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News Articles For 2/22

February 22, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. And the federal Constitution – according to the mode prescribed therein [Article V] – has already undergone such amendments in several parts of it as from experience has been judged necessary.” Samuel Adams: the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 19, 1796

African Nurse Saved GIs at Battle of Bulge
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62883
BASTOGNE, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2011 – It was a bitterly cold winter morning when Augusta Chiwy’s tram pulled into Brussels Central train station, Dec. 16, 1944.
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Face of Defense: Petty Officer Maintains Team’s Network
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62887
KHOST PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Feb. 22, 2011 – To his teammates on the provincial reconstruction team here, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ryan Riedel, an information systems technician from Corpus Christi, Texas, is known as a jack of all trades
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Study Guide: Unions, protests, gov’t shutdowns, and more
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/21/study-guide-unions-protests-govt-shutdowns-and-more/
NOTE: Here are the sources to the info. mentioned on Glenn Beck’s 2/21 TV show.
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Federal, state and local debt hits post-WWII levels
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022003201.html
The daunting tower of national, state and local debt in the United States will reach a level this year unmatched just after World War II and already exceeds the size of the entire economy, according to government estimates.
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U.S. Navy Breaks Scientific Barriers With ‘Death Ray of the Future’ Laser Weapon
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/u-s-navy-breaks-scientific-barriers-with-death-ray-of-the-future-laser-weapon/
In their work toward developing the newest technology for tracking and destroying enemy missiles, scientists at Jefferson Labs recently pumped an astonishing 500 kilovolts into their latest creation, the free-electron laser (FEL) — a power level never achieved before.
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Shocking Level of Influence Exposed: Union Boss Trumka Talks to White House EVERY DAY and Visits a Couple Times A Week
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shocking-level-of-influence-exposed-union-boss-trumka-talks-to-white-house-every-day-and-visits-a-couple-times-a-week/
NOTE: This YouTube clip is 1:19.
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WI Firefighters Offer Conce$$ions to Save Collective Bargaining for All
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wi-firefighters-offer-conceions-to-save-collective-bargaining-for-all/
It was almost midnight on Saturday night, Mahlon Mitchell, president of the Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin spoke with Oliver Dykstra, a reporter from The Uptake and appears to have offered up financial concessions from his union in order to save the collective bargaining rights of the teachers union and others.
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Wisconsin Docs Under Investigation for Protest ‘Sick’ Notes
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/update-wisconsin-docs-under-investigation-for-protest-sick-notes/
The Blaze first brought you the startling video of doctors — many of whom are affiliated with the University of Wisconsin — handing out questionable absence excuse slips to protesters “sick” of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Sunday.
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Obama Defends Planned Parenthood After Undercover Vids: ‘Manufactured’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-defends-planned-parenthood-after-undercover-vids-manufactured/
If you ask President Obama about Live Action’s recent damning, undercover video showing questionable counsel at Planned Parenthood clinics, he might blow you off by saying the controversy is simply “manufactured.” That’s what he told a local NBC affiliate in Richmond, VA last week.
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FBI: Muslim Brotherhood deeply rooted inside U.S.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=266725
WASHINGTON – Staff investigators with the House and Senate intelligence committees say they are probing the domestic security threat posed by the radical Muslim Brotherhood and, specifically, whether Brotherhood operatives have penetrated the U.S. government.
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Four Americans Killed on Yacht Hijacked by Pirates
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/22/americans-aboard-yacht-captured-pirates-reportedly-killed/
DEVELOPING STORY: Four Americans aboard a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates have been killed, Fox News has confirmed. U.S. forces responded to gunfire aboard the yacht Quest at approximately 1 a.m. Tuesday, but discovered all four hostages had been shot by their captors. Despite steps to provide life-saving care, all four hostages died of their wounds.
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Is Hezbollah Working with Mexico Drug Cartels
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/02/21/is-hezbollah-working-with-mexico-drug-cartels/
Adam Housley reports that while the threat of deadly drug cartels in Mexico is worrisome to the US, it may pale in comparison to this… Some of them are joining forces with Middle East terror groups.
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Iranians hack into VOA website
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/21/iranian-hackers-break-voa-deface-web-sites/
Iranian computer hackers on Monday hijacked the website of the Voice of America, replacing its Internet home page with a banner bearing an Iranian flag and an image of an AK-47 assault rifle.
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Iranian warships enter Suez Canal
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110222/D9LHMO000.html
CAIRO (AP) – Suez Canal officials say two Iranian naval vessels have entered the strategic waterway en route for the Mediterranean Sea. Canal officials say the ships – a frigate and a supply vessel – entered the canal early Tuesday morning and are expected to reach the Mediterranean later in the day.
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Oil prices surge on fear of Libyan unrest
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/21/oil-prices-surge-on-fear-of-libyan-unrest/
Oil prices soared and global stocks plunged Monday on signs that Libya, a major exporter, will cut oil production amid spreading violence and unrest. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi‘s son, Seif al-Islam, warned that Libya‘s oil wealth “will be burned” if the unrest leads to civil war, while an influential Libyan tribal leader offered a counterthreat to cut off oil shipments to the West within 24 hours if the regime’s violence against protesters does not end.
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Libya: intelligence agency ‘jamming’ television signals
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8339711/Libya-intelligence-agency-jamming-television-signals.html
Libya’s intelligence agency is behind the powerful jamming that has disrupted Al Jazeera television’s signal across much of the Middle East and North Africa, the Arab satellite broadcaster said on Monday.
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Two Libyan pilots defect, say ordered to bomb protesters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/21/us-libya-protests-pilots-idUSTRE71K4S320110221
(Reuters) – Two Libyan Air Force fighter pilots defected on Monday and flew their jets to Malta where they told authorities they had been ordered to bomb protesters, Maltese government officials said.
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Medvedev sees `fires for decades’ in Arab world
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_medvedev
MOSCOW – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday predicted decades of instability in the Arab world if protesters whom he called fanatics come to power, adding no such scenario will be permitted at home.
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Russia Points To Google’s Role in Egypt Unrest
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-russia-agree-with-glenn-beck-about-google/
If you’ve read the news lately, you might have heard Glenn Beck has been discussing Google. And while some have incorrectly reported that he is advocating a boycott of the company, the truth is he‘s actually skeptical of the company’s government connections and one of its executive’s involvement in the Egyptian revolution. It seems Russia might agree.
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Starving N. Korea begs for food, but U.S. has concerns about resuming aid
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/19/AR2011021901953.html
TOKYO – North Korea recently took the unusual step of begging for food handouts from the foreign governments it usually threatens. Plagued by floods, an outbreak of a livestock disease and a brutal winter, the government ordered its embassies and diplomatic offices around the world to seek help.
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Strong quake in New Zealand collapses buildings
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_new_zealand_earthquake
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A powerful earthquake struck New Zealand’s already-bruised city of Christchurch on Tuesday, collapsing buildings, burying vehicles under debris and sending rescuers scrambling to help trapped people amid reports of multiple deaths.
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A Wallet Lost 40 Years Ago Now Is Found
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/a-wallet-lost-40-years-ago-now-is-found/
Rudolph R. Resta, 77, walked out of a wintry rain recently, through the revolving door of a largely empty Times Square office building, and into his distant past.
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Justine Siegal sets MLB milestone
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2011/news/story?id=6144845
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Justine Siegal became the first woman to pitch batting practice in a major league spring training camp when she threw to the Cleveland Indians on Monday. Not only did she pass the test with flying colors, some people became a little envious along the way.

