HOTT Newslinks September 30, 2008

House Rejects Financial Rescue, Sending Stocks Plummeting

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092900623.html

Remember, this is all the result of a fractionalized banking system (federal reserve system). This is also a perfect example of how the market can be manipulated when our money is debt based (spent into circulation). This is crisis and fear manipulation at it’s best to see how the American people will react so I say we give them a surprise.

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I'll go ahead and give you the punch line...
"It's not based on any particular data point," a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/bailout-plan.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/miron.bailout/index.html

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The current cry about responsibility for the mortgage failure problem seems odd in light of what the same people said about Fanny May and Freddy Mack in 2004 see the video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

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"A New World Order"...I wonder where she got that! "alot of "private capital" coming in"... Hmm...

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/index.php?cl=9943146


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Ex-CIA Official Pleads Guilty to Fraud

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092901148.html

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Wachovia Is Sold As Depositors Flee

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092900760.html

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Tech Stocks Drop 9 Percent

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092903125.html

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Mars Craft Detects Falling Snow
Soil Tests Also Hint at Past Presence of Liquid Groundwater

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092903068.html

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HOTT Newslinks September 29, 2008

Obama and McCain Express Cautious Support for Bailout

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092802212.html

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Sweeping Bailout Bill Unveiled

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/28/AR2008092800064.html

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Nuclear Pact With India Gets Approval of House

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702309.html

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Rescuing ACORN

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307321604674409

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New York Defends Handgun Database

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092900035.html

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Moscow On The Main

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307321520941172

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I guess it's big news when it's openly admitted in the House...but didn't anyone listen to George Bush in his first post 9-11 speech?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7B4laX1E70&eurl=http://lj-toys.com/?journalid=15486053&moduleid=712&preview=&auth_token=sessionless:1222635600:embedconten

Listen to Bush at 1:48 in his speech following 9-11...I knew what he meant.


http://www.archive.org/details/GWBush_Oval_Office_Address_20010911


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Iraq's Christians have been targeted by Muslim militants since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, with priests, churches and Christian-owned businesses attacked. The violence has led many Christians to flee the country.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080928/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq

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USS Liberty vets get rough reception from Jewish audience

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008809280368

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"The Architecture of History"

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2398198/The-Architecture-of-History?from_email_01_friend_send=1

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Of course, most of the news everywhere is on the fleecing of the uS public with all of this bailout garbage...I wonder what's NOT being reported...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/26/do2606.xml
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=28300&Cr=general+assembly&Cr1=debate
fair and balanced...."cut his mike....."
http://www.goleft.tv/viewer.asp?v=1828

not REALLY another war....

http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/18429/Pakistani_U_S_Troops_Exchange_Fire
http://www.naturalnews.com/024254.html

siblings in "opposition" camps...

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802070004

and another in NATO administration...

http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps/0604/ijpe/bio.htm#brzezinski

But Daddy takes the cake...what a great "American"...
"Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China)..."
"the arming of the mujaheddin in Afghanistan["
"the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999."
"He also became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and attended meetings of the Bilderberg Group."
"Brzezinski co-founded the Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller, serving as director from 1973 to 1976."
"Brzezinski was co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force and endorsed Bush for president...'
"After 9/11 Brzezinski was criticized for his role in the formation of the Afghan mujaheddin network, some of which would later form the Taliban and would shelter Al Qaeda camps."
"In September 2007, Brzezinski endorsed Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski

we knew this a long time ago...now it's pretty much official...

http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=11285

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HOTT Newslinks September 28, 2008

Storm Wars

http://www.naturalnews.com/024304.html

Let's hear it for the DEA.

HOTT Newslinks September 26, 2008

Talks Falter on Bailout Deal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092500268.html

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U.S. Forces WaMu Sale As Bank Founders
Historic Failure Prompts Deal With J.P. Morgan

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503710.html

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Gas Shortage In the South Creates Panic, Long Lines

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504159.html

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AT& T, Verizon to Refrain From Tracking Users Online

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504135.html

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“You have these people who are just fed up with working their buns off to try to provide for their own family and being forced by the government to provide for others’ families who just want to have unlimited kids,” he said." Shouldn't the FORCE by government be the issue, here. If the government didn't FORCE people to support others, perhaps people would be more responsible about bringing children into this world.

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl092408cblabruzzo.a931c79f.html

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“This removes intermediaries and will bring down the price of oil. We hope 50% of our trade will eventually go through these exchanges,” Rosneft’s President Sergey Bogdanchikov said.

http://www.russiatoday.com/business/news/30939

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You might like this for symbolism, US Army North, which used to be 5th Army has a mosque as part of its symbol, the Army component protecting the US using a mosque as a symbol of protection, weird!

http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Alpha/UsArmyNorth.htm

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Disruptive Civil Technologies Six Technologies with Potential Impacts on US
Interests out to 2025

http://www.dni.gov/nic/confreports_disruptive_tech.html

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Government Seizes WaMu and Sells Some Assets

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26wamu.html

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HOTT Newslinks September 24, 2008

