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'You've got blood on your hands': Father of dead soldier refuses to shake Blair's hand after memorial to Britain's fallen heroes
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair was told today he had 'blood on his hands' by a bereaved father who refused to shake his hand at a reception following a memorial service for those killed in Iraq.

Active Duty Troops In Iraq Are Wearing Oath Keeper Tabs: “… what we are wearing while over here in Iraq”
So take heart! The message of the oath and its obligations is spreading, and the Guardians of the Republic are listening and responding.

NYPD Tracks Cellphones For Pre-Crime Database
The NYPD is amassing a database of cell phone users, instructing cops to log serial numbers from suspects' phones in hopes of connecting them to past or future crimes.

Dem-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee extends PATRIOT Act provisions
Key US lawmakers passed legislation Thursday extending three key provisions of the PATRIOT Act, the sweeping intelligence bill enacted after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The Public Relations Machine for the Vaccine Complex
There is emerging sufficient information to raise very serious doubts whether our nation’s health authorities are truly serving the public health instead of commercial interests.

A Nation of Snoops
The last thing we need in this era of corporate-media-induced conformity and citizen passivity is a bunch of self-appointed citizen snoops calling in to the cops with reports on every neighbor who looks or acts a little bit different.

WORLD NEWS

New US missile plan raises 'questions': Russia
The new missile plan from US President Barack Obama's administration raises questions and Moscow is waiting for Washington to explain its intentions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday

Scientist at 'Big Bang' Hadron Collider lab arrested on suspicion of Al Qaeda terror links
A physicist at the lab that houses the Swiss Large Hadron Collider, built to replicate the conditions of the 'Big Bang', has been arrested on suspicion of terror links.

Czech president demands EU treaty exemption
Czech President Vaclav Klaus set out his terms on Friday for signing the EU's Lisbon reform treaty, demanding an exemption to protect Prague from post-war property claims and safeguard the sovereignty of the judiciary.

Iran Says It Will Defend Itself If Attacked (Why wouldn't they?)
Iran will "blow up the heart of Israel" if the United States or the Jewish state attacked it first, a top official with Iran's most powerful military force, the Revolutionary Guard, warned Friday.

UN extends controversial US war in Afghanistan
Despite widespread discontent over the US' handling of war in Afghanistan, the UN Security Council has extended the mandate of foreign troops for one more year.

President Obama (War Criminal) wins Nobel Peace Prize
President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace today for what the Nobel committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."

Israel: Future foreign policy may forgo permanent peace deal
The Foreign Ministry's political staff has composed a document outlining Israel's future foreign policy, which states that the government should not attempt to reach a permanent settlement with the Palestinians but rather focus on a temporary accord that would prevent US and European frustration.

Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil
There are plenty of needy countries at the U.N. climate talks in Bangkok that make the case they need financial assistance to adapt to the impacts of global warming. Then there are the Saudis.

American troops in Afghanistan losing heart, say army chaplains
American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions that have spent nine months on the front line in the war against the Taleban.

U.S. NEWS

Bought and Paid For
Lobbyists from the financial industry have paid hundreds of millions to Congress and the Obama administration. They have bought virtually all of the key congress members and senators on committees overseeing finances and banking.

Obama Czar’s Textbook Points Teens to Pro-NAMBLA ‘Incident’
"Harry was appalled by the hypocrisy of a self-appointed gay establishment that would declare a section of the gay community unrespectable. He could not contain his outrage."

Urgent lawsuit filed against FDA to halt swine flu vaccines; claims FDA violated federal law
Health freedom attorney Jim Turner is filing a lawsuit in Washington D.C. mid-day Friday in an urgent effort to halt the distribution of the swine flu vaccine in America.

Congressmen Grayson and Paul Ask Senate Banking to Delay Confirmation of Bernanke Until Fed Releases Information on Secret Bailouts
Below is letter text, and attached is the letter that was faxed to every member of the Senate Banking Committee.

End the FED - Action 11/22/09 (Video)
End the FED groups are mobilizing now to take action this November 22, 2009.

Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus
Confronted with big job losses and no sign the U.S. economy is ready to stand on its own, Democrats are working on a growing list of relief efforts, leaving for later how to pay for them, or whether even to bother.

House Approves Thought-Crimes Measure as Part of Defense Funding
Legislation to punish hate crimes became a flashpoint on Capitol Hill on Thursday, as a measure expanding the definition of such crimes was attached to the bill outlining the Defense Department budget and approved by the House over the strong objections of Republicans.

Clean-Tech, Energy Lobbyists Push for Climate Bill
Companies from the Midwest and Southeast stormed Capitol Hill yesterday in an effort to swing the climate votes of senators from Ohio to Arkansas.

Airports To Screen Passengers For H1N1 Symptoms
New Guidelines Allow Airports To Take Temperatures, Quarantine Passengers Exhibiting Flu-Like Illness

Geithner Frequently Talks To Select Group Of Bankers
They are a small cadre of businessmen who have known and worked with Geithner for years, whose multibillion-dollar companies all survived the economic crisis with help from U.S. taxpayers.

