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 1/25

January 25, 2011 — Operation Rooster

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

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News Articles For 1/24

January 24, 2011 — Operation Rooster

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

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News Articles For 1/17

January 17, 2011 — Operation Rooster

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

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News Articles For 12/21

December 21, 2010 — Operation Rooster

TF Patriot Soldiers, PRT reach out to children at Afghan orphanage
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3862-tf-patriot-soldiers-prt-reach-out-to-children-at-afghan-orphanage.html
BAMYAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Soldiers from New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team and U.S. Soldiers from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division gave gifts to Afghan children at an orphanage in Bamyan Province Dec. 15.
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USO tour celebrities visit FOB Shank Soldiers
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3863-uso-tour-celebrities-visit-fob-shank-soldiers.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Celebrities traveling throughout Afghanistan on a USO tour stopped at Forward Operating Base Shank to meet and entertain and troops for the holiday season Dec. 21.
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Wounded warriors swim with sharks
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/12/20/49703-wounded-warriors-swim-with-sharks/?ref=news-home-title8
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (Dec. 20, 2010) — Donning full scuba gear, 17 wounded warriors from Fort Bragg’s Warrior Transition Battalion swam Sunday with sharks and other sea life in Georgia Aquarium’s large tank in Atlanta.
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Veteran ‘Screaming Eagles’ Reach Out to Wounded Warriors
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62181
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2010 – Army Pfc. Charles “C.J.” Stewart isn’t feeling forgotten this holiday as he recuperates from his combat wounds here at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He’ll be surrounded by his family, a nurturing medical staff and, as a bonus, veterans of the 101st Airborne Division who continue to reach out to today’s “Screaming Eagles.”
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Airmen win honors at worldwide talent search
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123235769
12/20/2010 – SAN ANTONIO (AFNS) — Air Force entertainment officials selected the top 11 entertainers Dec. 13 at an awards banquet here during the annual Air Force Worldwide Talent Search.
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Welcome to NORAD Tracks Santa
http://www.noradsanta.org/en/index.html
All the preparations for this year are in place! Come back each day to receive updates from the North Pole and to discover new surprises in the Kids’ Countdown Village.
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Holiday Video Features Troops Worldwide
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/12/21/holiday-video-features-troops-worldwide/
My colleagues in Defense Media Activity’s emerging media directorate pulled off an amazing feat just in time for the holidays. They called on more than 40 commands from around the world to help them create a holiday video that features servicemembers from every branch of service and in some of the most remote locations in the world. And, as an added bonus, country music star Toby Keith provides the video’s introduction.
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Face of Defense: Veteran Receives Bronze Star 68 Years Later
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62192
FORT McPHERSON, Ga., Dec. 21, 2010 – It was nearly 69 years ago that Seymour S. Lavine came here to enlist, hoping to do his part to end the second World War. He recently returned to collect the Bronze Star the Army said he was due for his heroism in the South Pacific.
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U.S. Military Seeks to Expand Raids in Pakistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/world/asia/21intel.html?_r=1
WASHINGTON — Senior American military commanders in Afghanistan are pushing for an expanded campaign of Special Operations ground raids across the border into Pakistan’s tribal areas, a risky strategy reflecting the growing frustration with Pakistan’s efforts to root out militants there.
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GREEN MAKE BELIEVE: Van Jones Admits Left is “PRETENDING” Need for Regulations in Green Movement
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/green-make-believe-van-jones-admits-left-is-pretending-need-for-regulations-and-cap-trade-in-green-movement/
NOTE: This video clip is 1:57 long.
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Fed extends program to ease Europe debt crisis
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fed-extends-program-to-ease-apf-2324425346.html?x=0&.v=8
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve extended a program set up earlier this year to ease strains from the European debt crisis. The program, which was set to expire in January, will now run through Aug. 1, the Fed announced on Tuesday.
