News Articles For 2/21

February 21, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.” Alexander Hamilton: Federalist No. 78, 1788

101st rock band performs at Salerno, features guest vocalist from TF Duke
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4168-101st-rock-band-performs-at-salerno-features-guest-vocalist-from-tf-duke-.html
KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan – The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division rock band, “Nuts!”, performed at Forward Operating Base Salerno Feb. 20.
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Grandma Shares Her Top 10 Deployment Lessons Learned
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2011/02/20/grandma-shares-her-top-10-deployment-lessons-learned/
Family Matters guest blogger, Debbie Nichols, is a military mom and grandma. Her daughter, Tech. Sgt. Erin Caldwell, is in the Air Force, and she has two grandchildren, Ivie and Bailey. Debbie cared for her grandchildren when her daughter, a single mom at the time, deployed to Afghanistan, and will continue to support them and her new son-in-law when her daughter deploys again in the coming year.
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Oil Rises Most in Three Weeks, Gold Reaches $1,400 on Mideast; Stocks Drop
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-21/oil-gold-gain-asian-stocks-decline-as-tensions-escalate-in-middle-east.html
Oil rose to a two-year high and gold rallied for a sixth day surpassing $1,400 an ounce, as tension in the Middle East escalated. Stocks fell, with Eni SpA leading energy companies with operations in Libya lower.
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Blaze Exclusive: International Anarchists, Socialists and Marxist, Not Average Union Workers, Have a Substance Fueled Rave While Taking Over Wisconsin State Capital
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/blaze-exclusive-international-anarchists-socialists-and-marxist-not-average-union-workers-have-a-substance-fueled-rave-while-taking-over-wisconsin-state-capital/
NOTE: This YouTube clip is 3:03 long.
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Wisconsin union calls on teachers to go to work
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41694906
MADISON, Wisconsin – The head of Wisconsin’s powerful teachers’ union is calling on educators to return to classrooms Monday and Tuesday rather than continue being absent to protest an anti-union bill at the state Capitol.
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Wisconsin Gov. Rejects Unions‘ ’Red Herring’ Compromise
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wisconsin-gov-rejects-unions-red-herring-compromise/
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Governor Scott Walker stressed that his administration is “looking at every option,“ but believes his plan is ”the right thing for Wisconsin.”
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Doctors Hand Out Excuses for Protesters ‘Sick’ of Gov. Walker
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/doctors-hand-out-excuses-for-protesters-sick-of-gov-walker/
Here are a couple other incriminating videos of doctors handing out excuse slips, courtesy our inquisitive Blaze readers. In another YouTube video, one doctor explains how employers cannot crack down on employees’ absences because he is “a licensed physician,“ and that ”all you need is an excuse.”
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Will Media Report This? WI Union Supporter Tries Sabotaging Tea Party Rally Sound System
http://bigjournalism.com/pjsalvatore/2011/02/20/will-media-report-this-wi-union-supporter-tries-sabotaging-tea-party-rally-sound-system/
Yesterday in Wisconsin a union supporter tried ripping cords from the soundboard at the tea party rally. Numerous witnesses describe him as angry; one witness describes on camera how the man tried to push him down when the witness attempted to intervene and stop him.
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Texas poised to pass bill allowing guns on campus
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110220/ap_on_re_us/us_guns_on_campus
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on campus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms.
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Extremist cleric to lead White House protest calling for Muslims to ‘rise up and establish Islamic state in America’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358792/Anjem-Choudary-lead-White-House-protest-calling-Muslims-rise-up.html
A hardline Muslim cleric who sparked anger across the U.S. with his anti-American comments in a television interview this month is to hold a protest outside the White House.
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12 taxi drivers, fares killed in Mexican resort
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
ACAPULCO, Mexico – A spate of attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco has left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, police said Sunday, just hours before the Mexican Open tennis tournament is scheduled to start.
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U.S. offers Tunisia security aid for “model” revolution
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/us-tunisia-turkey-idUSTRE71K2YE20110221
(Reuters) – Washington has offered Tunisia help in shoring up security following its “model” revolution, U.S. Senator John McCain said Monday. A popular uprising in the North African state last month ended President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali’s 23 years of rule, sending shock waves through the Arab world and inspiring further revolts, one of which toppled Egypt’s president 10 days ago.
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Government Forces Clash Violently with Iranian Protesters
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/government-forces-clash-violently-with-iranian-protesters/
Tens of thousands of democracy activists took to the streets of Tehran today chanting “death to the Dictator” and calling for an end to their Ayatollah-led “religious dictatorship.”
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Khamenei – US must be removed from Islamic world
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/02/20/khamenei-us-must-be-removed-from-islamic-world/
There are new reports that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is calling on Muslims to “remove” the United States from the Islamic world. “The main problem in the Muslim world is the presence of the United States. It is the biggest problem. We need to address that,” he told a gathering of Shiite and Sunni scholars in Tehran for an international conference on Islam.
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Iran warships to begin Suez Canal passage Tuesday
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_iran_warships
CAIRO – Suez Canal officials say two Iranian naval vessels are expected to start their passage through the strategic waterway early Tuesday. Canal officials say the ships are expected to pay a fee of $290,000 for the crossing. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
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Israel Weighs ‘Gravity’ of Iranian Ships Set to Transit Suez
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/israel-weighs-gravity-of-iranian-ships-set-to-transit-suez/
CAIRO (AP) — Iran‘s first attempt in decades to send warships through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean on Europe’s — and NATO’s — southern flank could further destabilize the Middle East, a region already reeling from an unprecedented wave of anti-government rebellions.
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On the run: Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Libyan parliament building alight
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358972/Libya-protests-Gaddafi-flees-Tripoli-parliament-building-set-alight.html
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is believed to have fled the capital Tripoli after anti-government demonstrators breached the state television building and set government property alight.
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Reports of 200 Dead: Libyan Forces Open Fire on Mourners at Funeral for Slain Protesters
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/reports-of-200-dead-libyan-forces-open-fire-on-mourners-at-funeral-for-slain-protesters/
CAIRO (AP/THE BLAZE) — Libyan forces fired machine-guns at mourners marching in a funeral for anti-government protesters in the eastern city of Benghazi Sunday, a day after commandos and foreign mercenaries loyal to longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi pummeled demonstrators with assault rifles and other heavy weaponry.
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Moroccan protesters call for curbs on king’s powers and end to corruption
http://www.france24.com/en/20110220-moroccan-protesters-call-for-curbs-king-powers-reform
REUTERS – At least 2,000 protesters gathered in a square in Morocco’s capital on Sunday to demand that King Mohammed give up some of his powers and clamp down on government corruption. Some people in the crowd were waving Tunisian and Egyptian flags, a recognition of the popular uprisings there.
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Riot police crack down on protesters in Algiers
http://www.france24.com/en/20110219-riot-police-clubs-anti-regime-demonstrators-algiers-algeria-bouteflika
Algerian riot police used batons to disperse protesters trying to organise an anti-regime rally in a central square of the capital on Saturday. An opposition deputy wounded in the clashes is in hospital and is thought to be in a coma, his party said.
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Report: Dozens of Chinese Activists in Jasmine Revolution Go Missing, Detained
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-dozens-of-chinese-activists-in-jasmine-revolution-go-missing-detained/
BEIJING – Jittery Chinese authorities wary of any domestic dissent staged a concerted show of force Sunday to squelch a mysterious online call for a “Jasmine Revolution” apparently modeled after pro-democracy demonstrations sweeping the Middle East.
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Smart Dictators Don’t Quash the Internet
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704657704576150653606688990.html
The tragic death of Khaled Said—the 28-year-old who in June 2010 was dragged from an Internet cafe in Alexandria and beaten by the Egyptian police—was the event that galvanized young Egyptians, pushing them to share their grievances on Facebook.
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Get ready for a ‘global Katrina’: Biggest ever solar storm could cause power cuts which last for MONTHS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1359136/Global-Katrina-Biggest-solar-storm-cause-power-cuts-MONTHS.html
The world is overdue a ferocious ‘space storm’ that could knock out communications satellites, ground aircraft and trigger blackouts – causing hundreds of billions of pounds of damage, scientists say.
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Traveling cowboys rescue fallen carriage horse on Beale Street
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/feb/19/traveling-cowboys-rescue-fallen-carriage-horse-bea/
When a carriage horse fell into a little trouble on Beale Street, some out-of-town visitors who happened upon the scene were uniquely qualified to offer help. As it turned out, they were cowboys.