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News Articles For 2/19

February 19, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“There is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.” Alexander Hamilton: Federalist No. 81, 1788

Airstrike Kills More Than 35 Insurgents in Kunar Province
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62871
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2011 – A U.S. military air weapons team last night killed more than 35 enemy fighters in the Ghaziabad district of Afghanistan’s Khost province, military officials reported.
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Army shocks sergeant with battlefield promotion
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4160-army-shocks-sergeant-with-battlefield-promotion.html
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A Soldier assigned to the 426th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, received a special surprise on Forward Operating Base Fenty Feb. 16.
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Armed Agent Slips Past DFW Body Scanner
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/02/18/armed-agent-slips-past-dfw-body-scanner/
According to an NBC news report, an undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at DFW International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced imaging body scanners, according to a high-ranking, inside source at the Transportation Security Administration.
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‘Class War is Here’: Video of Socialists Rallying in Wis. Supports Beck’s Theory
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/class-war-is-here-video-of-socialists-rallying-in-wis-supports-becks-theory/
Recently, Glenn Beck has been predicting that socialists would seize on the unrest in Egypt in order to promote revolution in the United States. There may be no better proof of that than the video below, shot by the MacIver Institute in Madison, WI this week.
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Mich. Union Hiring Homeless People to Picket
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mich-union-hiring-homeless-people-to-picket/
“Astroturfing: An artificially-manufactured political movement designed to give the appearance of grass roots activism.” If ever you wanted to see a great example of “astroturfing,” then the video below might become a part of your permanent library.
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House Passes Spending Bill That Cuts $61 Billion
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/house-passes-spending-bill-that-cuts-61-billion/
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jolted to action by deficit-conscious newcomers, the Republican-controlled House passed sweeping legislation early Saturday to cut $61 billion from hundreds of federal programs and shelter coal companies, oil refiners and farmers from new government regulations.
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House Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/house-votes-to-defund-planned-parenthood/
WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The House has approved a Republican proposal to block federal aid for Planned Parenthood. The 240-185 vote on Friday is a victory for anti-abortion forces led by Indiana GOP Rep. Mike Pence. He says taxpayer money should not go to groups that provide or promote abortion.
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House votes to overthrow ‘czars’
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49781.html
The House voted Thursday to dethrone nine White House “czars.” Republicans successfully added an amendment to the continuing resolution that would leave President Barack Obama’s senior advisers on policy issues including health care, energy and others out of a job.
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House Passes Amendment to Defund Obamacare
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/house-gop-passes-amendment-to-defund-obamacare/
WASHINGTON (AP) — In rapid-fire action Friday, the Republican-controlled House voted to strip federal money from President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and from Planned Parenthood and to bar the EPA from issuing global warming regulations.
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The Dirty Little Secret About De-Funding Obamacare
http://biggovernment.com/eistook/2011/02/18/the-dirty-little-secret-about-de-funding-obamacare/
Several members of Congress, like Rep. Denny Rehberg (R, MT) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R.-Wash.) are offering amendments that would prevent any new spending from being used to implement Obamacare.
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George Soros: ‘President Obama Has Lost Control’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/george-soros-president-obama-has-lost-control/
In a pre-recorded interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria set to air Sunday morning, investment billionaire George Soros accuses President Barack Obama of having “lost control” of the national economy and criticizes the Democratic president for allowing Republicans to set the national agenda.
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U.S. Gov‘t Software Creates ’Fake People’ to Spread Message via Social Networking
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/u-s-govt-software-creates-fake-people-to-spread-message-via-social-networking/
Whenever I shop on the internet, I skip right over the positive reviews of products and go straight for the bad ones, figuring the company probably paid some hack to sit and create fictional names and post fake glowing five-star reviews for their products to dupe unsuspecting customers. But what if the federal government could operate this way?
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States to become referees of feds’ constitutionality
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=262773
Two states have introduced legislative plans that would set up standing commissions whose members would be tasked with reviewing “all existing federal statutes, mandates, and executive orders” to determine their constitutionality, then recommending to lawmakers whether that state should “nullify” any federal law or regulation “that is outside the scope of the powers delegated … to the federal government.”
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States ignored warnings on unemployment insurance
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110219/ap_on_re_us/us_broken_budgets_a_warning_ignored
WASHINGTON – State officials had plenty of warning. Over the past three decades, two national commissions and a series of government audits sounded alarms about the dwindling amount of money states were setting aside to pay unemployment insurance to laid-off workers.
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Mexican army to increase border presence: president
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/19/us-mexico-army-idUSTRE71I2WO20110219
(Reuters) – The Mexican army will strengthen its presence on the northern border used by drug smugglers, President Felipe Calderon said on Saturday during a ceremony to honor the armed forces.
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4 thrown to deaths from bridge in southern Mexico
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/02/19/4-thrown-to-deaths-from-bridge-in-southern-mexico/
In Chilpancingo Mexico, four men with their hands and feet tied and heads covered in duct tape were thrown 600 feet to their deaths from a bridge Friday.
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Bloodshed in Bahrain: 50 Injured as Police Open Fire on Protesters
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bloodshed-in-bahrain-50-injured-as-police-open-fire-on-protesters/
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP/The Blaze) -– Soldiers opened fire Friday on thousands of protesters defying a government ban and streaming toward the landmark Pearl Square that had been the symbolic center of the uprising to break the political grip of the Gulf nation’s leaders.
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Protesters return to square in Bahrain capital
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110219/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain_protests
MANAMA, Bahrain – Thousands of singing and dancing protesters streamed back into Manama’s central Pearl Square on Saturday after Bahrain’s leaders withdrew tanks and riot police following a bloody crackdown by security forces in the tiny monarchy.
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Egypt revolution unfinished, Qaradawi tells Tahrir masses
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/364347
Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a leading Egyptian Islamic theologian popularized by Al Jazeera, returned to Cairo today to deliver a stirring but overtly political sermon, calling on Egyptians to preserve national unity as they press for democratic progress.
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Egypt Agrees to Let Iranian Ships Through Suez Canal
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/egypt-agrees-to-let-iranian-ships-through-suez-canal/
CAIRO (AP) — State media say Egypt has agreed to let two Iranian naval vessels transit the Suez Canal, a move that comes despite expressions of concern by Israeli officials.
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Connecting the dots to anarchy
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=265253
Last year here in north Idaho, my garden failed. Miserably. Not from lack of trying. But after having the “winter of no winter” (very little snow), we also had the “summer of no summer.” Well into the third week of June, the cold and rainy conditions made it nearly impossible for vegetables to grow.
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Kim Weaver of British Columbia to escort cat from Oxford, N.Y., to Lewisville home
http://neighborsgo.com/stories/66498
A cat-centric online message thread has brought together three families with special needs. And now, the three are joining together to make each other’s wishes come true.

