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Still, the American presence in Iraq will have a deterrent value in our dealings with Iran.
What should calm the waters in the Mideast, as in Asia, is confidence in the U.S. deterrent power.
I know it is not a deterrent since the nightly news tells us it does not deter.
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Please make sure that your device is connected to your computer.
also make sure that right drivers are installed (SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe)
Try to connect device to different USB port and also you can try to reboot PC.
Also you can try to exclude USB hubs.
[Info]: USBWorkDMLI_SAM.cpp (173)
So today I tried installing on my FocusV1.3 but I kept encountering the following error every time. I had the latest samsung drivers installed (SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones_1_5_6_0.exe) but still I kept getting this message.
What is the workaround for this?
Make sure you're clicking on the right executable to flash the ROM - I just installed the WP7.8 ROM on my Focus yesterday, and I tried for hours to flash it (I was getting the SAME error message as you)! I couldn't figure out what was wrong until I realized I kept double-clicking the .EXE to install MAGLDR on my phone, and I ALREADY installed it! As soon as I double-clicked the .EXE for the ROM, it installed without a hitch!
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Dressed in a navy blue Giorgio Armani single-breasted suit, Beckham unveiled a campaign image which covered the entire front facade of Selfridges,
'David has a great sense of style and is an inspiring role model – this is what makes him the perfect partner for Emporio Armani underwear. I am very excited that David Beckham's new campaign image was unveiled exclusively in his home country and where better than at such an iconic retail destination as Selfridges,' designer Giorgio Armani said.
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O2, the UK's exclusive carrier of the iPhone, has also sealed the deal to distribute the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre, according to local press reports from Spain. Telefònica, O2's parent company, will also be the exclusive distributor of the Palm Pre in Spain and Latin America, reports Expansion (Spanish, translation).
O2 has slightly more users than Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) in the UK and is the largest carrier in Spain, and carries the iPhone in Spain as well as the UK. There are a lot of factors that go into choosing a carrier partner; one of them is how heavily the carrier will market the gadget. With the iPhone you have to think that Movistar's attention will be divided, but Vodafone has the BlackBerry Storm, and I guess it could be hard to find a decent sized carrier without a flagship phone, and who met all the other criteria. The paper seems to belong to a respectable group of companies but gives no source for the rumor.


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Hi there! My name is Miguel. I am originally from Venezuela (South America) but moved to Houston a bit more than 3 yrs ago, and feel at home, although I like to travel and always open to new places. Family and friends mean a lot to me. As a matter of fact, although I worked downtown, I moved to Sugar Land just to be closer to my sister and lovely nieces, I do not regret making that decision, but definitely Sugar Land may not be the best place for a single person. Love my house and my neighborhood but being surrounded only by married couples and kids is not exactly the right place for a single person like me (maybe another good reason to be on Match.com) I have a Labrador named Vika (I'll tell you the story behind the name later on) that has become the center of my life.. This is the first time I ever have a pet on my own and after struggling at the beginning now I feel the happiest person on earth with her. She is about to be 1 yr. Definitely she added a new dimension to my life and perspective I like and practice sports in general and run marathons. I'm a huge fan of tennis and play on a regular basis. At my age I know I won't be the next Nadal but it's something I truly enjoy. Tennis is one of my biggest passion. Something I have never quit since I started as an adult. Not a heavy drinker, but I enjoy a good wine or rum (I will show you that Venezuelan's rum are one of the best in the world.) I work in oil and gas. After long hours of work when I was in my twenties / early thirties, now I'm happily applying this to my life: "Work to Live, Don't Live to Work" I'm just a normal guy enjoying the good life I have worked really hard to achieve and will continue to do so. I hope to find someone that I have chemistry with and is on the same page. If any of this interests you or want to learn more, drop me a message.
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A couple weeks ago, I made a mad dash through Friday afternoon rush hour to get to Disneyland. It was August 15 and the last day that the All-American College Band was performing. I really, really enjoy the entertainment offerings in the parks and while watching the All-American College Band perform their last set, a thought struck my head (ouch!).
Why not spend one day watching all the bands and musical groups at Disneyland perform? And stay to watch them for a full set each...not a short courtesy stop, aka "listen-to-two-songs-and-move-on" kind of thing. Could it be done? After all, it's just a variation of the "ride as many rides in one day" that many guests try to do. It seemed to be a matter of proper planning and scheduling and it could be done. Of course, I'm no good at either planning or scheduling, so the difficulty level just went up from "Pro" to "All-Madden".
The first places to start were the DL Calendar online and Entertainment Times Guide. However, there are several musical groups NOT listed in either source, and this would prove to be the biggest challenge of the day. When should I go to New Orleans Square to see Queenie and the Jambalaya Jazz Band? When should I go to Coke Corner to see the ragtime pianist? You get the drift. Undeterred, I made a list of groups the day before my trip and planned a rough timeline for the day. I figured I would stop at City Hall and find performance times for all the other groups not listed the Times Guide.
Saturday, August 23 - Part I
I woke up a little later than planned (no surprise there) and was running late. I still managed to get to the entry turnstiles right at 10am, just as the Disneyland Band was assembling in front of the Mickey Floral and Main St. Train Station. Woot! This was the first group on my list.
