NFL losing credibility with each blown call by replacement refs

Hail Mary. Holy hell.

On the final play of the final game of one of the most shameful weekends in NFL history, a last-gasp pass from the Seattle Seahawks fell from the sky into the arms of the Green Bay Packers on Monday night.

Touchdown, Seattle. Chaos, NFL.

• Packers players, NFL fans tweet frustration over replacement refs
•  Seahawks stun Packers on disputed play, 14-12

 

 Three weeks of gross incompetence by unqualified replacement officials crystallized in two moments Monday night that pushed the league's integrity to the brink.

In one momentNFL losing credibility with each blown call by replacement refs

France set to ban the words 'mother' and 'father' from official documents

France is set to ban the words "mother" and "father" from all official documents under controversial plans to legalise gay marriage.

The move, which has outraged Catholics, means only the word "parents" would be used in identical marriage ceremonies for all heterosexual and same-sex couples.

The draft law states that "marriage is a union of two people, of different or the same gender".

It says all references to "mothers and fathers" in the civil code – which enshrines French law – will be swapped for simply "parents".

The law would also give equal adoption rights to homosexual and heterosexual couples.

Justice Minister Christiane Taubira told

CZECH PRESIDENT: The Destruction of Europe's Democracy Is In Its Final Phase

CZECH PRESIDENT: The Destruction of Europe's Democracy Is In Its Final Phase

To be or, not to be, a federation, that is.
Which now seems to be ultimate question facing the the individual states that collectively have decided to join hands with each other.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100180847/barrosos-call-for-eu-federation-points-to-a-british-referendum-and-trouble-for-cameron/

'Two-faced' politicians have opened the door to an EU superstate by giving up on democracy, Václav Klaus, the veteran Czech statesman, tells Bruno Waterfield.

The new push for a European Union federation, complete with its own head of state and army, is the "final phase" of the destruction of democracy and the nation state, the president of the Czech Republic has warned.
In an interview with The Sunday Telegraph, Václav Klaus warns that "two-faced" politicians, including the Conservatives, have opened the door to an EU superstate by giving up on democracy, in a flight from accountability and responsibility to their voters.
"We need to think about how to restore our statehood and our sovereignty. That is impossible in a federation. The EU should move in an opposite direction," he said.
Last week, Germany, France and nine other of Europe's largest countries called for an end to

Catholics call for Israeli hate-crime crackdown

A spate of hate crimes against Christian places of worship in Israel has prompted usually reticent Roman Catholic officials to speak out, hoping that intervention by authorities might bring an end to the vandalism.
­In the early hours of September 4, vandals set fire to the door of a renowned Trappist monastery in Latrun (outside Jerusalem) and defaced it with anti-Christian graffiti, stating “Jesus is a monkey”.
In the two weeks which have elapsed since the act of desecration, no arrests have been made, despite police vows that the culprits would be brought to justice. Similar incidences of vandalism also occurred in the months preceding this attack.
The Rev. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, one of the church's top officials in the Holy Land, expressed deep concern over the state of relations between Jews and Christians.
In an interview with the Associated Press,

German Catholics to be denied Communion under church tax rule

If you can't pay, you are no longer entitled to any of the traditions once offered for the love of God alone.
Has the horror of greed, actually penetrated the Roman Catholic church in Germany?
It would certainly seem so. What was once a given in the practice of the Roman Catholic faith, is now seen as an expensive add on, so much so, that if you find yourself in the situation of being unable to tithe you are no longer welcome to participate in that which once would afford you, the comfort of your faith.
It's a good thing Jesus was resurrected, for the announcement of this would surely have him rolling over in his grave

Germany's Roman Catholics who refuse to pay a church tax are to be denied the right to Holy Communion or become a godparent.

In a move decried by a progressive Catholic group, the German bishops' conference last week issued a decree, saying it was "worried" about the Catholic Church's dwindling numbers and wanted to stem the drop.

Confession, the Eucharist, confirmation in the Church or anointing of the sick – unless the patient's life is in danger – are now out of bounds for anyone who leaves the Church, the decree, which took effect Monday, stated.

Becoming a godparent is also off limits, it said.

Germany has had a system in place since the 19th century asking residents to either officially declare their religion and pay a church tax, or to be classed as "non-religious".

The levy amounts to between eight and 10 per cent of income tax, depending on where the person lives.

Gospel of Jesus's Wife is fake, claims expert

One certainly would have thought that the experts would have at least attempted to check for validity before they exposed the world to what maybe an attempt at rearranging the early base theory, of the life of Jesus Christ.

A New Testament scholar claims to have found evidence suggesting that the Gospel of Jesus's Wife is a modern forgery.
Professor Francis Watson, of Durham University, says the papyrus fragment, which caused a worldwide sensation when it appeared earlier this week because it appeared to refer to Jesus's wife, is a patchwork of texts from the genuine Coptic-language Gospel of Thomas, which have been copied and reassembled out of order to make a suggestive new whole.
In a paper published online, Watson argues that all of the sentence fragments found on the papyrus fragment have been copied, sometimes with small alterations, from printed editions of the Gospel of Thomas.
The discovery has already sparked fierce debate among academics, but Watson believes his new research may prove conclusive.
"I think it is more or less indisputable that I have shown how the thing was composed," he said. "I would be very surprised if it were not a modern forgery, although it is possible that it was composed in this way in the fourth century."
His paper claims the work was assembled by someone who

Jury Convicts Amish Group of Hate Crimes

OK I officially hate the new blogger interface!
I can't get this bitch right to save my soul. So bear with me for a few days kids.
In the mean time, check this out

If the appeal fails, where on earth are they going to put these people? Prison sounds a little to much like cruel and unusual punishment to me. The Amish aren't versed in the worldly way. Putting one of them in prison is a kin to cutting them and throwing them into a tank filled with bull sharks.
They don't stand a chance of survival.
America, you cannot let this happen. The horror that it implies is to great to inflict upon anyone.

Samuel Mullet Sr., the domineering leader of a renegade Amish sect, and 15 followers were convicted of federal conspiracy and hate crimes Thursday for orchestrating a series of bizarre beard- and hair-cutting attacks last fall that spread fear through the Amish of eastern Ohio.

 

The convictions of Mr. Mullet and his followers and family members who carried out the assaults could bring lengthy prison terms. The jury’s verdict vindicated federal prosecutors, who made a risky decision to apply a 2009 federal hate-crimes law to the sect’s violent efforts to humiliate Amish rivals.

Mr. Mullet, 66, founder of a community near Bergholz, Ohio, and 15 followers, including six women, were tried for

Russia expels USAID development agency

Check.
Good for you Mr. P.

What most people don't realize is that the state of the world is being played out on a 5 dimensionally tiered chessboard, with the United States government hell bent on helping out those that they insist
don't understand the game.
The US does it under the guise of AID, which one would think, and is led to believe, would consist of food and medicine. But that's not how the AID (American Interference Department) work. It works by creating distention through out a chosen country, until unrest rears it's ugly head, thus providing the American government with the much needed reason to go in and assure that democracy prevails.
Or in other words, it provides nourishment for the Industrial Military Complex and affords it job security for the multiple minions of it's ranks.
Mr. P. quite effectively just blocked their move.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced it will close its offices in Russia following an order from the authorities there to cease operations.

The Russian government gave the US until 1 October to close the mission, accusing it of meddling in politics.

USAID has worked in Russia for two decades, spending nearly $3bn (£1.8bn) on aid and democratic programmes.

The expulsion follows a government crackdown on pro-democracy groups.

"The decision was taken mainly because the work of the agency's officials far from always responded to the stated goals of development and humanitarian cooperation. We are talking about attempts to influence political processes through its grants," the foreign ministry said in a statement.

 

The Russian authorities have become increasingly suspicious of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which it believes are using foreign funding to foment political unrest, says the BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.

Earlier this year, President Vladimir Putin

Alaska and the mysterious disappearing king salmon

Why does this seem like to much of a convenient coincidence for the faster push through of genetically modified salmon

When the number of king salmon running in Crooked Creek's river declined dramatically, the mostly native Alaskan villagers were left wondering where they could find enough food to last the winter.

Crooked Creek has no big-box grocery stores or roads to other towns. But in good times, the Kuskokwim River promises king salmon to the villages along its 702 miles (1,130km).

But good times are fading into memory for villagers like Evelyn Thomas, who has lived in Crooked Creek her entire life.

"In my language, fish is called 'the food'," says Thomas, a half Yupik, half Athabascan native Alaskan who says she has little money to buy food to replace the salmon.

"When we don't get 'the food', a staple of our diet is missing."

Over the past five years, Alaska's king salmon have begun to disappear from the state's rivers, and no-one is sure why.

