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Obama welcomes muslim extremists over our borders

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

 

The Obama Regime quietly announced in December ’09 that it would overturn one of the harsh immigration enforcement measures enacted by the Bush administration following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. You know, those ‘harsh’ measures that kept us safe for eight years.

I first posted this in  Dec. 2009, but decided to post it again now, as many people have been asking about the sudden surge in Muslim immigrants coming to the U.S. now.

(New America Media) Dec. 29, 2009 – Beginning next month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said, those who arrive in the United States seeking asylum  will no longer automatically be welcomed with handcuffs and months in a jail cell. Instead, many of those seeking protection will again be permitted to live freely in the country while their applications for permanent asylum are considered by an immigration judge.

The measure is the latest in a string of little-noticed initiatives by the Obama DHS to reconsider some of the most controversial enforcement policies of the past decade. The administration in August launched an overhaul of the immigration detention system, which had grown out of control as the number of detainees doubled in just five years to more than 440,000 annually. (Detainees doubled and no there were no terrorist incidents in America, unlike Obama’s America 2009)

The administration has also largely halted workplace raids that resulted in jailing, deportation and even criminal charges for many unauthorized workers. And DHS has curbed the authority of state and local police forces to demand immigration documents from anyone stopped for minor offenses like traffic violations, saying that such checks should be done only for those jailed on criminal charges, particularly for serious criminal offenses. To drive home the point, DHS in October stripped the notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona of federal authority to make immigration-related arrests.

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration began to clamp down, arguing that those released might simply disappear, remaining as illegal immigrants and perhaps even posing a terrorist threat. According to a recent study by Human Rights First, about 40 per cent of those asylum seekers were still being paroled in 2004; by 2007 that number had dropped to just four per cent. Senator Patrick Leahy, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, called that figure “an affront to our ideals as a nation that aspires to be a beacon of light to persecuted refugees.”

The Obama administration’s new policy, which will end such routine incarceration, had been urged by everyone from the bipartisan United States Commission on International Religious Freedom to the United Nations High Commission on Refugees. (Oh yeah, that’s bipartisan) And there is no reason to believe that the risks will rise significantly. (RIIIIGHT)


Arrests and deportations of workers are down, but hefty fines against the companies are up, providing strong incentives for them to maintain a legal workforce. This is hardly a benign approach – ask the families of the 1,800 immigrant workers who were fired from American Apparel in Los Angeles following an audit – but it marks a departure from the Bush policy of summarily jailing and deporting any unauthorized workers arrested in the raids.

The recent initiatives are only first steps, and the administration is still facing criticism from its own liberal allies that it is simply continuing the Bush administration’s enforcement policies (Hardly) With the tough fight looming ahead next year on comprehensive immigration reform, it is easy to understand why. LINK

And as DEBBIE SCHLUSSEL reported, while immigration is down from places like Mexico and Peru, immigration is up from Middle Eastern Muslim nations like terrorist-host states Syria and Iran. The countries that hate us the most are still exporting their haters to our shores.  Those numbers are up, not down.


Since 9/11, as I’ve noted over and over again, we’ve done everything to make it hard for Hispanic illegal aliens, but little to discourage Islamic ones–you know the Muslim Arabs with the same theology and heritage as the 19 hijackers.  That’s why it’s so disturbing–but not at all surprising–that we see this increase in population, despite the bad economy, from our friends in the “Religion of Peace.”  For them, a bad economy doesn’t hinder their non-stop milking of the system, bailouts, and entitlements, a la Najibullah Zazi and Ali Nemr and Rania Rahal.  And it certainly doesn’t discourage their plans to Islamicize America.

They murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, and yet we keep welcoming them to our shores. Yes, immigration is down, but not where it counts.  The most undesirable–the most dangerous–keep on comin’.

OUTRAGEOUS! Obama quietly changes US immigration policy to make it easier for potential Muslim terrorists to get in « Bare Naked Islam’s Weblog

Do unto USA what you wouldnt do Unto Israel

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

 

So his UN security chair finally come in handy as he uses it to foster even more global hatred against the USA. Arent you glad you have a muslim piece of crap like this in office?