10:00am - 10:25am > Disneyland Band
I had seen other trip reports that showed the Mad Hatter and Alice joining the Disneyland Band, but this was the first time I'd managed to see them personally. They were hilarious!!! First up, Mad Hatter was recruiting volunteers for the Synchronized Stroller and Wheelchair Team. Alice had procured an empty stroller and found a lucky guest to partner with.
Ready, set...
...and they're off! The strollers and wheelchairs move forward in a straight line...
...but it doesn't take long until they're out of sync.
Mr. Hatter takes charge and forms a single file line.
The Synchronized Team performs much better and feeling very satisfied, Mad Hatter dismisses the team. Our attention is brought back to the Disneyland Band.
After a song, Mad Hatter and Alice take charge again. These two are a bit bossy, huh? LOL! They pull some kids from the audience to form the 2008 Disneyland Dance Ensemble.
Mr. Hatter gets the dancers in line...
...and shows off his "Mad" dance skillz.
After that rousing dance number (music accompaniment provided by the Disneyland Band, of course), the Hatter joins the percussion section of the band with a multi-purpose silver creamer. I never knew those things could be so handy with a band!
Can you spot the Mad Hatter?
Of course, Mr. Hatter was not content to just be with the percussion section. Oh no, he was not. Graciously, the band let him take a stab at conducting. Here is the Mad Hatter conducting the Disneyland Band and what I *think* was the William Tell Overture.
Afterwards, there was one more bit of audience interaction before the set came to a close. We've had synchronized strollers and wheelchairs and a dance ensemble. What's left? How about the 2008 Disneyland Chorus singing Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah?
And on that rousing note, the Disneyland Band, with Mad Hatter and Alice in tow, marched back towards Main Street and concluded the first live music set of the day.
That was a lot of fun! Watching Mad Hatter and Alice getting the audience involved was really entertaining and many guests had big smiles on their faces. What a way to start a Disneyland trip!
However, I didn't have much time to dawdle, as my next group was coming on stage in just a few minutes. According to the Times Guide, the Dapper Dans would be on Main Street USA at 10:30am. In the next installment, we'll listen to the Dapper Dans sing along the entire length of Main Street USA. Yes, the whole street.


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No, not a Parking Lot Party like the popular Lee Brice song. Just a good old-fashioned, regular back to school pool party. Hawaiian themed of course.
No, not a Parking Lot Party like the popular Lee Brice song. Just a good old-fashioned, regular back to school pool party. Hawaiian themed of course.
Want to learn more about diamonds? Well OF COURSE you do, silly.
There she is...Miss America...
This past Saturday night my husband John and I went to the Beatles Tribute band '1964' at the Perot Theatre. Oh, what a blast!! Might I add, my husband's perfect timing allowed me to get some pictures with the band before the show!
We know what it's like to go to a venue, wait in line, buy a ticket and stand among a huge crowd to see one of your favorite bands.
Who loves baked potatoes? If you're not raising your hand like me then you're just crazy.
If you love straight on country music then you're going to love "The Rodney Whatley Band" LIVE at Shooters this Friday, July 19.
You know I like my chicken fried...cold (soda) on a Friday night...
A British band, Hot Springs and Oaklawn's Finish Line Theater. What a combination, am I right? I'm right.
Lumberjacks, cars and food...OH MY! What's not to love?
Y'all know Mena is just a hop, skip and a jump away right? Yes, I am referring to Mena, AR.
The #1 kids' music brand, Kidz Bop, will be performing live in Texarkana.
Kidz Bop is a group of kids singing songs straight off the billboard charts. They just released Kidz Bop 23 and it debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart


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- Video Games (Obviously!)
- Guitar Playing (been playing for a few years)
- Music (Favorite Genres: Rock, Metal, Electronic Music, and Jungle/Drum and Bass)
- Anime (Top Favorites: Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Astroboy, and Excel Saga)
- Your mom
Here's of list of things about me:
- Favorite Video Game...that is a very tough question...give me a minute...
- Favorite Video Game Quote: "Do A Barrel Roll!"- Peppy from Starfox 64
- Consoles owned (In chronological order): Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, Playstation, Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox 360
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Any experiences eating squirrel, raccoon, wild ducks, hunted and prepared your own small game meats?
Ihave experience with deer, bear, elk, caribou and other larger game but Ive never gotten into eating the smaller game.
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Not alot of experience with smaller game but...... In regards to cooking them, if you do not need to be modile, a heavy cast iron dutch oven is an essential tool for cooking this stuff up.
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Mel1962 I am still laughing about the pre-emptive attacks.
Spacedoubt I agree about some critters carrying diseases, but the key is not only like you say sterilizing on an open fire but also cook them and cook them good.
I have no problem skinning animals or gutting I grew with farm animals and killing, gutting and skinning was a weekly event alone with open pit fire cooking.


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In 1995, President Bill Clinton said "[if] a bullet can rip through a bulletproof vest like a knife through hot butter, then ... we should ban it." This kicked off a campaign by the Democrats to have any bullet that can pass through a police officer's vest banned. On the argument's face, this sounds reasonable, but the problem arises from misconceptions about what bulletproof vests and bullets can and can't do. As always, a little knowledge can help us figure out this issue.