Beijing demonstrators damage US ambassador's car

Lord help us all find our center

A car carrying the U.S. ambassador to China was mildly damaged after becoming the target of boisterous anti-Japan demonstrators who were expressing outrage over a territorial dispute and marking the 81st anniversary of Japan's invasion of China.

The State Department said in a statement Wednesday that Ambassador Gary Locke was unhurt in Tuesday's incident, and that diplomats have expressed concerns to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

The statement said around 50 protesters surrounded Locke's car as he tried to enter the embassy and were eventually removed by Chinese security personnel.

Dime to a dollar says Mr. Locke wet his pants.

People across China have engaged in days of furious protests over some East China Sea islands, claimed by Beijing and Tokyo, that Japan purchased last week from a private owner. The U.S., a close ally of Japan, has said it is staying out of the dispute, but it also been the target of Chinese anger

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AMR expects about 4,400 job cuts, warns 11,000

American Airlines is sending layoff warning notices to more than 11,000 employees although a spokesman says the company expects job losses to be closer to 4,400.
The notices went out to mechanics and ground workers whose jobs will be affected as American goes through a bankruptcy restructuring.
American Airlines spokesman Bruce Hicks said Tuesday that fewer than 40 percent of those getting notices will lose their jobs. Hicks said federal law requires the company to notify anyone whose position could change, including those who could get "bumped" by more-senior employees whose jobs are eliminated or outsourced.
American said in February that it planned to cut 14,000 jobs, including 13,000 held by union workers. But if Hicks is right, the final job losses will be about a third of that.
Over the summer American accepted

France to close embassies in fear of cartoon backlash

Why is it the longer that we live, the less likely we are to get alone.
The world lacks tolerance in the areas where it should be, and gives all to where it shouldn't.
Stay safe kids

France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film that has left dozens dead.

 

The French foreign ministry announced Wednesday that France will close 20 of its embassies in Muslim countries this Friday following the publication of controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoons by satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Major protests in the Muslim world generally take place after Friday prayers.
The illustrations, which show the Prophet Mohammed naked and refer to the incendiary US-made film which has been fueling deadly unrest among Muslim communities for over a week, hit newsstands across France on Wednesday.
The magazine's editor, Stephane Charbonnier, told reporters that the pictures, which are printed on the back page, will "shock those who will want to be shocked."
But the French government condemned the

Al-Qaeda, CIA armed wing, sodomized and killed U.S. ambassador in Libya, creating an excuse for the final military intervention in Africa

YouTube naturally pulled this video.
The gay community is talking about MSM not showing the real news, so I went looking and this what I found.
Do I believe it personally: Yes, when he was found he was fully clothed
When you saw him hefted up over someones shoulder they were taking his pants off.
Hillary was to quick to explain. His guards were Libyan they would have known if he was.
He never stood a chance and the US government was told 3 days before the incident happened that it was coming down.
They did nothing.

 

The U.S. embassy in Benghazi was attacked by the mercenaries alqaedisti armed by NATO last year, and the U.S. ambassador to Libya has been sodomized before being killed by these terrorists, who had yesterday staged a protest against the offensive film against the Prophet Muhammad, who had been released in the U.S. a few days ago.

Al-Qaeda, CIA armed branch, sodomizing and killing the U.S. ambassador to Libya, is creating the pretext for U.S. final military intervention in Africa?

The American intelligence services have sacrificed, on 9/11 many years ago, thousands of their citizens to create an excuse for military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yesterday, 11/9, have they repeated the intelligence operation to clone the project in north Africa?

Do U.S./CIA hope to do the same in Syria? That ‘s why they arm terrorists and mercenaries of al-Qaeda in Syria?

We believe so, but history always reserves many surprises…

Airport ditches controversial bodyscanners

A total of 13 backscatter X-ray machines are being ditched because they have not been given EU approval, even though they are in common use in the United States.

The devices, which use low dose X-rays to produce an image of the body, have come under fire on both privacy and health grounds, amid suggestions they could pose a potential cancer risk.

However despite an expert committee concluding in March that the devices did not pose a health risk, Brussels has refused to sanction their use.

As a result they will be replaced by millimetre-wave devices, such as those used at Heathrow, which have been given EU approval.

These machines enable security staff to detect hidden objects without also requiring them to inspect a ghostly X-ray image of the body.

Norway investigates 'substantial' oil and gas leak on BP platform

And BP leaves their calling card........ again....

No people were injured and no damage caused to the installation beyond the equipment directly involved. But the [Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority] PSA considers the incident to have had a substantial potential," the PSA said in a statement.

The leak occurred on September 12 on the Ula field, in the Norwegian waters of the North Sea, AFP reported.

Production at the site, which reached some 10,000 barrels of oil per day in July according to the Petroleum Directorate, has been suspended since the incident, PSA said.

A spokesman for BP in Norway said the company had launched its own investigation but that it was too early to determine how much oil and gas had leaked out.

“A hydrocarbon leak occurred on September 12 on the Ula field operated by BP in the Norwegian North Sea," the oil giant told

'Behead' sign mum hands herself in as Muslim leaders call for calm after protests

This is child abuse, and it's BS. Just because a child is fed and warm doesn't mean they are not being abused.
The mother can be seen taking a picture of the kid. She is promoting deviant behavior in her child.
God, Allah or what ever other name that you use for the Universe, NEVER intended for a child to be raised like this.
Scroll a little farther down and you can watch the video of a little girl calling for jihad.
What life can these children possibly know other than that of hatred?

A Victoria Police spokesman said the force was monitoring any possible incidents.
Yesterday, the mother whose young son held a sign calling for beheadings during Saturdays' Sydney protests turned herself in to police.
NSW Family and Community Services Minister Pru Goward says the boy will stay with his parents.
"The police went back to the house and assessed the children and assessed that they were safe so that is where they remain," Ms Goward told ABC radio.
Lebanese Muslim Association president Samier Dandan says while he welcomes the mother's decision to go to police, he disapproves of the behaviour.
"That's something that we don't encourage within our community, it's something we condemn," he told reporters at Lakemba mosque in Sydney's west this morning.
Mr Dandan said he would try to talk to the mother, but added he had been told the boy may have found the sign on the street and was "caught up in the hype" during the demonstrations.
"Does a child really understand what's written on that placard?" he said.
Since the placard incident, video has come to light of an 8-year-old girl adressing a Muslim conference in Bankstown, in Sydney's west, on Saturday.
In it, she is heard calling for holy war and a world-wide Islamic state.

Students strike against new federal school lunch rules

Ummm Michelle
The kids would like to have a word with you.
One size does not fit all. The kicker here is that the poor kids, that don't get enough to eat at home, now have even less.
Exercise would have been a better choice of routes to go. Kids used to get something called recess, but they don't anymore. It may be there in look, but it's no longer utilized. It's left to a teachers discretion on whether the kids go out or not. It's used as a tool in corporal punishment. One child acting out, can and does, take away recess for the rest of the kids. When my daughter was in the second grade, she got recess twice, the whole year. She is now in high school, so that tells you how long this has been going on.
Something else came about from taking away recess as well, it's called "ants in the pants" syndrome.
Children weren't meant to sit, and pay attention for 7 hours a day. So consequently they squirm, the teacher complains, and so a trip is scheduled with the pediatrician, to prescribe the meds needed to
physically restrain the child. Which does have it's vantage points I suppose, certain types of the medication not only physically restrain the child they also retard the appetite. But on the other hand, if a psychotic medication ( think Zombie kid here, because this type of med was actually designated for schizophrenics and is now being sold as the ADD wonder drug) actually promotes massive weight gain.
Michelle needs to back up and get a new plan, because kids that are starving, also can't concentrate, and that in turn leads to a complaining teacher and then the trip is scheduled to see the doctor to get the meds.
It's nothing more than a vicious cycle, that Michelle has only intensified, and all children are now made to suffer for it.

