Afghan, Coalition Forces Stop Insurgent Attack in Afghanistan
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62068
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Afghan and coalition forces yesterday disrupted a Taliban plot to carry out suicide bombings in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, military officials reported.
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Operation Toy Drop Proves ‘Santa is a Paratrooper’
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62067
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Pouring rain didn’t dampen the holiday spirit as thousands of paratroopers descended over Fort Bragg, N.C., this weekend, kicking off the world’s largest combined airborne operation while ensuring Santa doesn’t overlook a single needy child.
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On wings of Blue Angels, toy journeys from one heart to another
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/13/blue.angels.christmas/index.html?hpt=C1
Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia (CNN) — The Blue Angels C-130, Fat Albert, moves like a lumbering fullback down the runway, its engines roaring. A hula girl hood ornament, on the cockpit dash, shakes her hips.
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Guardsmen, Reservists Can Nominate Employers for Awards
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62063
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 13, 2010 – Reserve-component servicemembers still have time to nominate their employers for the 2011 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, the Defense Department’s highest honor for employers who provide exceptional support for employees who serve in the National Guard or reserves.
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Families to Get More Child Care Options
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/12/13/families-to-get-more-child-care-options/
A recurring challenge for military families, particularly those of the Guard and Reserve, is child care. They primarily live off base, many far from an active-duty installation, and are challenged to find the same high-quality, flexible care in their community that they would find on any base nationwide.
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World War II Navy Ace Recalls Harrowing Mission
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62062
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – When the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, America sought retribution and finally took up arms. It wasn’t until almost three years later that the country would receive its final closure.
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Face of Defense: Grandson Continues ‘Band of Brothers’ Tradition
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62078
FORT BRAGG, N.C., Dec. 14, 2010 – Even at 80 years old, Frederick “Moose” Heyliger was an enormous man, according to his grandson, who serves with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade.
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A Soros Story: Recounts, Coincidences, and Connections
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-soros-story-recounts-coincidences-and-connections/
In the world of George Soros, it’s hard to believe that much is a coincidence. But let’s entertain the possibility of some such coincidences for the next few minutes.
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He Sent ‘Guerrillas’: ‘Puppet Master’ George Soros — Influence & Funding of USA Financial Reform ‘Revolution’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/he-sent-guerrillas-puppet-master-george-soros-influence-funding-of-usa-financial-reform-revolution/
NOTE: This is a 5:09 long video.
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Look who’s now getting special travel privileges
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239401
In a further indication that the “North American Union” agenda is quietly proceeding under what remains of the Security and Prosperity Partnership initiative in the Obama administration, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano signed, with little fanfare, an agreement in Mexico that would extend special “trusted traveler” access to the U.S. to an estimated 84 million Mexicans.
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‘F*** the Rich’: Cape Cod Arsonist Targets Homes of the Wealthy
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/f-the-rich-cape-cod-arsonist-targets-homes-of-the-wealthy/
Upscale towns in Massachusetts are on alert as police and fire officials are investigating another fire in which an arsonist scawled a “f*** the rich” graffiti message at the scene. The latest incident in Sandwich follows another suspicious incident in Barnstable.
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School board votes to clear hunter’s record
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239465
A 16-year-old hunter in Montana who was threatened with expulsion from her public school after she forgot a rifle in the trunk of her car after a holiday trip and drove it to a school parking lot has been told her record will be cleared at the end of this school year.
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Canadians With More Debt Than U.S. Spark Policy Makers’ Warning
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-14/canadians-with-more-debt-than-u-s-spark-policy-makers-warning.html
Canada’s top economic officials yesterday urged households to be wary of taking on too much debt after data showed the indebtedness of Canadians surpassed U.S. levels for the first time in 12 years.
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Food, Clothing Lead Rising British Inflation
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/food-clothing-lead-rising-british-inflation/
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s stubbornly high consumer inflation rate rose to 3.3 percent in November from 3.2 percent the month before, driven by a surge in food and clothing costs.