First, the term "bulletproof vest" is pure Hollywood and political b.s. No vest is bulletproof. Police and military personnel typically refer to it as "body armor," which is more accurate. Like a knight's armor in the Middle Ages, which could deflect a sword blow yet was vulnerable to arrows or a spear thrust, today's body armor is also resistant to certain types of attacks but vulnerable to others.
The body armor police officers wear is made up of Kevlar or a similar material. Kevlar is a type of thread with a high tensile strength, woven into a sheet of fabric with an extremely tight weave. To make a vest, layers of the fabric are stacked on top of each other and each vest contains at least a couple dozen layers. The Kevlar stops bullets essentially by acting as a really tough net, catching the bullet as it passes through.
Being merely fabric and not magic, Kevlar is vulnerable to projectiles of certain velocities and shapes. Logically, high velocity bullets with a more pointed design will penetrate Kevlar easier than slower bullets with blunted noses. Herein lies the problem: Pretty much any common rifle round intended for hunting or target shooting will punch through soft body armor like Clinton's "knife through hot butter." Handgun bullets, on the other hand, are typically stopped cold by soft body armor.
Democrats call bullets that defeat body armor "cop killer bullets." Sounds terrible and scary, right? But that's the problem. Democrats replaced reason with fear and asserted in fact and reality that every hunting and target rifle, including grandpappy's rusty old gun collecting dust in dad's closet, is a cop-killing machine. Now, arguments against hunting aside, if that sounds absolutely absurd to you, that's because it is.
The NRA opposed Democrats' cries to ban armor-piercing ammo because darn near every rifle cartridge in existence would have fallen under the proposed ban. If Democrats had gotten their way, they would have made essentially all ammo used for legitimate, non-cop killing, purposes illegal. Even the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agreed that the Democrats' definition was far too vague and encompassing.
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SUMMARY: In another controversial game involving bad calls by the regular referees against the Packers, the Packers won a shootout with a fourth quarter comeback score winning 28-27. The winning score came on an 11 yard strike from QB Rodgers to WR Nelson. The turning point occurred in the final minutes of the fourth quarter. A Saints holding penalty wiped out their good 43 yards field goal for a lead. Then, after an encroachment Packers penalty, Saints kicker Garrett Hartley's 48 yards attempt sailed wide left. The Packers took over running the clock out for the big victory going 2-2.
GAME BALLS: WR Jones; RB Benson; QB Rodgers.
INJURY REPORT: Safety M.D. Jennings (shoulder injury). DE Pickett (shoulder injury); WR Jennings (re-injured groin).
HORRIBLE REFEREES: For a second straight game, the Packers had to deal with bad officiating, but it was the regular referees who made three bad big calls: (1) a push-off in the end zone by Saints receiver Marques Colston on a touchdown catch (again offensive pass interference) (2) in the third quarter on a third-and-five situation, Saints QB Brees completed a eight yards pass to TE Jimmy Graham. McCarthy challenged the completion when replay showed the ball hit the ground before Graham gained full control. Yet, the refs ruled it to be a catch allowing the Saints to continue their offensive drive and getting a field goal and (3) A fourth quarter fumble by Saints KR Sproles that they incorrectly ruled down by contact.
Report Card Grades--Good, Bad, & Ugly (JC vs SE vs PI):
PASSING OFFENSE: B+ vs A- vs B+. QB Rodgers completed 31 of 41 for 319 yards, four touchdowns, 1 interception, and 119.9 rating. Wisely, the Packers perfectly executed their short passing game, completing 30 of 34 passes that were less than 15 yards He completed only 1 of 7 passes over 15 yards. WR Gordy Nelson had eight catches for 93 yards and two drops. WR Randall Cobb had 7 catches for 66 yards. Big play WR Jones had 5 catches for 56 yards and 2 touchdowns. TE Finley had 4 catches for 54 yards and one big end zone drop.
RUSHING OFFENSE: A- vs B vs B+. The Packers ran 21 times for 102 yards averaging 4.1 ypc. RB Benson rushed 18 times for 84 yards averaging 4.7 ypc. He finished with 106 total yards gaining 84 yards on the ground and 22 yards receiving on four receptions. He has good vision on his cutbacks plowing through the gaps for good yardage. QB Rodgers scrambled 5 times for 11 yards.
For the running game analysis, BM noted these comments:
Cedric Benson gets better every week. The fact that the Packers didn't have a single "bad" run in his 18 rushes is a remarkable achievement. It's also a credit to Benson's ability to read his blockers and make them look good. Mike McCarthy has called Benson a natural, and each week that becomes more apparent.
Scouts are glad that the Packers have a genuine NFL running back:
The Packers have a real running back now but they have to learn how to use him. It has been so long since the Packers had a real running back, I almost forgot what one looked like.
PASSING DEFENSE: D vs C- vs D+. Again, the veteran Saints QB Brees exploited the Packers leaky soft zone coverage. The Packers allowed a whopping 454 passing and 3 touchdowns. Knowing the Saints game plan, the Packers struggled to stop it getting very little pressure with only two sacks. Brees dropped back to pass 56 times getting hardly touched throughout the game. On one sack, OLB Clay Matthews ran an inside stunt went untouched to tackle Brees. On the Packers' other big sack, defensive end C.J. Wilson beat left guard Ben Grubbs.