Verndewd

Obama wants global judgment on U.S.

Gives U.N. report that is expected to be ‘cannon fodder’ for critics


Posted: August 30, 2010
9:58 pm Eastern

By Stewart Stogel
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

NEW YORK - JULY 06: Queen Elizabeth II addresses the United Nations General Assembly July 6, 2010 in New York City. The Queen will visit Ground Zero later today on her first visit to New York since 1976. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

UNITED NATIONS – The Obama administration’s decision to submit the United States to a United Nations "human rights" panel will be used a "cannon fodder" by critics of the world’s leader in those rights, according to those who note that the Bush administration refused even to participate in the review process because of its bias.

The Obama administration recently turned in the Universal Periodic Review report for the United States to the international body’s Human Rights Council, a panel that, according to a report from the Heritage Foundation, earlier saw:

  • China claim that it "adheres to the principle that all ethnic groups are equal and implements a system of regional ethnic autonomy in areas with high concentrations of ethnic minorities" and that its elections are "democratic" and "competitive."
  • Cuba claim its "democratic system is based on the principle of ‘government of the people, by the people and for the people.’" Cuba also claimed the rights to "freedom of opinion, expression and the press" are protected.
  • North Korea claim it "comprehensively provides" for fundamental rights and freedoms, including freedoms "of speech, the press, assembly, demonstration and association … work and relaxation, free medical care, education and social security."

The report said such "patently false reports" given to the U.N. were "accepted at face value and approved by the majority of members." Now, it warns, "Some of what the Obama administration wrote in the official U.S. report will be cannon fodder to the HRC during the U.S. review."

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The 29-page document constituted the first time the U.S. had submitted a document to that U.N. panel. Under the Bush administration, the United States refused even to enter the discussions because, besides the clear bias in its reports, the U.N. has no legal standing even to hold the discussion.

Former United States U.N. ambassador John Bolton told Fox News:

"We voted against the resolution creating this new human rights council for many reasons, one part of which was this so-called Universal Periodic Review. An earlier version of this idea was intended to help keep human rights violators off the council … That was junked, simply leaving a requirement that all 192 members of the UN submit a report every four years."

He said the idea of a mandatory "review" every four years is suspect in itself.

"The whole idea that the United States or anybody else has to submit to this review is just divorced from the original and underlying purpose … Even worse, is the way the Obama administration wrote the U.S. report," he said.

The Heritage report, assembled by Brett D. Schaefer, the Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs, and Steven Groves, the Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, cited the Obama administration’s own criticisms of the U.S.

"For instance, one particular paragraph in the U.S. report demonstrates the type of self-flagellation that the HRC expects of the U.S.," the report said. It noted the Obama explanation: "We are not satisfied with a situation where the unemployment rate for African Americans is 15.8 percent, for Hispanics 12.4 percent, and for whites 8.8 percent, as it was in February 2010. We are not satisfied that a person with disabilities is only one-fourth as likely to be employed as a person without disabilities. We are not satisfied when fewer than half of African-American and Hispanic families own homes while three-quarters of white families do. We are not satisfied that whites are twice as likely as Native Americans to have a college degree."

"This paragraph’s emphasis on group rights and achieving ‘equality of results’ rather than only ‘equality of opportunity’ is consistent with the HRC’s often wrongheaded perspective on the nature of human rights," the foundation report said.

The report to the U.N. also stated: "A recent Arizona law S.B.1070, has generated significant attention and debate at home and around the world. The issue is being addressed in a court action that argues that the federal government has the authority to set and enforce immigration law. … President Obama remains fully committed to fixing our broken immigration system."

But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer stumbled over that characterization.

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she said, "The idea of our own American government submitting the duly enacted laws of a state of the United States for review by the United Nations is internationalism run amok and is unconstitutional."

In the war on terrorism, Obama said it will treat al-Qaida as a state with full legal standing.

"President Obama is fully committed to complying with the Constitution and with all applicable domestic and international laws, including the laws of war, in all aspects of this or any armed conflicts. …We start from the premise that there are no law-free zones," the report said.

"Even as we confront a vicious adversary that abides by no rules, the United States must remain a standard in the conduct of war," the White House said.

