TF Patriot bids farewell to fallen hero
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4013-tf-patriot-bids-farewell-to-fallen-hero.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Members of Task Force Patriot, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Polk, La., gathered to honor a fallen comrade Jan. 17.
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TF Patriot leaders, comrades honor fallen Soldier
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4012-tf-patriot-leaders-comrades-honor-fallen-soldier.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A Task Force Patriot Soldier from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Polk, La. died as the result of an enemy attack in Logar Province Jan. 7.
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Face of Defense: Married Supply Sergeants Deploy Together
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62475
BAGHDAD, Jan. 18, 2011 – A married couple with the 1st Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Advise and Assist Brigade, is deployed here together, serving with U.S. Division Center.
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Frances Fox Piven: Calls for violence
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/01/16/francs-fox-piven-calls-for-violence/
On Friday, Glenn made a promise to his listeners to start showing the people who are calling for violence and chaos. In response to the tragedy in Arizona, Glenn wrote a pledge of nonviolence in which he called for people to stand against violence from all sides and directions.
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Supreme Court Will Hear Case of Man Arrested for Traveling With ‘Legal’ Gun
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/supreme-court-will-hear-case-of-man-arrested-for-traveling-with-legal-gun/
WASHINGTON (AP) — Missed flights only inconvenience most people. A late flight landed Utah gun owner Greg Revell in jail for 10 days after he got stranded in New Jersey with an unloaded firearm he had legally checked with his luggage in Salt Lake City.
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States Warned of $2 Trillion Pensions Shortfall
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41129099
US public pensions face a shortfall of $2,500 billion that will force state and local governments to sell assets and make deep cuts to services, according to the former chairman of New Jersey’s pension fund.
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The Coming Municipal Bond Meltdown
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/01/17/the-coming-municipal-bond-meltdown/
The municipal-bond market is in crisis, with prices fall ing and investors running for cover — and for good reason. Munis — bonds sold by states, cities, counties and other localities to finance government operations — are in trouble because the Ponzi scheme of Big Government is coming unglued. The markets are merely reflecting this reality, as they always do.
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Two charged over iPad hacking on AT&T network
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70H3BH20110118?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against two people accused of stealing the email addresses and other personal data of about 120,000 users of Apple Inc’s iPad tablet computer.
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NSA breaks ground on Utah ‘spy center’ data center
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/01/17/nsa-breaks-ground-on-utah-spy-center-data-center/
The National Security Agency is building one of the largest and most expensive data centers as a place to gather and analyze intelligence data. At $1.2 billion, this is the largest Department of Defense construction project underway. Officals broke ground at the site 25 miles south of Salt Lake City Thursday, and it will give NSA diversity with a separate data center beyond the one it has in Ft. Meade, Md., says NSA Deputy Director J. Chris Inglis.
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Obamacare challenge moves into 4th Circuit
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=252449
Liberty Counsel today told judges on the bench of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the Obamacare law signed by Barack Obama last year simply exceeds the authority the Constitution grants to Congress and the president and it must be overturned.
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Record Food Prices Causing Africa Riots Stoke U.S. Farm Economy
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-18/record-food-prices-causing-africa-riots-stoke-u-s-farmers-export-gains.html
The same record food prices causing riots in Algeria and export bans in India are allowing President Barack Obama to combine the biggest-ever U.S. farm exports with the tamest inflation since the 1960s.
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Mexico police: founding member of Zetas captured
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110118/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s federal police have arrested a founding member of the brutal Zetas drug cartel, a man who controlled drug smuggling routes and the kidnapping of Central American migrants in southern Mexico, officials said Tuesday.
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China’s lending hits new heights
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/488c60f4-2281-11e0-b6a2-00144feab49a.html#axzz1BOwjSXoN
China has lent more money to other developing countries over the past two years than the World Bank, a stark indication of the scale of Beijing’s economic reach and its drive to secure natural resources.
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Iran bans production of Valentine’s Day gifts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110118/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_iran_ban_valentines
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran has banned the production of Valentine’s Day gifts and any promotion of the day celebrating romantic love to combat what it sees as a spread of Western culture, Iranian media reported.
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Ahmadinejad, Medvedev agree to boost ties: report
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.9085d46ff045cb783c6f6c8d90769bf0.631&show_article=1
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev agreed to boost ties between their countries, in a a telephone conversation, state media reported on Monday.
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Moscow reaffirms Soviet recognition of Palestine
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110118/wl_nm/us_palestinians_russia_medvedev
JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday Moscow had recognized an independent Palestinian state in 1988 and was not changing that position adopted by the former Soviet Union.
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Report: EU School Calendars Scrub Christian Holidays, Keep Muslim Ones
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-eu-school-calendars-scrub-christian-holidays-keep-muslim-ones/
A new 2011-2012 school calendar for children published by a branch of the European Union has omitted references to Christian holidays but has kept its references to prominent Jewish, Hindu, and even Muslims holidays, according to a Catholic news outlet.
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Sal the Cat summoned for jury service… and court rules he ‘must attend’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347894/Jury-duty-cat-Sal-Cat-summoned-service-US-court-rules-attend.html
A pet cat has been summoned for jury duty – and has been told by courts he ‘must attend’. Despite owner Anna Esposito’s protestations that a mistake has been made, a jury commissioner has ruled that Sal must attend the court.