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$2tn (trillion) debt crisis threatens to bring down 100 US cities
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/20/debt-crisis-threatens-us-cities
Overdrawn American cities could face financial collapse in 2011, defaulting on hundreds of billions of dollars of borrowings and derailing the US economic recovery. Nor are European cities safe – Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice: all are in trouble.
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Feds want reporting for high-powered rifle sales
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101220/ap_on_re_us/us_gun_sales_reporting_2
WASHINGTON – The federal agency that monitors gun sales wants weapons dealers near the Mexican border to start reporting multiple sales of high-powered rifles, according to a notice published in the Federal Register.
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The Food Safety Bill: A Point-By-Point Guide
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/20/point-point-guide-food-safety/
Congress is on the verge of passing a landmark bill aimed at improving food safety, after the Senate passed the proposal for the second time Sunday and sent it over to the House.
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Dem Rep. Tells Russian Media: U.S. Is ‘Banana Republic’ Without Wealth Redistribution
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-rep-tells-russian-media-u-s-is-banana-republic-without-wealth-redistribution/
Without more redistribution of wealth, the United States of America is on the road to becoming a “banana republic,” warns Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill.
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Latest Terror Threat in US Aimed to Poison Food
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/20/eveningnews/main7169266.shtml
(CBS) In this exclusive story, CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian reports the latest terror attack to America involves the possible use of poisons – simultaneous attacks targeting hotels and restaurants at many locations over a single weekend.
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Christie Commutes Sentence of Man Serving 7 Years for Transporting Legal Guns
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/christie-commutes-sentence-of-man-serving-7-years-for-transporting-legal-guns/
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has commuted the sentence of a man sentenced to seven years in prison for transporting guns he owned legally. 27-year-old Brian Aitken was arrested, charged, and convicted in 2009 after his mother called 911 (but hung up), worried that he was distraught over not being able to spend time with his son and was considering suicide.
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High School Punishes Christmas Sweater Club for Giving Candy Canes
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/high-school-punishes-christmas-sweater-club-for-giving-candy-canes/
“Littering,“ ”creating a disturbance,“ and ”malicious wounding.” That’s what a group of light-hearted high schoolers are being charged with after they dressed up in wacky Christmas sweaters and distributed candy canes at school.
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‘Bomb’ Found in Rome Subway ‘Could Not Have Exploded’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bomb-found-in-rome-subway-could-not-have-exploded/
ROME (AP) — A suspicious package full of wires and powder was found Tuesday in a subway car in Rome, prompting a terror scare during the Christmas season. But the city’s mayor said the device could not have exploded.
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Life Ingredients Found in Superhot Meteorites—A First
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101220-asteroid-meteorite-life-space-science/
Hot on the heels of finding arsenic-loving life-forms, NASA astronomers have uncovered amino acids—the fundamental foundation for life—in a place where they shouldn’t be.
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Pluto Has Oceans Under Ice?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101216-pluto-ocean-solar-system-science-space/
Frigid Pluto, home to some of our solar system’s chilliest real estate, may well harbor an ocean beneath its miles-thick ice shell, new research suggests. Despite its extreme cold, the dwarf planet still appears to be warm enough to “easily” have a subsurface ocean, according to a new model of the rate at which radioactive heat might still warm Pluto’s core.
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FAA Certifies Santa’s NextGen-Equipped Sleigh for Christmas Eve
http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId=12237
WASHINGTON – Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) safety inspectors at the North Pole certified Santa One, the reindeer-powered sleigh piloted by Santa Claus, for its Christmas Eve round-the-world delivery mission.
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The Secret Santa of Joplin: $450,000 and Counting
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2037877,00.html?hpt=T2
No one saw a jolly old man with a snow-white beard outside the Walgreens pharmacy in Joplin, Missouri that night. But when the Salvation Army emptied its red kettle after an evening of bell ringing on Dec. 13, it was as though Santa himself had stopped by.