Other subjects addressed included education, employment and Indian affairs, none of which broke new ground.

Bolton complained that the document looked more like a "campaign" position paper than a non-partisan governmental review.

Officials with the U.S. State Department said the submission of the report is just the first step: the next will be a "formal presentation" by the U.S. government explaining to the panel at a Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.

The Heritage report said while the idea of monitoring human rights may be sound, the actual U.N. process "has proven to be a flawed process hijacked by countries seeking to shield themselves from criticism – a flaw that the HRC shares with the broader human rights efforts in the U.N. system."

It cited the fact that the review for the U.S. probably will not go as smoothly as those of Chiina and Cuba.

"Countries deeply resentful of the U.S. and its practice of criticizing their human rights records in its annual ‘Country Reports on Human Rights Practices’ will seize with great glee the opportunity to accuse the U.S. of violating the rights of its citizens (and non-citizens). Human rights NGOs (including organizations based in the U.S.) will eagerly join them to make sure that their complaints, which are often unsupported if not specious, are highlighted," the report said.

"Aside from the [Obama] administration’s obvious self-aggrandizement (President Obama is referred to over 20 times in the 25-page report, and his health care reform is credited with vast achievements that have yet to be realized, if they ever will), the U.S. UPR report generally defends America’s strong record in the preservation of human rights," the report said.

"It remains to be seen how the HRC will react to the U.S. report this November in Geneva. But the UPR process thus far has been closer to farce than fact. Those countries bent on attacking the U.S. will no doubt come armed with plenty of criticisms regarding the U.S. record. The UPR report will provide them with some additional, unnecessary ammunition," said the Heritage Foundation. "U.S. participation in the UPR process itself already provides undue legitimacy to their complaints."

The Obama administration, however, said the chance "to discuss with our citizenry and with fellow members of the Human Rights Council our accomplishments, challenges, and vision for the future" is good.

"We welcome observations and recommendations that can help us on that road to a more perfect union."

Obama wants global judgment on U.S.

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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

 

SOTT Focus: Ponerology 104: The Truth Behind the War on Terror

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Harrison Koehli
Sott.net
Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:55 EDT

scared kid

Fearful children – fearful adults. Grist for the psychopath’s mill.

Human relationships are plagued by fear. This cycle all too often begins in our first relationship, with our parents. Too self-absorbed to recognize what their child truly requires of them, many parents betray their own child’s weakness and dependency on his caregivers – his emotional need for comfort, security, trust, and the loving acceptance of those closest to him. Having missed out on these important periods of growth, this boy, now a parent himself, may come to feel threatened by the emotional needs of his own child, becoming dependent on his own children and spouse to provide what he never had. The vicious cycle spirals on, and in turn, his own children learn to stifle their needs, deny their own feelings, and live as hollow reflections of the needs of their father. When a child must meet the emotional needs of a parent, and not the other way around, the parent – child relationship is inverted. Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman call this the ‘narcissistic family dynamic’, and the problems it causes are directly relevant to the vast geopolitical problems the word currently faces.
Such children, like their parents, seek some source of comfort, some sense of security, but not knowing where to look and what to look out for, they often find it in all the wrong places: their own children, their lovers, their work, some religious or political cause. As much as they may deny it, they are motivated by the very fears they experienced as children – afraid of being alone, not belonging, uncertain, unloved, confused, abandoned. They find shelter from the pain in some literal or symbolic arms of embrace, yet it is incomplete in some way, like the ‘security’ of a sinking ship or of a castle built on foundations of sand. Not wanting to let go, and face that pain again, they shore up their defenses – a rallying of troops to give ‘the people’, their own fragmented personalities, a sense of security. But such a cover up is built upon and dependent on lies, things half-seen through the lens of denied and distorted emotion. We may be denying that we are in a relationship with a psychopath, someone who despite the abuse and mental torture they subject us to offers us some sense of comfort and stability in life. Or we may deny our own betrayal of our loved ones’ emotional needs: the child we criticize and deform according to our own twisted ideals or the lover we demand to be someone they are not.

