Friday, April 8, 2011

Agreement Reached on US Government Interim Budget

Agreement Reached on US Government Interim Budget | USA | English

U.S. congressional leaders have agreed on a budget deal to fund the U.S. government for the rest of the fiscal year, just before a midnight deadline.

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4/8/2011 -- FREAK SANDSTORM in Germany ! Truck exploded, cars damaged..

Ron Paul | South Carolina Republican Presidential Debate

Ron Paul | South Carolina Republican Presidential Debate | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Former Republican presidential candidate and Texas Rep. Ron Paul is expected to participate in a primary debate in South Carolina on May 5, the state party announced Friday.

“We are thrilled by the overwhelming interest we have seen so far in this debate,” said South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Karen Floyd. “The road to the White House travels through South Carolina, as our Republican electorate has selected every eventual nominee since our primary’s inception in 1980. We are looking forward to our debate as the official kickoff for the presidential primary season.”

Paul has filled out the paperwork for a presidential exploratory committee, a spokesman for Paul’s PAC Campaign for Liberty told The Daily Caller, although he has not official announced his candidacy. PAC spokesman Jesse Benton said they have all the forms prepared so that Paul can “flip the switch” as soon as he decides to run.

“I’d say this is a sign that he’s giving a really strong consideration to [running],” Benton said of the debate. “The money’s been great, the enthusiasm’s been great. … The polling in New Hampshire’s really strong so we’re feeling good.”



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/08/hint-hint-ron-paul-to-join-presidential-debate/#ixzz1IzTrHUst

Liberal Hypocrisy on Libya

US helicopters attack Syrian farm, leaving 8 dead, 4 children, near Iraq...

17 arrested storming governor's office in Olympia, Wash.

17 arrested storming governor's office in Olympia, Wash. | McClatchy

Seventeen people were arrested after trying to storm the governor’s office in a third day of protests over state budget cuts Thursday.

In a prelude to what unions say will be a bigger rally today, a protest organized by the Service Employees International Union brought about 500 people to Olympia to call on lawmakers to end corporate tax exemptions before cutting state services.

Most protesters rallied in the Rotunda of the Legislative Building Thursday afternoon. Several were eventually arrested when they tried to push past Washington State Patrol officers guarding the governor’s office and refused to leave.

Protesters pushed against troopers stationed at the governor’s door shouting “let us in” and “we want the governor.”

“They (legislators) need to listen to us,” said Sharon Kitchel-Perdue, a home-care worker from Olympia and one of the protesters arrested.

Sgt. John Sager, one of the troopers on the scene, said that some of the protesters said they wanted to be arrested, and eventually, their actions gave troopers no choice.

“It was getting pretty hairy in here,” Sager said.



Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/04/08/111867/17-arrested-storming-governors.html#ixzz1IzIyRVYq

FBI Memo Confirms Roswell Saucer Retrieval

FBI — Guy Hottel Part 1 of 1

Inside report from Fukushima nuclear reactor evacuation zone

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UNFOLDING SCANDAL - Obama found LYING to the PUBLIC about Radiation!!!

Communitarian Planning Neighbourhood plan pilots announced

Planning Portal - Neighbourhood plan pilots announced

People in these communities - a mix of cities, urban and rural areas - will be able to decide the types of development given automatic planning permission through a Neighbourhood Development Order.

If approved by a local referendum, a council will need to adopt a neighbourhood plan providing it is line with wider ambitions for growth in their area.

Greg Clark said:" Planning has increasingly become one of the most contentious issues in Britain, with communities becoming pitted against development. By giving local people a greater say together with new incentives to share in the benefits of growth, our reforms will help to create the conditions where communities begin to welcome development rather than resist it at all costs."

Top Afghan Official Confirms Talks With the Taliban

Top Afghan Official Confirms Talks With the Taliban - NYTimes.com

KABUL, Afghanistan — A top Afghan official confirmed on Wednesday that the country’s government had been in peace talks with the Taliban.

S. Sabawoon/European Pressphoto Agency

“We're in touch, we talk all the time, we've done a lot,” said Mohammad Massoom Stanekzai of the High Peace Council.