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News Articles For 12/20

December 20, 2010 — Operation Rooster

60 Panjshir families get healthy drinking water
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3857-60-panjshir-families-get-healthy-drinking-water.html
PANJSHIR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Thanks to a little self-help and the support of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team, 60 families in the Bazarak Municipality now have access to healthy drinking water.
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Christmas trees boost troop morale
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/christmas-trees-boost-troop-morale
FOB WARHORSE — A fresh, aromatic pine tree stands tall, its pine needles draped with garlands and Christmas ornaments, greeting Soldiers entering the 225th Brigade Support Battalion Headquarters building here with holiday festivity and cheer.
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Santa surprise: Belvidere boy gets reunion with Army brother for Christmas
http://www.wrex.com/Global/story.asp?S=13706978
ROCKFORD (WREX) – Like most 4-year-olds, Michael Glass’s Christmas wish list includes toys. But what he really wants can’t be found at the mall. “Zach to come home. Zach as my present.” That’s what Michael’s letter to Santa said. The big man himself read it out loud as Michael sat on his knee. “Who’s Zach?” “My brother.” “That’s your brother. Where’s he at?” “The Army.”
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‘$823,200 to Study Genitalia Washing’: Sen. Coburn Releases Gov’t Waste Report
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/823200-to-study-genitalia-washing-in-south-africa-sen-coburn-releases-report-detailing-govt-waste/
$175 million to maintain an unused monkey house. $1.8 million for a museum dedicated to old Las Vegas signs. $615,000 to digitize a Grateful Dead collection. And $823,200 to study genitalia washing in South Africa. Those are just some of the projects that Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) uses as examples of government waste in his annual “Wastebook” report released today.
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Senate Passes Food Safety Bill…Again
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/senate-passes-food-safety-bill-again/
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. This is the second time the Senate has passed the bill, which would give the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food.
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Govt ‘creating vast domestic snooping machine’
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.35fe9afbf5c0253f885080ba82e9784c.781&show_article=1
The government is creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent terror plots, The Washington Post reported Monday.
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FCC Chair ‘Calling CEOs’ to Garner Support for Net Neutrality
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fcc-chair-calling-ceos-to-garner-support-for-net-neutrality/
Democrats’ net neutrality proposal is entering its home stretch and members of the party have a clear message for Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Julius Genachowski — don’t screw this up.
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Wireless carriers openly considering charging per service
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/19/wireless-carriers-openly-considering-charging-per-service/
That slide above is no joke — it comes from a marketing webinar put on by two companies that count Verizon, AT&T and Vodafone as clients, and it describes a system that identifies customer internet activity and charges a different rate for using Facebook than watching YouTube, while allowing access to Vodafone services for free.
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FCC Working With Al Sharpton to Let HIM Drag Rush and Others in FRONT OF A PUBLIC HEARING to Explain Themselves
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fcc-working-with-al-sharpen-to-let-him-drag-rush-and-others-in-front-of-a-public-hearing-to-explain-themselves/
NOTE: This cliip is 1:31 from the Tom Joyner Morning Show on 12/15/10.
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Pigford Video Blockbuster: Key ‘Black Farmers’ Lawyer Admits Clients ‘Got Away With Murder’
http://biggovernment.com/lstranahan/2010/12/19/pigford-video-blockbuster-key-black-farmers-lawyer-admits-clients-got-away-with-murder/
The mainstream media has treated accusations of large-scale fraud in the Pigford settlement with overt skepticism and a distinct lack of journalistic curiosity.
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‘Police kept me in jail even after judge said let me free’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239633
A state appeals court has released a ruling that scolds sheriff’s department officers in Cleveland, Tenn., for breaking state law regarding due process, but at the same time said those actions really don’t violate the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of those rights.
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Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/18/AR2010121802810.html
An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States, including Bethesda and Washington, found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen that was made famous by the film “Erin Brockovich.”
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12 Arrested in Suspected UK Terrorist Plot
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/12-arrested-in-suspected-uk-christmas-terrorist-plot/
LONDON (AP) — British anti-terrorism police said Monday they arrested 12 men in early morning raids on three cities to protect the public amid fears of a holiday season terrorism plot.
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ECB government bond purchases drop sharply
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101220/ap_on_bi_ge/eu_europe_financial_crisis
BRUSSELS – The European Central Bank has sharply reduced its purchases of bonds from vulnerable governments such as Greece, Ireland, or Portugal, despite pressure to do more to help fight the continent’s crippling debt crisis.
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‘Afraid’: NKorea Fails on its Retaliatory Promises After SKorea Drills
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/afraid-nkorea-fails-on-its-retaliatory-promises-after-skorea-drills/
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military staged live-fire drills from an island just miles (kilometers) from rival North Korea’s shores Monday, despite Pyongyang’s threats of catastrophic retaliation for the maneuvers.
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Protesting ‘Vote-Rigging,‘ Belarus Rioters Try to Storm Gov’t Building
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/protesting-vote-rigging-belarus-rioters-try-to-storm-govt-building/
MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Thousands of opposition supporters in Belarus tried to storm the main government building to protest what they claim was large-scale vote-rigging in Sunday’s presidential election, but they were driven back and beaten by riot police.
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Woman Samaritan Helps Save Cop From Beating
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/15/woman-samaritan-helps-save-cop-from-beating/
(Dec. 15) — When the going gets tough, it’s time to help out your local police officer. An Ohio cop is thankful for the community spirit of a woman who helped save him from a violent assault during a routine traffic stop.