By 7 a.m. Monday, senior Nick Blohm already had burned about 250 calories in the Mukwonago High School weight room.
He grabbed a bagel and a Gatorade afterward; if he eats before lifting, he gets sick.
That was followed by eight periods in the classroom, and then three hours of football practice. By the time he headed home, he had burned upward of 3,000 calories - his coach thinks the number is even higher.
But the calorie cap for his school lunch? 850 calories.
"A lot of us are starting to get hungry even before the practice begins," Blohm said. "Our metabolisms are all sped up."
Following new federal guidelines, school districts nationwide have retooled their menus to meet new requirements to serve more whole grains, only low-fat or nonfat milk, daily helpings of both fruits and vegetables, and fewer sugary and salty items. And for the first time, federal funds for school lunches mandate age-aligned calorie maximums. The adjustments are part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 touted by Michelle Obama and use the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The changes are hard to swallow for students like Blohm. On Monday, 70% of the 830 Mukwonago High students who normally

Penn. board rejects clemency in murder case, execution still planned

Terry is a man now, but when he killed these two people, he was still a child.
He was uncapable of stopping himself, all he knew was a blue rage.
He didn't just randomly kill people, and he very well could have. He directed his rage to the guilty parties, that led him to accumulate it, in the first place.
He doesn't deserve to die for what he did. He just wanted the rage to stop.
You probably can't imagine how he felt, but I can. That rage is always turned inside, other people never see it, because you never allow them to. Everything about you is hidden when you're a sexually abused child. You trust no one.
You've asked yourself why it happened to you so many times. There's never an answer, there is only, an "if only".
How could anybody else understand, when you yourself can't?
So the rage builds, because it's to much, for a child to emotionally carry by themselves.
If you had to walk a mile in his shoes, you couldn't blame him for what he's done.
But you haven't,...... and you can't imagine,......... which is why, we never tell.

A Pennsylvania man on death row for the murder of his alleged sexual abuser failed to win clemency Monday from the state Board of Pardons.
Terrance "Terry" Williams, 46, is scheduled to be executed on Oct. 3. He is on death row at the State Correctional Institute at Greene in Pennsylvania for killing 56-year-old Amos Norwood with a tire iron in Philadelphia in 1984. Williams was 18 years old at the time of the murder. Defense lawyer Victor J. Abreu has said Williams' crimes were mitigated by the sexual abuse he experienced in his childhood. Norwood was allegedly one of his attackers.

Mortgage cops taking tough stance

In the "world of weird" this has to be in contention for the weirdest thing I've ever read, but it's definitely par for the course.
How does one define "strategic defaulter" from the advice of " the bank made me do it" in order to lower the interest rate, which the bank ended up not doing anyway?
The Banks are embedded to the hilt with their "own" burdens of financial fraud ( that "We" continue to bail them out of, to no avail) that they intentionally created out of their lust and need for greed, and yet  not one has, or will be, prosecuted for the crimes committed.

Read the comments for advice on understanding your legal own legal position.
You'll sleep better if you do, I promise.

Strategic defaulters, beware. The feds are coming for you. And they are not happy.

Not the FBI. The Office of the Inspector General at the Federal Housing Finance Agency.

The OIG may not have the same fearsome "G-man" reputation as its better-known counterparts at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but it is every bit as much a law enforcement agency, with the same powers to search, seize and arrest. Special OIG agents are even authorized to carry firearms.

The OIG's mission is to seek administrative sanctions, civil recoveries and criminal prosecutions against anyone who abuses the FHFA's programs. And it is pursuing its calling with passion, if not vengeance

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It's Up to Schools to Teach 'Respect and Compassion,' Justice Official Says

While I do think the schools have an obligation to ensure student safety, I don't think we need to put the added pressure of teaching teaching respect and compassion. Not that I don't think that there isn't a need for it, but last week a statistic was made known that only 25% of all the children being educated right now in America, are proficient in writing.
How piss poor is that?
Do they really think the extra burden of something more profoundly complicated is going to improve that statistic?

The effort to stop bullying doesn't begin at home. "Our common mission to stop bullying must start in our schools," said Thomas Perez, the head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
Speaking Friday at a bullying prevention summit in San Francisco, Perez said, "It is in our schools that our children learn to live, play and work together. It is in our schools that fear and intolerance can take root; and it is in our schools that respect and compassion can be nurtured."
Perez’ speech included two references to “violence in the home,” but he said nothing about parents' responsibility to teach their children to behave themselves.
He did mention parents as one of many partners in the anti-bullying mission –- along with government officials and others:
"We at the Justice Department are here to stand

Tremors return by sinkhole

Not good kids. The seismic activity is not coming from the Salt Dome, although it is included in the area, that the tremors are affecting.
Nobody is sure of what it's going to do. Which makes me feel very very uneasy.

The sharp earth tremors that rattled the Bayou Corne community during the summer and presaged the emergence last month of a large sinkhole in Assumption Parish have returned, a University of Memphis scientist said.
The tremors appeared to build in July, reached a crescendo of several hundred per day then stopped at 2 p.m. Aug. 2, hours before the sinkhole was found early Aug. 3 on the property of Texas Brine Co. of Houston, officials said.
Later that same evening, the sinkhole prompted parish officials to call for a mandatory evacuation of 150 households in the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou areas. It remains in effect.
Steve Horton, research scientist with the University of Memphis Center for Earthquake Research and Information, said Friday that about a week ago, one or two sharp tremors began reoccurring every day or so.
Horton sits on a scientific advisory committee that

LSU evacuating because of bomb threat

And today, it's Louisiana State University's turn. I can't help but wonder if this is a desensitization program in action, with all of the false bomb threats.
And when that desensitization is complete and, the alerts are no longer regarded, the actual event will occur.

LSU students, faculty and staff have been ordered to evacuate the campus following a reported bomb threat.
LSU Police are currently investigating the threat called into the East Baton Rouge Parish 9-1-1 call center around 10:32 a.m. Monday, said

Breaking the Silence

In the "world of make believe" there comes a time when "WE" ALL must understand,
that life in the "REAL WORLD" must be seen and understood for what it is.

I can't pick up the article so please hit the link and scroll down. On the right hand side there are pictures, but more important are the captions underneath, describing the daily life of a Palestinian by an Israeli soldier and how his thoughts were formed into being.

"Breaking the silence shows..."

... private photos taken by Israeli soldiers in the occupied territories. Candid snapshots give an idea of the harassment Palestinians suffer daily and the stark reality of the soldiers' lives. The exhibition, curated by the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, opened on Thursday in Berlin as part of its tour of European capitals. The captions stem from soldiers' testimonies to the group of veterans.

This is a caption that describes an Israeli soldiers understanding that wrong is NEVER right.

"They themselves didn't go through a Holocaust...

but I'm sure that some of them are from families that survived the Holocaust. If they're capable of writing on the Arab's doors 'Arabs Out' or 'Death to the Arabs,' and drawing a Star of David, which to me is like a swastika when they draw it like that, then somehow the term Jew has changed a little for me with regard to who's a Jew."

OCCuPY THiS!

ONE YEAR LATER...

As most of you are aware, today marks the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street.

Many people call it a "movement" and there are arguments about precisely what kind of movement it is if it is one. I personally spend zero time worrying about this.

For me OWS was an event and that event was about raising the public's awareness of one thing, the intersection of rampant control fraud and political corruption between the TBTF banks and Washington DC; the many ways this phenomena has decimated the lives of so many ordinary Americans.

In this respect they succeeded. Few would argue otherwise.

Unfortunately, the efforts fell on deaf and corrupt ears in our hollow halls of democracy.

Now, instead of making wisecracks about the people who are on the street today attempting, as hard as it is in Blumfukistan, to raise a civil ruckus, I would ask you all to consider the following.

When OWS was conceived and first kicked off last year, there was no MF Global fiasco, Jon Corzine was still CEO, no one knew who the London Whale was, Jamie Dimon was still exhaulted by the MSM as Wall Street's Mr Clean, Bob Diamond was still CEO of Barclays, no one in Washington knew what LIBOR was. There was no sham Fraudclosure settlement, no sham Securitization task force. There were, however, a handful of ongoing criminal investigations of Wall Street Banks...all subsequently terminated.

Last week we learned of the latest Mother of all Keynesian Bailouts. Try as they will to convince us that QE3 is designed to help the little guy, we of Zero Hedge all know otherwise don't we?

What is obvious is that since last September, our corporatist kleptofraudtocracy has only gotten exponentially worse.

The final insult was not the silence on these matters at the GOP convention (after all, we all know that Mitt the Twit is a Wall Street Ponzi pimp).

The final insult was the expectation of the Obamocrats that we would all accept their Big Lie. The biggest lie of all, that they and their Wall Street Bitch in Chief have cracked down on Banksterism.

There is not one shred of evidence that supports this Big Lie. A Big Lie that would make Herr Goebbels very very proud.

So today, instead of making wiseass remarks about unemployed, dirty long hair hippy anarchists armed with iPhones, iCollectivists and liberal arts students stepping off the curbs or chalking up the sidewalks, I would ask all of you to do something else...

Remind as many as you can of the outrageous fucking fraud that continues to be perpetrated by the thieves in pinstripes and hand made brogues and their harem of DC Bitches.

WB7

Security firm to hold zombie crisis scenario

How fitting in keeping with the context of Halloween.
I wonder how much the extra extravaganza cost the taxpayers?
Makeup sure isn't cheap anymore, let alone the cost of it's applicators for this type of get together.