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News Articles For 2/17

February 17, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfill our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so. .” George Washington: letter to Gouverneur Morris, December 22, 1795

Afghan, Coalition Forces Kill Attackers in Afghanistan
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62834
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, 2011 – Afghan and coalition killed four insurgents in Afghanistan’s Kunar province yesterday, military officials reported. Security forces fired on several insurgents behaving in a hostile manner in the province’s Darah-ye Pech district, officials said, killing three.
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Face of Defense: India-born Marine Climbs Career Ladder
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62830
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, Feb. 16, 2011 – A Marine who was born and raised in India continues to move up through the ranks as he serves the United States.
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Study Guide: Riots in the Middle East/ More on Google
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/16/study-guide-riots-spread-in-the-middle-east/
NOTE: Here are the sources to the info. mentioned on Glenn Beck’s 2/16 TV show.
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Wisconsin Senate to vote on anti-union bill
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9LEJKTG0&show_article=1
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Protesters clogged the hallways of the Wisconsin state Capitol on Thursday as the Senate prepared to pass a momentous bill that would strip government workers, including school teachers, of nearly all collective bargaining rights.
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‘Rhetoric vs. Reality’: Wis. GOP Vid Captures Hateful Rhetoric at Union Protests
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rhetoric-vs-reality-wis-gop-vid-captures-hateful-rhetoric-at-protests/
Remember when so many pundits were trying to convince America that violent, hateful rhetoric was an epidemic on the right, and that conservatives were generally hateful people?
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Consumer Prices in U.S. Climb More Than Forecast
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-17/consumer-prices-in-u-s-rise-more-than-forecast-on-higher-food-fuel-costs.html
The cost of living in the U.S. climbed more than forecast in January, led by higher prices for food and fuel that may be starting to filter through to other goods and services.
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Lessons in Debt: You Earn $50K, Spend $87K…No Problem. Right?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/lessons-in-debt-you-earn-50k-spend-87k-no-problem-right/
Still trying to wrap your head around the budget battle? Perhaps it would be helpful to pretend it is your own household budget. If you earn $50,000 a year but spend $87,000 you would have a problem. That’s the example given to us from Duquesne University Economics Professor Antony Davies.
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City’s hate of religion taken to Supreme Court
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=264329
A city’s official condemnation of Roman Catholic Church teachings as “discriminatory,” “insulting,” “callous” and “defamatory” is being taken to the U.S. Supreme Court because of the Constitution’s requirement that government not be “hostile” to faith.
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Policy Reversal: U.S. Announces Rebuke of Israel Before the UN Security Council
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/policy-reversal-u-s-announces-rebuke-of-israel-before-the-un-security-council/
On Friday, the United States informed Arab governments that it intends to support a U.N. Security Council resolution stating that it “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity,” a move that U.S. diplomats hoped would help bypass a veto dispute over a stronger Palestinian resolution which would condemn the settlements as illegal.
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Iran Withdraws Suez Canal Request
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/iran-withdraws-suez-canal-request/
CAIRO (AP) — Two Iranian naval vessels withdrew a request Thursday to transit the Suez Canal after Israel expressed concerns over the plans, a senior canal official said.
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Iran denies cancellation: Warships to cross Suez Canal
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=208683
Iran plans to cross the Suez Canal, despite reports to the contrary, Press TV reported on Thursday. The Iranian news station also said that “Egyptian authorities believed there was nothing wrong with the passage.”
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US-Based Institute Wants Sharia for Egypt and the West
http://bigpeace.com/ipt/2011/02/17/us-based-institute-wants-sharia-for-egypt-and-the-west/
With questions looming about Islamist influence in a transitional Egypt, an organization that calls itself “the leading Islamic Institute in the West” is teaching students to support Sharia law in Egypt and around the world.
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‘I’m Hit!’: ABC Correspondent Beaten in Bahrain Protest Crackdown
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/im-hit-abc-correspondent-beaten-in-bahrain-protest-crackdown/
Expanding unrest across the Middle East entangled another American journalist in violent protests Wednesday evening after an ABC News correspondent was attacked while covering protests in Bahrain.
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Army locks down Bahrain, police storm protest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_bahrain_protests
MANAMA, Bahrain – Army patrols and tanks locked down the capital of this tiny Gulf kingdom after riot police swinging clubs and firing tear gas smashed into demonstrators, many of them sleeping, in a pre-dawn assault Thursday that uprooted their protest camp demanding political change. Medical officials said four people were killed.
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Assaulted Reporter Gets Call From Obama, Released From Hospital
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-assaulted-reporter-gets-call-from-obama-released-from-hospital/
CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was released from the hospital Wednesday “in remarkably good spirits,” despite the severe trauma she suffered at the hands of a mob of Egyptian men last Friday.
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Muslim Brotherhood-Affiliated TV Clerics Launch Campaign to Replace Egypt’s Religious Leadership
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2812.htm
NOTE: This video clip is 2:12.
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WikiLeaks: US wary of Hezbollah presence in Chile
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?ID=208648&R=R1
The US suspected that Hezbollah had a presence in Chile’s Islamic fundamentalist communities, according to an embassy cable released by WikiLeaks this week.
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Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah: Be Prepared for the Day When You Are Called Upon “to Liberate the Galilee”
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2813.htm
NOTE: This video clip is 2:07.
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Netanyahu To Hezbollah Leader: You Better Stay in Your Bunker
http://bigpeace.com/nmachiavelli/2011/02/16/netanyahu-to-hezbollah-leader-you-better-stay-in-your-bunker/
After Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah declared that he would take over Israel’s Galilee region in a future war and threatened to harm Israeli leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu shot back.
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Yemen protesters, government loyalists clash
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110217/ts_nm/us_yemen_protests
SANAA (Reuters) – More than a thousand protesters clashed with government loyalists in Yemen on Thursday on the seventh straight day of demonstrations demanding the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year rule.
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14 anti-government protesters killed in Libyan clashes
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=208650&R=R1
CAIRO — Libyan protesters seeking to oust longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi defied a crackdown and took to the streets in four cities Thursday on what activists have dubbed a “day of rage,” amid reports that at least 14 demonstrators have been killed in clashes with pro-government forces.
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Canada hit by cyberattack from China computers: report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110217/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_cyberattack
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government was hit by an unprecedented cyber attack from Chinese-based computers last month that penetrated two key economic ministries, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported on Wednesday.
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Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110217/sc_afp/usastronomytelecomnasachina
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A powerful solar eruption that triggered a huge geomagnetic storm has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication in the next days, NASA said.

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News Articles For 2/14

February 14, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it. After discriminating, therefore, in theory, the several classes of power, as they may in their nature be legislative, executive, or judiciary, the next and most difficult task is to provide some practical security for each, against the invasion of the others.” James Madison: Federalist No. 48, February 1, 1788

