Operation Rooster

Airstrike in Logar Province Kills Taliban Leader
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62552
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2011 – A coalition airstrike yesterday in the Pol-e Alam district of Afghanistan’s Logar province killed a Taliban logistics leader, military officials reported.
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ANSF, TF Bastogne counters insurgency in Kunar
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/press-releases-mainmenu-326/4038-ansf-tf-bastogne-counters-insurgency-in-kunar.html
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Coalition troops and their Afghan National Security Forces partners joined together to conduct operations in the Khas Kunar District of Kunar Province Jan. 21-22.
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Face of Defense: Guard Soldier Loses 100 Pounds
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62564
PINEVILLE, La., Jan. 25, 2011 – Army Spc. Alejandro Zuniga of the Louisiana National Guard scored 401 points on his most recent Army physical fitness test — something even he found hard to believe, considering the state he was in less than two years ago.
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New Hidden Missile System Unknown To Feds
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25555225/detail.html
ATLANTA — A Russian weapons company is marketing a new missile system that is hidden inside an ordinary shipping container. It can turn a ship, train or truck into a long range missile launcher. Channel Two Action News anchor Justin Farmer investigated the threat and found officials at the Port of Savannah had never heard of the Club K Missile system.
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Pakistanis Suing the CIA and US Over Drone Attacks: Want $500 Million Per Victim
http://bigpeace.com/stzu/2011/01/24/pakistanis-suing-the-cia-and-us-over-drone-attacks-want-500-million-per-victim/
Even though it is President Obama who has ramped up the use of drone attacks to deal with militants in Pakistan, he is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit. A lawyer representing the plaintiffs admits that $500 million per victim is “very high” but he believes it is “appropriate.”
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Fannie, Freddie Stick Taxpayers with $160 Million in Legal Bills
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/01/24/fannie-freddie-stick-taxpayers-with-160-million-in-legal-bills/
Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the companies and their regulator produced an accounting at the request of Congress.
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GOP pushing for ISPs to record user data
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029393-281.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
The House Republicans’ first major technology initiative is about to be unveiled: a push to force Internet companies to keep track of what their users are doing.
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Renewed Push to Give Obama an Internet “Kill Switch”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20029302-501465.html
A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a “national cyberemergency,” and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year.
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NY Magazine: Obama Never Had Any Contact With Half a Dozen Top Cabinet Members in First Two Years
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nyt-magazine-obama-never-had-any-contact-with-half-a-dozen-top-cabinet-members-in-first-two-years/
NOTE: This is a clip from MSNBC and is 1:38 long.
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Insidious & Scary: Frances Fox Piven Answers Glenn Beck
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/insidious-scary-frances-fox-piven-answers-glenn-beck/
NOTE: This is a clip from MSNBC and is 4:28 long.
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New DNC director led socialist party offshoot
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=255301
Patrick Gaspard, tapped as the new executive director of the Democratic National Committee, was a lead activist for a political party that was an offshoot of a socialist group.
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‘ACORN’ is reborn in [Brooklyn]
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/acorn_is_reborn_in_klyn_S7iU9OTmK0vB5kf2lBkdhL
Watch out! ACORN is back — in all but its name. Backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars in union donations, New York Communities for Change — a rebranded version of the controversial organization that closed up shop amid several scandals — is acting again as labor’s attack dog on controversial issues.
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FBI asks for KREM 2′s help with backpack bomb investigation
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/01/24/fbi-asks-for-krem-2s-help-with-backpack-bomb-investigation/
Fox News reports the FBI is turning to KREM 2 News for help one week after city workers discovered a bomb in Downtown Spokane. Investigators are requesting all of KREM 2’s video to help piece together the domestic terrorism act.
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Security crisis talks after US smuggler gets 80 handguns into Britain on passenger jets
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/01/24/security-crisis-talks-after-us-smuggler-gets-80-handguns-into-britain-on-passenger-jets/
Australia’s Herald Sun reports British and American authorities held crisis talks today, after dozens of handguns were reportedly smuggled into the UK on passenger flights from the US.
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Gunmen open fire at soccer game, 7 dead – Mexico
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/01/24/gunmen-open-fire-at-soccer-game-7-dead-mexico/
A group of heavily armed men opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, killing seven people and wounding two others, according to a municipal police spokesman.
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Woman mayor shows her horrific scars after surviving two assassination attempts by Mexican gangs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350323/Mayor-Maria-Santos-Gorrostietas-scars-2-attempted-assassinations-Mexican-gangs.html
Baring her mutilated body for the camera, Maria Santos Gorrostieta shows the horrific results of two assassination attempts by Mexican criminals. As the mayor of the town of Tiquicheo, she has become a key target for drug gangs who have turned the country into a grotesquely violent narco-state.
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Egyptians denounce Mubarak, clash with riot police
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110125/D9KVDU800.html
CAIRO (AP) – Thousands of anti-government protesters, some hurling rocks and climbing atop an armored police truck, clashed with riot police Tuesday in the center of Cairo in a Tunisia-inspired demonstration to demand the end of Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30 years in power.
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Hizbullah candidate Mikati to form new Lebanese gov’t
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=205167&R=R3
BEIRUT — Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah supported Lebanese President Michel Suleiman’s formal appointment of the Hizbullah-backed candidate Najib Mikati to prime minister-designate.
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NASA Targets ‘Climate Kids’ With New Global Warming Website
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nasa-targets-climate-kids-with-new-global-warming-website/
NASA, the government agency that put a man on the moon and sent robots to Mars, is turning its focus around and working on spreading information among the public about the earth’s apparent impending doom. A new agency website dubbed “Climate Kids” has “NASA’s eyes on the earth.”
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Woman gives up kidney for a friend
http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/woman-gives-up-kidney-for-a-friend
REMINGTON, Ind. (WLFI) – A 72-year-old woman from Wolcott will receive the greatest gift of her life next week, thanks to one of her daughter’s friends. The friend made a selfless decision to give back.
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45 Astonishing Examples of Long Exposure Photography
http://luketechtips.com/a-neat-blog-about-tech/45-astonishing-examples-of-long-exposure-photography.html
Today we bring you an enticing article about long exposure photography. Long exposure photography is a technique in which a camera’s shutter is left open to expose over a longer period of time (be it 8 seconds or 8 hours).