News Articles For 1/11
January 11, 2011 — Operation RoosterAfghan, Coalition Forces Kill, Detain Insurgents
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62394
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2011 – Afghan and coalition killed at least 15 insurgents and detained numerous others today in operations throughout southern and eastern Afghanistan, military officials reported.
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Embattled U.S. Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Resigns As Calls For Oversight Grow
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/afghanistan-special-inspector-general-resigns-oversight_n_805761.html
WASHINGTON — Arnold Fields, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, stepped down Monday amid widespread congressional dissatisfaction with his office’s oversight of U.S. operational spending.
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The Fed’s QE2 Traders, Buying Bonds by the Billions
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41019109
Deep inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the $600 billion man is fast at work. In a spare, government-issue office in Lower Manhattan, behind a bank of cubicles and a scruffy copy machine, Josh Frost and a band of market specialists are making the Fed’s ultimate Wall Street trade.
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Shocking! 80 million swamp Medicare by 2030
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=249305
The largest number of seniors ever to retire in America begins retiring this year, leaving little doubt that Medicare will be able to continue operating unless government-paid health-care services are rationed, Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert reports.
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Citizen Soros: Suppressing Conservative Ideas (Part 2 in a Series)
http://biggovernment.com/mvadum/2011/01/11/citizen-soros-suppressing-conservative-ideas-part-2-in-a-series/
The left has been hyperventilating about Beck ever since he moved from CNN to Fox News in early 2009 and quickly became the Obama administration’s most vociferous high-profile critic. In particular, liberals could not abide Beck righteously fulminating against the shadowy Tides Foundation, a pass-through entity that allows wealthy individuals to give to radical causes anonymously.
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‘Can We Get Someone To Shoot Sarah Palin?’: Twitter Users Call for Palin’s Death
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/can-we-get-someone-to-shoot-sarah-palin-twitter-users-call-for-palins-death/
The tweets are stunning, disturbing, and downright shocking. After the left shamelessly began its campaign to connect Saturday’s shooting to Sara Palin, Twitter users quickly picked up on the sentiment and responded with violent, hateful speech.
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Arizona Aftermath: Beck Issues Challenge to American People, Politicians and Media
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/arizona-aftermath-beck-issues-challenge-to-american-people-politicians-and-media/
While Americans are grappling to understand the Arizona tragedy, the absolute vacuum of leadership on both sides is staggering. We live in a country that has been struck by John Hinckley Jr. and Sirhan Sirhan, Lee Harvey Oswald and Mark David Chapman.
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N.J. Town To Vote On Middle School Drug Tests
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/01/10/new-jersey-town-to-vote-on-middle-school-drug-tests/
BELVIDERE, N.J. (CBS 2) – A proposal to conduct random drug tests of young students in one New Jersey town is raising some eyebrows. Students at Belvidere Elementary School could be adding drug testing to their list of lessons when they move into middle school.
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China denies armed soldiers crossed into India
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110111/ap_on_re_as/as_china_india
BEIJING – China on Tuesday denied a media report that its soldiers intruded into Indian territory in the Kashmir region last fall and threatened Indian construction workers.
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Iran bans “tight jeans,” tattoos at some universities
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7094G320110110?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt&rpc=22&sp=true
(Reuters) – Iran has enforced a stricter Islamic dress code at a number of universities including a ban on female students wearing long nails, bright clothes and tattoos, a local news agency reported on Monday.
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New baby survived twister, crashing cow
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/01/10/New-baby-survived-twister-crashing-cow/UPI-43991294685567/
WADENA, Minn., Jan. 10 (UPI) — A Minnesota woman says her new baby was named Skylar to note the time last summer when she and her unborn daughter were hit by a flying cow during a tornado.
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Time-Worn Tabby: At 39, Is Lucy the Oldest Cat in the World?
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/01/09/time-worn-tabby-at-39-is-lucy-the-oldest-cat-in-the-world/
What’s her secret? It must be something in the Fancy Feast. Lucy, from Llanelli, South Wales, is a proud Gen X’er – in her time, she’s lived through eight prime ministers, a handful of wars, and the rise of the technological generation.
News Articles For 1/3
January 3, 2011 — Operation RoosterTF White Eagle, TF Iron Rakkasan eliminate insurgents
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3928-tf-white-eagle-tf-iron-rakkasan-eliminate-insurgents.html
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Soldiers with Company C, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division conducted a combined operation with Polish Battle Group A in Bashir Village, Andar District, in eastern Ghazni Province to cordon and search an insurgent safehaven Dec. 30.
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TF Shooter Soldiers earn Purple Hearts
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3930-tf-shooter-soldiers-earn-purple-hearts.html
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Two Cavalry Troopers of 6th Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, Task Force Shooter, were awarded Purple Hearts in a ceremony at Jalalabad Airfield Dec. 30.
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Puerto Rico National Guard recognizes a fallen hero
http://www.ng.mil/news/archives/2010/12/122810-hero.aspx
COAMO, Puerto Rico (12/28/10) – The Puerto Rico National Guard on Monday posthumously promoted one of the Guardmembers killed in a Dec. 20 helicopter crash.