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Best of the Web: Low Levels of PTSD Among Israeli Soldiers Suggest High Levels of Psychopathy

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Kevin Barrett
truthjihad.com blog
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:45 EDT

Gordon Duff, staff writer for Veterans Today, wrote recently:

"Today’s Israeli National News Service quoted a study on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from BaMachaneh, the Israeli version of Stars and Stripes, stating that IDF soldiers don’t get PTSD due to combat, making them vastly superior to their American counterparts."
The study states:

"Compared to their counterparts around the globe, IDF soldiers are less likely to develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to combat, according to a study published in the most recent edition of official military magazine BaMachaneh.
The study compared research into PTSD in IDF soldiers to similar research done in other countries. Less than five percent of the soldiers who fought in the Second Lebanon War and in Operation Cast Lead in Gaza showed signs of post-traumatic stress, researchers found."

The IDF study cites that up to 30% of American veterans and active duty alike, suffer flashbacks, outbursts of anger and a host of other symptoms which do not plague Jews who are subjected to similar combat circumstances.

Gordon is skeptical of the claim that IDF troops, unlike American soldiers, don’t suffer from PTSD. If this is true, Gordon says, maybe it’s because American soldiers are fighting and dying for a Zionist-orchestrated series of lies, and are treated like "broken toys" when they come home; while Israeli soldiers are committing genocide for their own national benefit, and are relatively well-treated by their US-taxpayer-funded regime.
But there is a simpler explanation: In claiming that its soldiers are immune to PTSD, Israel is implicitly confessing that its troops are psychopaths.

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Best of the Web: BP Oil – Enough is Enough

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Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:43 EDT

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Best of the Web: Why ‘Israelis’ Danced on 911

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Len Hart
The Existentialist Cowboy
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:28 EDT

© Unknown
A Boeing 757 is supposed to have squeezed through that hole then vaporized

It was stated recently on Facebook that investigating 911 is a waste of time, that nothing was ‘likely to be proven’. That’s obvious! It is the purpose of a cover up to make of ‘investigations’ a ‘waste of time’. On this point, whomever perpetrated 911 won when Bush made of the pursuit of justice a ‘waste of time’.
The lesson learned is that if you are sufficiently rich and/or powerful, you can subvert justice, the rule of law, the truth! Our nation is lost if truth is abandoned because the pursuit of it is a ‘waste of time’. In such a society, no one is free; everything is based upon a lie and, based upon a lie, is unjust. Such a society is a police state, at best a tyranny of an uninformed ‘majority’! The ‘establishment’ is not appalled by widespread ignorance; it depends upon it and promotes it. Such a society is finished! The U.S. will fall ignominiously as did Rome of its folly, arrogance and incompetence.
Only the guilty are sufficiently motivated to cover up a crime. Just as obvious is the corollary: the innocent have nothing to cover up! If Bush covered up and/or obstructed in any way the investigation of the crime of 911, then he is guilty of acts of obstruction of justice intended to hide the truth in ways that would protect him or his ‘friends’ or both! ‘Obstruction of justice’ was one of several serious allegations against Richard Nixon, leading to articles of impeachment, eventually his ignominious resignation.

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Best of the Web: 9/11 Experiments: Newton vs. NIST

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physicsandreason
YouTube
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:50 EDT

Does US federal technology agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), think Newton’s laws are only suggestions?

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Monday, July 19th, 2010

 

Best of the Web: Welcome to Hell: An open letter to Mr. Clint Guidry of South Louisiana

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Pubali Ray Chaudhuri
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Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:34 EDT

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A woman surveys destruction in Baghdad, one of millions of lives ruined for good of the Empire

"Since it is September 11th we’re talking about, perhaps it’s in the fitness of things that we remember what that date means, not only to those who lost their loved ones in America last year, but to those in other parts of the world to whom that date has long held significance. This historical dredging is not offered as an accusation or a provocation. But just to share the grief of history. To thin the mists a little. To say to the citizens of America, in the gentlest, most human way: ‘Welcome to the World.’" – Arundhati Roy