“Zombieland” — has captured the attention and imagination of Brad Barker, president of the security firm HALO Corp.
Next month, his outfit will incorporate — no kidding — zombies into a disaster-crisis scenario at the company’s annual Counter-Terrorism Summit in San Diego, a five-day event providing hands-on training, realistic demonstrations, lectures and classes geared to more than 1,000 military personnel, law enforcement officials, medical experts, and state and federal government workers.

HALO will take over the 44-acre Paradise Point resort in the city’s popular Mission Bay and create a series of terrorist scenarios, with immersive Hollywood sets including a Middle Eastern village and a pirates’ haven. Retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, a former CIA and National Security Agency director, and Mexico Interior Secretary Alejandro Poiré Romero will speak during the summit, which runs Oct. 30 to Nov. 2.

The zombies who roam the island will harass the troops, first-aid teams and medical responders participating, Barker said. HALO declined to detail the scenario just yet, saying only that the idea is to challenge authorities as they respond to extreme medical situations where people become crazed and violent, creating widespread fear and disorder.

Superbug kills 7th person at Md. NIH hospital

This horror is predominant in the British hospitals. They have not been able to get rid of it.
They have tried everything.
And now it's here.
What they don't tell you is how it started. It started from the Iraq war. Transport planes for the wounded weren't cleaned to well, if at all. It's called C-Diff. It's a bug found in the gut and antibiotics don't touch it. So far nothing does. It can't be killed with bleach or disinfectant and it spread throughout hospitals like a wildfire.

A deadly germ untreatable by most antibiotics has killed a seventh person at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Maryland.

The Washington Post reported the death Friday. NIH officials told the paper that the boy from

Report: US banks subject of money-laundering probe

Just another "unseen process" that makes the "War on Drugs" the big expensive joke that it is.
I wonder how much the fine is this time?
For some reason prison is NEVER seen as an option.

 Regulators are investigating whether several major U.S. banks failed to monitor transactions properly, allowing criminals to launder money, according to a New York Times story. The newspaper cited officials who it said spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the federal agency that oversees the biggest banks, is leading the money-laundering investigation, according to the Times. The report said the OCC could soon take action against JPMorgan Chase & Co., and that it is also investigating Bank of America Corp. Money laundering allows people to make money — often obtained illegally — appear like it came from another source.

The OCC, JPMorgan and Bank of America declined to comment.

The financial industry is struggling to mend its public image. Four years after the financial crisis, banks are getting closer scrutiny. And regulators are under pressure to show that they're not missing any questionable activity.

This summer, British bank Barclays PLC settled charges that it had manipulated a key global interest rate. Standard Chartered PLC, also based in the U.K., agreed to settle charges that it had improperly

Japan brandname firms shut China plants after protest violence

We expect this kind of behavior out of the Middle East, but from China, it just seems dishonorable, and barbaric.

Some major Japanese brandname firms announced factory shutdowns in China on Monday and urged expatriates to stay indoors ahead of what could be more angry protests over a territorial dispute between Asia's two biggest economies.
China's worst outbreak of anti-Japan sentiment in decades led to weekend demonstrations and violent attacks on well-known Japanese businesses such as car makers Toyota and Honda, forcing frightened Japanese into hiding and prompting Chinese state media to warn that trade relations could now be in jeopardy.
Another outbreak of anti-Japan sentiment is expected across China on Tuesday, the anniversary of Japan's 1931 occupation of parts of mainland China.
"I'm not going out today and I've asked my Chinese boyfriend to be with me

No DNA link to Assange in condom central to sex assault case

Why are they holding Julian you ask?
Because he chose, to expose intentional wrong doing, because you have a right to know.

A ripped condom given to Swedish police by one of Julian Assange’s accusers does not contain the WikiLeaks founder’s DNA, forensic scientists have reportedly found.
In a 100-page document shown to Assange’s lawyers, it was revealed that the torn prophylactic, having been examined by staff at two forensic laboratories, did not bear conclusive evidence that Assange had ever worn it, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.
Assange’s lawyers said the lack of DNA evidence on the condom, which was allegedly used during a supposed August 2010 sexual assault, indicates that a fake one could have been submitted.
The woman in question, now aged 33, claims to have been molested by Assange at her flat in Stockholm. She says that at one point he deliberately broke a condom in order to have unprotected sex with her.
Assange claims he had consensual sex with the woman, but denies intentionally tearing the condom. He had previously told police that he continued to stay at her residence for the week following the alleged incident, saying his accuser never made any mention of the ripped condom.
But DNA purportedly belonging to Assange was present on a condom submitted by a second woman, who has accused him of rape, prompting Swedish authorities to push ahead with their bid to have him extradited from the UK.
However, his second accuser, now 29, who claimed to have been raped in her sleep by Assange, apparently told police she had not been opposed to having unprotected sex with him despite previous statements to the contrary, the daily reported.
Assange denies the allegation of rape, maintaining he had consensual

‘Price tag’ tactics of West Bank Jewish settlers

This is Israel. It's the part that the "chosen" don't want you to know about.
It's the same as it's always been for thousands of years.
Revenge, retaliation, repeat.
I don't find a political message here, unless the world has finally accepted, vandalism and intimidation as political.
The children from Nazi Germany acted in this manner, Right before......

With their hoodies, covered faces and cans of spray paint, they may in some ways look like average teenage vandals out for a night of trouble.

But on the streets of Arab East Jerusalem, some young Jewish people are up to more than just graffiti. They are part of what has become known as price tag gangs and they are risking their safety to send a very political message.

Price-tagging is the term they use for a range of acts, from vandalism to arson attacks and religious desecration. They carry out these crimes as an act of revenge - they say there is a price to be paid by Arabs for attacks on Jewish homes and businesses.

They are also warning their own government with these price tags that there is a price to pay for any attempt to give what they believe is Jewish land to the Palestinians as part of the fragile peace process.

They come from the hilltops of the West Bank, Arab territory that has been occupied by Israel since the war of 1967.

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National Zoo's Giant Panda Gives Birth to Cub

I looked long and hard for a good news happening to start this Monday morning with.
With the world so filled with violence and death right now, I just wanted to share a little love and a smile.
Miracles can happen,
Never lose the faith.

Mei Xiang gave birth to a panda cub at 10:46 p.m. Sunday

It's a boy? It's a girl?

Well, it's a panda cub! We weren't sure if we'd ever see this day again, but the National Zoo's female giant panda, Mei Xiang, gave birth to a panda cub Sunday night -- her second, following five pseudopregnancies in a row. Not to mention a whole lot of dashed hopes.

Yep, happy days are here again. The new cub was born at 10:46 p.m. Sunday. The zoo announced the news about four hours later.

"National Zoo staff can hear the cub but have not yet seen it as Mei has built a substantial nest in her den," the zoo said in a release.

OK, but we need baby pics, and we need them now!

“I’m cautiously optimistic as we haven’t seen the cub yet, but we know that Mei is a good mother," said Dennis Kelly, director

70-Foot Deep Sinkhole Unleashes Brutal Smell On Bay Ridge

It’s gone from bad to worse. A massive sinkhole has turned from traffic nightmare to sickening situation in Brooklyn. A sewer main broke more than two months ago in Bay Ridge, creating a huge hole in the street.
And as CBS 2’s Dave Carlin reported Friday night, the stench has now become a major problem.
Misery is how 92nd Street residents describe the slow, tedious work on the enormous sinkhole, which first formed back on June 28 and is still not close to being repaired.
Workers have been going down more than 70 feet to fix a busted 110-year-old sewer pipe. The hole has unleashed a non-stop sickening smell.
Ida Skef, who lives closest to the crater, was out with CBS

Hundreds evacuated in Mishawaka for chemical leak

A portion of the south side of Mishawaka were evacuated for a fire and confirmed chemical leak at a former metal plant.

Crews were called to put out a small rubbish fire in a vacant building at 1302 Industrial Drive. It used to be Baycote Metal Finishing. After the fire was out, Mishawaka fire official Jim Cocquyt said they noticed a low-hanging vapor cloud and began the evacuation.

