ANA tip leads to weapons cache
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4127-ana-tip-leads-to-weapons-cache.html
PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A tip generated by the 3rd Coy, 1st Kandak, Afghan National Army pointed ANA and U.S. Army soldiers from Task Force Lethal to a large weapons cache in Sarmast Kheyl, Zormat District Jan. 31.
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Face of Defense: Mother, Son Serve Together
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62784
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2011 – It was 4 a.m. when she settled in to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Green Bay Packers. Technically, it was Super Bowl Monday for her.
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Mubarak resigns, hands power to military
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt
CAIRO – Egypt’s vice president says Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president and handed control to the military. Car horns were heard around Cairo in celebration after Vice President Omar Suleiman made the announcement on national TV on Friday.
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Mubarak Disappears as Army Backs Him & Crowds Surge
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mubarak-disappears-as-army-backs-him-crowds-surge/
The situation in Egypt is fast-moving. Since President Hosni Mubarak gave his I’m-not-stepping-down step-down speech last night, much has happened. Below is a rundown of the morning’s news regarding Egypt.
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Iran’s Ahmadinijad Holds Massive Pro-Egyptian, Anti-American Rally
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/irans-ahmadinijad-holds-massive-pro-egyptian-anti-american-rally/
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is capitalizing on the Egyptian conflict to spew American and Israeli hate, hosting a massive rally in Tehran to bolster the protests in Egypt. According to AFP, “massive crowds of Iranians chanted pro-Egypt and anti-American slogans while marking the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic revolution.”
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Study Guide: Breaking News Coverage of Egypt
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/10/study-guide-breaking-news-coverage-of-egypt/
NOTE: Here are the sources to the info. mentioned on Glenn Beck’s 2/10 TV show.
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Intel Director‘s Office Tries to Backpedal on Clapper’s Shocking Statement
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/intel-directors-office-tries-to-backpedal-on-clappers-shocking-statement/
Just hours after National Intelligence Director James Clapper made the shocking statement this morning that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “secular” organization, his office tried frantically to “clarify” his remarks.
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NYT: CIA Director Based Mubarak Congressional Testimony on Media Reports
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nyt-cia-director-based-mubarak-congressional-testimony-on-media-reports/
The news for the Obama administration keeps getting worse. Or, more accurately, embarrassing. After National Intelligence Director James Clapper erroneously said the Muslim Brotherhood was a “secular” organization, it‘s now been revealed that CIA Director Leon Panetta’s testimony in front of Congress that Mubarak’s resignation was a “strong likelihood” was based not on intelligence but rather media reports.
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800,000 Jobs Gone: CBO Admits Health Care Law Will Kill Jobs
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/800000-jobs-gone-cbo-admits-health-care-law-will-kill-jobs/
NOTE: This video clip is 1:13 long.
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Ariz. governor countersues federal government
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110211/D9LA8QG80.html
PHOENIX (AP) – Gov. Jan Brewer sued the federal government Thursday for failing to control Arizona’s border with Mexico and enforce immigration laws, and for sticking the state with huge costs associated with jailing illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
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‘Bombshell’ Charge: DOJ Whistleblower Says Liberal FOIA Requests Get VIP Treatment
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bombshell-charge-doj-whistleblower-says-liberal-foia-requests-get-vip-treament/
Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration’s Justice Department have come under fire in the past for allegedly letting politics tip the balance of Justice. Specifically, J. Christian Adams, a former DOJ official, made news last year when he publicly accused the agency of racial bias in handling the 2008 election voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party.
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Shocking New IMF Report: The U.S. Dollar Needs To Be Replaced As The World Reserve Currency And SDRs “Could Constitute An Embryo Of Global Currency”
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
The IMF is trying to move the world away from the U.S. dollar and towards a global currency once again. In a new report entitled “Enhancing International Monetary Stability—A Role for the SDR”, the IMF details the “problems” with having the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the globe and the IMF discusses the potential for a larger role for SDRs (Special Drawing Rights).
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Susan Rice kicks off U.N. series
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49319.html
Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, will argue in a major address Friday evening that the U.S. should “strengthen” — not “starve” — the world body.
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U.S. Footing $100M Bill for U.N. Security Upgrade
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/09/footing-m-security-upgrade/?test=latestnews
Months after top New York City officials expressed intense behind-the-scenes frustration at the security vulnerabilities at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, the U.N. is now planning to spend $100 million — donated by the U.S. — on the upgrade.
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U.S. reassures Poles on Russia missile defense role
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/11/us-usa-missiledefence-poland-idUSTRE71A3OI20110211
(Reuters) – A senior U.S. arms control negotiator said Friday she had reassured Poland and the Baltic republics that plans to involve Russia in developing European missile defense would not compromise their security.
