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Obama’s Safe School Czar:"Gay Issues in Curriculum is Ultimate Goal"

2010-09-18T12:03:00.000-07:00

Kevin Jennings uses the euphemism of "curriculum reform" when describing his ultimate goal of introducing gay issues into the public schools. Mr. Jennings also refers to Catholic Cardinal Bernard Francis Law as an "old queen"...

Russian Aircraft Buzz U.S. Navy Ship

2010-09-18T11:33:00.000-07:00

WASHINTGON-Two Russian aircraft flew within roughly 100 feet of a U.S. ship in the Arctic's Barents Sea last week, an unusual move that has caused some concern among officials in the Pentagon.According to Pentagon Spokesman Col. Dave Lapan, the USS Taylor had just left from a routine port visit in the town of Murmansk when it was buzzed by a Russian maritime patrol aircraft on September 10th, and then buzzed again one day later by a Russian helicopter...

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White House Science Czar Says He’d Use "Free Market to De-Develop the United States"

2010-09-18T11:08:00.000-07:00

From CNS News: In a video interview this week, White House Office of Science and Technology Director John P. Holdren told CNSNews.com that he would use the “free market economy” to implement the “massive campaign” he advocated along with Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich to “de-develop the United States.”In his role as President Barack Obama’s top science and technology adviser, Holdren deals with issues ranging from global warming to health care. “A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States,” Holdren wrote along with Paul and Anne H. Ehrlich in the “recommendations” concluding their 1973 book Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions...

PS:Eugenicist John Holdren is a lunatic globalist that would like to "purify the earth" and get it rid of "useless eaters".He and his wife must think they're above you and me...Remember the "Logan's Run"..?Remember it's carroussell...?Well Holdren wants you and me to volunteer for the carroussell while he watches...!
JESUS IS COMING SOON...!
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Obama’s Science Czar:"The Term Global Warming is Dangerous Misnomer"

2010-09-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, says that the term "global warming" is "a dangerous misnomer” that should be replaced with “global climate disruption."

MSNBC Host Gives Platform to Anti-Christian Zealot on Eve of 9/11; Christian Fundamentalists are the Real Threat

2010-09-18T10:20:00.000-07:00

Barry Lynn, Executive Director, AMERICANS UNITED FOR SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: "I worry about Islamic fundamentalism, there's fundamentalists in every religion, but I worry a lot more about the imminent return of Christian fundamentalism that will try to tell every single American how to live from the moment of conception until the moment of death..."

OBAMA'S ANTICOLONIALISM:"White House rips Forbes article"

2010-09-18T09:49:00.000-07:00

Dinesh D'Souza has drawn a torrent of criticism with a Forbes cover story that accuses President Obama of adopting "the cause of anti-colonialism" from his Kenyan father.But while most detractors focus on the author--and Newt Gingrich, who embraced the critique--the White House is aiming its ammunition at the business magazine."It's a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist's office, so lacking in truth and fact," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says in an interview. "I think it represents a new low"...

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PS:Sorry Mr. Gibbs...but once more you don't have a clue of what you're talking about...!Buy Barry Soetoro's books...or listen to them in tapes and you'll find out that this is not something unfounded,but Barry says it himself in "Dreams of my father"..for example...I don't blame you if you can't finish the books..but it would surely help you...!I feel for you cause you just say what they tell you to say...

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RCC WATCH:"Pope's UK Visit:Police question six street cleaners held over plot to attack the Pope..."

2010-09-18T09:37:00.000-07:00

Six street cleaners remain in police custody today after they were arrested over an alleged plot to attack the Pope.Armed officers detained the men, all believed to be Muslims of North African origin, as they prepared to go on shift at a cleaning depot in Central London.A few hours earlier, counter-terrorism officers had been tipped off that the men could have been planning to ‘harm’ Pope Benedict XVI or carry out some sort of atrocity to coincide with his visit.With only a short time to assess the credibility of the information, Yard chiefs authorised their arrests...
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Gates Sees 2-3 Years of Combat in Afghanistan

2010-09-04T08:51:00.000-07:00

COMBAT OUTPOST SENJARAY, Afghanistan—Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he envisions two or three more years of combat operations in Afghanistan before the U.S. transitions to an advisory role, a mission likely to last years more.Mr. Gates's comments Friday at a military camp outside Kandahar were his most decisive to date on the war's timeline. They came as he made a vigorous, public case that the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy would prove to be working by the time the Obama administration begins its next review of the war in December...
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Picture Left:U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaks with troops from the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, as he visits Forward Operation Base Camp Nathan Smith outside Kandahar Friday.(Reuters)

EU Official in Trouble for Remarks on Jews

2010-09-04T08:41:00.000-07:00

Karel De Gucht, the European trade commissioner, has a penchant for saying what he’s really thinking. As Belgian foreign minister, he ruffled feathers across the globe. He was notoriously tough on Belgium’s former colony, the Congo, criticizing corruption and emphasizing that Belgium’s aid contributions gave it “the moral authority to comment on issues affecting the country.” Congo subsequently banned Mr. De Gucht from visiting.On Thursday, with the Middle East peace process in the news, Mr. De Gucht picked yet another fight. Jews, he told Belgian radio, have a “belief” that they are “always right.” He described his frustration at debating the Middle East because “it is not easy even with a moderate Jew to have a conversation”...

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Iran says to strike Israel nuclear site if attacked

2010-09-04T08:36:00.000-07:00

TEHRAN-Iran would retaliate by striking Israel's nuclear facility if Israel attacked its nuclear activities, armed forces chief of staff Hassan Firouzabadi said on Friday.
"Our developed weapons can hit any part of the Zionist regime (Israel) ... We hope not to be forced to attack their nuclear facility," Firouzabadi told the semi-official Mehr news agency...

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Iran's Ahmadinejad calls on Palestinians to fight on

2010-09-04T08:23:00.000-07:00

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged Palestinians to keep up their armed struggle against Israel a day after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to continue talks on a U.S.-backed peace deal. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who hosted the first session of talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington, voiced confidence that this latest attempt to bring peace to the region could succeed where so many others have failed...

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Muslims take to Minnesota State Fair to repair image

2010-09-04T08:08:00.000-07:00

FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. – Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street.
Each time a new wave of people exited, the young Minneapolis residents — who hadn't eaten all day — tried to press into their hands a small, glossy card that read "Islam Explained" on one side. On the other, it had about 180 words of background on a religion whose adherents fear is being misunderstood by too many Americans as violent and depraved....