Dear Mr. Guidry:
I read with deep distress "Hell has come to South Louisiana," your lament for your beloved land, now devastated by the BP oil spill. All of us who are human must feel your loss and pain deeply — and so do I. But I wish at the same time to put that Hell of which you speak, into some kind of context for you — perhaps to place it within a context wherein you may not have heard it placed before. This letter, and its message, is not for you alone — it might well be written to any ordinary citizen now feeling the first pangs of the hell that was inevitable with the march of the neoliberal juggernaut. It is a letter of pain, of fellow-feeling, and above all, as hinted above, of welcome. Welcome to the world of those who suffer.
This letter, Mr. Guidry, is not essentially a letter of criticism. If I had to describe its essence, its true message, I’d say this is a love-letter. And a letter of invitation to fellow feeling, to mutual knowledge and understanding. For at the heart of all true love lies fellow feeling. We can only love those whom we see as neighbors, never those whom we perceive as alien, as other.

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Best of the Web: Until they are awake, they are a threat to you

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Charlie Veitch
Facebook.com
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:16 EDT

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How can the Social Services in Great Britain so readily separate loving and caring parents from their children? How can family men Police officers fire 50,000 volts into grannies? How can a group of youths stab a father to death for a supposed insult? The answer in all examples is the same. Lack of spirit. These people are drones (droids) and are a massive threat to your life. You must consider them the platoons of the psychopath banksters. They are your enemy.
The greatest tragedy of the last 40,000 years of human life must certainly be the indifference felt to suffering. The lack of empathy felt by millions towards their starving million fellow sentients on the surface of this blue globe. This is the true story; not that psychopathic and malevolently minded people search for glory and outside happiness by killing, raping, pillaging and conquering. These violent tendencies are easily understood, we feel, for deep down in our darkest corners we can understand rage, misdirected passion, mistakes, and the folly of hate.
What we, as a resistance movement, have a real problem with is the unsympathetic way that our fellow people can disregard a problem, walk past someone struggling in the street; continue to pay taxes to a puppet-murderous government, continue in their finance jobs, and generally be totally indifferent to the suffering of others on a massive scale. We all know them. We have all shared time with those who astonish us with their lack of care. We feel almost as if we are in the company of droids. Of robots.

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Best of the Web: Matt Simmons on BP: They’re still covering up MASSIVE HOLE miles away, cap test is absurd

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Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:02 EDT

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Best of the Web: Iranian Scientist Offered $50 Million by CIA and Mossad to Lie to YOU About Iranian Threat

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The Daily Mail
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:55 EDT

© EPA
Reunited: Shahram Amiri, centre, hugs his seven-year-old son as Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Ghashghavi, left, looks on, in Tehran this morning. Amiri was abducted by the CIA and/or the Mossad

Returning home to a hero’s welcome, this is the Iranian scientist who claims he was abducted by the CIA and pressured to lie about Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Shahram Amiri had an emotional reunion with his family in Tehran yesterday, his seven-year-old son barely leaving his father’s side. Amiri appeared to be wiping away tears in some photographs.
Amiri, 32, claimed he had been offered $50million by the U.S. to remain in America and ‘spread lies’ about Iran’s nuclear work.
He repeated that he was kidnapped in 2009 when on a pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia and taken to the U.S.
The scientist also said Israeli agents were involved in interrogating him.

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SOTT Focus: Connecting the Dots: Gulf Blood for Oil, Iran Besieged, Secret Spy Games

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SOTT Editors
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Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:05 EDT

