beck said.
  Minutes later, Torrance officers responding to a report of gunshots encountered a dark pickup matching the description of Dorner's, police said. A collision occurred and the officers fired on the pickup. The unidentified driver was not hit and it turned out not to be the suspect vehicle, they said.
  In San Diego, where police say Dorner tied up an elderly man and unsuccessfully tried to steal his boat Wednesday night, Naval Base Point Loma was locked down Thursday after a Navy worker reported seeing someone who resembled Dorner.
  Navy Cmdr. Brad Fagan said officials believe Dorner had checked into a base hotel on Tuesday and left the next day without checking out. Numerous agencies guarded the base on Thursday. Fagan said Dorner was honorably discharged and that his last day in the Navy was last Friday.
  Nevada authorities also joined the search, because Dorner owns a house 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) from the Las Vegas Strip, according to authorities and property records.
  -- Associated Press writers contributing to this report include Jeff Wilson, Bob Jablon, Greg Risling, Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Linda Deutsch and John Antczak in Los Angeles and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas.
  (C) Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Statement by the President on the Lunar New Year
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  The White House
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  February 08, 2013
  Michelle and I send our warmest wishes to all those who will be celebrating the Lunar New Year this Sunday, February 10th. Here in America and around the world, people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent will welcome the Year of the Snake. In Chinese tradition, the snake represents wisdom, and a thoughtful approach to tackling the challenges before us '' principles that I hope will continue to guide us as we perfect our union and create a more just and equal future for every American. Our challenges may be great, but our diversity and the traditions that thrive here give us the strength to meet them. To everyone celebrating the Lunar New Year, I wish you peace, prosperity and good health and fortune.
Butterfly Labs CEO 25 Million USD Mail Fraud '-- A Concise Summary of Evidence
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  tvbcofInaba did confirm, see OP:Although this may be cause for concern to some, the fact is that we're a robust company with 22 employees. One of them has a colorful background in offshore libertarianism. If I thought there was even the possibility of something unsavory going on within BFL, you can rest assured I would a) not be part of it and b) would let everyone know it.
  Heh. Libertarians. Speak up. Is mail fraud scamming old people (admittedly the victims being not so bright) in the Libertarian playbook? I must have missed that chapter.From what I've been able to pick up out of the playbook without actually studying it, it seems that senile oldsters are weak and it is the place of the weak to be devoured by the strong in order for the world to work as it should.It's no wonder their chicken tastes like Yogi Berra's cock!
  Advertisement: Make sure you back up your wallet regularly! It needs to be backed up at least as often as every 100 transactions (both sends and receipts) or new addresses.foggybInaba did confirm, see OP:Although this may be cause for concern to some, the fact is that we're a robust company with 22 employees. One of them has a colorful background in offshore libertarianism. If I thought there was even the possibility of something unsavory going on within BFL, you can rest assured I would a) not be part of it and b) would let everyone know it.
  Heh. Libertarians. Speak up. Is mail fraud scamming old people (admittedly the victims being not so bright) in the Libertarian playbook? I must have missed that chapter.From what I've been able to pick up out of the playbook without actually studying it, it seems that senile oldsters are weak and it is the place of the weak to be devoured by the strong in order for the world to work as it should.Been reading Mein Kampf, have we?tvbcofInaba did confirm, see OP:Although this may be cause for concern to some, the fact is that we're a robust company with 22 employees. One of them has a colorful background in offshore libertarianism. If I thought there was even the possibility of something unsavory going on within BFL, you can rest assured I would a) not be part of it and b) would let everyone know it.
  Heh. Libertarians. Speak up. Is mail fraud scamming old people (admittedly the victims being not so bright) in the Libertarian playbook? I must have missed that chapter.From what I've been able to pick up out of the playbook without actually studying it, it seems that senile oldsters are weak and it is the place of the weak to be devoured by the strong in order for the world to work as it should.Been reading Mein Kampf, have we?No. Just reading a portion of bitcointalk.org forum over the last year or so. Prior to that a decade or so dead-space of actually working, but before that some time running across Libertarian prattle on usenet.It's no wonder their chicken tastes like Yogi Berra's cock!
  foggybLibertarian my ass. This is Nazism.Because, once propagation as such has been limited andthe number of births reduced, the natural struggle forexistence, that allows only the very strongest and healthiestto survive, is replaced by the natural urge to 'save' at anyprice also the weakest and even sickest, thus planting thegerm for a succession that is bound to become more andmore miserable the longer this derision of Nature and ofher will is continued.But the result will be that one day existence in thisworld will be denied such a people; because man maycertainly defy the eternal law of the will to continue, butnevertheless revenge will come, sooner or later. A strongergeneration will drive out the weaklings, because in its ulti-mate form the urge to live will again and again break theridiculous fetters of a so-called * humanity' of the indi-vidual, so that its place will be taken by the 'humanity' ofNature which destroys weakness in order to give its placeto strength.
  He who, therefore, would secure the German people'sexistence by way of a self-restriction of its increase robs itof its future.
  Excerpt from Mein Kampf, Hitler. He was obsessed with the "natural" dominance of strong over weak. Mein Kampf word count:power, powerful: 442old: 225weak, weakling, weakness: 189
  young: 148strong: 107
  freedom: 96honor: 65love: 48justice: 35morality: 18liberty: 16wealth: 13mercy: 7compassion: 1
  tvbcofLibertarian my ass. This is Nazism.Because, once propagation as such has been limited andthe number of births reduced, the natural struggle forexistence, that allows only the very strongest and healthiestto survive, is replaced by the natural urge to 'save' at anyprice also the weakest and even sickest, thus planting thegerm for a succession that is bound to become more andmore miserable the longer this derision of Nature and ofher will is continued.But the result will be that one day existence in thisworld will be denied such a people; because man maycertainly defy the eternal law of the will to continue, butnevertheless revenge will come, sooner or later. A strongergeneration will drive out the weaklings, because in its ulti-mate form the urge to live will again and again break theridiculous fetters of a so-called * humanity' of the indi-vidual, so that its place will be taken by the 'humanity' ofNature which destroys weakness in order to give its placeto strength.
  He who, therefore, would secure the German people'sexistence by way of a self-restriction of its increase robs itof its future.
  Excerpt from Mein Kampf, Hitler.Thanks for pointing out the remarkable overlap.It's no wonder their chicken tastes like Yogi Berra's cock!
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  I don't think I like BFL. And they seems really have done something serious immoral and illegal. But this time, to do some ASIC mining business is really profitable and realistic. Why should they scam this time? They can earn more this time than they have earned in the previous scam.Maybe we have to wait until the end of Oct to see whether they are scamming again this time or they decided to renew themselves. I heard other forum member told me that the CEO of BFL does not like to disclose his full name, maybe he is worrying about other people knowing about his past. Since most of the miners has already paid their money, why not just calm down and pray that they will be trying to be good guy.
  DarktongueQuestion!!!!So with ANY high dollar scammer today comes a good lawyer. If they are a scam... Minus the credit card transactions that can be reversed.. And the payment gateways that cab fight for your money back.. What of the bitcoin? Who's to say a good defence team for any of these bastards couldn't get them off?
  Everyone including myself has asked the question.. is Bitcoin and crypto money real of It's not governed by the feds? Will a supreme court fight for it? THE AWNSER IS FUCK NO!! This project and the community behind it needs a fucking lawyer. I'm sorry as legitimate as some of us may be. As much as we can squak at the FBI and fed all day and night. We lack validation that millions have actually been handed out.
  Also who's willing to admit to the fed they spent 15k of untaxed money? I sure as hell wouldn't..
  But like a couple of coiners said.. we just have to wait... thumb up the ass sucking on the other thumb waiting for a shoe to fall.
  saltyWhen is the next delivery date for their ASCI miner?
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  Sorry couldn't resist.....
Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?
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  Over the weekend I was reading some medical studies involving placebos. The experimental protocols were of the standard double-blind type in which a control group gets a placebo without either the group or their doctors knowing it.One of the studies involved a medical condition for which sugar (supposedly the main ingredient of placebos) might be anything but biologically inert, and I thought to myself "Okay, certainly the doctors would know that and would choose a sugar-free placebo for the study." But when I read the study I couldn't find an ingredients list for the placebo. Maybe it was a sugar pill. Maybe not. We'll never know.
  Then I started to wonder: Who makes placebos? Where do they come from? Is there a widely used "standard placebo" that scientists typically use in studies? What does it contain, exactly? And so on.
  Let me skip right to the punch line. It turns out the drug companies (the very people who perform and/or fund the efficacy studies FDA relies on when granting new drug approvals) manufacture their own placebos -- and aren't required to list the ingredients.
  One reason this is so disturbing is that drug companies are allowed to use (and do increasingly use) active placebos in their studies. An active placebo is one that is biologically active, rather than inert.
  "But wait," you're probably saying. "Isn't the whole point of a placebo that it's biologically inert, by definition?"
  You'd think so. But you'd be wrong. Active placebos are designed to mimic the side-effects of drugs under study. So for example, if a new drug is known (or thought by the drug company) to produce dry mouth, the drug company might use a placebo containing ingredients that produce dry-mouth. That way, of course, they can say things in their ads like "[drug name] has a low occurrence of side effects, such as dry mouth, which occurred about as often as they did with placebo."
  In a 2010 study by Beatrice A. Golomb, M.D., Ph.D. (and colleagues), published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (19 October 2010;153(8):532-535), some 150 recent placebo-controlled trials were examined to see how many of them listed placebo ingredients. Only eight percent of trials using placebos in pill form (the majority of trials) disclosed ingredients. Overall, three quarters of studies failed to report placebo ingredients.
  One of the trials in the Golomb study involved a heart drug. Over 700 patients participated, so it was a good-sized study by any definition. In a subgroup of patients that had recently experienced a heart attack, the drug in question (clofibrate) was no better than placebo in extending patients' lives. But the placebo was actually quite effective, reducing the group's mortality rate by more than half. However: the placebo was olive oil. And olive oil is known to fight heart disease.
  Carelessly chosen placebos can also have a harmful effect. Dr. Golomb tells of receiving a call from HIV researchers whose drug study had to be aborted because the placebo group was "dropping like flies." The placebo contained lactose. It's well known that lactose intolerance is higher for HIV patients than for the general population.
  It's inconceivable (to me, at least) that there are no laws requiring drug companies to list placebo ingredients. The fact that drug companies can formulate their own placebos (some of which are biologically active) and not list the ingredients, in research aimed at getting approvals from FDA, is shocking and outrageous.
  It's quite obvious that researchers (whether associated with drug companies or not) need to agree on a standard placebo of some kind (or at least standards for placebos).
  FDA needs to review its policies on placebos and either outlaw "active placebos" or rigorously define acceptable conditions for their use.
  When I say FDA needs to review its policies on placebos, I'm referring to such (ongoing) practices as letting drug companies de-enroll study subjects from studies based on individuals' sensitivity to placebos. (Drug makers usually begin a study with a two-week "washout period" during which time potential subjects take either a placebo, or nothing. Subjects who respond to the placebo can be summarily taken out of the study before it begins in earnest.)
  The current anarchy that prevails with regard to placebos calls into question the reliability not just of drug-company research but of virtually every placebo-controlled study ever done. Which is a hell of a thing to have to say, or even think about. In fact it's nauseating.
  Someone, please: Pass me the Tic-Tacs.
FBI: Man attempted to bomb bank, trying to set off US civil war
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  By Pete Williams, NBC News
  The FBI, ending a sting, says it has arrested a California man after he tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb at a bank in Oakland.
  Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose, was arrested Friday morning, capping a months-long undercover investigation, the Justice Department said. Agents say he met last November with someone he thought was connected with the Taliban but who was actually an FBI agent.
  Prosecutors say Llaneza proposed car-bombing a bank in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  "Llaneza's stated goal was to trigger a governmental crackdown, which he expected would trigger a right-wing counter-response against the government followed by, he hoped, civil war," the Justice Department says.
  Court documents say Llaneza expressed a desire to commit violent jihad and talked about wanting to flee the U.S. after the bombing, but a federal official says his precise motive was unclear.
  NBCBayArea.com reported that court documents said Llaneza suffered from bipolar disease and substance abuse.
  Court documents say he chose a Bank of America branch in Oakland as the target for the attack and offered to drive the car bomb to the bank. In January and February, they say, he and the undercover agent built the supposed bomb.
  Investigators say Llaneza bought two cell phones to be used in detonating the device. Thursday night, they say, he drove an SUV containing the device and parked it under an overhang on the bank building, then walked a safe distance away and tried to set it off, when he was then arrested.
  The device had earlier been rendered inoperable by the FBI.
  He had his initial appearance in court this morning and will be back for a bail hearing next Wednesday in Oakland.
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  By Kimberly Kindy, Lena H. Sun and Alice Crites, Published: FEBRUARY 07, 7:57 PM ET Aa Shoddy practices and unsanitary conditions at three large-scale specialty pharmacies have been tied to deaths and illnesses over the past decade, revealing that the serious safety lapses at a Massachusetts pharmacy linked to last fall's deadly meningitis outbreak were not an isolated occurrence, records and interviews show.
  The series of safety failures happened long before national attention focused on the New England Compounding Center, whose contaminated steroid shots were linked to 45 deaths and 651 illnesses.
  A Washington Post analysis found that state and federal authorities did little to systematically inspect and correct hazards posed by specialty pharmacies, which custom-mix medications for individual patients, hospitals and clinics. In the lightly regulated industry, pharmacies were rarely punished even when their mistakes had lethal consequences.
  The Post reviewed hundreds of records, including lawsuits and Food and Drug Administration documents, and interviewed dozens of government and industry officials. The review found serious problems at three of 15 large-scale compounding pharmacies that dominate the industry. These multimillion-dollar companies mass-produce medications and ship them across state lines, often without individual patient prescriptions.
  Three of the firms, in addition to the NECC, have experienced significant safety problems over the past decade that were tied to at least 39 illnesses. Two companies' missteps were linked to at least six deaths. The problems included medications that were too potent or laced with bacteria.
  One of the three firms identified by The Post '-- the California-based Central Admixture Pharmacy Services '-- is under investigation at its Massachusetts facility by the FDA, according to industry and government officials.
  Executives at CAPS, a pioneer and among the largest manufacturing-style compounders, declined to comment on the investigation, which has not been previously disclosed. Federal officials would not discuss the probe, which was triggered by their ongoing investigation of the NECC and a sister company, Ameridose.
  Illinois-based PharMEDium Services and Texas-based ApotheCure also had serious deficiencies, records show.
  Officials at CAPS, PharMEDium and ApotheCure said their companies produce high-quality products and are continuously upgrading operations to make them safe.
  But when regulators have visited the firms after patient illnesses or deaths, they have sometimes found alarming conditions.
  ''The things they saw, they would chill your bones,'' said cardiologist John Armitage, regarding the FDA's 2005 investigation of several CAPS facilities after some of his patients died or became gravely ill.
  Today, compounders supply about 40 percent of all intravenous medications used in hospitals, up from 16 percent a decade ago, according to industry estimates. They make some of the highest-risk drugs available, including steroid injections like the ones linked to the meningitis outbreak. Yet they are not required to follow the safety rules that apply to commercial drugmakers.
  Government regulators have failed to rein in reckless operators. State pharmacy boards, which have the primary responsibility for policing the industry, have an uneven enforcement record.
  The FDA's attempts to use its power have been thwarted by companies relying on gaps in the law and conflicting court rulings. The companies have fought enforcement orders and kept the agency out of their facilities. Some members of Congress have sought to beef up the agency's authority, but the industry has successfully killed those efforts.
  ''You are seeing a bunch of people trying to do their best in a system that is legally and factually complicated,'' said Howard Sklamberg, director of compliance for the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
  The FDA is again pressing Congress for greater powers.
  CAPS
  In 1991, health-care entrepreneur Jim Sweeney became one of the original architects for the modern compounding industry when he persuaded a Southern California hospital to outsource some of its pharmacy work to him.
  Across the country, nurses had made fatal errors mixing solutions in patients' rooms, and hospital pharmacies were struggling with bacterial growths in their own drug therapies. Hospitals adopted new safety standards, but they were costly. At the City of Hope hospital, officials turned to Sweeney and CAPS ''strictly to save money,'' said Dale Adams, chief pharmacy officer.
  Sweeney outfitted a double-wide trailer in the hospital parking lot, hired a team of pharmacists and began making intravenous nutritional supplements for its cancer patients. Before long, CAPS was expanding to other hospitals and making intravenous drugs.
  ''We typically would approach hospitals and ask, 'What are the high-risk things you are making? How would you like us to do that for you?''‰'' said Eric Steen, whom Sweeney hired from the drugmaker Baxter and made president. Sweeney sold the company in 1994.
  One of the drugs in big demand was cardioplegia, a solution used in open-heart surgery to stop and restart the heart. The drug often is made from ingredients that are not sterile, so compounders must successfully sterilize them so it can be safely injected into the coronary arteries.
  The pharmacies, however, cannot be compelled to test each lot or batch to check for sterility and proper potency.
  In 2004, the company's Pittsburgh facility prepared cardioplegia for Alycia Hartzell, a 2-year-old who was undergoing open-heart surgery. According to a 2007 lawsuit filed against CAPS by Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, the active ingredients and the sodium strengths were too strong and ''the use of the CAPS cardioplegia solution led to a brain bleed, and severe permanent injuries.''
  Daniel Stefko, a lawyer for the hospital, said the FDA never investigated the episode. ''I remember being sort of surprised to find that there was this phenomenon out there, where if I ordered something from Pfizer, it was FDA-regulated, but if I ordered basically the same thing from a compounding pharmacy, the rules were not there.''
  CAPS settled with Children's Hospital for an undisclosed amount. The Hartzell family, which sued the hospital, settled with it for an undisclosed amount. The girl's mother, Amanda Hartzell, said she could not comment because of a confidentiality agreement. CAPS and parent company B. Braun Medical declined to comment.
  A year later, CAPS shipped batches of cardioplegia from its facility in Lanham, Md., to Mary Washington Hospital, a hospital in Fredericksburg, records show.
  Shortly thereafter, two patients who had undergone open-heart surgery had a devastating infection and died. Nine other heart patients ended up in the intensive-care unit for extended stays.
  ''It's normal for people to have an inflammatory response following open-heart surgery, but to have a severe response that results in multi-organ failure '-- that's rare,'' said John Armitage, who ran the cardiac unit and now lives in Oregon. ''We started changing everything we could think of. Nothing seemed to work.''
  In September 2005, cardiovascular specialists staged a mock surgery and found the cardioplegia was contaminated with bacteria, according to a hospital analysis.
  They repeated the mock surgery to make sure no other factors were contributing to the crisis. This time, the full cardiac team joined in, scrubbing their hands, slipping on sterile gowns, masks and gloves as they walked through each step of an operation while the hospital's infection-control staff watched. The only thing missing was a patient.
  The cardioplegia seemed to be the only problem, the state health department concluded.
  When the FDA was notified, Armitage said, it took days for investigators to arrive, and they wouldn't tell the hospital what they were finding out about the CAPS Lanham facility.
  ''They said, 'We are not a police agency,''‰'' Armitage said. The hospital filed a Freedom of Information Act request and received the FDA inspection report about six months later.
  The FDA found 17 safety violations at the Lanham facility. Cardioplegia was tainted with the species of bacteria that matched those found at Mary Washington. Internal tests showed ''the presence of bacteria in a water container used for cleaning. .'‰.'‰. Likewise, sterility testing demonstrated similar bacteria in its drug products.'' The Maryland Board of Pharmacy suspended the Lanham facility's license for two months.
  The FDA also found dozens of problems at CAPS's facilities in Alabama, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
  Steen, who left CAPS last year to start his own medical consulting firm, said the cause of the illnesses remains a ''mystery.'' He noted that the facility sent the drug to a number of other hospitals that didn't have any problems.
  That might have been because Mary Washington had ordered a special formula, said Diane Woolard, director of the Division of Surveillance and Investigation with the Virginia Health Department. ''It may have been a contaminated element in those ingredients,'' she said.
  Officials at CAPS, which has 25 locations and $500 million in annual sales, would not comment on the 2005 event. In an e-mail statement, Mike Koch, a vice president, said, ''CAPS is committed to offering the highest quality admixture service to our customers and their patients.''
  PharMEDium Services
  In 2007, a team of investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an unusually blunt warning to hospitals and doctors: Compounded drugs had a higher risk of contamination than commercially manufactured drugs, and compounding pharmacies had ''generally lower quality-control standards than pharmaceutical manufacturers.''
  The warning, which appeared in a medical journal, stemmed from a 2005 multi-state outbreak involving another big compounder, PharMEDium Services of Lake Forest, Ill.
  In January 2005, six cardiac patients at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center came down with a rare bacterial infection. Doctors suspected contaminated magnesium sulfate made by PharMEDium. The intravenous solution is widely used to steady the heartbeat after surgery and to treat a life-threatening condition of pregnancy called pre-eclampsia.
  But neither the hospital nor PharMEDium's Houston plant that made the drug had any solution left to test. Compounders are not required to keep samples for testing later on in case patients get sick.
  Federal officials were stymied until they learned five heart patients in New Jersey had developed the same infection, also after receiving magnesium sulfate made by PharMEDium. The New Jersey hospital had bags of solution left, and tests confirmed the rare bacterial strain in the bags matched that of all patients in Los Angeles and New Jersey.
  ''It was almost luck that we were able to make this match,'' said Esther Tan, part of the CDC team that investigated the outbreak.
  Investigators said the contamination could have come from the hands of technicians who made the bags of solution. No source was identified.
  One patient, Joe Chacon, a heavy-equipment operator in Los Angeles, said he was infected Jan. 12, 2005, at the Kaiser hospital during heart surgery. He became feverish, required a ventilator to breathe and eventually needed to have his pacemaker removed because of concerns about a recurrence of infection, according to his civil suit against PharMEDium.
  ''I was in the hospital for quite a while,'' said Chacon, now 59. He said he wasn't able to go back to work. The company settled for $25,000, his wife, Rachelle Chacon, said.
  All told, at least 18 people in five states were sickened.
  From 2005 to 2011, hospitals and patients raised other concerns about PharMEDium medications. In 2006, the company recalled pain medication after human error led to mislabeled drugs at its Mississippi plant, according to FDA records and company officials. An Arizona man lost consciousness after receiving morphine sulfate rather than the less powerful fentanyl citrate. In 2009, a similar incident occurred at the same plant, according to FDA records.
  After the bacterial outbreak, the FDA inspected the Houston plant and found staff had failed to fully investigate nine instances in the months before the outbreak where PharMEDium's own monitoring showed higher-than-allowed levels of ''viable microorganisms,'' according to FDA records.
  The company increased environmental testing and training, officials said in an interview. The firm also developed a special bar-code-scanning technology to minimize manual errors, the company said. The company said that it's not practical to keep samples because it makes small batches of drugs with short expiration dates.
  Founded in 2003, PharMEDium has four plants and annual sales of more than $100 million, officials said. The company says it uses only sterile, FDA-approved ingredients for the intravenous and epidural medications it supplies to more than 2,000 hospitals, including Johns Hopkins Hospital.
  Company President Rich Kruzynski said the incidents are a fraction of the ''tens of thousands of batches'' provided to hospitals. The record, he said, demonstrates PharMEDium's commitment to be the industry's ''gold standard'' for quality, patient safety and regulatory compliance.
  ApotheCure
  While many compounding pharmacies were focusing on hospitals, others were catering to physicians who practiced experimental medicine.
  One of the rising stars was Texas-based ApotheCure, which was cited by celebrity Suzanne Somers in her 2005 bestselling book, ''The Sexy Years,'' which extolled the anti-aging benefits of customized hormone therapies.