Joe Biden on Jobs: Mission Accomplished
Joe Biden's latest gaffes on the economy aren't so funny.

Is The Federal Reserve A Secret Society?
While the White House claims an urgency to pass healthcare reform, and while Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, tries to convince the American people that the $787 billion stimulus plan is working by siting things such as the $25 a week increase in unemployment checks the now 9.4% unemployed in our country are getting, the facts prove otherwise.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Global Warming
A noted geologist who coauthored the New York Times bestseller Sugar Busters has turned his attention to convincing Congress that carbon dioxide emissions are good for Earth and don't cause global warming.

Arctic Ice Thickens: NYT Environment Writer Commits Global Warming 'Heresy' Again
Evidence now shows that Arctic ice has been thickening substantially this year.

Hospitals Shun H1N1 FluMist Vaccine, Wait For Injections
Concern That Doctors, Nurses Could Spread 'Live' Virus

ECONOMIC CRISIS

Jim Rogers: Abolish the Federal Reserve (Video)
Jim Rogers, one of the few Wall St gurus you can trust, says its time to abolish the Fed.

Worst BRIC China Becomes Best Buy for Fisher, Schiff
China’s stocks, the worst performers among the largest emerging markets in the third quarter, are poised to rebound as investors say shares are too cheap to pass up with economic growth accelerating.

Rosenberg: Now This Is "One Overvalued Market"
Gluskin-Sheff economist and hardcore skeptic of the rally David Rosenberg is out with a "special report" on the V-Shaped Recovery, and in his case the "V" stands for valuation, because: ...every basis point of this 60% rally in the U.S. equity market ...

Fed Has Run Tests For Reverse Repos
The U.S. Federal Reserve has been testing reverse repos, one way for it to pull cash from the financial system, with primary dealers, but the actual implementation of this cash-draining tool is likely a ways away.

Concerns are growing about FHA’s stability
A year after Fannie and Freddie were effectively nationalized, problems at the Federal Housing Administration are raising worries among industry executives and Washington policy makers.

Gold is Not at an All-Time High When Adjusted for Inflation
While everyone seems to be all abuzz over Gold’s new highs, you should be aware that these are nominal, not real highs. Adjusted for Inflation, Gold is nowhere near its all time peak — in real terms, its only about half its prior highs.

I-Believe-in-Strong-Dollar Turns Relic as China Begs
More than a decade after former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin made the “strong dollar” national policy, currency traders say the same words coming from the Obama administration have little meaning.

The Secret Cycle
Nick Paumgarten looks at attempts to predict the financial markets using numerical patterns, and profiles one man whose strategy has predicted many of the major peaks and crashes of the past thirty years

Robert Fisk Responds to the Denials of ‘Dollar Demise’ - Video
British journalist Robert Fisk spoke to RT on his bombshell report, which caused the dollar to plummet. He says that the thunder of denials that the greenback is to be dropped in oil deals was expected, but the information he published was correct.

COMMENTARY

Depraved, Obscene Absurdities
By Arthur Silber
Almost no one will acknowledge the single, fundamental truth about Barack Obama, the truth of greatest and most terrifying consequence: Barack Obama is a war criminal.

Robert Reich On Health Care: Old People Have to Die (Video)

Jim Sinclair interview by David Williams in South Africa: Gold & Inflation

Rothschild's Choice: Barack Obama and the Hidden Cabal Behind the Plot to Murder America (Trailer)
"The man Rothschild chooses—that man will become President of the United States," Texe Marrs was told by an insider. So, who was Rothschild's Choice in 2008? The answer is obvious: Barack Hussein Obama!

Collapse of the Greenback? Will the Dollar get an “Arab Oil Shock”?
By F. William Engdahl
Arab oil producing nations and the some world’s largest oil consumers including China and Japan are reliably reported to be secretly planning a long-term exit from pricing their oil trade in dollars. If true, it would spell the death knell for the dollar as world reserve currency, and for the USA as “the” global economic power.

Global blushing
By Lawrence Solomon
It’s hard to be green when you’re red-faced all the time. It’s easy to be red-faced when your cause is global warming doomsterism.By Lawrence Solomon

9th year of Afghanistan war: US ready to embrace facts of an illegal War of Aggression?
Here are the articles I’ve written so far relavant to the US war in Afghanistan with linked-titles and one paragraph summary. The one point I suggest that you become powerful in articulating is that these wars are illegal; US “leaders” of both parties have used our American labor to fund the most evil, destructive, and shameful crime a nation can commit, all under our flag and with our propagandized troops. We've been duped. This should motivate your passionate response for justice.

FBI-Stung Terrorist Targeted Dallas Office Tower where CIA Agent/County Republican Party Chairman Works, CIA Cocaine and 9/11 Ties
By Alex Constantine
A whole lot of Dallas lawyers are going to work today in a building that’s making national news.

Microsoft 7, Bill Gates, the CIA
“The FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (FSF) is to write to the leaders of 500 of the most influential non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide to urge them to refuse Windows 7.”