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Nearly three months on since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sunk to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the outlook is truly apocalyptic for the region’s earthlings. A sure sign that the greedy dwarves are losing their PR campaign to reassure the world that everything is just fine came late June when BP and its government tools tightened media access to the affected areas. We will examine how the Gulf region now resembles a BP-controlled corporate police state and share with you what they are not saying about the real health impact for people and planet.
Little decision-making actually takes place when the G20 heads of state get together for their travelling roadshow, but it gives the perception managers an opportunity to introduce the latest gadgetry designed specifically for breaking down dissidents into compliant serfs. Eyewitness accounts from the people on the streets of Toronto, transformed into an Occupied Territory at a cost of $1 Bln, reveal choreographed violence by agents provocateurs and extreme police brutality ‘in response’.
Wall Street’s role behind the escalating bloodshed in Mexico and the decision to send 7,000 US Marines to Costa Rica tell us that the US government’s War on Drugs™ is indistinguishable from its War on Terror™. Both disguise the same imperial designs and both are fuelled by the CIA’s narcotics industry. As Afghanistan became America’s longest war this past month, we take a look at the horrific events in Kyrgyzstan and wonder who primed the ‘Russian Spy Scandal’ just as US-Russian relations were "reset".
Israel once again demonstrated its unnatural ability to thrive in acrimony as it turned global condemnation for its massacre of innocents into UN Security Council support for US-imposed economic sanctions against Iran. Far from relinquishing its death grip on one siege, Israel is now a significant step closer to implementing another. Will Zionism’s self-fulfilling prophecy inevitably take humanity down with it? The only thing that will save Israel from itself is a successful international campaign to boycott it at every level and shun it at every opportunity. The Universe is watching, so let’s keep flapping those butterfly wings and connecting the dots!

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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

 

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Afghanistan: Security Companies Using American Money to Fund Insurgents, Bribe Taliban

For months, reports have abounded here that the Afghan mercenaries who escort American and other NATO convoys through the badlands have been bribing Taliban insurgents to let them pass.

Every Google search to be logged and saved for two years under new Euro MP plan

Every Google web search could be stored for up to two years under a controversial new EU plan that has the backing of more than 300 Euro-MEPs.

UK fits psychiatric patients with satellite tracking devices

Some of Britain’s most dangerous psychiatric patients, including murderers, rapists and paedophiles, are being fitted with satellite tracking devices to stop them escaping and reoffending.

G8/G20 security costs could reach $900-million

Security for the G8-G20 summits will cost taxpayers close to $1-billion.

U.S. Will be Like Greece in ‘Seven to 10 Years,’ Say Congressmen, Experts

U.S. National Debt 2010

To give you an idea of just how much a trillion dollars is, if you had started spending one million dollars every single day when Christ was born, you still would not have spent one trillion dollars by now.

Antidepressants during pregnancy cause alarming 68 percent increased risk of miscarriage

Green Police To Search Trash, Fine Offenders

BIN police are planning to fine people £1,000 if they fail to ­recycle their ­rubbish.

North Korea Parliament To Hold Rare Second Annual Session Monday, Major Announcement Expected

U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe

Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned.

New Director of National Intelligence: Overseeing Aggression Abroad, Repression at Home

The Amount Of Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit Sprayed By BP Tops 1 Million Gallons

BP’s latest oil spill response update for June 4th says the total amount of the dispersant used in the Gulf of Mexico more than 1,021,000 gallons.

U.S.’s $13 Trillion Debt Poised to Overtake GDP

Economic problems ‘worse than thought’, says Cameron

In a speech he will say how the £156bn deficit is tackled will affect "our economy, our society – indeed our whole way of life".

G-20 Coordination Fails as Global policy makers start to clash

Global policy makers are starting to clash over their individual prescriptions for recovery as Europe demands lower budget deficits while the U.S. warns against pushing exports instead of domestic demand.

Replicators: Builders of the Final Machine

Many Gulf federal judges have oil links

More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases

IDF admits doctoring audio of raid on Gaza flotilla

30 Shocking Quotes About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill That Reveal The Soul-Crushing Horror This Disaster Is Causing

Why Banks Try to Make Borrowers Feel Like Sinners When They Can’t Pay off Their Mortgages

Crazy views about homeownership are helping the very bankers who screwed us in the first place.

As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather

Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th.

Canada wins key fight against global bank tax

Canada has won a key fight in its high-profile international campaign against a global bank tax as G20 finance ministers Saturday approved a plan that allows countries to manage the issue as they see fit.

GM lobby helped draw up crucial report on Britain’s food supplies

Only a totalitarian state disarms law-abiding citizens

You could not look for a better encapsulation of the mentality of the state-worshipping ruling elite than the claim by Sir Ian Blair, former disastrous Metropolitan Police Commissioner and newly-appointed peer (nothing succeeds like failure), writing in The Guardian on the topic of gun control: “The possession of a firearm is a privilege, not, except in a few cases, a necessity.”