  About the same time, ApotheCure's owner, Gary Osborn, was quoted in alternative magazines and wrote on his company's Web site about the benefits of using gout medication for pain relief and using lipids in ''fat-dissolving'' solutions. He also promoted chelation therapy, which removes heavy metals from the body, as a treatment for autism.
  As ApotheCure branched out, nearly doubling its $6 million in annual sales during the mid- to late 2000s, patients began getting ill after using some of its products. FDA records from a 2007 inspection show ApotheCure did not alert the agency about many of the incidents.
  However, the FDA was notified by local health officials about a 2004 episode in which nine people in Pennsylvania got sick after receiving infusions of an ApotheCure solution that the pharmacy said would dissolve fat, records show. Symptoms included abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and renal complications, according to state health records.
  When FDA officials showed up to investigate the Dallas facility that had made the solution, owner Osborn turned them away, saying they needed an inspection warrant, FDA and court records show. They never returned with one, the records show.
  FDA officials said that although they did not secure a warrant, they worked with Texas State Board of Pharmacy officials who inspected the facility. The state board did not take any disciplinary actions, said Allison Benz, the board's director of professional services.
  In 2005, a 5-year-old autistic boy died after being treated with ApotheCure's chelation compound. Using this treatment for autism ''is not evidence-based, and it has the potential for being very toxic and fatal,'' said FDA's Janet Woodcock, director of the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
  The company kept promoting chelation therapy, records show. Osborn did not make any public statements about the incident at the time and did not respond to The Post's requests for comment.
  Two years later, three patients at an Oregon pain clinic died after injections of ApotheCure-compounded colchicine, a medication for gout marketed by alternative compounding pharmacies for neck and back pain. The solution was eight times as strong as what was ordered by the treating physician, records show.
  The Oregon state attorney general's office investigated the company after the three deaths. David Hart, who prosecuted the case against ApotheCure for the attorney general's office, said he thinks the FDA missed a critical opportunity in 2004 when it didn't get the search warrant.
  ''Arguably, if action had been taken earlier by the FDA, this could have been prevented,'' he said.
  When the FDA was notified of the 2007 deaths, this time the agency got a warrant for the facility. The agency identified 13 deficiencies and Texas authorities found 80 deficiencies and violations, records show.
  In its report, the FDA noted that products were not tested for potency prior to shipping '-- something that could have prevented the deaths. But that didn't violate the law because testing for potency and sterility is not required of compounders, noted ApotheCure attorney James J. Doyle III in a written comment.
  The agency's and state board's findings became the backbone for state complaints in Texas and Oregon and a Justice Department lawsuit filed against Osborn and his company, state and federal records show.
  At the time of the fatal incidents, Osborn told the Associated Press that the colchicine mishap was due to ''human error.'' Osborn declined interview requests from The Post. His attorney, Lawrence J. Friedman, said he thinks his client was unfairly singled out.
  ''They decided to make an example out of ApotheCure,'' Friedman said.
  After the 2007 incident, Friedman said, his client hired consultants and ''doubled, even tripled,'' safety precautions.
  However, a Dec. 20, 2010, internal audit of ApotheCure, obtained by The Post, showed that three years after the FDA investigated, the pharmacy was still riddled with unsanitary conditions.
  Insect body parts were found in ''clean rooms'' where sterile products were compounded. A suspended ceiling, with exposed pipe, wiring and duct work, allowed ''contaminants to flow over the sterile suite and fall through the suspended ceiling.''
  The Texas pharmacy board returned last year and found a few minor problems. All of them have since been corrected, said Gay Dodson, the board's executive director.
  In 2012, Osborn pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal violations of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for the colchicine-related deaths. Osborn was ordered to pay a combined $400,000 in fines to settle the DOJ, Texas and Oregon complaints directed at him and his company. The terms of settlements with victims' families are confidential.
  Osborn's company '-- which has about $10 million in annual sales '-- is still in operation.
  ''People make mistakes, but there is nobody watching over these people,'' said Christopher Long, whose 56-year-old mother died after receiving the toxic colchicine made by ApotheCure. ''The regulatory piece of this, nothing has changed. I realize it takes a long time to rein things in, but my mother is dead, ApotheCure is still in operation and people have died again.''
  Related stories:
  New England pharmacy knew of mold, bacteria contamination
  Lawsuits pile up against New England Compounding Center over meningitis deaths
  Woman's death related to lack of oversight at compounding pharmacy
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Newsweek's Eleanor Clift: Drones 'Are a Blessing'
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Bill Maher Jokes About Boy Scouts Having Oral Sex
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Parody or Does She Believe It? CNN Anchor Blames Asteroid on Global Warming
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  CNN anchor Deb Feyerick asked Saturday afternoon if an approaching asteroid, which will pass by Earth on February 15, ''is an example of, perhaps, global warming?''
  Moments earlier, before an ad break, she segued from the Northeast blizzard to a segment with Bill Nye ''the science guy,'' by pointing to global warming: ''Every time we see a storm like this lately, the first question to pop into a lot of people's minds is whether or not global warming is to blame? I'll talk to Bill Nye, 'the science guy,' about devastating storms and climate change.''
  More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
False Memories of Fabricated Political Events by Steven Frenda, Eric Knowles, William Saletan, Elizabeth Loftus :: SSRN
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  University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social BehaviorUniversity of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social BehaviorThe Slate GroupUniversity of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social BehaviorJanuary 16, 2013
  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 49, 2013UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-87
  Abstract: In the largest false memory study to date, 5,269 participants were asked about their memories for three true and one of five fabricated political events. Each fabricated event was accompanied by a photographic image purportedly depicting that event. Approximately half the participants falsely remembered that the false event happened, with 27% remembering that they saw the events happen on the news. Political orientation appeared to influence the formation of false memories, with conservatives more likely to falsely remember seeing Barack Obama shaking hands with the president of Iran, and liberals more likely to remember George W. Bush vacationing with a baseball celebrity during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. A follow-up study supported the explanation that events are more easily implanted in memory when they are congruent with a person's preexisting attitudes and evaluations, in part because attitude-congruent false events promote feelings of recognition and familiarity, which in turn interfere with source attributions.Number of Pages in PDF File: 8
  Keywords: False memory, Source monitoring, Political preference
  Accepted Paper SeriesDownload This PaperDate posted: January 17, 2013 Suggested CitationFrenda, Steven J., Knowles, Eric D., Saletan, William and Loftus, Elizabeth F., False Memories of Fabricated Political Events (January 16, 2013). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 49, 2013; UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-87. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2201941
Facebook's Latest Outage Highlights A Serious Privacy Concern
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  If you visited Crooks and Liars Thursday evening you may have had an unpleasant surprise. Instead of being able to read your most favorite blog, you were quickly taken to this Facebook page:
  Even if you clicked the Okay button on that page you still weren't brought back here. Instead you just ended up on a blank page. You can actually see this in action on this YouTube video.
  I noticed the problem early on and decided to remove the only Facebook code we had running on our home page, which was for the Facebook Like button that used to appear on the bottom left. As soon as that code was removed things went back to normal. Within minutes of fixing the problem on Crooks and Liars, I decided to look into the problem a little more and saw an article isolating it to Facebook Connect:
  On Thursday, many major websites were taken down by an error that stemmed from Facebook, as Internet mainstays like MSNBC.com, CNN, Yelp and New York Magazine all sent users to redirect pages almost immediately upon loading.
  Upon visiting the sites, users were redirected to an error page inside of the Facebook website, which seems to suggest that the error lies in Facebook Connect, the software platform that snakes Facebook's reach throughout the entire backbone of the Internet. Connect is seen on many third-party-publisher websites in the form of the ''Like'' button '-- especially BuzzFeed, the viral news site which relies primarily on social media to spread throughout the Web.
  Facebook Connect and Facebook Like are two separate beasts. Connect allows you to sign into a site with your Facebook login. We have that capability here at Crooks and Liars, but we don't use the traditional Connect method. Instead we have a custom implementation that works better with our user management system.
  Facebook Like, on the other hand, is simply a button you click on a page or post so that you can show your Facebook friends that you liked something. In a sense it is similar to the old Digg buttons you used to see all over the web. It all seems harmless enough, but is it really? Salon doesn't seem to think so and neither do I:
  Not so fast! We should stop and think about what really happened. By demonstrating a direct connection between our Facebook logins and the Facebook Like buttons on non-Facebook pages, Facebook inadvertently advertised exactly how much it potentially knows about all our Web browsing habits.
  Facebook critics have long warned that the way the Like button is implemented across the Web has serious privacy implications. Every time a person visits a Web page with a Facebook Like button, that information is stored in a cookie placed on your computer. It is a trivial matter to connect that information with the cookies set when you actually log into Facebook '-- information, incidentally, that includes your real name. Let's emphasize this point: Facebook has the technical capability to connect your real name to every website you visit that has a Facebook Like button embedded in it. And the set of websites captured by the terms ''third party sites integrated with Facebook'' turns out to be very large indeed.
  And you used to worry just about your browser's history. Well forget that! Given the popularity of the Facebook Like button, your browser history is now potentially stored with Facebook, and you don't have anyway of deleting that.
  Now you might be asking yourself how this information could be valuable to Facebook. I mean, why should they care what pages you have visited outside of their own? As with most things, the answer is money. Say you view a new laptop on Amazon and then check it out on NewEgg. Well Facebook can now see that you may be in the market for a new computer and when you go to check your Facebook page out, they can use that to deliver and ad for laptops.
  Now site tracking for ad placement is nothing new, but there is a big difference here. Facebook has personal information on you, where as ad companies don't. That means Facebook has much higher odds of knowing who exactly is on a website, unlike the ad companies.
  Also, Facebook isn't the only one who can find value in this information. I'm sure law enforcement would love to have access to this. It would actually be better information than someones search history from Google, as Facebook would have the actual pages a user visits and not just what they search out and the initial page they go to.
  Talk about sneaky and from something as inconspicuous as the Facebook Like button.
  Until Facebook comes clean on what they store and do with this information, we have decided to remove the Facebook Like button from the site. We will still keep the Share button and our page widget, since those do not work through the Connect system. The Like buttons we have on our trending widget also don't work through the connect system. Instead that is provided through the ShareThis service we use for all our social buttons.
  If you want further protection when you are surfing other sites, then my only recommendations are to either log out of Facebook first or use a separate browser for surfing. That's about the only way to make sure the simple Facebook Like button isn't actually connecting that page and your Facebook account behind the scenes.
To amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to clarify that houses of worship are eligible for certain disaster relief and emergency assistance on terms equal to other eligible private nonprofit facilities, and for other p
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Dr. Benjamin Carson's Amazing Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast with Obama Present
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LAPD Shoots And Injures Older...
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  LAPD Shoots And Injures Older Latina Women During ManhuntLA police shot at two latina women delivering newstands this morning during their manhunt for ex police officer, Christ Dorner.
  Emma Hernandez, 71, was delivering the Los Angeles Times with her daughter, 47-year-old Margie Carranza, when officers apparently mistook their pickup for that of Dorner.
  Hernandez was shot in the back, and remains hospitalized in stable condition.
  Carranza suffered a wound from glass that struck her hand and received stitches.
  Another vehicle was also mistakenly fired upon not far away.
  The second incident, which involved Torrance police officers, happened around 5:45 a.m. at Flagler Lane and Beryl Street.
  The Torrance officers had apparently heard about the nearby incident, and while en route they encountered a dark pickup that looked similar to Dorner's.
  They opened fire on the pickup. The man who was inside was not hit.
  Update: Another civilian has been caught up in the manhunt today.
  Armed police officers surrounded a Portland man as he sat in a car outside a San Diego hotel.
  They believed he was suspected killer Christopher Dorner.
  ''All of a sudden I turn around and look back and see another [officer] behind a tree with a machine gun and thought, 'this is not good,''' Greg Pruitt told NBC 7 in San Diego.
  Greg Pruitt, 36, of Portland, was ordered to get on the pavement and placed in handcuffs. Officers then checked his identification and realized he was not the former Los Angeles police officer at the center of a multi-state manhunt.
  ''I didn't even want to breathe,'' Pruitt said in an interview with the San Diego TV station. ''You have guns pointed at you, you don't move, you don't breathe you don't blink you don't ask why, you just do what you're told.''
FBI Arrests Malcolm X's Grandson En Route to Iran
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  It is disturbing, to say the least, that an American citizen can be arrested by the FBI for participating in an international film festival held in a country which is ''disliked'' by the Obama administration, namely Iran.
  Deafening silence of the US media. Reported by Press TV, the grandson of Malcolm X was arrested by FBI agents ''on his way to Iran'' to participate in a film festival.
  According to Press TV:
  Muslim civil activist Malcolm Shabazz was reportedly arrested before starting his scheduled visit to Tehran to attend a conference on Hollywoodism, sources outside the United States confirmed on Monday.
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation has refused to provide any information about his whereabouts.
  Tehran hosted the third Hollywoodism International Conference, on the sidelines of the 31st Fajr International Film Festival in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday.
  Many filmmakers, directors, actors, and movie critics as well as politicians and economists took part in the conference.
  Mike Gravel, a former US Senator who attended the conference, condemned Hollywood's role in imposing imperialistic views on the people of the world.
  ''Hollywood is just a tool of the American government and European governments to pursue their imperialistic views whether it is in economy'...culture'...or religion,'' Gravel stated.
  The first Hollywoodism and Cinema Conference was held in Iran in 2011. http://www.presstv.ir
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Venezuela Launches First Nuke In Currency Wars, Devalues Currency By 46%
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  While the rest of the developed world is scrambling here and there, politely prodding its central bankers to destroy their relative currencies, all the while naming said devaluation assorted names, "quantitative easing" being the most popular, here comes Venezuela and shows the banana republics of the developed world what lobbing a nuclear bomb into a currency war knife fight looks like:
  VENEZUELA DEVALUES FROM 4.30 TO 6.30 BOLIVARSVENEZUELA NEW CURRENCY BODY TO MANAGE DOLLAR INFLOWSCARACAS CONSUMER PRICES ROSE 3.3% IN JAN.And that, ladies and gents of Caracas, is how you just lost 46% of your purchasing power, unless of course your fiat was in gold and silver, which just jumped by about 46%. And, in case there is confusion, this is in process, and coming soon to every "developed world" banana republic near you.
  and just as we (and Kyle Bass) have warned - this is what happens to the nominal price of a stock market as currency wars escalate... how do those US investors who flooded Venezuela with cash feel now? bringing back those VEF gains is going to hurt...
  The chart above is a free lesson in nominal vs real: the hardest lesson for some 99.9% of the world's population to grasp. One person who certainly knows how to devalue a currency in real terms FDR, whose 70% devaluation of the USD courtesy of executive order 6102, is merely an appetizer of what is about to be unleashed upon the US.
  From Bloomberg:
  Venezuela devalued its currency for the fifth time in nine years as ailing President Hugo Chavez seeks to narrow a widening fiscal gap and reduce a shortage of dollars in the economy.
  The government will weaken the exchange rate by 32 percent to 6.3 bolivars per dollar, Finance Minister Jorge Giordani told reporters today in Caracas. The government will keep the currency at 4.3 per dollar for some products, he said.
  A spending spree that almost tripled the government's fiscal deficit last year helped Chavez win his third term. Chavez ordered the devaluation from Cuba, where he is recovering from cancer surgery, Giordani said. Venezuela's fiscal deficit widened to 11 percent of gross domestic product last year from 4 percent in 2011, according to Moody's Investors Service.
  The move can help narrow the budget deficit by increasing the amount of bolivars the government gets from taxes on oil exports. While a weaker currency may fuel annual inflation of 22 percent, it may ease shortages of goods ranging from toilet papers to cars.
  In the black market, the bolivar is trading at 18.4 per dollar, according to Lechuga Verde, a website that tracks the rate. Venezuelans use the unregulated credit market because the central bank doesn't supply enough dollar at the official rates to meet demand.
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'World War C' Warned To Crash US Economy By April
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  A grim Ministry of Finance (MOF) report circulating in the Kremlin today warns that Venezuela's ''nuclear option'' crashing of its currency yesterday is a ''clear signal'' that the Western banking systems ''house of cards'', erected in the aftermath of the 2007-2008 Global Economic Crisis, is in ''total collapse'' with the expected final outcome to be an ''apocalyptic'' crash of the US economy no later than April.
  According to this MOF report, and what US financial experts described as ''what lobbing a nuclear bomb into a currency war knife fight looks like'', Venezuela devalued its currency by an astounding 46% in the latest round of what is being described as the worst currency war our world has seen since the 1930's, and which plunged the globe into total warfare.
  Currency war, (World War C) also known as competitive devaluation, is a condition in international affairs where countries compete against each other to achieve a relatively low exchange rate for their own currency. As the price to buy a particular currency falls so too does the real price of exports from the country.
  Imports become more expensive. So domestic industry, and thus employment, receives a boost in demand from both domestic and foreign markets.
  However, the price increase for imports can harm citizens' purchasing power. The policy can also trigger retaliatory action by other countries which in turn can lead to a general decline in international trade, harming all countries.
  Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega, widely credited with coining the term ''currency war'', further warned yesterday that the global situation could get even worse if Europe joins the fray, and which this MOF report warns the will have to do in the ''very near future.''
  Chris Richey, a top American financial analyst, further stated that as we have yet to enter a full-fledged war because the European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of England (BOE) are not (yet) engaged in purposeful currency devaluation. Rather, since 2009, each has been pre-occupied with either saving their currency (the ECB) or saving their banking system (the BoE). The relative value of their respective currencies has not featured high on their list of priorities over the past four years.
  Not so, however, Richey says, for the US Federal Reserve, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Central Bank of Brazil, and the People's Bank of China, all of whom have been very interested in the relative valuation of their currencies. And this is a list that matters because three of the top five global currencies are represented on that list and all of them have been engaged in competitive devaluations of their currency in order to promote their own exports.
  This form of international contest, he continues, should strike those with a sense of history as similar to the trade and tariff wars of the Depression Era 1930's: ''beggaring thy neighbor'' in order to extract one's own country from economic straits. In the 1930's, the ''beggaring'' took the form of either abandoning the gold standard, literally blocking the importation of foreign goods, or imposing tariffs so high that imports were effectively blocked.
  This time around, he warns, there are no gold standards to abandon and international trade rules have become too ingrained, both economically and legally, for onerous tariffs or outright bans to be practical or legal. Thus, the only economic weapon left is that of currency devaluation.
  Tensions were ratcheted up a couple notches with the recent election of Shinzo Abe as Japan's Prime Minister this past December. As a candidate, Abe explicitly and repeatedly promised to double Japan's inflation rate target from 1% to 2% via increased central government money printing, borrowing, and spending.
  And while the Bank of Japan has pushed back against Mr. Abe's proposals, we have still seen the Yen depreciate 25% against the Euro and 10% against the US Dollar since last July. In short, Japan is ''all in'' on making the Yen weaker and, thus, boosting Japan's exporting companies.
  Even worse, this MOF report says, with the US Federal Reserve admitting this past week that it has bought up more government debt than the US Treasury has issued (because no one else is buying it), and with China now accounting for nearly half of the world's new money supply, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) of international trade has totally collapsed to levels not seen since the start of the 2008 Economic Crisis.
  Though the US propaganda media is failing to alert the American people to the shattering of their economy (exactly like they did prior to the 2008 collapse which cost these people trillions) the same cannot be said for the elite classes who continue to move billions out of their banks (the most since 11 September 2001) and whose corporate insiders are dumping huge numbers of shares in their own companies right now.
  To the exact timeline of this coming collapse of the US economy, this report says, was ''clearly shown'' last week when the Swiss global banking giant UBS reported that an anonymous options trader had made an enormous $11.25 million bet that the VIX will explode between 20-25 April.
  While the volatility index (aka the VIX, aka the ''fear index'') is near historic lows, the Business Insider news service states about this trade that someone would have to be ''VERY confident'' in their outlook to risk $11 million on a directional position with the VIX at five year lows and the markets trying to break out to new highs.
  To how the West is preparing for this coming economic collapse can be seen in France, where its President ordered the mobilisation of the secret services and police to carry out surveillance of workers fighting mass unemployment and factory closures, and in the United States (recently named by Human Rights Watch as the '' prison capital of the world'') whose Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this past week added tens-of-millions of more rounds to an arsenal said to equip it to wage a ''30-year war'' against the American people.
  Most interesting to note of these events are them all occurring at a time when Eastern astrologers are warning that the ''black water snake'' (Year of the Snake) that emerges to replace The Year of the Dragon on 10 February -- the first day of the Lunar New Year -- could be a venomous one that brings disaster.
  Previous Snake years have been marked by the 11 September 11 2001 terror strikes that killed nearly 3,000 people, the crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. The 1929 stock market plunge that heralded the Great Depression also occurred in a snake year.
  To if these Western peoples will awaken to the dire tragedy that lies before them and protect themselves it is not in our knowing. What is known, however, and exactly like the year preceding the 2007-2008 collapse, those, like us, giving warnings are sure to be shunned and ridiculed while these people are robbed by their elite masters of what little remains of their wealth, freedom and dignity.
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Presidential Memorandum -- Presidential Determination Regarding Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority
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  February 08, 2013
  MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
  SUBJECT: Waiver of Restriction on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority
  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7040(b) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2012 (Division I, Public Law 112-74) (the "Act") as carried forward by the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public Law 112-175) (the "CR"), I hereby certify that it is important to the national security interests of the United States to waive the provisions of section 7040(a) of the Act as carried forward by the CR, in order to provide funds appropriated to carry out chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act, as amended, to the Palestinian Authority.
  You are directed to transmit this determination to the Congress, with a report pursuant to section 7040(d) of the Act as carried forward by the CR, and to publish this determination in the Federal Register.
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Lincoln Movie incorrect
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  Writer Tony Kushner accepts the Best Adapted Screenplay Award for 'Lincoln' onstage at the 18th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Jan. 10 in Santa Monica.
  by Ann Oldenburg, USA TODAY
  Updated: 02/08/2013 10:21am
  Even if it's Steven Spielberg, and even if it's Daniel Day-Lewis amazingly occupying the title role, Lincoln is still a movie. And that means liberties were taken with the story, something screenwriter Tony Kushner is now explaining in the wake of accusations that the film is not historically accurate.
  Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., wrote a letter to Spielberg earlier this week noting that a key part of Lincoln is wrong. The film shows two of three lawmakers from his state voting against the 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery in the U.S. "I could not believe my eyes and ears!" he wrote, because, he says, according to the Congressional Record, all four representatives from Connecticut voted in favor of the amendment.
  He went on to say he realizes there is such a thing as "artistic license," but also demands the film be fixed before Lincoln comes out on DVD.
  Now, Lincoln screenwriter Kushner has penned his own letter of response, reports the Wall Street Journal, acknowledging that Courtney "is correct," but defending and explaining the reasoning behind the film.
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VIDEO-Teen girl: TSA stopped me because of gun-themed purse - USATODAY.com
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  A Florida teenager says her designer purse got her in trouble with the Transportation Security Administration and caused her to miss a flight from Norfolk to Jacksonville.
  Vanessa Gibbs, 17, says it was an image of a gun on her purse that caught the TSA's attention, according to Jacksonville's WJXT-TV Channel 4.
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  She says the TSA initially determined the gun-emblazoned purse to be a security risk when she tried to pass through a security checkpoint at Norfolk International Airport.
  "It's my style. It's camouflage. It has an old Western gun on it," Gibbs tells WJXT. "She (the TSA agent) was like, 'This is a federal offense because it's in the shape of a gun.' I'm like, 'But it's a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?' "
  BEHIND THE SCENES AIRPORT TOUR: Jacksonville's airports
  Norfolk's WAVY-TV 10 says that '' eventually '' "agents determined the gun was not real, but told Gibbs to check the bag or hand it over."
  WAVY adds "the TSA stands by the rule, saying replica weapons have been banned since 2002."