FBI Opens Probe of Finance Giants

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302673.html

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McCain Aide’s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us/politics/w24davis.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1222267348-an5DKZBV155FYdOimW0T0w

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26771176/

Russia ordered its main stock exchanges closed for another day Thursday as President Dmitry Medvedev called for pouring $20 billion into financial markets in an effort to stabilize them.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSHKG1567720080918

Morgan Stanley topped the list of major financial firms scrambling to find a buyer, while central banks rushed in $180 billion of extra liquidity to bring some calm to panicked stock and money markets.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2008/09/15/mnspeed115.xml

Drivers could have their speed controlled by satellite to stop them from breaking the limit following a Government trial of new technology.
Ah, but there are two problems with this.
The first is technology. The error in location for GPS various quite a bit (depending on the overhead satellite constellation). There will be times when the system cannot determine if the car is on the freeway or on the access road running right alongside it. This means that at some point a car driving on the freeway at 55 will suddenly slow to 35, much to the annoyance of the people following along behind.
Second, there are times when one has good reason to break the speed limit, such as getting a loved one to the hospital in a medical emergency, outrunning the waters from a dam burst, or escaping that meth head who has mistaken you for the guy who dropped a dime on him last week.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan

The airstrike was likely to further fan anger among Pakistanis over a surge in cross-border operations by U.S. forces that have strained the two countries' seven-year alliance against terrorist groups.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSN1738549020080917

U.S. gold futures rose 8 percent on Wednesday, soaring above $840 an ounce as investors poured into the gold market as a safe haven amid heavy losses in stocks and ongoing financial turmoil, traders said.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7620528.stm

Trading on Russia's main stock exchanges has been suspended following steep falls in shares prices this week.

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http://www.heathenworld.com/swastika/Default.aspx?s=24

http://www.crystalinks.com/swastika.html

Swastika - the Symbol of Buddha part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3xr7xUlLlo&feature=related

Swastika - the Symbol of Buddha part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjfkAzLPfM&feature=related

The Power of the Black Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qukzYFW1uww&feature=related

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Good Intentions Paved The Road To Subprime-Stoked Meltdown

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307061229501695

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Interesting test here:

http://barackobamatest.com/

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This is an interesting link talking about Democrat talking points and where they might just come from:

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/where-the-democrats-get-their-talking-points

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he congress is now talking about the "bail-out" for financial outfits. Notice that the Democrats are all crying , "Save main street not Wall Street". If it a coincidence that the Communist Party USA has that statement on their web site on the opening page, fourth item from the top? Check it out.

http://www.cpusa.org/

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This is a microcosm of the macrocosm we call America.........
"Research on consumer behavior has been around since marketing began"
"Knowing how to subtly guide choices could have a huge commercial impact"
"The first weeks are not very nice but you get used to it,"
"This is a laboratory. We control all the conditions,"
America is a laboratory........

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080921/ap_on_re_eu/lunch_in_the_lab

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"A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation," Croskey wrote."
In other words, total subservience to the Big Brother.

http://www.naturalnews.com/024287.html

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Today, Ms Palin will receive a crash course in international affairs from Henry Kissinger.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24394077-663,00.html

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"In a sign of how concerned the McCain campaign is about having Ms Palin exposed to unscripted moments with the news media, print reporters were barred from a picture-taking session at the beginning of the Palin-Karzai meeting in Mr Karzai's hotel suite."

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24392377-663,00.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2008/09/sarah-palin-mee.html

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"Questions remain, however, as to how secure the system is."
No one seems to question whether this type of system should or should not be in the hands of Big Brother.....

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/09/precrime-detector-is-showing-p.html

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"1984 and Minority Report weren't supposed to be how to manuals."
...this is one of the comments after the article....and I would ask this person...."how do you know?"


http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/30835

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"The city will shut down the tent city as soon as early October because the tents sit on what will be a parking lot for a complex of shelters and services for homeless people."
If you want to see something grow....subsidize it!
First they come with "services", then those services come with "suggestions", and finally they become DICTATES!
Beware government services!

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/09/19/tent.cities.ap/index.html

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
"American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road."
According to Manley Hall....America was founded for an unusual and specific purpose....is it becoming clear what that purpose was?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/09/23/ahmadinejad.us/index.html

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They Thought They Were Free

The Germans, 1933-45

Excerpt from pages 166-73 of "They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955

By Milton Mayer

But Then It Was Too Late

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

"You will understand me when I say that my Middle High German was my life. It was all I cared about. I was a scholar, a specialist. Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the university was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was ‘expected to’ participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time."

"Those," I said, "are the words of my friend the baker. ‘One had no time to think. There was so much going on.’"

"Your friend the baker was right," said my colleague. "The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us. Unconsciously, I suppose, we were grateful. Who wants to think?

"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

"How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have. And everyone counts on that might.

"Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better. Pastor Niemöller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something—but then it was too late."

"Yes," I said.

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.

"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.

"What then? You must then shoot yourself. A few did. Or ‘adjust’ your principles. Many tried, and some, I suppose, succeeded; not I, however. Or learn to live the rest of your life with your shame. This last is the nearest there is, under the circumstances, to heroism: shame. Many Germans became this poor kind of hero, many more, I think, than the world knows or cares to know."