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War hero’s tour: A humble soldier adjusts to fame
http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2068329&spid=
CHICAGO (AP) – It was years in the making, so Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta had time to talk with his wife about the “what if” question. He’d been recommended for the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration. If chosen, his name would be in headlines. His face in the spotlight. He’d be a celebrity.
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Face of Defense: Landscape Architect Saves Resources
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62299
LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Jan. 3, 2011 – With health, safety, conservation and morale at the heart of her mission, the landscape architect here strives to deliver on every front.
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Chilling Video: Openly Rooting for Revolution, The Left Calls For American Civil Unrest & Riots (Frances Fox Piven, Lib Talkers, Journalists, Van Jones, Rev Wright, English Protest Leader, etc)
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chilling-video-openly-rooting-for-revolution-the-left-calls-for-american-civil-unrest-riots-francis-fox-piven-lib-talkers-journalists-van-jones-rev-wright-english-protest-leader-etc/
NOTE: This video is a 4:32 clip.
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Look who wants 500% bump in funding for government media
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=245217
“Net neutrality” rules must be implemented for content control while the government should quintuple federal funding for public and community broadcasting, Ben Scott, the State Department’s recently appointed policy adviser for innovation, argues.
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50 million taxpayers must delay filing – IRS
http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/31/pf/taxes/irs_filing_delay/index.htm
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Itemize your tax deductions? Itching for a refund? You’re going to have to wait. The IRS said that it needs until mid- to late-February to reprogram its processing systems because Congress acted so late this year cleaning up the tax code. The bill, which includes deductions for state and local sales taxes, college tuition and teacher expenses, wasn’t signed into law until Dec. 17.
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Dems’ ‘rising star’ trained illegals for jobs
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=246801
Kamala Harris, California’s next attorney general, ran a program that trained illegal alien felons for jobs, kept them out of jail and even helped to clear their criminal records.
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Forget Pep Talks; Governors Warn of Tough Times
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704735304576058113116091284.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth
New governors in 26 U.S. states are starting to take office with somber warnings to constituents of more tough times amid revenue shortfalls and a weak job market.
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There Oughta Be a Law: Californians Getting 725 New Ones in 2011
http://lamesa.patch.com/articles/there-outta-be-a-law-californians-getting-725-new-ones-in-2011
Trans-fats are thing of the past in certain food facilities, for example. And insurance companies can’t charge men and women different rates for the same coverage.
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New Jersey Wants to Seize Your Unused Gift Cards
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40887018
New Jersey isn’t giving up its effort to seize unused money on gift cards and traveler’s checks. Lawmakers voted last year to allow the seizure of cards after two to three years as a way to raise about $80 million and help balance the state’s budget.
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Hillary Clinton, Hugo Chavez Share Cordial New Years Conversation
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chavez-clinton-shake-hands-chat-amid-tensions/
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Hugo Chavez and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shook hands and chatted briefly Saturday in a rare cordial encounter amid a diplomatic dispute that has left Venezuela and the United States without ambassadors in each other’s capitals.
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Where’s Barack? Report Says Obama Spends Nearly 50% of Time Traveling
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wheres-barack-report-says-obama-spends-nearly-50-of-time-traveling/
Maybe the president doesn’t like Washington, D.C. Maybe he really likes Air Force One. But whatever the reason, recently compiled statistics show he spends a lot of time on the road: 48 percent of his time, to be exact.
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Wacky Ark. Animal Deaths Continue: 100,000 Fish Go Belly Up
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wacky-ark-animal-deaths-contine-100000-fish-go-belly-up/
First birds, now fish. After thousands of birds feel from the sky in Arkansas over the weekend, now hundreds of thousands of fish have turned up dead just 100 miles away.
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Shariah Adoption Laws: Incompatible with American Law and Society
http://bigpeace.com/clopez/2011/01/03/clare-lopez-shariah-adoption-laws-incompatible-with-american-law-and-society/
Yesterday’s Washington Post’s feature story, “Muslim orphans caught between Islam and the West“– about Muslim orphans who cannot find adoptive homes because of Islamic law– highlights once again the incompatibility of shariah with U.S. law and societal norms.
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Report: U.S. in secret talks with Syria over peace accord with Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/report-u-s-in-secret-talks-with-syria-over-peace-accord-with-israel-1.334635
The United States has been in secret contact with Syrian officials in the hopes of realizing a comprehensive Israel-Syrian peace treaty, the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper reported Saturday.
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Mexican cartel announces 1-month truce
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110103/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
MORELIA, Mexico – A letter purportedly signed by La Familia drug cartel announcing a one-month truce circulated Sunday in the western state of Michoacan.
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Iran is Talking Tough and Expanding Its Military Capabilities
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2011/01/02/iran-is-talking-tough-and-expanding-its-military-capabilities/
Iran claims to have shot down two US drones operating over their territory. Iran also claims that its missiles are within range of all major US military installations in the region. It’s one thing for President Ahmadinejad to spout crazy apocalyptic ideas or for us to express concerns about Iran’s forthcoming nuclear capability. But if these Iranian claims are true, it represents a very real threat to the US and expanded Iranian capability.
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Iran Primer: Take a Look
http://bigpeace.com/pmaffitt/2011/01/02/iran-primer/
Very few Americans actually have been to Iran in the past three decades, since The 1979 Revolution. Within our diplomatic, military, and political bureaucracy there is little incentive to become an Iranian expert because that is an area in which the promotions will not be rapid.