Face of Defense: Soldier Keeps Units Connected
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62794
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Feb. 14, 2011 – Operating in a country with rugged, mountainous terrain can present many communications challenges, but Army Spc. Joseph Sirovy is keeping his units connected.
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Obama’s New Budget: $1.65 Trillion Deficit for This Year
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obamas-new-budget-1-65-trillion-deficit-for-this-year/
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.73 trillion spending blueprint that pledges $1.1 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade through spending cuts and tax increases.
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Get Ready: Clothing Prices Set to Rise 10% This Spring
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/get-ready-clothing-prices-set-to-rise-10-this-spring/
NEW YORK (AP) — The era of falling clothing prices is ending. Clothing prices have dropped for a decade as tame inflation and cheap overseas labor helped hold down costs. Retailers and clothing makers cut frills and experimented with fabric blends to cut prices during the recession.
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Produce prices skyrocket with freeze in Mexico, Southwest
http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Produce-prices-skyrocket-overnight-115985429.html
PORTLAND — Get ready to pay double or even triple the price for fresh produce in the coming weeks after the worst freeze in 60 years damaged and wiped out entire crops in northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S.
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Have ‘Weapons of Mass Effect’ Been Found in San Diego? ‘Yes’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/have-weapons-of-mass-effect-been-found-in-san-diego/
A curious interview by a local San Diego news station has some people wondering if terrorists are sneaking “weapons of mass effect” (WMEs) into the country through the sunny city’s ports. And while the idea may seem implausible, statements made by a port official, and the attempt by a public affairs official to direct his answer, appear to suggest WMEs have been found in San Diego.
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Government argues ‘liberty’ doesn’t mean ‘physical liberty’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=262873
Attorneys for Bradley County, Tenn., and several of its officials have submitted a brief to the state Supreme Court arguing that the constitutional idea of “liberty” doesn’t actually mean “physical liberty.”
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Michelle Obama’s ‘Cute Parenting Tip’ — Lie and Trick Your Kids So They Are Not Fat
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/michelle-obamas-cute-parenting-tip-lie-and-trick-your-kids-so-they-are-not-fat/
NOTE: This video is 1:38 long.
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France wants new global finance system
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0214/g20-business.html
France, as current head of the Group of 20 countries, will help the transition to a global financial system based on ‘several international currencies’, French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said today.
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7 dead, 1 injured in suburban Mexico City shootout
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110214/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
TOLUCA, Mexico – A state security official says a street shootout possibly between local drug gangs has killed seven people and injured one in suburban Mexico City.
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Egypt’s Military Rulers Dissolve Parliament and Suspend Constitution
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/egypts-military-rulers-dissolve-parliament-and-suspend-constitution/
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s military leaders dissolved parliament and suspended the constitution on Sunday, meeting two key demands of protesters who have been keeping up pressure for immediate steps to push forward the transition to democratic, civilian rule after forcing Hosni Mubarak out of power.
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Army Clears Last Protesters from Tahrir Square
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/world/middleeast/15egypt.html?_r=3
CAIRO — The Egyptian military moved to clear the last protesters from Tahrir Square on Monday as the armed forces consolidated their control over what it has called a democratic transition from nearly three decades of President Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian rule.
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Egyptian labor unrest grows after uprising
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9LCJR2O0&show_article=1
CAIRO (AP) – Egypt’s military rulers called for an end to strikes and protests Monday as thousands of state employees, from ambulance drivers to police and transport workers, demonstrated to demand better pay in a growing wave of labor unrest unleashed by the democracy uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak’s regime.
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Israel Shuts Cairo Embassy, Diplomats Flee
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/israel-shuts-cairo-embassy-diplomats-flee/
Ramin Mazaheri, Press TV, Cairo. “Since the announcement that Hosni Mubarak has stepped down, people have been celebrating across the world. But one group isn’t joining the party: Israel’s representatives in Cairo.
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Gaddafi tells Palestinians: revolt against Israel
http://af.reuters.com/article/tunisiaNews/idAFLDE71C0KP20110213?sp=true
TRIPOLI, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Palestinian refugees should capitalise on the wave of popular revolts in the Middle East by massing peacefully on the borders of Israel until it gives in to their demands, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday.
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Palestinian Authority Cabinet resigns
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians
RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian prime minister dissolved his Cabinet on Monday, in what appeared to be a new gesture inspired by unrest rocking the Arab world.
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Israeli army ‘ready for all eventualities’: PM
http://www.france24.com/en/20110214-israeli-army-ready-all-eventualities-pm
AFP – The Israeli military is “ready for all eventualities” as the Arab and Muslim world undergoes “an earthquake,” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday just days after Egypt’s regime collapsed.
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Ugandans Threaten Egypt-Style Protests
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ugandans-threaten-egypt-style-protests/
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Opposition members in Uganda are threatening Egypt-style protests if next week’s presidential election is rigged. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is seeking to extend his 25-year grip on power in Friday’s vote.
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Yemen protesters: ‘First Mubarak, now Ali’
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/13/yemen.protests/?hpt=T2
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) — Hundreds of anti-government protesters marched toward a presidential palace in Yemen on Sunday, calling for regime change in the Middle Eastern country.
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Security Portfolios Remain Unoccupied – As Baghdad Anticipated Massive Demonstrations
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34461.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Iraqi dailies are reporting on daily demonstrations in various parts in Iraq united by common themes: a call for an end to corruption in government, improving security, creating employment, restoring the food rationing to the poor, and providing adequate social services, with electricity topping the list.
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Clashes in Bahrain before planned protest rally
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110214/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain_protests
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Bahrain’s security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at thousands of anti-government protesters heeding calls to unite in a major rally and bring the Arab reform wave to the Gulf for the first time.
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Kremlin ‘bans critical ballerina from TV’
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9d00ea2df5d6129be7cac650dbbd7208.4c1&show_article=1
A scandal-prone Russian ballerina on Monday accused the Kremlin of pulling two television shows about her after she voiced sympathy for jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and quit the ruling party.
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Syrian blogger gets five years’ jail: rights group
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.0f2dd822954982bb57cab5b034071896.941&show_article=1
Syrian woman blogger Tal al-Mallouhi has been sentenced to five years in prison by a state security court, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement on Monday.
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Iran clamps down ahead of planned pro-Egypt rally
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?ID=208156&R=R1
TEHRAN— Security forces cut phone lines and blockaded the home of an Iranian opposition leader Monday in attempts to stop him attending a planned rally in support of Egypt’s uprising, a reformist website reported.
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Iran ‘steadily’ produces enriched uranium: IAEA head
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.64b40623ef755670eb1e7e108c8d3448.381&show_article=1
Iran is “steadily” producing enriched uranium, the head of the UN nuclear monitoring organization said in an interview published The Washington Post Monday.
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Undercover: Documentary Reveals British Mosques Beat Muslim Children…and Worse
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/undercover-documentary-reveals-british-mosques-beat-muslim-children-and-worse/
Shocking footage of children apparently being hit by their teachers during lessons on the Koran will also be aired on Channel 4′s Dispatches programme on Monday.
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Japan Economy Shrinks Less-Than-Estimated 1.1%, Surpassed by China in 2010
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-14/japan-s-economy-shrank-at-1-1-annual-pace-gdp-surpassed-by-china-in-2010.html
Japan’s gross domestic product fell less than estimated in the fourth quarter in a pullback that may prove temporary as overseas demand revives production after the nation fell behind China as the world’s second-largest economy.
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Mock Mars mission simulates landing on Red Planet
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9LCJSV80&show_article=1
KOROLYOV, Russia (AP) – After 257 days in a locked, windowless steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters in heavy space suits Monday, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red Planet.
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Father tells how he fought off crocodile attack in waterhole
http://www.news.com.au/national/father-of-three-tells-how-he-fought-off-crocodile-attack-in-north-queensland-waterhole/story-e6frfkvr-1226005203569
A FATHER of three has told how he fought for his life with a 3m crocodile that dragged him under at a north Queensland waterhole. Weipa miner Eddie Sigai said he desperately kicked, punched and gouged the crocodile after it latched on to his left hand as he swam with his daughters Jennifer, 17, and Monica, 12, at Beening Creek last Saturday.
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Ten newborn baby animals
http://www.upi.com/News_Photos/Features/Ten-newborn-baby-animals/4529/
The Saint Louis Zoo has announced that a black rhinoceros calf was born to first-time parents, mother Kati Rain and father Ajabu in St. Louis on January 14, 2011. Weighing 120-1/2 pounds, the little male is nursing well and being cared for by his mother, according to Zoo staff. This is the first black rhino calf to be born at the Saint Louis Zoo in 20 years.