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Some 600,000 Muslims crowd into Mecca mosque

2010-09-04T07:46:00.000-07:00

RIYADH-Some 600,000 Muslims crowded into the Grand Mosque in Islam's holiest city of Mecca for prayers on the last Friday of the Ramadan holy month, mosque officials said.
In all more than a million worshippers were in the mosque and surrounding areas, Said al-Mansoori, a spokesman for the commission governing Mecca and Medina told AFP.
The two cities have swollen with worshippers from Saudi Arabia and around the world undertaking the umrah, or minor pilgrimage, which peaks during Ramadan...

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Muslims hold mass prayers at Jerusalem mosque

2010-09-03T17:49:00.000-07:00

Tens of thousands of Muslims poured into the heavily guarded Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem for the last Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan. Israeli police put the number of worshippers at 160,000 to 170,000, while Muslim authorities said it exceeded 200,000.
"As in previous weeks, the police deployed 2,000 men around the mosque. They have not interfered, and the prayer has taken place with the utmost calm," police spokesman Shmulik Ben Ruby said...

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'Islamization' of Paris a Warning to the West

2010-09-03T17:46:00.000-07:00

PARIS - Friday in Paris. A hidden camera shows streets blocked by huge crowds of Muslim worshippers and enforced by a private security force.
This is all illegal in France: the public worship, the blocked streets, and the private security. But the police have been ordered not to intervene.
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ISLAMIC CRAZE WATCH:Muslim cleric calls for beheading of Dutch politician

2010-09-03T15:51:00.000-07:00

Australia-A well known Australian muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday. Wilders' Freedom Party scored the biggest gains in June 9 polls and is currently negotiating to form a new minority government with the Liberals and Christian Democrats. Polls show Wilders would win a new election if one were called now...

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PS:There it goes again the peace loving religion of Islam...

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Fidel Castro leads first mass rally in four years

2010-09-03T15:33:00.000-07:00

HAVANA--Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Friday completed a return to public life, leading his first mass rally since an illness forced him from the presidency four years ago.
Castro, 84, wearing his trademark olive green uniform-but without any military insignias-addressed thousands of students and others at the University of Havana, where he warned about the threat of nuclear war should the United States or Israel attack Iran...

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Fears grow over global food supply

2010-09-03T15:10:00.000-07:00

Wheat prices rose further on Friday in the wake of Russia’s decision to extend its grain export ban by 12 months, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08.
In Mozambique, where a 30 per cent rise in bread prices triggered riots on Wednesday and Thursday, the government said seven people had been killed and 288 wounded...
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ISRAEL:"CCTV cameras won’t go into classrooms or corridors"

2010-08-30T07:44:00.000-07:00

A plan to set up police surveillance cameras at 12 schools across the country will not be implemented by the time the school year starts on Wednesday, police told MKs on Sunday....

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I-Dosing: Another Excuse for Government Control Over Our Lives

2010-08-30T07:33:00.000-07:00

I don’t know about you, but I am not about to run out and experiment with the latest fad, known as “i-dosing,” a gimmick that supposedly uses binaural tones to create euphoria. “Simply put, i-dosing is the attempt to achieve a perceived drug ‘high’ from listening specially-engineered sounds and music,” reports Psychology Today. “Is it a real drug? Probably not.”

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Pre-Crime Technology To Be Used In Washington D.C

2010-08-30T07:17:00.000-07:00

Law enforcement agencies in Washington D.C. have begun to use technology that they say can predict when crimes will be committed and who will commit them, before they actually happen.
The Minority Report like pre-crime software has been developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania....

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Full-Body Scan Technology Deployed In Street-Roving Vans

2010-08-30T06:54:00.000-07:00

As the privacy controversy around full-body security scans begins to simmer, it’s worth noting that courthouses and airport security checkpoints aren’t the only places where backscatter x-ray vision is being deployed. The same technology, capable of seeing through clothes and walls, has also been rolling out on U.S. streets...
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China seeks fresh nuclear talks with North Korea

2010-08-30T06:29:00.000-07:00

BEIJING/SEOUL-China is lobbying neighbors to sign up to a road map for renewed nuclear disarmament talks with North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong-il is visiting China amid conciliatory words and threats of "holy war." The details of Beijing's plan for restarting stalled six-party nuclear talks came from a South Korean diplomatic source, who spoke on Saturday after discussion in Seoul with Wu Dawei, China's top envoy in the talks...
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Picture Left:A vehicle that is believed to be carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, the only vehicle in his convoy that is heavily tinted and armoured, leaves Nanhu hotel in Changchun city, where Kim is rumoured to be staying with his son.(REUTERS/Aly Song)

EUGENICS WATCH:Ehrlich and Holdren: Death “Reasonable Price to Pay” for Well-being of Society

2010-08-27T18:25:00.000-07:00

In a 1995 article written by Gretchen Daily and Ecoscience co-author Paul R. Ehrlich, the authors put forward the proposition that physicians should no longer concentrate on improving the health of their individual patients, or treat occurring infections in order to save the patients life, but rather look to the well-being of society as a whole. In doing so, say Daily and Ehrlich, “a small net increase in deaths” is “a reasonable price to pay”. Here’s the quote in its entirety (page 25): “Physicians by instinct and training focus on the health of individuals; they must learn to pay more attention to the health of whole societies and to deal with the difficult conflicts of interest that often arise between the two. One physician, Jeffrey Fisher (1994), recommends that physicians be required to take periodic recertification exams in which they are tested on antibiotic knowledge. If antibiotics had been used more judiciously over the past few decades, there doubtless would have been more deaths from bacterial infections misdiagnosed as viral, and fewer deaths from allergic reactions to antibiotics. But a small net increase in deaths would probably have been a reasonable price to pay to avoid the present situation, which portends a return to the pre-antibiotic era and much higher death rates”...

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Picture Left:Paul R Ehrlich

Bancor:"The Name Of The Global Currency That A Shocking IMF Report Is Proposing"

2010-08-27T17:58:00.000-07:00

Sometimes there are things that are so shocking that you just do not want to report them unless they can be completely and totally documented. Over the past few years, there have been many rumors about a coming global currency, but at times it has been difficult to pin down evidence that plans for such a currency are actually in the works. Not anymore. A paper entitled “Reserve Accumulation and International Monetary Stability” by the Strategy, Policy and Review Department of the IMF recommends that the world adopt a global currency called the “Bancor” and that a global central bank be established to administer that currency...
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DESENSITATION WATCH:"Fingerprint check-in tried at 24 Hour Fitness"

2010-08-27T16:58:00.000-07:00

When the 24 Hour Fitness chain recently installed finger scanners as a way of verifying members’ identity, it was a public premiere of sorts for a powerful and fast-expanding technology – and a test of whether consumers will embrace it.The scanners, which came to the chain’s 60 Bay Area gyms this month, are a form of biometrics, in which people are recognized through a unique physical quality. Although 24 Hour Fitness checks fingers, biometric devices can verify people’s identity based on the contours of hands, eyes and faces, a voice, even a scent or a style of walking...
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Picture Left:John Sebastian Russo / The Chronicle