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Obama, Soros create ‘Palestine’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=262077
JERUSALEM – In partnership with a government fund initiated by Barack Obama, philanthropist and billionaire activist George Soros is investing in a private equity company that just launched in the Palestinian territories.
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‘Fever of Liberation’ Moves To Baghdad With Intensified Demonstrations
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34381.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Across Iraq, a wave of mass demonstrations has spread, calling for improvement in public services and an end to corruption. Despite government efforts to contain the public anger, which appears to be on the rise since the outbreak of turmoil in other Arab countries, it appears certain that a mass demonstration planned to take place February 25, at Liberation Square, in the center of Baghdad, will go ahead.
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Soaring debt pushes Portugal towards bail-out
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a04f8e08-3472-11e0-9ebc-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html#axzz1DfMCO1QB
Portugal’s cost of borrowing hit a euro-era high on Wednesday amid growing concerns that Lisbon will have to turn to bail-out funds to revive its stagnating economy.
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What’s the frequency: Monitors transmit video of unknowing families
http://www.komonews.com/news/problemsolvers/115840594.html
SEATTLE — The saying goes never wake a sleeping baby. But what if that baby is broadcast for all the neighbors to see? From Ballard to Queen Anne and Greenlake to Phinney Ridge, KOMO News found unsuspecting families transmitting what’s inside their homes without even knowing it.
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Local Gymnast Makes Miraculous Recovery After Failed Flip
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Gymnast-Makes-Miraculously-Recovery-After-Scary-Fall–115760479.html
It’s a risk all gymnasts take every time they do a somersault or attempt any acrobatic move. The slightest miscalculation could lead to serious injury that could end in paralysis or even death.
News Articles For 1/12
January 12, 2011 — Operation RoosterNATO Officials Confirm Taliban Leaders’ Deaths
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62407
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2011 – Officials from NATO’s International Security Assistance Force Joint Command today confirmed the identity of two Taliban leaders killed recently in Afghanistan.
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Face of Defense: Crew Chief Ensures Pilots’ Safety
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62412
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FENTY, Afghanistan, Jan. 12, 2011 – On a cold, windy morning in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, two seasoned Army pilots were beginning their preflight checks at the airfield here Jan. 4.
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House GOP readies push for balanced budget amendment
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/house-races/137405-republicans-ready-push-for-balanced-budget-amendment
Some House Republicans are expressing renewed confidence that the push for a balanced budget constitutional amendment will gain real steam in the 112th Congress — aided by the newly-elected crop of budget-slashing GOP freshmen.
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GOP Rep. [Peter King] Will Introduce New Strict Gun Law
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gop-rep-will-introduce-gun-control-legislation/
A popular GOP congressman announced today that he will soon introduce gun control legislation that will make it illegal to carry a gun within 1,000 feet of a federal official.
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Mystery Surrounds Bomb Placed Outside Walgreens
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/01/11/mystery-surrounds-bomb-placed-outside-walgreens/
WFTV [Orlando, FL ABC affiliate] reports it wasn’t a suspicious package planted right outside a busy Walgreens store, it was a bomb and agents have no idea who did it. According to the report, deputies say they’ve seen plenty of suspicious packages or bomb hoaxes, but rarely do they see the real thing, especially in a place like the Walgreens store on Aloma Avenue near Goldenrod Road.
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Talk radio under siege
http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0111/Talk_radio_under_siege.html
As I reported on the main site today, conservative media figures’ fears that the left will use Tucson to clamp down on them are not entirely unfounded. Rep. Jim Clyburn wants to bring back the Fairness Doctrine – a move aimed directly at talk radio – while Media Matters CEO David Brock asked Rupert Murdoch to rein in or possibly even fire Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
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Media Marxists No Different: They’re Not Letting the Arizona Crisis to Go to Waste
http://biggovernment.com/smotley/2011/01/11/media-marxists-no-different-theyre-not-letting-the-arizona-crisis-to-go-to-waste/
There was a cavalcade of Leftist – and media, please pardon the redundancy – politically opportunistic idiocy in response to this weekend’s horrendous Tucson, Arizona murders. Which were committed unilaterally and without any assistance from anyone by the deranged Jared Loughner.
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Wounded Man Grabs, Helps Subdue Ariz. Gunman [VIDEO]
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/11/wounded-man-grabs-helps-subdue-ariz-gunman-video/
Bill Badger was in the back of a line of about 20 people who were waiting in line to meet congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords when the shots started. A bullet grazed his skull, but managed to subdue the suspect until police arrived.
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Anti-Picketing Legislation Passes Arizona Legislature
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-anti-picketing-legislation-passes-arizona-legislature/
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona legislators quickly approved emergency legislation Tuesday to head off picketing by a Topeka, Kan., church near the funeral service for a 9-year-old girl who was killed in the Tucson shootings.