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See who’s working together to stop Iran
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239357
JERUSALEM – Israel and Saudi Arabia have stepped up their behind-the-scenes coordination to deal with the threat of Iranian nuclear ambitions, according to informed Middle East security officials.
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The wind is no longer at Voyager’s back
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/13/the-wind-is-no-longer-at-voyagers-back/
Voyager 1 is one of the most successful space missions of all time. Launched in 1977, it visited Jupiter and then Saturn, providing better close-ups of the two planets than had ever been seen before.
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Escape by a whisker: Quick-thinking cat saves house from fire… by opening the window
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338245/Cat-prevents-house–By-opening-window.html
A clever cat has been hailed a hero after he prevented his owners’ home from burning down – by opening a window. Five-year-old Pepper has learned to open windows and lets himself out every night by hopping on to a kitchen worktop and using his paws to turn the latch.
News Articles For 12/14
December 14, 2010 — Operation RoosterNews Articles For 8/1
August 1, 2010 — Operation RoosterISF arrest 13 suspected AQI criminal associates in northern Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/isf-arrest-13-suspected-aqi-criminal-associates-in-northern-iraq
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested 13 suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) criminal associates during joint security operations in northern Iraq today.
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Suspected AQI criminal associate arrested in northern Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/suspected-aqi-criminal-associate-arrested-in-northern-iraq
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) criminal associate during a joint security operation in northern Iraq today.
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Timing of National Guard’s Deployment to Southwest Border Stirs Confusion, Anger
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/31/timing-national-guards-deployment-southwest-border-stirs-confusion-anger/
The 1,200 National Guard troops expected to arrive Sunday on the southwest border for reinforcement won’t finish deploying until late September, federal officials say, stirring confusion and anger among Arizona lawmakers who thought the deadline was Aug. 1.
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Thanks, Big Labor: Senator Bob Casey’s $165 Billion Union Bailout
http://biggovernment.com/sahiller/2010/07/31/thanks-big-labor-senator-bob-caseys-165-billion-union-bailout/
Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) has trouble remembering his roots as Pennsylvania’s state treasurer and auditor general. During his Senate campaign, he claimed to be a fiscal hawk and to have saved Pennsylvanians $1 billion of taxpayer money.
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State to citizens: No more petitions for you
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=185741
An amendment of the Massachusetts Constitution proposed by Democrats could virtually put an end to citizen-initiated referendums in the state. The amendment, proposed jointly by state Rep. Byron Rushing in the House and by state Sen. Cynthia Stone Creem in the Senate, would exclude any citizen petition that deals with issues concerning a person’s right to “the enjoyment of life, liberty and property, according to standing laws.”
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Covert Influence—Russian Operations Changed America (Part 1)
http://bigpeace.com/kclizbe/2010/07/31/covert-influencerussian-operations-changed-america-part-1/
This June the FBI arrested a group of Russian intelligence officers and agents. American commentators were puzzled at the spies’ lack of success in stealing “secrets.”
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Covert Influence—Russian Operations Changed America (Part 2)
http://bigpeace.com/kclizbe/2010/08/01/covert-influencerussian-operations-changed-america-part-2/
In covert influence, the payload is subtle. When done correctly, it is hard to identify the payload as anything but the creator’s point of view. The payload is disguised as critical thinking, cultural criticism, or intellectual theorizing.
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Two Kidnapped Television Journalists Rescued by Mexican Police in Durango
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-01/two-kidnapped-television-journalists-rescued-by-mexican-police-in-durango.html
Mexico’s federal police rescued two journalists yesterday who the government said were kidnapped in an attempt by billionaire Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman’s drug cartel to exert power in the media.
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Israel agrees to U.N. investigation of Gaza flotilla raid
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=186213
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations’ determined effort to form an international board of inquiry into the Israeli raid on a Turkish-based “humanitarian flotilla” trying to run the Gaza blockade in May has broken Jerusalem’s resistance to the investigation.
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Hariri hit suspect is Hizbullah bigwig
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=183090
The UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon is reportedly set to announce that Mustafa Badr al-Din, a senior Hizbullah operative and close relative of the former Hizbullah terror chief Imad Mughniyeh, is the main suspect in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri.