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News Articles For 2/10

February 10, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Security Forces Kill Taliban Weapons Facilitator
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62760
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2011 – Afghan and International Security Assistance Force troops yesterday killed Awal Jan, a Taliban weapons and improvised-explosive-device facilitator, during a security operation in Chak-e district, Wardak province, military officials reported.
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Website Links Unemployed Vets, Spouses to Jobs
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62751
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2011 – Unemployed veterans, wounded warriors, reserve-component service members and their spouses searching for jobs can find one-stop shopping at a Web portal designed just for them.
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‘Paws for Purple Hearts’ helping with PTSD
http://www.army.mil/-news/2011/02/08/51536-paws-for-purple-hearts-helping-with-ptsd/index.html?ref=home-ata70-img
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 8, 2010) — Paws for Purple Hearts, a non-profit that teaches wounded Soldiers to train service dogs for seriously-disabled veterans, may soon begin testing the physiological reactions that come from working with the animals.
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Face of Defense: Wounded Veteran Inspires Service Members
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62757
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq, Feb. 10, 2011 – Navy veteran, author and inspirational speaker Dave Roever knows a thing or two about scars. “Everybody has scars,” Roever told a group of more than 150 service members gathered here in an event sponsored by the base chaplain. “Mine just happen to be on the outside.”
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Study Guide: Anti-Capitalism Coalitions
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/09/study-guide-anti-capitalism-coalitions/
NOTE: Here are the sources to the info. mentioned on Glenn Beck’s 2/9 TV show.
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Shock Graphics Show Severity of Proposed Obama Budget Cuts
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shock-graphics-show-severity-of-proposed-obama-budget-cuts/
We are still five days away from the unveiling of the President’s 2012 Budget, yet the number-crunching and long-term analysis are in full swing. Senator Rand Paul has been making the rounds this week, touting his proposal to slice $500 billion dollars from the budget while White House Budget Director Jack Lew penned a piece for the New York Times that let us all know the President made some “tough choices” when cutting an estimated $775 million from the 3.8 TRILLION dollar budget.
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Postal Service warns of default as losses mount
http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/09/news/economy/postal_service/index.htm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The U.S. Postal Service warned Wednesday that it may default on some of its financial obligations later this year after reporting yet another quarterly loss.
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Should Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan Sit Out Health Care Case?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-sit-health-care/story?id=12878346
As chances grow that the Supreme Court will take up the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law, a political battle is brewing over whether some justices should recuse themselves from what is likely to be a high-profile case.
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28 governors to president on Obamacare: Step on it
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=261913
In the wake of the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul being ruled unconstitutional last week, 28 Republican governors are now urging the president to press for the fast-tracking of the relevant appeals to the Supreme Court.
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Arizona Rancher Will Fight Court Order To Pay Damages to Undocumented Immigrants
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2011/02/09/arizona-rancher-fight-court-ruling-ordering-pay-damages-undocument-immigrants/
An Arizona rancher who was ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in punitive damages to undocumented immigrants he confronted, with a gun, is going to request a rehearing, his attorney said.
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Janet Napolitano – US terror threat highest since 9/11
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/02/10/janet-napolitano-us-terror-threat-highest-since-911/
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today that the threat of terrorism against the US homeland is in some aspects “at its most heightened state” since the 9/11 attacks.
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Montana wants penalties for feds who violate state law
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=261893
Lawmakers in the state of Montana who initiated the idea of a Firearms Freedom Act to declare guns made, sold and kept in the state exempt from federal regulations now want to beef up the plan.
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Texas school district will re-tool Arabic culture curriculum
http://www.khou.com/news/texas-news/Texas-school-district-will-re-tool-Arabic-culture-curriculum-115565534.html
MANSFIELD — Mansfield ISD officials apologized to parents Monday night over a plan to teach Arabic culture in every class at one school. Many parents said they hadn’t been told about the mandatory curriculum change.
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Detroit Uses Stimulus Money to Lure Residents With $1,000 Homes
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/detroit-uses-stimulus-money-to-lure-residents-with-1000-homes/
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is desperately trying to bring residents back to the Motor City, starting with civil servants . In one of his first major steps to bolster select Detroit neighborhoods, the mayor announced this week that he plans to lure at least 200 police officers back to the city by offering renovated abandoned homes for as little as $1,000 each.
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Mexico nabs alleged drug cartel boss wanted in US
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
MEXICO CITY – Mexican prosecutors say a judge has authorized 40 days of detention for an alleged lieutenant of the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel while authorities investigate the man wanted in the United States on drug charges.
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From Korea to Egypt, High Food Prices Are Driving Policies
http://bigpeace.com/jxenakis/2011/02/10/from-korea-to-egypt-high-food-prices-are-driving-policies/
For the last two months, North Korea has been frantically begging for food around the world, according to South Korea’s JoongAng Daily. The request has extended to dozens of countries, including China, the U.S., EU, and countries in southeast Asia.
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AP: Military Says Mubarak Will Meet Protester’s Demands
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-military-says-mubarak-will-meet-protesters-demands/
CAIRO (AP) — Military and ruling party officials say President Hosni Mubarak will speak to the nation soon and meet the demands of protesters. Protesters are insisting he step down immediately.
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Egypt army takes control, sign Mubarak on way out
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110210/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt
CAIRO – Egypt’s military announced on national television that it stepped in to “safeguard the country” and assured protesters that President Hosni Mubarak will meet their demands in the strongest indication yet that the longtime leader has lost power. In Washington, the CIA chief said there was a “strong likelihood” Mubarak will step down Thursday.
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Egypt Threatened By Devalued Currency And Rising Inflation
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34341.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
A report issued by the Saudi French Bank warns that national debt in Egypt could rise from 70% to 85% of gross domestic product by the end of 2011 and could reach as high as 97% by 2014. The report also warned of lower remittances by overseas Egyptians from $7.7 billion to $5.4 billion because of the country’s political turmoil.
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Qaddhafi Takes Steps To Prevent Unrest In Libya
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34314.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Qaddhafi has threatened to punish the media in his country if they take steps that generate anarchy like that in Egypt and Tunisia. He expressed concern and anger at events in Egypt.
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‘Al-Quds Al-Arabi’: Tribes In Jordan In Anti-Regime Protest
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34315.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The London daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports that Jordanian tribes traditionally loyal to the regime have, together with pensioners and other opposition elements, stepped up protests against the regime, issuing harsh communiqué with demands.
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PA Daily: Hamas In Preventative Activity To Stop Opponents From Demonstrating
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34316.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The Palestinian Authority daily Al-Ayyam reports, citing the Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights and eyewitnesses, that for the past week Hamas police and internal security apparatuses have been arresting and summoning for investigation Fatah members and Facebook activists in the Gaza Strip, to prevent them from holding a demonstration against Hamas in Gaza on February 11.
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Brave Iowa Girl Gets Help For Mom
http://www.kfab.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=122285&article=8151390
Sioux County authorities say a 4-year-old girl walked a quarter-mile through snow to get help for her mother and baby brother. Averie Carrion says she got only two scratches from the accident Sunday night off Iowa Highway 10 between Alton and Granville in
northwest Iowa.
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Deaf dog adopted by deaf kids after learning sign language
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/08/us-dog-deaf-idUSTRE7176HO20110208
(Reuters) – Most people may be reluctant to adopt a deaf dog, but what if they were deaf themselves? The idea made sense to inmates at a Missouri prison who trained a deaf dachshund in sign language and then asked the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton to take him in.