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Rhode Island Governor Bars State Employees From Talk Radio
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rhode-island-governor-bars-state-employees-from-talk-radio/
State officials in Rhode Island are being silenced… on talk radio, that is. Gov. Lincoln Chafee, an Independent, told the Providence Journal that talk radio is “ratings-driven, for-profit programming,” and his administration believes it’s inappropriate to use taxpayer resources to have state employees use work time to it.
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Dem Congressman who called for GOP Gov. to be put against a wall and shot now pleads for civility
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/dem-congressman-who-called-gop-gov-be-put-against-wall-and-shot-n
Ex-Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., pens an op-ed in the New York Times today about the proper political response to this weekend’s tragedy. I wholeheartedly support the former Congressman (Kanjorski lost his seat in November) when he argues that, following this weekend’s shooting, Congressman need to remain open and accessible to the public.
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Illinois Lawmakers Approve 66% Tax Increase
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/illinois-lawmakers-approve-66-tax-increase/
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democratic Illinois lawmakers beat a looming deadline and approved a 66 percent income-tax increase in a desperate bid to end the state’s crippling budget crisis.
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Report: Soda Tax Chases Jobs Out of Baltimore
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/report-soda-tax-chases-jobs-out-baltimor
(CNSNews.com) – The Pepsi plant in Baltimore will no longer make soda, and the company plans to lay off 77 people — a decision blamed in part on a controversial new beverage tax in the city, the Baltimore Sun reported on Tuesday.
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China Vice Fgn Min: Would Welcome US Comment on Asset Safety
http://imarketnews.com/node/24868
BEIJING (MNI) – The Chinese government would welcome a positive statement from the U.S. government regarding the safety of its U.S. assets, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday.
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Lebanese Government Is a Step From Collapse
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/world/middleeast/13lebanon.html?_r=3
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah and its allies began withdrawing from Lebanon’s government on Wednesday, deepening a crisis over a United Nations-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of a former prime minister.
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Top EU Official Calls for Bigger Bailout Fund
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/top-eu-official-calls-for-bigger-bailout-fund/
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top monetary official says the euro440 billion ($570 billion) bailout fund for debt-ridden countries should be increased and given more powers.
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Google Analytics targeted by data protection officials
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20110111-32341.html
German web companies could face hefty fines for using Google’s online metrics service after data protection officials broke off talks with the US internet giant this week and threatened to pursue a precedent-setting court case.
News Articles For 12/13
December 13, 2010 — Operation RoosterWorld War II Navy Ace Recalls Harrowing Mission
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62062
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – When the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, America sought retribution and finally took up arms. It wasn’t until almost three years later that the country would receive its final closure.
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US Soldier honors fallen brother in Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/us-soldier-honors-fallen-brother-in-iraq
CAMP TAJI — When 11-year-old Dominic Wheeler watched his brother DJ leave for Iraq in 2003, his mother asked how he felt about his brother going to war. “Just as long as he comes home,” Dominic responded.
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TF Patriot honors fallen comrade
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3809-tf-patriot-honors-fallen-comrade.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Members of Task Force Patriot gathered to honor U.S. Army 1st Lt. Scott Milley during a memorial service at Combat Outpost Baraki Barak Dec. 5.
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Red Currahee cooks create special treats for Soldier morale
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3810-red-currahee-cooks-create-special-treats-for-soldier-morale.html
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Food service personnel from Company E, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, treat Soldiers to delicious meals and desserts at Forward Operating Base Waza Khaw.
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Face of Defense: Soldier Finds Niche in Nuristan
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62060
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Since arriving here several months ago to serve with Task Force Bastogne, Army Pfc. Raymond Cecil — a cannon crewmember with Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, has made a positive impression on his leaders.
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To get DREAM Act over its first hurdle, timing was everything
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/133291-on-house-passage-of-dream-act-timing-was-everything
When House Democrats last week passed the DREAM Act before the Senate had staged its vote, the timing was no accident. Instead, the chronology was part of a carefully designed strategy — orchestrated, with some tension, between the two chambers — to grant the proposal its greatest shot at success.
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Wall Street Sees Record Revenue in Recovery From Bailout
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-13/wall-street-sees-record-revenue-in-09-10-recovery-from-government-bailout.html
Wall Street’s biggest banks, rebounding after a government bailout, are set to complete their best two years in investment banking and trading, buoyed by 2010 results likely to be the second-highest ever.
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Judge rules for Va. on health-care case
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/dec/13/judge-rules-va-health-care-case-ar-712804/
A federal judge in Richmond today has ruled in favor of Virginia’s challenge to the federal health-care law, striking down the mandate that requires nearly every American to purchase insurance or face a penalty.
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Obamacare Heads to Court This Week
http://biggovernment.com/kharned/2010/12/13/obamacare-heads-to-court-this-week/
While the new Congress deliberates over ways to repeal or defund the Obama Administration’s “healthcare reform” law, twenty states and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), have filed suit in federal court arguing that the law is unconstitutional and should be struck down immediately. This is the largest of several legal challenges to Obamacare across the country.