Saints WR Colston had 9 catches for 153 yards and 1 touchdown. TE Graham had 7 catches for 76 yards. WR Morgan had a big catch for a 80 yards touchdown. In the 14 point swing after backup QB Harrell's fumbled handoff at the Saints 1 yard line, Morgan beat Packers CB Shields badly for the Saints score. WR Moore had 7 catches for 67 yards. The linebackers had mixed results in the passing game getting improved performances in the final quarter. Among the cornerbacks, CB Williams had the only great game.
RUSHING DEFENSE: A+ vs A vs A. The Packers run defense had a strong performance. They held the Saints to 19 carries for only 45 yards. Saints RB Sproles had 5 carries for only 20 yards. RB Thomas had 9 carries for 14 yards. RB Ingram had 5 carries for only 11 yards.
SPECIAL TEAMS: B vs B vs A-. Packers kicker Crosby kicked off five times averaging 69 yards with 4.13 seconds hang time. Punter Masthay punted twice averaging 41 (gross), 39 (net) and 4.28 hang time. In the second quarter, the Packers executed a gutsy fake punt. FB Kuhn ran for a first down on 4th-and-inches inside their 20-yard line.
COACHING: B vs B- vs ?. Head Coach McCarthy ran a balanced game plan using an effective running game combined with a successful intermediate passing game. The special teams produced another big successful play. However, the pass defense was leaky and too soft in coverage.
OVERALL: B vs ? vs B+. In a pivotal home game, the Packers won against the Saints and the referees. They are 2-2 facing the Colts next Sunday on a 3 game road trip.


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The following might do:
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I suggest to use a different filename extention for your report file or save it to another location to avoid making it part of your *.txt list.
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Appendix C Committee and Staff Biographical Information Soroosh Sorooshian (NAE) is Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Sorooshian's research focuses on surface hydrology, primarily in the area of rainfall-runoff modeling. He has devoted much of his effort to model identification and calibration issues and has developed special estimation criteria to account for the uncertainties of calibration data. Other research interests include the application of remote sensing data for characterization of hydrologic parameters and fluxes and the implication of climate variability and change in water resources. He also consults on problems related to surface hydrology and flood forecasting. Dr. Sorooshian has been a member of seven NRC committees as well as serving as chair for the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment Panel. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University and his M.S. in operations research and Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard A. Anthes has served as president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, CO since 1988. Prior to joining UCAR, Dr. Anthes was the director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research where he also headed up the Atmospheric Analysis and Prediction Division. He is a prolific author of books and refereed articles on various aspects of meteorology and meteorological phenomena. Dr. Anthes has served on 15 NRC committees and chaired four of those committees. He was also a prior chair of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. Dr. Anthes earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. Dara Entekhabi is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests include coupled surface, subsurface, and atmospheric hydrologic systems that may form the basis for enhanced hydrologic predictability. Specifically, Dr. Entekhabi conducts research in land-atmosphere interactions, remote sensing, physical hydrology, operational hydrology, hydrometeorology, groundwater-surface water interaction, and hillslope hydrology. He served on the National Research Council's Committee on National Weather Service Modernization, chaired the Committee on Hydrologic Science, and is a current member of the Water Science and Technology Board. Dr. Entekhabi received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Clark University and his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Efi Foufoula Georgiou is a Professor of Civil Engineering and co-director of the National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center headquartered at St. Anthony Falls Laboratory of the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on understanding and modeling the complex spatio-temporal organization and interactions of hydrologic processes over a range of scales, with emphasis on precipitation and landforms. Dr. Foufoula-Georgiou obtained her diploma in civil engineering from the National Technical 72
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Qantas Airways has grounded another two aircraft and warns of more to come as the ongoing strike by its engineers continues to cause a backlog on the maintenance of its fleet.
The grounding of the two Boeing 767s will see a further 80 domestic flights cancelled over the next month, mainly affecting services between the eastern states and Perth, the airline said in a statement.
The Oneworld carrier last week said it will ground four Boeing 737s and one 767 because of industrial action by the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA).
The action begain in September, with a ban on overtime work around the country and a "go-slow" approach, and the union has informed Qantas that it intends to keep this up until Christmas.
Since the union action began, over 60,000 passengers have been affected as 129 flights were cancelled and 321 flights delayed or brought forward, said Qantas. The grounding of the seven aircraft will force the airline to cancel around 500 flights and remove approximately 88,000 seats from sale over the next month, it added.
"If this overtime ban continues, we will be grounding even more aircraft," added Qantas CEO Alan Joyce.
"The ongoing action from the licensed aircraft maintenance engineers' union means we do not have the manpower to fulfil all of the necessary maintenance on our fleet of aircraft.
"The industrial action has caused a shortfall of more than 60,000 man hours of maintenance and this is increasing on a daily basis, forcing us to ground aircraft."
The strikes have resulted in Qantas's on-time performance slipping from 87% five weeks ago to 75% this week.
The airline said the ALAEA is still "demanding significant pay increases" and "guarantees that old work practices remain" despite new generation aircraft requiring less maintenance, less often. ALAEA's claim comes up to Australian dollar (A$) 165 million ($168.1 million) - plus A$95 million to build a new hangar.
"Unless the union drops its unreasonable demands, we are not going to get any closer to an agreement," added Joyce.
The airline is meeting with the Transport Workers' Union on 18 October, the ALAEA on 20 October and the pilots' union on 28 October.
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Four Twin Cities-area firefighters are searching for a father and son from Minnesota missing since planning to go for a hike in Colorado's mountains in April.