The official, Mohammad Massoom Stanekzai, secretary of the High Peace Council and an adviser to the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, said reconciliation talks had been under way with insurgents for some time.

“We’re in touch, we talk all the time, we’ve done a lot, we’ve sent representatives to their sides and they’ve sent representatives to our side,” said Mr. Stanekzai, who advises Mr. Karzai on reconciliation issues.

Salt Lake City goes wallet-free with Isis

Salt Lake City goes wallet-free with Isis [printer-friendly] • The Register

Operator consortium Isis has selected Salt Lake City as its flagship deployment to show the rest of the USA what NFC can do for them.

The plan will see Salt Lake City's public transport system accepting pay-by-wave from a mobile phone by the middle of next year. Retailers have also been encouraged to adopt Near Field Communications technology at the point of sale, as Salt Lake City strives to become The Place You Can Leave Your Wallet At Home.

Negotiators have budget deal, now everyone has to review it, starting with House GOP conference - NBC's Chuck Todd - breakingnews.com

Negotiators have budget deal, now everyone has to review it, starting with House GOP conference - NBC's Chuck Todd - breakingnews.com

Interpol chief calls for global electronic identity card system

Interpol chief calls for global electronic identity card system
The head of INTERPOL has emphasized the need for a globally verifiable electronic identity card (e-ID) system for migrant workers at an international forum on citizen ID projects, e-passports, and border control management.

Speaking at the fourth Annual EMEA ID WORLD summit, INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said that regulating migration levels and managing borders presented security challenges for countries and for the world that INTERPOL was ideally-placed to help address.

"At a time when global migration is reaching record levels, there is a need for governments to put in place systems at the national level that would permit the identity of migrants and their documents to be verified internationally via INTERPOL," said Secretary General Noble.

Russian security service wants to ban Skype and Gmail

Russian security service wants to ban Skype and Gmail - Telegraph

The Russian security service has proposed banning Skype, Hotmail and Gmail as their "uncontrolled use" could pose a security threat, a service official said during a government meeting on Friday.

Government Shutdown Joke / Hoax

The Government Shut Down Hoax Explained 3 of 5

The United States is Moving Backwards…Fast :

The United States is Moving Backwards…Fast :

The Intel Hub
Dale May
April 8, 2011

The United States is moving backwards… fast. State budget cuts are decimating essential health and social services; public education is being destroyed; the social safety net is in tatters.

Obama’s Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, has been particularly busy promoting the future cutbacks, repeating that “the country must live within its means” “deficits must be brought down dramatically” — something that will “require very hard choices.”

Facebook Revolutions: US trains activists to evade security forces

Facebook Revolutions: US trains activists to evade security forces - BlackListedNews.com
Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States is training thousands of cell phone and Internet pro-democracy campaigners worldwide to evade security forces in what it calls a "cat-and-mouse game" with authoritarian governments.

The US government is sponsoring efforts to help activists in Arab and other countries gain access to technology that circumvents government firewalls, secures telephone text and voice messages, and prevents attacks on websites.

"This is sort of a cat-and-mouse game and governments are constantly developing new techniques to go after critics, to go after dissenters," said Michael Posner, the assistant US secretary of state for human rights and labor.

Massive anti-Israel rally held in Cairo

PressTV - Massive anti-Israel rally held in Cairo


Over one million Egyptian protesters in Cairo's Liberation square have demanded their military rulers to abandon Israel and lift the blockade on the besieged Gaza strip.

Over 500 activists detained in Bahrain

PressTV - Over 500 activists detained in Bahrain
The Bahraini Center for Human Rights (BCHR) has announced that the number of detained opposition activists in the Persian Gulf state has exceeded 500.


According to BCHR, 17 women are also among the detainees and 18 other activists are reportedly missing, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Japan: After Latest Earthquake, Multiple Nuclear Plants Have Lost External Power and Are Operating on Emergency Backup Generators

Japan: After Latest Earthquake, Multiple Nuclear Plants Have Lost External Power and Are Operating on Emergency Backup Generators - BlackListedNews.com
Source: Cryptogon - Wire Reports


Update: Emergency Backup Systems Operating at Nuclear Facilities

Via: Forbes:

NHK says power cuts are occurring at the Onagawa nuclear power plant in Miyagi Pref., although radiation levels around the plant remain unchanged so far.

