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 2/16

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 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 12/14

December 14, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Afghan, Coalition Forces Stop Insurgent Attack in Afghanistan
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62068
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Afghan and coalition forces yesterday disrupted a Taliban plot to carry out suicide bombings in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, military officials reported.
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Operation Toy Drop Proves ‘Santa is a Paratrooper’
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62067
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Pouring rain didn’t dampen the holiday spirit as thousands of paratroopers descended over Fort Bragg, N.C., this weekend, kicking off the world’s largest combined airborne operation while ensuring Santa doesn’t overlook a single needy child.
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On wings of Blue Angels, toy journeys from one heart to another
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/13/blue.angels.christmas/index.html?hpt=C1
Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia (CNN) — The Blue Angels C-130, Fat Albert, moves like a lumbering fullback down the runway, its engines roaring. A hula girl hood ornament, on the cockpit dash, shakes her hips.
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Guardsmen, Reservists Can Nominate Employers for Awards
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62063
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 13, 2010 – Reserve-component servicemembers still have time to nominate their employers for the 2011 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, the Defense Department’s highest honor for employers who provide exceptional support for employees who serve in the National Guard or reserves.
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Families to Get More Child Care Options
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/12/13/families-to-get-more-child-care-options/
A recurring challenge for military families, particularly those of the Guard and Reserve, is child care. They primarily live off base, many far from an active-duty installation, and are challenged to find the same high-quality, flexible care in their community that they would find on any base nationwide.
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World War II Navy Ace Recalls Harrowing Mission
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62062
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – When the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, America sought retribution and finally took up arms. It wasn’t until almost three years later that the country would receive its final closure.
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Face of Defense: Grandson Continues ‘Band of Brothers’ Tradition
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62078
FORT BRAGG, N.C., Dec. 14, 2010 – Even at 80 years old, Frederick “Moose” Heyliger was an enormous man, according to his grandson, who serves with the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade.
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A Soros Story: Recounts, Coincidences, and Connections
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/a-soros-story-recounts-coincidences-and-connections/
In the world of George Soros, it’s hard to believe that much is a coincidence. But let’s entertain the possibility of some such coincidences for the next few minutes.
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He Sent ‘Guerrillas’: ‘Puppet Master’ George Soros — Influence & Funding of USA Financial Reform ‘Revolution’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/he-sent-guerrillas-puppet-master-george-soros-influence-funding-of-usa-financial-reform-revolution/
NOTE: This is a 5:09 long video.
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Look who’s now getting special travel privileges
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239401
In a further indication that the “North American Union” agenda is quietly proceeding under what remains of the Security and Prosperity Partnership initiative in the Obama administration, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano signed, with little fanfare, an agreement in Mexico that would extend special “trusted traveler” access to the U.S. to an estimated 84 million Mexicans.
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‘F*** the Rich’: Cape Cod Arsonist Targets Homes of the Wealthy
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/f-the-rich-cape-cod-arsonist-targets-homes-of-the-wealthy/
Upscale towns in Massachusetts are on alert as police and fire officials are investigating another fire in which an arsonist scawled a “f*** the rich” graffiti message at the scene. The latest incident in Sandwich follows another suspicious incident in Barnstable.
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School board votes to clear hunter’s record
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239465
A 16-year-old hunter in Montana who was threatened with expulsion from her public school after she forgot a rifle in the trunk of her car after a holiday trip and drove it to a school parking lot has been told her record will be cleared at the end of this school year.
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Canadians With More Debt Than U.S. Spark Policy Makers’ Warning
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-14/canadians-with-more-debt-than-u-s-spark-policy-makers-warning.html
Canada’s top economic officials yesterday urged households to be wary of taking on too much debt after data showed the indebtedness of Canadians surpassed U.S. levels for the first time in 12 years.
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Food, Clothing Lead Rising British Inflation
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/food-clothing-lead-rising-british-inflation/
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s stubbornly high consumer inflation rate rose to 3.3 percent in November from 3.2 percent the month before, driven by a surge in food and clothing costs.
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See who’s working together to stop Iran
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=239357
JERUSALEM – Israel and Saudi Arabia have stepped up their behind-the-scenes coordination to deal with the threat of Iranian nuclear ambitions, according to informed Middle East security officials.
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The wind is no longer at Voyager’s back
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/12/13/the-wind-is-no-longer-at-voyagers-back/
Voyager 1 is one of the most successful space missions of all time. Launched in 1977, it visited Jupiter and then Saturn, providing better close-ups of the two planets than had ever been seen before.
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Escape by a whisker: Quick-thinking cat saves house from fire… by opening the window
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338245/Cat-prevents-house–By-opening-window.html
A clever cat has been hailed a hero after he prevented his owners’ home from burning down – by opening a window. Five-year-old Pepper has learned to open windows and lets himself out every night by hopping on to a kitchen worktop and using his paws to turn the latch.