BIG BROTHER WATCH:"Homeland Security head praises city's security cameras"

2010-08-27T16:41:00.000-07:00

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday ranked Chicago’s Big Brother network of well over 10,000 public and private surveillance cameras as one of the nation’s most extensive and integrated — and Mayor Daley wants to make it even bigger.“Expansion of cameras citywide is one of the highest priorities that will help us here in the city of Chicago,” Daley said with Napolitano at his side.“Cameras are the key. They are a deterrent. They solve crimes. It deals with terrorism. It deals with gangs, guns and drugs in our society”...
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Picture Left:Mayor Daley and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano tour the Office of Emergency Management and Communications on Thursday. He wants to add more cameras.
(Keith Hale/Sun-Times)

Court allows agents to secretly put GPS trackers on cars

2010-08-27T16:20:00.000-07:00

(CNN)Law enforcement officers may secretly place a GPS device on a person's car without seeking a warrant from a judge, according to a recent federal appeals court ruling in California.Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Oregon in 2007 surreptitiously attached a GPS to the silver Jeep owned by Juan Pineda-Moreno, whom they suspected of growing marijuana, according to court papers...

Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with 'force of 100m bombs'

2010-08-27T16:15:00.000-07:00

Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs.Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this month was just a precursor to a massive solar storm building that had the potential to wipe out the entire planet's power grid...

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US military's top secret X-37B shuttle 'disappears' for two weeks, changes orbit

2010-08-27T15:59:00.000-07:00

AMATEUR astronomers are enjoying a cat-and-mouse game with the US military in keeping track of its secret space plane, the X-37B.The X-37B was launched in April amid much publicity, but scant detail about its true use.Built by Boeing's Phantom Works division, the X-37B program was originally headed by NASA.It was later turned over to the Pentagon's research and development arm and then to a secretive Air Force unit...
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Picture Left:The X-37B - amateur skywatchers are enjoying the cat-and-mouse game with the US military's "space weapon"/AP

ISLAMIC CRAZE WATCH:Saudi Employer Allegedly Tortured Maid By Driving Nails Into Her Body

2010-08-27T15:40:00.000-07:00

Doctors are treating a Sri Lankan maid who had more than 20 nails hammered into her body in a grisly act of torture allegedly perpetrated by her employer in Saudi Arabia, Sri Lankan Embassy sources told Arab News.The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment has launched an investigation after doctors who are treating the woman at the Kamburipitya Base Hospital in the Matara district of Sri Lanka also reported the nails had been heated up before being drilled into her skin...

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Iran to Russia:"Let's establish a nuclear consortium"

2010-08-27T14:36:00.000-07:00

Moscow is "considering" offer to supply fuel for future reactors as well as Bushehr; Iran says it wants to show the world its capability in uranium production...
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MISSION ACCOMPLISHED 2:" Troops still deploying to Mideast from BIA"

2010-08-27T14:26:00.000-07:00

BANGOR, Maine — As the nation watches troops being withdrawn from the Middle East, few perhaps are aware that another wave of soldiers is being deployed.On Tuesday, a group of about 150 soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based in Fort Hood, Texas, had a two-hour layover at Bangor International Airport on their way to southern Iraq.“It’s funny because the big thing on the news as we were getting ready to leave was all the big hoopla about all the combat forces coming out, so all the soldiers and their families are asking, ‘Why are we going?’” Lt. Col. Bryan Mullins said...
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Picture Left:Pvt. Zane Clossey of Robbinston keeps an eye out for family members as he and other soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fort Hood, Texas, get some fresh air after their troop plane landed at Bangor International Airport on Tuesday afternoon.(BANGOR DAILY NEWS PHOTO BY JOHN CLARKE RUSS)
PS:Exactly...that is the BIG QUESTION...."WHY ARE THEY GOING...?"
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Poison Gas Attack at Afghan Girls’ School

2010-08-27T14:23:00.000-07:00

At least 70 students and teachers at an all girls school in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, have been sickened by an unknown gas that spread through classrooms...

CIA making secret payments to members of Karzai administration

2010-08-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

The CIA is making secret payments to multiple members of President Hamid Karzai's administration, in part to maintain sources of information in a government in which the Afghan leader is often seen as having a limited grasp of developments, according to current and former U.S. officials.The payments are long-standing in many cases and designed to help the agency maintain a deep roster of allies within the presidential palace. Some aides function as CIA informants, but others collect stipends under more informal arrangements meant to ensure their accessibility, a U.S. official said.The CIA has continued the payments despite concerns that it is backing corrupt officials and undermining efforts to wean Afghans' dependence on secret sources of income and graft....

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Yemen New Target in Terror War

2010-08-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a more intense targeted killing program in Yemen...

State TV: Iranian Missile Test a Success

2010-08-27T13:48:00.000-07:00

Iran said on Wednesday that has it successfully test-fired an upgraded version of a short-range surface-to-surface missile...

Iran Sentences Opposition Leader's Aide to 5 Years

2010-08-27T13:36:00.000-07:00

TEHRAN, Iran -An Iranian reformist website says a top aide to the country's opposition leader has been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison.Friday's report by Kaleme website didn't specify the charges against Qorban Behzadiannejad, who was the campaign manager for Mir Hossein Mousavi in June 2009 presidential election.The report says Behzadiannejad was also ordered to pay a fine of 1 million rials ($100) for insulting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad....
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RI boy who made banned toy soldier hat gets medal

2010-06-19T13:06:00.000-07:00

The hat 8-year-old David Morales designed for a school project in R.I.(WPRI.com)

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I.--A Rhode Island boy whose school banned a hat he made because the toy soldiers on it carried tiny guns was awarded a medal on Friday for his patriotic efforts.Lt. Gen. Reginald Centracchio, the retired head of the Rhode Island National Guard, gave 8-year-old David Morales a medal called a challenge coin during an appearance on WPRO-AM's John DePetro show.Centracchio said the second-grader should be thanked for recognizing veterans and soldiers."You did nothing wrong, and you did an outstanding job," he said. "We can only hope that kids of your caliber will continue to defend this country."Centracchio also gave David a certificate that allows him to call himself a brigadier general....
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PS:These are good news....!Go David...!!!Congrats on your medal...!!!
They make kids like David read books like "Johnny has two daddys" and they have "a day of silence",they teach them how to put a condom on a cucumber,they cannot wear T-Shirts with american flags on it...but all of the sudden David fixes a hat with some plastic soldiers and GI's for a school project and THEY SHUT DOWN HIS FREEDOM OF SPEECH for DEEMING HIS HAT AS SOMEWHAT DANGEROUS to a point that it HAS TO BE SENSORED...!!!!!?????
COME ON......!!!!!!!!!
PULL YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL...!!!!
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WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of Alleged U.S. 'Massacre' in Afghanistan