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Harry Reid’s Lame Duck Attempt to Weaken Our Border
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2010/12/13/harry-reids-lame-duck-attempt-to-weaken-our-border/
From the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is fast-tracking over 100 federal land-acquisition bills for action during the lame-duck session, despite warnings from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers that Reid’s effort, if successful, would harm U.S. efforts to block illegal entry and drug smuggling in border areas.
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Detroit Is Halting Garbage Pickup, Police Patrols In 20% Of City: Expect Bankruptcy In 2011
http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-garbage-pickup-bankruptcy-2010-12
Detroit has been bankrupt for years. It simply refuses to admit it. Detroit’s schools are bankrupt as well. A mere 25% of students graduate from high school.
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Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones to Coordinate Protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/us/13prison.html?_r=2
The prison protest has entered the wireless age. Inmates in at least seven Georgia prisons have used contraband cellphones to coordinate a nonviolent strike this weekend, saying they want better living conditions and to be paid for work they do in the prisons.
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UK: Gangs and hardcore activists behind violence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_tuition_protest
LONDON – Home Secretary Theresa May says street gangs infiltrated a London protest last week in which demonstrators attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla.
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Anti-austerity strikes held in Greece
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1213/breaking29.html
Greek public transport and media workers launched a week of anti-austerity strikes today expected to ground flights, disrupt services and pile rubbish on the streets in the run-up to Christmas holidays.
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Iran conducts large military exercise near Iraq border
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=199231
TEHERAN — Iran’s army has finished a large military exercise by ground forces near the Iraqi border, the official Iranian state news agency IRNA reported Monday. But unlike previous war games in which Iran boasted of weapons advances, the latest maneuvers were largely held under wraps.
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Iran not a rogue state: Australia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101213/wl_nm/us_wikileaks_iran_australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia is at odds with its major security ally the United States over Iran, saying it is not a “rogue state” and its nuclear weapons program is for deterrence, not attack, according to U.S. cables released by WikiLeaks.
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NKorea threatens SKorea with nuclear war
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101213/D9K2VUKO0.html
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea warned Monday that U.S.-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North’s deadly shelling of a South Korean island.
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Hundreds protest against Russian government
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40630754/ns/world_news-europe/
MOSCOW — Hundreds of people protested against the Russian government Sunday at two separate rallies in Moscow, with opposition activists calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and nationalists demanding greater rights for ethnic Russians. Several opposition activists were detained.
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Continental Flight 9900 provides magical North Pole trip for hospitalized children
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/12/north_pole_trip_is_magical_for.html
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Just in case the special guests missed the blow-up Santa or penguins marking the ticketing counter Saturday, a flashing sign alerted them that they had indeed reached “Elf Check-in.”
News Articles For 8/12
August 12, 2010 — Operation RoosterSpecial clinic treats Soldiers with special injuries
http://www.cjtf101.com/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3132-special-clinic-treats-soldiers-with-special-injuries.html
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Insurgent attacks, improvised explosive devices and even vehicle rollovers are all common threats on today’s battlefield that can cause a variety of injuries to Soldiers.
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Special team of Soldiers drop supplies from the skies
http://www.cjtf101.com/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3131-special-team-of-soldiers-drop-supplies-from-the-skies.html
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – With the constant threat of improvised explosive devices and insurgent attacks, as well as few usable roads and treacherous mountain passes, getting necessary supplies to troops at some of Afghanistan’s most remote posts and bases can prove both challenging and deadly.
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Website Helps Families ‘Know Before You Go’
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/08/11/website-helps-families-know-before-you-go/
A new American Forces Press Service Web special, “Focus on Family: Know Before You Go” is highlighting how military families prepare for and deal with deployments.
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Army ROTC awards $51 million in scholarships
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/08/11/43561-army-rotc-awards-51-million-in-scholarships/index.html?ref=home-headline-title4
Fort Monroe, Va. (Aug. 10, 2010) — More than 2,500 young men and women will begin their college careers this fall with help from the U.S. Army. The Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has awarded 2,579 four-year scholarships to incoming members of the class of 2014.
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China PLA warns U.S. over fresh military drill in region
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100812/pl_nm/us_china_usa
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s People Liberation Army demanded a tough response to U.S. plans to send an aircraft carrier to naval exercises near its coast, saying that “respect” was at stake.
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Deficit in July Totals $165.04 Billion
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704901104575423601722830706.html
The U.S. government spent itself deeper into the red last month, paying nearly $20 billion in interest on debt and an additional $9.8 billion to help unemployed Americans.