Officials have not confirmed what the chemical threat is, but according to a source, hospitals in the area were counting the number of cyanide kits they have in case anyone had been exposed to hydrogen cyanide

James H. Fetzer: 9/11 IRAN REVIEW Interview

Well I heard some hings that I never heard before.
It's definitely worth the read

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012) - More than one decade after the 9/11 attacks which completely diverted the path of the U.S. foreign policy and led to the waging of two lethal, erosive wars on Afghanistan and Iraq and killing of thousands of innocent civilians, an influential, diligent group of researchers and authors have dared to question the authenticity and veracity of the claims made by the U.S. government that they were Islamist terrorists who crashed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center towers and Pentagon and killed some 3,000 people.
One of these high-ranking, renowned researchers is Dr. James H. Fetzer, a retired professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He has written on the philosophy of science and on the theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.
According to Dr. Fetzer, George W. Bush and his administration officials were responsible for the atrocities which happened on September 11, 2001. He firmly believes that Israel’s Mossad was involved in the 9/11 attacks and that the U.S. government tries to withhold this truth from the public; however, he has written tens of articles for different magazines and news websites, providing evidence of the involvement of Israel’s intelligence service in the attacks.

State court ruling deals blow to U.S. bank mortgage system

My my, that changes the ballgame now doesn't it.

The highest court in the state of Washington recently ruled that a company that has foreclosed on millions of mortgages nationwide can be sued for fraud, a decision that could cause a new round of trouble for the nation's banks.
The ruling is one of the first to allow consumers to seek damages from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, a company set up by the nation's major banks, if they can prove they were harmed.
Legal experts said last month's decision from the Washington Supreme Court could become a precedent for courts in other states. The case also endorsed the view of other state courts that MERS does not have the legal authority to foreclose on a home.
"This is a body blow," said consumer law attorney Ira Rheingold. "Ultimately the MERS business

No protest before Benghazi attack, wounded Libyan guard says

What's wrong with this picture kids?
God is great? Not once but twice. What happened to Allah?
And contracted guards? No marines?
2 Navy seals were there and got killed?
And Stevens had internal bleeding in the stomach...from smoke?
This sucker is now coming apart at the seams.

The attack itself, the guard said, was immediate and bold, initiated by a group of men who approached the compound and lobbed grenades over the wall. Just behind them were scores of men, shooting wildly and yelling “God is great.”

The guard, who said he’d been hired seven months ago by a British company to protect the compound, said the first explosion knocked him to the ground, and he was unable to fire his weapon. Four other contracted guards and three members of Libya’s 17th of February Brigade

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/12/j-christopher-stevens-ambassador-to-libya-killed_n_1876544.html

A Libyan doctor who treated Stevens said he died of severe asphyxiation, apparently from smoke. In a sign of the chaos of during the attack, Stevens was brought alone by Libyans to the Benghazi Medical Center with no other Americans, and no one at the facility knew who he was, the doctor, Ziad Abu Zeid, told The Associated Press.

Stevens was practically dead when he arrived close to 1 a.m. on Wednesday, but "we tried to revive him for an hour and a half but with no success," Abu Zeid said. The ambassador had bleeding in his stomach because of the asphyxiation but no other injuries, he said.

One killed in Lebanon protest over anti-Islam film, pope

Oh crap, they know the Pope is in town. I sure hope he didn't leave the Popemobile at home.
I'd say we're verging on riot here, protest just isn't cutting the image anymore if you know what I mean.
It's kinda like that recession and depression thing, there's a really big difference.
Update
US embassy in London is now involved in the party to, and the Sudanese brought fireworks in the form of guns to the party they're throwing at the German embassy there. They kinda lit the building on fire to.

One demonstrator was killed and two others were wounded in clashes with security forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday in protests over a film insulting the Muslim Prophet Mohammad and against the pope's visit to Lebanon.

A security source said the man was killed as protesters tried to storm a government building. Earlier, a U.S. fast food restaurant was set alight. Twelve members of the security forces were wounded by stones thrown by protesters, the source said.

The U.S.-made film has sparked violent protests in Libya, where the U.S. ambassador

GHEI: ATF’s latest gun grab

The Obama administration is making it easier for bureaucrats to take away guns without offering the accused any realistic due process. In a final rule published last week, the Justice Department granted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) authority to “seize and administratively forfeit property involved in controlled-substance abuses.” That means government can grab firearms and other property from someone who has never been convicted or even charged with any crime.

It’s a dangerous extension of the civil-forfeiture doctrine, a surreal legal fiction in which the seized property — not a person — is put on trial. This allows prosecutors to dispense with pesky constitutional rights, which conveniently don’t apply to inanimate objects. In this looking-glass world, the owner is effectively guilty until proved innocent and has the burden of proving otherwise. Anyone falsely accused will never see his property again unless he succeeds in an expensive uphill legal battle.

Such seizures are common in drug cases, which sometimes can ensnare people who have done nothing wrong. James Lieto found out about civil forfeiture the hard way when the FBI seized $392,000 from his business because the money was being carried by an armored-car firm he

The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s “Global Economic Coup”: Secret Negotiations Behind Closed Doors

If you don't know what the TPP is you need to look it up.
It's very bad ju-ju.

This week, secret ‘negotiations’ are underway in a remote resort in Lansdowne,Virginia for the greatest global corporate coup in history. It’s called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and if you haven’t heard about it, then you are in the majority because there is a virtual media blackout in the United States.

Even in Leesburg, VA, where many of the people are conservative, every person we met supported our protest when we explained why we were there. We were protesting the TPP because what we know so far is that it will:
•Allow corporations to sue nations if laws such as those protecting the environment or labor conditions interfere with corporate profits.
•Create aprivate corporate tribunal to hear these cases in which the judges are largely corporate lawyers.
•Extend the patent period for pharmaceuticals which will keep prices high and medications out of the hands of those who need them.
•End “Buy America” provisions which will lead to greater job outsourcing.
•Furtherde-regulate Big Finance.
•Undermine internet freedom of speech, right to privacy and due process, and hinder peoples’ abilities to innovate.

TPP is the biggest corporate power grab in history. Under the TPP transnational corporations will have more power than individual nations. President Obama promised to renegotiate NAFTA in a way that was favorable to the American people. However, it appears that the opposite is happening with the TPP. We are asking President Obamato live up to his campaign promise of greater transparency and release the text of the TPP. We are also asking that there be a democratic review process in Congress before a vote on the TPP.

Texas, North Dakota universities evacuate buildings after bomb threats

And here's al qaeda......just like the FBI said

The University of Texas at Austin and North Dakota State University ordered evacuations on Friday because of bomb threats, the schools said.

The University of Texas ordered the emergency evacuation after getting a phone call at about 8:35 a.m (1335 GMT) from a man with a Middle Eastern accent who claimed to have placed bombs across campus, spokesman Gary Susswein said.

"He said he was associated with al Qaeda and said the bombs would go off in about 90 minutes," he said.

Microsoft finds malware on new computers in China

Well what the hell does Microsoft want? Egg in their beer?
You can have cheap labor or you can have a safe product (American made)
But you can't have both
Pick one and quit your bitching, you got exactly what you paid for. Perhaps if you had paid out a little more for labor, people wouldn't have to generate their own side money.
Think about it lol

A customer in Shenzhen, China, took a new laptop out of its box and booted it up for the first time. But as the screen lit up, the computer began taking on a life of its own. The machine, triggered by a virus hidden in its hard drive, began searching across the Internet for another computer.

The laptop, supposedly in pristine, super-fast, direct-from-the-factory condition, had instantly become part of an illegal, global network capable of attacking websites, looting bank accounts and stealing personal data.

For years, online investigators have warned consumers about the dangers of opening or downloading emailed files from unknown or suspicious sources. Now, they say malicious software and computer code could be lurking on computers before the bubble wrap even comes off.

The shopper in this case was part of a team of Microsoft researchers in China investigating the sale of counterfeit software. They received a sudden introduction to malware called Nitol. The incident was revealed in court documents unsealed Thursday in a federal court in Virginia. The records describe a new front in a legal campaign against

Israel unhappy after EU blacklists 1980s town

We don't live in the Old Testament times anymore, you don't just get to take the spoils of war.
It's time for Israel to grow up.

Israel has complained about the EU's inclusion of parts of the town of Modi'in-Maccabim-Reut on a blacklist of "settlements."

The European Commission on 3 August added three postal codes in the town to a register of over 500 codes relating to "Israeli settlements located within the territories brought under Israeli administration since June 1967."

The designation refers to Palestinian land annexed after the so-called Six-Day War in a move considered by EU countries to violate binding UN resolutions.

Products originating from annexed land cannot benefit from preferential tariffs agreed under a 12-year-old EU-Israel trade deal.

The commission for the first time also published the list online, saying "the way [the rules] are imple­mented in the EU should be streamlined in the light of experience."

The list was previously available to EU customs authorities who are supposed to use it to

EU working on consumer labels for Israeli settlement products

I think the world is very tired of the "rigged" game that Israel plays and is not accepting it any longer.

Denmark is fronting an EU initiative to help consumers boycott Israeli settlement products.