I said nothing. I thought of nothing to say.

"I can tell you," my colleague went on, "of a man in Leipzig, a judge. He was not a Nazi, except nominally, but he certainly wasn’t an anti-Nazi. He was just—a judge. In ’42 or ’43, early ’43, I think it was, a Jew was tried before him in a case involving, but only incidentally, relations with an ‘Aryan’ woman. This was ‘race injury,’ something the Party was especially anxious to punish. In the case at bar, however, the judge had the power to convict the man of a ‘nonracial’ offense and send him to an ordinary prison for a very long term, thus saving him from Party ‘processing’ which would have meant concentration camp or, more probably, deportation and death. But the man was innocent of the ‘nonracial’ charge, in the judge’s opinion, and so, as an honorable judge, he acquitted him. Of course, the Party seized the Jew as soon as he left the courtroom."

"And the judge?"

"Yes, the judge. He could not get the case off his conscience—a case, mind you, in which he had acquitted an innocent man. He thought that he should have convicted him and saved him from the Party, but how could he have convicted an innocent man? The thing preyed on him more and more, and he had to talk about it, first to his family, then to his friends, and then to acquaintances. (That’s how I heard about it.) After the ’44 Putsch they arrested him. After that, I don’t know."

I said nothing.

"Once the war began," my colleague continued, "resistance, protest, criticism, complaint, all carried with them a multiplied likelihood of the greatest punishment. Mere lack of enthusiasm, or failure to show it in public, was ‘defeatism.’ You assumed that there were lists of those who would be ‘dealt with’ later, after the victory. Goebbels was very clever here, too. He continually promised a ‘victory orgy’ to ‘take care of’ those who thought that their ‘treasonable attitude’ had escaped notice. And he meant it; that was not just propaganda. And that was enough to put an end to all uncertainty.

"Once the war began, the government could do anything ‘necessary’ to win it; so it was with the ‘final solution of the Jewish problem,’ which the Nazis always talked about but never dared undertake, not even the Nazis, until war and its ‘necessities’ gave them the knowledge that they could get away with it. The people abroad who thought that war against Hitler would help the Jews were wrong. And the people in Germany who, once the war had begun, still thought of complaining, protesting, resisting, were betting on Germany’s losing the war. It was a long bet. Not many made it."

Copyright notice: Excerpt from pages 166-73 of They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer, published by the University of Chicago Press. ©1955, 1966 by the University of Chicago. All rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that this entire notice, including copyright information, is carried and provided that the University of Chicago Press is notified and no fee is charged for access. Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the consent of the University of Chicago Press. (Footnotes and other references included in the book may have been removed from this online version of the text.)
Milton Mayer 
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

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HOTT Newslinks September 22, 2008

McCain and the POW Cover-up
The "war hero" candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam

http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1

An important read!

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"In fact, the government chose instead to align itself with the banks that were victimizing consumers."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html

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I ran into these people last week. Now you know what I am up against when I try and debate.

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/15394/

PS – I would like for someone to show me a “clear-cut and burn”.

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Remember the Savings and Loan theft? 180 BILLION dollars...disappeared...it's the goose that lays the golden egg...money is NEVER lost...it only changes hands...

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_financial_rescue_plan_could_cost_09192008.html

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“Every American should know that the federal government continues to enforce laws and regulations protecting your money,” he said.
...Hegelian dialectic at it's best...they "continue" to protect...
"The president also appeared to go out of his way to reassure Americans that money in traditional checking accounts, savings accounts and certificates of deposit is safe."
THAT should be a clue as to how "safe" things are.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26789805/

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"The plan also calls for raising the federal government's borrowing authority to $11.315 trillion. The debt limit is currently $10.615 trillion."
...laughable...there IS NO LIMIT!!!!

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews
/idUSN2045768920080920?feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssFinancialServicesAndRealEstateNews&rpc=22&sp=true

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Everyone should be furious....


http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article4795072.ece

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here is a short history concentrating on only one aspect....one family...of the power broker pyramid...

http://www.e-book.com.au/electionspecial04.htm

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Microsoft to buy back $40 billion of stock

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092200766.html

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SmarTrip Upgrades Pushed To 2010
Metro Audit Finds Agency Failings

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092102129.html

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HOTT Newslinks September 21, 2008

Ex-USAF pilot tells Liberman to go back to his own country!

http://curtmaynardsnewestblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/former-air-force-fighter-fighter-tells.html

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Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1
3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/

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A Modernized Taliban Thrives in Afghanistan
Militia Operates a Parallel Government

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903980.html

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Historic Market Bailout Set in Motion
President Cites Urgent Need For Sweeping Intervention

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091900620.html

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Citing Grave Financial Threats, Officials Ready Massive Rescue
Lawmakers Work With Fed, Treasury To Try to Restore The Flow of Money

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091804200.html

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Markets in Disarray as Lending Locks Up
Federal Intervention Fails to Stem Crisis of Confidence on Wall St.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091700707.html

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http://www.thatroundhouse.info/index.htm

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Bush family cleaning up on transfer of public lands to private hands

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3748.shtml

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ATF Lost Guns, Computers
418 Laptops Vanished in 5 Years; Contents Largely Unknown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703662.html

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Rules on Bioengineered Animals
FDA to Release Guidelines for Stages of Genetic Modification

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091703518.html

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http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1
http://mccainkeatingfive.com/
http://rationalrevolution.net/war/bush_family_and_the_s.htm

Thu Aug 30, 2007

http://www.reuters.com/article/fundsFundsNews/idUSN3046902620070830

China just signed an oil deal with Iraq....