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News Articles For 2/1

February 2, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Fallen Soldier remembered for generosity, dedication
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/fallen-soldier-remembered-for-generosity-dedication
BAGHDAD — Once, while in garrison at Fort Riley, Kan., a soldier with Company C, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd “Dagger” Advise and Assist Brigade, 1st Infantry Division received a pass allowing him to go home and see his ailing mother, but he lacked sufficient funds to buy a plane ticket.
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Bill Lohmann: Last U.S. WWI vet approaches 110
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/flair/2011/jan/31/tdmet01-bill-lohmann-last-us-veteran-from-world-wa-ar-809531/
Frank Woodruff Buckles doesn’t get out as much as he used to, and he doesn’t have particularly big plans for his birthday tomorrow. But then, he is turning 110. You read that right: 110.
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Face of Defense: Brothers Earn Combat Decorations
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62658
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Feb. 2, 2011 – Two brothers in the 101st Airborne Division were decorated for separate combat actions during their deployment to Afghanistan.
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US Mint Sells Absolute Record 6.4 Million Ounces Of Silver In January, 50% More Than Previous Highest Month
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/us-mint-sells-absolute-record-64-million-ounces-silver-january-50-more-previous-highest-mont
As the topic of US Mint silver sales is not new to our readers, after we first brought attention to the record January sales by the Mint, we will not dwell much on it, suffice to say that the final January tally is in.
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Senate Democrats ban earmarks
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/1/senate-democrats-bow-earmarks/
Signaling defeat, at least for the moment, Senate Democrats said Tuesday they won’t allow any earmarks in spending bills this year. With much of the rest of Washington arrayed against them, senators were bowing to the reality that they weren’t going to secure any earmarks anyway. But the Senate‘s move is still a stark victory for earmark opponents who, in all likelihood, are a minority in Congress.
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U.S. security on Canada border lacking: watchdog
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110202/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_usa_canada_security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fewer than one in every 100 miles of the U.S. border with Canada is adequately secured, a government watchdog agency said on Tuesday.
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Valerie Jarrett to uniformed general: More wine, garçon!
http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/01/valerie-jarrett-to-uniformed-general-more-wine-garcon/
In Washington, bigwigs can misspeak and misstep a million times without drawing attention. And then there are the seemingly harmless moments that stick to a person like super glue: Joe Wilson barking “You lie!”; Jesse Jackson mumbling into a hot mic that he wants to castrate Barack Obama; Dan Quayle trying to spell things.
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China Just Made A Huge Investment In The American Energy Source That Everyone Still Ignores
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-cnooc-investment-niobrara-shale-2011-2
China National Offshore Oil Company just bought a huge stake in an American shale oil project, according to China Daily. The deal, valued at $570 million, will see China buy a third of Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s Niobrara Shale project.
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Pinal sheriff expects armed conflict with cartels soon
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/02/01/pinal-sheriff-expects-armed-conflict-with-cartels-soon/
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is reported to be anticipating an armed conflict between his deputies and cartel members, possibly within the next 30-60 days according to story int The Arizona Republic.
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Gang gunbattles, street blockades in Mexico
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110202/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Suspected drug cartel gunmen have hurled grenades, burned vehicles and blocked streets in Mexico’s second-largest city, Guadalajara.
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Egyptian vs. Egyptian: Pro and Anti-Mubarak Protesters Clash in Cairo
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/egyptian-vs-egyptian-pro-and-anti-govt-protesters-clash-in-cairo/
CAIRO (The Blaze/AP) — Several thousand supporters of President Hosni Mubarak, including some riding horses and camels and wielding whips, attacked anti-government protesters Wednesday as Egypt’s upheaval took a dangerous new turn. In chaotic scenes, the two sides pelted each other with stones, and protesters dragged attackers off their horses.
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The Middle East Crisis Part VI – Kuwaiti Newspaper Editor: Iran, Hizbullah Are Supporting the Unrest In Egypt
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4962.htm
In a February 1, 2011 in the Kuwaiti daily Arab Times, titled “Not This Way,” Ahmad Al-Jarallah, who is editor-in-chief of the paper and also of the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, discussed the events in Egypt.
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U.S. ‘held secret meeting with Muslim Brotherhood’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=258405
JERUSALEM – The Egyptian government has information a diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Cairo secretly met yesterday with a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the nation’s major Islamist opposition group, WND has learned.
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Muhammad Ghanem, Muslim Brotherhood Representative in London, Calls for Civil Disobedience, Including “Halting Passage through the Suez Canal… and Preparing for War with Israel”
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2787.htm
NOTE: This video clip is 3:27 long.
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Thousands protest in Jordan
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011128125157509196.html
Thousands of people in Jordan have taken to the streets in protests, demanding the country’s prime minister step down, and the government curb rising prices, inflation and unemployment.
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Yemeni president says he won’t seek another term
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110202/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_yemen
SANAA, Yemen – The Yemeni president told parliament on Wednesday he will not seek another term in office or hand power to his son — an apparent reaction to protests in this impoverished nation that have been inspired by Tunisia’s revolt and the turmoil in Egypt.
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Report: Syrian Regime Prepares To Stop Protests
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34017.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The Elaph website reports that with the outbreak of protests in Egypt, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and heads of Syrian security apparatuses began to take steps to prevent similar protests from taking place in Syria.
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‘Al-Qaida on brink of using nuclear bomb’
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Qaida+brink+using+nuclear+bomb/4205104/story.html
Al-Qaida is on the verge of producing radioactive weapons after sourcing nuclear material and recruiting rogue scientists to build “dirty” bombs, according to leaked diplomatic documents.
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Airline worker was allegedly a sleeper plotting attacks on aircraft in UK and abroad
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/02/01/airline-worker-was-allegedly-a-sleeper-plotting-attacks-on-aircraft-in-uk-and-abroad/
The UK’s Mirror reports that an undercover Islamic terrorist got a job with British Airway, allegedly to gather information and carry out a terrorist atrocity.

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News Articles For 1/31

January 31, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Surgeon slashes personal record during satellite Miami Marathon run
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4065-surgeon-slashes-personal-record-during-satellite-miami-marathon-run.html
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – His sleep was restless. The dark, early morning hours would soon come. He tossed and turned most of the night, finally rolling out of bed at 3:30 am.
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TSA shuts door on private airport screening program
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/01/29/tsa.private/index.html?hpt=T2
Washington (CNN) — A program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners is being brought to a standstill, just a month after the Transportation Security Administration said it was “neutral” on the program.
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Science Czar Holdren on Climate Change Skeptics: ‘It Is An Education Problem’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/science-holdren-on-climate-change-skeptics-it-is-an-education-problem/
President Obama’s top science adviser said there’s a need to “educate” GOP climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill as the White House seeks to advance its green energy agenda.
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Forget federal government, we’ll build fence ourselves!
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=257501
A Mississippi legislator has caught on to an idea that if the federal government won’t complete a border fence separating the United States from Mexico, the states will – and he’s planning on taxing illegal immigrants to fund it.
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Was Bachmann’s SOTU Response Sabotaged?
http://bigjournalism.com/sright/2011/01/30/was-bachmanns-sotu-response-sabotaged/
So, what was really up with the televised feed of Rep. Bachmann’s State of the Union response? Our sources tell us that CNN had originally agreed to use the live feed set up by Tea Party Express, which had a teleprompter running on the lens in which Rep. Bachmann was delivering her speech.
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Workers of the World Unite: The American Left’s Role in Leading Mid-East Regime Change
http://biggovernment.com/laborunionreport/2011/01/31/workers-of-the-world-unite-the-american-lefts-role-in-leading-mid-east-regime-change/
As the world watches Egypt crumble into chaos, with over 100 dead and 2000 injured, the Obama administration continues to be somewhat and rather curiously ambivalent.
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Why Were U.S. Socialists Rallying in Support of Egypt This Weekend?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/why-were-u-s-socialists-rallying-in-support-of-egypt-this-weekend/
Sometimes the story comes to you. That’s what happened this weekend, when some Associated Press pictures we used in a Saturday story revealed an interesting fact: U.S. leftist and socialist groups staged rallies across the country in support of Egyptian protesters. It’s a curious phenomenon, so we decided to dig deeper. Here’s what we found. Some of it will surprise you, and unfortunately some of it will not.
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood eyes unity gov’t without Mubarak
http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/egypt-s-muslim-brotherhood-eyes-unity-gov-t-without-mubarak-1.340168
Opposition group says will exclude reigning President’s National Democratic Party from talks; Mohammed ElBaradei: I have been mandated by the people.
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ElBaradei Calls Muslim Brotherhood ‘Threat’ a ‘Myth’ Pushed by Mubarak Regime
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/elbaradei-calls-muslim-brotherhood-threat-a-myth-pushed-by-mubarak-regime/
A good number of sage individuals watching the unrest in Egypt are concerned about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and what a surge of their influence or control could portend. Here’s Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI).
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Elbaradei, Iran’s nukes, and the Egypt-North Korean Missile Connection
http://bigpeace.com/cbrim/2011/01/31/elbaradei-irans-nukes-and-the-egypt-north-korean-missile-connection/
Elbaradei, the presumptive Egyptian president-in-waiting and former head of the IAEA nuclear inspection agency at the U.N., has made his position on nuclear proliferation absolutely clear in a joint press conference in Tehran in October 2009 with Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi – that there is indeed a nuclear threat in the region: Israel.
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Worldwide Islamist revolution explodes
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=257681
TEL AVIV – Islamists, in particular the anti-Western Muslim Brotherhood, seem poised to take power throughout the Middle East as a result of riots that have already toppled one Arab regime and are threatening others, in what some are calling only the latest wave of an Islamic “tsunami” sweeping the globe.
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China restricts news, discussion of Egypt unrest
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.72428c9c46c8f2949b118c423c268684.671&show_article=1
Chinese censors are apparently blocking online discussion of unrest in Egypt and sanitising news reports about it in a sign of official unease that the uprising could fuel calls for reform at home.
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More news websites blocked in Iran
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/31/us-iran-internet-censor-idUSTRE70U3WR20110131
(Reuters) – Iranians have found their access to major news websites even more restricted than usual as more foreign sites were blocked by a government filter, Reuters witnesses observed on Monday.
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Iran to showcase new rockets, satellites: report
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.fae0da60412a671e262f1f5567c43dbb.311&show_article=1
Iran said on Sunday it will showcase what it called a new range of rockets and satellites during annual celebrations marking the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic revolution.
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UK govt: Iran could have nuclear weapon by 2012
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110131/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_iran_nuclear
LONDON – Britain’s defense secretary says it’s possible that Iran could develop a nuclear weapon by next year. Liam Fox told lawmakers on Monday he disagrees with Israel’s newly retired spy chief, Meir Dagan, who said this month that Iran would not be able to build a nuclear bomb before 2015.
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Same year, same day, same minute: Couple shares birthday
http://www.press-citizen.com/article/20110130/NEWS01/110128016/1079
Bill Gallagher knew fairly quickly after meeting his wife, Julie, more than 20 years ago that she was one in a million. Well, actually more like one in 5 million. The Iowa City couple, who turn 50 today, were born at the same minute on the same day of the same month of the same year: 11:47 a.m., Jan. 31, 1961.
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Volcanic lightning pictured as Mount Shinmoedake volcano in Japan erupts
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthpicturegalleries/8288283/Volcanic-lightning-pictured-as-Mount-Shinmoedake-volcano-in-Japan-erupts.html
Volcanic lightning is seen above Mount Shinmoedake in Japan as it erupts. It is not clear why bolts of lightning are sometimes seen within erupting volcanoes. One theory is that that the spewing magma bubbles or particles of volcanic ash are themselves electrically charged, and by their motion create separately charged areas.