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Homes lost to foreclosure up 6 pct from last year
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100812/D9HHQE2O0.html
LOS ANGELES (AP) – The number of U.S. homes lost to foreclosure surged in July, another sign lenders are moving quicker to take back properties from homeowners behind in payments.
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Watchdog panel cites global impact of US bailout
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100812/D9HHSM180.html
WASHINGTON (AP) – The $700 billion U.S. bailout program launched in response to the global economic meltdown had a far greater impact overseas than other countries’ financial rescue plans did on the U.S., according to a new report from a congressional watchdog.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry Warns of Car Bombs on The Border
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/08/11/texas-gov-rick-perry-warns-of-car-bombs-on-the-border/
Texas Gov. Rick Perry gave President Barack Obama a letter yesterday outlining the newest threat along the Mexican border… Car bombs or VBIED’s. In the letter he wrote,”The Mexican cartels have recently added a new deadly weapon to their arsenal: Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIED), which they use to attack their rivals and the police.”
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Illegal immigrants’ high birth rate feeds debate about citizenship
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/os-illegal-immigration-children-20100812-20,0,6336186.story
Brenda Narvaez sees herself as a typical American teenager who works at a mall, likes to spend time outdoors, watches soccer and loves sappy songs. But the Miami high-schooler worries about her future because her mom is an illegal immigrant who could be deported at any time.
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Al Gore: ‘The United States Government as a Whole Has Failed Us’ on Global Warming
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2010/20100811071403.aspx
You can’t always get what you want and that appears to be a bitter pill for former Vice President Al Gore to swallow. Gore, the leader of the global warming alarmism movement, told supporters during an Aug. 10 conference call that despite his best efforts to inspire fear over this issue or else it is the end of civilization, the battle has been lost for the time being. He placed blame solely on the U.S. government, specifically the Senate, controlled by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada.
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Thoughtcrime: D.C. Reporter Suspended for Accurate Report on BP’s Donations to Obama
http://bigjournalism.com/rbluey/2010/08/11/thoughtcrime-d-c-reporter-suspended-for-accurate-report-on-bps-donations-to-obama/
WJLA-TV, a Washington, D.C. ABC affiliate, suspended reporter Doug McKelway following his alleged “partisan” comments at a liberal rally on Capitol Hill marking the three-month anniversary of the Gulf oil spill. Video of the broadcast tells a different story.
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Tell the terminally ill to ‘trust God,’ get yourself fired
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=190213
The dismissal of a town employee who had an unblemished record of counseling housing clients for 18 years has been affirmed by a job tribunal because he mentioned God to a terminally ill woman.
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Look what Obama’s pushing Israel to do now
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=189977
JERUSALEM – The U.S. is pushing Israel into conceding strategic territory in the next few months despite admissions from the Palestinian Authority it is not fully ready to assume security control over the areas in question, WND has learned.
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Lebanon: We’ll reject U.S. military aid if weapons can’t be used against Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/lebanon-we-ll-reject-u-s-military-aid-if-weapons-can-t-be-used-against-israel-1.307380
Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Murr said Wednesday he would reject any U.S. military assistance to Lebanon’s army if it comes with conditions that the weapons not be used against Israel.
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‘Iran to give Hizbullah weapons’
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=184538
Turkey and Iran are rumored to be helping Hizbullah obtain new weapons, Italian daily Corriere Della Sera reported on Wednesday evening. Turkish intelligence chief Hakan Fidan reportedly met with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Taeb to discuss relations between the two countries.
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Iran ready to launch Bushehr nuclear power plant: official
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/12/c_13442454.htm
TEHRAN, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — An Iranian official said Thursday that the country is ready to launch its first Bushehr nuclear power plant, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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Toyota halts all shipments to Iran
http://www.leftlanenews.com/toyota-halts-all-shipments-to-iran.html
As Iran continues to move forward developing nuclear technology believed to be intended for military use by the United States and the United Nations, Toyota has announced that it will halt all shipments of vehicles into Iran – observing international sanctions.
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Iran stoning woman ‘tortured’ before TV ‘confession’
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iWN5fQt9m1OC4bsV2zoCDSbJ73dg
LONDON — A lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning has told a British newspaper she was tortured for two days before confessing on state TV to being an accomplice to her husband’s death.
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Al-Qaeda Group Seeks Overthrow of Saudi Arabia Monarchy
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/08/11/al-qaeda-group-seeks-overthrow-of-saudi-arabia-monarchy/
An Al-Qaeda group is urging soldiers to assist in overthrowing the Saudi monarchy and to also kill Christians and government officials in Saudi Arabia, according to a recording, purportedly made by the groups leader.
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ANALYSIS-Grain price rise may fuel Mideast, Europe unrest
http://alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE67A0Y0.htm
LONDON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Rising grain prices from Russia’s drought and fires will pressure populations already hit by the financial crisis and could stoke unrest — particularly in the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe.