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China backs Spain to emerge from crisis: Beijing
http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/china-backs-spain-to-emerge-from-crisis-beijing-20110103-19dys.html
China is confident Spain will recover from its economic crisis and Beijing will buy Spanish public debt despite market fears of an Irish-style bailout, a top Chinese official said Monday.
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Former Marxist guerrilla sworn in as president of Brazil
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-brazil-president-20110102,0,814170.story
Dilma Rousseff is Brazil’s first female president, taking over from the immensely popular Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The new president hopes to keep the country’s booming economy on track while advancing her Workers’ Party social agenda.
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Hugo Chavez Takes Over the Federal Reserve
http://biggovernment.com/amellon/2011/01/03/hugo-chavez-takes-over-the-federal-reserve/
News of the devaluation came just after the central bank said the Venezuelan economy contracted 1.9% in 2010, the second consecutive year of declining output in the oil-rich nation after a 3.3% decline in 2009.
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Medvedev signs decree to cut number of federal officials
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20110103/162033799.html
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed on Monday a decree reducing the number of federal officials by 20% until 2013, the Kremlin press service said.
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The Top Good News Stories of 2010
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/23/the-top-10-well-11-and-then-some-good-news-stories-of-2010/
It was a year that tested the patience of many. Economic troubles, unemployment, rancorous elections — and to top it off, gasoline hit $3 a gallon just in time for the holidays.
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High School Linebacker Literally Carries Family Through Tough Time
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/high-school-linebacker-literally-carries-family-through-tough-time/
Sammy Parker is 8 years old and has cerebral palsy. He can’t talk or control his muscles. Until recently, his father Rick had to carry him upstairs to bed every night. Then Rick had an operation for his heart, and the Parkers needed help. Their doctor put them in touch with Malden (Mass.) Catholic School, where volunteering is emphasized to the kids.
News Articles For 12/21
December 21, 2010 — Operation RoosterTF Patriot Soldiers, PRT reach out to children at Afghan orphanage
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3862-tf-patriot-soldiers-prt-reach-out-to-children-at-afghan-orphanage.html
BAMYAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Soldiers from New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team and U.S. Soldiers from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division gave gifts to Afghan children at an orphanage in Bamyan Province Dec. 15.
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USO tour celebrities visit FOB Shank Soldiers
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3863-uso-tour-celebrities-visit-fob-shank-soldiers.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Celebrities traveling throughout Afghanistan on a USO tour stopped at Forward Operating Base Shank to meet and entertain and troops for the holiday season Dec. 21.
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Wounded warriors swim with sharks
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/12/20/49703-wounded-warriors-swim-with-sharks/?ref=news-home-title8
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Dec. 20, 2010) — Donning full scuba gear, 17 wounded warriors from Fort Bragg’s Warrior Transition Battalion swam Sunday with sharks and other sea life in Georgia Aquarium’s large tank in Atlanta.
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Veteran ‘Screaming Eagles’ Reach Out to Wounded Warriors
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62181
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2010 – Army Pfc. Charles “C.J.” Stewart isn’t feeling forgotten this holiday as he recuperates from his combat wounds here at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He’ll be surrounded by his family, a nurturing medical staff and, as a bonus, veterans of the 101st Airborne Division who continue to reach out to today’s “Screaming Eagles.”
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Airmen win honors at worldwide talent search
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123235769
12/20/2010 – SAN ANTONIO (AFNS) — Air Force entertainment officials selected the top 11 entertainers Dec. 13 at an awards banquet here during the annual Air Force Worldwide Talent Search.
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Welcome to NORAD Tracks Santa
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html
All the preparations for this year are in place! Come back each day to receive updates from the North Pole and to discover new surprises in the Kids’ Countdown Village.
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Holiday Video Features Troops Worldwide
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/12/21/holiday-video-features-troops-worldwide/
My colleagues in Defense Media Activity’s emerging media directorate pulled off an amazing feat just in time for the holidays. They called on more than 40 commands from around the world to help them create a holiday video that features servicemembers from every branch of service and in some of the most remote locations in the world. And, as an added bonus, country music star Toby Keith provides the video’s introduction.
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Face of Defense: Veteran Receives Bronze Star 68 Years Later
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62192
FORT McPHERSON, Ga., Dec. 21, 2010 – It was nearly 69 years ago that Seymour S. Lavine came here to enlist, hoping to do his part to end the second World War. He recently returned to collect the Bronze Star the Army said he was due for his heroism in the South Pacific.
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U.S. Military Seeks to Expand Raids in Pakistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/world/asia/21intel.html?_r=1
WASHINGTON — Senior American military commanders in Afghanistan are pushing for an expanded campaign of Special Operations ground raids across the border into Pakistan’s tribal areas, a risky strategy reflecting the growing frustration with Pakistan’s efforts to root out militants there.
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GREEN MAKE BELIEVE: Van Jones Admits Left is “PRETENDING” Need for Regulations in Green Movement
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/green-make-believe-van-jones-admits-left-is-pretending-need-for-regulations-and-cap-trade-in-green-movement/
NOTE: This video clip is 1:57 long.