The firefighters began searching for 51-year-old Damian McManus and 18-year-old Evan McManus near Mount Evans Tuesday. They were set to wrap up their search Thursday but St. Louis Park, Minnesota fire chief Steve Koering says they're considering staying for an extra day.
Koering, who has been in contact with the group from Minnesota, says they haven't found any sign of them.
Colorado search and rescue teams have searched extensively for the men without much to go on. Their car was found at a campground near the base of the mountain but it's not known which trail they took. Heavy snow fell after they disappeared, erasing any footprints.
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Despite being heralded as the first time in history that U.S. lawmakers would hear directly from the survivors of a U.S. drone strike, only five elected officials chose to attend the congressional briefing that took place Tuesday.
Pakistani schoolteacher Rafiq ur Rehman and his two children—9 year-old daughter Nabila and 13 year-old son Zubair—came to Washington, DC to give their account of a U.S. drone attack that killed Rafiq's mother, Momina Bibi, and injured the two children in the remote tribal region of North Waziristan last October.
According to journalist Anjali Kamat, who was present and tweeting live during the hearing, the only lawmakers to attend the briefing organized by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), were Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) and Rep. Rick Nolan (D-Minn.).
Before the handful of reporters and scant lawmakers, however, Rafiq and his children gave dramatic testimony which reportedly caused the translator to break down into tears.
In her testimony, Nabila shared that she was picking okra with her grandmother when the U.S. missile struck and both children described how they used to play outside but are now too afraid.
"I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer… Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2013 by Ralph Lopez
The FBI is instructing local police departments and "communities against terrorism" to consider anyone who harbors "conspiracy theories" about 9/11 to be a potential terrorist, in a circular released to local police departments.
The memo thus adds 9/11-official-story skeptics to a growing list of targets described by federal law enforcement to be security threats, such as those who express "libertarian philosophies," "Second Amendment-oriented views," interest in "self-sufficiency," "fears of Big Brother or big government," and "Declarations of Constitutional rights and civil liberties."
A newly released national poll shows that 48 percent of Americans either have some doubts about the official account of 9/11, or do not believe it at all.
The FBI circular entitled "Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Sleepers" says that people who should be 'considered suspicious' of possible involvement in "terrorist activity" include those who hold the "attitude" described as " Conspiracy theories about Westerners." The circular continues: "e.g. (sic) the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands."
"Sleepers" refers to "sleeper cells," in FBI jargon, which are terrorists awaiting orders to be activated into terrorist activity.
In 1998 it was declassified by the Pentagon that the Joint Chiefs of… Continue reading
NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, 12 former CIA, FBI, NSA, and US military officials — including Time Magazine's 2002 person of the year, Colleen Rowley, and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who provided the daily brief for three presidents — say in an open letter to President Obama that the charge that President Assad used chemical weapons on August 21st is based on false intelligence.
If this charge is false, and leads to war in Syria, it would not be the first time US leaders have misled their public into going to war. Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War, admitted in 2003 that America went to war in Vietnam on the false intelligence that North Vietnam had attacked a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The 9/11 Consensus Panel was formed to deal with another notorious fraudulent pretext for war, the attacks of September 11, 2001, that triggered the "war on terror" and the ongoing military actions in the Middle East.
The professional 24-member Panel was formed in 2011 to show the public that behind the horrific images of planes crashing into the Towers lies a wealth of slowly emerging evidence that 9/11 was a false flag operation.
Using a standard medical review model, the Panel has thus far produced 37 Consensus Points refuting the official story, five of which are released today.
For example, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's report on the… Continue reading
"During calendar year 2012, the Government made 1,856 applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for authority to conduct electronic surveillance and/or physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes."
That somewhat opaque statistic was disclosed in the Justice Department's latest annual report to Congress on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, filed on Tuesday. As is usually the case, none of the requests for electronic surveillance were denied by the Court.
No matter how it is sliced and diced, the newly disclosed number of applications does not yield much substance. It means that the government submitted an average of 5 requests per day last year for intelligence surveillance or physical search. It is about 5% higher than the number of applications the year before (1,745), but quite a bit lower than the figure from 2007 (2,371).
The number of applications does not correspond directly to the number of targets, since multiple applications may be submitted in the course of an individual investigation. Nor is the outcome of the surveillance or search activity indicated in a way that would tend to validate or invalidate the authorization after the fact.
In any case, the FISA Court did not deny any of the government's requests for authority to conduct electronic surveillance in whole or in part, the report said, although unspecified modifications were made to 40 proposed orders. The report does not say whether or not any requests for physical search were disapproved or modified.
The government also made 212 applications for access to business… Continue reading
by Wendy McElroy
The Dollar Vigilante
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is tightening its grip on domestic travel. I don't mean the random, unpredictable security checks at bus, subway and train stations which already exist. I mean a coordinated and systematic police control of internal travel within America. Groundwork is being laid.
The application was tucked away on page 71431 of Volume 77, Number 231 of the Federal Register (November 30). It was surrounded by soporific references to forwarding "the new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)."
The application for funding from the TSA constitutes a preliminary step toward systematically expanding TSA's authority from airports to highways and almost every other means of public travel. The expansion would erase one of the last remaining differences between the US and a total police state; namely, the ability to travel internally without being under police surveillance. The total police state you experience at airports wants to spill into roads and bus stops, to subways and trains. Or, rather, the TSA wants to solidify and spread the fledgling and erratic presence it already has.