2010-06-19T12:39:00.000-07:00

As the founder of the whistleblower website WikiLeaks remains underground in fear that the U.S. will detain him, the site is preparing to release a leaked video of a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that is said to be more shocking than the Iraqi video that sent its controversial leader into hiding.Julian Assange, who has been garnering more attention since it was announced that Pentagon investigators are looking for him, told his supporters in an email this week that he has a classified video of a U.S. attack on Afghan civilians....
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U.S. Testing Pain Ray in Afghanistan

2010-06-19T12:25:00.001-07:00

The U.S. mission in Afghanistan centers around swaying locals to its side. And there’s no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes people feel like they’re on fire.
OK, OK. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic being employed by those segments of the American military who would like to deploy the Active Denial System to Afghanistan. I’m sure they’re telling themselves that the generally non-lethal microwave weapon is a better, safer crowd control alternative than an M-16. But those ray-gun advocates better think long and hard about the Taliban’s propaganda bonanza when news leaks of the Americans zapping Afghans until they feel roasted alive.
Because, apparently, the Active Denial System is “in Afghanistan for testing”...
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Afghans Deserters Still Missing

2010-06-19T12:16:00.000-07:00

Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base

2010-06-19T11:46:00.000-07:00

A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English,FoxNews.com has learned.The Afghan officers and enlisted men have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations, according to the lookout bulletin, "Afghan Military Deserters in CONUS [Continental U.S.]," written by Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Dallas and obtained by FoxNews.com.The Be-On-the-Lookout (BOLO) bulletin was distributed to local and federal law enforcement officials on Wednesday night....

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FLASHBACK:"Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin..."

2010-06-19T10:45:00.000-07:00

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev illustrated his call for a supranational currency to replace the dollar by pulling from his pocket a sample coin of a “united future world currency.”“Here it is,” Medvedev told reporters today in L’Aquila, Italy, after a summit of the Group of Eight nations. “You can see it and touch it.” The coin, which bears the words “unity in diversity,” was minted in Belgium and presented to the heads of G-8 delegations, Medvedev said.The question of a supranational currency “concerns everyone now, even the mints,” Medvedev said. The test coin “means they’re getting ready. I think it’s a good sign that we understand how interdependent we are”...

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Russia pushes for New Reserve Currency; Meets With China...

2010-06-19T10:30:00.000-07:00

Russia wants the ruble to be one of the world’s reserve currencies as President Dmitry Medvedev renews his push to reduce the dollar’s dominance and make Moscow a global financial hub.“Only three, five years ago it seemed like a fantasy” to create a new reserve currency, Medvedev said yesterday in a speech in St. Petersburg, Russia. “Now we are seriously discussing it.”Medvedev, who has repeatedly called for a supranational currency to match the dollar, said discussions with China are continuing on broadening the global options. Russia sold U.S. Treasuries for a fifth consecutive month in April, the U.S. Treasury Department said June 15. The world may need as many as six reserve currencies, Medvedev said....

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Medvedev sees chance for New World Order...

2010-06-19T10:13:00.000-07:00

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, said Moscow was bidding to help lead efforts to build a new world economic order after the old system collapsed in the global financial crisis.Opening Russia’s annual economic forum in St Petersburg where hundreds of global chief executives have flocked, Mr Medvedev said the renewed interest in Russia this year was a sign of a changing world in which the institutions of the western-dominated world order had had their day amid thousands of corporate defaults and the threat of sovereign defaults.“What had seemed untouchable has collapsed. The bubbles that created the illusion of flourishing economies have burst,” Mr Medvedev said. “For Russia this situation is a challenge and an opportunity. We are living in a unique time. And we should use it to build a modern, flourishing and strong Russia ... which will be a co-founder of the new world economic order and a full participant in the collective political leadership of the post-crisis world”...

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HONOUR KILLING WATCH:Guilty Pleas in Honor Killing Case...

2010-06-17T15:03:00.000-07:00

Aqsa Parvez's father and her brother have been sentenced to life in prison after pleading to killing the 16-year-old in their Mississauga, Ont., home.
"She was experiencing conflict at home over cultural differences between living in Canada and back [in Pakistan]," the statement said.
She told her father she did not wish to wear the hijab, wanting instead to dress in Western clothes with the same freedoms as the other girls in her high school....
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PS:I'm glad that justice was served on Aqsa's case...It is sad that she is no longer here to see it.I cannot imagine the pain and horror she felt while she was being murdered by the men that were supposed to love her,such as her own father and brother...I have no words for her mother or other siblings...may be they are also victims living in fear or they are just like Aqsa's murderers...Either way,we need to continue to denounce this crazy retrograd demonic practice,as what it is....simple and plain MURDER...
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SHA'ARIA LAW WATCH:"Oklahoma Lawmakers Seek Voter Backing to Ban Shariah From Courts"

2010-06-17T14:54:00.000-07:00

Oklahoma lawmakers are asking voters to weigh in on a proposal that would ban local courts from considering Shariah or other international law in their rulings.The unusual measure calling for an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution was approved in late May by the state Senate, sending the issue to voters in the fall in the form of a ballot question.Though the question's supporters have not pointed to any specific outbreak of Shariah, or Islamic law, being considered in the U.S. judicial system, they describe it as an encroaching threat. State Rep. Rex Duncan, author of the measure, has called the ballot question a "preemptive strike" against Shariah coming to his state....

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ISLAMIC INVASION WATCH:Paris police ban pork street party in Muslim area

2010-06-17T14:28:00.000-07:00

French police have banned a street party whose organizers planned to serve alcoholic cocktails and pork sausages in a heavily Muslim neighborhood of Paris, authorities said in a statement Tuesday.Police said the party, called "Sausage and Booze," could have been viewed as a provocation in the Goutte-d'Or neighborhood of northern Paris, where many Muslims pray on the streets because there are not enough mosques. Alcohol and pork are forbidden by Islam and the party had been slated for just after Friday's main Muslim weekly prayers....

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Hamas TV Losing Viewers Across Europe

2010-06-17T14:09:00.000-07:00

(CNSNews.com) – After a series of successes in its quest for diplomatic and popular support, the Islamist group Hamas faced a setback this week after French authorities ordered a halt to broadcasts in Europe by its Gaza-based television station.The move against Al-Aqsa Satellite Television is the latest accomplishment in a campaign first launched six years ago to target “terrorist media"...
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Picture Left: A live program in progress at Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza City on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Two-Thirds of Americans Say They Are Angry at the Media

2010-06-17T14:05:00.000-07:00

(CNSNews.com) – A new poll by Rasmussen Reports shows that a majority of Americans are angry at the media.The survey of 1,000 likely voters found that 66 percent of voters describe themselves as at least somewhat angry at the media, including 33 percent who are very angry. The poll did not differentiate, however, between news outlets such as CNN and Fox News Channel...
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Middle Class Is Abandoning Obama: He Gets Majority Approval Rating Only From Americans Making Less Than $24,000 Per Year

2010-06-17T13:56:00.000-07:00

(CNSNews.com) - The middle class is abandoning President Barack Obama, according to data released by the Gallup Poll. The only income bracket among which a majority still says they approve of the job he is doing as president are those earning $2,000 per month or less...