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Fed extends program to ease Europe debt crisis
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fed-extends-program-to-ease-apf-2324425346.html?x=0&.v=8
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve extended a program set up earlier this year to ease strains from the European debt crisis. The program, which was set to expire in January, will now run through Aug. 1, the Fed announced on Tuesday.
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$2tn (trillion) debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/20/debt-crisis-threatens-us-cities
Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor are European cities safe – Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice: all are in trouble.
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Feds want reporting for high-powered rifle sales
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101220/ap_on_re_us/us_gun_sales_reporting_2
WASHINGTON – The federal agency that monitors gun sales wants weapons dealers near the Mexican border to start reporting multiple sales of high-powered rifles, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.
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The Food Safety Bill: A Point-By-Point Guide
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/20/point-point-guide-food-safety/
Congress is on the verge of passing a landmark bill aimed at improving food safety, after the Senate passed the proposal for the second time Sunday and sent it over to the House.
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Dem Rep. Tells Russian Media: U.S. Is ‘Banana Republic’ Without Wealth Redistribution
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-rep-tells-russian-media-u-s-is-banana-republic-without-wealth-redistribution/
Without more redistribution of wealth, the United States of America is on the road to becoming a “banana republic,” warns Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.
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Latest Terror Threat in US Aimed to Poison Food
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/20/eveningnews/main7169266.shtml
(CBS) In this exclusive story, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports the latest terror attack to America involves the possible use of poisons – simultaneous attacks targeting hotels and restaurants at many locations over a single weekend.
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Christie Commutes Sentence of Man Serving 7 Years for Transporting Legal Guns
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/christie-commutes-sentence-of-man-serving-7-years-for-transporting-legal-guns/
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has commuted the sentence of a man sentenced to seven years in prison for transporting guns he owned legally. 27-year-old Brian Aitken was arrested, charged, and convicted in 2009 after his mother called 911 (but hung up), worried that he was distraught over not being able to spend time with his son and was considering suicide.
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High School Punishes Christmas Sweater Club for Giving Candy Canes
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/high-school-punishes-christmas-sweater-club-for-giving-candy-canes/
“Littering,“ ”creating a disturbance,“ and ”malicious wounding.” That’s what a group of light-hearted high schoolers are being charged with after they dressed up in wacky Christmas sweaters and distributed candy canes at school.
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‘Bomb’ Found in Rome Subway ‘Could Not Have Exploded’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bomb-found-in-rome-subway-could-not-have-exploded/
ROME (AP) — A suspicious package full of wires and powder was found Tuesday in a subway car in Rome, prompting a terror scare during the Christmas season. But the city’s mayor said the device could not have exploded.
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Life Ingredients Found in Superhot Meteorites—A First
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101220-asteroid-meteorite-life-space-science/
Hot on the heels of finding arsenic-loving life-forms, NASA astronomers have uncovered amino acids—the fundamental foundation for life—in a place where they shouldn’t be.
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Pluto Has Oceans Under Ice?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101216-pluto-ocean-solar-system-science-space/
Frigid Pluto, home to some of our solar system’s chilliest real estate, may well harbor an ocean beneath its miles-thick ice shell, new research suggests. Despite its extreme cold, the dwarf planet still appears to be warm enough to “easily” have a subsurface ocean, according to a new model of the rate at which radioactive heat might still warm Pluto’s core.
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FAA Certifies Santa’s NextGen-Equipped Sleigh for Christmas Eve
http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=12237
WASHINGTON – Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety inspectors at the North Pole certified Santa One, the reindeer-powered sleigh piloted by Santa Claus, for its Christmas Eve round-the-world delivery mission.
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The Secret Santa of Joplin: $450,000 and Counting
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2037877,00.html?hpt=T2
No one saw a jolly old man with a snow-white beard outside the Walgreens pharmacy in Joplin, Missouri that night. But when the Salvation Army emptied its red kettle after an evening of bell ringing on Dec. 13, it was as though Santa himself had stopped by.
News Articles For 7/7
July 7, 2010 — Operation RoosterIraqi Forces Arrest 10 Terrorism Suspects
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59910
WASHINGTON, July 6, 2010 – Iraqi security forces working with U.S. advisors arrested 10 suspects with ties to various terrorist organizations in recent operations, military officials reported.
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Iraqis take lead on joint air assault
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/iraqi-forces-take-lead-on-joint-air-assault
BAGHDAD – The U.S. Army’s 1st Advise and Assist Brigade recently joined forces with Iraqi Commandos of the 7th Iraqi Army Division for an air assault operation in search of a possible IED production facility outside the town of Rawah.
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Afghan Border Police celebrate dual graduation
http://www.cjtf101.com/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/2978-afghan-border-police-celebrate-dual-graduation.html
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Hundreds of Afghan students gathered at their seats in front of a podium to receive their certificates of completion July 1.
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Vice chief asks Soldiers to participate in Army STARRS
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/07/06/41869-vice-chief-asks-soldiers-to-participate-in-army-starrs/index.html?ref=home-headline-title6
WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 6, 2010) — Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, strongly urges Soldiers to participate in a study that will help the service learn more about the causes of suicide and improve prevention efforts.
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Face of Defense: Officer Selected as White House Fellow
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59920
WASHINGTON, July 7, 2010 – An Army officer emerged from a field of more than 700 applicants to earn a spot in a program designed to give participants hands-on experience with the inner workings of the government.