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News Articles For 12/13

December 13, 2010 — Operation Rooster

World War II Navy Ace Recalls Harrowing Mission
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62062
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – When the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, America sought retribution and finally took up arms. It wasn’t until almost three years later that the country would receive its final closure.
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US Soldier honors fallen brother in Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/us-soldier-honors-fallen-brother-in-iraq
CAMP TAJI — When 11-year-old Dominic Wheeler watched his brother DJ leave for Iraq in 2003, his mother asked how he felt about his brother going to war. “Just as long as he comes home,” Dominic responded.
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TF Patriot honors fallen comrade
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3809-tf-patriot-honors-fallen-comrade.html
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Members of Task Force Patriot gathered to honor U.S. Army 1st Lt. Scott Milley during a memorial service at Combat Outpost Baraki Barak Dec. 5.
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Red Currahee cooks create special treats for Soldier morale
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3810-red-currahee-cooks-create-special-treats-for-soldier-morale.html
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Food service personnel from Company E, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, treat Soldiers to delicious meals and desserts at Forward Operating Base Waza Khaw.
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Face of Defense: Soldier Finds Niche in Nuristan
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=62060
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 – Since arriving here several months ago to serve with Task Force Bastogne, Army Pfc. Raymond Cecil — a cannon crewmember with Battery A, 2nd Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, has made a positive impression on his leaders.
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To get DREAM Act over its first hurdle, timing was everything
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/133291-on-house-passage-of-dream-act-timing-was-everything
When House Democrats last week passed the DREAM Act before the Senate had staged its vote, the timing was no accident. Instead, the chronology was part of a carefully designed strategy — orchestrated, with some tension, between the two chambers — to grant the proposal its greatest shot at success.
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Wall Street Sees Record Revenue in Recovery From Bailout
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-13/wall-street-sees-record-revenue-in-09-10-recovery-from-government-bailout.html
Wall Street’s biggest banks, rebounding after a government bailout, are set to complete their best two years in investment banking and trading, buoyed by 2010 results likely to be the second-highest ever.
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Judge rules for Va. on health-care case
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/dec/13/judge-rules-va-health-care-case-ar-712804/
A federal judge in Richmond today has ruled in favor of Virginia’s challenge to the federal health-care law, striking down the mandate that requires nearly every American to purchase insurance or face a penalty.
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Obamacare Heads to Court This Week
http://biggovernment.com/kharned/2010/12/13/obamacare-heads-to-court-this-week/
While the new Congress deliberates over ways to repeal or defund the Obama Administration’s “healthcare reform” law, twenty states and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), have filed suit in federal court arguing that the law is unconstitutional and should be struck down immediately. This is the largest of several legal challenges to Obamacare across the country.
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Harry Reid’s Lame Duck Attempt to Weaken Our Border
http://bigpeace.com/pschweizer/2010/12/13/harry-reids-lame-duck-attempt-to-weaken-our-border/
From the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is fast-tracking over 100 federal land-acquisition bills for action during the lame-duck session, despite warnings from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers that Reid’s effort, if successful, would harm U.S. efforts to block illegal entry and drug smuggling in border areas.
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Detroit Is Halting Garbage Pickup, Police Patrols In 20% Of City: Expect Bankruptcy In 2011
http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-garbage-pickup-bankruptcy-2010-12
Detroit has been bankrupt for years. It simply refuses to admit it. Detroit’s schools are bankrupt as well. A mere 25% of students graduate from high school.
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Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones to Coordinate Protest
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/us/13prison.html?_r=2
The prison protest has entered the wireless age. Inmates in at least seven Georgia prisons have used contraband cellphones to coordinate a nonviolent strike this weekend, saying they want better living conditions and to be paid for work they do in the prisons.
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UK: Gangs and hardcore activists behind violence
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101213/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_tuition_protest
LONDON – Home Secretary Theresa May says street gangs infiltrated a London protest last week in which demonstrators attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla.
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Anti-austerity strikes held in Greece
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/1213/breaking29.html
Greek public transport and media workers launched a week of anti-austerity strikes today expected to ground flights, disrupt services and pile rubbish on the streets in the run-up to Christmas holidays.
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Iran conducts large military exercise near Iraq border
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?id=199231
TEHERAN — Iran’s army has finished a large military exercise by ground forces near the Iraqi border, the official Iranian state news agency IRNA reported Monday. But unlike previous war games in which Iran boasted of weapons advances, the latest maneuvers were largely held under wraps.
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Iran not a rogue state: Australia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101213/wl_nm/us_wikileaks_iran_australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia is at odds with its major security ally the United States over Iran, saying it is not a “rogue state” and its nuclear weapons program is for deterrence, not attack, according to U.S. cables released by WikiLeaks.
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NKorea threatens SKorea with nuclear war
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101213/D9K2VUKO0.html
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea warned Monday that U.S.-South Korean cooperation could bring a nuclear war to the region, as the South began artillery drills amid lingering tension nearly three weeks after the North’s deadly shelling of a South Korean island.
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Hundreds protest against Russian government
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40630754/ns/world_news-europe/
MOSCOW — Hundreds of people protested against the Russian government Sunday at two separate rallies in Moscow, with opposition activists calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and nationalists demanding greater rights for ethnic Russians. Several opposition activists were detained.
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Continental Flight 9900 provides magical North Pole trip for hospitalized children
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/12/north_pole_trip_is_magical_for.html
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Just in case the special guests missed the blow-up Santa or penguins marking the ticketing counter Saturday, a flashing sign alerted them that they had indeed reached “Elf Check-in.”