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News Articles For 2/17

February 17, 2011 — Operation Rooster

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

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

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News Articles For 2/16

February 16, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” Samuel Adams

B-17 veteran back in air aboard a WWII-era bomber
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BOMBER_VET?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — A day before his final mission aboard a B-17 bomber in World War II, Norbert Swierz sat down on his bunk and jotted down a poem for his mother back in Michigan.
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Face of Defense: India-born Marine Climbs Career Ladder
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62830
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, Feb. 16, 2011 – A Marine who was born and raised in India continues to move up through the ranks as he serves the United States.
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Study Guide: Budget Crisis
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/15/study-guide-budget-crisis/
NOTE: Here are the sources to the info. mentioned on Glenn Beck’s 2/15 TV show.
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Jeffrey on Socialism’s Trajectory: Obama’s HHS Is Bigger Than LBJ’s Government
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/jeffrey-socialisms-trajectory-obamas-hhs
Anyone who doubts that the trend toward socialism is pushing America toward ruin should examine the historical tables President Obama published Monday along with his $3.7 trillion budget.
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Healthcare Reform Law Requires New IRS Army Of 1,054
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/02/15/healthcare-reform-law-requires-new-irs-army-of-1054
The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama’s healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million.
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Senate Passes Short-Term Exension of Patriot Act
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/senate-passes-short-term-exension-of-patriot-act/
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday voted to extend for 90 days the legal life of three post-Sept. 11 terrorism-fighting measures, including the use of roving wiretaps, that are set to expire at the end of the month.
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Chaffetz bill worth estimated $19 billion in taxpayer savings
http://chaffetz.house.gov/press-releases/2011/02/chaffetz-bill-worth-estimated-19-billion-in-taxpayer-savings.shtml
Washington, DC —Representative Jason Chaffetz (UT-3) has introduced HR 665, the Federal Building and Property Disposal Act. The bill requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to sell approximately $19 billion worth of excess federal buildings and structures. The bill requires 80% of the revenues generated to be applied to debt reduction. The other 20% must be set aside for the individual agencies’ incentives.
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Florida governor rejects high-speed rail funds
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/16/us-florida-rail-idUSTRE71F3ZH20110216
(Reuters) – Florida’s Tea Party-backed Governor Rick Scott on Wednesday said he was rejecting federal funds to construct a high-speed railway project in the state.
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Intelligence chief says terrorists shifting to smaller attacks against US
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2011/02/16/intelligence-chief-says-terrorists-shifting-to-smaller-attacks-against-us/
National Intelligence Director James Clapper plans to tell a Senate panel Al-Qaeda is likely plotting a series of small-scale terrorist attacks against the United States to keep worldwide attention focused on their political issues.
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Two U.S. Customs Agents Shot in Mexico, One Killed
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/developing-two-u-s-customs-agents-shot-in-mexico/
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security confirmed Tuesday evening that two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were shot in the line of duty Tuesday while driving on a Mexican highway about 200 miles outside of Mexico City.
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Possible Mexican Military Incursion On U.S. Soil
http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Possible-Mexican-Military-Incursion-On-U-S-Soil/x_-oXhrE3Um61ytja1xnKg.cspx
MISSION – CHANNEL 5 NEWS is exposing what appears to be a Mexican military incursion into the United States. It was all caught on camera. We froze surveillance video taken at the Anzalduas International Bridge.
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Iraqi: I’m proud my WMD lies led to war in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_iraq_curveball
LONDON – An Iraqi who has been identified as a key source for the U.S. case for war in Iraq says he is proud that he lied about his country developing mobile biological warfare lab.
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From Cairo to Madison: Worker Unrest Spreads
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/from-cairo-to-madison-worker-unrest-spreads/
It was an I-told-you-so moment. On last night’s TV show, Glenn Beck noted that the “crazy” connections he had been trumpeting between progressives, including unions, and the Egyptian unrest was, well, not so crazy after all.
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CBS News Correspondent Subjected to ‘Brutal and Sustained Sexual Assault’ in Egypt
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cbs-news-correspondent-subjected-to-brutal-and-sustained-sexual-assault-in-egypt/
As a Western journalist covering the resignation of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was reportedly attacked by a mob of protesters while she and her crew navigated through the crowds in Cairo on Feb. 11.
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Egyptians air grievances, ignoring army warning
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egypt
CAIRO – Airport employees protested for better pay Wednesday, textile workers went on strike to demand a corruption investigation and residents of a Suez Canal city pressed for closing a chemical factory they say is dumping toxic waste into a lake in the latest wave of unrest shaking Egypt.
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The Voice of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,745526,00.html
He is a hypermarket of dogma, dispensing advice on subjects ranging from mother’s milk to suicide bombing. But few have as much influence on Sunni Muslims as the Muslim televangelist Youssef al-Qaradawi. He says what the Muslim Brotherhood in Egpyt thinks — and he provides clues to how they might act.
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How Yemen’s Tawakul Karman Came to Head a Protest Movement
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110216/wl_time/08599204947600
Sometimes revolutionaries don’t look the part. Tawakul Karman, Yemen’s most active activist, favors long, loose-fitting gowns and coordinating headscarves. The 32-year-old mother of three looks, well, like a mom. And she acts like one too.
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Thousands of police confront protesters in Yemen
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_yemen
SANAA, Yemen – Authorities flooded the streets of Yemen’s capital with 2,000 police Wednesday to try to halt six days of Egypt-style demonstrations against the president of 32 years, a key U.S. ally in battling al-Qaida. One person was killed when police and protesters clashed in the southern port of Aden in the first known death during Yemen’s political unrest.
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Bahrain protesters step up pressure on rulers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_bahrain_protests
MANAMA, Bahrain – Protesters demanding sweeping political reforms from Bahrain’s rulers held their ground Wednesday in an Egypt-style occupation of the capital’s landmark square, staging a third day of demonstrations that have brought unprecedented pressure in one of Washington’s most strategic allies in the Gulf.
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Soros team wants al-Qaida in government
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=264153
JERUSALEM – An international “crisis management” group led by billionaire George Soros long has petitioned for the Algerian government to cease “excessive” military activities against al-Qaida-linked groups and to allow organizations seeking to create an Islamic state to participate in the Algerian government.
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Video Allegedly Shows Anti-Gov’t Protesters Being Shot in Libya
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/video-allegedly-shows-anti-govt-protesters-being-shot-in-libya/
CAIRO (The Blaze/AP) — Hundreds of Libyans calling for the government‘s ouster clashed with security forces early Wednesday in the country’s second-largest city as Egypt-inspired unrest spread to the country long ruled by Moammar Gadhafi.
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Seven people pulled from fiery minivan on I-94 in Detroit by Good Samaritans
http://www.macombdaily.com/articles/2011/02/15/news/doc4d5a78d3c60ab928988842.txt
DETROIT (AP) — Good Samaritans who pulled seven people from a fiery minivan after it crashed and exploded on a Detroit freeway have been hailed as heroes. State police say the vehicle crashed on westbound Interstate 94 about 6:30 p.m. Monday, struck a bridge support and burst into flames.
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Caught on camera: Thief is a genuine cat burglar!
http://www.wtsp.com/news/topstories/story.aspx?storyid=175053&catid=250
San Mateo, Calif. — There’s a cat burglar on the loose in a California community. Neighbors know who it is, but they’re not pressing charges. That’s because the thief is indeed a cat! By day he’s a house cat named Dusty, but by night he’s “Klepto the Cat,” or so the neighbors call him.