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News Articles For 1/24

January 24, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Headstone for Medal of Honor awardee unveiled
http://www.army.mil/-news/2011/01/22/50701-headstone-for-medal-of-honor-awardee-unveiled/?ref=news-home-title2
OVIEDO, Fla., Jan. 22, 2011 — This morning at the All Faiths Memorial Cemetery in Caselberry, Fla., approximately 200 people gathered at the grave of 24-year-old Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller to witness the unveiling of his Medal of Honor marker in a ceremony hosted by the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) and the Miller family.
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Soldier’s ingenuity makes his dream a reality
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4037-soldiers-ingenuity-makes-his-dream-a-reality.html
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – His thoughts jostled him awake in the hot July night. He had dreamt up a solution to a problem he’d been wrestling with in his mind for months. He couldn’t stop thinking about it. He eventually rolled out of bed with a renewed sense of purpose, and called his wife, Katie, then his parents.
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DFAC dedicated to fallen Guard Soldier opens for business
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4036-dfac-dedicated-to-fallen-guard-soldier-opens-for-business-.html
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – The grand opening ceremony for the Grady Dining Facility was held at Bagram Airfield’s Camp Warrior Jan. 22.
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Face of Defense: Soldier Finds Peace Through Music
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62542
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 24, 2011 – People say it’s not what life throws at you, but how you handle it, that determines your character.
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Developing: Explosion at Russia’s Busiest Airport — Possible Suicide Bombing
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/developing-explosion-at-russias-busiest-airport/
MOSCOW (AP) — A explosion ripped through the arrivals hall at Moscow’s busiest airport on Monday, killing 31 people and wounding about 130, Health Ministry officials said.
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US to sell final Citigroup holding Tuesday
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.ae92b0aa2b694ca3182261c1f11bfc1a.81&show_article=1
The US government plans to sell its last holding in rescued banking giant Citigroup, the Treasury Department said Monday. The Treasury said it would hold a one-day public auction Tuesday of its remaining 465 million warrants in the bank.
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Verizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Power Grab
http://biggovernment.com/smotley/2011/01/24/verizon-sues-fcc-over-net-neutrality-power-grab/
Verizon Communications has become the first of what many expect to be many, to sue the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to undo its voting themselves Internet Overlords on December 21st.
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The World from The Hill: U.N. funding an early target for House Republicans
http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/foreign-policy/139563-the-world-from-the-hill-un-funding-an-early-target-for-house-republicans
A key House Republican is quickly pressing forward with her goals to scale back U.S. funding for the United Nations. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill that oversight would be a key function of the panel, particularly funding to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) that is “a waste of taxpayer dollars.”
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Postal Service Eyes Closing Thousands of Post Offices
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704881304576094000352599050.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories
HOLMES MILL, Ky.—The U.S. Postal Service plays two roles in America: an agency that keeps rural areas linked to the rest of the nation, and one that loses a lot of money.
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Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/22/AR2011012204111.html
AUSTIN – The suspect’s house, just west of this city, sat on a hilltop at the end of a steep, exposed driveway. Agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety believed the man inside had a large stash of drugs and a cache of weapons, including high-caliber rifles.
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Faceoff! States tell feds to back down
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=253521
What if Washington made a law and nobody paid attention? Or even more significantly, what if states specifically repudiated it and threatened to prosecute those enforcing it?
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Three SEIU Locals–Including Chicago Chapter–Waived From Obamacare Requirement
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/seiu-locals-including-chicago-chapter-wa
(CNSNews.com) – Three local chapters of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), whose political action committee spent $27 million supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, have received temporary waivers from a provision in the Obamacare law.
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A Guide to the Ideas and Violent Rhetoric of Frances Fox Piven
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-guide-to-the-ideas-and-violent-rhetoric-of-frances-fox-piven/
Who’s really calling for violence, Glenn Beck or Frances Fox Piven? There’s been some talk recently criticizing Glenn Beck for speaking out against Frances Fox Piven and her calls for “angry” revolution.
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Suddenly Radical Frances Fox Piven Is Old “Widowed College Professor”
http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/01/24/suddenly-radical-frances-fox-piven-is-old-widowed-college-professor/
Frances Fox Piven has a history of flame-throwing. She’s better known as one-half of the infamous Cloward-Piven strategy, wherein she and her husband published a theory detailing how people could overwhelm the system, break the system, and then get higher, guaranteed income. From magic.
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Globalization Destruction: Piven Gleefully ‘Hopes’ and Explains How Countries Like China Can Shut Down USA and Bring Revolutionary Transformation
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/globalization-destruction-piven-gleefully-hopes-and-explains-how-countries-like-china-can-shut-down-usa-and-bring-revolutionary-transformation/
Basic Globalization Revolution Theory: Our computers, information technology, energy, even some food is all imported from authoritarian nations whose workers make less than dollars a day .
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Young Communists Launch National ‘Red School-Bus Tour’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/young-communists-launch-national-red-school-bus-tour/
It‘s communism that’s about 40 feet long and rolls along on four wheels. And it could be coming to a town near you. The Southern California Young Communist League (YCL), a branch of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), announced on its website that it’s launching a “National Red School-Bus Tour.” The YCL calls each stop on the tour “weekend long schools” for “young activists.” So what exactly is this tour all about?
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China’s New Stealth Fighter May Use Technology From Downed U.S. Plane
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chinas-new-stealth-fighter-may-use-technology-from-downed-u-s-plane/
BRUSSELS (AP) — Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.
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Chinese Pianist Lang Lang Plays Anti-American Tune at White House
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-chinese-pianist-play-anti-american-tune-at-white-house/
Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online. Early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand.
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Soldiers Kill 10 Gunmen in Mexico Clash Along Texas Border
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/soldiers-kill-10-gunmen-in-mexico-clash-along-texas-border/
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Soldiers patrolling a rural area on the border with Texas killed 10 suspected drug gang gunmen at a training camp, Mexico’s Defense Department said Saturday.
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Ankara: Israel fired on ‘Mavi Marmara’ before boarding
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?ID=205004&R=R1
Excerpts from Turkey’s report on the IDF’s May 31, 2010 interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla were released on Monday, in reaction to the publication of the Turkel Commission’s findings. The Turkel report affirmed that Israel’s actions on May 31, 2010 were “legal pursuant to the rules of international law.
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Iran announces launch of new cyber police units
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2011/01/23/iran_announces_launch_of_new_cyber_police_units/
TEHRAN, Iran—Iran’s state TV says the country has launched its first cyber police unit in the latest attempt by authorities to gain an edge in the digital world.
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Global Price Fears Mount
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703398504576099680269779402.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories
Inflation fears—fueled by spiraling food, oil and raw material prices—are mounting around the globe, prompting the head of the European Central Bank to signal that it could raise interest rates in the future even though some countries have been weakened by the Continent’s debt crisis.
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Climate change: Dogs of law are off the leash
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jLQy3ze-D7N4ZQzyDjvLA8ChIEhQ?docId=CNG.0974f2ca1c91adea909b6017dc4d554e.471
PARIS — From being a marginal and even mocked issue, climate-change litigation is fast emerging as a new frontier of law where some believe hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake.
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Determined Rescuers Save Dog Stranded on Frozen Pond
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/21/determined-rescuers-don-survival-suits-and-save-lost-dog-strande/
After several failed attempts, rescuers donned survival gear and retrieved a lost dog that had been skittering around the frozen surface of a 160-acre reservoir for days.