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News Articles For 12/8

December 8, 2010 — Operation Rooster

USS Constitution Gives ‘Toys for Tots’
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=57571
BOSTON (NNS) — USS Constitution Sailors participated in the Toys for Tots program Nov. 17 to Dec. 5 in Boston. Toys for Tots is a Marine Corps program that collects new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year.
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Pearl Harbor survivor continues his service
http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/index.php/2010/12/pearl-harbor-survivor-continues-his-service/
On this 69th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, one survivor and Coast Guard veteran is still serving his country and being cited for his superior contributions.
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Gates presents valor awards to Bastogne Soldiers
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3783-gates-presents-valor-awards-to-bastogne-soldiers.html
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates presented six Silver Star Medals and a Bronze Star Medal with Valor to Task Force Bastogne Soldiers at Forward Operating Base Joyce Dec. 7.
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NMFA Honors Military Families, Names Family of the Year
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61987
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 7, 2010 – An Air Force family was named the National Military Family Association’s 2010 Family of the Year today for their selfless service to the nation and to their community.
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Helmand Governor, U.S. Commander Honor Fallen, Families
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61983
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2010 – Afghan and U.S. leaders in Afghanistan’s Helmand province ended a detailed assessment of progress in the region on a somber note today.
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Americans Asked to Recall Sacrifices of World War II
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61990
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2010 – One of the top U.S. Navy commanders called for today’s generation to remember the sacrifices of Americans during World War II, and to match those sacrifices as the country fights now into its 10th consecutive year of war.
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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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Food Stamp Rolls Continue to Rise
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/12/08/food-stamp-rolls-continue-to-rise/
More people tapped food stamps to pay for groceries in September as the recession and lackluster recovery have prompted more Americans to turn to government safety net programs to make ends meet.
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Tax Appeals Swamp U.S. Cities, Towns as Property Prices Plunge
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-08/plunging-home-prices-fuel-property-tax-appeals-swamping-u-s-cities-towns.html
A fiscal flood that threatens to swamp local government budgets across the U.S. overflows from file cabinets in the office of Patty Halm, chair of the Michigan Tax Tribunal.
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‘I Never Denounced’ W.U. Violence: Ayers Compares Weather Underground to WikiLeaks
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/bill-ayers-restrained-weather-underground-just-like-wikileaks-against-violent-us-i-never-denounced-wu-violence/
This is a 2:36 long audio clip from Naked Emperor News and THEBLAZE.COM.
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Hackers Strike Back to Support WikiLeaks
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703493504576007182352309942.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories
LONDON—Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday attacked the websites of Swedish prosecutors, the Swedish lawyer whose clients have accused Mr. Assange of sexual crimes and the Swiss authority that froze his bank account.
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‘Horsepuckey’: Minn. Sec of State Dodges ‘Friend’ of Communist Party USA Status
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/horsepuckey-minn-sec-of-state-dodges-friend-of-communist-party-usa-status/
Trevor Loudon has uncovered some unsettling news: The Communist Party USA once considered Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie a “friend of the party.”
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PA Town Removes 57-Year-Old Nativity Scene From Gov’t Building: ‘Highly Disrespectful’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/pa-town-removes-57-year-old-nativity-scene-from-govt-building-after-complaint/
A small Pennsylvania town has removed a Nativity scene from its borough building after a resident complained that the creche is offensive to non-Christians. And while town leaders say they don’t like having to remove it, they say they are legally obligated.
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Wachovia OK’s Christmas trees
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=237337
Wachovia Bank’s Florida branches are now free to display Christmas trees, after the corporate headquarters “clarified” a policy instructing local branches to display poinsettias only.
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Man Climbs 320 Feet To Rescue Stuck Flag
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/26047545/detail.html
ORLANDO, Fla. — A man climbed to the top of a 68-foot flag pole more than 300 feet in the air to unsnarl a stuck American flag that ripped in half at the J.W. Marriott Grande Lakes hotel in Orlando.
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Time-Lapse Video: 17-Foot Disney Gingerbread Tree
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/12/time-lapse-video-17-foot-disney-gingerbread-tree/
Here’s one of those “must sees” I talk about this time of year. Nestled right in the Grand Canyon Concourse of Disney’s Contemporary Resort is an amazing 17-foot gingerbread tree decorated with chocolate ornaments and candy canes.