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Woman chronicled her own death from meningitis in phone pictures as doctors told her spreading rash was only a ‘minor infection’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298960/Woman-25-dying-blood-poisoning-texted-photos-deadly-rash-mother-doctors-ignored-her.html#ixzz0vCP3fK1E
A desperate patient texted photos of a deadly rash spreading across her body to her mother as she lay dying on a hospital bed while being ignored by NHS doctors.
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EU rules are making our doctors ‘lazy clock-watchers’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7920136/EU-rules-are-making-our-doctors-lazy-clock-watchers.html
A year after the EU directive limiting workers to a 48-hour week was brought in for the NHS, 80 per cent of consultants polled by the Royal College of Surgeons said quality of care had already been damaged by the changes, with risks to patients who are repeatedly “handed” from one shift to the next.
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‘In the middle of the operation, my colleague said he had to go – it was his home time’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7920621/In-the-middle-of-the-operation-my-colleague-said-he-had-to-go-it-was-his-home-time.html
Senior doctor Tony Strong, 37, works an 80-hour week, despite a recent European ruling that it should be no more than 48. In this diary, he exposes why the rules are bad for doctors and patients alike.
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More women becoming virgins again with hymen replacement operations on the NHS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298684/Surge-virginity-repair-operations-NHS.html
Increasing numbers of women are having taxpayer-funded ‘virginity repair’ operations before marriage. There were 116 hymen replacement operations carried out on the NHS between 2005 and 2009. The total for 2009 was 30, up 25 per cent from 24 in 2005.
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Patients, hospitals wrestle over tumor tissue
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20100729_Patients__hospitals_wrestle_over_tumor_tissue.html
All Niki Perry wanted was pieces of her own brain, and she got angrier by the day as she tried to get them. She needed samples of her brain tumor this spring to enter clinical trials she hoped might save her life.
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Colombia denies Chávez’s accusations that it plans to invade Venezuela
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/0801/Colombia-denies-Chavez-s-accusations-that-it-plans-to-invade-Venezuela
One day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ordered troops sent to the border, Colombia denied Saturday that it had any intention of invading its ‘brother country.’
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Sixth-Grader’s Harvest Stocks Food Pantry Shelves
http://www.gnn.com/article/sixth-grader-katie-stagliano-stocks-food/1191641
(July 30) — The story of Katie’s Krops, a nonprofit providing vegetables to food pantries, begins with a 40-pound cabbage. Then 9, Katie Stagliano grew the cruciferous monster from a run-of-the-mill seedling.
News Articles For 7/28
July 28, 2010 — Operation RoosterISF arrest suspected AQI member in southwest Baghdad
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/isf-arrest-suspected-aqi-member-in-southwest-baghdad
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) member during a joint security operation today in southwest Baghdad.
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US transfers 1 of 3 remaining bases in Babil province
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/us-transfers-1-of-3-remaining-bases-in-babil
PATROL BASE MAHAWIL, Iraq – U.S. forces handed over Patrol Base Mahawil to the Iraqi government in a ceremony Sunday in Babil Province, leaving only two U.S. bases in the province.
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Deployments from a Parent’s Perspective
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/07/27/deployments-from-a-parents-perspective/
Lori J. Danby is the president and founder of the Tri Counties Blue Star Moms in Northern California. Her son, Marine Corps Cpl. Brian Danby served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Hero to be reunited with soldier he saved
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/dog_gets_his_day_haMOgDHiJOYZ3sFg3n0iBM
They became instant war heroes by foiling a suicide bomber trying to sneak into US soldiers’ quarters in Afghanistan, and as a reward, they’re getting homes — and lots of doggie treats.
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Obama Proclaims Korean War Armistice Day
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60185
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2010 – President Barack Obama has issued a proclamation declaring July 27 National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, to mark the signing of the Military Armistice Agreement at Panmunjom.