EPIC MEDIA FAIL: CNN pushes Swine Flu Propaganda using Celebrities (Video)
CNN attempts by to show us that everyone is getting swine flu and you’ll be next.

Bait and Switch Banksterism
By Gary North

Bait and switch is at the heart of all fractional reserve banking. It is not illegal. It is the heart of the modern economy.

Celente On Dollar: America Sinks With Its Gold (Video)
The Independent newspaper has reported that Middle Eastern countries along with Russia, Japan, China and France are holding secret meetings to end oil trading using the dollar.

Global Warming Scandals; Plus Extortion for ‘Dignity’
By Floy Lilley
One failed resurrection of the old hockey stick prop, one “scientist” using thin data, and one entire research unit destroying what should have been secured are distasteful scandals that couldn’t have erupted at a worst time for global warming alarmists.

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BIG BROTHER - SURVEILLANCE

Telephone Company is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: the nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying.

Police stop more than 1 million people on street to frisk them
Police in major U.S. cities stop and question more than a million people each year — a sharply higher number than just a few years ago.

Special Needs Student Beaten by Illinois police over dress code (Video)
Dolton Illinois -- 15-year-old Marshawn Pitts was brutally beaten by a Dolton police officer, because his shirt wasnt tucked in.

Cops Attack Anti-war Demonstrators in Rochester, New York (Video)
Funk the War, a demonstration to demand an end to the war in Afghanistan and for increased education funding, was violently attacked by police this evening.

Congress moving to block release of torture photos: ACLU
A little-noticed provision in a homeland security funding bill could end efforts to make public photos of prisoners abused in US custody abroad, the American Civil Liberties Union stated on Wednesday.


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EYE ON THE NEWS

Water Wars: Colossal Land Grab by the UN and the Feds
The Federal government, influenced by the United Nations, is stealing American land and resources as Agenda 21 Sustainable Development is implemented in all states.

Vaccines’ Dark Inferno
Our investigation shows that most people do not know what is actually in a vaccine: the active ingredients listed on product labels, inert ingredients, and, most important, the hidden ingredients.

GOP senators: US, not Israel, should attack Iran ‘if necessary’
Two senior Republican senators say the United States, and not Israel, should attack Iran if military action becomes "necessary."

First Order of Business for Post-Lisbon EU: Appoint War Criminal As President
The coming weeks and months will be the most critical for the creation of this pumped-up regional superpower.

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Natural Rights and The Patriot Act (Video)
If your not familiar with the Patriot Act, the judge will explain to you what this filthy and dangerous piece of legislation really is. Judge Andrew Napolitano gives a speech from the heart about freedom and from where our rights come. The Judge explains the hard core truth about the Constitution and why we must fight to regain and retain our freedoms.

Judge Napolitano on Iran War Rhetoric
“War is the health of the state and war is the health of the government’s bankers.”

Martial Law Is Their Business – and Business Sure Is Swell
That would appear to be the business plan of an enigmatic California company called American Police Force (APF), which appears to be effectively taking over the town of Hardin, Montana.

Robocops come to Pittsburgh - and bring the latest weaponry with them
No longer the stuff of disturbing futuristic fantasies, an  arsenal of “crowd control munitions,” including one that reportedly made its debut in the U.S., was deployed with a massive, overpowering police presence in Pittsburgh during last week’s G-20 protests.

Americans threatened with jail time, huge fines for refusing to buy health insurance
Obama is bringing no genuinely new thinking to the table on health care reform; he’s just changing who pays for disease.

Newly Discovered: Community Organizers Appear to ‘Pray’ to President-Elect Obama (Video)
This is even more creepy than school children praising Obama video.

Cops Caught Disguised As Anarchists At G20
Saturday September 26 2009: Three undercover officers attempt to infiltrate a March Against Police Brutality at the University of Pittsburgh, but fail miserably due to their horrendous disguise attempts. During the march, one of them breaks a photographer's camera. This is just one example of a larger pattern of attempts to silence the media during the G20 protests.

Feingold: 'Sneak-and-peek' searches being used for regular crimes
The Justice Department made 763 requests for "sneak-and-peek" warrants in 2008, but only three of those had to with terrorism investigations, Sen. Russ Feingold told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday.

Blame Republicans for Big Government
By Sheldon Richman
The Republicans, by their cynicism and lack of principle, are as responsible for what’s going on as any Democrat — even more, because in the public’s eyes they have undermined sound economic reasoning by their hypocrisy.

U.S. Troops Now Occupying America (Video)
WeAreChange Ohio traveled to Newport, Kentucky to investigate the military checkpoints that appeared around the downtown area on September 6, 2009. Officially, this was done for traffic control purposes during the annual Riverfest celebration that is held on both sides of the Ohio River.

Planning the H1N1 Flu Pandemic: Body Bags, Mass Graves, Quarantine Orders
An atmosphere of insecurity and fear is being created simultaneously in several countries in a global public health initiative under the auspices of the WHO.

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