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News Articles For 12/16

December 16, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Star-studded tour entertains Currahee troops
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3830-star-studded-tour-entertains-currahee-troops.html
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Actor Robin Williams, country music singer Kix Brooks from the duo Brooks and Dunn, and Hall of Fame songwriter Bob Dipiero visited Soldiers from Task Force Currahee as part of a USO show Dec. 15.
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USO tour visits with troops at FOB Fenty
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3825-uso-tour-visits-with-troops-at-fob-fenty.html
NANGARHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Several entertainers, sponsored by the USO, visited servicemembers here Dec. 15. The group included comedians Lewis Black and Kathleen Madigan; athlete Lance Armstrong; and special guest Deborah Mullen, wife of U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Event Pays Tribute to ‘The Chosin Few’
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62127
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2010 – Fang Woo walked into a room, walls adorned with Navy history memorabilia, and made a beeline for a young Marine reservist across the room.
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Face of Defense: Guardsman Has Complementary Dual Roles
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62125
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 16, 2010 – When he’s asked about the upcoming weather forecast, Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Sterling Poulson switches to his “TV voice” to report, “It’s 70 degrees outside and pretty nice!”
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Approval of Internet traffic rules likely-analysts
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1516757220101215
WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) – Contentious Internet traffic rules facing a vote next week are likely to be adopted without radically veering from a proposal unveiled earlier in the month, telecommunications policy analysts said on Wednesday.
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Senate GOP likely to force confrontation of FCC net neutrality rules
http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2010/12/senate-gop-likely-force-confrontation-fcc-net-neutrality-rules
Thirty senators have signed a letter making it clear that should the Federal Communications Commission implement “net neutrality” regulations during its December 21st meeting, the GOP will force a confrontation on the Senate floor over the rules. Doing so would provide insight into how Republicans, as a minority in the Senate, leverage its control over the House of Representatives to hamstring attempts by the executive branch to rule by regulatory fiat.
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Leaders pile up $2 billion in earmarks
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46459.html
Senate leaders and top appropriators from both parties racked up more than $2.2 billion in earmarks in the massive omnibus spending bill that Democrats are pushing to enact in the final days of the 111th Congress.
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Redistribution on steroids
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1687936.html
Rep. Cleaver has proposed a $48 billion earmark. When absurdity gives way to hilarity, you must be talking about politics. In the midst of a colossal global concern for the economic stability of our great nation, Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri’s 5th Congressional District representative, has one small earmark on his wish list that deserves some attention.
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Senate votes to begin debate on START
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/15/senate-votes-to-begin-debate-on-start/
The Senate voted Wednesday to begin debating a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia in a test vote that signals the treaty – which would cut the number of nuclear weapons that the U.S. and Russia have deployed – has enough support to be ratified.
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Florida judge to rule on health-care challenge by states
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/16/AR2010121602003.html?hpid=topnews
PENSACOLA, FLA. – Three days after a federal judge in Virginia voided a key provision of the U.S. health-care overhaul, attorneys for 20 other states will ask a federal judge in this Florida city to do the same.
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Obama quietly erasing borders
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240045
Acting quietly, below the radar of U.S. public opinion and without congressional approval, the Obama administration is implementing a key policy objective of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, to erase the border with Mexico and Canada.
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Justice Scalia to Teach First Congressional ‘Constitution 101’ Class
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/justice-scalia-to-teach-first-congressional-constitution-101-class/
When the 112th Congress convenes next year, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s Tea Pary Caucus will get a crash course on the constitutional separation of powers by Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, CNN reports. Justice Scalia will lead the first of the constitutional seminars for members of Congress in late January.
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Feds bust suspected Yemeni terror ring in N.C.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239977
Federal agents have raided several convenience stores and a mosque in tiny Henderson, N.C., while arresting at least two Muslim men in connection with the raid.
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Iraq: Al Qaeda Planning Holiday Attacks in West
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/15/world/main7152700.shtml
(AP) Iraqi authorities have obtained confessions from captured insurgents who claim al Qaeda is planning suicide attacks in the United States and Europe during the Christmas season, two senior officials said Wednesday.
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ECB boosts capital to cope with euro zone crisis
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6BE29I20101216
FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS, Dec 16 (Reuters) – The European Central Bank acted to increase its financial firepower in the euro zone debt crisis on Thursday by deciding to almost double its capital to cope with increased credit risk and market volatility.
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Man in need finds wallet and moral compass
http://www.boston.com/community/stories_to_inspire/articles/2010/12/15/man_in_need_finds_wallet_and_moral_compass/
Maybe it was the holiday spirit. Maybe it was because it was the right thing to do. Or maybe it was a little bit of both that inspired Brian Christopher to perform a simple act of kindness.