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htm

"Not until 1913 when President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Federal Reserve System was our country doomed. This is the private bank President Jefferson warned us about."

http://www.womensgroup.org/
http://economy-society.com/2008/09/09/bailout-of-the-big-three-auto-manufacturers-guess-who-pays/
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2008-04-25-1306366335_x.htm

A winning smile...

http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/05/news/companies/ford_execpay/
http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/blogs/paul_blog/enthusiasts/pay-cuts-earn-axle-ceo-mega-million-bonus/

24-MAR-05

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0198-204565/Smaller-bonus-for-Washington-Mutual.html

September 12, 2008

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=ACBJ&date=20080912&id=9136698

Dec. 21, 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080916/bs_nm/goldmansachs_dc
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/goldman-sachs-ceo-gets-679/story.aspx?guid=%7BE1669880-AE13-42FA-BDD0-292655C7710B%7D

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/271257f2-83f1-11dd-bf00-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080917/gulf_union_imf.html

"The roots of the crisis are behind us, the roots being the fall in housing prices"
For more on the subject....read Secrets of the Federal Reserve, The Creature From Jekyll Island, and The Coming Battle...

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080917/gulf_union_imf.html

if you want to see something grow....subsidize it....

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080917/wall_street.html?printer=1

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http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_580037.html

Before drug prohibition began in 1914, there were no drug gangs, no criminal drug cartels and no such thing as "drug crime."

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http://www.nolanchart.com/article4573.html

The truth is no evil action is justified by having a good end in mind. This is true for a nation, as it is for you as an individual. Intention does not detract from the gravity of committing a wrongful action. To accept commission of evil against other human beings for a supposed favorable end for other human beings is to defy ethics and morality completely. A recurrent example of this is of the United States' targeting civilians for some geopolitical "end" it wishes to achieve (resulting in the tragic death and suffering of millions). Whether during the invasions of sovereign nations (without congressional declaration of war), deliberate bombings of civilians during war, or covert operations worldwide in which civilians die for some advantage as perceived by our government - every instance assumes moral justification for the widespread death and destruction.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0820/p09s02-coop.html

Our nation's founders purposely rejected the European custom of kings starting wars essentially by decree. Instead, the drafters delegated war powers to the legislative branch of the new government.

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http://www.c-spanarchives.org/flash/player_embed.php?pid=280850-2

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2008/090608Floyd.shtml

But it is Obama's surrender on the Iraq War front -- or rather, the anti-Iraq War front -- that is most striking, and most disheartening. On the very night that John McCain was putting the "success" of the surge at the center of his campaign, Obama was openly, cravenly laying down one of his chief weapons at the feet of Bill O'Reilly. Obama's cheerleading for the surge -- "beyond our wildest dreams!" -- surpassed anything that McCain himself has claimed for the escalation.

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http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/government_44139___article.html/order_others.html

The promise of America is not Obama, McCain or any other elected official. The promise of America is individual liberty. Forgetting the promise of America results in chaos and dictatorship. As Mr.Webster warned so long ago, “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/07/business/LA-Brazil-Argentina.php

Brazil, Argentina drop dollar for bilateral trade

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/journalists-warned-to-get-out-of-afghanistan/2008/09/08/1220857456607.html

AUSTRALIAN journalists in Afghanistan have been targeted by terrorists and were warned yesterday by the Federal Government to consider leaving the country.

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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/08/europe/EU-Georgia-Russia.php

Russians turn back UN convoy inside Georgia

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H65f3q_Lm9U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs__1YTbBzk

Whenever your elected representatives and leaders choose to dismiss the erosion of national sovereignty as some sort of conspiracy theory, then go directly to the source.

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Morton Sobell finally comes clean

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/12/america/spy.php

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Congress Tries To Fix What It Broke
As the financial crisis spreads, denials on Capitol Hill grow more shrill. Blame an aloof President Bush, greedy Wall Street, risky capitalism — anybody but those in Congress who wrote the banking rules.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=306544845091102

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No Oil for Blood
Thanks to three American senators, China will be pumping Iraqi oil.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/574iglgp.asp

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Gulf War Syndrome is Real, Say Researchers

http://www.naturalnews.com/024211.html

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U.S. Seizes Control of AIG With $85 Billion Emergency Loan
Insurer's Wide Reach Justifies Intervention, Fed Says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091602174.html

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Shoppers accidentally buy nuclear waste

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-09/15/content_7027720.htm

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http://exposecorruptcourts. blogspot. com/

http://exposecorruptcourts. blogspot. com/2008/09/former-ny-judge-admits-providing. html