  "Security checkpoints may be impacted or closed because replica weapons like toy guns, novelty grenades, fake bombs and other items appear similar to the real thing when viewed through an X-ray machine," TSA spokesman Greg Soule says to CNN. "Checkpoint closures cause significant delays, which can be avoided if passengers don't bring these items to the airport."
  FULL STORY: Florida teen detained by TSA for purse design (First Coast News)
  Florida's First Coast News says that "by the time security wrapped up the inspection, the pregnant teen missed her flight (to Jacksonville), and Southwest Airlines sent her to Orlando instead."
  "I was so upset," said Gibb's mother Tami tells First Coast News. "I was on the phone all the way to Orlando trying to figure out what was going on with her. It was terrifying."
  As for the younger Gibbs, Vanessa says she's particularly frustrated because she claims she's taken the same purse through security on several other trips without any problems.
  As for the timing of the Norfolk incident, WJXT says the incident came as "as (Gibbs) was headed home from a holiday trip in Virginia," though the station does not give a specific date.
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For China, a new set of energy pipelines will reduce its hated reliance on the US Navy - Quartz
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  Infrastructure is a basic part of China's economic-led foreign policy'--around the world, it builds roads and buildings as part of deals to mine, drill and build energy pipelines. But in neighboring Myanmar, it is taking on the unaccustomed role of attempting to end a war'--the country's 17-year conflict with Kachin rebels on the Chinese border.
  The reason is economic'--China wants peace along the route of strategic new (paywall) oil and natural gas pipelines that will connect the Bay of Bengal with southwest China. A new 495-mile-long natural gas pipeline is to be finished on May 30. Next year, it hopes to finish a twin, 440,000-barrel-a-day oil pipeline. The lines will shorten China's oil and gas supply routes by some 750 miles, and erode the centrality of the Strait of Malacca, allowing Beijing to reduce its hated reliance on US military help in keeping its oil supply flowing. The US Navy''the world's largest ocean-going force''protects global sea lanes, including the Malacca Strait, through which some 80% of China's oil supply flows.
  This map comes from chinapage.org:
  Later this month, China will host a second round of talks between the military-led Myanmar government and the Kachin rebels, whose headquarters is the town of Laiza, near the oil-and- gas pipeline route. China is also mining for gold and jade in the Kachin state.
  On Feb. 4, the two sides held seven hours of talks in the Chinese border town of Ruili. It is exceedingly rare for China to involve itself in outside politics and economics. But the next day, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman told reporters that a Beijing official was a participant in the talks.
  In Monsoon, his 2010 book on the Indian Ocean, Robert Kaplan writes that Beijing ''desires Burma as a vassal state for the construction of deep-water ports, highways and energy pipelines that will provide China's landlocked south and west access to the sea, from where China's ever-burgeoning middle class can receive deliveries of oil from the Persian Gulf.''
  Washington has attempted to beat back such Chinese ambitions. In November, President Barack Obama visited Myanmar, and the US has eased sanctions that were enacted during its military dictatorship and encouraged US investment there.
Why are the feds loading up on so much ammo? by Andrew Malcolm - Investors.com
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  In a puzzling, unexplained development, the Obama administration has been buying and storing vast amounts of ammunition in recent months, with the Department of Homeland Security just placing another order for an additional 21.6 million rounds.
  Several other agencies of the federal government also began buying large quantities of bullets last year. The Social Security Administration, for instance, not normally considered on the frontlines of anything but dealing with seniors, explained that its purchase of millions of rounds was for special agents' required quarterly weapons qualifications. They must be pretty poor shots.
  But DHS has been silent about its need for numerous orders of bullets in the multiple millions. Indeed, Examiner writer Ryan Keller points out Janet Napolitano's agency illegally redacted information from some ammunition solicitation forms following media inquiries.
  According to one estimate, just since last spring DHS has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. That's sufficient firepower to shoot every American about five times. Including illegal immigrants.
  To provide some perspective, experts estimate that at the peak of the Iraq war American troops were firing around 5.5 million rounds per month. At that rate, DHS is armed now for a 24-year Iraq war.
  The perceived need for so much ammunition in federal custody is especially strange given Obama's double-barreled emphasis in his inaugural address on the approaching end in Afghanistan "of a decade of war." And he also noted, "We, the people, still believe that enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war."
  The lack of a credible official explanation for such awesome ammunition acquisitions is feeding all sorts of conspiracy theories, mainly centered on federal anticipation of some kind of domestic insurrection. Napolitano has at times alluded to threats from the extreme right-wing.
  Other conspiracists harken back to an Obama Colorado campaign speech in July, 2008. That day he deviated from his prepared text to say:
  "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
  Writing at American Thinker, Lee Cary noted at the time that the speech context seemed to involve expanded opportunities for community service. But as still happens when Obama goes off-teleprompter, his non-fortuitous word choice on the fly such as "national security force" prompted numerous writers to speculate since about some kind of national Obama para-military force.
  And as great as Obama's unlikely, newly-revealed passion for skeet-shooting might be, that involves shotguns, not handguns over-heated from blasting off millions of rounds.
  Additionally, Napolitano, a former governor of Arizona, is widely expected to seek the 2016 Democrat presidential nomination. But you wouldn't think she'd need that much ammo for such a bid.
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Spy chief: Dutch citizens are fighting in Syria
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  THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The chief of the Netherlands' top intelligence agency is warning that dozens of Dutch citizens are fighting with rebels in Syria and could return home battle-hardened, traumatized and even further radicalized.
  General Intelligence and Security Service chief Rob Bertholee says the number of Dutch nationals heading to Syria is growing fast and he is concerned about their return home after fighting with radical Islamic rebels in the bloody civil war.
  Bertholee told Dutch current affairs show Nieuwsuur late Thursday that hundreds of people from around Europe and dozens from the Netherlands have travelled to Syria to join rebels fighting what they see as a holy war, or jihad, to oust President Bashar Assad.
  Bertholee says propaganda romanticizing the civil war is helping draw foreigners into Syria's maelstrom of violence.
A solar 'superstorm' is coming and we'll only get 30-minute warning (video)
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  A solar "superstorm" could knock out Earth's communications satellites, cause dangerous power surges in the national grid and disrupt crucial navigation aids and aircraft avionics, a major report has found.
  It is inevitable that an extreme solar storm '' caused by the Sun ejecting billions of tonnes of highly-energetic matter travelling at a million miles an hour '' will hit the Earth at some time in the near future, but it is impossible to predict more than about 30 minutes before it actually happens, a team of engineers has warned.
  Solar superstorms are estimated to occur once every 100 or 200 years, with the last one hitting the Earth in 1859.
  Although none has occurred in the space age, we are far more vulnerable now than a century ago because of the ubiquity of modern electronics, they said.
  "The general consensus is that a solar superstorm is inevitable, a matter not of 'if' but 'when?'," says a report into extreme space weather by a group of experts at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London.
  In the past half century, there have been a number of "near misses" when an explosive "coronal mass ejection" of energetic matter from the Sun has been flung into space, narrowly bypassing the Earth.
  In 1989 a relatively minor solar storm knocked out several key electrical transformers in the Canadian national grid, causing major power blackouts.
  Similar solar storms significantly increased atmospheric radiation levels in 1956, 1972, 1989 and 2003, the experts found.
  Professor Paul Cannon, who chaired the academy's working group on solar storms, said that the Government should set up a space weather board to oversee measures aimed at minimising the impact of solar storms.
  "A solar superstorm will be a challenge but not cataclysmic. The two challenges for government are the wide spectrum of technologies affected today and the emergence of unexpected vulnerabilities as technology evolves," he said.
  "Our message is, 'Don't panic, but do prepare'. A solar superstorm will happen one day and we need to be ready for it.
  "Many steps have already been taken to minimise the impact of solar storms on current technology'... We anticipate that the UK can further minimise the impact," he added.
  Minor solar storms hit the Earth on a regular basis, but these are far less powerful than the 1859 event named after the British astronomer Richard Carrington, which was the last true solar superstorm.
  A similar event today would put severe strain the electricity grid, where transformers are particular vulnerable to power surges, as well as degrading the performance of satellites, GPS navigation, aviation and possibly the mobile phone network, particularly the new 4G network, which relies on GPS satellites for timing information.
  "Satellites are certainly in the front line of a superstorm. They are part of our infrastructure and we have concerns about their survival in a solar superstorm," said Keith Ryden, a space engineer at Surrey University.
Tourists warned of the dangers of sea turtles
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  THEY may look cute, but tourists have been warned to avoid touching captive sea turtles or risk developing serious health problems.
  While there's little risk to people who come into contact with turtles in the sea, it's a different story when it comes to holiday attractions such as aquariums where they are handled in confined pools, according to research published in the RSM Short Reports.
  The researchers used water sampling and laboratory microbial analysis to determine the health risks, finding that turtles in captivity carry the risk of exposure to toxic contaminants and zoonotic pathogens '' which able to move from animals to humans - such as bacteria, viruses and parasites.
  Symptoms may take some time to emerge but can resemble the flu or gastrointestinal illnesses, however more serious cases of pneumonia, meningitis, septicaemia and acute renal failure can occur.
  The review was based on a four-year case study of the Cayman Turtle Farm in Grand Cayman, Caribbean, which attracted an estimated 1.2 million visitors.
  Most of the turtles at the farm are green sea turtles.
  Clifford Warwick, lead author of the report, said the conditions the turtles are kept in plays a key role in the increased risk factors.
  "Significantly, the captive farming of turtles arguably increases the threat to health, in particular from bacteria, due to the practice of housing many turtles in a relatively confined space and under intensive conditions," he said.
  Warwick said the findings highlight the need for further investigation and awareness.
  "The subsequent distribution of visitors exposed to turtle farm conditions may also involve opportunities for further dissemination of contaminants into established tourist hubs including cruise ship and airline carriers."
  "To prevent and control the spreading of sea turtle-related disease, greater awareness is needed among health-care professionals regarding potential pathogens and toxic contaminants from sea turtles, as well as key signs and symptoms of typical illnesses."
  There's also a risk for those eating turtle products.
  The study was funded by the World Society for the Protection of Animals.
Ann Bressington Exposes Agenda 21, Club of Rome
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  Australian MP Ann Bressington Exposes Agenda 21, Club of Rome, Sustainable Development, at the Lord Monckton Launch 2 Feb 2013 at the Adelaide Convention Centre.
Boxer, Menendez Reintroduce Mortgage Refi Bill
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  WASHINGTON '-- Democratic Sens. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Barbara Boxer of California have reintroduced a bill that Democrats argue would help millions of borrowers refinance their mortgages.
  The bill, which would make it easier for more homeowners with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages to refinance, stalled in the Senate Banking Committee last summer over a partisan dispute about whether other housing-related amendments could be added to the legislation. The bill's sponsors then offered a slimmed-down version of the bill in September, but lawmakers did not take it up during the lame duck session.
  The Responsible Homeowner Refinancing Act, reintroduced Thursday, would relax requirements for borrowers to refinance and would extend the Home Affordable Refinance Program for an extra year through 2014, among other changes.
  "We need to bring much-needed relief now to hard working, responsible homeowners who are struggling to keep up with their high interest rate loans '-- including thousands in New Jersey whom I have heard from," said Menendez, a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee. "We need to do this before interest rates go up again. It's time that Congress finally put families first and give homeowners who have played by the rules a fair chance to refinance at today's low rates."
Yemen's main oil pipeline attacked, pumping halted
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  SANAA | Fri Feb 8, 2013 7:40am EST
  SANAA (Reuters) - Attackers blew up Yemen's main oil export pipeline on Friday, halting the flow of crude, an official working for the state-run Safer oil company said, the latest in a series of attacks.
  Yemen's oil and gas pipelines have been repeatedly sabotaged by insurgents and tribesmen, especially since anti-government protests created a power vacuum in 2011, causing fuel shortages and slashing export earnings for the impoverished country.
  Yemen's stability is a priority for the United States and its Gulf Arab allies because of its strategic position next to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia and shipping lanes, and because is home to one of al Qaeda's most active wings.
  "Subversive elements" had blown up the pipeline linking the al-Hawi Wadi Abida production field in the central Marib province to the Red Sea on Friday morning, the Safer official told Reuters, declining to be identified.
  The blast had halted crude flows to the Ras Isa terminal but pumping would resume once the pipeline had been repaired, he added.
  "The pipeline burst into flames immediately after the explosion," a witness said.
  The last in a spate of attacks on the pipeline was in January, when production was halted for one day. In December, Yemen said oil was being pumped through the pipeline at a rate of around 70,000 barrels per day (bpd).
  The pipeline used to carry around 110,000 bpd of Marib light crude to Ras Isa.
  A long closure of the line last year forced Yemen's largest refinery at Aden to shut, leaving the small producer dependent on fuel donations from Saudi Arabia and imports.
  (Reporting By Mohammed Ghobari, writing by Raissa Kasolowsky, editing by William Hardy)
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Richard Marx: 'Risque Clothing Banned At Grammys, But Guys Who Beat Up Women?'
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  Source: Radar Online
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:13
  Richard Marx doesn't get it '' sexy clothes, bad; women-beaters, OK.
  The Right Here Waiting singer expressed his confusion about CBS's Thursday mandate to avoid too-sexy outfits, but willingness to welcome convicted felon Chris Brown with open arms.
  PHOTOS: Rihanna & Chris Brown Go Public At Lakers/Knicks Game
  He tweeted: '''Risque' clothing banned at Grammys but guys who beat up women? Come ooonnn downnnnn'.....#goodcallgrammys.'''
  In a later tweet addressed to a follower, the soft rock staple clarified, ''Technically that tweet was about ANY d**kbag who hits women.''
  PHOTOS: Rihanna & Chris Brown Leave The Same Hotel On The Same Night
  As we previously reported, in an e-mail Thursday, CBS, who is airing the show, said that invitees should avoid wearing anything too provocative
  Brown, who took home the best R&B album Grammy for F.A.M.E. last year, hasn't responded to the barbs from the Satisfied singer.
  PHOTOS: Rihanna's Blood In Chris Brown's Car
  While Brown and Rihanna have resumed their romance four years after he famously beat her, the Forever continues to receive flak from the public and fellow celebrities for his cavalier attitude toward his past misdeeds.
  The 55th annual Grammy Awards airs this Sunday at 8/7c on CBS.
Swapping the butter for margarine 'may be bad for your health'.
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:09
  Men who eat margarine over butter could be more prone to heart diseaseFindings come from new analysis of study done four decades agoBut some researchers have blasted the research as 'underpowered'By Larisa Brown
  PUBLISHED: 20:48 EST, 5 February 2013 | UPDATED: 20:50 EST, 5 February 2013
  Eating margarine instead of butter may not be good for you after all, scientists have warned.
  For the past 50 years, we have been advised to reduce our intake of saturated animal fats, and eat more of the polyunsaturated vegetable fats found in margarine.
  But now scientists in the US claim to have turned that conventional wisdom on its head, with a new analysis of a study carried out between 1966 and 1973. Some of the data had been missing for decades.
  The study, conducted in Sydney, followed 458 men aged 30 to 59 who had recently had a heart attack or suffered from angina.
  Spreading doubt: Butter (left) may not be more harmful to health than margarine (right), according to U.S. scientists
  Half were advised to cut their animal fat consumption and replace it with safflower oil '' similar to sunflower oil '' and safflower oil margarine.
  The results, published in the British Medical Journal, showed that those who ate more of these products were almost twice as likely to die from all causes, including heart disease.
  They chose the Sydney study because it was the only randomised controlled study to look at the impact of increasing consumption of omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acid.
  Most studies of dietary interventions have involved multiple changes, but the Sydney study looked solely at omega 6.
  Omega 6, the most prevalent polyunsaturated fat in most Western diets, is also known as linoleic acid.
  Diners who prefer the taste of butter to margarine but don't want their health to suffer will rejoice at the findings
  It is found in large quantities in vegetable oils such as corn, sunflower, safflower and soybean and in margarines made from these oils.
  Once in the body, it is converted into a chemical called arachidonic acid which can trigger the release of other chemicals leading to inflammation, a leading cause of a host of chronic diseases '' including heart disease.
  The researchers, from the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., say their findings could have 'important implications for worldwide dietary recommendations'.
  But other scientists have criticised the results, saying they did not provide enough evidence to suggest people should change their diets.
  Professor Tom Sanders, of King's College London, said the study was 'enormously underpowered', of 'little relevance to diets today' and its findings had been refuted by recent better studies.
  Professor Brian Ratcliffe, of Aberdeen University, said: 'This paper does not provide evidence for changes to the current recommendations for a healthy diet.'
  And Victoria Taylor, senior dietician at the British Heart Foundation, said: 'Our understanding of the effect of different fats on our heart develops all the time as new research into this complex issue is published.
  'Replacing saturated fats with unsaturated alternatives is a well-known recommendation for your heart, which is based on many large and in-depth studies.
  'However, this research highlights the need for us to further understand how different unsaturated fats affect our risk of heart disease.
  'Whichever fats you use it is important to be sparing with them.'
  Vegetable oils and margarine are supposed to help lower cholesterol and blood pressure and increase weight loss and improve overall health.
  But they are some of the most chemically altered foods in our diets, and critics say they should not be promoted as healthy.
Africa: Africa's Rising Rage - the Middle Classes Call for Revolution
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:08
  I had not intended to come back to the Africa Rising debate for a while. But on my recent trip to Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda I was shocked at how angry the young professionals are.
  These are highly educated, ambitious young men and women who could be found working in the corporate sector anywhere in the world. They should be taking Africa to the Promised Land. Instead I found them frustrated and furious with many calling for coups and revolutions.
  Coming from London where we had been basking in a warm bath of Afro-optimism, I had expected to find a similar feeling in Africa itself. Growth has remained strong despite the economic problems in Europe, Africa's biggest trading partner, and the prices for the continent's abundant commodities have remained high. Governance is said to be improving.
  There is no doubt that Africa has come a very long way from where it was in the 1980s and 90s. My prime piece of evidence for that is traffic jams. At that time you could drive into Nairobi, Kampala or Johannesburg at any hour and rarely be held up by anything except a red light.
  Now you have to leave hours earlier to be sure of getting into the city centre on time. Outside the towns and cities you can now actually drive in a straight line on many roads. As they used to say of the potholes in Uganda: "if you see a man driving in a straight line you know he must be drunk."
  But the questions about Africa's dozen years of strong economic growth remain:
  Firstly, has Africa's growth been driven by a long commodity boom or is it now self-sustaining? Where is the large scale manufacturing?
  Secondly, has governance really improved? Are the figures about numbers in school, clinics being built, power, water and sanitation delivered true?
  Thirdly, are there two Africas? One in a bubble of western-style wealth inhabited by the rich and powerful and another Africa on the other side of the security fence - barefoot, one torn shirt, no money, no prospect of a job - "suffering and smiling" as Fela Kuti sang, but with big and increasingly angry eyes.
  What shocked me in Lagos, Uganda and Nairobi was the fury of the young middle classes - the very people who are supposed to driving the new Africa into the 21st century. They were angry about the poor levels of education, about the lack of electricity, but above all about corruption at the very top. And they see the growing ranks of ill-educated, unemployable young people being churned out of badly-managed state education systems.
  In Nigeria they have all but given up on the government. But what about people like Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of the Central Bank, and Nkonjo Iweala, the Finance Minister? I pleaded. Their reply was: of course they do what they can but their space is limited.
  They are not allowed anywhere near the real money - the oil. That, I was told, was managed in complete secrecy by President Goodluck Jonathan and the Vice President and the oil minister, Ms Diesani Alison-Madueke. They are filling a huge war chest so that Jonathan can run for president again in 2015.
  Two remarks struck me. One was how utterly out of touch the President is. When street protests broke out a year ago in reaction to the sudden removal of the fuel subsidy, he claimed that people were being paid to demonstrate. My informant pointed out that all the evidence was that people had reacted in spontaneous fury to the government's removal of the only benefit it delivers to the Nigerian people. Yes, the only one.
  One said: "I am extremely optimistic about the future of Nigeria - once there has been a revolution and the current ruling elite is removed". No one in the room showed dissent or even surprise.
  In Uganda the entire middle class - except for those in government - realize that the country is heading for a crash or a coup. Even President Yoweri Museveni himself warned that if his own ruling party does not stop bickering the army may step in. That is the most extraordinary statement I have ever heard from an African president. The reaction of many Ugandans (under their breath) was: "bring it on".
  Museveni has stayed too long and he has cultivated no obvious successor. He is trapped, talking now about installing his deeply unpopular wife and or his son in his place. 27 years ago he did a good job and ruled well (except in the north) and this lasted for a decade. But now he has turned into the very president he criticized so severely as a young man - the one who stays too long in power.
  Meanwhile, in Nairobi the population is battening down the hatches for the election next month. Most are optimistic that their new constitution will curtail the worst excesses of the professional politicians, although these people still made up about 80 percent of the winners in the recent party primaries.
  So where exactly is The New Africa flourishing? Botswana? But it was always successful and never suffered from the political and economic catastrophes that hit Africa in the 20th century.
  The fact is that the five big African countries: Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo are in political turmoil or stasis. None of their governments have the vision or the capacity to position their countries to develop rapidly and sustainably as Indonesia, Malaysia and China have. The good things that are happening in many African countries - with the possible exception of South Africa - are happening in spite of their governments, not because of them.
  Secondly, two of the most successful countries in terms of human development - Ethiopia and Rwanda - are dictatorships which allow minimum democracy and freedom of speech. This makes it difficult for Western governments to support them. Aid has been cut to Rwanda and if the next election in Ethiopia is not free and transparent, Western allies and donors may have to turn a blind eye or step away.
  Some countries are doing reasonably well: Ghana, Senegal, Namibia and Zambia are OK. Cameroon and Gabon are quiet but not dynamic, still run by small wealthy elites who do not spread the new wealth.
  Cote d'Ivoire has emerged from its civil war and Somalia may bounce back quickly if the new government is strong enough to crush al-Shabaab and smart enough to manage clan politics. But meanwhile Mali, a former favourite of western countries, has imploded and both Sudans are in an increasingly bad way. It is hard to imagine Mauritania, Niger and Chad will not also be affected by Islamic militancy.
  China has been the main player in Africa's economic transformation, but how long will it be before Africans react against the growing power and exclusive behaviour of the Chinese and their total disregard for Africa's environment and culture?
  Africa rising? Bits of it yes, but watch out for Africans' rising anger.
  Richard Dowden is Director of the Royal African Society and author of Africa; altered states, ordinary miracles. For more of Richard's blogs click here.
Tunisia: The Poet and Politician - Who Was Chokri Belaid?
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:07
  The assassination of the highly respected opposition figure Chokri Belaid has thrown Tunisia into turmoil and could mark a turning point in Tunisian politics.
  Since opposition figure Chokri Belaid was assassinated yesterday morning, Tunisia has been thrown into total turmoil. Political violence is rare in Tunisia, so the assassination targeting a household name and performed in such spectacular style - Belaid was shot four times at point blank range by an unknown gunman outside his home - shook Tunisians to the core.
  Following news of his death, protesters took to the streets of Tunis, clashing with police and calling for fall of the regime. President Moncef Marzouki flew straight back to Tunisia, cutting short his visit to France and cancelling his trip to Egypt.
  Four Tunisian opposition groups met in an historic and unprecedented meeting and announced their withdrawal from the national assembly. Prime Minister Hamdi Jebali said he would dissolve the government and install a small cabinet of technocrats in its place until elections. And al-Nahda, the ruling Islamist party and the party of which the prime minister is a member, rejected Jebali's proposed dissolution.
  This has truly been one of the longest 24 hours in Tunisian politics. The scale of the response against al-Nahda and the new unified stance of the opposition could prove to be a turning point in Tunisian politics. All this was triggered by the death of the 49-year-old lawyer and secretary general of the Unified Patriotic Democratic Party (UPDP). But who was he?