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News Articles For 2/14

February 14, 2011 — Operation Rooster

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

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

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News Articles For 2/11

February 11, 2011 — Operation Rooster

ANA tip leads to weapons cache
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4127-ana-tip-leads-to-weapons-cache.html
PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A tip generated by the 3rd Coy, 1st Kandak, Afghan National Army pointed ANA and U.S. Army soldiers from Task Force Lethal to a large weapons cache in Sarmast Kheyl, Zormat District Jan. 31.
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Face of Defense: Mother, Son Serve Together
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62784
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb. 11, 2011 – It was 4 a.m. when she settled in to watch the Pittsburgh Steelers play the Green Bay Packers. Technically, it was Super Bowl Monday for her.
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Mubarak resigns, hands power to military
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110211/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt
CAIRO – Egypt’s vice president says Hosni Mubarak has resigned as president and handed control to the military. Car horns were heard around Cairo in celebration after Vice President Omar Suleiman made the announcement on national TV on Friday.
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Mubarak Disappears as Army Backs Him & Crowds Surge
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mubarak-disappears-as-army-backs-him-crowds-surge/
The situation in Egypt is fast-moving. Since President Hosni Mubarak gave his I’m-not-stepping-down step-down speech last night, much has happened. Below is a rundown of the morning’s news regarding Egypt.
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Iran’s Ahmadinijad Holds Massive Pro-Egyptian, Anti-American Rally
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/irans-ahmadinijad-holds-massive-pro-egyptian-anti-american-rally/
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is capitalizing on the Egyptian conflict to spew American and Israeli hate, hosting a massive rally in Tehran to bolster the protests in Egypt. According to AFP, “massive crowds of Iranians chanted pro-Egypt and anti-American slogans while marking the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic revolution.”
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Study Guide: Breaking News Coverage of Egypt
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/10/study-guide-breaking-news-coverage-of-egypt/
NOTE: Here are the sources to the info. mentioned on Glenn Beck’s 2/10 TV show.
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Intel Director‘s Office Tries to Backpedal on Clapper’s Shocking Statement
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/intel-directors-office-tries-to-backpedal-on-clappers-shocking-statement/
Just hours after National Intelligence Director James Clapper made the shocking statement this morning that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “secular” organization, his office tried frantically to “clarify” his remarks.
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NYT: CIA Director Based Mubarak Congressional Testimony on Media Reports
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nyt-cia-director-based-mubarak-congressional-testimony-on-media-reports/
The news for the Obama administration keeps getting worse. Or, more accurately, embarrassing. After National Intelligence Director James Clapper erroneously said the Muslim Brotherhood was a “secular” organization, it‘s now been revealed that CIA Director Leon Panetta’s testimony in front of Congress that Mubarak’s resignation was a “strong likelihood” was based not on intelligence but rather media reports.
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800,000 Jobs Gone: CBO Admits Health Care Law Will Kill Jobs
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/800000-jobs-gone-cbo-admits-health-care-law-will-kill-jobs/
NOTE: This video clip is 1:13 long.
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Ariz. governor countersues federal government
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110211/D9LA8QG80.html
PHOENIX (AP) – Gov. Jan Brewer sued the federal government Thursday for failing to control Arizona’s border with Mexico and enforce immigration laws, and for sticking the state with huge costs associated with jailing illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
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‘Bombshell’ Charge: DOJ Whistleblower Says Liberal FOIA Requests Get VIP Treatment
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bombshell-charge-doj-whistleblower-says-liberal-foia-requests-get-vip-treament/
Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration’s Justice Department have come under fire in the past for allegedly letting politics tip the balance of Justice. Specifically, J. Christian Adams, a former DOJ official, made news last year when he publicly accused the agency of racial bias in handling the 2008 election voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party.
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Shocking New IMF Report: The U.S. Dollar Needs To Be Replaced As The World Reserve Currency And SDRs “Could Constitute An Embryo Of Global Currency”
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/
The IMF is trying to move the world away from the U.S. dollar and towards a global currency once again. In a new report entitled “Enhancing International Monetary Stability—A Role for the SDR”, the IMF details the “problems” with having the U.S. dollar as the reserve currency of the globe and the IMF discusses the potential for a larger role for SDRs (Special Drawing Rights).
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Susan Rice kicks off U.N. series
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49319.html
Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, will argue in a major address Friday evening that the U.S. should “strengthen” — not “starve” — the world body.
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U.S. Footing $100M Bill for U.N. Security Upgrade
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/09/footing-m-security-upgrade/?test=latestnews
Months after top New York City officials expressed intense behind-the-scenes frustration at the security vulnerabilities at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, the U.N. is now planning to spend $100 million — donated by the U.S. — on the upgrade.
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U.S. reassures Poles on Russia missile defense role
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/11/us-usa-missiledefence-poland-idUSTRE71A3OI20110211
(Reuters) – A senior U.S. arms control negotiator said Friday she had reassured Poland and the Baltic republics that plans to involve Russia in developing European missile defense would not compromise their security.
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Obama, Soros create ‘Palestine’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=262077
JERUSALEM – In partnership with a government fund initiated by Barack Obama, philanthropist and billionaire activist George Soros is investing in a private equity company that just launched in the Palestinian territories.
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‘Fever of Liberation’ Moves To Baghdad With Intensified Demonstrations
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34381.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Across Iraq, a wave of mass demonstrations has spread, calling for improvement in public services and an end to corruption. Despite government efforts to contain the public anger, which appears to be on the rise since the outbreak of turmoil in other Arab countries, it appears certain that a mass demonstration planned to take place February 25, at Liberation Square, in the center of Baghdad, will go ahead.
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Soaring debt pushes Portugal towards bail-out
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a04f8e08-3472-11e0-9ebc-00144feabdc0,s01=1.html#axzz1DfMCO1QB
Portugal’s cost of borrowing hit a euro-era high on Wednesday amid growing concerns that Lisbon will have to turn to bail-out funds to revive its stagnating economy.
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What’s the frequency: Monitors transmit video of unknowing families
http://www.komonews.com/news/problemsolvers/115840594.html
SEATTLE — The saying goes never wake a sleeping baby. But what if that baby is broadcast for all the neighbors to see? From Ballard to Queen Anne and Greenlake to Phinney Ridge, KOMO News found unsuspecting families transmitting what’s inside their homes without even knowing it.
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Local Gymnast Makes Miraculous Recovery After Failed Flip
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Gymnast-Makes-Miraculously-Recovery-After-Scary-Fall–115760479.html
It’s a risk all gymnasts take every time they do a somersault or attempt any acrobatic move. The slightest miscalculation could lead to serious injury that could end in paralysis or even death.

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News Articles For 2/10

February 10, 2011 — Operation Rooster

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

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News Articles For 2/9

February 9, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Today’s Founding Father quote of the day from www. foundingfatherquotes.com is:
“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.” George Washington: First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789