The official request reads, "TSA's Highway BASE program [Baseline Assessment for Security Enhancement] seeks to establish the current state of security gaps and implemented countermeasures throughout the highway mode of transportation by posing questions to… Continue reading
by Ryan Gallagher
When a former senior White House official describes a nationwide surveillance effort as "breathtaking," you know civil liberties activists are preparing for a fight.
The Wall Street Journal reported today that the little-known National Counterterrorism Center, based in an unmarked building in McLean, Va., has been granted sweeping new authority to store and monitor massive datasets about innocent Americans.
After internal wrangling over privacy and civil liberties issues, the Justice Department reportedly signed off on controversial new guidelines earlier this year. The guidelines allow the NCTC, for the first time, to keep data about innocent U.S. citizens for up to five years, using "predictive pattern-matching," to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. The data the counterterrorism center has access to, according to the Journal, includes "entire government databases—flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and many others."
Notably, the Journal reports that these changes also allow databases about U.S. civilians to be handed over to foreign governments for analysis, presumably so that they too can attempt to determine future criminal actions. The Department of Homeland Security's former chief privacy officer said that it represents a "sea change in the way that the government interacts with the general public."
The snooping effort, which officials say is subject to "rigorous oversight," is reminiscent of the so-called Total Information Awareness initiative, dreamt up in the aftermath of 9/11 by the Pentagon's research unit DARPA. The aim of the TIA initiative was essentially to create… Continue reading
Introductory Comments by Paul Craig Roberts
Posted at PaulCraigRoberts.org
When Chris Floyd is at his best, as he is below, he puts things in perspective for readers that they otherwise never confront. Obama has won reelection, and his supporters think that somehow things are going to be different. Fat chance.
While evil continues to envelop America, the public is focused on CIA director General Petraeus's resignation. The FBI spied on him and found that he was having an affair with his biographer, a woman 20 years younger than his 60 years.
What is it with Americans and sex? Why is an illicit affair the ONLY reason for removing someone from political office? Why is it that government officials, presidents and vice presidents included, can violate US statutory law and torture people, spy on Americans without the necessary warrants, murder US citizens without due process, confine US citizens to dungeons for life without evidence and due process of law, start multi-trillion dollar wars on the basis of contrived allegations that have no basis in fact, murder civilians in seven countries, overthrow legitimate governments, and all of these massive crimes against humanity can be accepted as long as no one in Washington gets any sex out of it? Is this feminism's contribution to American morality?
Has the United States, the hero of the Cold War, become in its behavior and motivations the enemy it overcame? Why does Washington want hegemony over the world? Why does Washington want this hegemony so badly that… Continue reading
by Karen McVeigh, UK Guardian
Five Guantánamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks were back before a military tribunal on Monday for pre-trial hearings after months of delay.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – the alleged mastermind of 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in US history – and his four co-defendants sat quietly at the defence tables, watched by military guards. Defendant Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi responded to the judge's questions about his request for additional legal counsel, according to the Associated Press, before the hearing was adjourned.
The calm start to the proceedings was in sharp contrast to the previous hearing in May, which was marred by protests, outbursts and the defendants' refusal to answer questions from the judge. It lasted 13 hours.
The hearings, in Camp Justice, the war court compound at the US naval base in Cuba, are expected to focus on secrecy and transparency, but will cover a range of issues from whether the prison camps can force the men to attend their own trials to what they can wear in court, the Miami Herald reported.
The hearings are part of the legal proceedings required to move the case to trial, estimated to be at least a year away. They were scheduled for August but delayed by tropical storm Isaac.
Mohammed, a Pakistani citizen from Kuwait, who attended college in North Carolina, has told military officials that he planned the 9/11 attacks "from A to Z" and was involved in about 30 other terrorist plots. He… Continue reading
July 17, 2012
By Matt Zimmerman
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Since the first national security letter statute was passed in 1986, the FBI has issued hundreds of thousands of such letters seeking private telecommunications and financial records of Americans without any prior approval from courts. Indeed, for the period between 2003 and 2006 alone, almost 200,000 requests for private customer information were sought pursuant to various NSL statutes. Prior to 2011, the constitutionality of this legal authority to investigate the records of Americans without court oversight had been challenged in court — as far as we know — exactly one time. EFF is today releasing FBI-redacted briefing from a major new ongoing case in which it is challenging one of the NSL statutes on behalf of a telecommunications company that received an NSL in 2011. Not only does this briefing show that the Department of Justice continues to strongly protect the FBI's NSL authority, it highlights a startlingly aggressive new tactic used by the Department of Justice: suing NSL recipients who challenge the FBI's authority, arguing that court challenges to such authority themselves amount to breaking the law.
National security letter statutes — five in all — are controversial laws that allow the FBI to easily bypass courts and issue administrative letters on their own authority to telecommunications companies and financial institutions demanding information about their customers. The NSL statutes permit the FBI to permanently gag service providers from revealing the fact that the demand was made, preventing them from… Continue reading
by Susanne Posel
President Obama has usurped all available forms of communication for use and discretion of the US government. Under an Executive Order (June 6, 2012) entitled Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions, Obama has enabled the executive branch to control communications "under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience." (For full text of the Executive Order, seen Annex below).