Former NY Judge Admits Providing Prostitutes for Pals
The New York Law Journal by Joel Stashenko - September 5, 2008

NEW YORK - Ronald H. Tills, a retired acting Supreme Court justice and Court of Claims judge, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Buffalo to violating the federal Mann Act by transporting a prostitute across state lines. Mr. Tills, 73, admitted before Judge William Skretny of the Western District of New York that he recruited prostitutes to service members of a fraternal club, the Royal Order of Jesters, at gatherings in Pennsylvania, Florida, Kentucky and Ontario in 2005, 2006 and 2007. In his plea agreement with Western District U.S. Attorney Terrance P. Flynn, Mr. Tills also acknowledged arranging for women to attend a meeting of the Buffalo chapter of the Jesters in 2001 in Dunkirk, N.Y., to have sex with members of the club.


He faces from 27 months to 33 months in prison during sentencing, which Judge Skretny scheduled for Jan. 12. Mr. Tills' lawyer, Terrence M. Connors of Connors & Vilardo in Buffalo, said in an interview yesterday that Mr. Tills "accepted responsibility for his actions and admitted in court that he committed a crime, that his conduct was wrong and his judgment was horrible." Mr. Tills also agreed to aid in the prosecution of others involved in the procurement of prostitutes, a role that could earn him a shorter prison sentence, Mr. Connors said. Mr. Tills, of Hamburg, Erie County, was a judge from 1995 until his retirement in 2005. He resigned in March as part-time judicial hearing officer for the state as the FBI and U.S. Border Patrol agents investigated allegations of his involvement with prostitutes and the Jesters' organization, Mr. Connors said. Mr. Tills was also a Republican state assemblyman from 1969-77.

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“Dead in the Water" BBC USS Liberty documentary

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=lost+lberty&emb=0&aq=f#q=dead%20in%20the%20water&emb=0

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Arms Control Act Public Law87-297

http://www.libertygunrights.com/PublicLaw87-297.html

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http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/china/police-beat-girl-3868.html

also check the link for organ harvesting

http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/t/organ-harvesting-in-china/

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HOTT Newslinks September 17, 2008

The photo above captures a disturbing trend that is beginning to affect wildlife in the US.

Animals that were formerly self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the American population... as they have apparently learned to simply sit and wait for the government
to provide for their care and sustenance.

HOTT Newslinks September 12, 2008

U.S. Helps Lehman Go Up for Sale

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102580.html

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Rule Changes Would Give FBI Agents Extensive New Powers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103306.html

Welcome to the police state!

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YouTube Bans Videos That Incite Violence

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103447.html

From the piece: "YouTube was being used by Islamist terrorist organizations to recruit and train followers via the Internet and to incite terrorist attacks around the world, including right here in the United States," Lieberman said in a statement.

If this is true, then wouldn’t the war on terror want to be able to go and see their plans that they are openly flaunting?

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They are making it clear, here, that in the event of a national emergency, the children WILL be separated from the parents. People had better wake up, and do so quickly. In light of what I know about 9-11, it is very clear that any coming "national emergency" will likely be a creation of the powers that be. If the threat of not having access to your children does not wake you up to the powers that the Federal Government has taken from the people, then Bill Cooper was right, and the entire nation has turned into a bunch of damn sheep.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_re_us/disaster_preparedness

If you are still not clear on what really transpired on 9-11-2001, please take the time to look at this...

http://www.ae911truth.org/

this
http://www.911proof.com/
this...
http://911research.wtc7.net/
and this....
http://www.journalof911studies.com/

There is so much more....people MUST wake up to the absolute corruption and MUST wake up to the agenda of TOTAL people control NOW! They are telling us that they will take our children to a "safe" place....but let me ask, are you satisfied with that? Where are your children the MOST safe? I, for one, will NEVER accept the government telling me that I cannot have access to my children EVER!
If you still think the government isn't capable of pulling of false flag operations and lying to the people, look at this warning from Willie Nelson....

http://willienelsonpri.com/peace/46/false-flag-operations-and-fake-terror.html

then this....
http://911review.com/articles/anon/false_flag_perations.html
and this...
http://www.takeoverworld.info/false-flag.html

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IRS Brings Tax-Processing Work Back In-House

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103254.html

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HOTT Newslinks September 11, 2008

US Is "More Communist than China": Jim Rogers

http://www.cnbc.com/id/26603489

Finally, someone other than HOTT is noticing.

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Terrorism Fades as Issue in 2008 Campaign

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091003393.html

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Top Military Officer Urges Major Change in Afghanistan Strategy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001396.html

More increases, yet per above article terrorism isn’t an issue!

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9/11 seven years later: U.S. 'safe,' South Asia in turmoil

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/52244.html

Now per the above three article, which one is it?

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Mixed Impressions on Taxes

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091003739.html

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Delay Seen for Fence At U.S.-Mexico Line
Construction Costs, Land Purchasing Cited

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091003419.html

Whenever they want to create another human-less, environmental socialist area they always seem to be able to get enough land.