At 12:23 a.m. the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, an arm of the Japanese government, began holding an emergency press conference. An official said external sources of electricity have been cut to both the Higashi-Dori nuclear power plant in Aomori Pref., in northern Japan and the Rokkasho nuclear recycling plant, which I wrote in the latest issue of Forbes magazine . Both plants are reportedly operating normally via on-site emergency generators.

—End Update—

Via: Forbes:

Several other nuclear power plants in the area have lost external power and are relying on backup generators, said a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) at a press conference currently in progress.

The New Eugenics - Climate Change, Bogus Overpopulation and Transhumanism

'Massacre' at Camp Ashraf: Iranians call for help as Iraqi soldiers kill 25 refugees

'Massacre' at Camp Ashraf: Iranians call for help as Iraqi soldiers kill 25 refugees | Mail Online
  • Iraqi general claims refugees are throwing themselves under military trucks
  • Video shows armoured vehicles ramming into camp residents
  • Supports of Iranian dissident group declare a full state of alert as 325 injured

Iranian refugees have called for international help to prevent a massacre at Camp Ashraf after Iraqi forces invaded the compound and killed at least 25 people.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374793/Massacre-Camp-Ashraf-Iranians-help-Iraqi-soldiers-kill-25-refugees.html#ixzz1IyH38DSs

Obama Successfully Demobilized the Anti-war Movement

Obama Successfully Demobilized the Anti-war Movement

Kurt Nimmo
Prisonplanet.com
April 8, 2011

It is more evidence the antiwar movement is largely a left-vs-right distraction. A new studyby U-M’s Michael Heaney and colleague Fabio Rojas of Indiana University shows that the antiwar movement in the United States demobilized as Democrats took over Congress and the White House.

A small, dedicated core of people protest against Obama’s third war.

“As president, Obama has maintained the occupation of Iraq and escalated the war in Afghanistan,” said Heaney. “The antiwar movement should have been furious at Obama’s ‘betrayal’ and reinvigorated its protest activity.”

“Instead, attendance at antiwar rallies declined precipitously and financial resources available to the movement have dissipated. The election of Obama appeared to be a demobilizing force on the antiwar movement, even in the face of his pro-war decisions.”

“Since Democrats are more numerous in the population at large than are members of third parties, the withdrawal of Democrats from the movement in 2009 appears to be a significant explanation for the falling size of antiwar protests,” Heaney said. “Thus, we have identified the kernel of the linkage between Democratic partisanship and the demobilization of the antiwar movement.”

“Overall, our results convincingly demonstrate a strong relationship between partisanship and the dynamics of the antiwar movement. While Obama’s election was heralded as a victory for the antiwar movement, Obama’s election, in fact, thwarted the ability of the movement to achieve critical mass.”

Democrats and other liberal supporters of the establishment are not opposed to mass murder and wanton slaughter by the state – they merely oppose it when Republicans do it. Opposition is a partisan formality.

A corporate media poll conducted in late March on Obama’s handling of the unconstitutional attack on Libya shows that two-thirds of Democrat respondents support violating international law and pummeling the oil-rich north African country with Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Congress Democrats often howled about “Bush’s Wars” in Iraq and Afghanistan, but supported them – including the mass murder of 1.5 million Iraqis, a war criminal of immense proportion – by continuing to fund them. The number of anti-war Democrats in Congress who worked to defund the illegal occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq was miniscule.

Obama duped the so-called anti-war faction of his party during the election. He said he’d bring home the troops and close down Gitmo. During the primaries, he tried to make Hillary Clinton look like the war candidate.

Blame game intense as government shutdown looms - On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2010 Election

Blame game intense as government shutdown looms - On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2010 Election - USATODAY.com

Updated at 1:05 p.m. ET

House Speaker John Boehner and the GOP leadership team just emerged from a meeting with their Republican members. Boehner insists the fight is about spending cuts, not policy issues such as funding for women's health clinics.