Radio and wired communications systems "of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities."
Cellular phone corporations like Sprint owned Boost Mobile have released messages to their customers concerning the US government's allocation of their phone communications at the whim of the President. In a text message to customers, Boost Mobile said that: ". . . you can receive national and local emergency alerts directly on your phone."
Back in 2011, Hillary Clinton admitted that the US government, via the mainstream media, is losing their "information war" with the American public. As alternative media becomes more prevalent, the propaganda must be taken up a notch in order to keep the masses onboard with the agendas of the US government.
Danny Schechter, filmmaker and investigative journalist, explains that MSM cannot compete with the alternative media. Schechter says that "America feels on the defensive because it can no longer" monopolize the thoughts of citizens domestically and abroad. Since the US government thinks "its point of view is the only point of view" these new news outlets are "extremely damaging" to the US continual purveyance of propaganda.
The Presidential Alert was announced in August of 2011, wherein the Commissioners for the FCC required that television, radio stations and cable systems (including satellites) will redirect broadcasting if the President wants to "alert Americans of impending danger". Continue reading
Investigative journalist and prolific author Chris Hedges was interviewed on C-Span's BookTV January 19, 2012. Following is the full-length video:
BookTV's video link to this Chris Hedges interview only offers about 10 minutes of the three hour show. The description uploaded with at BookTV's YouTube user channel follows:
Chris Hedges is the author of nine books:
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (2002)
What Every Person Should Know About War (2003)
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America (2005)
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2007)
I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008)
Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians (2008)
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009)
The Death of the Liberal Class (2010)
The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress (2011)
The link to this video was brought to our attention as part of the daily newswire from Information Clearing House. You can subscribe to this excellent service at Informationclearinghouse.info.
by Philip Giraldi
The most recent issue of the National Counter Terrorism Center's annual Report on Terrorism [.pdf] came out last week, covering the year 2011. I would like to say that it is well worth a read, but actually it is quite tedious. For those who are interested, it is essentially a statistical and analytical breakdown of the terrorism phenomenon derived from the U.S. government–maintained Worldwide Incidents Tracking System, or WITS, which is based on publicly available open-source material reporting alleged terrorist activity around the globe. Most often the analysis is bare bones and avoids political coloration, not, for example, going deeply into the motives of the various terrorist groups but instead providing information in a pie chart and chronological fashion. This year's report is 33 pages long.
The United States is engaged in what most Americans still refer to as a global war on terror or, in shorthand form, a war on terror. The Obama administration avoids the expression because it is a legacy of the Bush years and because it uses the expression "war," so it refers to "overseas contingency operations," which has a nicer sound and does not appear to be so preemptive or premeditated. It also fudges the reality of what is taking place by pretending that the process is reactive, which it is not. The unrelenting expansion of U.S. military intervention is in response to many diverse overseas developments, most of which are not genuine threats. This was recently demonstrated by the White… Continue reading
In Mounting Evidence, Paul W. Rea, PhD, delivers an amply-researched critique of the 9/11 Commission and debunks the War on Terror. There's little doubt the tragic attacks on 9/11 soon became the defining events of our time, shaping much of what has followed. But even now, over a decade later, how well does the public actually understand them? Other researchers have written about key facets of 9/11 — the fall of World Trade Center buildings, the air-defense failures, the backgrounds of the hijackers, or the role of the Saudi funders. In Mounting Evidence, Dr. Rea shows how, by understanding the shattering events of that dark day, Americans can end seemingly endless wars and take back personal liberties they've lost.
Dr. Rea feels so committed to bringing historical truth to the events of 9/11 that he has made his book, Mounting Evidence, available on Amazon.com.
Dr. Paul W. Rea has taught humanities at Ohio State University, the University of Northern Colorado and St. Mary's College of California. Now a full-time researcher and writer, Dr. Rea focuses on political, peace and environmental issues.
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, please attend in person to support.
Cost: Suggested donation $20 and a dish to share if you are also joining the 6-7 pm… Continue reading
Bomber involved in plot to attack US-bound jet was working as an informer with
Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged
By Paul Harris and Ed Pilkington
May 8, 2012
A would-be "underwear bomber" involved in a plot to attack a US-based
jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and
the CIA, it has emerged.
The revelation is the latest twist in an increasingly bizarre story about the
disruption of an apparent attempt by al-Qaida to strike at a high-profile American
target using a sophisticated device hidden in the clothing of an attacker.
The plot, which the White House said on Monday had involved the seizing of
an underwear bomb by authorities in the Middle East sometime in the last 10
days, had caused alarm throughout the US.
It has also been linked to a suspected US drone strike in Yemen where two Yemeni
members of al-Qaida were killed by a missile attack on their car on Sunday,
one of them a senior militant, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso.
But the news that the individual at the heart of the bomb plot was in fact
an informer for US intelligence is likely to raise just as many questions as
it answers.