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Rangel Says He Regrets 'Errors,' Rejects Calls to Cede Panel Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091003462.html

Why don’t they swarm his home and send him to prison like they would do to the rest of us? Because Rangel is a socialist and part of their socialist agenda!

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Impossible fossils

http://paranormal.about.com/od/ancientanomalies/ig/Most-Puzzling-Ancient-Artifact/Impossible-Fossils.htm

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Giant pyramid capable of housing one million people to be built in Dubai

http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/27-08-2008/106228-ziggurat-0

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A $75 Trillion Fright Fest: 8 Mega-horror Debts Chilling The U.S.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/media/trillion-fright-fest--megahorror-debts-chilling/

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NASA To Explore "Secret Layer" Of The Sun

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_To_Explore_Secret_Layer_Of_The_Sun_999.html

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THE COMING OF SUPER CRASH

http://bigozine2.com/feature/?p=17

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U.S. Government Assisting in Sale of Lehman Brothers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091102580.html

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Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage

http://www.dailytech.com/Arctic+Sees+Massive+Gain+in+Ice+Coverage/article12851.htm

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HOTT Newslinks September 10, 2008

“S.C. Sheriff's Department Armored Vehicle with Belt-Fed Machine Gun”

http://www.policemag.com/News/2008/03/06/S-C-Sheriffs-Department-Armored-Vehicle-with-Belt-Fed-Machine-Gun.aspx

I think everyone should go here and leave comments.

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http://www.powdervalleyinc.com/

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“The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html

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“When Ross Perot Calls…”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/94827

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“Arizona, the early years”

http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter5.html

From the piece concerning his current marriage:
"So our marriage," McCain cracks, "is really based on a tissue of lies."

So, his marriage is like the rest of his career!

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HOTT Newslinks September 9, 2008

“Sojourning Socialists”

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305851942725035

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“Court Seeks Briefs on Rehearing Capital Case”
From the piece:
“The state of Louisiana and the Justice Department have asked the court to reconsider the 5 to 4 decision because the court was not made aware of what they consider a crucial development: that Congress in 2006 made child rape a capital offense under military law.” No one presented that fact -- it seems none of the parties knew at the time that it existed --…”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802646.html

How many other “Military Law” crimes have been passed that nobody knows about?

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Justice's Monopoly Guidelines Assailed
Majority of FTC Says Policy Would Weaken Enforcement

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802451.html

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Not-So-Slick Oil Bill

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305852359939016

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Midwife Delivery Can Lead to Passport Denial

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802623.html

This will lead to an expansion that will put all midwife’s into a criminal class, thus subjugating all births to the hospital factory system of issuing I.D. at birth.

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Forest road input sought

http://www.scsun-news.com/news/ci_10394556

Read some more lies from the green mafia.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBAMNJZ8OVo

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Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq
Last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts arrives in Canada

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm

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L.I. Shelter To Embed Microchips In Adopted Pets

http://wcbstv.com/local/animal.shelter.microchip.2.812971.html

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Milford Schools Adopt Breath Testing For Alcohol

http://wcbstv.com/local/milford.high.school.2.813105.html

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Pigs to be bred for transplants

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Pigs-to-be-bred-for.4467215.jp

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAkHOXxMoM

What????

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Google Promises Privacy Fixes in Its Chrome Browser

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802472.html

Bullshit! I talked about this spying program in 2001 on the air using keystroke technology voluntarily developed by the industry for the FBI – Operation Golden Shield.

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Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home
Taxpayers Also Funded Family's Travel

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803088.html

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HOTT Newslinks September 8, 2008

Look in the red circle – is this real? I am sure someone will accuse me of being “Anti-Semitic”.

We aren’t hearing too much about this, are we?

Machine could produce black holes - Why the Earth could end when the new collider fires up
When European physicists bring their monstrous supercollider to life, will it swallow up Fermilab? Could it even spell doom for planet Earth? Tribune science reporter Jeremy Manier explains

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-fermilab-explainer_bd07sep07,0,1577860.story

Do some checking like we did and look how many people from the U.S. are being paid to be there on Wednesday and how much the U.S. spent on this bullshit.

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Venezuela Plays The Russia Card

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305766737761086

Thanks Jimmy Carter

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Seeking Details, Lawmakers Cite Anthrax Doubts

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/washington/07anthrax.html

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http://www.myspace.com/williammiltoncooper

Listen to the music at

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=37378303

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=355754028

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http://www.numbersusa.com/actionbuffet

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US House Leaders Plan Vote on Big Foreign Worker Increase This Week -- Despite 5-Year Unemployment High

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/september-7-2008/us-house-leaders-plan-vote-big-foreign-w.html

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The War Within
The inside story of how President Bush's team dealt with its failing Iraq strategy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/war-within/

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FCC Plans New Auction for First-Responder Airwaves

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090503500.html

This will turn into a goldmine of information and money for someone-we should bid on it.

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U.S. Seizes Control Of Mortgage Giants

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR2008090700259.html

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Palin: Phantom Of The Oprah

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305765007283816

Media Bias: Oprah Winfrey won't invite Sarah Palin on her show because she doesn't want to use it to promote any candidate. Yet she was willing to use the celebrity garnered from her show to promote Barack Obama.