  Who was Belaid?
  Student activist in the 1980s, civil rights advocate since the 1990s and prominent anti-Ben Ali figure, Belaid became a household name from January 2011, peering through the television screens almost daily, with his trade mark thick moustache, fluent speech and forceful opinions. He was smeared by Imams in mosques as being an atheist ('kafir'); accused of being an informant for former president Ben Ali; blamed for instigating strikes and demonstrations by the government; and satirised in comedies and on social media.
  At the same time, he was - just like his even more iconic friend and fellow leftist, Hamma Hammami - "humanised" to the general public through human interest stories such as television visits to his home and appearances on social programmes and even in Ramadan entertainment shows. In addition, Belaid was a burgeoning poet before devoting himself to politics.
  He often quoted the literary tradition at will and spoke flawless Arabic. For these reasons, he could not be accused of being the traditional uprooted Francophile secularist or the customary dogmatic Marxist.
  And like in life, his tragic death also had poetic overtones. His assassination was foretold in more than the many threats he received, publicly and in private, and as a poet, he is best remembered for a poem dedicated to Husain Muruwa, the Lebanese intellectual assassinated by Islamists in the late 1990s.
  Along with his popular appeal, Belaid maintained a strong line against neoliberal policies and vociferously opposed many Islamist ideas. His message as well as his profile seem to have resonated well with the core values of the revolution: work, dignity and freedom.
  His line of thought and action ran through Tunisian politics largely through the potent and ubiquitous Tunisian General Union of Labour (UGTT) in which the Tunisian Left has maintained a strong presence at the regional as well as national levels. The same is true of the student movement, which Belaid led and in which he had his training as an activist.
  His appeal also has been complemented by a rather traditional leftist profile: he lived in a rented apartment with his wife and two young daughters; he did not own car; he spoke the dialect of the interior regions of the country and avoided glamorous and rich circles.
  Behind Belaid's personal and activist story lies the complex and compelling story of the Tunisian Left as a whole. Responses to his death may well mark the end of the line for Islamist politics as we know it in Tunisia. It may also mark the rise of a unified opposition, which now realises that its fight is not only, or no longer, for freedom of expression and association, but an existential one - a matter of survival.
  If Belaid was a thorn in the side of the al-Nahda, the Salafis and the government during his life, he is likely to be a decisive nail in their coffin now that he is dead. The split emerging between Prime Minister Jebali and al-Nahda is perhaps the start of this trend. But amidst this still-developing situation, one thing is now a reality: Tunisia, which prided itself on peaceful politics, is no longer an exception in the region.
  Dr. Omri holds a BA from the University of Tunis and MA and PhD from Washington University. Before joining the University of Oxford, Dr. Omri was Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis in the US.
Africa: 'Tsunami' of Diseases Waiting to Hit
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:06
  Geneva '-- A tsunami is looming on the horizon and the world is unprepared for it. This one won't be a massive wall of water but a tidal wave of disease - and experts say the international community needs to act fast to keep it from crashing.
  "Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) - cancer, heart disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, among others - have become the leading cause of death worldwide," Jeffrey Sturchio, senior partner at the U.S.-based consulting firm Rabin Martin, told a conference organised by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) on World Cancer Day in Geneva.
  "Some 36 million people die from (NCDs) every year, 80 percent of them in low and middle income countries - a figure that will increase by 17 percent in the coming years and by 25 percent in Africa," he added.
  Tuberculosis and malaria, in comparison, kill one to two million people around the world every year.
  "The disease burden is shifting to NCDs, but since developing countries still have to fight infectious diseases, they face a double burden," Sturchio warned.
  However, developing countries do not appear to be paying adequate attention to the impending crisis.
  "In 2010 HIV/AIDS was responsible for 3.5 percent of deaths worldwide, malaria for 1.5 percent, cancer for 12.6 percent and heart diseases for 14 percent," Cary Adams, chief executive officer of the Union for International Cancer Control, told IPS on the sidelines of the conference on Feb. 4.
  These statistics alone should be sufficient for governments to put NCDs high on their list of national priorities. "But in sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/AIDS caused 13.3 percent of deaths, malaria 6.7 percent and cancer 4.5 percent", he said, which explains why African health ministers keep putting cancer on the back burner.
  "But the (reality) is, the problem will double in the next 15 years. There is a tsunami of NCDs approaching and we need to tackle it today," Adams stressed.
  To tackle this "tsunami", four health federations - the International Diabetes Federation, the Union for International Cancer Control, the World Heart Federation and the Union against Lung Disease and Tuberculosis - came together to form the Non-communicable Diseases Alliance. With a network of over 2,000 non-governmental organisations based in over 170 countries, it seeks to amplify the voice of civil society in the global debate on NCDs.
  The Alliance was also instrumental in pushing the United Nations General Assembly to organise, in September 2011, a high-level meeting that officially declared NCDs a "challenge of epidemic proportions", which, if it is to be addressed, requires the cooperation of governments, civil society and the private sector.
  "This is not an easy thing to do," Adams, who chairs the NCD Alliance, conceded to IPS. "We have tried to work on a common agenda and find consensus, but some NGOs would not talk to us because we engage with the private sector. We try to embrace the private sector without compromising on integrity and independence and everything we do is based on science."
  Still, the mobilisation has borne some fruits. Five years ago, non-communicable diseases were barely on the agenda. The U.N.'s political declaration and a series of follow-up activities built tremendous momentum, resulting in a plan of action that stretches to 2025, with clear targets such as reducing NCD-related deaths by 25 percent in that time frame.
  But financial resources are stretched thin, and it is unlikely that the funds needed to launch a massive global campaign will be readily available.
  "The reality is that in the last 20 years, tens of billions of dollars in official development assistance have gone to developing countries, mainly (to fight) HIV/AIDS, and it is unrealistic to think that the same will happen again," Sturchio admitted.
  It will therefore be necessary to capitalise on existing investments and reallocate some of the resources already in circulation, he said.
  "Hundreds of HIV clinics were created across sub-Saharan Africa that can also be used for NCDs. When patients come to these clinics, they can also be tested for other infections or provided with vaccines," he suggested.
  For Margaret Kruk, a professor at Columbia University's school of public health, primary care must be reconceptualised to tackle NCDs in low and middle-income countries.
  "In theory, many NCD services can be provided in primary care, like primary prevention of hepatitis B, immunisation, smoking cessation, cholesterol and glucose testing, mammography and opportunistic screening for depression," she said.
  "But primary care in (developing) countries is not able to meet NCD challenges. The patient is not seen in a holistic way."
  She added that the challenge is most severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where, for the last half a century, national health plans have been oriented towards the "traditional killers" like infectious diseases, and have also focused heavily on maternal and child health.
  This is partly due to the fact that the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) laid out by the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 placed a great deal of emphasis on these "preventable causes of death".
  But as the 2015 deadline for achieving these targets draws closer, priorities will have to be re-examined.
  Adams believes that one of the Alliance's most important tasks over the next two years will be to make non-communicable diseases central in the post-2015 international development process.
  Indeed, relatively simple public policy measures can go a long way in reducing NCDs - such as pushing people to consume less sugar and salt, eat less fatty foods, give up smoking and exercise more.
  Already developing countries are becoming conscious that they don't need additional funding for those measures. But when it comes to drugs, costs are much higher in developing countries than in the United States, for example.
  From the manufacturer to the wholesale distributor, to the intermediaries and the clinics, monopolies, taxes, regulations and administrative hurdles push the price of medicines up to prohibitive rates in the global South.
  The Southern African Development Community and the East African Community have undertaken initiatives to harmonise regulations at the regional level, but for Sturchio these are not enough: "Countries must be able to make sovereign decisions on the medicines they use, but today a lot of duplications make the supply chain inefficient."
  He does not believe intellectual property issues constitute an obstacle to stemming the wave of NCDs.
  "Most of the medicines needed to treat NCDs are off patent," he told IPS. "The challenge is to find ways to bring them to the people. Hundreds of medicines (to treat cancer) are very inexpensive and yet unavailable."
Even the Oscar Memorial List Is a Focus of Campaigning
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:04
  Clockwise from top left: Richard Perry/The NYT; Vincent Kessler/Reuters; Bob D'Amico/ABC; Kevin Winter/Getty for AFI; Mario Anzuoni/Reuters; Charles Sykes/A.P.; Stephanie Strasburg/Tribune-Review, via A.P.; Gus Ruelas/A.P.
  Luminaries who died in 2012 include, clockwise from top left, Jack Klugman, Richard Zanuck, Charles Durning, Frank Pierson, Ernest Borgnine, Nora Ephron, Marvin Hamlisch and Tony Scott. The ceremony will most likely feature tributes of Borgnine, Durning, Ephron, Scott, Zanuck and Hamlisch. As for the others? That's for Academy members on a special committee to decide, and their identities are not revealed.
  LOS ANGELES '-- On Oscar night everyone is dying '-- sometimes literally '-- to win something.
  Since March 21, 1994, when the first regular obituary segment was dropped into an Academy Awards show, a spot on the yearly scroll of recently deceased movie luminaries has become one of the evening's most hotly contested honors. And as in most Oscar races it is the focus of sometimes ferocious campaigning.
  This time around it is a safe bet that Ernest Borgnine, Charles Durning, Nora Ephron, Tony Scott, Richard Zanuck and Marvin Hamlisch will get their few seconds in a roughly three-minute remembrance.
  Beloved figures all. But who fills the next 30 or so spots in the memorial for this year's show, which takes place on Feb. 24 at the Dolby Theater, is open to debate. And that debate is under way at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where a committee of members whose names are discreetly concealed from other members and the public are measuring celebrity, weighing achievement and trying to ward off entreaties from those who believe a loved one, friend or former client should have a last moment in the limelight.
  ''Unfortunately, my calls to the Academy were not returned,'' Sheldon Roskin, a longtime publicist, said in an e-mail this week, of his efforts to lobby for the inclusion of Tommy Culla, a public relations colleague unknown to moviegoers.
  ''Of all the committees, it's the hardest one to do,'' said Tom Sherak, whose three years as president of the Academy ended last year.
  ''The committee's names are never mentioned, ever,'' Mr. Sherak added.
  He and others spoke of a process that has shifted responsibility for the obituary roll call from a narrow group that once mainly included the Oscar show producer and both the president and the executive director of the Academy to a slightly broader group of insiders who now must choose a few dozen peers from this year's especially large group of about 500 candidates.
  It is not a pretty business.
  Mr. Roskin has so far hit a wall in his efforts on behalf of Mr. Culla, who had turned his gift for Damon Runyon-esque banter into a calling card with friends and sometime employers like Tony Curtis, Roman Polanski, John Boorman and another former Academy president, Sidney Ganis.
  But things might go better for Lois Smith, a publicist who died last year. With clients as prominent as Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, and some well-placed support within the Academy, Ms. Smith is perhaps poised to join Warren Cowan (who was remembered in 2009) and Ronni Chasen (who made the list in 2011, shortly after she was shot dead) as one of a small number of publicity executives ever to make the cut.
  While the committee's anonymity is supposed to curtail aggressive campaigning, ''there's no shortage of input from out there in the community,'' said Ric Robertson, the Academy's chief operating officer. The Academy, he pointed out, has tried to expand the memorial by posting a much longer '-- if currently somewhat hard to find '-- obituary list, on its Web site Oscars.com.
  Those remembered on the show itself do not have to be Academy members, Mr. Robertson said. But institutional service can help. Frank Pierson, a screenwriter and former Academy president who died in July, for instance, appears to have a strong case for inclusion this year.
  Mostly, though, the winnowing process combines measured judgments about accomplishment '-- who has broken ground? won awards? impressed the public? '-- with a determination to spread the honors across various moviemaking crafts, and some gut calls about who ought to be remembered.
  Which has led to some maddeningly unpredictable honors and snubs.
  In 2009, for instance, Maila Nurmi, a film-business also-ran, credited as Vampira in Ed Wood's megaflop''Plan 9 From Outer Space,'' was included. But Eartha Kitt, with a long history of soundtrack and acting performances, was not. (''The producers are either 12 or have been living under a rock for the last 60 years,'' Kitt's former publicist, Andrew Freeman, subsequently told The New York Post.)
  Last year Harry Morgan, whose roughly 100 feature film credits included ''High Noon'' and ''The Ox-Bow Incident,'' found no place in the Oscar-night memorial; yet Joseph Farrell, an inside player who was known mostly for conducting audience tests of films, was in.
  ''I cannot image why it left my dad out of its tribute segment,'' Morgan's son Charley said of the Academy in an e-mail this week. ''It would never have occurred to me to check with or otherwise lobby the Academy to be sure that he was mentioned.''
  Mr. Robertson said Harry Morgan was skipped because he had become more known for television shows like ''Dragnet'' and ''M*A*S*H'' than for movies. ''It's a subjective process,'' he added.
  According to Libby Wertin, a researcher with the Academy, an early prototype for the obituary sequence was part of the 50th ceremony in 1978. That year, Sammy Davis Jr. sang a Hamlisch song, ''Come Light the Candles,'' over a memorial montage.
  But Gilbert Cates, who produced 14 Oscar telecasts before his death in 2011 (and inclusion in the 2012 memorial) first introduced the remembrance as a regular feature on the 66th Oscar show, in 1994. Chuck Workman, who edited or supervised a number of the memorial sequences over the years, said in an interview that he believed Mr. Cates was trying to get more film clips into a ceremony that often played like a variety show.
  Of the 30 film workers included that first year, 23 '-- fully 77 percent '-- were actors. And it was an all-star cast, featuring Lillian Gish, Myrna Loy, Joseph Cotten, Helen Hayes, Ruby Keeler, Don Ameche, Vincent Price and Audrey Hepburn.
  The shortest roster appeared in 1998, when Mr. Cates, again the producer, included just 23 on a list that remembered Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Red Skelton and Chris Farley. The longest sequence, in 2008, had 43 honorees.
  Typically the memorial montage has been screened over a sentimental song, like ''Smile,'' performed by Celine Dion in 2011. Virtually always the sequence ends with a big name: Billy Wilder, Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor. One ironclad rule, according to Bruce Cohen, who produced the 2011 show, is that it must come just before a commercial break.
  ''You never want to have anything come after it,'' Mr. Cohen said of a sequence that momentarily breaks the building tension on awards night.
  In the last decade, Mr. Robertson and others noted, the shift toward a more inclusive approach, recognizing contributions from makeup people and others not in the spotlight, led to longer lists.
  But the commemoration of lesser-known figures has led to some omissions over the years '-- Corey Haim, Farrah Fawcett, Bea Arthur, Peter Graves '-- that feel less like benign neglect than an unforgettable slight.
  ''It is hard to imagine,'' said Mr. Morgan in writing of his father, Harry, ''that his absence from the tribute was due to simple oversight.''
''Adam Lanza may have not acted Alone''. Other ''Potential Suspects'' in Sandy Hook Massacre?
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  Source: Global Research
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:00
  by Ralph Lopez
  Connecticut State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky has argued that unsealing warrants in the Sandy Hook case might ''seriously jeopardize'' the investigation by disclosing information known only to other ''potential suspects.''
  Sedensky said that unsealing the warrants would also:
  ''''identify persons cooperating with the investigation, thus possibly jeopardizing their personal safety and well-being.'' ''
  The statement by the CT prosecutor's office is the first indication from state authorities that Adam Lanza may have not acted alone. The statement was made in support of a motion to continue the seal on the results of five search warrants for 90 more days.
  CT State Police Public Affairs Officer Lt. Paul Vance said in an official press release on December 16th that:
  ''The male subject identified as the shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary School has been identified as ADAM LANZA DOB: 04/22/92; he resided at 36 Yogananda Street. His cause of death was gunshot wound and his death is ruled a suicide.''
  However, neither Vance nor the CT Attorney General's office have ever ruled out the possible presence of other suspects. The New Haven Register reports Vance as having said: ''Whenever you conduct an investigation you don't speculate as to where it's going to take you, as I said, we're going to look at every single thing, every piece of material and we'll take it from there.''
  The CT State Attorney General's Office is handling the investigation of the mass shooting, in which 20 children and 8 adults died last December 14th.
  The motion to extend the seal on the records for 90 days was granted by Superior Court Judge John Blawie, who wrote in his decision that:
  ''''The court finds that due to the nature and circumstances of this case and the ongoing investigation, the state's interest in continuing nondisclosure substantially outweighs any right to public disclosure at this time,''"
  The warrants were for searches, on different dates, of the Lanza home, and of Adam Lanza's mother's two cars. One of the cars, a 2010 black Honda Civic, was the vehicle which Lanza allegedly drove to the crime scene. The other, a 2009 silver BMW, was parked in the garage attached to the Lanza home. The court motion seals the affidavits stating what was found upon execution of the warrants for another 90 days, until late March.
  Little else is known about what the authorities may be referring to in support of the motion to seal the affidavits for another 90 days beyond the normal statutory allowance of 14 days. Lt. Vance did say in a press conference on December 15, 2012, somewhat apologetically for not being able to answer all of the reporters' questions, that there were ''some cards that we're holding close to our vest.''State's Attorney Sedensky wrote in the motion that:
  ''''No arrests have been made and none are currently anticipated, but have not been ruled out.'''' Sedensky said:
  ''''There is information in the search warrant affidavits that is not known to the general public''"
  An image of the key passages in the court motion is below. The entire document has been uploaded at Scribd by the New Haven Register, the venerable New England newspaper associated with the home of Yale University.
  Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/342829#ixzz2KJ4Vd8pA
Sandy Hook: Law Enforcement Officials Now Admit Possibility of Multiple Shooters
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  Source: WT news feed
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:59
  In a shocking twist of events lending credence to theintelhub.com's investigation, it has now been admitted by officials that there is a potential that multiple shooters carried out the bloody massacre that took place at the Sandy Hook Elementary School the morning of December 14, 2012.
  NEWTOWN '-- New information has now been brought forth by Connecticut State Attorney Stephen Sedensky, suggesting that records pertaining to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have been sealed to possibly hide the identity of witnesses from multiple shooter suspects and that they should not be unsealed anytime soon.
  Officials fear the safety of witnesses.
  Now we are getting somewhere, after nearly two months this new information is startling.
  Lt. Paul Vance
  Vance nor the CT Attorney General's office have ever ruled out the possible presence of other suspects. The New Haven Register reports Vance as having said:
  ''Whenever you conduct an investigation you don't speculate as to where it's going to take you, as I said, we're going to look at every single thing, every piece of material and we'll take it from there.''
  The CT State Attorney General's Office is handling the investigation of the mass shooting, in which 20 children and 8 adults died last December 14th.
  The motion to extend the seal on the records for 90 days was granted by Superior Court Judge John Blawie, who wrote in his decision that:
  ''The court finds that due to the nature and circumstances of this case and the ongoing investigation, the state's interest in continuing nondisclosure substantially outweighs any right to public disclosure at this time,''
  The warrants were for searches, on different dates, of the Lanza home, and of Adam Lanza's mother's two cars. One of the cars, a 2010 black Honda Civic, was the vehicle which Lanza allegedly drove to the crime scene. The other, a 2009 silver BMW, was parked in the garage attached to the Lanza home. The court motion seals the affidavits stating what was found upon execution of the warrants for another 90 days, until late March.
  Although I myself believe this could potentially be a staged release of information by officials, as something still doesn't seem right.
  ^theintelhub.com's Investigation: The following articles (links) are posted in chronological order from the day of the shooting onward.
  Shepard Ambellas is the founder & director of theintelhub.com (a popular alternative news website), researcher, investigative journalist, radio talk show host, and filmmaker.
Police to review reality television involvement
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:58
  Police to review reality television involvementThursday 07 February 2013
  The formation of a national force from January 1 is helping the police to review its involvement with television reality shows based on crime and bad drivers, the Volkskrant reports on Thursday.
  Until now, the 26 individual forces have all been responsible for their own policies but the new national body wants more influence on the plethora of formats and programmes, the Volkskrant says.
  'We've made an inventory of all the current and new media requests and have come up with 41 programmes, ranging from documentaries, reality shows and well-estabished programmes like Wegmisbruikers (literally, road abusers), spokesman Rob Luijten told the paper.
  The fact so many shows take the same approach means viewers may have the impression police do nothing 'but chase fast cars', Luijten said. 'We have to do it differently. "Good tv" can no longer be an argument. Our involvement has to be useful and contribute to our reputation.'
  (C) DutchNews.nl
Parliament to use secret ballot in vote on EU budget.
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  Source: WT news feed
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:48
  Schulz, speaking at a late-night news conference, confirmed Daul's earlier statement that the use of the special procedure was planned.
  Under parliamentary procedures, one-fifth of MEPs can request the Parliament hold a secret ballot instead of have their votes recorded. The vote is expected within three months, as some 80 legislative acts accompanying the EU budget should be prepared in the meantime.
  EurActiv understands that the unusual procedure is aimed at preventing national governments from bullying MEPs by threatening to expose their votes.
  Schulz told EU leaders that an eventual agreement would not be an ''end point'' but a ''basis for negotiations'' with the Parliament for introducing more flexibility into the EU budget.
  ''Just like any member state, the EU needs to be able to respond quickly to changing economic and political circumstances. Let me give you one example: if we keep to our rigid approach we will not be able to respond effectively to unexpected events, such as those currently unfolding in Mali,'' Schulz said.
  He also argued that it would be unfair to present a seven-year spending plan that would bequeath to the next Commission and Parliament budgets much lower than the ones available at present.
  Flexibility as the paramount priority
  Schulz said that such an approach had nothing to do with planning certainty.
  ''What we are actually doing is ignoring a problem which calls for an immediate, flexible response. I would also point out that the financial framework would cover a time span during which at least one member state has said that it may leave the European Union,'' he told EU leaders.
  He argued for the need of flexibility between expenditure categories and financial years as well as introducing a legally binding revision clause, which, like the flexibility arrangements, could be adopted by qualified-majority voting. Up to now, amending budgets have been subject to majority vote.
  Schulz also warned that as it stood, the proposed budget by Council President Herman Van Rompuy could create growing deficit, which would be completely impossible to handle by 2020.
  He explained that Van Rompuy had given up to the UK approach which saw as legally binding only the payment ceilings, not the commitments. He said that payments over the period to 2020 would effectively be frozen at the level of the 2011 budget. This, he said, was amounting to massive real cuts. With regards commitments, he explained that in 2020 the same ceiling would still apply as in 2005.
  Schulz told reporters he was not going to ''sign'' such an agreement, unless flexibility which would be able to deal with rolling deficits is introduced. He repeated that he saw the eventual agreement on the budget not as an end point, but as the beginning of negotiations with the European Parliament.
U.S. Increases Pressure of Eco
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:42
  TEHRAN - All over this city of 12 million people, high-rises are under construction, local engineers and Chinese contractors are rushing to finish a multilevel highway, and the streets are lined with billboards promoting the latest tablets and washing machines made by South Korean companies like Samsung and LG. Supermarkets are fully stocked, and it seems as if new restaurants and fast food joints are opening up every day, and never lacking for customers.
  In short, you would not know that oil exports from Iran have dropped by a million barrels a day, and that the free fall in the currency has caused huge inflation - a result of American- and European-led sanctions as well as economic mismanagement by the Iranian government. The West escalated the economic war another notch on Wednesday, imposing a new set of restrictions intended to force Iran into what amounts to a form of barter trade for oil, because payments for oil deliveries can no longer be sent to accounts inside Iran.
  A senior Obama administration official called the latest step "a significant turning of the screw," repeating the administration's four-year argument that the mullahs here face a "stark choice" between holding on to their nuclear program or reviving their oil revenue, the country's economic lifeblood.
  But there is little confidence among American officials in Washington - and little evidence on the streets of Tehran - that even newly stringent sanctions have much chance of forcing Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, into striking the deal that most Americans and Europeans, and even some Israelis, say could defuse the crisis.