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Bachmann:"Obama Exceeding Constitutional Authority in Ordering BP to Surrender Funds--'It's All About Extortion'"

2010-06-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

Washington (CNSNews.com)--Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) said Tuesday that President Barack Obama is exceeding his legitimate constitutional authority in telling BP it must set up an independent fund, not controlled by the company, for compensating victims of the Gulf oil spill. She described the administration's policy as an action "that's all about extortion"...
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Senator James Inhofe Explaining Obama’s Strategy to Cram ‘Cap and Trade’ Through

2010-06-17T13:20:00.000-07:00

Obama's Daily Tracking Poll Falls Again.....

2010-06-17T13:03:00.001-07:00

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20....

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Obamas Meet Potter Gang...

2010-06-17T12:23:00.000-07:00

First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia, seen here Wednesday in this grainy shot, celebrated Sasha's eighth birthday with a visit to the set of the upcoming Harry Potter film. After touring the set just outside of London, Michelle and her adorable little ones celebrated Malia's birthday with a party with the film's cast and crew-including star Daniel Radcliffe and creator J.K. Rowling-held in England's Great Hall.

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OBAMA'S HOLLYWOOD HIGHLIFE:"First Lady Michelle Obama Enjoys a Family Beach Day at Billionaire's Mansion"...

2010-06-17T11:57:00.000-07:00

Even a day at the beach is done in presidential style for the First Family.Currently enjoying a relaxing California vacation, Michelle Obama and daughter Sasha arrived at the extravagant beachside mansion of billionaire financial mogul, Howard Marks, on Wednesday afternoon. RadarOnline.com exclusively learned that mother and daughter pulled into the luxurious private estate in Malibu over looking the Pacific Ocean at 3 p.m. They were escorted by a police motorcade and spent a perfect summer day by the beach.So far, the First Family has been experiencing the Hollywood highlife during their trip....

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Woman pleads guilty to accessing Obama's student loan records

2010-06-17T11:47:00.000-07:00

A woman pleaded guilty in Davenport federal court Wednesday to accessing Barack Obama’s student loan records without permission.Mercedes Costoyas, 53, of Iowa City, is one of nine people charged with exceeding authorized computer access.The indictments were filed last month in U.S. District Court, Davenport. Each person faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine, if convicted.By pleading guilty, Costoyas still faces up to a year in prison. But her attorney, Christopher Hagenow, and prosecutor Joel Barrows said she likely faces zero to six months jail time...
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Picture Left:Accompanied by her lawyer Christopher Hagenow, left Mercedes Costoyas leaves U.S. District Court, Davenport in Davenport, Iowa, on Wednesday June 16, 2010 after pleading guilty to accessing the student loan records of Barack Obama. (Kevin E. Schmidt/Quad-City Times)

Obama more popular in Europe than at home:poll

2010-06-17T11:40:00.000-07:00

US President Barack Obama gets a more favorable rating in western Europe and Asia than at home, but his standing in the Muslim world is slipping, a global poll showed Thursday.The Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project found that overall opinion of Obama remains broadly positive in most non-Muslim nations.The survey of 24,000 people in 22 nations conducted April 7 to May 8 showed a largely favorable view of the United States for a second year, in sharp contrast to perceptions of America under former president George W. Bush.When asked whether the US president would "do the right thing" in world affairs, 87 percent in France, 90 percent in Germany and 84 percent in Britain expressed confidence in Obama....

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Picture Left:A man wearing a badge showing US President Barack Obama attends the D-Day ceremony in 2009 in Colleville-sur-Mer, France(AFP)

British media fall out of love with Obama...

2010-06-17T11:30:00.000-07:00

The BBC reports of Barack Obama’s speech last night are about as derisive as it would be possible to be about someone you were describing only a few months ago as the incarnation of Hope and Optimism. Yes indeed, the romance is over. The British media have decided that it was all a cruel deception: Obama is just one more ranting populist president who will do anything to divert attention from his own failure to get a grip. And this is not just about BP and the fate of all those pension funds...
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Picture Left:Barack Obama addresses the US from the Oval Office (Photo: Reuters)

Obama administration spends $1.2 billion on cycling and walking initiatives

2010-06-17T11:05:00.003-07:00

Spending on biking and walking projects rose from less than $600 million (£407 million) in 2008, according to the Federal Highway Administraion. Twenty years ago, the federal government was spending only $6 million a year on such projects.The spending on biking and walking projects was scheduled to rise last year anyway, but the administration boosted it with $400 million in funds set aside under the economic recovery program.The new focus on biking and walking represents a turnaround from the administration of President George W Bush. Mary Peters, transportation secretary under Bush, dismissed biking paths and trails as projects that "really are not transportation," saying they had no place in federal transportation policy....

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Obama's Oval Office Address Similar To Carter's Malaise Speech

2010-06-17T10:58:00.000-07:00

Americans for Prosperity: "Obama's Oval Office speech was so similar to Jimmy Carter's Malaise speech, they almost seamlessly fit together..."

School Kids Chant: "I Am An Obama Scholar"

2010-06-17T10:52:00.000-07:00

School children are led by a teacher in a chant that begins with "I will be anything I want to be."
At one point during the incantation the teacher asks the students to repeat the phrase "I am an Obama scholar."
(from: Lincoln Bassett Middle School in New Haven, Connecticut)

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UK fits psychiatric patients with satellite tracking devices

2010-06-08T12:53:00.000-07:00

Some of Britain’s most dangerous psychiatric patients, including murderers, rapists and paedophiles, are being fitted with satellite tracking devices to stop them escaping and reoffending.A leading NHS trust has become the first to fit patients with an ankle bracelet containing global positioning system (GPS) technology, so they can be tracked if they abscond. The device, worn on a lockable, steel-reinforced, ankle strap, allows authorities to track a patient’s movements to within a few metres anywhere in the world.More than 60 medium and high-risk patients detained at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust have been fitted with the device as a condition of day leave, or while they are transferred to and from hospitals....

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Google new target of Turkish censors

2010-06-08T12:28:00.000-07:00

Turkey's web users again bear the brunt of heavy-handed censorship as the Telecommunications Commication Presidency indefinitely shuts off access to several Google services, including 'Google Docs.' The move follows the banning of the popular video-sharing website YouTube for alleged insults against Turkish Republic founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk...