Afghan, Coalition Forces Kill Enemy Fighter in Ghazni
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62731
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2011 – Afghan and coalition forces killed an enemy fighter and detained several other suspected insurgents yesterday in the Muqer district of Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, military officials reported.
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PRT donates clothing, blankets to Khowst orphanage
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4121-prt-donates-clothing-blankets-to-khowst-orphanage.html
KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Khowst Provincial Reconstruction Team medical personnel and engineers brought donated winter clothing and blankets to a Khowst City orphanage Feb. 1.
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RCP 43 donates school supplies, toys in Baraki Barak
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4118-rcp-43-donates-school-supplies-toys-in-baraki-barak.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – To help prevent violent extremism and turn potential enemies into friends, 54th Engineer Battalion route-clearance Soldiers donated supplies to Afghan school children in Baraki Barak, Logar Province Jan. 30.
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Women Learn to Fight Stress from Home Front
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62739
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2011 – During a week in which the White House pledged a vigorous, whole-of-government approach to supporting military families, 11 women worked diligently a few miles away to learn to cope with the stresses of their husbands’ multiple deployments and the post-traumatic stress that affects many of them when they return home.
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Face of Defense: Barbershop Quartet Creates ‘Buzz’
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62742
CAMP DENALI, Alaska, Feb. 9, 2011 – When Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Timothy Tillman of the Alaska Air National Guard deployed to Southwest Asia last fall, he went with the goal to start a barbershop quartet. But how it fell into place, and the impact his deployed quartet is making, has created quite a buzz..
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Study Guide: Sources from today’s programs
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/08/study-guide-sources-from-todays-programs/
NOTE: Here are the sources to the info. mentioned on Glenn Beck’s 2/8 TV show.
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House Rejects Extension of Patriot Act Provisions as 26 Republicans Defect
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/house-rejects-extension-of-patriot-act-provisions-as-26-republicans-defect/
WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The House on Tuesday failed to extend the life of three surveillance tools that are key to the nation’s post-Sept. 11 anti-terror law, a slipup for the new Republican leadership that miscalculated the level of opposition within its own ranks.
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Don’t Mess With Texas
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41684#comments
The federal government is once again overstepping its authority by messing with Texas. Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) leadership continued their game of hardball by stripping Texas of its authority to issue greenhouse gas permits.
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The Internet ‘Stimulus’-Just as Destructive as the Rest of the ‘Stimulus’
http://biggovernment.com/smotley/2011/02/09/the-internet-stimulus-just-as-destructive-as-the-rest-of-the-stimulus/
Tucked into the fatty, flabby folds of the nearly $1 trillion alleged “stimulus” bill foisted upon us (and our children, and their children, with interest) in 2009 was $7.2 billion for broadband Internet projects.
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States revolt over health reform, Florida says it’s not the law here
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/health/states-revolt-over-health-reform-florida-says-its-1241463.html
Health insurers that overcharge Florida consumers won’t be required to issue rebate checks here, one of a raft of consequences emerging after a federal lower court judge declared the Affordable Care Act void.
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CARB Before Horse
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/562348/201102071906/CARB-Before-Horse.htm
States: A court has tentatively ruled against California’s cap-and-trade law because alternatives were not considered. But then, neither were climate facts or the economic impact.
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Obama signature creates ‘continental perimeter’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=261477
Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper quietly have taken a major step toward erasing the border between the two nations with a new “Beyond the Border” bilateral declaration.
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WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/08/saudi-oil-reserves-overstated-wikileaks
The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show.
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Day 15: Egyptian Protests Draw Biggest Crowds Yet
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/day-15-egyptian-protests-draw-biggest-crowds-yet/
Just one day after many media outlets declared that anti-government protests in Egypt were at a stalemate and running out of gas, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square and countless towns across Egypt on Tuesday, drawing the largest crowds since the popular revolt began.
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CNN: Muslim Brotherhood Will not Seek Presidency
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cnn-muslim-brotherhood-will-not-seek-presidency/
According to CNN, the Muslim Brotherhood — the Islamist organization credited with birthing the terrorist group Hamas — says it will not field a candidate for the Egyptian presidential race.
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Muslim Brotherhood’s Goals Uncovered: Global Islamic Conquest & Caliphate
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/muslim-brotherhoods-goals-uncovered-global-islamic-conquest-caliphate/
As anti-government protests continue brewing in Egypt, opposition groups such as the banned Muslim Brotherhood are gaining steam and popularity among disillusioned Egyptians bent on ousting President Hosni Mubarak from office. But excerpts of a 1995 book written by the Muslim Brotherhood‘s fifth leader and translated by Palestinian Media Watch are lending a disturbing look at the group’s views and stated mission.
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Soros group: ‘Normalize’ Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=261337
JERUSALEM – An international “crisis management” group led by billionaire George Soros long has petitioned for the Egyptian government to normalize ties with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Labor strikes in Egypt spill into broader unrest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt
CAIRO – Thousands of workers across Egypt, have gone on strike, demanding better pay, benefits and working conditions in added turmoil amid the country’s anti-government protests.
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Pakistani cabinet resigns as part of revamp plan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110209/wl_nm/us_pakistan_cabinet
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s federal cabinet resigned on Wednesday to allow Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to set up a new, smaller cabinet and reduce government expenditure, officials said.
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Coming Home: Hugs, Tears, Joy
http://www.life.com/image/50597038/in-gallery/35712/#index/0
A youngster clutches his dad’s leg while the soldier lifts his wife off the ground in celebration of an unexpected leave for the holidays during WWII. The sight of troops coming home—greeted by laughing, weeping friends and family; looking into the eyes of newborn sons and daughters for the first time—is a cultural linchpin, across all societies, in all times.