Its foreign ministry is funding an event in Brussels on 23 October to get EU diplomats and NGOs, such as Oxfam and Crisis Action, talking about EU-level guidelines for consumer labels on settlement goods.

The move comes after EU foreign ministers in May said they will "fully and effectively implement existing EU legislation" on the subject.

The EU says settlements are illegal. But its regular complaints about settlement expansion fall on deaf ears.

"The [October] workshop is designed to put the issue back on the agenda and to put action behind the words of the May conclusions ... We want to make it easier for consumers to vote with their wallet," a Danish diplomat told EUobserver.

France, Finland,

US incomes fall to 1989 levels. How did that happen?

Here's a good laugh for the day
A recession lol what a joke.
Try the big "D" word, it's a tad more fitting at this point.
Oh well , what can you expect from a propaganda piece?

a $560 billion package of mandatory spending cuts and tax hikes that take effect at year's end, including the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, that could cause a recession unless Congress takes countermeasures to prevent a big drop in consumption.

A Census report signals that for much of America, the economic downturn has produced not one lost decade but two. But the data also show that federal safety-net programs helped keep people out of poverty

Economists haven't reached a consensus about what forces have caused the middle-class stagnation, but they have pointed to some that may be involved to varying degrees:
•Globalization

33,000 told to flee as volcano erupts near Guatemala tourist zone

A Guatemalan volcano erupting Thursday for the sixth time this year triggered evacuations of several towns, with more than 33,000 expected to flee.

The Fuego volcano started spewing lava some 2,000 feet down two slopes, while ash flew two miles upwards. Ash was covering homes and buildings several miles away, the government's disaster agency said.

While Fuego had erupted five times earlier this year, one scientist in Guatemala said today's eruption was the biggest since 1999.

Seventeen towns with 33,000 people are in the precautionary evacuation zone, the country's emergency response director said. By midday, more than

Anti-Islam film protests Live Blog

The Pope is in Lebanon. He's a little pissed about the anti-christian thing going on in the Middle East.
He called for a demand meeting. Now this was before all hell broke loose. It was right after the church desecration in Israel. The Cardinals were all pretty upset over the the teaching of anti-Christianity in Israel. Apparently the kids are taught to disrespect the priests and they take it a little to far.
Contrary to popular belief, In Israel, Jews do not like Christians.
Mean while back at the pass, the demonstrations swell.
Some are peaceful and some are not, they do what they were intended to do.
Squelch the Pope.
Believe it or not....

Anti-Islam film protests 40 minutes ago


Security forces have killed one person and injured two others during protests in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, according to the Reuters news agency. Earlier protesters in Tripoli set fire to US businesses like KFC and Hardees restaurants over the anti-Islam video. The incidents come as Pope Benedict began a three-day visit to Lebanon.


Anti-Islam film protests about an hour ago


Al Jazeera correspondents are reporting that Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protestors outside US embassy in Khartoum. Meanwhile, the UK and German embassies in the Sudanese capital have reportedly been stormed, and video shows a part of the latter embassy in flames as protesters demonstrate nearby.

Enter Bibi

Food for thought.

It may be, as Jeff Goldberg asserts, that Bibi Netanyahu is just frustrated over President Obama’s refusal to approve an Israeli attack on Iran. Or it may be something else: an unprecedented attempt by a putative American ally to influence a U.S. presidential campaign. Either way, Netanyahu’s recent behavior is outrageous. He is trying push us into a war that is not in our national interest, a war that would only further destabilize a region that is already teetering near chaos. He is trying to get us to damage our relations with the rest of the world–especially the Russians and Chinese, whom we spent great diplomatic effort luring into the Iranian economic sanctions–so that he can pursue a strategy that even the Israeli military and intelligence communities find questionable. President Obama will not yield to this pressure, nor should he–and every American should know the implications of what Netanyahu and his American neoconservative allies, including Mitt Romney, are proposing.

Iran is not Afghanistan or Libya. It is not a bunch of tents in the desert. It is also not Iraq or Pakistan, clumsy collections of tribes and ethnicities cobbled together by Europeans a century ago. It is an actual place, a real country with real borders. It has the best-educated population in the region

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Authorities: man denied food stamps gets rifle out

Can you say propaganda?
I might have believed it if not for the overkill of authority that ALL just happened to be there and see him walk to his car.

"See people, why we need them there haller points?"

Authorities say a Louisiana man who got a loaded AR-15 assault rifle from his car after being turned down for disaster food stamps has been jailed.

Louisiana State Police say a claims processor in LaPlace told officers a man became irate after being denied aid Tuesday evening following Hurricane Isaac's recent passage.

They say officers providing security at the location saw the man go to his car and troopers, sheriff's deputies and national guard troops surrounded and disarmed him.

Trooper Melissa Matey says investigators also found a

The Amount Of "Military Aid" The US Government Provides To Law Enforcement Is Astounding

Whose pockets are the taxpayers lining?
This is just ridiculous
Someone seriously needs to ask why the local cops need military equipment.
See comment section for the possible reasons why.
Don't think it can't happen here, the camps have already been built.
Dick Cheney had that done, and it wasn't done for just nothing, you can bet on it.

Troops officially came home from Iraq on Dec. 31, 2011, but they were coming back in a steady stream since 2010, and they were bringing their equipment with them.

The website Public Intelligence diagrams the stark increase in military dollars transferred to our federal, state and local law enforcement agencies from 2010.

The amount in Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 came to about $223 million, then in 2011, with withdrawal from Iraq in the air, that amount more than doubled to $498 million.

The slated amount for 2012 is about $558 million, but Public

Maryland Police Are Deploying Cameras To Watch Other Cameras

And, why won't people destroy the cameras that watch the speed cameras?

Police in Palmer Park, Md., plan to deploy cameras to surveil the other other cameras in their district.

Ari Ash of WTOP talked to police in the area, who said that local people had started targeting the speed cameras police put up in intersections, as well as surveillance cameras. The police said that since April, six people have been involved camera damaging activities.

One man literally pulled out a pistol and used the camera for target practice. Police found another speed camera

Texas Posse Hunting for Halliburton’s Missing Radioactive Device

Texas may call out the National Guard in the hunt for a seven-inch radioactive rod used in drilling natural-gas wells, lost this week by Halliburton Co. (HAL) somewhere in a 130-mile swath of the state’s western oil fields.

The Texas Department of State Health Services said yesterday it sought help from an Austin-based National Guard unit that has equipment to locate the radioactive item, which can pose a health risk if touched or held for several days.

Halliburton lost the unit on Sept. 11, according to a report yesterday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Pickup trucks with detection gear retraced the route of a vehicle that carried the radioactive rod before it was lost. The trucks drove at 10 miles an hour between Pecos, where the device was used on a well, and Odessa without finding the unit, the report said.

“It’s not something that produces radiation in an extremely dangerous form,” Chris Van Deusen, a spokesman for the

Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination

The killings of the US ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were likely to have been the result of a serious and continuing security breach, The Independent can reveal.


American officials believe the attack was planned, but Chris Stevens had been back in the country only a short while and the details of his visit to Benghazi, where he and his staff died, were meant to be confidential.

The US administration is now facing a crisis in Libya. Sensitive documents have gone missing from the consulate in Benghazi and the supposedly secret location of the "safe house" in the city, where the staff had retreated, came under sustained mortar attack. Other such refuges across the country are no longer deemed "safe".

Some of the missing papers from the consulate are said to list names of Libyans who are working with Americans, putting them potentially at risk from extremist groups, while some of the other documents are said to relate to oil contracts.

According to senior diplomatic sources

Congress passes stop-gap six-month funding measure

Oh look what was hiding in today's news

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a stopgap measure to fund the government for six months and eliminate any threat of a government shutdown fight that could damage lawmakers' re-election hopes.

The six-month budget measure passed on Thursday marks a tactical retreat by House Republicans from their demands for deeper spending cuts this year. The so-called continuing resolution funds the government's agencies and discretionary programs -- from defense to education -- at an annual rate of $1.047 trillion, a level set as part of last year's budget deal.

Vladimir Putin admits stage managing animal stunts

My laugh for the day, actually turned into a pretty cool lesson, in diplomacy.

Raise your hand if you didn't know Mr. P sets up his "cause ops".
Those empty "Al Capone" vault moments can be just a little embarrassing,
as well as, does nothing for the "cause" that's being promoted
Mr. P has a thing for wildlife, so he promotes it's conservation.
It's pretty admirable, as well as unique. I sure can't think of any other world leader that does as much.

Mr P. not only addressed an issue (that apparently people didn't actually know about) of contention, but he also did it with alot of finesse, and in doing so he allowed, Ms. Gessen to keep her pride, as well as her dignity.
I probably would have just said,..... "Duh"....