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Face of Defense: Marine Recalls Top-Tier Soccer Career
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60184
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C., July 27, 2010 – Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jose Pena, a warehouse chief with 2nd Maintenance Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group here, has been playing soccer at the highest levels for the Corps almost since the day he enlisted nearly 13 years ago.
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Leaked War Files Expose Identities of Afghan Informants
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/07/27/leaked-afghan-war-files-expose-identities-informants/
Hundreds of Afghan lives have been put at risk by the leaking of 90,000 intelligence documents to WikiLeaks because the files identify informants working with NATO forces.
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SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/07/28/sec-says-new-finreg-law-exempts-public-disclosure/
So much for transparency. Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.
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‘JournoList’ group tied to White House, radicals
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=184597
Among the individuals who were part of the controversial “JournoList” e-mail group were activists with ties to the White House and a socialist group closely linked for years to President Obama.
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What a Recess Appointment Gets Us
http://michelebachmann.townhall.com/blog/g/7994bd30-a610-4805-af00-b2364eb459a0
Speaker Nancy Pelosi commented before the vote on Obamacare that “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Similarly, since President Obama’s appointment of Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services occurred without a confirmation hearing, we’re just now beginning to learn what Berwick is all about.
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K Street goes to the defense of Charlie Rangel
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/K-Street-goes-to-the-defense-of-Charlie-Rangel-1004040-99363214.html
Every person accused of a crime or an ethics violation deserves a competent defense. Charlie Rangel’s legal defense, fittingly, comes from K Street. Two of the three firms providing legal counsel to Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., in his pending ethics cases are lobbying firms. In fact, one firm, Oldaker, Belair & Wittie, conducts much of Rangel’s political fundraising, while operating four different lobby shops.
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Democrat: Let’s have mandatory national service
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=184325
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., would reinstate a compulsory military draft during war time and require U.S. citizens not selected for military duty to perform a “national service obligation” – as defined by President Obama – for a minimum of two years.
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Mass. Legislature approves plan to bypass Electoral College
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/mass_legislatur.html?p1=News_links
The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote.
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Mexican Officials to Patrol Staten Island Following Latest Bias Attack
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Mexican-Man-Pummeled-in-Latest-Staten-Island-Hate-Attack-99325314.html
Police are investigating another assault on a Hispanic man in Staten Island as a possible hate crime — and the Mexican government is now getting involved as well.
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China’s Growing Military: Much Ado About Something (Part 1)
http://bigpeace.com/phuessy/2010/07/28/chinas-growing-military-much-ado-about-something-part-1/
China’s military power has long been assessed almost solely in terms of its ability to use that capability to invade the Republic of China or Taiwan. This has led some wags to ridicule American concerns, describing the PRC threat to Taiwan as akin to a “million-man swim” given the relative lack of amphibious landing and transportation capability in Peking.
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Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/?hpt=Sbin
Los Angeles, California (CNN) — Rick Norsigian kept two boxes he bought at a garage sale under his pool table for four years before realizing they may be too valuable to store at home.
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Your morning adorable: Lion cubs get a checkup at Israeli zoo
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2010/07/your-morning-adorable-lion-cubs-get-a-checkup-at-israeli-zoo.html
A pair of African lion cubs born at Israel’s Zoological Center Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan (also known as the Ramat Gan Safari) in May had their media debut Sunday when they received a checkup and their vaccinations.
News Articles For 6/6
June 6, 2010 — Operation RoosterNormandy ceremonies mark 66th anniversary of D-Day
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hlK7B89utqDEw5Gn8raOK264iKsgD9G5Q1M00
COLVILLE-SUR-MER, France — Veterans and those grateful for their sacrifices have marked the 66th anniversary of the D-Day landings, remembering the invasion that turned the tide of World War II.
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C-47, paratrooper flew into history in the sky over Normandy 66 years ago
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/06/c-47_paratrooper_flew_into_his.html
CANTON, Ohio — During a recent overcast day not unlike the gray skies that hovered over the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944, a small group of men labored to bring an aging C-47 airplane back to life — maybe not to its original flying grandeur but to something visually suitable for a valued relic of World War II.