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News Articles For 12/15

December 15, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Afghan, Coalition Forces Kill, Detain Insurgents
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62082
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, 2010 – Afghan and coalition forces today killed more than 10 Taliban fighters during an operation in northern Afghanistan, military officials reported.
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Warrant Needed to Get Your E-Mail, Appeals Court Says
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/fourth-amendment-email/
The government must obtain a court warrant to require internet service providers to turn over stored e-mail to the authorities, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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‘All Hell is Breaking Loose’: $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill Nears 2,000 Pages
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/%E2%80%98all-hell-is-breaking-loose%E2%80%99-1-1-trillion-spending-bill-reaches-2000-pages-includes-20000-earmarks/
In one of their last acts before Congress adjourns for the year, Senate Democrats are pushing a 1,924-page spending bill that includes massive earmark spending. If passed, the measure would be enacted into law without debate in the full senate.
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NY Schools’ ‘Human Rights’ Curriculum Features Van Jones
http://blog.survivalstation.org/ny-schools%25E2%2580%2599-%25E2%2580%2598human-rights%25E2%2580%2599-curriculum-features-van-jones-62695.html
A new human rights curriculum that was recently introduced to middle schools and high schools all across New York is a disservice to students because it wastes precious instruction time which would be more wisely spent on academic fundamentals.
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Report – Rate of Gitmo Detainees Returning to Jihad Doubled In Last 2 Years
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2010/12/14/report-rate-of-gitmo-detainees-returning-to-jihad-doubled-in-last-2-years/
The Weekly Standard reports that 150 former Guantanamo detainees are either “confirmed or suspected of reengaging in terrorist or insurgent activities,” according to a new intelligence assessment released by the Director of National Intelligence’s office on Tuesday. In total, 598 detainees have been transferred out of U.S. custody at Guantanamo. 1 out of every 4, or 25 percent, of these former detainees is now considered a confirmed or suspected recidivist by the U.S. government.
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Senator Jim DeMint: The START 2 Treaty Does Limit U.S. Missile Defense
http://bigpeace.com/sfr/2010/12/14/senator-jim-demint-the-start-2-treaty-does-limit-u-s-missile-defense/
“This is a major arms control agreement and, in my mind, has some very serious flaws and can actually make the world more dangerous if we’re not careful.” – Senator Jim DeMint.
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FL School Board Shooter Posted Suicide Note Railing Against the Rich, Linking to Media Matters
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fl-school-board-shooter-posted-suicide-note-railing-against-the-rich-linking-to-media-matters/
Clay Duke, the man who opened fire on a Florida school board Tuesday, posted a “last testament” on Facebook decrying the wealthy and linking to a slew of progressive sites including theprogressivemind.info and MediaMatters.org.
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Border Patrol Agent Killed in Southern Arizona
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2010/12/15/border-patrol-agent-killed-in-southern-arizona/
The U.S. Border Patrol has confirmed that one of its agents has been killed in Southern Arizona.Border Patrol spokesman Eric Cantu confirmed the agent’s death but had very few details to release Wednesday morning.
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Sidestepping the U.S. Dollar, a Russian Exchange Will Swap Rubles and Renminbi
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/business/global/15iht-ruble15.html?_r=1
MOSCOW — Russia and China are poised to take a small but symbolic step in their expanding economic relationship, a move that in the long term could make the dollar less relevant to business between the two nations.
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Mexican border city hits 3,000 dead in drug war
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101215/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_drug_war_mexico
MEXICO CITY – This year’s death toll in drug-related violence in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, the hardest hit by Mexico’s drug war, rose to 3,000 Tuesday after two men were shot dead on a street, authorities said.
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‘Stuxnet virus set back Iran’s nuclear program by 2 years’
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=199475
The Stuxnet virus, which has attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities and which Israel is suspected of creating, has set back the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program by two years, a top German computer consultant who was one of the first experts to analyze the program’s code told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
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Iran reformer sentenced to jail, exile and fine
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101215/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_politics
TEHRAN, Iran – An opposition activist has been convicted of vague charges of working against the ruling system and insulting the country’s supreme leader and sentenced to 20 months in jail, an opposition website reported Wednesday.
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Italians Riot After Prime Minister Gets Votes of Confidence
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/italians-riot-after-prime-minister-gets-votes-of-confidence/
ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi pulled off another astonishing escape from the political dead, scraping through two confidence votes Tuesday in a dramatic parliamentary showdown. But the Italian leader’s hold on power remains precarious as his razor-thin victory makes political gridlock a near certainty – and violent street protests show growing unease with his rule.
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Shocking Vid: Greek Rioter Firebombs Policeman — Engulfs Him in Flames
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/shocking-vid-greek-rioter-firebombs-police-engulfed-in-flames/
Greek Labor unions are once again rioting in the streets against austerity measures. Those riots have quickly turned violent. The video below shows one rioter firebombing a police officer, who is then engulfed in flames as people cheer.
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Chavez seeks power to rule by decree for 1 year
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_venezuela_chavez
CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez asked congress Tuesday to grant him special powers to enact laws by decree for one year, just before a new legislature takes office with a larger contingent of opposition lawmakers.
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Doctors Claim HIV-Positive Man Cured by Stem Cell Transplant
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/12/14/doctors-claim-hiv-positive-man-cured-stem-cell-transplant/
There’s an estimated 33 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, and now doctors believe one of them may have been cured of the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant in 2007, the medical journal Blood reported.
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Santa Fulfills Dying Boy’s Wish
http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/13/santa-fulfills-dying-boy-s-wish/
(Dec. 13) — St. Nick and Christmas cards from around the world are fulfilling the final wishes of Matthew Michael Butman of Wylie, Texas. “I have Leigh’s Disease,” writes Matthew, 11. Like other ‘tweens, Matt uses a Facebook page to keep track of his buddies. But Matt also uses his Facebook page to explain the disease that’s killing him, the disease that keeps him in bed, unable to walk or even to speak.