News Articles For 2/5

February 5, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Face of Defense: Enlisted Marine Returns as Officer
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62705
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C., Feb. 4, 2011 – Marine Corps Capt. Joshua H. Weiland grew up in a typical American family in Park Falls, Wis. Not much more than a couple of intersections in the middle of a national forest, the town gave Weiland an environment that fit his personality.
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WikiLeaks: US Agreed to Reveal UK’s Nuclear Secrets to Russia
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wikileaks-us-agreed-to-reveal-uks-nuclear-secrets-to-russia/
In yet another bombshell disclosure this week, the online site WikiLeaks is shedding disturbing new light on the “special relationship” that once bound the United States and Great Britain.
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Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computers
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704709304576124502351634690.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection
Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Labor Force Participation Plunges To Fresh 26 Year Low
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/labor-force-participations-plunges-fresh-26-year-low
At 64.2%, the labor force participation rate (as a percentage of the total civilian noninstitutional population) is now at a fresh 26 year low, the lowest since March 1984, and is the only reason why the unemployment rate dropped to 9% (labor force declined from 153,690 to 153,186).
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Unions Can Bargain on Behalf of Airport Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/us/05unionize.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1296925237-zf5HpGBLhoVaeBTi2X0w5Q
WASHINGTON — Seeking to end a debate that has brewed for nearly a decade, the director of the Transportation Security Administration announced on Friday that a union would be allowed to bargain over working conditions on behalf of the nation’s 45,000 airport security officers, although certain issues like pay will not be subject to negotiation.
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Convicted: Woman ‘disobeyed’ illegal order
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=259457
An appeal is challenging a Christian activist’s conviction for failing to obey a police officer’s order to shut down her camera while she was filming fellow Christian missionaries at last year’s Dearborn Arab Festival because the command apparently wasn’t legal.
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Big Obama donor quits envoy job amid criticism
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icvkPhBDrb3c8ySkXkQURKNJ9sSw?docId=306882dbed82458e8897d5afef59d730
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama, Cynthia Stroum was a superstar whose financial backing of the campaign landed her a plum diplomatic posting in Europe.
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U.S. Ambassador Cynthia Stroum Called “Bullying, Hostile” in State Department Investigation
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030683-503544.html
One way that presidents reward their biggest donors is by offering them plum ambassadorships. Which is why it wasn’t surprising when the Obama administration tapped Cynthia Stroum to be U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg.
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US warns about night driving in major Mexican city
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110205/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
MEXICO CITY – Officials are warning U.S. citizens not to drive at night in parts of the western Mexican city of Guadalajara after suspected drug-gang members burned vehicles and blocked streets. A separate U.S. alert Friday said the northern city of Monterrey has seen a significant increase in armed robberies at restaurants and convenience stores.
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Beck & Rosenberg Explain the ‘New Caliphate’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/beck-rosenberg-explain-the-new-caliphate/
NOTE: This is a 4:52 long video from Glenn Beck’s 2/4 Fox News TV show.
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Blast rocks gas terminal in Egypt’s Sinai
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110205/ap_on_bi_ge/ml_egypt_pipeline_explosion
EL-ARISH, Egypt – An explosion rocked a gas terminal in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, setting off a massive fire that was contained by shutting off the flow of gas to neighboring Jordan and Israel, officials and witnesses said.
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Is this the end? Mubarak quits as party leader after 12 days of bloodshed and riots in Egypt
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353951/Egypt-protests-Hosni-Mubarak-quits-party-leader-12-days-riots.html
President Hosni Mubarak has resigned as the head of Egypt ruling party, according to State television. It comes as the country was on the verge of descending into chaos as newly appointed vice president Omar Suleiman reportedly survived an assassination attempt and saboteurs allegedly attacked an oil pipeline.
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Egypt Officials Seek to Ease Mubarak Out
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/world/middleeast/06egypt.html?hp
CAIRO — President Hosni Mubarak appeared increasingly isolated on Saturday, with protests entering their 12th day and the Obama administration and some members of the Egyptian military and civilian elite pursuing plans to nudge him from power.
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State multiculturalism has failed, says David Cameron
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12371994
David Cameron has criticised “state multiculturalism” in his first speech as prime minister on radicalisation and the causes of terrorism. At a security conference in Munich, he argued the UK needed a stronger national identity to prevent people turning to all kinds of extremism.
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Sudan’s Bashir vows freedoms and open government
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110205/wl_nm/us_sudan_bashir
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s president promised a future of freedom and open government on Saturday in a strikingly conciliatory speech following a week of small protests in Sudan and an uprising in neighboring Egypt.
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PIMCO says Europe should relieve Greece of debt
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/05/us-fund-greek-idUSTRE7141MC20110205
(Reuters) – Europe should relieve Greece of some of its debt burden as its savings program would only stifle economic growth, the head of the world’s biggest bond fund was quoted as saying in a German magazine on Saturday.
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Russian FM opposes further sanctioning Iran
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=206916&R=R1
MUNICH — Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday indicated that he opposes slapping more international sanctions on Iran in the standoff over its nuclear program.
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Hate of U.S. keeps weapons trade thriving
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=259313
Intelligence analysts say the three-way relationship, especially involving weapons trade, between Russia, China and Iran is complex, but it’s held together by a common enemy: The United States.
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Off-Duty Cop Credits Divine Intervention in Rescuing Kidnapped Woman
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/off-duty-cop-credits-divine-intervention-in-rescuing-kidnapped-woman/
Do you believe in God? Lt. Tommy Butler does and the Scotland County, N.C., deputy sheriff believes it was His divine intervention that helped him rescue a kidnapped woman trapped inside her abductors’ car trunk.