Oil Might Keep Leaking for Months After Relief Wells are Drilled

Many technical experts have said that the first attempts to complete the relief well in August could miss entirely on the first try, as it is difficult to intersect the blown-out well at the precise location and angle needed.

Space, the final frontier of Chinese news manipulation

Lecture gives Chinese public rare insight into way the state stage-manages events, including space exploration and riots

Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

The move follows a series of Russian-linked hacking against Nato members and warnings from intelligence services of the growing threat from China.

AP Enterprise: Sub attack was near US-SKorea drill

On the night a torpedo-armed North Korean submarine allegedly sank a South Korean patrol ship, the U.S. and South Korea were engaged in joint anti-submarine warfare exercises just 75 miles away, military officials told The Associated Press.

Companies Now Requiring Job Applicants to Already Have a Job

Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants.

BP spill spreads to Pensacola, Florida: White beaches blotted with oily tarballs

BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill

The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.

US demands N. Korea be made to pay for ‘provocations’

The United States demanded North Korea pay a price for allegedly sinking a South Korean warship even as Washington and its Asian allies brace for possible “provocations” by the Pyongyang regime.

APD hands out $30,000 in grocery vouchers for guns

There was an overwhelming response to the Austin Police Department’s first ever “Guns for Groceries” event. Hundreds of people turned out Saturday to exchange unwanted guns for vouchers to buy groceries.

Japanese firm wants to transform the Moon into a giant solar power plant

The Luna Ring: Electric power generated by a belt of solar cells around the lunar equator would be transmitted and beamed to the Earth from the near side of the Moon. Image credit: Shimizu Corporation.

Reid statement defends Israel, essentially blames activists for their deaths

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is facing a bruising battle this election year, and probably needs all the help he can get. According to Maplight.org, the Senate Majority Leader has received $179,640 in pro-Israel campaign contributions.

Activists: Israeli boat raiders had ‘assassination list’

Passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara, the ship raided by Israel Monday, claim they found what they say is a list of people the Israeli military intended to target during their raid, a news report out of Great Britain states.

US to go ahead with ‘essential’ drone attacks in Pakistan despite UN call to stop

Notwithstanding a report by a top UN official, which called for the discontinuation of unmanned Predator drone attacks in Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas along the Afghan border, the United States has defended the missile strikes, which many believe have killed more civilians than extremists.

FDIC massive problems ahead with smaller bank failures. 105 banks hold 77 percent of all banking assets. $10 trillion held in too big to fail while 775 banks appear on the FDIC problem list.

Sovereign Credit-Default Swaps Surge on Hungarian Debt Crisis

Minister: Britain will open the door to Frankenstein food

Caroline Spelman shocked colleagues by suggesting that the coalition government will take a more pro-GM stance than its Labour predecessor.

Mobile phones responsible for disappearance of honey bee

The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.

Glenn Beck pins blame for 9/11 attacks on Saudi Prince, major News Corp. stakeholder

Obama secretly deploys US special forces to 75 countries across world

President Obama has secretly sanctioned a huge increase in the number of US special forces carrying out search-and-destroy missions against al-Qaeda around the world, with American troops now operating in 75 countries.

Scientists find a ‘hint of life’ on Saturn’s moon Titan

They have discovered clues that primitive aliens are breathing in Titan’s atmosphere and feeding on fuel at the surface.

Israeli forces board the Rachel Corrie

No one was reported hurt.

World Govt Non-Elect: Engdahl on Bilderberg

For more insight into the Bilderberg Group, a notorious club made up of powerful politicians and business leaders which is meeting in Spain, RT has spoken to author and economic researcher F. William Engdahl.

Power of the Purse Now Released and Available!

US attendees at ‘world government’ meeting may be breaking law: activists

Israeli commando who shot six passengers in aid convoy in line for medal

Six of the nine passengers killed in an Israeli raid on an aid convoy bound for Gaza were shot by a single Israeli commando, who is being considered for a medal of valour for saving his injured comrades as passengers attacked them with clubs, knives and even guns they had taken from downed Navy Seal

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