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News Articles For 11/2

November 2, 2010 — Operation Rooster

US transfers border outpost to GoI
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/us-transfers-border-outpost-to-iraqis
AL TIB – Just a stone’s throw away from the Iranian border, United States Soldiers recently spent their final day at Joint Security Station Al Tib before pressing forward with their next mission.
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Troops assist with Iraqi-led aid mission
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/troops-assist-with-iraqi-led-aid-mission
BAGHDAD—School is out for the day at the North Halabsah School northwest of the Iraqi capital. The Iraqi boys and girls swarm out of their classrooms, smiling, carrying backpacks and holding hands. Laughter floats along the cool October breeze.
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‘Toy Soldiers’ cheer hospitalized kids
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/toy-soldiers-cheer-hospitalized-kids
COB ADDER – Calling themselves the “Toy Soldiers,” a team of U.S. service members is reaching out to the local people by delivering toys to hospitalized Iraqi children here.
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Veterans’ Reflections: The Crew of the USS Oklahoma City
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61510
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2010 – On Sept. 2, 1945, Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu boarded the USS Missouri to sign the Japanese instrument of surrender, effectively ending fighting on the Pacific front in World War II.
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Face of Defense: Defense Department Teachers Deploy
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61492
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2010 – When Brenda Colom first heard news of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that affected as many as 3 million people, she felt compelled to do something.
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US found suspected test parcels in Yemen bomb plot
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.07a5df7c6b6557b51ab3e6a8600d21ee.f1&show_article=1
The United States intercepted parcels from Yemen in September thought to be a dry run for the package bomb plot, a US official said, as Western governments tightened freight and passenger security.
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Overwhelmed by Debt? Go on a Debt Diet
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/ConsumerNews/debt-diet-pay-credit-card-bills-student-loans/story?id=12018885
Eleven trillion dollars of debt: that’s the current amount of consumer debt in this country. Even though this staggering number has decreased since 2008, the average American is $16,000 in debt, not including a mortgage.
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Congress ‘socialist bloc’ expected to survive vote
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=222653
While Republicans are expected to make extraordinary gains in today’s elections, the most radical Democrat members of Congress – notably a House caucus founded as an arm of a Marxist socialist organization – are expected to emerge mostly unscathed.
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Professor Exposes Federally Funded ‘Revisionist’ History Conference
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/professor-exposes-federally-funded-revisionist-history-conference/
In July, the National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored a workshop on “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War in WWII” for college professors in Hawaii. Professor Penelope Blake, a veteran professor of Humanities at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Ill., was one of 25 American scholars chosen to attend the workshop, but was reportedly disheartened to find the conference “driven by an overt political bias and a blatant anti-American agenda.”
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The New Axis of Evil
http://biggovernment.com/dfreeman/2010/11/01/the-new-axis-of-evil/
In 1983, Ronald Reagan infuriated liberals worldwide by accurately labeling the Soviet Union as the evil empire. George W. Bush received a similar reaction following his “axis of evil” speech in which he used the politically incorrect term, evil, to describe the regimes of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
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Four Americans Killed in Separate Attacks in Border City, Mexican Authorities Say
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/01/mexico-americans-killed-separate-attacks-border-city/
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexican authorities said Monday.
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Pakistan Seeks Alliance with China as the U.S. Gets Tough
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20101102/wl_time/08599202857600
Declarations of solidarity and the $2 billion in promised military aid received by a high-level Pakistani delegation in Washington last week belie the hardening of U.S. attitudes toward Islamabad.
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Embassies targeted in wave of Athens parcel bombs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101102/wl_nm/us_greece_bomb;_ylt=Am_nqiv7VUdwMVrHaJUXza9vaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTJmcmhsZ2poBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTAxMTAyL3VzX2dyZWVjZV9ib21iBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNlbWJhc3NpZXN0YXI-
ATHENS (Reuters) – Bombs exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens on Tuesday and police found suspect packages at two other embassies in a wave of parcel bomb attacks in the Greek capital.
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France and UK plan unprecedented military cooperation
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101102/wl_nm/us_britain_france
LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – Britain and France will launch a broad defense partnership on Tuesday that includes setting up a joint force and sharing equipment and nuclear missile research centers, a French government source said.
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NATO member undermines defense plan
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=222529
NATO’s plan to build a defense shield that would protect against a missile launch by Iran, whose leaders have threatened to destroy Israel, may be derailed by one of the security organization’s own members, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved as a result of a remarkable discovery in a Cambridge laboratory
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-cure-for-the-common-cold-may-finally-be-achieved-as-a-result-of-a-remarkable-discovery-in-a-cambridge-laboratory-2122607.html
In a dramatic breakthrough that could affect millions of lives, scientists have been able to show for the first time that the body’s immune defences can destroy the common cold virus after it has actually invaded the inner sanctum of a human cell, a feat that was believed until now to be impossible.
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Australian man saves woman from shark by grabbing tail
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11664360
A swimmer saved a young woman who was attacked by a shark, off the coast of western Australia, by grabbing it by the tail, rescuers have said. The shark, which had bitten 19-year-old Elyse Frankcom, let go of her, they added.