"The big fight is over spending. ...We're not going to roll over and sell out the American people," Boehner said. "We say we're serious about cutting spending. We're damn serious."

"Almost all of the policy issues have been dealt with. We're working on the spending," he said.

Planned Parenthood now focus of abortion debate

Planned Parenthood now focus of abortion debate - HealthPop - CBS News

(CBS) Will the debate over abortion bring a shutdown of the U.S. government? As Congressional budget negotiations continue in Washington, lawmakers were reportedly wrangling over funding for Planned Parenthood, a major provider of abortion and family planning services.

"This all deals with women's health," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters in an exchange broadcast on CNN, theNew York Times reported.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton Upset Over Treatment of DC During Shutdown Resolution Talks

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton Upset Over Treatment of DC During Shutdown Resolution Talks

By MYFOXDC

WASHINGTON - Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D -DC) was on fire when she spoke to FOX 5 Morning News Thursday about how Washington, D.C. residents are being treated as work to avoid a government shutdown continues.

“We are absolutely outraged. This is the functional equivalent of bombing innocent civilians,” she said.



Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/politics/delegate-eleanor-holmes-norton-upset-over-treatment-of-dc-during-shutdown-resolution-talks-040711#ixzz1IwqQXxre

'NATO' missile strike caught on video, Libya rebels targeted

FDA says you have no right to real food unless they give you permission first

FDA says you have no right to real food unless they give you permission first
(NaturalNews) In a response to a lawsuit filed by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF), the FDA has articulated its belief that there is no such thing as a right to health or to purchase or consume any given food.

Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/031934_FDA_food_freedom.html#ixzz1IwoHGf36

Gates plays down Al-Qaeda's involvement in post-Gaddafi Libya

Gates plays down Al-Qaeda's involvement in post-Gaddafi Libya - Channel NewsAsia


WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates played down the possibility of Al-Qaeda assuming a significant role in a post-Gaddafi Libya.

In testimony before a committee of anxious and skeptical lawmakers on Capitol Hill, the military chief suggested other nations should play a role in arming the rebels.

Sheriff’s Dept. Confirms Real ID Drivers Licenses Now Part Of Facial Recognition System

Sheriff’s Dept. Confirms Real ID Drivers Licenses Now Part Of Facial Recognition System : Liberty Underground

A 1787 Network Exclusive - by Adrian Wyllie

DUNEDIN, FLORIDA – The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office confirmed this week that images taken from Florida drivers’ licenses have now been integrated into a multi-jurisdictional facial recognition database used by law enforcement agencies throughout Florida.

Obama, Congress stare at shutdown deadline - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency

Obama, Congress stare at shutdown deadline - The Oval: Tracking the Obama presidency

Once again, White House and congressional aides worked through the night on a new budget deal -- and they still couldn't nail one down.

The difference is that today is deadline day.

The federal government will run out of money at midnight and shut down many operations unless President Obama, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, can strike some kind of deal in the hours ahead.

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Government Shutdown 2011? – 16 Things You Need To Know

Government Shutdown 2011? – 16 Things You Need To Know

So exactly what would happen if there is a government shutdown in 2011? If it does actually happen, the following are 16 things you will need to know....

#1 Hundreds of thousands of "non-essential" federal workers will be told to stay home during a government shutdown.

#2 Those in the military will not receive paychecks during a government shutdown but they will be required to keep performing their duties.

#3 The Obama administration is anticipating "significantly lower staffing levels" at the White House if a shutdown happens.

#4 Barack Obama will continue to be paid during a government shutdown.

#5 Congress will also be paid and will continue to operate at close to normal levels during a government shutdown.

#6 The Federal Reserve will continue to operate normally during a government shutdown. The Federal Reserve is not part of the U.S. government.

#7 In all probability, all government employees will eventually receive any pay that is missed during a government shutdown. During the 5 day U.S. government shutdown back in 1995, approximately 800,000 "non-essential" government employees were told not to come in to work. But eventually they all got paid retroactively anyway.

#8 During a government shutdown, the Department of Homeland Security will suspend operation of its e-Verify system. Employers will be unable to verify the immigration status of job applicants and that could have a substantial negative impact on hiring.