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Colombia, Venezuela restore diplomatic ties
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/11/AR2010081105623.html
The leaders of Colombia and Venezuela have reestablished diplomatic relations, saying they are starting to repair confidence undermined by years of mutual recriminations.
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101 Year Old Nebraskan Honored Nationally
http://www.kfab.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=122285&article=7461096
Gordon received the honor Tuesday at the Capitol from Experience Works, the nation’s largest nonprofit training center for older workers. Gordon has been in the work force 84 years. For the last 26 years, she has been an assistant sergeant-at-arms, or “red coat” for the state, serving the Nebraska Legislature while it is in session.
News Articles For 8/1
August 1, 2010 — Operation RoosterISF arrest 13 suspected AQI criminal associates in northern Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/isf-arrest-13-suspected-aqi-criminal-associates-in-northern-iraq
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested 13 suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) criminal associates during joint security operations in northern Iraq today.
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Suspected AQI criminal associate arrested in northern Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/suspected-aqi-criminal-associate-arrested-in-northern-iraq
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) criminal associate during a joint security operation in northern Iraq today.
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Timing of National Guard’s Deployment to Southwest Border Stirs Confusion, Anger
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/31/timing-national-guards-deployment-southwest-border-stirs-confusion-anger/
The 1,200 National Guard troops expected to arrive Sunday on the southwest border for reinforcement won’t finish deploying until late September, federal officials say, stirring confusion and anger among Arizona lawmakers who thought the deadline was Aug. 1.
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Thanks, Big Labor: Senator Bob Casey’s $165 Billion Union Bailout
http://biggovernment.com/sahiller/2010/07/31/thanks-big-labor-senator-bob-caseys-165-billion-union-bailout/
Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) has trouble remembering his roots as Pennsylvania’s state treasurer and auditor general. During his Senate campaign, he claimed to be a fiscal hawk and to have saved Pennsylvanians $1 billion of taxpayer money.
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State to citizens: No more petitions for you
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=185741
An amendment of the Massachusetts Constitution proposed by Democrats could virtually put an end to citizen-initiated referendums in the state. The amendment, proposed jointly by state Rep. Byron Rushing in the House and by state Sen. Cynthia Stone Creem in the Senate, would exclude any citizen petition that deals with issues concerning a person’s right to “the enjoyment of life, liberty and property, according to standing laws.”
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Covert Influence—Russian Operations Changed America (Part 1)
http://bigpeace.com/kclizbe/2010/07/31/covert-influencerussian-operations-changed-america-part-1/
This June the FBI arrested a group of Russian intelligence officers and agents. American commentators were puzzled at the spies’ lack of success in stealing “secrets.”
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Covert Influence—Russian Operations Changed America (Part 2)
http://bigpeace.com/kclizbe/2010/08/01/covert-influencerussian-operations-changed-america-part-2/
In covert influence, the payload is subtle. When done correctly, it is hard to identify the payload as anything but the creator’s point of view. The payload is disguised as critical thinking, cultural criticism, or intellectual theorizing.
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Two Kidnapped Television Journalists Rescued by Mexican Police in Durango
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-01/two-kidnapped-television-journalists-rescued-by-mexican-police-in-durango.html
Mexico’s federal police rescued two journalists yesterday who the government said were kidnapped in an attempt by billionaire Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman’s drug cartel to exert power in the media.
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Israel agrees to U.N. investigation of Gaza flotilla raid
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=186213
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations’ determined effort to form an international board of inquiry into the Israeli raid on a Turkish-based “humanitarian flotilla” trying to run the Gaza blockade in May has broken Jerusalem’s resistance to the investigation.
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Hariri hit suspect is Hizbullah bigwig
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=183090
The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon is reportedly set to announce that Mustafa Badr al-Din, a senior Hizbullah operative and close relative of the former Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, is the main suspect in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
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Woman chronicled her own death from meningitis in phone pictures as doctors told her spreading rash was only a ‘minor infection’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298960/Woman-25-dying-blood-poisoning-texted-photos-deadly-rash-mother-doctors-ignored-her.html#ixzz0vCP3fK1E
A desperate patient texted photos of a deadly rash spreading across her body to her mother as she lay dying on a hospital bed while being ignored by NHS doctors.
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EU rules are making our doctors ‘lazy clock-watchers’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7920136/EU-rules-are-making-our-doctors-lazy-clock-watchers.html
A year after the EU directive limiting workers to a 48-hour week was brought in for the NHS, 80 per cent of consultants polled by the Royal College of Surgeons said quality of care had already been damaged by the changes, with risks to patients who are repeatedly “handed” from one shift to the next.
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‘In the middle of the operation, my colleague said he had to go – it was his home time’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7920621/In-the-middle-of-the-operation-my-colleague-said-he-had-to-go-it-was-his-home-time.html
Senior doctor Tony Strong, 37, works an 80-hour week, despite a recent European ruling that it should be no more than 48. In this diary, he exposes why the rules are bad for doctors and patients alike.