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World's foremost authority on the book of Leviticus, Rabbi Jacob Milgrom, dies at 87

2010-06-08T11:53:00.000-07:00

JERUSALEM-Rabbi Jacob Milgrom, considered by many as the world's foremost authority on the biblical book of Leviticus, has died. He was 87.Milgrom wrote a three-volume series on Leviticus, interpreting Jewish dietary and purification rituals as well as the Bible's position on homosexuality. He concluded the ban on homosexuality applies only to Jewish men. Relatives say he died on Sunday at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem of a brain hemorrhage after a fall...

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CDC:"Nigerian lead poisoning outbreak 'unprecedented' as doctors struggle to help ill children"...

2010-06-08T11:31:00.000-07:00

GUSAU, Nigeria-The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a recent outbreak of lead poisoning in northern Nigeria is "unprecedented," as doctors struggle to save the young children most affected.A CDC spokeswoman says the severity of the poisonings, the number of deaths and illnesses and the extent of environmental damage is unheard of. Meanwhile, an emergency coordinator for aid group Doctors Without Borders says they have treated children exposed to so much lead that it has left them deaf, blind and unable to walk...

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Former Nato Secretary-General Admits Bilderberg Sets Global Policy

2010-06-08T10:58:00.000-07:00

Former NATO Secretary-General and Bilderberg member Willy Claes has confounded claims by debunkers that the secret organization which met in Sitges Spain over the last few days does not set policy, admitting during a Belgian radio interview that Bilderberg attendees are mandated to implement decisions that are formulated during the annual conference of power brokers.In a radio interview reported on by the Belgian news website www.zonnewind.be, Claes told host Koen Fillet that Bilderberg does indeed decide policy for the coming year. Claes would certainly be in a position to know, being a two-time Bilderberg attendee as well as the eighth Secretary General of NATO from 1994 until 1995.Claes said that Bilderberg guests are normally given around 10 minutes of talk time, after which a report is compiled of their presentation. “The participants are then obviously considered to use this report in setting their policies in the environments in which they affect,” stated Claes, according to the translated text....

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Pelosi heckled at progressive conference

2010-06-08T10:44:00.000-07:00

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) remarks to a gathering of progressive activists at the America's Future Now conference on Tuesday were greeted by screaming protesters, forcing Pelosi to literally yell parts of her speech. Here's some video of the scene:

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STUDENT FALLS ASLEEP DURING OBAMA LECTURE...

2010-06-08T09:53:00.000-07:00

KALAMAZOO — There were quite a few memorable moments Monday night, but one guy may have stole the show.
And the video is already going viral on YouTube.
You may have noticed a student over the president's shoulder, on the right side of the screen. He looks like he's having trouble staying focused on his big day, nodding off during the speech...
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U.S. 'secret war' expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role

2010-06-04T07:25:00.000-07:00

Beneath its commitment to soft-spoken diplomacy and beyond the combat zones of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Obama administration has significantly expanded a largely secret U.S. war against al-Qaeda and other radical groups, according to senior military and administration officials. Special Operations forces have grown both in number and budget, and are deployed in 75 countries, compared with about 60 at the beginning of last year. In addition to units that have spent years in the Philippines and Colombia, teams are operating in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia....
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1,000th GI killed in Afghan war was on 2nd tour

2010-06-04T06:53:00.000-07:00

KERRVILLE, Texas-The 1,000th American serviceman killed in Afghanistan was born on the Fourth of July. He died several days before Americans honor fallen troops on Memorial Day.
Marine Cpl. Jacob C. Leicht was killed Thursday when he stepped on a land mine in Helmand province that ripped off his right arm. It was the 24-year-old Texan's second deployment overseas.Leicht had begged to return to the battlefield after a bomb took out his Humvee in Iraq. He spent two painful years recovering from face and leg injuries, all the while pining for combat in letters from his hospital bed.He finally got back to the front lines, but was killed less than a month into the tour of duty he desperately wanted....
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Picture Left:Jonathan Leicht, left, and Jesse Leicht, right, pose with a photo of their brother, Marine Cpl. Jacob Leicht, Saturday, May 29, 2010, in Kerrville, Texas.(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Hundreds of drunken parrots fall from sky in Australia...

2010-06-04T06:11:00.000-07:00

SYDNEY-Hundreds of seemingly drunk parrots are falling out of trees and the sky in a northern Australian town, mystifying veterinary surgeons who are struggling to care for them.The brightly coloured lorikeets are showing classic signs of drunkenness by losing all coordination and passing out, and then cowering in cages as they recover from their "hangovers"."They definitely seem like they're drunk," said Lisa Hansen, a veterinary surgeon at the Ark Animal Hospital in Palmerston, near Darwin...
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Debt under Obama increases $5 billion per day -- 3 times the Bush rate...!!!

2010-06-03T14:24:00.000-07:00

The federal government is now $13 trillion in the red, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday, marking the first time the government has sunk that far into debt and putting a sharp point on the spending debate on Capitol Hill.Calculated down to the exact penny, the debt totaled $13,050,826,460,886.97 as of Tuesday, leaping nearly $60 billion since Friday, the previous day for which figures were released.At $13 trillion, that figure has risen by $2.4 trillion in about 500 days since President Obama took office, or an average of $4.9 billion a day. That's almost three times the daily average of $1.7 billion under the previous administration, and led Republicans on Wednesday to place blame squarely at the feet of Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrats....

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BIG SIS IN CONTROL:Bill would give "Homeland Security" emergency cyber powers...

2010-06-03T14:09:00.000-07:00

We're learning more about the cybersecurity package forming in the Senate.Wired.com reports Sen. Joe Lieberman, (I-Conn.) wants to give the federal government the power to take over civilian networks' security, if there's an "imminent cyber threat." It's part of a draft bill, co-sponsored by Senators Lieberman and Susan Collins, that provides DHS with the authority to ensure that critical infrastructure stays up and running in the face of a looming hack attack...

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OIL SPILL DISASTER WATCH

2010-06-03T13:23:00.000-07:00

--FEDS HALT ALL NEW DRILLING IN GULF...

--Oil could reach East Coast within weeks...
--Obama to Visit Gulf Again 'Soon'; May Delay Trip to Indonesia Again...
--DAY 45: Oil Leak May Last 'Until Christmas'...
--Fisherman's wife breaks the silence...
--Senator blasts Obama spill response as 'dereliction of duty'...
--Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says...
--Spike Lee Tells Obama:"GO OFF"...
--BP Gas Station Boycotts Spread
--Feds approve new Gulf oil well off Louisiana coast

Oil Spill Nears Florida Panhandle Beaches.. .