Citing US and Yemeni officials, Associated Press reported that the unnamed
informant was working under cover for the Saudis and the CIA when he was given
the bomb, which was of a new non-metallic type aimed at getting past airport
The… Continue reading
By Glenn Greenwald
We now have an extraordinary situation that reveals the impunity with which political elites commit the most egregious crimes, as well as the special privileges to which they explicitly believe they — and they alone — are entitled. That a large bipartisan cast of Washington officials got caught being paid substantial sums of money by an Iranian dissident group that is legally designated by the U.S. Government as a Terrorist organization, and then meeting with and advocating on behalf of that Terrorist group, is very significant for several reasons. New developments over the last week make it all the more telling. Just behold the truly amazing set of facts that have arisen:
In June, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 6-3 ruling in the case of Holder v. Humanitarian Law . In that case, the Court upheld the Obama DOJ's very broad interpretation of the statute that criminalizes the providing of "material support" to groups formally designated by the State Department as Terrorist organizations. The five-judge conservative bloc (along with Justice Stevens) held that pure political speech could be permissibly criminalized as "material support for Terrorism" consistent with the First Amendment if the "advocacy [is] performed in coordination with , or at the direction of, a foreign terrorist organization" (emphasis added). In other words, pure political advocacy in support of a designated Terrorist group could be prosecuted as a felony — punishable with 15 years in prison — if the advocacy is coordinated with that… Continue reading
By James Bamford
March 15, 2012
The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah's Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west. It's the heart of Mormon country, where religious pioneers first arrived more than 160 years ago. They came to escape the rest of the world, to understand the mysterious words sent down from their god as revealed on buried golden plates, and to practice what has become known as "the principle," marriage to multiple wives.
Today Bluffdale is home to one of the nation's largest sects of polygamists, the Apostolic United Brethren, with upwards of 9,000 members. The brethren's complex includes a chapel, a school, a sports field, and an archive. Membership has doubled since 1978–and the number of plural marriages has tripled–so the sect has recently been looking for ways to purchase more land and expand throughout the town.
But new pioneers have quietly begun moving into the area, secretive outsiders who say little and keep to themselves. Like the pious polygamists, they are focused on deciphering cryptic messages that only they have the power to understand. Just off Beef Hollow Road, less than a mile from brethren headquarters, thousands of hard-hatted construction workers in sweat-soaked T-shirts are laying the groundwork for the newcomers' own temple and archive,… Continue reading
By Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
In a stunning move, on March 16, 2012, Barack Obama signed an Executive Order (EO) stating that the President and his specifically designated Secretaries now have the authority to commandeer all domestic U.S. resources including food and water. The EO also states that the President and his Secretaries have the authority to seize all transportation, energy, and infrastructure inside the United States as well as forcibly induct/draft American citizens into the military. The EO also contains a vague reference in regards to harnessing American citizens to fulfill "labor requirements" for the purposes of national defense.
Not only that, but the authority claimed inside the EO does not only apply to National Emergencies and times of war. It also applies in peacetime.
The Act to which this Executive Order refers is the national Defense Resources Act, first passed September 8, 1950, at the beginning of the Korean conflict, as the Cold War began. Wikipedia states (please read original for full links):
The Defense Production Act (Pub.L. 81-774) is a United States law enacted on September 8, 1950, in response to the start of the Korean War. It was part of a broad civil defense and war mobilization effort in the context of the Cold War. Its implementing regulations, the Defense Priorities and Allocation System (DPAS), are located at 15 CFR §§700 to 700.93. The Act has been periodically reauthorized and amended, and remains in force as of 2012.
The Act contains… Continue reading
Trust us, Attorney General Eric Holder says — we'll only assassinate Americans after administrative "due process." That's not how the Constitution works, buddy.
By Jonathan Turley
On Monday, March 5, Northwestern University School of Law was the location of an extraordinary scene for a free nation. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder presented President Barack Obama's claim that he has the authority to kill any U.S. citizen he considers a threat. It served as a retroactive justification for the slaying of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki last September by a drone strike in northeastern Yemen, as well as the targeted killings of at least two other Americans during Obama's term.
What's even more extraordinary is that this claim, which would be viewed by the Framers of the U.S. Constitution as the very definition of authoritarian power, was met not with outcry but muted applause. Where due process once resided, Holder offered only an assurance that the president would kill citizens with care. While that certainly relieved any concern that Obama, or his successor, would hunt citizens for sport, Holder offered no assurances on how this power would be used in the future beyond the now all-too-familiar "trust us" approach to civil liberties of this administration.
In his speech, Holder was clear and unambiguous on only one point: "The president may use force abroad against a senior operational leader of a foreign… Continue reading


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Fry, however, doesn't see this as anything like neighborliness. He is steamed that the initial HOA lawsuit was filed against only his wife in what he sees as a way to get around the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act,which prevents service members from being sued while deployed.
The suit, Fry said, was later amended to include Fry.
If a lawsuit over a swing set sounds like a rare occurrence, think again, says Evan McKenzie, a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of the book "Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government."
Homeowners associations often find themselves at odds with individual owners over what may seem like private matters to the individuals, but become public issues in the tightly managed communities.
"People go in and they think they're talking to their neighbors," he said, but it doesn't matter what went down in the neighborly conversation in the driveway if the homeowner didn't follow the rules of the association.
"The moral of the story on this is, the owners really have to know what's in their (homeowners association) declaration," McKenzie said. "You cannot act like the rules and regulations are to be taken lightly. You have to read them, you have to understand them. If you don't like it, then you don't want to live in this type of housing."
Meanwhile, the Frys are still hoping to iron out a compromise so their kids can swing in the yard this summer.