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More women becoming virgins again with hymen replacement operations on the NHS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298684/Surge-virginity-repair-operations-NHS.html
Increasing numbers of women are having taxpayer-funded ‘virginity repair’ operations before marriage. There were 116 hymen replacement operations carried out on the NHS between 2005 and 2009. The total for 2009 was 30, up 25 per cent from 24 in 2005.
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Patients, hospitals wrestle over tumor tissue
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20100729_Patients__hospitals_wrestle_over_tumor_tissue.html
All Niki Perry wanted was pieces of her own brain, and she got angrier by the day as she tried to get them. She needed samples of her brain tumor this spring to enter clinical trials she hoped might save her life.
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Colombia denies Chávez’s accusations that it plans to invade Venezuela
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/0801/Colombia-denies-Chavez-s-accusations-that-it-plans-to-invade-Venezuela
One day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ordered troops sent to the border, Colombia denied Saturday that it had any intention of invading its ‘brother country.’
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Sixth-Grader’s Harvest Stocks Food Pantry Shelves
http://www.gnn.com/article/sixth-grader-katie-stagliano-stocks-food/1191641
(July 30) — The story of Katie’s Krops, a nonprofit providing vegetables to food pantries, begins with a 40-pound cabbage. Then 9, Katie Stagliano grew the cruciferous monster from a run-of-the-mill seedling.
News Articles For 7/26
July 26, 2010 — Operation RoosterISF arrest AQI suspect, 4 criminal associates near Baghdad
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/isf-arrest-suspected-aqi-member-4-criminal-associates-near-baghdad
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested one suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) member and four criminal associates during a joint security operation approximately 30km southwest of Baghdad, near Qaryat ar Rufush today.
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Mansuriyah operation yields 2 suspected AQI criminal associates
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/mansuriyah-operation-yields-2-suspected-aqi-criminal-associates
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested two suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) criminal associates during a joint security operation near Mansuriyah today.
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Maysan Police graduate Raid Planning, Search Warrant Course
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/maysan-province-police-graduate-raid-planning-search-warrant-course
BAGHDAD – Seventeen members of the Maysan Province 3rd Emergency Response unit completed a week-long Raid Planning and Search Warrant Course at Contingency Operating Station Garry Owen on July 22nd.
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Soldiers give prosthetics to Iraqi hospital
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/07/22/42665-soldiers-give-prosthetics-to-iraqi-hospital/index.html?ref=home-headline-title4
BAGHDAD (Army News Service, July 22, 2010) — Soldiers delivered boxes of prosthetic limbs July 19 to the Adamiyah Hospital, a rehabilitative hospital in the Baghdad area.
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Village gets new school, toys, clothes
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/village-gets-new-school-toys-clothes
COB SPEICHER – U.S. Army security detachment Soldiers took on a new mission recently; loading their vehicles with soccer balls, toys and clothes for a newly-constructed school near here.
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Afghan-International Forces Make Progress Across Afghanistan
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60154
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2010 – Afghan-international forces seized enemy weapons caches, captured or killed numerous insurgents, and reopened a long-closed school during recent operations conducted across Afghanistan, military officials reported.
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Families turn out for Movie Night on the Bay
http://www.marines.mil/unit/tecom/mcrdsandiego/Pages/FamiliesturnoutforMovieNightontheBay.aspx
MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT SAN DIEGO — Marine families can be hard pressed to spend time together, even during summer months. Semper Fit is attempting to provide activities for Marine families this summer. Movie Night on the Bay was held at the Bay View boat house Saturday night.
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Sailors of the Year Promoted to Chief, Make History
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=54845
WASHINGTON (NNS) — The 2009 Sailor of the Year winners, who for the first time in history are all women, were meritoriously advanced to Chief Petty Officer during a ceremony held at the Navy Memorial July 22.
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Army Jumpmaster Earns Coveted Master Parachutist Wings
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60139
FORT BRAGG, N.C., July 23, 2010 – Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Michael Sanders, a 43-year-old senior interrogator with the XVIII Airborne Corps here, battled a bad knee to earn the coveted master parachutist wings, the highest-level airborne skills award, other than the combat parachutists badge.
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Taliban, Afghan officials say one of two missing U.S. service members is dead
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072500719.html
KABUL — One U.S. Navy service member was killed in a shootout with Taliban fighters in the eastern Afghan province of Logar and another is in insurgent custody, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan officials said Sunday.
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Goldman reveals where bailout cash went
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/banking/2010-07-24-goldman-bailout-cash_N.htm
Goldman Sachs sent $4.3 billion in federal tax money to 32 entities, including many overseas banks, hedge funds and pensions, according to information made public Friday night.