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News Articles For 12/12

December 12, 2010 — Operation Rooster

TF Patriot leaders, comrades honor fallen Soldier
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3804-tf-patriot-leaders-comrades-honor-fallen-soldier.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A Task Force Patriot Soldier from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Polk, La., died as the result of an enemy attack in Wardak Province Nov. 27.
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U.S. Posts $150.4 Billion November Budget Deficit
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704457604576011683555582342.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLTopStories
WASHINGTON—The U.S. government ran its 26th straight monthly budget deficit in November amid wrangling over a package that would extend big tax cuts to Americans trying to recover from recession.
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Social Security advocates fear payroll tax cut
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101212/ap_on_bi_ge/us_payroll_tax_holiday
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s plan to cut payroll taxes for a year would provide big savings for many workers, but makes Social Security advocates nervous that it could jeopardize the retirement program’s finances.
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Arizona Regains Footing in Legal Battle Over Immigration Law
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/11/judge-dismisses-challenge-ariz-immigration-law/
After suffering a major legal setback in the summer, Arizona regained its footing in court Friday when a federal judge dismissed parts of the U.S. Justice Department’s challenge to the state’s new immigration law and rejected several claims made by Hispanic activists and Phoenix police officers.
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TX Megachurch Launches Campaign to Publicly Shame Stores Not Celebrating Christmas
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/tx-megachurch-launches-campaign-to-publicly-shame-stores-not-celebrating-christmas/
Pastor Dr. Robert Jeffress is warning all retailers in the Dallas metro area that his congregation is on the lookout for “naughty” businesses who don’t show outward signs of supporting Christmas — and supporting those “nice” businesses that do.
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Opposition leader: Cables show Iran ‘vulnerable’
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_wikileaks
TEHRAN, Iran – U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show Iran’s hard-line policies have left it without “a single ally” among neighboring countries, an Iranian opposition leader said Sunday in a direct challenge to Tehran’s official view that Washington seeks to poison relations in the region.
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Explosions Rock Stockholm in Failed Terrorist Attack
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/explosion-rock-stockholm-in-failed-terrorist-attack/
A failed terrorist attack in a central Stockholm district full of Christmas shoppers could have been catastrophic, Swedish authorities said late Saturday. Police are investigating whether two explosions in Stockholm, an e-mail threat sent shortly before the attack that mentions Afghanistan and the body of a man who was apparently killed in one of the explosions are related.
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Venezuela acquires 1,800 antiaircraft missiles from Russia
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/11/AR2010121102586.html?hpid=topnews
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Russia delivered at least 1,800 shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to Venezuela in 2009, U.N. arms control data show, despite vigorous U.S. efforts to stop President Hugo Chavez’s stridently anti-American government from acquiring the weapons.
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Clerk fights off two alleged robbers with feather duster
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12002972050714/clerk-fights-off-two-alleged-robbers-with-feather-duster/
WALTHAM, Mass. — Two would-be robbers made a clean getaway when a convenience store clerk armed with a feather duster fought him off. A man dressed in black from head to toe, armed with a machete marched into a popular Waltham convenience store and demanded the clerk to put money in the bag.