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News Articles For 2/4

February 4, 2011 — Operation Rooster

Afghan, Coalition Forces Investigate Explosion
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62682
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2011 – Afghan and coalition forces are investigating a roadside bomb explosion that killed six Afghan civilians, including two children, today in Kunduz province’s Kunduz district, military officials reported.
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Patriot EOD specialist earns Purple Heart Medal
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/4092-patriot-eod-specialist-earns-purple-heart-medal.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Spc. Ward Savage (left), an explosive ordnance disposal specialist from McHenry, Md., assigned to 2nd Platoon, 705th EOD Company at Fort Polk, La., receives a Purple Heart Medal from U.S. Army Col. Bruce P. Antonia, commander of 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division’s Task Force Patriot from Manchester, Conn., on Forward Operating Base Shank Jan. 31.
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National Debt Jumped Another $105.8 Billion in January
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/national-debt-jumped-another-1058-billio
(CNSNews.com) – The federal debt increased by $105.8 billion ($105,835,837,302.32) in January, according to the the U.S. Treasury Department, jumping from $14.0252 trillion ($14,025,215,218,708.52) at the close of business on December 31 to $14.1311 trillion ($14,131,051,056,010.84) at the close of business on January 31.
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President Obama’s Plan to Win the Future by Making American Businesses More Energy Efficient through the “Better Buildings Initiative”
http://m.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/02/03/president-obama-s-plan-win-future-making-american-businesses-more-energy
In his State of the Union, President Obama laid out his vision for winning the future by investing in innovative clean energy technologies and doubling the share of electricity from clean energy sources by 2035.
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FCC Orders NBC Newsrooms To Partner With Soros-Funded Non-Profits
http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/02/03/fcc-orders-nbc-newsrooms-to-partner-with-soros-funded-non-profits/
So much for objectivity. One of the FCC stipulations of the Comcast – NBCU merger was the incorporation of non-profit journalism centers into NBC newsrooms. They are charged with maintaining and increasing local news coverage, the regulation based on the relationship between KNSD-TV and VoiceofSanDiego.org.
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Greyhound Bus Hijacked in NC; Suspect Taken Into Custody
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bus-hijacked-in-nc-suspect-taken-into-custody/
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An armed passenger hijacked a Greyhound bus Thursday night along a North Carolina highway and was arrested after police surrounded the bus after the driver had pulled into a gas station, authorities said. No one was injured.
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Did Political Correctness Keep Authorities From Preventing Ft. Hood Massacre?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/did-political-correctness-keep-authorities-from-preventing-ft-hood-massacre/
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate report on the Fort Hood shooting is sharply critical of the FBI’s failure to recognize warning signs that an Army psychiatrist had become an Islamist extremist and amounted to a “ticking time bomb.”
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ABC Tries Undercover Journalism By Lying About Arizona Law
http://bigjournalism.com/mdake/2011/02/04/abc-tries-undercover-journalism-by-lying-about-arizona-law/
ABC reporter John Quinones produced a deceptive propaganda piece about the recent Arizona law (SB1070) dealing with illegal immigration. John Quinones, with the support of ABC, again peddles the mainstream media meme that anyone who is for the enforcement of our immigration laws is “anti-immigration” or “anti-immigrant.” But Quinones (and, by extension, ABC) doesn’t stop there.
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JOHN STOSSEL: I Can Balance the Budget
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/02/03/john-stossel-balance-budget/
The Congressional Budget Office says the current year’s budget deficit will be a record $1.5 trillion. It also says that over the next decade we’re on track for annual deficits of “only” $768 billion. I suspect the CBO has hired Rosy Scenario to do the bookkeeping, but let’s take that number at face value.
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Shell: No Beaufort Sea drilling in Arctic for 2011
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Shell-No-Beaufort-Sea-apf-844337881.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shell Alaska has dropped plans to drill in the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea this year and will concentrate on obtaining permits for the 2012 season, company Vice President Pete Slaiby said Thursday.
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Gang gunbattles, street blockades in Mexico
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110202/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Suspected drug cartel gunmen hurled grenades, burned vehicles and blocked streets in a rapid series of attacks in Mexico’s second-largest city, authorities said Wednesday.
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Study Guide: Caliphate, Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas
http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/03/study-guide-muslim-brotherhood-and-hamas/
This is a “reference guide” to Glenn Beck’s 2/4 TV show full of links.
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Al-Maliki Confirmed In 2009 That Syria, Iran Provided Weapons To Terrorist Groups
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34130.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Secret telegrams released by WikiLeaks indicate that Iraqi Prime minister Nouri al-Maliki confirmed to U.S. diplomats in 2009 that Syria and Iran were supplying rebellious [terrorist] groups with weapons, including surface-to-air missiles. Al-Maliki passed this information to the former U.S. Ambassador to Baghdad Christopher Hill when the relations between Iraq and Syria were severed.
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Cooper Attacked Again While ABC News Crew Threatened With ‘Beheading’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cooper-attacked-again-while-abc-news-crew-threatened-with-beheading/