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News Articles For 1/20

January 20, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Afghanistan airdrop levels set record in 2010
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123238996
1/19/2011 – SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFNS) — Mobility Airmen supporting operations in Afghanistan airdropped 60.4 million pounds of cargo airdropped throughout the country, setting a record.
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Blogger Recalls Husband’s Support When ‘Just a Boyfriend’
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2011/01/19/blogger-recalls-husband%E2%80%99s-support-when-%E2%80%98just-a-boyfriend%E2%80%99/
I’m pleased to introduce a new Family Matters guest blogger, Megan Just, a Navy veteran and the editor of the weekly newspaper at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif.
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Face of Defense: Father, Son Serve Together
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62514
PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 20, 2011 – Most soldiers who are deployed miss their homes. But for Army Spc. Steven Starkey and Army Pfc. Andrew Starkey, a large part of what the word “home” represents is just a five-minute walk up the hill.
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House Approves ObamaCare Repeal
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/house-approves-obamacare-repeal/
In a vote of 245-189, Republicans were victorious in passing a measure to repeal President Obama’s signature health care overhaul law. The final vote tally includes one no vote — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., who continues her recovery. In addition, three Democrats voted with a solid Republican voting bloc to repeal the law — Ross (AR), McIntyre (NC) and Boren (OK).
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26 States Join Suit Against Obama Health Law
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/18/states-join-obama-health-care-lawsuit-fla/
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Six more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Obama’s health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law.
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Conservatives Unveil $2.5 Trillion Spending Cut Proposal
http://biggovernment.com/rbluey/2011/01/20/conservatives-unveil-2-5-trillion-rescission-proposal-warn-gop-leaders-not-to-break-the-pledge/
The conservative House Republican Study Committee today will unveil a rescission bill that will save $2.5 trillion over 10 years. It’s a bold proposal that returns federal spending to pre-Obama levels, eliminates remaining stimulus money and ends more than 100 specific programs.
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Welfare Tab for Children of Illegal Immigrants Estimated at $600M in L.A. County
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/19/welfare-tab-children-illegal-immigrants-estimated-m-la-county/
Welfare benefits for the children of illegal immigrants cost America’s largest county more than $600 million last year, according to a local official keeping tabs on the cost.
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Florida legislator may dial back proposed Arizona-style law
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/fl-immigration-law-florida-20110118,0,1751163.story
TALLAHASSEE — Concern about scaring tourists and potential high-tech workers away from the Sunshine State is threatening passage of the Arizona-style immigration measure backed by Gov. Rick Scott.
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Kansas proposal: Prove you’re a citizen if you want to vote
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/19/107019/kansas-secretary-of-state-kobach.html
TOPEKA — Secretary of State Kris Kobach says Kansans should have to prove they’re U.S. citizens when registering to vote and show a photo ID before casting a ballot.
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D.C. expanding public surveillance camera net
http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/01/dc-expanding-its-public-surveillance-camera-network
Big Brother may already be watching you in the District, and he will soon have a lot more eyes trained in your direction. The city’s homeland security agency is planning to add thousands of security cameras from private businesses around the nation’s capital and the Metro system to the thousands of electronic eyes that authorities are already monitoring 24/7.
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Union Protesters Overwhelm Security and Barge Into Banking Meeting
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/union-protesters-overwhelm-security-and-barge-into-banking-meeting/
A group of about 200 union protesters overwhelmed security at a Washington, D.C. hotel and barged into a mortgage banking meeting on Wednesday, according to the Huffington Post.
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Clinton: Chinese Companies Don’t Abide by Sanctions On Iran
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/33691.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that some Chinese companies are not adhering to the sanctions regime on Iran because of its nuclear activities and that the U.S. is taking up the issue with the Chinese leadership. Clinton’s statement coincided with Chinese President Hu’s visit in Washington yesterday.
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Hezbollah Staged a Mock Takeover of Beirut
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/01/20/hezbollah-staged-a-mock-takeover-of-beirut/
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported that Hezbollah activists performed a drill on Monday attempting to take over the Lebanese capitol of Beirut. According to the report, the activists practiced “a real, unarmed drill meant to test their readiness to takeover Beirut and its surroundings, including airports and harbors.”
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Judge OKs ‘flag of Islam on American soil’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=253009
Attorneys for a Marine Corps veteran of the Iraq War say they have filed a petition to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a federal district judge ruled it is OK for the U.S. government to fund commercial enterprises that promote the indoctrination of Islamic law, or Shariah, in the United States.
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Islamists [Radical Muslims] Say Be ‘Cutters of Necks’; Sex With Prepubescent Girls Okay
http://bigpeace.com/amutarajjam/2011/01/19/islamists-say-be-cutters-of-necks-sex-with-prepubescent-girls-okay/
“You must strike the crowns of the heads,” explains Egyptian Shaykh Safwat Hejazi on his Arabic-language program “Age of Glory,” which airs on the Egyptian al-Nas satellite television network.
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Recruits trained in terror, returned to North America
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=253093
Security analysts are increasing alarmed because al-Qaida not only has been recruiting Westerners as terrorists and sending them back to their home countries but because the “home country” in an increasing number of cases shares with the United States the world’s longest essentially unprotected border – Canada, according to Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin..
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Japan hits ‘critical point’ on state debt
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4c1ddc9a-23d3-11e0-8bb1-00144feab49a.html#axzz1BadVSVnG
Japan has hit a “critical point” where it risks losing investor confidence if politicians fail to reach agreement on how to rein in the ballooning national debt, a cabinet minister has warned.
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Spain to Ramp Up Bailout of Banks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703951704576092133248887432.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
Spain plans to pour billions more euros into its troubled savings banks and force them to be more open about their lending practices, people familiar with the matter said, an acknowledgment that previous efforts to fix the banks have fallen flat as the country seeks to ward off an international bailout.
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Spokeo a Growing Threat to Internet Privacy, Cyber Security Experts Warn
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/19/spokeo-cyber-security-warn-threat-privacy/
Think your data isn’t online? Think your privacy is secure? Take a minute to visit Spokeo and you’ll change your mind. The popular information-gathering website offers a multitude of options for finding information about anyone.
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Digital Photos Hide Data — and Cyberstalkers Can Find It, Expert Warns
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/01/19/geotagging-risks-dangers-twitter/?test=latestnews
A picture’s worth a thousand words — especially for cyberstalkers. Social networking and smartphones go hand in hand for the web savvy. But few people realize they may be giving away more than they plan to when they post even the most innocuous photos from their Blackberry phones or Apple iPhones.
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Climate change study had ‘significant error’: experts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110119/ts_afp/climatewarmingfood_20110119163335
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A climate change study that projected a 2.4 degree Celsius increase in temperature and massive worldwide food shortages in the next decade was seriously flawed, scientists said Wednesday.
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NY Cop Rescues Girl, 11, Who Fell Through Ice
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/18/ny-cop-matthew-dematteo-rescues-sarah-thalhammer-11-who-fell-t/
She was up to her neck in the icy water, about 50 yards from shore. Eleven-year-old Sarah Thalhammer was rescued by a police office who crawled out to where she had fallen through a partially frozen bay on New York’s Long Island. Sarah, a sixth-grader, went into the water when the neighbor’s dog she was walking broke free and pulled her onto the thin ice on Great South Bay in Sayville.