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News Articles For 12/9

December 9, 2010 — Operation Rooster

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National Guard celebrates 374th birthday
http://www.army.mil/-news/2010/12/07/49068-national-guard-celebrates-374th–birthday/index.html?ref=home-headline-title2
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630. More than 5,000 men, women, and children made the two-month voyage to the New World, leaving the relative comfort and safety of England behind in an effort to break free of religious intolerance, and to manage their communities the way they saw fit.
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Face of Defense: Marine Fought Adversity to Realize Dream
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61995
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8, 2010 – Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Matt McGuiness battled a collapsed lung and other challenges in realizing his dream of becoming a Marine.
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Taliban Vid Shows Captured U.S. Soldier Held in Afghanistan
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/taliban-vid-shows-captured-u-s-soldier-held-in-afghanistan/
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A new video released by the Taliban shows Spc. Bowe Bergdahl, the only known U.S. serviceman held captive in Afghanistan, with bags under his eyes and what appears to be an abrasion on his left cheek.
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US Treasuries hit by biggest sell-off in two years
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e550f996-0304-11e0-bb1e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz17dGI57BF
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US Treasuries suffered their biggest two-day sell-off since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, following a torrid month that has seen borrowing costs for western governments soar.
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Bond Prices Plunge for 2nd Day on Deficit Fears
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40565833
U.S. Treasurys plunged Wednesday, extending Tuesday’s sharp losses and pushing benchmark yields to a six-month high, after a deal in Washington to extend tax cuts fueled fears of inflation and a swelling budget deficit.
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Economic data and softer bond yields boost stocks
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa719fe0-0103-11e0-8894-00144feab49a.html#axzz17dHAXPjZ
A pullback in sovereign bond yields and hopes for Asian and US economic growth have put bulls on the front foot. The FTSE All-World equity index is up 0.6 per cent and commodities are slightly firmer despite the dollar again showing some strength. The S&P 500 on Wall Street is up 0.4 per cent at 1,233, just shy of an intraday 2-year peak.
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U.S. fiscal health worse than Europe’s: China adviser
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6B71KO20101208
(Reuters) – The U.S. dollar will be a safe investment for the next six to 12 months because global markets are focused on the euro zone’s troubles but America’s fiscal health is worse than Europe’s, an adviser to the Chinese central bank said on Wednesday.
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House Approves Controversial DREAM Act
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/house-approves-controversial-dream-act/
With the final days of the 111th Congress winding down, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill bet on a last-ditch showdown over immigration reform Wednesday evening as the House of Representatives narrowly approved the DREAM Act — the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act of 2010.
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Pelosi Compares DREAM Act Passing to Founders Gaining Independence
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pelosi-compares-dream-act-passing-to-founders-gaining-independence/
Possibly seeing how successful the Tea Party was by hearkening back to the Founding Fathers, Nancy Pelosi did the same thing on Wednesday night while announcing passage of the DREAM Act. According to her, passing the bill is just like the Founders winning independence.
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Dem Congressman: Illegal Aliens are ‘De Facto Citizens’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-congressman-illegal-aliens-are-de-facto-citizens/
During debate over the DREAM Act Wednesday, Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., blames a “broken” immigration system for allowing illegal immigrants to live in the United States, calling them “de facto citizens.”
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FBI Nabs Another Jihad-Obsessed Potential Bomber in Sting Operation
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/fbi-nabs-another-potential-bomber-in-sting-operation/