2010-06-03T13:11:00.000-07:00

PENSACOLA, Fla.—As oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill neared Florida's Panhandle beaches Wednesday, its effects were already rippling through the politics and troubled economy of the nation's largest swing state.A six-foot-long oil sheen was spotted "close to the beach if not right on the beach" near Pensacola in the northwest part of the state, according to a spokeswoman for officials monitoring the spill in Mobile, Ala. A larger sheen was also sighted 35 miles off the coast of Pensacola. Officials said they expect oil to wash up on the state's western shores as soon as Thursday as winds push the slick northeast.Oil could also wash up in other parts of Florida. Recent satellite imagery showed a narrow band of oil sheen within the Loop Current, an underwater movement in the Gulf that could carry oil around the lower part of the state, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said...
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Picture Left:Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and staffers inspect a boom near Pensacola Pass on Wednesday. Oil threatened to arrive as peak tourist season was getting into full swing along the Panhandle.(AP)

OIL SPILL DISASTER:"Director Cameron says BP turned down offer to help:"Those morons don't know what they're doing"...

2010-06-03T12:53:00.000-07:00

PALOS VERDES, Calif--Film director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron said on Wednesday that BP Plc turned down his offer to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. "Over the last few weeks I've watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what's happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don't know what they're doing," Cameron said at the All Things Digital technology conference.Cameron, the director of "Avatar" and "Titanic," has worked extensively with robot submarines and is considered an expert in undersea filming. He did not say explicitly who he meant when he referred to "those morons"...

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AID FLOTILLA RAID:Imams and mourners pray behind the Turkish flag-wrapped coffins of activists...

2010-06-03T12:39:00.000-07:00

Imams and mourners pray behind the Turkish flag-wrapped coffins of activists, who were killed when Israel seized a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza, during a funeral ceremony at Fatih mosque in Istanbul June 3, 2010.
(REUTERS/Murad Sezer)

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Israel eyes int'l force for Gaza blockade - TV

2010-06-03T12:33:00.000-07:00

JERUSALEM--Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed easing Israel's blockade of Gaza by means of an international force that could monitor the territory's ports, an Israeli television station said on Thursday...

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Turks mourn dead,president warns Israel on ties

2010-06-03T12:04:00.000-07:00

ISTANBUL-Thousands thronged an Istanbul mosque for the funeral of Turkish activists killed in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, and President Abdullah Gul said ties with Israel would never be the same again.Draped in Turkish and Palestinian flags, the coffins of eight of the nine dead were brought on Thursday to Fatih mosque, a grand Ottoman structure, for a service before being dispersed around the country for burial."You head to heaven. May God bless your martyrdom," read a huge banner on one side of a square brimming with mourners, among them some who had been aboard the Gaza-bound aid flotilla and had arrived back in Istanbul hours earlier."We are deeply sad but at the same time we are outraged," said Hulya Sekerci, 36, a charity worker from Istanbul."Nine people were killed. The whole world must react to this. The government must do more than just speak angry words"...
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Picture Left:Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (2nd R) shakes hands with an activist, wounded when Israel seized a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza, in an ambulance plane at the Etimesgut military airport in Ankara early June 3, 2010.(REUTERS/Cengiz Oguz Gumrukcu/Turkish Foreign Ministry/Handout)

Biden:Israel Has Right to Stop Gaza Ships

2010-06-03T11:59:00.000-07:00

Vice President Joe Biden backed Israel's right to board ships bound for Gaza to prevent weapons smuggling on Wednesday, but said Washington remained concerned about the plight of Palestinians there.Israeli commandos boarded a flotilla of six aid vessels trying to break Israel's three-year-old naval blockade of the Palestinian enclave on Monday. Nine activists were killed in the assault and dozens injured, including some commandos....

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UN investigator calls for halt to CIA drone killings

2010-06-03T11:54:00.000-07:00

GENEVA--A United Nations investigator called Wednesday for a halt to CIA-directed drone strikes on suspected Islamic militants, warning that killings ordered far from the battlefield could lead to a "Playstation" mentality.Philip Alston, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, said missile strikes could be justified only when it was impossible to capture insurgents alive instead and only if they were carried out by regular U.S. armed forces operating with proper oversight and respect for the rules of war.The Central Intelligence Agency's use of unmanned Predator or Reaper drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan against al Qaeda and Taliban suspects had led to the death of "many hundreds," including innocent civilians, he said in a 29-page report....

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Russia says rebels planning 2014 Olympic attacks

2010-06-03T11:46:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW--Russia believes rebel groups are planning attacks on the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, the chief of the state security service said on Thursday, according to Russian news agencies.The Black Sea resort city of Sochi is close to Russia's North Caucasus region, scene of a long-running Islamist insurgency.Alexander Bortnikov, the chief of the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said he believed that Islamist groups would try to force the cancellation of the Games, but did not mention any specific plots....

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Russia says terrorists seeking nuclear materials...

2010-06-02T10:55:00.000-07:00

MOSCOW--The chief of Russia's state security service said on Wednesday that terrorists were seeking access to nuclear materials across the former Soviet Union, Interfax news agency reported.
Alexander Bortnikov, the chief of the FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, gave no further details about the attempts or which groups had sought the materials...

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Outrage spills onto US streets over Israeli raid on Gaza Flotilla

2010-06-02T10:49:00.000-07:00

Hamas Stops Flotilla Aid Delivered by Israel...

2010-06-02T10:35:00.000-07:00

Jerusalem-Israel has attempted to deliver humanitarian aid from an international flotilla to Gaza, but Hamas-which controls the territory-has refused to accept the cargo, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.Palestinian sources confirmed that trucks that arrived from Israel at the Rafah terminal at the Israel-Gaza border were barred from delivering the aid.Ra'ed Fatooh, in charge of the crossings, and Jamal Khudari, head of a committee against the Gaza blockade, said Israel must release all flotilla detainees and that it will be accepted in the territory only by the Free Gaza Movement people who organized the flotilla.Israel said it had 20 trucks of aid found on the ships, such as expired medications, clothing, blankets, some medical equipment and toys....
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Fears of new flashpoint as defiant Israel prepares for showdown with two more Gaza aid ships

2010-06-02T10:07:00.000-07:00

World Condemnation:An israeli flag burns outside the embassy in Manila,Philipines today as global anger over the attack on the Gaza aid convoy increased.