Vladimir Putin has admitted to staging some of his most famous stunts, including meeting endangered big cats and the "discovery" of ancient Greek amphorae in the Black sea, a Russian journalist has claimed.

France shooting: alleged violent past of son of Alps murder victim

Another plot twist

The son of one of the victims of the British family massacre in France had allegedly attacked his parents and threatened to kill them in the past, it has emerged.

Central Planner Exits Stage Left

And cash from clunkers begins...

Ok, so I'm having me one of those blond days today

Does the cash for clunkers, stand for the excess crap the banks can't off load
or is the clunker part pertaining to the fraudulent MBS that never got registered?
There had to have been a crap load of those. Karl said that the banks only had 30 days after they were bought. I know there was a heck of alot of lawsuits citing fraud.
Doesn't the FED buying 40 billion a month of MBS kind of get the Investment banks out of a pretty tight spot?
Isn't the American taxpayer really picking up tab for the Mortgage Investment Banks gambling debts again?
It seems to me they are.....

Embassy Killings in Libya, the Stench of CIA/Mossad “False Flag”

Oh Crap



Real Intelligence Reports at Total Odds with Reported News—————

by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

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Investigations by me, published yesterday on Press TV’s website, cited “Reverand” and “Doctor” Terry Jones as the source of the videos cited for instigating violence across the Middle East.



Our investigation into Jones past showed him to be a trained CIA asset with direct ties to the Mossad. He served in Germany for years as an organizer for the CIA under the highly secret “Gladio” program until expelled by the German government. You can be a CIA agent, even a terrorist bomber but in Germany, if you buy a mail order PhD, it is a crime. “Dr.” Terry Jones would have been better off had he called himself “Agent” Terry Jones.

VT offers its heartfelt condolences to the family of Ambassador Stevens and the families of the other Americans lost in Libya.

Here is an MSNBC clip covering their “day late” discovery of Jones at the heart of what is a conspiracy, not only to cause unrest but as a cover for assassinations of US diplomats by highly trained special operations teams.

GAO report faults Homeland Security on plan for biological-attack sensors

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has rushed to acquire a new, multibillion-dollar version of the BioWatch system for detecting biological attacks without establishing whether it was needed or would work, according to a new report by a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress.

The report by the Government Accountability Office says Homeland Security should re-evaluate the need for the overhaul while determining whether it makes financial sense. The department has spent more than $150 million developing the new generation of Government Accountability Office .

The report comes as Homeland Security officials try to maintain support in Congress for both BioWatch and the long-pursued makeover, called Generation 3. The report's findings - which fix blame on both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations - are scheduled to be discussed Thursday during a hearing by two House subcommittees.

The Los Angeles Times obtained a draft of the report, which has yet to be publicly released.

Homeland Security has failed to follow "good acquisition practices," the report

Two killed as U.S. troops ambushed en route to rescue besieged diplomats in Benghazi

BENGHAZI, Libya — A squad of U.S. troops despatched by helicopter across the Libyan desert to rescue besieged diplomats from Benghazi on Wednesday ran into a fierce ambush that left a further two Americans dead, Libyan officials told Reuters. Captain Fathi al-Obeidi, commander of a special Libyan operations unit, said his men and an eight-man U.S. force came under attack after American survivors had left the blazing consulate and moved to an ostensibly secret location in an isolated villa. The villa came under an intense and highly accurate mortar barrage.

“I really believe that this attack was planned,” he said. “The accuracy with which the mortars hit us was too good for any regular revolutionaries.”
Of the eight American troops who had come from Tripoli, one was killed and two were wounded, Capt. Obeidi said. A Libyan deputy interior minister said a second American was also killed in the attack on the safe house.

“It began to rain down on us,” Capt. Obeidi said, describing the moment the attack

Ebola outbreak in DRC risks spreading to towns - WHO

An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo risks spreading to major towns if not brought under control soon after the death toll doubled within a week, the World Health Organisation warned on Thursday.

The number of people killed by the contagious virus for which there is no known treatment has now risen to 31, including five health workers. Ebola causes massive bleeding and kills up to 90 percent of its victims.

"The epidemic is not under control. On the contrary the situation is very,

Yemen protesters attempt to storm US embassy, repelled by police (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

So this won't stop until the film's maker is executed, and then what, all of the actors to?
With no one around to claim credit, which is rather bizarre, how can one help but not see this as a false flag used to create even more friction.
American people have tired of the revenge lust upon the Middle East for 9/11. Something.... had to rekindle the flame....

Yemeni police reportedly shot a protester, as hundreds of demonstrators stormed the US embassy in the capital city of Sanaa. Police forced the crowd to leave the embassy premises.

Conflicting casualty figures have emerged: Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that at least one person was killed in the clashes, citing witnesses, while the Yemeni embassy in Washington denied reports of fatalities.

Embassy staffers were taken to a secure location, the Yemen Times reported.

Plumes of smoke rose outside the embassy as protesters chanted "Death to America", witnesses reported.

Two cars exploded after two bombs were thrown into the embassy compound, and heavy gunfire was also heard in the area, local media reported.

The gathered crowd said they are refusing to leave until the filmmaker behind the controversial anti-Muslim movie ‘Innocence of Muslims’ is executed.

Muslims have taken to the streets across the Middle East in protest against the US amateur film satirizing the Prophet Muhammad. US embassies around the world have responded to the unrest by tightening security measures.

'This Does Not Represent Us': Moving Photos of Pro-American Rallies in Libya

Not all people think alike, and because MSM never shows the full picture, it makes it that much more important for it to be seen.
America, should "WE" all be judged by the acts of Terry Jones?
I should hope not, for he is one of the vilest human beings to ever have graced the planet.
Think about it

Just like not all Americans are like the people who made the weird anti-Islam movie that is sparking protests in Muslim nations, not all people in Libya are like the ones who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens. Some of the people of Benghazi, where Stevens was killed, held a demonstration against terrorism and to show sympathy for the U.S. Libya Alhurra TV, an Internet TV channel founded at the start of the Arab Spring in 2011, posted Facebook photos of a rally there showing support for America and sympathy for Stevens. Here are some of those pictures:

Update: With the help from The Atlantic's multilingual Heather Horn and some Facebook commenters, we have a few translations of the Arabic signs.

House Approves Sweeping, Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers

The House on Wednesday reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the George W. Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.

The FISA Amendments Act, (.pdf) which is expiring at year’s end, allows the government to electronically eavesdrop on Americans’ phone calls and e-mails without a probable-cause warrant so long as one of the parties to the communication is believed outside the United States. The communications may be intercepted “to acquire foreign intelligence information.”

The government has also interpreted the law to mean that as long as the real target is al-Qaida, the government can wiretap purely domestic e-mails and phone calls without getting a warrant from a judge. That’s according to David Kris, a former top anti-terrorism attorney at the Justice Department.

The measure is sponsored by

Security lapses at nuclear complex identified two years before break-in

Well that just makes you feel all warm and safe inside doesn't it.
I wonder what they really spent the billion dollars on
It's not something I want to think about, but I gotta ask:
Do you think they fixed the problem yet?

Nearly two years before peace activists broke into a U.S. nuclear weapons facility in late July, government investigators warned in classified reports of lax security at the complex where the nation’s largest concentration of weapons-grade uranium is stored.

The previously undisclosed 2010 criticism of the Y-12 National Security Complex near Oak Ridge, Tenn., found that security cameras were inoperable, equipment maintenance was sloppy and guards were poorly trained.


On July 28, an 82-year-old nun, an elderly gardener and a house painter slipped past security costing millions of dollars a year — sensors, cameras, barbed wire, heavy weaponry, roving patrols and dozens of guards — to reach the walls of a new uranium storage facility at Y-12. They splattered blood on the building and held up protest signs before being arrested.

Although the three intruders never got close

Afghanistan overdoses on military bases

And who do you think paid for them all?
But the more obvious question is, why are there so many?

The size of Afghanistan, at 652,230 square kilometers, makes it slightly larger than the fledging nation of South Sudan, just smaller than the US state of Texas. The latter holds 203 military bases within its borders. That's high for a US state, but nothing compared with Afghanistan.

New figures provided by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) joint command suggest that Afghanistan is one of the most heavily garrisoned nations on the planet. Given its size and population, it is likely the most thoroughly militarized country in the world.

Recently, TomDispatch.com revealed there are approximately 550 ISAF combat outposts (COPs), forward operating bases (FOBs) and patrol bases in Afghanistan. Added to this are 200 more ISAF

checkpoints. And when you count various logistical, administrative, and support facilities - such as ammunition storage facilities, barracks, equipment depots and training centers - the grand total of all foreign military installations, according to a military spokesman,tops out at around 1,500.