Attacks on foreign journalists continue to intensify in Egypt. Yesterday, Anderson Cooper was beaten in the head and a Fox News crew had to be hospitalized. Today, Cooper suffered another attack, while an ABC news crew was threatened with “beheading” by a mob which included an attacker in a police uniform.
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Egypt protesters throng square after violence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110204/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt
CAIRO – Tens of thousands packed central Cairo Friday, waving flags and singing the national anthem, emboldened in their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak after they repelled pro-regime attackers in two days of bloody street fights. The U.S. was pressing Egypt for an immediate start to democratic transition, including a proposal for Mubarak to step down immediately.
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Mubarak: I’d resign, but Egypt would descend into chaos
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=206708
Protesters have pledged to intensify their battle to unseat Hosni Mubarak by Friday, after opponents and supporters of the Egyptian president clashed in a second straight day of rock-throwing battles at a central Cairo square and new forms of lawlessness spread throughout the battered city.
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In Egypt, Calls For Mass Demonstrations Tomorrow, Until Mubarak Falls; Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi: Demonstrating Is A Religious Duty; Iranian Ayatollah Calls On Al-Azhar To Stand With Egyptian People
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34098.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The “We Are All Khaled Said” Facebook page posted calls (above) for mass demonstrations tomorrow, February 4, following Friday prayers, under the slogan “February 4, 2011 – The Day of Mubarak’s Departure.”
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Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei Calls Upon Egyptian Army to Join Masses in Ousting Hosni Mubarak
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2792.htm
NOTE: This video clip is 11:17 long.
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Iran: Riots sign of Islamic awakening
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4023909,00.html
Supreme leader Khamenei satisfied with Egypt uprising. ‘The echoes of the Islamic Revolution are being heard. It is an earthquake and defeat for the US policy, and the Zionists are more concerned than anyone else,’ he says during Tehran sermon.
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Egyptian Daily: Hamas Gunmen Caught In Egypt En Route To Demonstrations
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34107.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The Egyptian opposition daily Al-Yawm Al-Sab’a reported that forces in the Sinai had arrested 11 Hamas gunmen en route to demonstrations in Egypt. Two were caught in Al-Arish, where they had arrived from Gaza, and nine in Suez city.
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Muslim Brotherhood: ‘We are against Zionism’
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=206725
A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt on Thursday evening repeatedly refused to commit to maintaining the peace treaty with Israel, or even recognizing Israel, if the Brotherhood becomes a player in the future governance of Egypt.
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Algeria to lift emergency powers
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112315364175524.html
Algeria’s 19-year state of emergency will be lifted in the “very near future”, state media has quoted Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the president, as saying. During a meeting with ministers on Thursday, the president also said Algerian television and radio, which are controlled by the state, should give airtime to all political parties.
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Jordan’s King Abdallah Meets With Muslim Brotherhood
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34135.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
For the first time since he took the throne, Jordan’s King Abdallah has met with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in his country. In the meeting, the monarch discussed the need for political and economic reforms.
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In Syria, Regime Initiates Shows Of Support
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34102.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
In advance of the anti-regime protest demonstrations expected tomorrow and Saturday, February 4 and 5, vehicles with Syrian flags and pictures of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad have begun moving through the streets of Damascus to show support for the regime.
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Kuwaiti Daily: Hizbullah Sent Thousands Of Troops To Help Syrian Regime
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34137.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
The Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa, known for its anti-Syrian stance, reported, citing Syrian sources, that in recent days some 2,000 Hizbullah troops have arrived in Syria to protect the regime, in advance of the popular protests set for today and tomorrow.
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The Internet And The Revolutions
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/34127.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Following random interviews with young Iraqis, Alsumaria.tv made a profound observation. It writes that the Arab regimes that have prevailed for decades against what they have characterized as Western colonialist and imperialistic conspiracies are now threatened by an interactive window that the Arab youth have been able to glance through in the last few years to overcome their boredom after failing to find employment opportunities.
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NFL Stars Aid Hearing-Impaired Kids
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/03/nfl-stars-aid-hearing-impaired-kids/
Nearly 100 NFL players will compete for Super Bowl rings in Dallas on Sunday, but today 200 people will get something even more significant: free hearing aids.
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See Sunday’s Best Super Bowl Commercials Before They Air
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/see-sundays-best-super-bowl-commercials-before-they-air/
For many people, Super Bowl Sunday is as much about the commercials as it is about the game. A single 30-second ad spot costs millions of dollars, meaning companies save their best for the big day. Understanding our insatiable desire for insider information, the crew over at Business Insider has put together a collection of the 24 best Super Bowl commercials viewers will see on Sunday.

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