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News Articles For 10/19

October 19, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Taliban leader killed during Pech River Valley operation
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/press-releases-mainmenu-326/3492-taliban-leader-killed-during-pech-river-valley-operation.html
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Coalition forces learned that Gul Nabi, a mid-level Taliban commander was killed in an engagement with the combined security forces Oct. 17.
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Army Marks National Depression Month
http://afps.dodlive.mil/2010/10/18/army-marks-national-depression-month/
The U.S. Army is marking October’s National Depression Awareness Month with the theme “Depression is Treatable – Get Screened – Seek Care.” Check out Jerry Harben’s post on the subject on the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury’s blog.
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Deployed servicemembers, civilians compete in Army 10-Miler shadow run
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3493-deployed-servicemembers-civilians-compete-in-army-10-miler-shadow-run.html
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – More than 500 deployed servicemembers and civilians participated in a shadow run of the Army 10-Miler here Oct. 17.
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NYC man, 95, gets medal for WWII rescue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39710702/ns/us_news-life/
NEW YORK — The U.S. government has recognized the World War II architect of a mission to rescue more than 500 U.S. bomber fliers shot down over Nazi-occupied Serbia — the largest air rescue of Americans behind enemy lines in any war.
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President to Award Soldier Medal of Honor Nov. 16
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61320
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2010 – President Barack Obama will award the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta in a Nov. 16 White House ceremony, officials announced yesterday.
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Face of Defense: Broadcaster Lets Her Voice Be Heard
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61318
PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Oct. 19, 2010 – Air Force Staff Sgt. Alana Ingram isn’t afraid to let her voice be heard. She’d better not be. It’s her job. Ingram is a broadcast producer deployed to American Forces Network Afghanistan from the AFN affiliate at the Royal Air Force base in Feltwell, England.
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Troops chafe at restrictive rules of engagement, talks with Taliban
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Troops-chafe-at-restrictive-rules-of-engagement_-talks-with-Taliban-1226055-105202284.html
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — To the U.S. Army soldiers and Marines serving here, some things seem so obviously true that they are beyond debate. Among those perceived truths: Tthe restrictive rules of engagement that they have to fight under have made serving in combat far more dangerous for them, while allowing the Taliban to return to a position of strength.
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U.S. Military in Iraq: Three Iraqi Terrorist Organizations Receive Weapons From Iran
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/31220.htm?utm_
The deputy commander of the U.S. forces in Iraq, Brig.-Gen. Ralph Baker, said October 14 that the Al-Qaeda organization remains strong and strives to carry out “qualitative operations” inside the country.
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Sprung! Taliban general released from custody
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=216789
The Pakistani military has released Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, regarded as the supreme commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan, and expectations are that he will be used in backchannel discussions with the United States, reliable regional sources are telling Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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National Debt Up $3 Trillion on Obama’s Watch
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20019931-503544.html