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Hyde Park unofficial ceremony remembers 7 July victims
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/10533264.stm
An unofficial ceremony is being held in Hyde Park to mark the fifth anniversary of the 7 July bombings in the capital. Survivors and families of those who lost their lives in the terror attacks laid flowers by 52 steel pillars which represent those killed.
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Ex-Official Accuses Justice Department of Racial Bias in Black Panther Case
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/06/ex-official-accuses-justice-department-racial-bias-black-panther-case/
In emotional and personal testimony, an ex-Justice official who quit over the handling of a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party accused his former employer of instructing attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.
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Feds vs. state again in suit against Arizona law
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_immigration_enforcement_lawsuit
PHOENIX – The federal lawsuit against Arizona’s tough new immigration law focuses heavily on a question that has been in the spotlight repeatedly the past decade and dates to the Founding Fathers: The right of the government to keep states from enacting laws that usurp federal authority.
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Federal Government Helped Pay Home Air-Conditioning Bills for Federal Employees, Prisoners and More Than 11,000 Dead People
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69005
(CNSNews.com) – According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federal government helped pay the home air conditioning bills for more than 11,000 dead people, 1,100 federal employees, and 725 convicts in fiscal year 2009.
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Glenn Beck: 1932 All Over Again?
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42655/
Congress couldn’t agree on a budget, but don’t worry about that. House Democrats have “deemed” the new $1.1 trillion budget as passed. “Deem and pass” allows Democrats to start spending money in 2011 without having to follow any real budget.
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Judges order newspapers to ‘unpublish’ 5 articles
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=175649
Two judges in Pennsylvania have signed orders demanding two newspapers remove from their archives stories about several court case defendants, according to a report in one of the affected publications.
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TSA Reverses “Controversial Opinion” Web Policy
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20009804-10391695.html
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reversed itself today, announcing that it will no longer block TSA employees, using work computers, from accessing websites that contain a “controversial opinion.”
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US soldier linked to Iraq helicopter video leak charged
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10529110.stm
The US military has pressed criminal charges against a soldier suspected of leaking video of a US helicopter attack in Iraq to the website, WikiLeaks. Army Spc Bradley Manning is accused of transferring classified data on to his personal computer and transmitting it to an unauthorised third party.
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Phillipsburg students lauded for role in passage of state law prohibiting sale of novelty lighters
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/phillipsburg/index.ssf/2010/07/phillipsburg_students_lauded_f.html
When a class of Phillipsburg elementary students learned that novelty lighters were legal in New Jersey even though they resemble toys, they were genuinely puzzled.
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Mexico Thwarts Hezbollah Plans For South American Network
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/07/06/mexico-thwarts-hezbollah-plana-for-south-american-network/
Militant group employed Mexican nationals with ties to Lebanon to target Israel and the West, Kuwaiti newspaper reports. Mexico foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to establish a network in South America, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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More Reports Taliban Chief Mullah Omar Detained in Pakistan
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/07/06/more-reports-taliban-chief-mullah-omar-detained-in-pakistan/
Brad Thor first reported that Mullah Omar had been detained back on May 10th.Since that time there have been a number of additional reports that have trickled in, including this one today, from a popular Afghan TV channel.
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UN launches probe into flotilla raid
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180697
The UN on Tuesday began its probe into Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last month, despite misgivings from the US, and Israel’s establishment of its own internal committee to investigate the incident..
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Iran to open nuke plant in Sept.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?ID=180705
Iran will open its first nuclear power plant by September, said Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi in a statement to the IRNA.
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Iran Launches Holy War on Haircuts
http://abcnews.go.com/International/iran-launches-holy-war-haircuts/story?id=11095053
It’s something like a holy war on haircuts . Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has issued a directive banning ‘decadent’ hairstyles for men, restricting barber shops to only certain kinds of cuts. The primary target: spiky, gelled hairdos associated with rebellious youths, corrupted by Western influence. It’s a style that was commonly seen on the front line of last year’s post-election protests.
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Postage Hike Proposed for 2011
http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2010/07/07/postage-hike-proposed-for-2011.htm
Faced with a projected $7 billion deficit and an ever-shrinking mail volume due to email, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has requested a postage increase officials say will “add less than 13 cents a month to the average American household’s budget.”
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Passenger steers out-of-control bus after driver passes out
http://www.ajc.com/news/cobb/passenger-steers-out-of-564913.html
Lorraine Gobert was a few minutes into her daily commute from Hiram to Atlanta Tuesday when she looked up from her seat in the front of an Xpress bus to find the driver passed out at the wheel–and the bus careening down the road.
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Homeless man rescues American flag during storm
http://news.yahoo.com/video/austinkvue-tv-15750583/homeless-man-rescues-american-flag-during-storm-20738426
An act of patriotism is earning a homeless man in El Paso a great deal of praise. He rescued a fallen American flag during a severe storm. [Note: This is a 2:15 video clip from KVUE News in Austin, Texas]
News Articles For 6/22
June 22, 2010 — Operation RoosterISF arrest suspected AQI criminal associate in central Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/isf-arrest-suspected-aqi-criminal-associate-in-central-iraq
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested one suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) criminal associate during a joint security operation approximately 10km west of Baghdad today.