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Conscience of a Conservative

Book: Cheney aide said, 'We're one bomb away from getting rid of that obnoxious court'

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/magazine/09rosen.html?scp=1&sq=we're%20one%20bomb%20away%20from%20getting%20rid%20of%20that%20obnoxious%20court&st=cse

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HOTT Newslinks September 7, 2008

Gee, I wonder what this is for...

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10398725

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Citizens' U.S. Border Crossings Tracked
Data From Checkpoints To Be Kept for 15 Years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/19/AR2008081902811.html

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Knights Templar 'Heirs' Sue Pope For Billions

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93613600

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Hey, it was just an honest mistake - the fishing boat was mistaken to be a Russian destroyer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF3ZMy7ICDY&eurl=http://whatreallyhappened.com/

PS See how they try to sink the boat with their wake!

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'Change Is Coming,' McCain Says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403057.html

Just not the kind we need.

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Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305420655186700

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Do you recognize the clown in this video?

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/14464/

Pay close attention if you can stand the nauseating behavior and listen to what the crowd accuses him of several times. He also like to make sure the camera is in place quite regularly.

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Give us a week and you too can become a Zionazi

http://www.israellawcenter.org/Missions-general-information.html

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An escalation of the war, and a fine example of twisted logic...notice the language...
"What you're seeing is perhaps a stepping up of activity against militants in sanctuaries in the tribal areas that pose a direct threat to United States forces...”

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0904/p99s01-duts.html

Not the United States, but “United States forces”.

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...and, you have to wonder what rock fell on Cheney's head that brought him to THIS conclusion....
"Mr Cheney added that Russia's actions during the recent conflict with Georgia had cast doubt on its reliability as an international partner."
Now I'm no genius...but...what moron ever assumed that you could trust the Russian government to be a reliable international partner?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7597336.stm

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Tesla will probably NEVER get the credit...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/ts_afp/usitinternetenergychipcompanyintel

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Specialty Vehicle Institute of America and Motorcycle Industry Council Join with Recreation Groups to Protect Off-Highway Vehicle Access

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/specialty-vehicle-institute-america-motorcycle/story.aspx?guid=%7BF4999180-4C99-410C-B0D7-157A9BA7FB5A%7D&dist=hppr

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Groups sue over forest travel plan

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080903/NEWS01/809030310

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The use of the term "anarchists", 13 times in this short news video, seems very contrived and seems to be intended to plant an idea in the viewer's mind. Interesting that these people are specifically called "anarchists", without any evidence whatsoever as to the political stand that these people take. Couldn't they just as easily be "Democrats", fed up with the Republican policies of the last several administrations? Couldn't they be "Republicans" dissatisfied with the choice of candidates? There is a reason that this term is being force fed to the Fox audience.


http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=B439281A0103138A0258B22D3B4789F0?contentId=7335911&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1

“You just learn not to ask questions.” [Chicago Tribune, 9/16/2001]

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a100201raytheon#a100201raytheon

Flight 77...

"Peter Gay, 54, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, was a Raytheon Co. vice president of operations for electronic systems based in Andover, Massachusetts. He had worked for Raytheon for more than 28 years."
"David Kovalcin, 42, of Hudson, New Hampshire, was a Raytheon Co. senior mechanical engineer for electronic systems in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. He had worked for Raytheon for 15 years.

"Kenneth Waldie, 46, of Methuen, Massachusetts, was a Raytheon Co. senior quality control engineer for electronic systems in Tewksbury, Massachusetts. He had worked for Raytheon for 17 years."

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html

Flight 77...

"Herbert Homer,48, of Milford, Massachusetts, worked for Raytheon Co."

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua175.victims.html

Flight 77...

"Stanley Hall, 68, of Clifton, Va., was "our dean of electronic warfare," said a colleague at Raytheon, a defense contractor. Hall, director of program management for Raytheon Electronics Warfare, helped develop and build anti-radar technology."
"Charles S. Falkenberg – Director of research at ECOlogic Corp., NASA, Global warming issues. He worked on data systems for NASA and also developed data systems for the study of global and regional environmental issues. Falkenberg was the lead software engineer for ECOlogic Corp."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/09/12/victim-capsule-flight77.htm

Flight 77 was full of people connected to the DoD!

http://911exposed.org/PassengersDoD.htm

"In 1914, Low, a commanding officer during the war, set up the first project involved with the radio command guidance of an unmanned aircraft."