New numbers posted today on the Treasury Department website show the National Debt has increased by more than $3 trillion since President Obama took office.
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Border Czar: America Needs a ‘21st Century Border’ for a ‘New Era’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/border-czar-america-needs-a-21st-century-border-for-a-new-era/
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Alan Bersin says the United States needs to undertake a “paradigm shift” in how citizens view the U.S.-Mexico border.
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‘The Loss of Trust and the Great Unraveling to Come
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2010/10/18/the-loss-of-trust-and-the-great-unraveling-to-come/
Charles Hugh Smith has a thought-provoking piece on Business Insider today. The opening statement says it all: Anyone who believes the foreclosure crisis can be contained is deluded, because the real issue in play is the citizens‘ trust in their government’s ability to govern the nation’s Financial Elites according to the rule of law.
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Public Sector Pension Funding Just Became Three Times More Fun
http://biggovernment.com/cstreet/2010/10/18/public-sector-pension-funding-just-became-three-times-more-fun/
Californians have become increasingly concerned that public employee pension costs may be a future burden on taxpayers. However, due to the complex world of actuarial mathematics and lack of accounting standards, most financial geniuses could not give you a straight answer about the costs. The Government Accounting Standards Board (“GASB”), a group of “uber” accountants, is about to make pension costs a frightening surprise.
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Are Democrats Buying Senior Votes for $250?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/are-democrats-buying-senior-votes-with-250-check/
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are making a pre-election pitch to give Social Security recipients a one-time payment of $250, part of a larger effort to convince senior voters that their party, and not Republicans, will best look out for the 58 million people who get the government retirement and disability benefits.
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Gunmen storm Parliament in Chechnya, 6 dead
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101019/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_caucasus_violence
GROZNY, Russia – Islamic insurgents including a suicide bomber stormed Chechnya’s Parliament on Tuesday, leaving six people dead and 17 injured in one of the most brazen attacks on the provincial capital in months, officials said.
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Chavez in Iran for talks on energy, trade
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.737890bf1c048f30ee89ce13aa9232f5.181&show_article=1
Venezuela’s firebrand President Hugo Chavez visited Iran on Tuesday to boost energy and trade ties, days after clinching a deal with Russia to build his country’s first nuclear power plant.
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Anti-Islam lawmaker asks for hate speech acquittal
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101019/ap_on_re_eu/eu_netherlands_hate_speech
AMSTERDAM – Lawyers for a Dutch politician who has harshly criticized Islam argued at his trial Tuesday that he has the right to issue warnings about the religion’s spread in Europe and should be acquitted of inciting hatred and discrimination.
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Mysterious ‘UFO’ Lights Over El Paso
http://www.breitbart.tv/mysterious-ufo-lights-over-el-paso/
News of a UFO Sighting in East El Paso, very similar to recent sightings in New York. NOTE: This is a 2:14 video clip from El Paso’s NBC affiliate and compares them to the lights seen over New York City recently.
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Gallery of exoplanets: real pictures of alien worlds
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/10/18/gallery-of-exoplanets-real-pictures-of-alien-worlds/
In 1994, finding planets orbiting other sun-like stars was still something of a dream. Then, just a year later, the first one was found, opening a floodgate of discoveries.