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Afghan, International Forces Strike Blow in Helmand
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59705
WASHINGTON, June 21, 2010 – Afghan and coalition forces struck a blow against insurgent operations in Helmand province over the weekend in one of several recent operations around Afghanistan, military officials reported.
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Review of Employment Program Continues
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/06/21/review-of-employment-program-continues/
Given the ongoing interest, I wanted to pass on the latest information about the popular Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts Program, also known as MyCAA.
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Face of Defense: Airman Scales Mount Everest
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59719
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., June 22, 2010 – Colorado Springs’ Pikes Peak towers 14,115 feet above sea level, but one member of Air Force Space Command had his sights set higher — about 15,000 feet higher.
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Police Chief – Cartels Threaten U.S. Law Enforcement in Arizona
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/06/21/police-chief-cartels-threaten-u-s-law-enforcement-in-arizona/
In the first public incident of its kind, cartels are making direct death threats to U.S. law enforcement officials in Nogales, Arizona, the police chief there told CNN Monday.
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Chinese breaking into classified network
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=169365
The Chinese may have been able to develop computer algorithms that will penetrate military computers at the secret level, according to alerts about a “Spear Phishing attack” issued recently to users of a military system, says a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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Left Strangely Silent on Petrobras
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/42166/
All I could think about this weekend was one word: Halliburton. Everyone in the universe knows what Halliburton is. It’s Dick Cheney’s evil oil company.
This goes into the connections between George Soros, his involvement in the Center of American Progress, how they suggest stuff about the oil spill, a couple weeks later Obama does them, George Soros investing in Petrobras, how even though Petrobras turns in a $17 billion profit Obama gave them $2 billion, and Petrobras drills much deeper than the BP well that exploded in the Gulf .
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Gulf rig owner criticizes Obama’s drilling halt
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100622/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill
NEW ORLEANS – The owner of the drilling rig involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico criticized the U.S. government’s six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the area Tuesday.
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La. companies ask judge to end drilling moratorium
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100621/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_20100616040287
NEW ORLEANS – Companies that ferry people and supplies to offshore oil rigs asked a federal judge Monday to lift a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects imposed in the aftermath of the massive Gulf spill.
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Stanley McChrystal recalled over Rolling Stone article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/22/stanley-mcchrystal-apologises-rolling-stone
General Stanley McChrystal, the US commander of all Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, has been recalled to Washington after he criticised Barack Obama’s administration in a magazine profile due to be published later this week.
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Emanuel, Blagojevich Traded Favors, E-Mails Show
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/21/emanuel-blagojevich-traded-favors-e-mails/
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, then a congressman in Illinois, apparently attempted to trade favors with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich while he was in office, according to newly disclosed e-mails obtained by The Associated Press.
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Cancelled: There Will Be No Congressional Budget This Year
http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=191653
Washington (Jun 22) In light of House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer’s (D-MD) announcement this morning that House Democrats will not pass a budget this year – failing to fulfill what he has called “the most basic responsibility” of governing – the following important fiscal health warning has been issued.
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Kagan sought secrecy in 4 of 5 open gov’t cases
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100622/D9GG8TC80.html
WASHINGTON (AP) – Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s arguments as solicitor general in several cases on government secrecy were at odds with a promise of transparency made by her boss and top client, President Barack Obama.
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N.J. Millionaires Tax Plan Fails
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_jersey/nj-assembly-millionaires-tax-plan-20100621-APX
TRENTON, N.J. – Democrats in the New Jersey Assembly have failed to override the Republican governor’s veto of a tax surcharge on millionaires. Monday’s vote was strictly along party lines. All 47 Assembly Democrats voted for the override and all 33 Republicans voted against it. The measure needed seven GOP votes to advance.
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Treasury Levey: US, Allies Must Go Beyond UN Sanctions To Pressure Iran
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100622-706618.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLEHeadlinesMideast
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The U.S. and other countries should explore what economic measures can be taken beyond the recent United Nations sanctions to force Iran to abandon its nuclear program, a senior Treasury official said Tuesday.
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U.N. to remove Taliban from blacklist: Karzai
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65L2HN20100622?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews
(Reuters) – The United Nations has agreed to remove Taliban members who renounce ties to al Qaeda from a U.N. blacklist on a “gradual” basis, Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office said on Tuesday.
News Articles For 6/8
June 8, 2010 — Operation RoosterIraqi Forces Target al-Qaida in Mosul, Baghdad
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59514
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2010 – Iraqi security forces killed seven al-Qaida in Iraq members and captured three others during June 5 security operations in northern Iraq.
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Afghan, International Forces Kill, Capture Insurgents
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59518
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2010 – Afghan and international forces killed a Taliban commander and other insurgents in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah, military officials reported.
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Medal of Honor Recipients Promote Mental-Health Support
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59525
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2010 – Twenty-eight Medal of Honor recipients recently launched the “Medal of Honor – Speak Out” campaign to encourage troops struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injuries and other health problems to take advantage of services to help them.
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Nominations Open for Military Family Award
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/06/07/nominations-open-for-military-family-award/
Over the past year, I’ve met some incredible military families. In the Scott family, for instance, all six of Bruce and Mary Scott’s children have joined the military, continuing a long line of military family tradition. I wrote about them in an American Forces Press Service Special Report, “Family Tradition: Scott Children Continue Legacy of Service.”