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Geithner Dismisses Concerns on Letting Tax Cuts Expire
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/us/politics/26geithner.html?_r=1
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner pressed the case on Sunday for letting Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire later this year.
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Pence: Extend tax cuts
http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20107250305
WASHINGTON — Tapped to deliver the weekly GOP radio address, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence argued Saturday that Congress should extend the tax cuts passed during the Bush administration that expire at the end of this year.
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Bush-Era Tax Cuts a Likely Campaign Theme
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704719104575389540592147682.html
Democrats are aiming to push legislation extending Bush-era middle-class tax cuts ahead of midterm elections. But with Republicans and several Democrats advocating a similar extension for high-earners, too, prospects for passage before November balloting appear uncertain.
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Reid to Netroots: “We’re Going To Have a Public Option”
http://spectator.org/blog/2010/07/24/reid-to-netroots-were-going-to
LAS VEGAS — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, seeking to console liberal activists who were disappointed by the final version of the national health care law, assured them that there would eventually be a public option.
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Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain.html?_r=1&hp
LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.
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Axe falls on NHS services
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7908742/Axe-falls-on-NHS-services.html
Some of the most common operations — including hip replacements and cataract surgery — will be rationed as part of attempts to save billions of pounds, despite government promises that front-line services would be protected.
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Freedom of photography: Police, security often clamp down despite public right
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/25/AR2010072502795_pf.html
A few weeks ago, on his way to work, Matt Urick stopped to snap a few pictures of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s headquarters. He thought the building was ugly but might make for an interesting photo. The uniformed officer who ran up to him didn’t agree. He told Urick he was not allowed to photograph federal buildings.
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Migrants sell up, flee Arizona ahead of crackdown
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN2514063220100725
PHOENIX, July 25 (Reuters) – Nicaraguan mother Lorena Aguilar hawks a television set and a few clothes on the baking sidewalk outside her west Phoenix apartment block.
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White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/white-house-backed-release-of-lockerbie-bomber-abdel-baset-al-megrahi/story-e6frg6so-1225896741041
THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya. Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
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Congressman: Stop horsing around with sports votes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/ap_on_go_co/us_congress_sports_bills_1
WASHINGTON – House Democrats and Republicans have put aside their differences this year to honor the likes of golfer Phil Mickelson, the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, NASCAR driver Jimmy Johnson and the Penn State women’s volleyball team.
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Chris Wallace Shows How to Deal with a Bully Named Howard Dean
http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/07/25/chris-wallace-shows-how-to-deal-with-a-bully-named-howard-dean/
Modern American leftism is, at heart, a culture of thugs and bullies who simply assert what they wish to be true and never let facts get in the way whatever ridiculous argument they are trying to make. Which is why it’s such a pleasure to see an honest newsman like Chris Wallace stand up to them.
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Election Wins Can Stop Lame-Duck Threat
http://article.nationalreview.com/438496/election-wins-can-stop-lame-duck-threat/phil-kerpen
Senate Democrats who think they can use a lame-duck session to force the country into a final, decisive lurch to the left may be in for a big surprise: newly elected senators ready to take their seats and derail major policy changes before the new Congress convenes.
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‘Son of Hamas’ opposes Ground Zero mosque
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=183873
The eldest son of one of Hamas’ founding members has come out in vehement opposition to plans by Muslims to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near New York City’s Ground Zero, site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
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Chavez threatens U.S. oil cut in Colombia dispute
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2514507120100725
CARACAS, July 25 (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Sunday to cut oil supplies to the United States in case of a military attack from Colombia as a dispute escalated over charges his country harbors Colombian rebels.
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Mexico – Guards Allegedly Released Inmates To Commit Massacre
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/07/25/mexico-guards-allegedly-released-inmates-to-commit-massacre/
If there is any doubt left that the violence in Mexico is spinning out of control, with corruption at too many levels to comnprehend… Fox News is reporting guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico allegedly let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 people last week.
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Tensions on edge as Lebanon awaits word of war
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=183101
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Mixed in with the sweltering sun, heat and humidity, Lebanon is growing increasingly tense as the country braces for a United Nations report on the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri that could implicate members of the Loyalty to the Resistance, also known as Hezbollah, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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Procter & Gamble recalls 2 Iams cat food lots
http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=141310
CINCINNATI — Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble is voluntarily recalling two lots of Iams brand prescription renal dry cat food because it could be contaminated with salmonella.
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A dam big project: Incredible images of construction work on 1,900ft-long Hoover Bridge
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1297473/Incredible-images-construction-work-1-900ft-long-Hoover-Bridge.html
It is one of the planet’s newest awe-inspiring superstructures – the Hoover Dam Bridge. Now the giant construction project which is on schedule to be completed in September can be seen in all its glory in a series of stunning photographs.