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News Articles For 10/4

October 4, 2010 — Operation Rooster

Servicemembers receive Humanitarian Service medal
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3402-servicemembers-receive-humanitarian-service-medal.html
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — A ceremony was held at Bagram Airfield Oct. 3, to recognize 121 servicemembers who supported the relief efforts after flooding in Pakistan in late July of this year.
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Mothers of fallen US troops visit Iraq
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/mothers-of-fallen-us-soldiers-visit-iraq
SULAYMANIA – Nine mothers of fallen U.S. service members attended a three-day conference here Sept. 26, seeing first-hand what their loved ones were fighting for as the war that claimed their lives enters its final stage.
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Face of Defense: Bulldog Helps Airman Cope
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61119
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Oct. 4, 2010 – Arriving home after deploying to a war zone can bring new challenges to military members. Many discover that their fight is not over. They end up facing an unseen enemy, with sometimes serious consequences. That enemy is post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Voters in 3 states to consider opting out of ‘Obamacare’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/3/voters-in-3-states-to-consider-opting-out-of-obama/
DENVER | After taking a beating at the hands of Missouri voters in August, “Obamacare” could be roughed up once again at the ballot box in November.
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Wall Street Sees World Economy Decoupling From U.S.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-03/world-economy-decoupling-from-u-s-in-slowdown-returns-as-wall-street-view.html
Wall Street economists are reviving a bet that the global economy will withstand the U.S. slowdown. Just three years since America began dragging the world into its deepest recession in seven decades, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Credit Suisse Holdings USA Inc. and BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research are forecasting that this time will be different.
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IMF admits that the West is stuck in near depression
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8039789/IMF-admits-that-the-West-is-stuck-in-near-depression.html
If you strip away the political correctness, Chapter Three of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook more or less condemns Southern Europe to death by slow suffocation and leaves little doubt that fiscal tightening will trap North Europe, Britain and America in slump for a long time.
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GLOBAL ECONOMY WEEKAHEAD-Currency war fears tinge IMF meetings
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/global-economy-weekahead-currency-war-fears-tinge-imf-meetings-targetukfocus-0f61d6d7ebc5.html
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) – If there’s one thing the world’s economic powers can agree on, it’s that none of them wants a strong currency right now.
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More Countries Adopt China’s Tactics on Currency
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/world/04currency.html
WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration escalates its battle with Chinese leaders over the artificially low value of China’s currency, a growing number of countries are retreating from some free-market rules that have guided international trade in recent decades and have started playing by Chinese rules.
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Racial predatory loans fueled U.S. housing crisis: study
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_usa_foreclosures_race
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Predatory lending aimed at racially segregated minority neighborhoods led to mass foreclosures that fueled the U.S. housing crisis, according to a new study published in the American Sociological Review.
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Taliban claim attacks on NATO convoys in Pakistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101004/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnatoclaim
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) – Pakistani Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for two attacks on NATO supply convoys in Pakistan and threatened to carry out more.
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Airport Lobbies Possible Terror Targets in European Plot, Official Says
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/airport-lobbies-terror-targets-european-plot-official/story?id=11790782
Among the possible targets in the suspected European terror plot are pre-security areas in at least five major European airports, a law enforcement official told ABC News. Authorities believe terror teams are preparing to mount a commando like attack featuring small units and small firearms modeled after the Mumbai attack two years ago.
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Chavez vows to radicalize after Venezuela election
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101003/ts_nm/us_venezuela_chavez
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez vowed to “radicalize” his socialist revolution even further after legislative elections that gave the opposition one of its strongest showings during his more than 11 years in power.
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Dutch politician on trial on hate speech charges
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ghpgjpRnt2PNCpbU_8N6rI1nSJJQD9IKO7U80?docId=D9IKO7U80
AMSTERDAM — Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders went on trial Monday for alleged hate speech, even as his popularity and influence in the Netherlands are near all time highs.
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UK Pundit to Shocked TV Host: Suffering Children Should Be Smothered
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/uk-pundit-to-shocked-tv-host-suffering-children-should-be-smothered/
Advice columnists in Britain are known as “agony aunts” (or uncles). Virginia Ironside is one. Her latest bit of advice has drawn outraged reaction from television viewers who caught her comments on the BBC yesterday.
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Druze who fought Nazis dies
http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3963144,00.html
Sheikh Daoud Bessis of Daliyat al-Karmel, who fought the Nazis during World War II and helped rescue Jewish prisoners, died over the weekend at the age of 96. The Druze sheikh’s heroic story was published last week by Yedioth Ahronoth and Ynetnews.