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News Articles For 1/19

January 19, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Afghans, Coalition Broaden Assault on Insurgent Leaders
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62488
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2011 – Coalition and Afghan forces have removed dozens of insurgents from the fight across broad sections of Afghanistan in recent days, including 15 in the past 24 hours, military officials reported.
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Face of Defense: Sailors Handle Variety of Tasks
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62491
ARABIAN GULF, Jan. 19, 2011 – Armed with scissors, clippers, keys to the ship’s store and laundry detergent, the sailors who wear the crossed quill and key of the ship’s serviceman, or SH, rating badge provide a multitude of services to the crew of amphibious transport dock USS Ponce.
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Obama‘s ’Equity, Human Dignity, Fairness, and Distributive Impacts’ Exec. Order
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obamas-equity-human-dignity-fairness-and-distributive-impacts-exec-order/
Yesterday, President Obama made news by penning an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal reportedly showing a new pro-business approach. The op-ed announced a new executive order that would root out “dumb” and “outdated” regulations that “stifle job creation and make our economy less competitive.”
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South Carolina NAACP Shields Audience From…George Washington?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/south-carolina-naacp-shields-audience-from-george-washington/
The South Carolina NAACP honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday while simultaneously dishonoring the nation’s first president. An organized rally — dubbed “King Day at the Dome” — protested the Confederate battle flag on display at the State House in Columbia and featured speakers and guests who called on government leaders to address “racial disparities” in education, health care, community development, criminal justice, employment and economic development in the state.
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Net Neutrality Power Grab Is Worse than Obamacare
http://biggovernment.com/smotley/2011/01/19/net-neutrality-power-grab-is-worse-than-obamacare/
There are a lot of similarities between the nine-month-long shove of ObamaCare across the legislative finish line and the four-plus year Media Marxist push to the December 21st 3-2 Democrat Party-line Federal Communications Commission (FCC) vote to impose Network Neutrality.
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Oh no! Here come the Mexican trucks again
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=252861
The Obama administration is preparing once again to allow Mexican trucks to roam freely on U.S. roads under the auspices of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, with or without the approval of Congress.
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Video Shows Women Climbing U.S.-Mexico Border Fence in Less Than 18 Seconds
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/18/video-shows-young-women-climbing-mexico-border-fence-seconds/
Less than 18 seconds. That’s how long it took two young women to climb a U.S.-Mexico border fence that costs millions of dollars in taxpayer money.
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China got stealth tech from Russia: US lawmaker
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1734e29676bf18c765a683ae3458575d.2c1&show_article=1
China got the technology for its first stealth fighter jet from Russia, a senior US lawmaker said Tuesday, one week after the airplane apparently made its maiden flight.
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Soros tells Europe to bolster banks
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.e11f7dedaf49caece2070074770034a6.51&show_article=1
US billionaire George Soros urged Europe on Wednesday to recapitalise its banks in addition to creating a new aid programme for heavily indebted countries.
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Hungarian PM warns EU to back off, stop meddling
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110119/ap_on_re_eu/eu_eu_hungary
STRASBOURG, France – The Hungarian prime minister told European Union politicians Wednesday not to meddle in Hungarian politics while his country holds the EU’s presidency, warning that the entire EU would suffer.
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Tucson Video Shows Judge Saving Other Victim
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704590704576091182570569782.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories
TUCSON, Ariz.—Arizona federal Judge John Roll appears to have died while saving the life of another man during the shooting rampage here on Jan. 8, according to an investigator who has viewed surveillance video from the crime scene.
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Christina Taylor Green Cornea Donation Saves Eyesight Of 2 Children
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/18/christina-taylor-green-cornea-donation_n_810144.html
TUCSON, Ariz. — Donated corneas from the young girl killed in the Arizona mass shooting have saved the eyesight of two children, the girl’s father told The Associated Press on Monday.

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News Articles For 1/17

January 17, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Hell road hero
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/3352865/BRAVE-soldier-Iain-Martin-defuses-12-bombs-in-10-hours.html
BRAVE soldier Iain Martin lies flat to defuse a bomb in Afghanistan – one of TWELVE he made safe in just ten hours. It was a record for the number deactivated in a single operation. The Improvised Explosive Devices were planted by the Taliban on the notorious Bandi Barq Road near Gereshk.
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World War II Veteran Gets High School Diploma 67 Years Later
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/15/world-war-ii-veteran-hilberto-rodriguez-gets-high-school-diploma/
Hilberto Rodriguez graduated from Garfield High School in Los Angeles this week — a mere 67 years late. Rodriguez, 86, was meant to graduate in the class of 1944, KABC reported. But history intervened in the shape of World War II.
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Veterans remember Desert Storm 20 years later
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/01/vets_remember_desert_storm_20.html
Twenty years ago the skies over Baghdad were stitched by the blazing threads of missiles and anti-aircraft fire, woven into a tapestry of tracers, flashes and flares.
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Service members, civilians honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4006-service-members-civilians-honor-dr-martin-luther-king-jr.html
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Spending Dr. Martin Luther King Day deployed to Afghanistan didn’t stop Americans from celebrating it. Servicemembers and civilians honored Dr. King with a five-kilometer run on Jan. 15 and a held a series of event s on Monday.
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Afghanistan’s push to tax U.S. contractors could renew tensions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/16/AR2011011603645.html
The Afghan government is ramping up efforts to tax U.S. contractors operating there – an effort that could raise millions for the cash-strapped government but could also provoke fresh confrontation with the United States, according to U.S. and Afghan officials.
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Rep. Issa’s House Panel Requests Homeland Security Documents
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rep-issas-house-panel-requests-homeland-security-documents/
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee wants the Homeland Security Department to provide documents about a policy requiring political appointees to review many Freedom of Information Act requests before releasing them.
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Chinese President Criticizes Fed Reserve, Questions U.S. Dollar
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chinese-president-criticizes-fed-reserve-questions-u-s-dollar/
Ahead of a visit to Washington this week, Chinese President Hu Jintao criticized the Federal Reserve for dollar devaluation and called the current international currency system — which features the U.S. dollar — a “product of the past.”
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Feds come knocking for home inspections
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=251069
A sanitation district in Pennsylvania has notified homeowners that its representatives will be making personal visits to every structure served by its network of drainpipes because that’s what the federal Environmental Protection Agency is demanding.
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Texans to TSA: You keep scanners, we’ll keep privacy
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=251041
You’ve heard the Texas jokes, such as: A New Yorker points to Niagara Falls and tells a Texan, “You don’t have anything like that!” To which the Texan responds, “Naw, but we got a plumber who can fix it in 30 minutes.”
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Officials: CAIR obstructs FBI terror probes
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=251661
After negative press forced the removal of a poster urging Muslims to “build a wall of resistance” against the FBI, the Council on American-Islamic Relations insisted it has consistently maintained a policy of cooperation with federal authorities investigating terrorism in the Muslim community. Accounts by law enforcement officials and recently obtained documents cast doubt on the claim, however.
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Gang’s terror felt far from drug war on US border
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/01/17/gangs-terror-felt-far-from-drug-war-on-us-border/
A priest who shelters stranded migrants needs police protection. A chopped-up body turns up with a threatening message. Beheadings are on the rise. The local press is too frightened to write about any of it.
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‘Explosive’ Food Prices the Biggest Risk: Analyst
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41089972
Overheating emerging markets, in China in particular, pose the biggest threat to the market and political situation in 2011 according to Philippe Gijsels, head of research at BNP Paribas Fortis Global Markets.
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Cyber-attacks could cause global ‘catastrophe’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8262628/Cyber-attacks-could-cause-global-catastrophe.html
A succession of multiple cyber-attacks could “become a full-scale global shock” on a par with a pandemic and the collapse of the world financial system, the report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said.
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Jihadis Hail Their ‘Heroes’ in the West
http://bigpeace.com/ipt/2011/01/17/jihadis-hail-their-heroes-in-the-west/
Two westerners who gave up seemingly comfortable lives to wage terrorist attacks are singled out for praise in the latest issue of Inspire, al-Qaida’s English-language magazine.
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UK Government Plans Major Health Care Reforms
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12631311
Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday waded into terrain where past British governments have foundered, promising fundamental changes to the country’s expensive and over-stressed public health care system.
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Group targeting Glenn Beck funded by Soros
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=251905
An organization leading a crusade demanding Fox News fire host Glenn Beck is backed by philanthropist George Soros and is tied to many of the liberal activists that Beck routinely excoriates on his highly rated program, WND has learned.
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Crowd Gives 8-Year-Old an Assist During National Anthem [VIDEO]
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/14/crowd-gives-8-year-old-elizabeth-hughes-an-assist-during-nationa/
Eight-year-old Elizabeth Hughes’ voice is so clear and pure, a video of her singing “The Star Spangled Banner” before a minor-league hockey game in Norfolk, Va., might have ended up on YouTube anyway — even without the technical mishap that threatened to ruin her song.

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