Fury: Protesters shout slogans during an anti-Israeli protest in front of the Israeli embassy in Vienna, Austria today

Israel is facing another potentially explosive confrontation at sea as pro-Palestinian activists sent two more boats to challenge its blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Reports in Israel claimed the navy was prepared to use even more force to stop ships from breaking the blockade.
A top commander told the Jerusalem Post yesterday: ‘We boarded the ship and were attacked as if it was a war.
‘That will mean that we will have to come prepared in the future as if it was a war’....
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Former Ambassador Describes Gaza Ordeal

2010-06-02T09:53:00.000-07:00

Raw Video:Dueling Protests Over Israeli Raid

2010-06-02T09:46:00.000-07:00

Paintballs to pistols,Israel admits ship blunders

2010-06-02T09:36:00.000-07:00

JERUSALEM-Wrong intelligence, wrong guns, wrong tactics. Israel's military acknowledged big mistakes on Tuesday during the bungled boarding of a Gaza-bound aid ship in which elite troops killed nine international activists.Though Israelis rallied to their conscripts in the face of foreign fury, the domestic recrimination-with "Foul-up" and "Fiasco" dominating newspaper headlines-betrayed an erosion of confidence recalling the setbacks of the 2006 Lebanon war.One commentator demanded that Defense Minister Ehud Barak step down. Cabinet members vowed to investigate, but their insistence that the pro-Palestinian activists had provoked the bloodshed found a ready ear among an irate Israeli public....
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Picture Left:An Israeli armed naval boat, right, escorts a ship from the Gaza-bound flotilla, center, with Israeli troops on board into the port of Ashdod, Israel, Monday, May 31, 2010.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Raw Video: Flotilla Detainees Cross Into Jordan

2010-06-02T09:33:00.000-07:00

US consulate issues advisory for Israel

2010-06-02T09:18:00.000-07:00

An advisory message was issued Tuesday to US citizens in Israel and the Palestinian territories by the US consulate in Jerusalem in the aftermath of heightened tension in the region, following the deadly battle at sea between Navy commandos and pro-Palestinian activists onboard a Gaza-bound flottila.The consulate advised American citizens to be "on alert for possible road blockages, demonstrations and protests," adding that US citizens "should specially use caution in places with large Arab populations, including Umm el Fahem, Acre, Jaffa, Haifa, East Jerusalem and Jerusalem's Old City. Demonstrations are likely in various West Bank cities as well as in Gaza"...

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"Activists threw stun grenades":New IDF footage shows attacks before soldiers boarded 'Mavi Marmara.'

2010-06-02T08:37:00.000-07:00

The IDF Spokesperson's office on Wednesday afternoon released more new footage of Gaza flotilla activists attacking soldiers with a stun grenade, a box of plates, and water hoses.
The video was taken before the soldiers boarded the Mavi Marmara in Monday's raid

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Turkish lawmakers urge government to review Israel ties

2010-06-02T08:18:00.000-07:00

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey's parliament called on the government Wednesday to review all ties with Israel as the country prepared a huge welcome home for hundreds of Turks detained after Israel's bloody raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.In Israel, all of the nearly 700 activists from the aid ships were at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, waiting to be deported, airport officials said. Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said Israel decided not to prosecute any of them, writing in an order Wednesday that "keeping them here would do more damage to the country's vital interests than good"...
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Picture Left:Detained activists from the Gaza-bound flotilla gesture as their bus arrives at Ben Gurion airport before leaving the country, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, June 2, 2010.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

LOONEY TUNES WATCH:Pelosi Says She Has a Duty to Pursue Policies in Keeping With The Values of Jesus,"The Word Made Flesh"...

2010-06-01T18:20:00.000-07:00

(CNSNews.com)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she believes she must pursue public policies "in keeping with the values" of Jesus Christ, "The Word made Flesh."Pelosi, who is a Catholic and who favors legalized abortion, voted against the ban on partial-birth abortion that was enacted into law in 2003.At a May 6 Catholic Community Conference on Capitol Hill, the speaker said: “They ask me all the time, ‘What is your favorite this? What is your favorite that? What is your favorite that?’ And one time, ‘What is your favorite word?’ And I said, ‘My favorite word? That is really easy. My favorite word is the Word, is the Word. And that is everything. It says it all for us. And you know the biblical reference, you know the Gospel reference of the Word”...

PS:Yes...you have entererd the TWILIGHT ZONE...It is always the TWILIGHT ZONE when she speaks...Here you have the word of a mentally disturbed individual and a pathological liar...Just take a look at where she stands in matters of life and death...How in the world did this woman get to be the 3rd in power in our government...?It is offensive that she even tries to talk about Jesus the way she does...God help us...!
As in the days of Noah...

Tropical Storm Agatha blows a hole in Guatemala City swallows three-storey building...

2010-06-01T18:02:00.000-07:00

A sinkhole that swallowed a three-storey building in Guatemala City has been blamed on a combination of Tropical Storm Agatha and poor drainage systems. (Photograph: Luis Echeverria/AP)

Tropical Storm Agatha swept across Central America yesterday, bringing torrential rain that killed more than 100 people and opened a 60m-deep sinkhole in Guatemala City which reportedly swallowed up a three-storey building.The first named storm of the 2010 Pacific season dumped more than a metre of rain in parts of Guatemala, also hitting El Salvador and Honduras. At least 113 people were reported killed, with around 50 missing in Guatemala alone as rescue workers searched through the rubble.The 30m-diameter sinkhole opened up in a northern district of Guatemala City, with residents blaming the rains and substandard drainage systems. Local reports said one man was killed when the building was swallowed. In 2007, three people died when a similar sinkhole appeared in the same area....
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GLOBAL COOLING:Al and Tipper...What Happened...???

2010-06-01T17:52:00.000-07:00

It's already on WIkipedia: Al and Tipper Gore are separating after 40 years of marriage.Today's announcement by the couple is a huge blow to anyone still left in the "happily-ever-after" camp. The Gores enjoyed a fabled relationship that withstood Tipper's depression, their six-year-old son's near-fatal accident, Al's painfully close miss at the presidency, and his eight years in office as vice president. Donna Brazile, his 2000 campaign manager—single at the time—once told me it was the couple's intense love for each other that made her realize what she was missing in her life.As the AP reports, the Gores circulated an email today that described the decision as "a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration"...

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Stocks, Oil Drop, Treasuries Rise as Middle-East Tension Grows

2010-06-01T17:31:00.000-07:00

Stocks and oil dropped, while the dollar and Treasuries rose, as a report that Lebanon fired on Israeli warplanes spurred concern tensions in the Middle East are escalating. Energy companies led declines in equities after BP Plc failed to halt the biggest oil spill in U.S. history....

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IDF's Global Jihad on flotilla:" Israel concerned next flotilla will be accompanied by Turkish Navy"..

2010-06-01T17:07:00.000-07:00

Dozens of passengers who were aboard the Mavi Marmara Turkish passenger ship are suspected of having connections with Global Jihad-affiliated terrorist organizations, defense officials said Tuesday, amid growing concerns that Turkey will dispatch Navy warships to accompany a future flotilla to the Gaza Strip.According to the defense officials, the IDF identified a group of about 100 passengers on the ship that could have terrorist connections with Global Jihad affiliated groups...

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