#9 The processing of small business loans and FHA mortgages will be delayed during a government shutdown.

#10 The U.S. Postal Service will not be affected by a government shutdown. You will continue to get your mail.

#11 According to the Social Security Administration, everyone that is currently receiving Social Security benefits will continue to receive those benefitsduring a shutdown. New applications will be delayed however.

#12 Medicare payments will continue during a government shutdown, but there will be a delay in processing new applications.

#13 During a government shutdown, the processing of paper tax returns by the IRS would be delayed.

#14 If there is a government shutdown, the processing of passport and visa applications could be seriously delayed. This could have a negative impact on the tourism industry.

#15 National parks, museums and tourist attractions will be shut down. According to the Washington Post, "about 500,000 visitors could be turned away this weekend alone from the National Zoo and the major Smithsonian museums on the Mall".

#16 The annual Cherry Blossom Festival parade in Washington D.C. that is scheduled for this weekend would be cancelled.

House nixes Owens bill to rescue military's pay

Watertown Daily Times | House nixes Owens bill to rescue military's pay

WASHINGTON — The House cast aside a proposal by Rep. William L. Owens Thursday to rescue military pay in the event of a government shutdown, as Republicans insisted on linking that issue to budget cuts in other areas.

Mr. Owens's measure, offered as a Democratic alternative to the GOP's one-week spending extension, fell on a party-line vote. One Republican, Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., supported it.

The Republican measure passed the House easily, although Mr. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, and most Democrats voted against it. It cuts $12 billion and funds the Defense Department through the end of the fiscal year, removing the possibility that defense employees and soldiers would be affected by a shutdown.

Factbox: Libya's rebel national councill

Factbox: Libya's rebel national council | Reuters

Thu Apr 7, 2011 8:53am BST

(Reuters) - The council ruling rebel-held eastern Libya has won recognition from France, Italy and Qatar as the country's true representative body, but faces pressure to meet the aspirations of a frustrated population.

US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts

US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – Terror alerts from the government will soon have just two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — and those will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances. Color codes are out; Facebook and Twitter will sometimes be in, according to a Homeland Security draft obtained by The Associated Press.

Government Shutdown 2011 Looms, BlackBerry Phones Quiver

Government Shutdown 2011 Looms, BlackBerry Phones Quiver - ABC News

OH NO!!! THEIR POOR BLACKBERRY

The dark shadow of a government shutdown is hanging over Capitol Hill and congressional offices are planning for the worst -- like what to do with the more than one million government-issued BlackBerry cell phones.

'Mental effects' tied to BP oil spill

PressTV - 'Mental effects' tied to BP oil spill
US doctors have found that behavioral and mental repercussions from oil giant BP's April 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be worse than its adverse health effects.


A review published Wednesday by the online edition of the prominent New England Journal of Medicine underlines the “lingering uncertainty” on the actual impact of last year's historic oil spill, blaming the federal government for delaying the study of the spill's health effects and thus hindering efforts to accurately understand them , the New York Times reported Wednesday.

Is the World Headed Toward a Single Global Currency?

Is the World Headed Toward a Single Global Currency? - BlackListedNews.com

Many economists, including Paul Krugman and Nouriel Roubini, have argued that the European Monetary Union is in trouble because of the fiscal difficulties of a few of its member countries. Some have predicted that the euro will fail.

Because the prospects for a future single global currency depend upon the continued success of the euro and the currencies of other monetary unions, I discussed the euro with Morrison Bonpasse, president of the Single Global Currency Association, to get his insight into this situation.

Libya and Middle East uprising - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk

Libya and Middle East uprising - live updates | World news | guardian.co.uk

General: U.S. may consider troops in Libya

General: U.S. may consider troops in Libya - CBS News

CBS/AP)

WASHINGTON - The United States may consider sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force that could aid the rebels, according to the general who led the military mission until NATO took over.

Army Gen. Carter Ham also told lawmakers Thursday that added American participation would not be ideal, and ground troops could erode the international coalition and make it more difficult to get Arab support for operations in Libya.