Federal authorities say Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain, attempted to detonate what he believed to be a vehicle bomb this morning at the Armed Forces Career Center in the 5400 block of Baltimore National Pike.
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New environmental rule expected to delay offshore drilling
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7330898.html
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will require environmental studies before approving any deep-water wells – a new regulatory hurdle that virtually assures the government will not green-light any of those projects soon.
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Laser incidents worry aviation officials
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101209/D9K08TKG0.html
WASHINGTON – Federal Aviation Administration officials are worried about a steady increase of people pointing lasers at aircraft cockpits. They say the intense light can distract and temporarily blind pilots and has caused some to relinquish control of planes and helicopters to their co-pilots or abort landings.
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AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/afl-cio-leader-gladly-accepts-communist-party-award/
Those who doubt the connection between the communist party and the unions need only to read accounts of a recent awards ceremony to see how both groups view each other.
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Palin Says She Was Wiki-Hacked
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/palin-says-she-was-wiki-hacked/
The website of Sarah Palin’s political action committee came under cyberattack from supporters of Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange, the former Alaska governor said Wednesday.
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Why Power Belongs to the People, and Not to the Federal Government
http://biggovernment.com/rperry/2010/12/09/why-power-belongs-to-the-people-and-not-to-the-federal-government/
With the dust largely settled from the November 2010 elections, it is resoundingly clear that the majority of Americans are fed up with a government that has grown drunk on its own power and fat on their tax dollars.
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Canada and U.S. to sign border, security deal: report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101208/wl_canada_nm/canada_us_usa_trade
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada and the United States are working on a new security and trade deal that would allow people and goods to flow more easily between the two major trading partners, the National Post said on Wednesday.
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Confession links Russia to U.S. embassy attack
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=237461
A new storm cloud may be on the horizon for President Obama over evidence that Moscow may have coaxed Georgian nationals into planting a bomb outside the U.S. embassy in Georgia’s capital of Tbilisi, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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China, North Korea tout ‘consensus’ amid US anger
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c41db06392485b1ac24c577f6d55fb67.621&show_article=1
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and a top Chinese envoy Thursday touted “consensus” between the communist allies regarding the region’s worst crisis in years, official media reported.
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Clashes as UK parliament debates student fees
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101209/wl_nm/us_britain_politics
LONDON (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in front of the British parliament in central London on Thursday ahead of a vote on university tuition fees which will test the strength of the coalition government.
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Bright lights and big hearts fill World Trade Center workers’ holiday gift to city
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/12/09/2010-12-09_bright_lights_big_hearts_fill_wtc_workers_holiday_gift_to_us_all.html?r=news
Joe Russo was in his Staten Island home two weekends ago when he made a pronouncement that would result in the most beautiful sight in the city. “I don’t think I’m going to put up the tree this year,” the 49-year-old electrician would recall saying. “I got a better idea.”
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Doc dressed as Elvis revives Vegas marathon runner
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101208/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_marathon_elvis_cpr
LAS VEGAS – It wasn’t blue suede shoes but a pair of sneakers that led a San Francisco doctor dressed as Elvis Presley to a woman who passed out at a Las Vegas restaurant after a marathon.

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