Obama has admitted criminals working for him.
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  Source: Lame Cherry
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:37
  I received this email from the Obama regime in which a Mexican criminal admits he is working in an organized conspiracy against America inside the Obama regime.
  This Jose Magana, states that as a foreigner, he organized with other criminals, in full Obama support for the Dream Act to extort money from Americans and to bully citizenship out of America.The brazen nature of the Obama criminal enterprise in now sending out emails pissing on INS in knowing they will not face prosecution, and knowing the FBI will not investigate Barack Hussein Obama for these boasted of crimes in violation of the RICO ACT is proof as this blog has only noted, that America is dead and rotting in the Obama Abyss.
  Pertinent criminal sentences are HIGHLIGHTED.
  AAmazing in this is Magana, bitches about STATES RIGHTS in protecting college enrollments for THOSE AMERICANS THEY WERE BUILT FOR IN THE FIRST PLACE WITH AMERICAN MONEY and his being denied criminal piracy in taking enrollment stops meant for Citizens.Yes Yes Obama supporter criminal Magana, considers hisself an American......and demands to be treated fairly and play by the same rules now that he is a lawyer......problem is Magana breaks the laws of America when it suits him, and demands access to the American pot of gold which Citizenship would bring to him.
  This lawyer Magana should be arrested, detained and deported......AND CHARGED the hundreds of thousands of dollars in repayment to Americans that he looted from America in food, shelter and schooling as he earns his Mexican keep in Mexico as a Mexican lawyer.
  Magana is so interested in the "ties that bind him and all illegals". Odd how he views American Laws meant to protect Americans from enemies domestic and foreign as a hindrance to him and other criminals.
  This Mexican lawyer ends his Obama lying email with a plea that Americans want to fix the broken system. Yeah and who broke it, but border buster Indonesian Barry Chin AKA Barack Hussein Obama being illegally let into America and millions of these other welfare sucking criminals like Jose Magana.
  These crooks broke America, and now demand after trillions of dollars they looted to be rewarded with Citizenship.
  The Obama criminal breaks into you home and after stealing everything now demands title to your house.
  nuff said
  agtG
  Friend --I was brought to this country from Mexico when I was 2 years old.
  I am an undocumented immigrant -- and I am living proof that our immigration system is broken.
  For the first 17 years of my life, I slept on a couch. My mom worked three jobs to support our family.
  I worked hard, too. I did my homework, participated in class, and earned the opportunity go to college. But after I enrolled, state law changed and many undocumented immigrants were forced to drop out. Suddenly they could no longer afford the education they were eager to work for.
  We started organizing. We'd go up to people on campus, and ask them if they'd heard about the DREAM Act, which would allow hard-working immigrants who grew up in the U.S. to earn a path to citizenship. For those who opposed it, we'd tell them what happened to us.
  It was amazing: Just telling our stories would change people's minds.
  This is exactly how we're going to persuade people across the country to get behind President Obama's plan for comprehensive immigration reform.
  Everyone has a story -- I'm sure you do, too. As the President said last week, "Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you."At this critical moment, will you share your immigration story? Organizing for Action will use these stories to move the conversation forward.
  Now, almost six years later, I've completed law school and was fortunate to receive deferred action. I consider myself an American, and I want to play by the same rules as everyone else. But, as it stands, I can never become a citizen. I can't adjust my status. For most of my life, I could have been arrested, detained, and deported.
  I'm not alone. Millions of undocumented immigrants like me live in fear of being deported permanently to a country we may have never even visited. Our entire lives could be erased.
  You might not live under the same shadow. But the best thing about this country is that we are more alike than we are different. We all have a story of a mother, or grandfather, or great-great grandparent who came here to find opportunity or safety.
  Through this grassroots movement, we can raise our voices, tell our stories, and make sure Congress and all Americans better understand the ties that bind us. Our stories can drive our organizing. Share your own story today, and help Organizing for Action get the word out on why this matters:
  http:mybarackobama.con/Tell-Your-Story
  The majority of Americans agree we need to fix our badly broken system, and we saw major progress last week. But it's on us to keep up the momentum and make sure it gets done.
  Thanks for speaking up.
  Jose
  Jose Magana
  Paid for by Organizing for Action.
Philadelphia Courts Begin Using Computer Forecasts to Predict Future Criminal Behavior, Determine Jail Time
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:31
  Source: PhiCBS
  Grrreat'... Next thing will be a brain scan to determine if you lied about your alibi, India is moving that way.
  Judges in the Philadelphia court system are now taking advantage of powerful new computer models to help determine how much jail time an offender should get.
  Computers have been forecasting weather and economic trends for years, but applying algorithms to human behavior is relatively new.
  ''This all comes about because of new developments in statistics and computer science that are available to us that really weren't five or ten years ago,'' says University of Pennsylvania professor Richard Berk, a pioneer in the field.
  His forecasts, which use an algorithm to predict whether someone will offend again, have been used by city probation and parole officers for about three years, to decide how much supervision a defendant needs.
  Philadelphia Common Pleas Court administrative judge Pamela Dembe says the results there convinced her that the computer model could also be a useful tool in determining sentences.
  ''It's not an automatic sentencing project or anything like that,'' she explains. ''We're just looking for additional sources of information in hopes that we get the sentencing right.''
  Berk, the Penn professor, says the process is not perfect but he believes it will be better than current court practice.
  Tags: brain, india, Pamela Dembe, Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, results, Richard Berk, science, us
DON'T WRITE OFF THE ARAB SPRING
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  Source: aangirfan
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:30
  The Arab Spring is going exactly to plan.
  Tunisia's "finances have virtually collapsed.
  "Tourism remains in the doldrums.
  "Unemployment, particularly among young men, has soared.
  "There have been riots in several of the main cities."
  Don't write off Tunisia's revolution
  Israel is very pleased that the Arab World has been weakened.
  Bouazizi, whose story turns out to be fake.The 'Syrian Gay Girl blogger' turned out to be an American fake.(Syrian Gay Girl Blog Revealed As Fake Had News Agencies Fooled)
  On 17 June 2011 the BBC reported on further doubts about the story of Mohamed Bouazizi, the so called Tunisian martyr.(Perfect symbol?)
  1. The media had told us that Mohamed Bouazizi, the poorly educated 'martyr', used the internet to complain about 'injustice' and 'unemployment' in Tunisia.
  It now turns out that it was someone else, a college student calling himself Mohamed Bouazizi, who posted the so called Bouazizi poetry and revolutionary songs on the web.
  2. The media had told us that Bouazizi had been slapped across the face by a state official, called Fedia Hamdi.
  It turns out that this did not happen.
  Fedia Hamdi has been completely exonerated.
  3. The media told us that Bouazizi set himself alight in front of the local government offices and later died in hospital.
  We have seen no evidence to support this.
  4.The mother and stepfather of Mohamed Bouazizi, 'the martyr', are now 'rich'.
  They now live in a house in the upmarket Tunis suburb of La Marsa.
  5. Many Tunisians see the original story of Bouazizi as fake.
  In Tunisia, some towns renamed streets and town squares after the martyr, Mohamed Bouazizi.
  The new signs are often defaced or torn-down, even in his native town of Sidi Bouzid.
Dorner Manhunt: LAPD Declines To Say Whether Drones Being Used
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:28
  A Los Angeles Police spokeswoman declined to say whether local law enforcement authorities had sought the help of the federal government and its fleet of drones in the two-state-wide search for Christopher Jordan Dorner, the suspected killer of three people across Southern California in the last five days.While police have released two license plate numbers and a description of a car tied to Dorner, it's unclear whether unmanned aerial surveillance vehicles capable of reading license plates from the sky are assisting in the manhunt.
  At a press conference Thursday morning, Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz said, "We are using all the tools at our disposal."
  The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has drones in North Dakota, Texas and Arizona, but none are deployed in San Diego, CPB spokesman Ralph DeSio said.
  "The agency has been on the forefront of domestic use of drones by law enforcement," California Watch reported last year. "While there are still relatively few drones flying today, the Federal Aviation Administration predicts 30,000 will fly domestically in less than 20 years, according to a recent congressional report."
  The FAA last year released guidelines about domestic drone use, and several local law enforcement authorities have explored the idea of purchasing their own drones. The Alameda County Sheriff's Department had to delay plans to do so in December after protests by civil rights groups. While the ACLU is against unchecked drone use, its website states that usage with search warrants or in times of emergency can be justified. The California Legislature is also likely to consider regulating drone usage this year.
  LAPD told the L.A. Times that even Mexican border authorities had been told to be on the lookout for Dorner.
  The latest on the Dorner situation can be found here.
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A bill to provide for the expansion of affordable refinancing of mortgages held by the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. (S. 249)
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:25
  GovTrack's Bill SummaryWe don't have a summary available yet.
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  So, yes, we display the House Republican Conference's summaries when available even if we do not have a Democratic summary available. That's because we feel it is better to give you as much information as possible, even if we cannot provide every viewpoint.
  We'll be looking for a source of summaries from the other side in the meanwhile.
A bill to prevent the escapement of genetically altered salmon in the United States, and for other purposes. (S. 246)
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:24
  GovTrack's Bill SummaryWe don't have a summary available yet.
  Library of Congress SummaryThe summary below was written by the Congressional Research Service, which is a nonpartisan division of the Library of Congress.
  No summary available.
  House Republican Conference SummaryThe summary below was written by the House Republican Conference, which is the caucus of Republicans in the House of Representatives.
  No summary available.
  House Democratic Caucus SummaryThe House Democratic Caucus does not provide summaries of bills.
  So, yes, we display the House Republican Conference's summaries when available even if we do not have a Democratic summary available. That's because we feel it is better to give you as much information as possible, even if we cannot provide every viewpoint.
  We'll be looking for a source of summaries from the other side in the meanwhile.
The One (Really Easy) Persuasion Technique Everyone Should Know
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 12:08
  It's supported by 42 studies on 22,000 people and it's the easiest, most practical persuasion technique available.I'll admit it. A few of the techniques for persuasion I've covered here on PsyBlog have been a little outlandish and impractical.
  Things like swearing, talking in the right ear and pouring coffee down someone's throat. The studies are interesting and fun but not widely useful.
  The question is: which persuasion technique, based on psychological research, is most practical, can easily be used by anyone in almost any circumstances and has been consistently shown to work?
  The answer is: the 'But You Are Free' technique. This simple approach is all about reaffirming people's freedom to choose. When you ask someone to do something, you add on the sentiment that they are free to choose.
  By reaffirming their freedom you are indirectly saying to them: I am not threatening your right to say no. You have a free choice.
  A recent review of the 42 psychology studies carried out on this technique has shown that it is surprisingly effective given how simple it is (Carpenter, 2013). All in all, over 22,000 people have been tested by researchers. Across all the studies it was found to double the chances that someone would say 'yes' to the request.
  People have been shown to donate more to good causes, agree more readily to a survey and give more to someone asking for a bus fare home.
  The exact words used are not especially important. The studies have shown that using the phrase "But obviously do not feel obliged," worked just as well as "but you are free".
  What is important is that the request is made face-to-face: the power of the technique drops off otherwise. Even over email, though, it does still have an effect, although it is somewhat reduced.
  The BYAF technique is so simple and amenable that it can easily be used in conjunction with other approaches.
  It also underlines the fact that people hate to be hemmed in or have their choices reduced. We seem to react against this attempt to limit us by becoming more closed-minded.
  The BYAF technique, as with any good method of persuasion, is about helping other people come to the decision you want through their own free will. If they have other options, like simply walking away, and start to feel corralled, then you can wave them goodbye.
  On the other hand, respecting people's autonomy has the happy side-effect of making them more open to persuasion. You can look good and be more likely to get what you want. Nice.
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Baby Boomers Take Huge Hit On 401k Plans. Now What?
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:58
  I've spent the better part of my career administering retirement plans, and have seen with my own eyes what Atrios observes in this article for USAToday:
  Over the past few decades, employees fortunate enough to have employer-based retirement benefits have been shifted from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans. We are now seeing the results of that grand experiment, and they are frightening. Recent and near-retirees, the first major cohort of the 401(k) era, do not have nearly enough in retirement savings to even come close to maintaining their current lifestyles.
  Frankly, that's an optimistic way of putting it. Let me be alarmist for a moment -- because the numbers are truly alarming. We should be worried that large numbers of people nearing retirement will be unable to keep their homes or continue to pay their rent.
  According to the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, the median household retirement account balance in 2010 for workers between the ages of 55-64 was just $120,000. For people expecting to retire at around age 65, and to live for another 15 years or more, this will provide for only a trivial supplement to Social Security benefits.
  Yes. This is the consequence of shifting the responsibility not only for saving, but also for investing. People saving for retirement via 401k plans have taken at least two very deep hits to their investments over the past thirty years. But even if they hadn't, 401k accounts would not be sufficient.
  Popular theory at the time dictated that retirement assets should consist of three different things: Social security, personal savings and/or home equity, and retirement savings via IRAs and 401k plans. We all know home equity is gone, thanks to the real estate crash. IRAs and 401ks took a hit during the early 90s, recovered some in the late 90s, and then crashed in 2008.
  The solution is one that won't be popular with the "privatize everything" movement:
  We need an across the board increase in Social Security retirement benefits of 20% or more. We need it to happen right now, even if that means raising taxes on high incomes or removing the salary cap in Social Security taxes.
  I don't see that happening anytime soon. The current generation of soon-to-be retiring baby boomers is screwed. Between health care costs eating through retirement savings, the housing crash, and the likelihood that many of us who lost jobs in 2008 probably won't ever find one again, we're the biggest victims of Reagan 'trickle-down' theories.
  Atrios offers a solution: Voters should be demanding that we should not only refuse cuts to Social Security, we should demand they be expanded.
American Citizens Split On DOJ Memo Authorizing Government To Kill Them
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  Source: What Jamie Flarity is reading.
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:55
  WASHINGTON'--Following the release of a secret Department of Justice memo this week that outlines the administration's legal justification for killing U.S. citizens, a new Pew Research Center poll has revealed that a majority of Americans are torn over whether they support the government's right to kill them anywhere at any time without due process. ''On the one hand, I get it'--it's important for the government to be able to murder me and any of my friends or family members whenever they please for reputed national security reasons. But on the other hand, it would kind of be nice to stay alive and have, maybe, a trial, actual evidence'--stuff like that,'' said visibly conflicted 39-year-old Nashua, NH resident Rebecca Sawyer, who, like millions of other Americans, is split over whether secret federal agents should be allowed to target and assassinate her anywhere on U.S. soil. ''I wouldn't mind if federal officials blew up other citizens and claimed it was in the name of my safety. But it's just that when it comes to me, I guess I'd rather not be slaughtered by my own elected officials on charges that never have to be validated by any accountable authority. This is tough.'' While most Americans expressed conflicted feelings regarding the memo, the poll also found that 28 percent of citizens were unequivocally in favor of being obliterated at any point, for any reason, in a massive airstrike.
  NEW YORK'--Wiping a tear from the corner of his eye Thursday as he reviewed Nielsen ratings and various market performance indicators, advertising executive Mark ...
  WASHINGTON'--Determined to create the definitive visual document of President Obama in his natural environs, award-winning photojournalist Bradlee Stoughton has reportedly staked out the Oval ...
  WASHINGTON'--Sources have reported that following a long night of carousing at a series of D.C. watering holes, Energy Secretary Steven Chu awoke Thursday ...
Libs Defend Obama's Drone Kills: 'Smarter & Tougher' Wars
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  Source: MRCTV - News & Politics
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:40
  IAN MILHISER (06 Feb 2013): The President or someone in the Pentagon makes a call and there's no oversight to make sure that the person they've targeted actually should have been targeted.
  STEPHANIE MILLER: Well you know an an an and I guess again you know it it it becomes this um you know moral equivalence I suppose of a you know again I was saying here we are coming out of the Bush years where we had this completely unnecessary illegal war in my opinion in Iraq.
  Ah you know took our eye off the ball in Afghanistan so that war dragged on and on. So I think you know Ian there's that argument people are making that a lot less people are dying that it's when the President talked about having a smarter tough a tough, but smarter foreign policy.
Dana 'Fruit Loop' Rohrabacher Hints Obama Let Ambassador Die
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  Source: Crooks and Liars
  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:40
  Oh, my. The whack jobs really are off the leash lately, aren't they? A little drunk tweeting? I guarantee you this: Nothing Rohrabacher (famous war-loving chickenhawk) says will ever be bad enough to ban him from the Sunday talk shows -- because that's just how they roll!
  The Kookville Express and its happy, wild-eyed conductor, Dana Rohrabacher, has shifted routes in yet another attempt for a cheap two-fer ticket: to derail President Barack Obama's second term and sabotage Hillary Clinton's potential future White House run.
  Rohrabacher, Orange County's senior career politician and a man known for shameless self-promotion, has made it his mission for the last four months to prove Obama and Clinton masterminded something evil and pro-Islamic terrorist during the Sept. 11, 2012 lethal attack on Christopher Stevens, U.S. Ambassador to Libya.
  First, the Costa Mesa Republican declared (without possessing any supportive facts) that the events of Benghazi were "worse" than the felony-rich Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in 1974.
  That absurd comparison didn't go far except with faithful Kookville passengers.
  Stymied, Rohrabacher changed strategies.
  Benghazi is apparently no longer worse than Watergate.
  Now, he is trying to take sly advantage of massive, pre-Oscar publicity for Argo, Ben Affleck's film.Rohrabacher claims Benghazi is like President Jimmy Carter's failed 1980 helicopter attempt to rescue American captives in Iran.
  "Maybe Prez thought failed rescue = no re-election, like Carter in 1980," the congressman theorized on Twitter late Tuesday night.
  In other words, according to Rohrabacher's mental machinations, Obama knowingly allowed Stevens to be murdered so that he could win re-election.
Uncensored Manifesto from Retired LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner | Davey D's Hip Hop Corner
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  Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:19
  From: Christopher Jordan Dorner /7648
  To: America
  Subj: Last resort
  Regarding CF# 07-004281
  Christopher Dorner w/ Chief William Bratton
  I know most of you who personally know me are in disbelief to hear from media reports that I am suspected of committing such horrendous murders and have taken drastic and shocking actions in the last couple of days. You are saying to yourself that this is completely out of character of the man you knew who always wore a smile wherever he was seen. I know I will be villified by the LAPD and the media.
  Unfortunately, this is a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name. The department has not changed since the Rampart and Rodney King days. It has gotten worse. The consent decree should never have been lifted. The only thing that has evolved from the consent decree is those officers involved in the Rampart scandal and Rodney King incidents have since promoted to supervisor, commanders, and command staff, and executive positions.
  The question is, what would you do to clear your name?Name;
  A word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to.
  Name Synonyms;
  reputation, title, appellation, denomination, repute.
  A name is more than just a noun, verb, or adjective. It's your life, your legacy, your journey, sacrifices, and everything you've worked hard for every day of your life as and adolescent, young adult and adult. Don't let anybody tarnish it when you know you've live up to your own set of ethics and personal ethos.
  In 8/07 I reported an officer (Ofcr. Teresa Evans/now a Sergeant), for kicking a suspect (excessive force) during a Use of Force while I was assigned as a patrol officer at LAPD's Harbor Division. While cuffing the suspect, (Christopher Gettler), Evans kicked the suspect twice in the chest and once in the face. The kick to the face left a visible injury on the left cheek below the eye. Unfortunately after reporting it to supervisors and investigated by PSB (internal affairs investigator Det. Villanueva/Gallegos), nothing was done. I had broken their supposed ''Blue Line''.
  Unfortunately, It's not JUST US, it's JUSTICE!!! In fact, 10 months later on 6/25/08, after already successfully completing probation, acquiring a basic Post Certificate, and Intermediate Post Certificate, I was relieved of duty by the LAPD while assigned to patrol at Southwest division. It is clear as day that the department retaliated toward me for reporting Evans for kicking Mr. Christopher Gettler. The department stated that I had lied and made up the report that Evans had kicked the suspect.
  I later went to a Board of Rights (department hearing for decision of continued employment) from 10/08 to 1/09. During this BOR hearing a video was played for the BOR panel where Christopher Gettler stated that he was indeed kicked by Officer Evans (video sent to multiple news agencies). In addition to Christopher Gettler stating he was kicked, his father Richard Gettler, also stated that his son had stated he was kicked by an officer when he was arrested after being released from custody. This was all presented for the department at the BOR hearing. They still found me guilty and terminated me.
  What they didn't mention was that the BOR panel made up of Capt. Phil Tingirides, Capt. Justin Eisenberg, and City Attorney Martella had a signigicant problem from the time the board was assembled. Capt. Phil Tingirides was a personal friend of Teresa Evans from when he was her supervisor at Harbor station. That is a clear conflict of interest and I made my argument for his removal early and was denied. The advocate for the LAPD BOR was Sgt. Anderson. Anderson also had a conflict of interest as she was Evans friend and former partner from Harbor division where they both worked patrol together. I made my argument for her removal when I discovered her relation to Evans and it was denied.
  During the BOR, the department attempted to label me unsuccessfully as a bully. They stated that I had bullied a recruit, Abraham Schefres, in the academy when in reality and unfounded disposition from the official 1.28 formal complaint investigation found that I was the one who stood up for Abraham Schefres when other recruits sang nazi hitler youth songs about burning Jewish ghettos in WWII Germany where his father was a survivor of a concentration camp. How fucking dare you attempt to label me with such a nasty vile word. I ask that all earnest journalist investigating this story ask Ofcr. Abraham Schefres about the incident when Ofcr. Burdios began singing a nazi youth song about burning jewish ghettos.
  The internal affairs investigation in the academy involving Schefres was spurned by a complaint that I had initiated toward two fellow recruit/offifcers. While on a assigned patrol footbeat in Hollywood Division, Officers Hermilio Buridios IV and Marlon Magana (both current LAPD officers) decided that they would voice their personal feelings about the black community. While traveling back to the station in a 12 passenger van I heard Magana refer to another individual as a nigger. I wasn't sure if I heard correctly as there were many conversations in the van that was compiled of at least 8 officers and he was sitting in the very rear and me in the very front.
  Even with the multiple conversations and ambient noise I heard Officer Magana call an indivdual a nigger again. Now that I had confirmed it, I told Magana not to use that word again. I explained that it was a well known offensive word that should not be used by anyone. He replied, ''I'll say it when I want''. Officer Burdios, a friend of his, also stated that he would say nigger when he wanted. At that point I jumped over my front passenger seat and two other officers where I placed my hands around Burdios' neck and squeezed. I stated to Burdios, ''Don't fucking say that''. At that point there was pushing and shoving and we were separated by several other officers. What I should have done, was put a Winchester Ranger SXT 9mm 147 grain bullet in his skull and Officer Magana's skull.
  The Situation would have been resolved effective, immediately. The sad thing about this incident was that when Detective Ty from internal affairs investigated this incident only (1) officer (unknown) in the van other than myself had statements constistent with what actually happened. The other six officers (John Carey, Gary Parker, Jacob Waks, Abraham Schefres and names I have forgotten) all stated they heard nothing and saw nothing. Shame on every one of you. Shame on Detective Ty (same ethnicity as Burdios) for creating a separate 1.28 formal complaint against me (Schefres complaint) in retaliation for initiating the complaint against Burdios and Magana. Don't retaliate against honest officers for breaking your so called blue line.
  I hope your son Ryan Ty, who I knew, is a better officer than you, Detective Ty.The saddest part of this ordeal was that Officer Burdios and Magana were only given 22 day suspensions and are still LAPD officers to this day. That day, the LAPD stated that it is acceptable for fellow officers to call black officers niggers to their face and you will receive a slap on the wrist. Even sadder is that during that 22 day suspension Buridios and Magana received is that the LAPPL (Los Angeles Police Protective League) paid the officers their salaries while they were suspended. When I took a two day suspension for an accidental discharge, I took my suspension and never applied for a league salary. Its called integrity.