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Veteran Reflects on Battle of Midway
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=53865
NEWPORT, R.I. (NNS) — U.S. Navy veteran Francis Fabian remembers where he was 68 years ago during the Battle of Midway. “I was floating in the South Pacific Ocean, for 16 hours, hanging onto a life raft,” said Fabian, of Charlestown, R.I. “There were no sharks, but I remember getting hit on the hand by something in the water. It must have been a Portuguese Man O’ War. Whew! I can still feel it!”
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Face of Defense: Medal Comes After 66 Years
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=59530
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 8, 2010 – World War II-era Coast Guardsman Harry Milton Daube, 88, the last living survivor of the sinking of the USS Leopold, was presented the Purple Heart Medal during a June 4 ceremony at his home in New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
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Gold price hits new record as it breaks through $1,250
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/gold/7810575/Gold-price-hits-new-record-as-it-breaks-through-1250.html
The price of gold rose to an all-time high point above $1,250 an ounce on Tuesday, as investors nervous about the weak state of the global economy sought safety in the precious metal.
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Medicaid Cut Places States in Budget Bind
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/08medicaid.html
Having counted on Washington for money that may not be delivered, at least 30 states will have to close larger-than-anticipated shortfalls in the coming fiscal year unless Congress passes a six-month extension of increased federal spending on Medicaid.
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High School: N.J. Terror Suspect Dangerous as Student
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/08/high-school-says-nj-terrorism-suspect-dangerous-student-taught-outside/?test=latestnews
An administrator at a New Jersey high school says one of two terrorism suspects over the weekend was considered so dangerous as a student that he was taught outside the classroom with a security guard present.
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Suspicious Bags – A New Jihadi Terror Tactic In New York and DC
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/06/07/suspicious-bags-anew-jihadi-terror-tactic-in-new-york-and-dc/
ABC News reports a recent internal FBI report warns federal, state and local authorities to be alert for a potential new tool in the jihadi terror arsenal – the placing of suspicious, but harmless, bags in public places to inspire fear, disrupt public transportation and tie up police and bomb squads.
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Officer Credited in NJ Terror Bust Part of NYPD’s Secret Weapon
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/06/07/officer-credited-in-nj-terror-bust-part-of-nypds-secret-weapon/
They are culled from thousands of Police Academy recruits because of their Middle Eastern or Asian descent, their fluency in foreign languages, and life experiences, including military service.
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Twelve Americans Detained in Yemen
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/06/07/twelve-americans-detained-in-yemen/
Yemeni authorities have 12 Americans in custody, and the arrests may be linked to a joint U.S.-Yemeni anti-terror campaign, a State Department spokesman said Monday. Spokesman PJ Crowley told reporters the U.S. was trying to get more information, but did not provide any further details.
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‘God bless’ to be banned in schools?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=163873
Lawmakers in Florida have decided to slap down school boards whose members try to appease the ACLU with a “consent decree” or other agreement that limits student, faculty and staff religious and speech rights protected by the First Amendment.
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Obama Seeking “Ass To Kick” Over Oil Spill
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/06/07/obama_seeking_ass_to_kick_over_oil_spill.html
“I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”
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Hamas prevents flotilla aid from entering Gaza
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/hamas-prevents-flotilla-aid-from-entering-gaza-1.294938
More than a week after the Israeli navy forcibly intercepted a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the 10,000-ton cargo of the seven ships has yet to reach Palestinians.
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Ideas for ‘reverse flotillas’ gain steam
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177789
Although most of the recent talk regarding flotillas has revolved around ships sailing toward Gaza, at least two plans have emerged for “reverse flotillas” – from Israel toward Turkey – to highlight what organizers have labeled the Turks’ “shameless hypocrisy” in their criticisms of the Jewish state.
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Putin Backs U.N. Probe of Flotilla Raid
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294411023000550.html?mod=fox_australian
ISTANBUL—Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday his country would raise the issue of an investigation into the Israeli boarding of an aid ship off Gaza at the United Nations, calling the Israeli action “a crude violation of international law.”
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Russia, Iran in joint venture for nuclear plant
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5886f262cb32df7ef5dfd69d59e32058.241&show_article=1
Russia and Iran will establish a joint venture to operate Tehran’s first nuclear plant set to come online this summer, Sergei Kiriyenko, chief of Russia’s nuclear state corporation, said on Tuesday.
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Russia, Turkey and Iran Meet, Posing Test for U.S. Diplomacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/09/world/09iran.html
ISTANBUL — Leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran convened at a security summit meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States just days before a scheduled American-backed debate in the United Nations Security Council on imposing tighter sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program.
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Spanish civil servants strike over cuts
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/06/08/spain.austerity.strike/?hpt=Sbin
Madrid, Spain (CNN) — Spain’s civil servants went on strike Tuesday to protest the government’s decision to cut their pay 5 percent this year and freeze it next year as part of an austerity plan to reduce the country’s deficit.
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China says it will keep blocking online content
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9G7532G0&show_article=1
BEIJING (AP) – China vowed Tuesday to keep a tight grip on the Internet, saying it would continue to block anything considered subversive or threatening to “national unity.”
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.