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News Articles For 8/15

August 15, 2010 — Operation Rooster

ANA, ISAF repair Dab Bridge in combined effort
http://www.cjtf101.com/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3151-ana-isaf-repair-dab-bridge-in-combined-effort.html
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – The 2nd Brigade, 201st Corps Afghan National Army Engineers, assisted by Company G, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, Task Force No Slack; 230th Engineer Company and 323rd Route Clearance Company conducted bridge repairs along Route California here Aug. 6–8.
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Asia stops to remember end of World War II
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100815/ap_on_re_as/as_wwii_anniversary_1
TOKYO – Asia paused on Sunday to remember Japan’s surrender to the allied forces which ended World War II 65 years ago, as the Japanese prime minister apologized for wreaking suffering on the region and the South Korean president said Tokyo’s remorse was a step in the right direction.
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Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/world/15shadowwar.html?_r=2&hp
WASHINGTON — At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba.
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AP Enterprise: More immigrants getting licenses
http://hosted2.ap.org/apdefault/f7ded15e4d4846268a17b79c1c4b7cb8/Article_2010-08-13-US-Immigrant-Licenses/id-8805ad4670374034846a8de01e2035eb
BURIEN, Wash. (AP) — Carlos Hernandez packed up his family and left Arizona after the state passed its sweeping immigration crackdown. The illegal immigrant’s new home outside Seattle offered something Arizona could not: a driver’s license.
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Colorado agency blows off law restricting money for illegals
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=190597
A state agency in Colorado has disobeyed a state law because officials in the Department of Labor & Unemployment thought the mandatory verification of the immigration status of unemployment benefit recipients would slow down their process of delivering checks to applicants.
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Congress Can Withhold Funds from ACORN, Federal Court Rules
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/08/13/congress-can-withhold-funds-from-acorn-federal-court-rules/
Congress can continue to withhold federal money from ACORN following a federal appeals panel decision Friday that rejected a lower court’s ruling about funding for the community activist group.
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61 Explosive-laden Trucks Go Missing in India
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/08/15/61-explosive-laden-trucks-go-missing-in-india/
61 trucks loaded with over 300 tons of explosives have gone missing in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police official said Friday. A massive search is on to track down the trucks as fear is mounting that if the explosives, including detonators and gelatin sticks, reach the wrong hands it could be devastating.
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Israel to buy world’s most advanced warplane
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c9012997a9dd4689f00976fc1f0f7c51.bb1&show_article=1
Israel’s Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday approved the purchase of a fleet of US-built F-35 strike fighters in a move set to ramp up the capabilities of the Israeli Air Force.
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Young ‘Lion King’ Actress Getting Crucial Transplant
http://www.gnn.com/article/young-lion-king-actress-getting-crucial/1216332
NEW YORK (Aug. 13) — An 11-year-old girl who played young Nala in “The Lion King” on Broadway is getting a potentially lifesaving procedure.
Shannon Tavarez has leukemia and will get an umbilical-cord blood transplant Tuesday. The blood-producing stem cells used in transplants can come from cord blood, bone marrow or blood.
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Lucky escape for boy, 13, hit by lightning at 13:13 on Friday the 13th
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38710593/ns/world_news-weird_news
A 13-year-old boy was struck by lightning — at 13:13 hours on Friday the 13th, according to reports. The teen was watching an air show at Lowestoft, England, when he was struck and was later treated for burns to his shoulder, the U.K.’s Mirror newspaper said. He is expected to fully recover.

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