  Journalist, I want you to investigate every location I resided in growing up. Find any incidents where I was ever accused of being a bully. You won't, because it doesn't exist. It's not in my DNA. Never was. I was the only black kid in each of my elementary school classes from first grade to seventh grade in junior high and any instances where I was disciplined for fighting was in response to fellow students provoking common childhood schoolyard fights, or calling me a nigger or other derogatory racial names. I grew up in neighborhoods where blacks make up less than 1%. My first recollection of racism was in the first grade at Norwalk Christian elementary school in Norwalk, CA. A fellow student, Jim Armstrong if I can recall, called me a nigger on the playground. My response was swift and non-lethal. I struck him fast and hard with a punch an kick. He cried and reported it to a teacher. The teacher reported it to the principal. The principal swatted Jim for using a derogatory word toward me. He then for some unknown reason swatted me for striking Jim in response to him calling me a nigger. He stated as good Christians we are to turn the other cheek as Jesus did. Problem is, I'm not a fucking Christian and that old book, made of fiction and limited non-fiction, called the bible, never once stated Jesus was called a nigger. How dare you swat me for standing up for my rights for demanding that I be treated as a equal human being. That day I made a life decision that i will not tolerate racial derogatory terms spoken to me. Unfortunately I was swatted multiple times for the same exact reason up until junior high. Terminating me for telling the truth of a caucasian officer kicking a mentally ill man is disgusting. Don't ever call me a fucking bully. I want all journalist to utilize every source you have that specializes in collections for your reports. With the discovery and evidence available you will see the truth. Unfortunately, I will not be alive to see my name cleared. That's what this is about, my name. A man is nothing without his name. Below is a list of locations where I resided from childhood to adulthood.
  Cerritos, CA.
  Pico Rivera, CA.
  La Palma, CA.
  Thousand Oaks, CA.
  Cedar City, UT.
  Pensacola, FL.
  Enid, OK.
  Yorba Linda, CA.
  Las Vegas, NV.
  During the BOR an officer named, Sgt. Hernandez, from Los Angeles Port Police testified on behalf of the LAPD. Hernandez stated for the BOR that he arrived at the location of the UOF shortly before I cuffed the suspect. He also stated that he assisted in cuffing the suspect and that's old the BOR he told me to fix my tie. All of those statements were LIES!!! Hernandez, you arrived at the UOF location up to 30 seconds after I had cuffed Mr. Gettler. All you did was help me lift the suspect to his feet as it was difficult for me to do by myself because of his heavy weight. You did not tell me to fix my tie as the BOR members and everyone else in the room know you lied because the photographic evidence from the UOF scene where Gettler's injuries were photographed clearly shows me wearing a class B uniform on that day. A class B uniform is a short sleeved uniform blouse. A short sleeved uniform blouse for the LAPD does not have a tie included. This is not Super Troopers uniform, you jackass. Why did you feel the need to embellish and lie about your involvement in the UOF? Are you ashamed that you could not get hired on by any other department other than port police? Do you have delusions of grandeur? What you did was perjury, exactly what Evans did when she stated she did not kick Christopher Gettler.
  What they failed to mention in the BOR was Teresa Evans own use of force history during her career on the LAPD. She has admitted that she has a lengthy use of force record and has been flagged several times by risk management. She has a very well known nickname, Chupacabra, which she was very proud to flaunt around the division. She found it very funny and entertaining to draw blood from suspects and arrestees. At one point she even intentionally ripped the flesh off the arm of a woman we had arrested for battery (sprayed her neighbor with a garden water hose). Knowing the woman had thin elastic skin, she performed and Indian burn to the woman's arm after cuffing her. That woman was in her mid-70'²s, a mother and grandmother, and was angry at her tenants who failed to pay rent on time. Something I can completely understand and I am sure many have wanted to do toward tenants who do not pay their rent. Teresa Evans was also demoted from a senior lead officer rank/position for performance issues. During my two months of working patrol with Teresa Evans, I found her as a woman who was very angry that she had been pulled from patrol for a short time because of a domestic violence report made by Long Beach Police Department because of an incident involving her active LAPD officer boyfriend, Dominick Fuentes, and herself. Dominick Fuentes is the same officer investigated for witness tampering. She also was visibly angry on a daily basis that she was going to have to file for bankruptcy because her ex-husband, a former LAPD officer and not Dominick Fuentes, who had left the department, state, and was nowhere to be found had left her with a tax bill and debt that she was unable to pay because of a lack of financial means. Evans, you are a POS and you lied right to the BOR panel when Randy Quan asked you if you kicked Christopher Gettler. You destroyed my life and name because of your actions. Time is up. The time is now to confess to Chief Beck.
  I ask that all journalist investigating this story submit request for FOIA with the LAPD to gain access to the BOR transcripts which occurred from 10/08 to 2/09. There, you will see that a video was played for the BOR members of Mr. Christopher Gettler who suffers from Schizophrenia and Dementia stating that he was kicked by a female officer. That video evidence supports my claim that Evans kicked him twice in the upper body and once in the face. I would like all journalist to also request copies of all reports that I had written while employed by LAPD. Whether in the academy, or during my 3 years as a police officer. There are DR#'s attached to each report (investigative report) that I have ever written so they all exist. A FOIA request will most likely be needed to access these at Parker center or at the Personnel/Records. Judge my writin/grammar skills for yourself. The department attempted to paint me as an officer who could not write reports. Even though Sgt. Joel Sydanmaa a training officer who trained me stated for the BOR panel that there was nothing wrong with my report writing and that I was better than all rookie/probationer officers he has ever trained. Officer David Drew stated the same but refused to testify as he did not want to ''get involved'' with the BOR's. Contact Sgt. Donald Deming ,(now a Captain at Lompoc PD), Sgt. Thaddeus Faulk, and Sgt. Ed Clark. All will state that my report writing was impeccable. I will tell you this, I always type my reports because I have messy handwriting/penmanship. I never had a single kickback/redlined report at Southwest division and Sgt. Faulk and Sgt. Clark can testify to that. I never received an UNSATISFACTORY on any day or week. The same can be said within the U.S. Naval Reserves. All commanders will state that my report writing was always clear, concise, and impeccable. Even search my AAR (after action reports),chits, Memorandum's, IIR's (Intelligence Information Reports) which were written in the Navy. All were pristine.
  I had worked patrol at LAPD's Harbor Division from 2/06 until 7/06 when I was involuntarily recalled back to active duty (US Navy) for a 12 month mobilization/deployment to Centcom in support of OIF/OEF. I returned back to LAPD's Harbor division on 7/07 and immediately returned to patrol. I worked at Harbor division until 11/07 where I then transferred to Southwest Division. I worked At Southwest division until 6/25/08 when I was relieved of duty.
  I have exhausted all available means at obtaining my name back. I have attempted all legal court efforts within appeals at the Superior Courts and California Appellate courts. This is my last resort. The LAPD has suppressed the truth and it has now lead to deadly consequences. The LAPD's actions have cost me my law enforcement career that began on 2/7/05 and ended on 1/2/09. They cost me my Naval career which started on 4/02 and ends on 2/13. I had a TS/SCI clearance(Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information clearance) up until shortly after my termination with LAPD. This is the highest clearance a service member can attain other than a Yankee White TS/SCI which is only granted for those working with and around the President/Vice President of the United States. I lost my position as a Commanding Officer of a Naval Security Forces reserve unit at NAS Fallon because of the LAPD. I've lost a relationship with my mother and sister because of the LAPD. I've lost a relationship with close friends because of the LAPD. In essence, I've lost everything because the LAPD took my name and new I was INNOCENT!!! Capt Phil Tingirides, Justin Eisenberg, Martella, Randy Quan, and Sgt. Anderson all new I was innocent but decided to terminate me so they could continue Ofcr. Teresa Evans career. I know about the meeting between all of you where Evans attorney, Rico, confessed that she kicked Christopher Gettler (excessive force). Your day has come.
  I'm not an aspiring rapper, I'm not a gang member, I'm not a dope dealer, I don't have multiple babies momma's. I am an American by choice, I am a son, I am a brother, I am a military service member, I am a man who has lost complete faith in the system, when the system betrayed, slandered, and libeled me. I lived a good life and though not a religious man I always stuck to my own personal code of ethics, ethos and always stuck to my shoreline and true North. I didn't need the US Navy to instill Honor, Courage, and Commitment in me but I thank them for re-enforcing it. It's in my DNA.
  Luckily I don't have to live everyday like most of you. Concerned if the misconduct you were apart of is going to be discovered. Looking over your shoulder, scurrying at every phone call from internal affairs or from the Captains office wondering if that is the day PSB comes after you for the suspects you struck when they were cuffed months/years ago or that $500 you pocketed from the narcotics dealer, or when the other guys on your watch beat a transient nearly to death and you never reported the UOF to the supervisor. No, I don't have that concern, I stood up for what was right but unfortunately have dealt with the reprocussions of doing the right thing and now losing my name and everything I ever stood for. You fuckers knew Evans was guilty of kicking (excessive force) Gettler and you did nothing but get rid of what you saw as the problem, the whistleblower. Gettler himself stated on video tape ( provided for the BOR and in transcripts) he was kicked and even his father stated that his son said he was kicked by Evans when he was released from custody. The video was played for the entire BOR to hear. Tingirides, Eisenberg, and Martella all heard it. You're going to see what a whistleblower can do when you take everything from him especially his NAME!!!
  Look what you did to Sgt. Gavin (now lieutenant) when he exposed the truth of your lying, racism, and PSB cover-ups to frame and convict an innocent man. You can not police yourselves and the consent decree was unsuccessful. Sgt. Gavin, I met you on the range several times as a recruit and as an officer. You're a good man and I saw it in your eyes an actions.
  Self Preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago on 1/2/09. I was told by my mother that sometimes bad things happen to good people. I refuse to accept that.
  From 2/05 to 1/09 I saw some of the most vile things humans can inflict on others as a police officer in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it wasn't in the streets of LA. It was in the confounds of LAPD police stations and shops (cruisers). The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers.
  People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. How ironic that you utilize a fixed glass structure as your command HQ. You use as a luminous building to symbolize that you are transparent, have nothing to hide, or suppress when in essence, concealing, omitting, and obscuring is your forte.
  Chief Beck, this is when you need to have that come to Jesus talk with Sgt. Teresa Evans and everyone else who was involved in the conspiracy to have me terminated for doing the right thing. you also need to speak with her attorney, Rico, and his conversation with the BOR members and her confession of guilt in kicking Mr. Gettler. I'll be waiting for a PUBLIC response at a press conference. When the truth comes out, the killing stops.
  Why didn't you charge me with filing a false police report when I came forward stating that Evans kicked Mr. Christopher Gettler? You file criminal charges against every other officer who is accused and terminated for filing a false police report. You didn't because you knew I was innocent and a criminal court would find me innocent and expose your department for suppressing the truth and retaliation, that's why.
  The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period. There is no negotiation. I am not the state department who states they do not negotiate with terrorist, because anybody with a Secret or TS/SCI has seen IIR's on SIPR and knows that the US state department always negotiates by using CF countries or independent sovereign/neutral country to mediate and compromising.
  This department has not changed from the Daryl Gates and Mark Fuhrman days. Those officers are still employed and have all promoted to Command staff and supervisory positions. I will correct this error. Are you aware that an officer (a rookie/probationer at the time) seen on the Rodney King videotape striking Mr. King multiple times with a baton on 3/3/91 is still employed by the LAPD and is now a Captain on the police department? Captain Rolando Solano is now the commanding officer of a LAPD police station (West LA division). As a commanding officer, he is now responsible for over 200 officers. Do you trust him to enforce department policy and investigate use of force investigations on arrestees by his officers? Are you aware Evans has since promoted to Sergeant after kicking Mr. Gettler in the face. Oh, you Violated a citizens civil rights? We will promote you. Same as LAPD did with the the officers from Metro involved in the May Day melee at MacArthur Park. They promoted them to Sergeant (a supervisor role).
  No one is saying you can't be prejudiced or a bigot. We are all human and hold prejudices. If you state that you don't have prejudices, your lying! But, when you act on it and victimize innocent citizens and fellow innocen officers, than that is a concern.
  For you officers who do the job in the name of JUSTICE, those of you who lost honest officers to this event, look at the name of those on the BOR and the investigating officers from PSB and Evans and ask them, how come you couldn't tell the truth? Why did you terminate an honest officer and cover for a dishonest officer who victimized a mentally ill citizen.
  Sometimes humans feel a need to prove they are the dominant race of a species and they inadvertently take kindness for weakness from another individual. You chose wrong.
  Terminating officers because they expose a culture of lying, racism (from the academy), and excessive use of force will immediately change. PSB can not police their own and that has been proven. The blue line will forever be severed and a cultural change will be implanted. You have awoken a sleeping giant.
  I am here to change and make policy. The culture of LAPD versus the community and honest/good officers needs to and will change. I am here to correct and calibrate your morale compasses to true north.
  Those Caucasian officers who join South Bureau divisions (77th,SW,SE, an Harbor) with the sole intent to victimize minorities who are uneducated, and unaware of criminal law, civil law, and civil rights. You prefer the South bureau because a use of force/deadly force is likely and the individual you use UOF on will likely not report it. You are a high value target.
  Those Black officers in supervisory ranks and pay grades who stay in south bureau (even though you live in the valley or OC) for the sole intent of getting retribution toward subordinate caucasians officers for the pain and hostile work environment their elders inflicted on you as probationers (P-1'²s) and novice P-2'²s. You are a high value target. You perpetuated the cycle of racism in the department as well. You breed a new generation of bigoted caucasian officer when you belittle them and treat them unfairly.
  Those Hispanic officers who victimize their own ethnicity because they are new immigrants to this country and are unaware of their civil rights. You call them wetbacks to their face and demean them in front of fellow officers of different ethnicities so that you will receive some sort of acceptance from your colleagues. I'm not impressed. Most likely, your parents or grandparents were immigrants at one time, but you have forgotten that. You are a high value target.
  Those lesbian officers in supervising positions who go to work, day in day out, with the sole intent of attempting to prove your misandrist authority (not feminism) to degrade male officers. You are a high value target.
  Those Asian officers who stand by and observe everything I previously mentioned other officers participate in on a daily basis but you say nothing, stand for nothing and protect nothing. Why? Because of your usual saying, '' I'...'...don't like conflict''. You are a high value target as well.
  Those of you who ''go along to get along'' have no backbone and destroy the foundation of courage. You are the enablers of those who are guilty of misconduct. You are just as guilty as those who break the code of ethics and oath you swore.
  Citizens/non-combatants, do not render medical aid to downed officers/enemy combatants. They would not do the same for you. They will let you bleed out just so they can brag to other officers that they had a 187 caper the other day and can't wait to accrue the overtime in future court subpoenas. As they always say, ''that's the paramedics job'...not mine''. Let the balance of loss of life take place. Sometimes a reset needs to occur.
  It is endless the amount of times per week officers arrest an individual, label him a suspect-arrestee-defendant and then before arraignment or trial realize that he is innocent based on evidence. You know what they say when they realize an innocent man just had his life turned upside down?. ''I guess he should have stayed at home that day he was discovered walking down the street and matching the suspects description. Oh well, he appeared to be a dirtbag anyways''. Meanwhile the falsely accused is left to pick up his life, get a new, family, friends, and sense of self worth.
  Don't honor these fallen officers/dirtbags. When your family members die, they just see you as extra overtime at a crime scene and at a perimeter. Why would you value their lives when they clearly don't value yours or your family members lives? I've heard many officers who state they see dead victims as ATV's, Waverunners, RV's and new clothes for their kids. Why would you shed a tear for them when they in return crack a smile for your loss because of the impending extra money they will receive in their next paycheck for sitting at your loved ones crime scene of 6 hours because of the overtime they will accrue. They take photos of your loved ones recently deceased bodies with their cellphones and play a game of who has the most graphic dead body of the night with officers from other divisions. This isn't just the 20 something year old officers, this is the 50 year old officers with significant time on the job as well who participate.
  You allow an officer, Thaniya Sungruenyos, to attempt to hack into my credit union account and still remain on the job even when Det. Zolezzi shows the evidence that the IP address (provided by LAPFCU) that attempted to hack into my account and change my username and password leads directly to her residence. You even allow this visibly disgusting looking officer to stay on the job when she perjures (lies) in court (Clark County Family Court) to the judge's face and denies hacking into my personal credit union online account when I attempted to get my restraint order extended. Det. Zolezzi provided the evidence and you still do nothing.
  How do you know when a police officer is lying??? When he begins his sentence with, ''based on my experience and training''.
  No one grows up and wants to be a cop killer. It was against everything I've ever was. As a young police explorer I found my calling in life. But, As a young police officer I found that the violent suspects on the street are not the only people you have to watch. It is the officer who was hired on to the department (pre-2000) before polygraphs were standard for all new hires and an substantial vetting in a backround investigation.
  To those children of the officers who are eradicated, your parent was not the individual you thought they were. As you get older,you will see the evidence that your parent was a tyrant who loss their ethos and instead followed the path of moral corruptness. They conspired to hide and suppress the truth of misconduct on others behalf's. Your parent will have a name and plaque on the fallen officers memorial in D.C. But, In all honesty, your parents name will be a reminder to other officers to maintain the oath they swore and to stay along the shoreline that has guided them from childhood to that of a local, state, or federal law enforcement officer.
  Bratton, Beck, Hayes, Tingirides, Eisenberg, Martella, Quan, Evans, Hernandez, Villanueva/Gallegos, and Anderson. Your lack of ethics and conspiring to wrong a just individual are over.
  Suppressing the truth will leave to deadly consequences for you and your family. There will be an element of surprise where you work, live, eat, and sleep. I will utilize ISR at your home, workplace, and all locations in between. I will utilize OSINT to discover your residences, spouses workplaces, and children's schools. IMINT to coordinate and plan attacks on your fixed locations. Its amazing whats on NIPR. HUMINT will be utilized to collect personal schedules of targets. I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own, I'm terminating yours. Quan, Anderson, Evans, and BOR members Look your wives/husbands and surviving children directly in the face and tell them the truth as to why your children are dead.
  Never allow a LAPPL union attorney to be a retired LAPD Captain,(Quan). He doesn't work for you, your interest, or your name. He works for the department, period. His job is to protect the department from civil lawsuits being filed and their best interest which is the almighty dollar. His loyalty is to the department, not his client. Even when he knowingly knows your innocent and the BOR also knows your innocent after Christopher Gettler stated on videotape that he was kicked and Evans attorney confessed to the BOR off the record that she kicked Gettler.
  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants-TJ. This quote is not directed toward the US government which I fully support 100%. This is toward the LAPD who can not monitor itself. The consent decree should not have been lifted, ever.
  I know your TTP's, (techniques, tactics, and procedures). Any threat assessments you you generate will be useless. This is simple, I know your TTP's and PPR's. I will mitigate any of your attempts at preservation. ORM is my friend. I will mitigate all risks, threats and hazards. I assure you that Incident Command Posts will be target rich environments. KMA-367 license plate frames are great target indicators and make target selection even easier.
  I will conduct DA operations to destroy, exploit and seize designated targets. If unsuccessful or unable to meet objectives in these initial small scale offensive actions, I will reassess my BDA and re-attack until objectives are met. I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing. Just alike AAF's, ACM's, and AIF's, you can not prevail against an enemy combatant who has no fear of death. An enemy who embraces death is a lose, lose situation for their enemy combatants.
  Hopefully you analyst have done your homework. You are aware that I have always been the top shot, highest score, an expert in rifle qualifications in every unit I've been in. I will utilize every bit of small arms training, demolition, ordnance, and survival training I've been given.
  Do you know why we are unsuccessful in asymmetrical and guerrilla warfare in CENTCOM theatre of operations? I'll tell you. It's not the inefficiency of our combatant commanders, planning, readiness or training of troops. Much like the Vietnam war, ACM, AAF, foreign fighters, Jihadist, and JAM have nothing to lose. They embrace death as it is a way of life. I simply don't fear it. I am the walking exigent circumstance you created.
  The Violence of action will be HIGH. I am the reason TAC alert was established. I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty. ISR is my strength and your weakness. You will now live the life of the prey. Your RD's and homes away from work will be my AO and battle space. I will utilize every tool within INT collections that I learned from NMITC in Dam Neck. You have misjudged a sleeping giant. There is no conventional threat assessment for me. JAM, New Ba'ath party, 1920 rev BGE, ACM, AAF, AQAP, AQIM and AQIZ have nothing on me. Do not deploy airships or gunships. SA-7 Manpads will be waiting. As you know I also own Barrett .50'²s so your APC are defunct and futile.
  You better have all your officers radio/phone muster (code 1) on or off duty every hour, on the hour.
  Do not attempt to shadow or conduct any type of ISR on me. I have the inventory listing of all UC vehicles at Piper Tech and the home addresses of any INT analyst at JRIC and detachment locations. My POA is always POI and always true. This will be a war of attrition and a Pyrrhic and Camdean Victory for myself. You may have the resources and manpower but you are reactive and predictable in your op plans and TTP's. I have the strength and benefits of being unpredictable, unconventional, and unforgiving. Do not waste your time with briefs and tabletops.
  Whatever pre-planned responses you have established for a scenario like me, shelve it. Whatever contingency plan you have, shelve it. Whatever tertiary plan you've created, shelve it. I am a walking exigent circumstance with no OFF or reset button. JRIC, DOJ, LASD, FBI and other local LE can't assist and should not involve themselves in a matter that does not concern them. For all other agencies, do not involve yourself in this capture or recovery of me. Look at the big picture of the situation. They (LAPD) created the situation. I will harm no outside agency unless it is a deadly force/IDOL situation. With today's budgeting and fiscal mess, you guys can not afford lose several officers to IOD or KIA/EOW. Plus, other officers should not have to take on the additional duties and responsibilities of dead officers. Think about their families, outside agencies, Chiefs/Directors.
  Outside agencies and individual officers on patrol. If you recognize my vehicle, and confirm it is my vehicle thru a dmv/want warrant check. It behoves you to respond to dispatch that your query was for information purposes only. If you proceed with a traffic stop or attempt to notify other officers of my location or for backup you will not live to see the medal of valor you were hoping to receive for your actions. Think before you attempt to intervene. You will not survive. Your family will receive that medal of valor posthumously. It will gather dust on the fireplace mantel for years. Then one day, it will go in a shoe box with other memories. Your mother will lose a son or daughter. Your significant other will be left alone, but they will find someone else to fill your void in the future and make them just as happy. Your children, if you have them, will call someone else mommy or daddy. Don't be selfish. Your vest is only a level II or IIIA, think about it.
  No amount of IMINT, MASINT, and ELINT assist you in capturing me. I am off the grid. You better use your feet, tongue and every available DOD/ NON-DOD HUMINT agency, contractor to find me. I know your route to and from home, and your division. I know your significant others routine, your children's best friends and recess. I know Your Sancha's gym hours and routine. I assure you that the casualty rate will be high. Because of that, no one will remember your name. You will merely be a DR# and ''that guy'' who was KIA/EOW or long term IOD/light duty in the kit room. This is exactly why ''station 500'" was created. Unfortunately, orphanages will be making a comeback in the 21st century.