That, however, is only about one third of the story.

According to ISAF, military posts manned by the Afghan National Security Forces dwarf the number of ISAF outposts in the country. Counting COPs, FOBs, patrol bases, checkpoints and other types of logistics and support facilities, the total number of Afghan bases currently sits at about 2,700. Essentially, a country the size of Texas is home to 4,200 military installations, foreign and domestic.

All of this means that Afghanistan, the 41st largest nation in terms of

Seven-year-old survivor 'remembers' Alps shooting

Seven-year-old Zainab, the eldest daughter of the British-Iraqi couple shot dead in the French Alps last week, started speaking to investigators after coming out of an induced coma, a British daily has reported.

On Monday the Times quoted an unnamed source as saying Zainab had “expressed fear, said she was terrified and seemed to remember what she had been through”. The same source added that police had “been able to speak to [Zainab] but this was just an initial meeting. They could not go into any detail and the child was very tired.”

The Times exclusive also highlighted a series of “secret meetings” that the slain father took part in days before the grisly murders, quoting people who had observed the family at the Village Camping Europa, one of the two campsites the family stayed in during their French holiday.

Zainab had been in hospital in Grenoble after being bludgeoned over the head and shot in the shoulder during the attack.
French state prosecutor Eric Maillaud had previously said

A provocative documentary on Israelis, Arabs, and sex

What a brilliant idea!
It's definitely thought provoking.

Several filmmakers have tackled the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But few have approached the thorny subject quite like French Jewish filmmaker Yolande Zauberman and her Lebanese writing partner Sélim Nassib: through the prism of sex.

In their new documentary “Would You Have Sex With an Arab?”, Zauberman and Nassib take to the streets of Tel Aviv at night, prowling bars and clubs, cafés and underground soirées, in search of Israeli Jews and Arabs willing to answer a startling question: Would you have sex with a member of the other community?

The responses, ranging from militant refusal to candid confessions of illicit one-night stands and longterm love affairs ending in heartbreak, are funny, surprising, confusing, and sometimes quite moving.

U.S. vulnerable to missiles, panel says

Wait, who is selling this opinion?
"For too long, the U.S. has been committed to expensive missile defense strategies without sufficient consideration of the costs and real utility," said L. David Montague, the panel's co-chairman and a retired president of Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space.

Oh look, this recommendation is brought to you by ......
Yes that's right you guessed it.
Brought to you by those that would PROFIT from it

After two years of study, a panel of top scientists and military experts working for the National Research Council has concluded that the nation's protections against missile attack suffer from major shortcomings, leaving the United States vulnerable to certain kinds of long-range strikes.

In a report, the panel suggested that President Obama shift course and expand a system inherited from President George W. Bush, setting aside parts of an antimissile strategy he initiated in 2009. By doing so, the panel said, the nation's defenses would be better prepared to defeat the long-range missiles that the report suggests Iran may be developing.

It is the first time that the research council - an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, chartered by Congress to give scientific and technical advice to the government and considered the nation's pre-eminent group of scientists - has weighed in on the nation's overall plans for defeating missile attacks.

Egypt to take legal action in U.S. against Prophet film makers

President Mursi, I respectfully ask that you give Israel the same course of action, since Sam Bacile considers Israel his native country and purposely set out with political motive to incite violence in the Middle East.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi asked the Egyptian embassy in Washington to take legal action in the United States against makers of a film attacking the Muslim Prophet Mohammad, the official state news agency said on Wednesday.

Mursi had requested the mission take "all legal measures",

Report: Maker of anti-Islamic film 'Innocence of Muslims' goes into hiding

And in the mean time, while this little shit stirrer hides his two faced head under the bed, American troops are now being sent to Libya to quell the violence.
In other words are troops are once again sacrificed for the sake of Israel's political position.
And by the way if you live in California right now, it's against the law for you to publicly disagree. Your public rights to disapprove have been stripped from you, but you may still grumble in the privacy of your own home as long as no one hears you and turns you in for it.
Think about it

Bacile, a California real estate developer, told the AP he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islam's flaws to the world.

By NBC News staff and wire reports

A California-based property developer who claims to be responsible for “Innocence of Muslims,” a provocative film about the Prophet Muhammad, which sparked Tuesday’s deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Libya and further protests in Egypt, has gone into hiding, The Associated Press reported.

Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, Israeli-American writer and director Sam Bacile, 56, remained defiant, saying that he intended his film to be a political statement condemning the religion, the AP said.

"Islam is a cancer, period," the AP quoted him as repeatedly saying.

Israel distances itself from Prophet Muhammad film

How convenient as well as par for the course.
It would seem Sam's Israeli roots are showing, while his American roots are blamed for it.
Libya, you just got used. How does it feel, to have been so stupid?
Muhammad, would surly be ashamed of you!

The Israeli government is distancing itself from a filmmaker whose movie ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad sparked a deadly riot at an American consulate in Libya, but says it will be "vigilant" at its diplomatic offices overseas.

The movie, "Innocence of Muslims," was produced by Sam Bacile, a 56-year-old California real estate developer who has said he's both Israeli and American. The film depicts Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and madman.

Protesters offended

Private purchasing of prisons locks in occupancy rates

How does one guarantee an occupancy rate of 90% for 20 years?
By FRAUD and CORRUPTION.
This proposal has been promoted to 48 states. If it's accepted, how long do you think it will be, before you, or someone you know, gets caught up in a system that you won't be able to get out of.
Then you to can be added to the rolls of "forced labor slaves" to ensure the lowest paid wage, by the corporate ladder of control.
Or in other words, welcome to Atlanta's "Chain Gang", or Russia's "Gulags" or Germany's forced "labor camps" of WWII.
I leave you,with the choice of name you're comfortable with, but there is one choice with which you will certainly have no control over, that being one of decent humane treatment. "For Profit" takes that one right out of the picture.
Good luck America, you'll need it.

At a time when states are struggling to reduce bloated prison populations and tight budgets, a private prison management company is offering to buy prisons in exchange for various considerations, including a controversial guarantee that the governments maintain a 90% occupancy rate for at least 20 years.

By M. Spencer Green, AP

The $250 million proposal, circulated by the Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America to prison officials in 48 states, has been blasted by some state officials who suggest such a program could pressure criminal justice officials to seek harsher sentences to maintain the contractually required occupancy rates.

"You don't want a prison system operating with the goal of maximizing profits," says Texas state Sen. John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat and advocate for reducing prison populations through less costly diversion programs. "The only thing worse is that this seeks to take advantage of some states' troubled financial position."

Corrections Corporation spokesman Steve Owen defended the company's "investment initiative," describing it as "an additional option" for cash-strapped states to consider.

The proposal seeks to build upon a deal reached last fall

Putin: Romney Helped Russia By Calling It Top Foe

Just in case you thought I was kidding about Romney's agenda. The American people are tired of the Middle East agenda, but the promotion of a Russian agenda is a horse of a different color. There is no traffic jam, for the fear propaganda to get caught up in, but the cost of the toll to ride this road, will be more than "WE" have ever paid before, with exit ramps that will be very far apart, with none in between.
Think about it

President Vladimir Putin says a comment made by U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney has made Russia feel justified in opposing America's missile defense plans in Europe.

The Republican challenger to President Barack Obama has branded Russia the "No. 1 geopolitical foe" of the United States.

Putin said Tuesday that statement shows

$9 a gallon for gas in NJ and NY

And so that you know and feel for the plight of their pain, 50 gas station owners have decided to charge you an extra 4 or 5 dollars a gallon. Not the competitive .20 cents extra, that they are charged, because that would actually seem to reasonable. Their purpose is to ignite the flame of anger, so that retaliation that the White House (think Mitt Romney here)will seem reasonable and just, because Russia will deserve it....right?
Because this IS the way "We" roll here in America now. Staged left, staged right, it doesn't matter, because the "plot" never changes, violence and dominance are the order of the day. The Military Industrial Complex will be fed at all cost and the propaganda is now in play to ensure that it is.

If you had sticker shock at $4 a gallon for gas, get ready for $9 gas.

Several LukOil franchise owners raised their prices to more than $8 a gallon on Wednesday to protest what they say is the company's unjustified pricing policies.

They complain that they have to pay up to $.20 a gallon more than other station owners and can't be competitive.

A station in South Plainfield, N.J. had signs listing regular gas for $8.99 a gallon and premium listed at $9.49 a gallon for cash and $9.59 for credit.

A Shell station across the street had regular gas priced at $3.99 a gallon.

More than 50 franchise owners in N.Y., N.J. and Penn. are part of the