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Memories of D-Day still vivid
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20100606_12_A13_WorldW833496
Bob Plumlee was an eyewitness to history, but there was no way he could describe what he saw. It was just too shocking. “It was the worst thing I’d seen up until then,” he said of the American bodies strewn up and down Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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Normandy Landings Failure Letter
http://www.historytimes.com/fresh-perspectives-in-history/military-history/world-war-2/325-normandy-landings-failure-letter
65 years ago [this article is from last year] on the 5th of June 1944 it was by no means certain that Operation Overlord (D-DAY) having already been postponed for 24 hours due to bad weather in the English Channel and now re-planned for the following day (6th June 1944) would end in success for the Allied forces due to be landing on the beaches of the Normandy coast on that fateful morning.
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Top US officer: Vets need not suffer alone
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100606/ap_on_re_us/us_mullen_d_day
BEDFORD, Va. – In a stirring tribute to the D-Day sacrifices of American soldiers and their allies, the U.S. military’s top officer said Sunday that World War II’s defining moment should remind all that returning warriors need not “suffer in quiet desperation.”
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Operation kills 4 suspected AQI terrorists, 3 arrested
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/operation-kills-4-suspected-aqi-terrorists-3-arrested
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces killed four suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) members and arrested three criminal associates during a joint security operation in northern Iraq.
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US, Iraq partner on Bank of Baghdad
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/us-iraq-partner-on-bank-of-baghdad
CAMP LIBERTY – The Iraqi-based Industrial Zone’s Golden Construction Company recently broke ground for the Bank of Baghdad here, one of 10 new banks to be opened throughout the country to help boost the Iraqi Dinar.
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2 NJ men arrested at airport on terrorism charges
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100606/ap_on_re_us/us_terrorism_arrests
NEW YORK – Two New Jersey men who wanted to kill American troops were arrested at a New York City airport before boarding flights on their way to join a jihadist group in Somalia, authorities said.
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Thousands rally in favor of Arizona immigration law
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/rally-to-hit-capitol-in-favor-of-arizona-immigration-law
PHOENIX – On Saturday, nearly 2,000 people gathered from around the country at the Arizona State Capitol in support of Arizona’s new immigration law. “It’s a grassroots effort that really took off,” Daniel Smeriglio, one of the people behind the march said Friday.
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Obama Under Fire for Backing Deal to Lift Global Ban on Commercial Whaling
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/05/obama-backing-deal-lift-global-ban-commercial-whaling/
Environmentalists, already peeved with the administration’s handling of the Gulf oil spill, are accusing President Obama of breaking his campaign pledge to end the slaughter of whales.
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Guv endorses imam accused of preaching taking up arms
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=162045
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is catching political heat for embracing an imam who is alleged to have preached the need to take up arms to defend the rights of Muslims.
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Founder of Ground Zero mosque part of group that helped fund Gaza flotilla
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/05/founder-of-ground-zero-mosque-part-of-group-that-helped-fund-gaza-flotilla/
More specifically, he’s part of a group that’s funding another group that helped organize the flotilla. Too far removed for culpability? Let’s see. The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group that helped sponsor the pro-Palestinian activists who clashed violently with Israeli commandos at sea this week.
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Iran offers escort for Gaza ships
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=177635
Iran would be willing to send its Revolutionary Guard members to accompany further aid ships to Gaza, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday in an interview cited by Reuters.
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Report: Erdogan considering visiting Gaza to ‘break blockade’
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-erdogan-considering-visiting-gaza-to-break-blockade-1.294326
Turkish PM may visit Gaza, ask Turkish Navy to accompany another aid flotilla, according to Lebanese newspaper; Turkish military opposes cutting security ties with Israel.
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Egypt to strip men married to Israelis of citizenship
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100605/wl_mideast_afp/egyptisraelmarriagecitizenshiptrial_20100605151410
CAIRO (AFP) – A Cairo court on Saturday upheld a ruling to strip Egyptian men married to Israeli women of their citizenship in a case that has highlighted national sentiment towards Israel.