  If you had a well regulated AWB, this would not happen. The time is now to reinstitute a ban that will save lives. Why does any sportsman need a 30 round magazine for hunting? Why does anyone need a suppressor? Why does anyone need a AR15 rifle? This is the same small arms weapons system utilized in eradicating Al Qaeda, Taliban, and every enemy combatant since the Vietnam war. Don't give me that crap that its not a select fire or full auto rifle like the DoD uses. That's bullshit because troops who carry the M-4/M-16 weapon system for combat ops outside the wire rarely utilize the select fire function when in contact with enemy combatants. The use of select fire probably isn't even 1% in combat. So in essence, the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle is the same as the M-4/M-16. These do not need to be purchased as easily as walking to your local Walmart or striking the enter key on your keyboard to ''add to cart''. All the firearms utilized in my activities are registered to me and were legally purchased at gun stores and private party transfers. All concealable weapons (pistols) were also legally register in my name at police stations or FFL's. Unfortunately, are you aware that I obtained class III weapons (suppressors) without a background check thru NICS or DROS completely LEGALLY several times? I was able to use a trust account that I created on quicken will maker and a $10 notary charge at a mailbox etc. to obtain them legally. Granted, I am not a felon, nor have a DV misdemeanor conviction or active TRO against me on a NCIC file. I can buy any firearm I want, but should I be able to purchase these class III weapons (SBR's, and suppressors) without a background check and just a $10 notary signature on a quicken will maker program? The answer is NO. I'm not even a resident of the state i purchased them in. Lock n Load just wanted money so they allow you to purchase class III weapons with just a notarized trust, military ID. Shame on you, Lock n Load. NFA and ATF need new laws and policies that do not allow loopholes such as this. In the end, I hope that you will realize that the small arms I utilize should not be accessed with the ease that I obtained them. Who in there right mind needs a fucking silencer!!! who needs a freaking SBR AR15? No one. No more Virginia Tech, Columbine HS, Wisconsin temple, Aurora theatre, Portland malls, Tucson rally, Newtown Sandy Hook. Whether by executive order or thru a bi-partisan congress an assault weapons ban needs to be re-instituted. Period!!!
  Mia Farrow said it best. ''Gun control is no longer debatable, it's not a conversation, its a moral mandate.''
  Sen. Feinstein, you are doing the right thing in leading the re-institution of a national AWB. Never again should any public official state that their prayers and thoughts are with the family. That has become cliche' and meaningless. Its time for action. Let this be your legacy that you bestow to America. Do not be swayed by obstacles, antagaonist, and naysayers. Remember the innocent children at Austin, Kent, Stockton, Fullerton, San Diego, Iowa City, Jonesboro, Columbine, Nickel Mines, Blacksburg, Springfield, Red Lake, Chardon, Aurora, and Newtown. Make sure this never happens again!!!
  In my cache you will find several small arms. In the cache, Bushmaster firearms, Remington precision rifles, and AAC Suppressors (silencers). All of these small arms are manufactured by Cerberus/Freedom Group. The same company responsible for the Portland mall shooting, Webster , NY, and Sandy Hook massacre.
  You disrespect the office of the POTUS/Presidency and Commander in Chief. You call him Kenyan, mongroid, halfrican, muslim, and FBHO when in essence you are to address him as simply, President. The same as you did to President George W. Bush and all those in the highest ranking position of our land before him. Just as I always have. You question his birth certificate, his educational and professional accomplishments, and his judeo-christian beliefs. You make disparaging remarks about his dead parents. You never questioned the fact that his former opponent, the honorable Senator John McCain, was not born in the CONUS or that Bush had a C average in his undergrad. Electoral Candidates children (Romney) state they want to punch the president in the face during debates with no formal repercussions. No one even questioned the fact that the son just made a criminal threat toward the President. You call his wife a Wookie. Off the record, I love your new bangs, Mrs. Obama. A woman whose professional and educational accomplishments are second to none when compared to recent First wives. You call his supporters, whether black, brown, yellow, or white, leeches, FSA, welfare recipients, and ni$&er lovers. You say this openly without any discretion. Before you start with your argument that you believe I would vote for Obama because he has the same skin color as me, fuck you. I didn't vote in this last election as my choice of candidate, John Huntsman, didn't win the primary candidacy for his party. Mr. President, I haven't agreed with all of your decisions but of course I haven't agreed with all of your predecessors decisions. I think you've done a hell of a job with what you have been dealt and how you have managed it. I shed a tear the night you were initially elected President in 2008. I never thought that day would occur. A black man elected president in the U.S. in my lifetime. I cracked a smiled when you were re-elected in 2012 because I really didn't think you were going to pull that one off. Romney, stop being a sore loser. You could've exited graciously and still contributed significantly to public service, not now. Mr. President, get back to work. Many want to see you fail as they have stated so many times previously. Unfortunately, if you fail, the U.S. fails but your opponents do not concern themselves about the big picture. Do not forget your commitment to transparency in your administration. Sometimes I believe your administration forgets that. America, you will realize today and tomorrow that this world is made up of all human beings who have the same general needs and wants in life for themselves, their kin, community, and state. That is the freedom to LIVE and LOVE. They may eat different foods, enjoy different music, have different dialects, or speak a second language, but in essence are no different from you and I. This is America. We are not a perfect sovereign country as we have our own flaws but we are the closest that will ever exist.
  Unfortunately, this is not the first time an authoritative figure has lied on me.
  Mr. Freid, assistant principal, Cypress HS. Remember when you lied to my mother and the police officer in your office about stating that you never stated to me in a private conversation that you know the theft suspect (Miranda) stole my watch. Let me refresh your memory. A physical education teachers assistant, a student, stole the list of combination codes to peoples lockers, from the P.E. teacher. That student then opened many of those lockers and stole students personal property. My watch was taken in that multi theft an I reported it to you. A week later you discovered that the theft suspect was Paul Miranda, a student. You stated to me in private that you know for a fact he stole my property. When I attempted to retrieve my property from the suspect. Campus security was called and you lied and stated that you never stated to me that you ''know he stole my watch''. You sat there and lied to their faces right in front of me. You said it with such a deliberate, stern face. I never forgot that and was not surprised when 13 years later I was lied on again in the BOR by Teresa Evans. maybe you can confess to your family at the very least in the private of your own home. After that, contact my mother and apologize for lying to her in 1996.
  If possible, I want my brain preserved for science/research to study the effects of severe depression on an individual's brain. Since 6/26/08 when I was relieved of duty and 1/2/09 when I was terminated I have been afflicted with severe depression. I've had two CT scans during my lifetime that are in my medical record at Kaiser Permanente. Both are from concussions resulting from playing football. The first one was in high school, 10/96. The second was in college and occurred in 10/99. Both were conducted at Kaiser Permanente hospitals in LA/Orange county. These two CT scans should give a good baseline for my brain activity before severe depression began in late 2008.
  Sure, many of you ''law enforcement experts and specialist'' will state, ''in all my years this is the worst'...'.....'', Stop!!! That's not important. Ask yourselves what would cause somebody to take these drastic measures like I did. That's what is important.
  To my friends listed below, I wish we could have grown old together and spent more time together. When you reminisce of our friendship and experiences, think of that and that only. Do not dwell on my recent actions the last few days. This was a necessary evil that had to be executed in order for me to obtain my NAME back. The only thing that changes policy and garners attention is death.
  Luis Sanchez, greatest friend, Marine officer, aviator, and an even better father and husband. I Couldn't have had a better big brother than you. Your spoken wisdom was always retained by me, you old salty Mustang. You sternly told me that no matter what I accomplish I will always be a ni#%er in many individuals eyes. At the time, I did not comprehend your words. I do now. I never forgot the quote you state below. I love you bro.
  I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever feeling sorry for itself. ''D.H. Lawrence
  Jason Valadao, greatest friend, Naval officer, aviator, Great Father, husband, doctor, and even better human being. I always strived to live my life parallel to your similar values and personal disciplines. Danika is lucky to have found a man like yourself, and you are fortunate to have married an irrefutable imperfect woman. Always focus on your IMMEDIATE family as they are the ones who have loved you unconditionally and always been their to support you in difficult times. I always lived my life as WWJD (what would Jason do). Danika, take care of this guy. Jason, I'm sorry I missed your wedding and you had to find another best man. I'm sorry my predicament with the department stopped me from watching you and Danika get married and arguing with you about issues that were insignificant when I was really angry at the LAPD for what they did to me. I'm deeply sorry and I love you guys.
  James Usera, great friend, attorney, father, husband, and the most cynical/blatant/politically incorrect friend a man can have. Best quality about you in college and now is that you never sugar coated the truth. I will miss our political discussions that always turned argumentative. Thanks for introducing me to outdoor sports like fishing, hunting, mudding, and also respect for the land and resources. Us city boys don't get out much like you Alaskans. You even introduced me to PBR. A beer, that when you're a poor college student is completely acceptable to get buzzed off of. I'm sorry I'll never get to go on that moose and bear hunt with you. I love you bro.
  Kinta Smith, greatest friend, accountant, entrepreneur, and even better Human being. You are probably the most well balanced person I've ever met and the most driven for success. In college, and after graduation, I was inspired by your personal drive. Never settle. When you make your first million, promise me you won't forget to enjoy it a bit. I know your first reaction will be to invest it somewhere else. Spend a little, just a little. I love you bro.
  Jason Young, great friend, entrepeneur, husband and father. You showed me the importance of fatherhood and friendship. Love you bro.
  Suzie Clark Cunningham, Kassandra Harrell, Melinda Yates, Cal Jackson, Ryan Smith, The Rebelledos, The Banks, Ben Bines, J. Work, Bill O'neill, Jeremy Fletcher, and Rob Harriston.
  You guys were all important and very special to me. Don't be angry with me. I missed some of your weddings and unfortunately, some of your funerals. This was a necessary evil.
  Some say it is my fault that I was terminated. Yes, DDX, I remember you stating this to me in an angry fit. You said that I should have kept my mouth shut about another officer's misconduct. Maybe you were right. But I'm not built like others, it's not in my DNA and my history has always shown that. When you view the video of the suspect stating he was kicked by Evans, maybe you will see that I was a decent person after all. I told the truth. It still hurt that you abandoned me in my time of need. I hope you're happy, that's all I ever wanted for you.
  Sgt. Leonard Perez, you meant well but you should have known with your time on the job that the department would attempt to protect someone like Evans because of her time on the job, personal friendships, and ethicity. I'm not angry with you, but you should have known as an IA investigator.
  Sgt Maggie Faust LPPD, Ofcr John Thomas LPPD (ret), and Chief Eric Nunez LPPD, your guidance and mentoring as a young police explorer was second to none and invaluable as a young man, police officer, and naval officer. Sgt Faust, you forewarned me long ago about joining LAPD as they were ''different'' and operated differently from other modern law enforcement agencies. I now know it was your humbleness and respect for all who wear the badge and protect their communities that you didn't just express what you wanted to say, that they lack values and basic ethics as law enforcement officers. Chief Nunez, your fucking awesome. Thanks for the long talks over the years when I was an explorer, college student, Naval officer, and Police officer. Your are a great leader and carry your heart on your sleeve. Your son will be a great Air Force officer with the upringing you provided. John, what can I say? Your just an awesome person and my first exposure to what law enforcement was really about was on our ride alongs. Your realistic approach and empathetic approach to treating all people as humans first is something I carried with me daily. Thank you, every one of you.
  Dr. Funahashi, thank you for the superb surgery you performed on my knee on 7/98 in Irvine, CA. I never had the opportunity to thank you for allowing me to live a life free of knee joint pain. Thank you.
  CM1 Bissett (Ret.), I learned more from you about leadership than most of my own commanders. You lived by a strict ethos of get it done, and get it done right. I wanted to attend your retirement, I really did. But because of my predicament I was unable to. Hope you and Ritchie are still together. I've always held you in high regard.
  Sgt Maj. Kenneth ''Rock'' Rocquemore USMC, Thank you for the intense instruction and mentorship and time spent forging me into a never quit officer. You were challenging as a DI. You made sure the vicious and intense personality I possess was discovered. On a lighter note'....Don't feel humbled you never broke me. I made it a personal goal to never give up years before. The Corp is lucky to have you at the front. Your leadership is essential and needed for all marines, especially staff NCO's and mentorship and advisement to company grade officers. You are the epitome of a US marine and never forget that.
  I thank my friends for the awesome shared experiences. I thank the unnamed women I dated over my lifetime for the great and sometimes not so great sex.
  It's kind of sad I won't be around to view and enjoy The Hangover III. What an awesome trilogy. Todd Phillips, don't make anymore Hangovers after the third, takes away the originality of its foundation. World War Z looks good and The Walking Dead season 3 (second half) looked intriguing. Damn, gonna miss shark week.
  Mr. Vice President, do your due diligence when formulating a concise and permanent national AWB plan. Future generations of Americans depend on your plan and advisement to the president. I've always been a fan of yours and consider you one of the few genuine and charismatic politicians. Damn, sounds like an oxymoron calling you an honest politician. It's the truth.
  Hillary Clinton. You'll make one hell of a president in 2016. Much like your husband, Bill, you will be one of the greatest. Look at Castro in San Antonio as a running mate or possible secretary of state. He's (good people) and I have faith and confidence in him. Look after Bill. He was always my favorite President. Chelsea grew up to be one hell of an attractive woman. No disrespect to her husband.
  Gov. Chris Christie. What can I say? You're the only person I would like to see in the White House in 2016 other than Hillary. You're America's no shit taking uncle. Do one thing for your wife, kids, and supporters. Start walking at night and eat a little less, not a lot less, just a little. We want to see you around for a long time. Your leadership is greatly needed.
  Wayne LaPierre, President of the NRA, you're a vile and inhumane piece of shit. You never even showed 30 seconds of empathy for the children, teachers, and families of Sandy Hook. You deflected any type of blame/responsibility and directed it toward the influence of movies and the media. You are a failure of a human being. May all of your immediate and distant family die horrific deaths in front of you.
  Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad Obrien, Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera, Tavis Smiley, and Anderson Cooper, keep up the great work and follow Cronkite's lead. I hold many of you in the same regard as Tom Brokaw and the late Peter Jennings. Cooper, stop nagging and berating your guest, they're your (guest). Mr. Scarborough, we met at McGuire's pub in P-cola in 2002 when I was stationed there. It was an honor conversing with you about politics, family, and life.
  Willie Geist, you're a talented and charismatic journalist. Stop with all the talk show shenanigans and get back to your core of reporting. Your future is brighter than most.
  Revoke the citizenship of Fareed Zakaria and deport him. I've never heard a positive word about America or its interest from his mouth, ever. On the same day, give Piers Morgan an indefinite resident alien and Visa card. Mr. Morgan, the problem that many American gun owners have with you and your continuous discussion of gun control is that you are not an American citizen and have an accent that is distinct and clarifies that you are a foreigner. I want you to know that I agree with you 100% on enacting stricter firearm laws but you must understand that your critics will always have in the back of their mind that you are native to a country that we won our sovereignty from while using firearms as a last resort in defense and you come from a country that has no legal private ownership of firearms. That is disheartening to American gun owners and rightfully so.
  The honorable President George H.W. Bush, they never give you enough credit for your successful Presidency. You were always one of my favorite Presidents (2nd favorite). I hope your health improves greatly. You are the epitome of an American and service to country.
  General Petraeus, you made a mistake that the majority of men make once, twice, or unfortunately many times in a lifetime. You are human. You thought with your penis. It's okay.I personally believe you should have never resigned and told your critics to shove it. You only answer to two people regarding the affair, your wife and children, period. I hope you return to government service to your country as it is visibly in your DNA.
  General Colin Powell, your book ''My American Journey'' solidified my decision to join the military after college. I had always intended to serve, but your book and journey motivated me. You are an inspiration to all Americans and influenced me greatly.
  To all SEA's (senior enlisted advisers), you are just as important if not a greater viability to large and small commands. It's time you take a more active role in leading your enlisted and advising officers. These are not your twilight years or time to relax. You can either strengthen the tip of the spear, or make it brittle. You decide.
  Pat Harvey, I've always thought you carried yourself professionally and personally the way a strong black woman should. Your articulation and speech is second to none. You are the epitome of a journalist/anchor. You are America.
  Ellen Degeneres, continue your excellent contribution to entertaining America and bringing the human factor to entertainment. You changed the perception of your gay community and how we as Americans view the LGBT community. I congratulate you on your success and opening my eyes as a young adult, and my generation to the fact that you are know different from us other than who you choose to love. Oh, and you Prop 8 supporters, why the fuck do you care who your neighbor marries. Hypocritical pieces of shit.
  Westboro Baptist Church, may you all burn slowly in a fire, not from smoke inhalation, but from the flames and only the flames.
  Tebow, I really wanted to see you take charge of an offense again and the game. You are not a good QB by todays standards, but you are a great football player who knows how to lead a team and WIN. You will be ''Tebowing'' when you reach your next team. I have faith in you. Get out of that circus they call the Jets and away from the reality TV star, Rex Ryan, and Mark Rapist Sanchez.
  Christopher Walz, you impressed me in Inglorious Basterds. After viewing Django Unchained, I was sold. I have come to the conclusion that you are well on your way to becoming one of the greats if not already and show glimpses of Daniel Day Lewis and Morgan Freeman-esque type qualities of greatness. Trust me when I say that you will be one of the greatest ever.
  Jennifer Beals, Serena Williams, Grae Drake, Lisa Nicole-Carson, Diana Taurasi, N'bushe Wright, Brenda Villa, Kate Winslet, Ashley Graham, Erika Christensen, Gabrielle Union, Isabella Soprano, Zain Verjee, Tamron Hall, Gina Carano, America Ferrara, Giana Michaels, Nene, Natalie Portman, Queen Latifah, Michelle Rodriguez, Anjelah Johnson, Kelly Clarkson, Nora Jones, Laura Prepon, Margaret Cho, and Rutina Wesley, you are THE MOST beautiful women on this planet, period. Never settle, professionally or personally.
  Dave Brubeck's ''Take Five'' is the greatest piece of music ever, period. Hanz Zimmer, William Bell, Eric Clapton, BB King, Bob Marley, Sam Cooke, Metallica, Rob Zombie, Nora Jones, Marvin Gaye, Jay-Z, and the King (Louis Armstrong) are musical prodigies.
  Jeffrey Toobin and David Gergen, you are political geniuses and modern scholars. Hopefully Toobin is nominated for the Supreme Court and implements some damn common sense and reasoning instead of partisan bickering. But in true Toobin fashion, we all know he would not accept the nomination.
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  John and Ken from KFI, never mute your facts and personal opinions. You are one of the few media personalities who speak the truth, even when the truth is not popular. I will miss listening to your discussions.
  Bill Handel, your effin awesome. For years I enjoyed your show.
  Anthony Bourdain, you're a modern renaissance man who epitomizes the saying ''too cool for school''.
  Larry David, Kevin Hart, the late Patrice Oneal, Lisa Lampanelli, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Louis CK, Dave Chapelle, Jon Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Dennis Miller, and Jeff Ross are pure geniuses. I'm a big fan of all of your work. As a child my mom caught me watching Def Jam comedy at midnight when I should have been asleep. Instead of scolding me, the next night she let me stay up late and watch George Carlin, Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor comedy specials with her for hours. My sides were sore for days.
  Larry David, I agree. 72-82 degrees is way to hot in a residence. 68 , degrees is perfect.
  Cyclist, I have no problem sharing the road with you. But, at least go the fucking speed limit posted or get off the road!!! That is a feasible request. Livestrong you fraudulent assholes.
  Cardinal Mahoney, you are in essence a predator yourself as you enabled your subordinates to molest multiple children in the church over many decades. May you die a long and slow painful death.
  If you continuously followed me while I was walking at dusk/night I would confront you as well. Too bad Trayvon didn't smash your skull completely open, Zim. While Trayvon's body erodes to bones 6 feet under, Zimmerman has put on no less than 40 pounds while out on bail. Zimmerman was arrested for battery on a Peace officer and avoided jail/prison because he completed a diversion program. Thats a history of being an asshole. Zimmerman couldn't get hired by a LE agency because of poor credit/and a history of violence/restraining orders with women. So what does he do? Designate himself, neighborhood watch captain and make complaints to his city council about the horrible work ethic and laziness of the officers patrolling his neighborhood. Good one Zim. How classy that your father attempts to use his veterans status ''disabled veteran'' during your bail hearing but doesn't state what his disability percentage is. Prior service personnel know it can be 5% disability to 100%. You and your attorneys always avoid mentioning your fathers occupation as a magistrate/judge because I'm sure he's utilized his position to get you out of way more jams then the public has discovered and that your family is not indigent. Oh, tell your wife to stop perjuring herself in court.
  KCCO
  Anonymous, you are hated, vilified, and considered an enemy to the state. I personally view you as a culture and a necessity that brings truth to a cloaked world. Forge ahead!
  Charlie Sheen, you're effin awesome.
  My opinion on women in combat MOS', Designators, Rates, and AFSC's. I wish all of you who attempt to pursue combat occupational roles the greatest success in completing, graduating, and qualifying in their respective schools/courses. Many want to see you fail. Remember, everyone of you is a pioneer. There was a time when they didn't allow blacks to fight the good fight. This is your civil rights. Don't quit!!!
  It's time to allow gay service member's spouses to utilize the same benefits that all heterosexual dependents are eligible for. Medical, Dental, Tricare, Deers, SGLI, BX, Commissary, Milstar, MWR, etc. Flag officers, lets be honest. You can't really give a valid argument to as why gays shouldn't be eligible as every month a new state enacts laws that allow same sex marriage.
  LGBT community and supporters, the same way you have the right to voice your opinion on acceptance of gay marriage, Chick Fil-A has a right to voice their beliefs as well. That's what makes America so great. Freedom of expression. Don't be assholes and boycott/degrade their business and customers who patronize the locations. They make some damn good chicken! Vandalizing (graffiti) their locations does not help any cause.
  Mr. Bill Cosby, you are a reasonable and talented man who has spoken the truth of the cultural anomalies within the black communities that need to change now. The black communities' resentment toward you is because they don't like hearing the truth or having their clear and evident dirty laundry aired to the nation. The problem is, the country is not blind nor dumb. They believe we are animals. Do not mute your unvarnished truthful speech or moral compass. Blacks must strive for more in life than bling, hoes, and cars. The current culture is an epidemic that leaves them with no discernible future. They're suffocating and don't even know it. MLK Jr. Would be mortified at what he worked so hard for in our acceptance as equal beings and how unfortunately we stopped progressing and began digressing. Chicago's youth violence is a prime example of how our black communities values have declined. We can not address this nation's intolerant issues until we address our own communities morality issues first. Accountability. We need to hold ou''
Brennan Won't Confirm Panetta's Claim Enhanced Interrogations Led U.S. to Bin Laden
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VIDEO-Senate intelligence hearing on Brennan's CIA nomination halted by protesters - Washington Times
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  John O. Brennan couldn't even finish introducing his family before he was interrupted four times by protesters at his confirmation hearing Thursday to become the new director of the CIA.
  Intelligence committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein halted the hearing and pulled Mr. Brennan from the room until it could be cleared of protesters, who she said were affiliated with Code Pink, the anti-war group.
  Mr. Brennan, who is President Obama's homeland security adviser, is one of the chief architects of U.S. policy in the war on terror, and senators said they are eager to question him about the administration's program to use drones to execute American citizens deemed to be part of the war on terror overseas.
  ''Think about the mothers,'' cried one female protestor.
  Others wore signs around their necks bearing the names of people they said were civilian casualties of the lethal U.S. strikes, known to be carried out in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia by armed, remotely piloted drone aircraft.
  Local media reports in all three countries say that innocent bystanders are often killed in the strikes, fueling anti-American sentiment and helping extremists recruit.
  Once Ms. Feinstein gaveled a recess to the hearing, it set off a stream of other protesters, who had apparently been waiting their turns to disrupt the proceedings but who were now going to be denied their chance.
  The hearing resumed after a few minutes with Mr. Brennan telling senators it would be ''the greatest honor of my professional life'' to lead the CIA.
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  General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the State Department never requested "support" in Benghazi:
  "Why didn't you put forces in place to be ready to respond?," Senator John McCain asked the general.
  Dempsey started, "Because we never received a request to do so, number one. And number two, we --"
  McCain iterrupted, "You never heard of Ambassador Stevens's repeated warnings?"
  "I had, through General Ham," responded Dempsey, referring to the commander of AFRICOM. "But we never received a request for support from the State Department, which would have allowed us to put forces--"
  "So it's the State Department's fault?"
  "I'm not blaming the State Department," Dempsey responded.
VIDEO-No Word from Hillary During Benghazi Attack | The Weekly Standard
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  Neither the secretary of defense nor the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff spoke to the secretary of state during the 8-hour attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. At a Thursday hearing in the Senate, Republican Ted Cruz asked both Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey, "In between 9:42 p.m., Benghazi time, when the first attacks started, and 5:15 am, when Mr. Doherty and Mr. Woods lost their lives, what converations did either of you have with Secretary Clinton?"
  "We did not have any conversations with Secretary Clinton," Panetta responded.
  "And General Dempsey, the same is true for you?" Cruz asked. Dempsey confirmed this. Watch the video below:
VIDEO-Panetta: Obama Absent Night of Benghazi | The Weekly Standard
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  Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:22
  Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testified this morning on Capitol Hill that President Barack Obama was absent the night four Americans were murdered in Benghazi on September 11, 2012:
  Panetta said, though he did meet with Obama at a 5 o'clock prescheduled gathering, the president left operational details, including knowledge of what resources were available to help the Americans under siege, "up to us."
  In fact, Panetta says that the night of 9/11, he did not communicate with a single person at the White House. The attack resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
  Obama did not call or communicate in anyway with the defense secretary that night. There were no calls about what was going on in Benghazi. He never called to check-in.
  The 5 o'clock meeting was a pre-scheduled 30-minute session, where, according to Panetta's recollection, they spent about 20 minutes talking a lot about the American embassy that was surrounded in Egypt and the situation that was just unfolding in Benghazi.
  As Bill Kristol wrote in the month after the attack, "Panetta's position is untenable: The Defense Department doesn't get to unilaterally decide whether it's too risky or not to try to rescue CIA operators, or to violate another country's air space. In any case, it's inconceivable Panetta didn't raise the question of what to do when he met with the national security adviser and the president at 5 p.m. on the evening of September 11 for an hour. And it's beyond inconceivable he didn't then stay in touch with the White House after he returned to the Pentagon."
  Perhaps it was "inconceivable," but it is according to Panetta exactly what happened.
  But Obama did have time to make a political call to the Israeli prime minister. "[W]e do know one thing the president found time to do that evening: He placed a call to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in order to defuse a controversy about President Obama's refusal to meet with Netanyahu two weeks later at the U.N. General Assembly, and, according to the White House announcement that evening, spent an hour on the phone with him," Kristol wrote.
  "While Americans were under assault in Benghazi, the president found time for a non-urgent, politically useful, hour-long call to Prime Minister Netanyahu. And his senior national security staff had to find time to arrange the call, brief the president for the call, monitor it, and provide an immediate read-out to the media. I suspect Prime Minister Netanyahu, of all people, would have understood the need to postpone or shorten the phone call if he were told that Americans were under attack as the president chatted. But for President Obama, a politically useful telephone call'--and the ability to have his aides rush out and tell the media about that phone call'--came first."
Pentagon backed plan for U.S. to arm Syrian rebels
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  Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:44
  Pentagon backed plan for U.S. to arm Syrian rebelsTop News
  Pentagon backed plan for U.S. to arm Syrian rebels
  Thu, Feb 07 16:26 PM EST
  By Phil Stewart and Patricia Zengerle
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pentagon leaders told Congress on Thursday that they had supported a recommendation to arm Syrian rebels promoted by the State Department and CIA but which President Barack Obama ultimately decided against.
  Obama's government has limited its support to non-lethal aid for the rebels who, despite receiving weapons from countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, are poorly armed compared to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army and loyalist militias.
  Syria's 22-month-long conflict has killed an estimated 60,000 people.
  Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, has championed greater U.S. involvement and chided the Obama administration at a hearing, asking Pentagon leaders: "How many more have to die before you recommend military action?"
  He then pressed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, about whether they backed the recommendation by the State Department and CIA chiefs last year to arm the rebels.
  Panetta and Dempsey said they had backed the recommendation, and later in the hearing, the defense secretary elaborated.
  "Obviously there were a number of factors that were involved here that ultimately led to the president's decision to make (the aid) non-lethal," Panetta said, adding he supported Obama's decision.
  The comments were the first public acknowledgement of Pentagon support to arm the rebels since the New York Times reported on February 2 about the plan developed last summer by Hillary Clinton and David Petraeus, who have since left their jobs at the State Department and CIA, respectively.
  The defense chiefs' testimony also suggested that White House opposition alone may have been enough to override the position of most major U.S. foreign policy and security agencies - the State and Defense departments, and the CIA.
  CONCERN ABOUT DEEPER U.S. INVOLVEMENT
  The Times said that the plan to arm and train rebels was rebuffed by the White House over concerns it could draw the United States into the Syrian conflict and that the arms could fall into the wrong hands.
  The questions about U.S. policy in Syria came during a hearing focusing on Libya, with Pentagon leaders defending their response to last year's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
  Republican lawmakers raised questions about whether the reaction was too slow and whether Obama was not engaged enough during the incident, choosing to get updates on the crisis from staff instead of military leaders.
  Panetta and Dempsey said U.S. forces could not have reached Libya in time to prevent the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans on September 11, 2012, and assured that Obama was kept in the loop.
  Panetta also stressed that it was also not the U.S. military's responsibility to be able to immediately respond anywhere in the world to a crisis. There was no intelligence about a specific plan to attack the consulate, he and Dempsey noted.
  "The United States military ... is not and, frankly, should not be a 911 service capable of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency around the world," he said, referring to the 911 U.S. emergency phone number.
  Panetta, who is soon retiring, also used the hearing as an opportunity to take more parting shots at Congress over its inability to reach a budget deal needed to avert automatic spending cuts that will hit the military.
  Panetta warned those cuts, due to start kicking in next month, could create a "readiness crisis" for the military and urged lawmakers to strike a deal.
  "I cannot imagine that people would stand by and deliberately hurt this country in terms of our national defense by letting this take place," he said.
  It was likely to be Panetta's last hearing before he retires, and despite a sometimes accusatory tone from lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats praised his work as Pentagon chief and, previously, as CIA director.
  The man nominated to be Panetta's successor, former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, faces stiff Republican resistance but is expected to win Senate confirmation.
  (Reporting by Phil Stewart and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Warren Strobel and Philip Barbara)
  Pentagon backed plan for U.S. to arm Syrian rebelsTop News
  Pentagon backed plan for U.S. to arm Syrian rebels
  Thu, Feb 07 16:26 PM EST
  By Phil Stewart and Patricia Zengerle
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pentagon leaders told Congress on Thursday that they had supported a recommendation to arm Syrian rebels promoted by the State Department and CIA but which President Barack Obama ultimately decided against.
  Obama's government has limited its support to non-lethal aid for the rebels who, despite receiving weapons from countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia, are poorly armed compared to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army and loyalist militias.
  Syria's 22-month-long conflict has killed an estimated 60,000 people.
  Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona, has championed greater U.S. involvement and chided the Obama administration at a hearing, asking Pentagon leaders: "How many more have to die before you recommend military action?"
  He then pressed Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, about whether they backed the recommendation by the State Department and CIA chiefs last year to arm the rebels.
  Panetta and Dempsey said they had backed the recommendation, and later in the hearing, the defense secretary elaborated.
  "Obviously there were a number of factors that were involved here that ultimately led to the president's decision to make (the aid) non-lethal," Panetta said, adding he supported Obama's decision.
  The comments were the first public acknowledgement of Pentagon support to arm the rebels since the New York Times reported on February 2 about the plan developed last summer by Hillary Clinton and David Petraeus, who have since left their jobs at the State Department and CIA, respectively.
  The defense chiefs' testimony also suggested that White House opposition alone may have been enough to override the position of most major U.S. foreign policy and security agencies - the State and Defense departments, and the CIA.
  CONCERN ABOUT DEEPER U.S. INVOLVEMENT
  The Times said that the plan to arm and train rebels was rebuffed by the White House over concerns it could draw the United States into the Syrian conflict and that the arms could fall into the wrong hands.
  The questions about U.S. policy in Syria came during a hearing focusing on Libya, with Pentagon leaders defending their response to last year's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
  Republican lawmakers raised questions about whether the reaction was too slow and whether Obama was not engaged enough during the incident, choosing to get updates on the crisis from staff instead of military leaders.
  Panetta and Dempsey said U.S. forces could not have reached Libya in time to prevent the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans on September 11, 2012, and assured that Obama was kept in the loop.
  Panetta also stressed that it was also not the U.S. military's responsibility to be able to immediately respond anywhere in the world to a crisis. There was no intelligence about a specific plan to attack the consulate, he and Dempsey noted.
  "The United States military ... is not and, frankly, should not be a 911 service capable of arriving on the scene within minutes to every possible contingency around the world," he said, referring to the 911 U.S. emergency phone number.
  Panetta, who is soon retiring, also used the hearing as an opportunity to take more parting shots at Congress over its inability to reach a budget deal needed to avert automatic spending cuts that will hit the military.
  Panetta warned those cuts, due to start kicking in next month, could create a "readiness crisis" for the military and urged lawmakers to strike a deal.
  "I cannot imagine that people would stand by and deliberately hurt this country in terms of our national defense by letting this take place," he said.
  It was likely to be Panetta's last hearing before he retires, and despite a sometimes accusatory tone from lawmakers, Republicans and Democrats praised his work as Pentagon chief and, previously, as CIA director.
  The man nominated to be Panetta's successor, former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, faces stiff Republican resistance but is expected to win Senate confirmation.
  (Reporting by Phil Stewart and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Warren Strobel and Philip Barbara)
Lance Armstrong May Testify Under Oath To U.S. Anti-Doping Investigators
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  Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:42
  In a surprising '-- and very last minute '-- change of heart, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong may now testify under oath before the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in a last-ditch effort to reduce his lifetime ban on participating in the sport that made him rich and famous.
  Armstrong '-- who has publicly said he ''deserves'' the chance to come back '' originally faced a deadline of Wednesday night (February 6) to tell-all to anti-doping officials, but USADA officials have granted him an extension in wake of his apparent willingness to come clean before the panel. If Armstrong '-- who last month was stripped of his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics '-- does fess up, his lifetime ban could possibly be reduced to eight years.
  PHOTOS: The Biggest Cheating Scandals In Sports
  ''We have been in communication with Mr. Armstrong and his representatives and we understand that he does want to be part of the solution and assist in the effort to clean up the sport of cycling,'' USADA CEO Travis T. Tygart said in a written statement Wednesday night. ''We have agreed to his request for an additional two weeks to work on details to hopefully allow for this to happen.''
  Armstrong's troubles don't end with the USADA '' he remains the target of a re-ignited federal criminal investigation into his doping. (A year ago, federal prosecutors told Armstrong that the two-year investigation into his use of performance enhancing drugs was over and that no charges would be filed.)
  PHOTOS: Sexy Stars Who Play With Pro Athletes
  ABC News reports that, according to a high-level source, ''agents are actively investigating Armstrong for obstruction, witness tampering and intimidation'' for allegedly threatening people who dared tell the truth about his cheating.
  The investigation was revived after Armstrong's mea culpa interview on OWN last month, in which, for the first time, he confessed to years of doping through all of his seven Tour de France titles and lying about it, while often bullying his accusers.
  PHOTOS: The Biggest Cheating Scandals In Sports
  If Armstrong does in fact get charged, the consequences of ''serious potential crimes'' could be severe, ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams said, including ''possible sentences up to five, 10 years.''
  ABC News reports investigators are not so concerned with Armstrong's drug use, but his behavior in trying to keep his secret by allegedly threatening and interfering with potential witnesses, including his fellow teammates.
  PHOTOS: Check Out The World's Sexiest Olympians!
  Meanwhile, Armstrong remains the target of several civil suits would could cost him millions. The latest lawsuit '' expected to be filed any time now '' comes from SCA Promotions, a sports insurance company, that paid the cyclist more than $10 million in bonuses; it wants its money back.
Senate Committee to Hear from CIA Director Nominee | C-SPAN
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  Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:37
  U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice and Acting Director of the CIA Michael Morrell met with Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee today on Capitol Hill. Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) spoke to reporters after the meeting, saying they are "significantly troubled" over responses to their questions regarding the explanation of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Top Defense Chiefs to Testify on U.S. Consulate Attack in Libya | C-SPAN
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  Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:37
  Ted Widmer is the editor of ''Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy.'' The book contains two audio CDs with 75 minutes of recorded conversations from the oval office, cabinet meetings, telephone calls, and private dictations during Kennedy's presidency. Mr. Widmer describes how he was approached by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation to select and introduce and transcribe the recordings. He shares numerous clips throughout the program including a phone call from President Kennedy to Defense department advisors about the best way to board inbound Soviet ships during the Cuban missile crisis. We hear as President Kennedy calls Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman seeking advice. Widmer also chose to share the contentious discussions between Kennedy and then Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett as they dealt with the riots over the enrollment of James Meredith as the first black student to attend the University of Mississippi. Widmer also reveals a more light-hearted side to the President in several of the recordings. Widmer reflects upon his academic training at Harvard, as well as his experiences serving both President Bill Clinton, during his presidency, and Hillary Clinton, during her time as Secretary of State.
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Oregon Drone Bill Would Claim the 'Airspace' Above Your Shoestrings
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  Source: Gitmo Nation News
  Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:25
  Can the air near your shoes be considered ''public airspace?'' In Oregon, at least, it soon might be.
  A new bill making its way through Oregon's state senate would establish something known as ''Airspace of Oregon'' which the state could use to regulate drone use by agencies and private citizens.
  Proponents of the bill are trying to get ahead of a nationwide push to set rules for unmanned aerial vehicle use by civilians, which some advocates worry could intrude on personal privacy.
  ''The use of drones domestically will raise significant new privacy issues which cannot be addressed by current law,'' says Becky Straus, legislative director of ACLU's Oregon office. ''We are not and should not be a surveillance state. Drones should never be used for mass surveillance. Law enforcement should only use them when there is individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing.''
  But experts say it's unclear whether Oregon would be allowed to regulate ankle-level airspace at all, since it's typically covered by the Federal Aviation Administration.
  Read more here: Oregon Drone Bill Would Claim the 'Airspace' Above Your Shoestrings '' US News and World Report.
Rickard Falkvinge: Sharing is a Constitutional Law Right, Copyright is an Ordinary Law Privilege '-- This is Huge Advance for Public Over Private Corruption
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  Source: Public Intelligence Blog
  Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:20
  Rickard Falkvinge
  Court Of Human Rights: Convictions For File-Sharing Violate Human Rights
  Civil Liberties:'‚ The European Court of Human Rights has declared that the copyright monopoly stands in direct conflict with fundamental Human Rights, as defined in the European Union and elsewhere. This means that as of today, nobody sharing culture in the EU may be convicted just for breaking the copyright monopoly law; the bar for convicting was raised considerably. This can be expected to have far-reaching implications, not just judicially, but in confirming that the copyright monopoly stands at odds with human rights.
  The European Court of Human Rights in Luxembourg is no dismissible small player. It is the court that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which is part of the Constitution of the European Union and of most (if not all) European states. When this court makes a decision, that decision gets constitutional status in all of Europe (except for Belarus, which is not a signatory).
  Therefore, the copyright monopoly as such '' which is ordinary law in European states '' was just defined as taking a back seat to the constitutional right to share and seek culture and knowledge, as defined in the European Convention on Human Rights, article 10:
  ''Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.'' (ECHR 10)
  We have long claimed that the copyright monopoly stands in direct conflict with civil liberties (one of my most well-known keynotes, Copyright regime vs. civil liberties, even highlights this in the title). While the judiciary is slow to react to new phenomena, and issues like this percolate very slowly to the top courts where verdicts make a reak difference, I'm very happy to see that the issue did indeed get to the relevant court at last, and that the Court made the only reasonable decision.
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  Feb 7
Grey Scale Obama
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  Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:51
  My children, I get enough comments from those who start out with "I don't agree with everything you say", that a few is too many, for this is simply the best blog in the world and is so by God's Grace, and every day there are little minds who look for something to not come be instantly, so what is posted here must be incorrect.As Drudge deliberately did not post on this, and all of the fringe did not bother to follow up on it, as the Insiders were telling you that Romney had 2012 in the bag, there is in this huge gas spike coming on Obamerika, the necessity of reminding the children and the brats something, as no one was paying attention to the article on Scooter Bush, your George Prescott Bush in Texas.
  What if I were to tell you of absolute proof that in the smoke and mirrors of 2012, while you are gawking at the girl called Keystone XL pipeline, that the Bush family was with their intelligence and carnivore capitalists were sealing the Obama election theft of 2012?
  What if I were to tell you that by doing what the Bush group did, made it possible for Obama to steal the entire northeast voting block, destroyed Mitt Romney in the process, IN LEAGUE with Obama, and it paved the way for 2016 Jeb Bush?
  Sound conspiritorial, and it was as in August 2012, the Obama regime reached out hard in a deal they put together to stop thee east coast's largest refinery from closing. A refinery which had lost a billion dollars. A refinery in Pennsylvania which if it closed, would have spiked fuel prices that would have been beyond hurricane Sandy and fat New Jersey Governor Christie would not have been able to build sand castles on the beach with Obama to stop that electoral implosion, the same which was being engineered on the east coast.
  Yes that is exactly what the Carlyle Group with Sunoco did, in they put together almost one quarter billion dollars to take over a refinery in the east, which was losing money, needed upgrades and would have been something no sane person would have invested in......especially if one was great friends with Mitt Romney and Karl Rove was backing your 2012 presidential bid.
  In what was a desperate move, and quite illegal move of electioneering, the Obama regime put together a deal where taxpayers in Pennsylvania shelled out 25 million in matching funds.
  Behind the scenes Obama embraces private-equity - National ...www.examiner.com/.../behind-the-scenes-obama-embraces-private-e...Aug 23, 2012 '' Last month Carlyle agreed to take a two-thirds stake in the refinery plus an investment of at least $200 million in improvements. ... Sunoco to announce the closing of the refinery while Pennsylvania kicked in $25 million in ... he may well owe a debt to his two favorite whipping boys: Big Oil and private-equity.Carlyle Group invests in Philadelphia refinery - Washington PostJul 2, 2012 '' The Carlyle Group plans to invest in new energy technology to save a ... The venture seeks to exploit the vast U.S. reserves of oil and natural gas now ... The new project will include more than $200 million in capital ... under Pennsylvania and New York to help fuel the refinery, making it more cost-efficient.How the East Coast Avoided an Oil Crunchwww.cnbc.com/id/.../How_the_East_Coast_Avoided_an_Oil_CrunchAug 22, 2012 '' An oil refinery in Elizabeth, N.J. is shown in this aerial photo of ... they would each be closing their Pennsylvania refineries, it seemed like a dark day ... In addition, Carlyle will receive $25 million in state funds to match its $200...Sunoco's Philadelphia refinery will take $200M to fix up ...www.bizjournals.com/.../sunocos-philadelphia-refinery-will.html?...Jul 2, 2012 '' Revitalizing Sunoco Inc.'s refinery in South Philadelphia will require more than... ... Rodney Cohen, a managing director with The Carlyle Group, threw out ... The state of Pennsylvania will provide $25 million in assistance, ... to build a high- speed unloader for rail cars bringing in crude oil from the Midwest.You will notice how all of the Mockingbird stories, in even the Examiner, did not bother to link up the reality that EXACTLY in 2008, when Obama flipped 10 million GOP votes as only covered here, to steal the election from Palin and McCain with Karl Rove lying in stating that 10 million GOP voters "moved", that the Bush syndicate assisted Barack Hussein Obama in the 2012 election theft, by bailing him out at the last minute.There was a host of quid pro quo in this for the Bush family and Obama. If this refinery had shut down as planned, it would have had massive gas rationing on the east coast just before the election, and it would have doomed Obama in he could not have flipped enough votes to steal the election which in turn in the three electronic voting machines wiped out GOP candidates across America as this thing was running at 25% in vote trimming.
  There is no way that Obama could have gotten away with 2008, unless the Bush establishment had singed off on it. There is no way that Obama could have gotten away with the 2012 election theft if the Bush syndicate had not dumped the money into Sunoco, which was apparently shutting down the plant to cause the effect Romney required.
  Want to know the reality in, it was August 2012 when Romney had the election stolen from him. Sunoco was the big stick Romney had been promised, and the maul on the end of that stick was supposed to have been the hostage situation of Chris Stevens and other Americans, dragging out to Obama's embarrassment, as had been promised to Romney.
  Call that another Lame Cherry matter anti matter exclusive in putting this all together for you, and you can also say, "I don't agree with everything you say Ms. Cherry".Go right ahead and allow the board to move 100 steps ahead of where you are pondering as they are laughing at the joke, because you are too slow.
  So you got this in what Romney was promised and betrayed on, in a west coast oil crunch and the Pennsylvania generated oil crunch, all stuck up Chris Steven's ass when Obama tried to kidnap him for his rescue, but Stevens and the others were supposed to be held to humiliate Obama alla Jimmy Carter ......that is what funded that Ben Afleck fricking propaganda about Iran......Obama was supposed to on cue rescue all of them.This ALL was funded by the feudalists and I told you was in the Obama ledger, as more things are coming as the shoes drop. Romney was an engineered Straw Man......HIS BACKERS did think they were doing what needed to be done, but the real powers on the next level were just allowing them the current in the line to think they were doing was accomplishing things....so when November came, Romney knew the polls were in his favor, before he got it all jerked out from under him.
  Obama promised to give Jeb his chance at 2016, along with not trying to deport George W. to Europe again for war crimes, all in exchange for the propping up of the Pennsylvania refinery and their keeping their mouths shut again about Obama using "electronic vote flipping" as it would open the door to what Karl Rove did to John Kerry in 2004.
  What if you were to learn that the American Enterprise Institute's major director is Daniel A. D'Aniello, who founded Carlyle, and runs Carlyle and who is the one at the other end of 1600 Penn Avenue at their headquarters who bailed Obama's ass out in this gas shortage meltdown.Yes your conservative brand gave Obama the margin to steal the 2012 election, after Romneycrats had it stolen back.
  Why is it no one bothers to bring things like this up? This bunch of feudalcrats managing the people on the right, are the ones who installed Obama both times and are the ones who are keeping criminal Obama in office.When this blog noted Chief Justice John Roberts was approached about Obamacare, and informed the people who gave him cover for his nomination in those Nazi babies he bought out of Latin America, would no longer be giving him cover if he did not vote for Obamacare.......that is this group of the Bush syndicate who were behind all of this.
  These are the fnanciers, the powers that be, that Obama was quoting. The ones who do the Limbaugh talking points on bio fuels, the ones who have Mark Levin telling you to wait in the gulag for another lection to imprison you further, the ones who have Mike Gallagher saying how great it is to give away rights to just get along with Obama.
  This is the money tap dripping right out of Obama in keeping him in power, when Foster Freiss perverts are propping up the Romney Straw Men......If you do not get it my babies, Alex Jones already told you that Rand Paul is this group's choice for VP and is who is supposed to be backed. THERE ARE STRAWMEN AND WOMEN ALREADY SET UP for Jeb Bush to knock the hell down to look like he won it.....that is if Obama does not Dr. Germ these feudal nazis to a grave like the message about old man Bush was sent.
  You were betrayed from your own side my children, just like the aristocratic Ashkenaz were selling the ghetto Jews as slave labor to the nazis in the 1930's.
  Enough of this as I have had enough.
  agtG 248
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require labeling of genetically engineered fish. (H.R. 584)
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To amend the National Organ Transplant Act to prevent the sale of bone marrow and umbilical cord blood, and for other purposes. (H.R. 589)
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