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/L/Low.html

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"Louisiana National Guardsmen are stationed across the city to help keep the peace"
"The barcode is linked to a database maintained by the Texas Army National Guard. It’s the same system the guard used to track personnel coming and going from Iraq, said Lt. Sheila Tidrick."


http://www.star-telegram.com/855/story/874523.html

"Royal Navy Warship HMS Iron Duke and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel Wave Ruler have now arrived in the vicinity of the Cayman Islands, ready to render assistance if required in the wake of Hurricane Gustav,"
But perhaps the most startling call for forces comes from Blackwater, the controversial private security contractor.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/officials-made.html

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Business as usual...
"Larger meatpackers have opposed such testing by smaller companies. The big packers feared market pressure for them to test too if Creekstone advertised that its cows had all been tested."


http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/773941.html


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"We routinely train in places that we're not familiar with," he said. "The first time our guys are in a large, unfamiliar city, it should not be in combat."
A VERY interesting statement, indeed! Now they are familiar with Portland. If any of you have harbored any illusions as to where the US military is expecting combat, this should clarify the matter....and this is why they have been "practicing" in every major city in the US over the last several years.
Does anyone remember when "conspiracy theorists" were ridiculed for believing in black helicopters? This is the way it always is...the "conspiracy theorists" get it right FIRST!

http://alexansary.com/Editorial/black%20helicopers%20in%20portland.html

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The last such pandemic, in 1918, killed between 40 and 100 million people.

http://www.naturalnews.com/023823.html

.“De-population should be the highest priority of US foreign policy towards the Third World.” This sentence formed the hard backbone of NSSM 200. The memo went on to state that “Reduction of the rate of population in these States [Third World nations] is a matter of vital US national security.” Why? Simply because “The US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries.” In stating this the focus was exclusively, on the “…economic interests of the US.”

http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/pentagon_aids_pr.htm

"They successfully reconstructed the influenza A (H1N1) virus responsible for the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic..."

http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/gene/new.virus.htm

Remember that they have no scruples...

http://www.raven1.net/humexper.htm

Now remember the Georgia Guidestones?
"1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature."

http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/Message.htm

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http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0805e.asp

Picture in your mind for a moment the rough-and-tumble individualist who gave birth to this nation, a man who had tamed a wilderness, fought Indian wars on and off for 180 years, and successfully faced down the world’s mightiest empire. Hold a picture of that man in your head for a moment and then try to imagine him when he is told that this new federal government would have the authority to regulate his ownership of firearms in any manner it saw fit, including imprisoning him for possession of any firearm for any reason at any time.
No honest person could ever profess for even a second that the men who founded this nation would ever have submitted to such a thing, especially as, lacking any significant gun crime at the time, the only conceivable reason for such a federal power grab would be to lay the groundwork for enslaving the populace.

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http://www.fff.org/comment/com0807e.asp

Americans and Zimbabweans are both troubled by rising prices and the devaluation of their money. The only difference between the two is the degree. Clearly, the economic situation in the United States has not reached the level that it has in Zimbabwe. But what assurance do we have that it won’t reach that level?
Zimbabwe’s dire economic situation is attributed to the actions of its government. Is it conceivable that the U.S. government is at the root of America’s economic problems? Could the parallels between the United States and Zimbabwe be more than coincidence? Is Zimbabwe’s present America’s future?

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0808/p09s02-coop.html

The belief that any group with power – government officials, economic experts, or social activists – can establish a price that's "fairer" or "more just" than the actual market price is a fallacy that bedeviled communism for decades and it's bedeviling the fair-trade movement today.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/31/gun-ban-lawsuit-part-deux/

City Hall could easily spare the Violence Policy Center and the Shakespeare Theatre the hardship by striking the provision when it returns from summer recess. But that is as likely as Mayor Adrian Fenty testing the onerousness of his own bureaucracy and anti-gun logic by trying to buy and register a handgun. Indeed, the mayor is seemingly refusing to yield even to the Supreme Court when it comes to handgun rights. Mr. Fenty's response to the second lawsuit filed by Mr. Heller sounds as if the mayor was not even aware that the court had ruled in Mr. Heller's favor: "The Office of the Attorney General will vigorously defend the District's laws as reasonable regulations of firearms, and as the lawful action of the people's representatives, the Mayor and the Council."

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http://www.reason.com/news/show/127933.html

If someone develops a practical mind-reading device, you can expect the Department of Homeland Security to argue that skulls are merely another "closed container" that officers guarding the border may search at will. After all, government agents have long been allowed to read documents in briefcases carried by Americans returning from abroad. Why should the medium in which information is stored make a constitutional difference?

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2571041/How-Big-Brother-watches-your-every-move.html

With every telephone call, swipe of a card and click of a mouse, information is being recorded, compiled and stored about Britain's citizens.
An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has now uncovered just how much personal data is being collected about individuals by the Government, law enforcement agencies and private companies each day.
information stored about him or her, most of which is kept in databases for years and in some cases indefinitely.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1010938.html

The Americans viewed the request, which was transmitted (and rejected) at the highest level, as a sign that Israel is in the advanced stages of preparations to attack Iran. They therefore warned Israel against attacking, saying such a strike would undermine American interests. They also demanded that Israel give them prior notice if it nevertheless decided to strike Iran.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4547425.ece

At the Democratic national convention next week, Lynn Forester, Lady de Rothschild, one of Britain’s most influential political hostesses, will be contemplating treachery. She poured her heart and money into Hillary Clinton’s campaign and she is thinking of voting for John McCain, the Republican candidate, for president.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/29/johnmccain.uselections2008

A US campaign watchdog has accused presumptive Republican president nominee John McCain of violating election laws by accepting campaign contributions from two prominent Londoners.
At issue is a fundraising luncheon held in March at London's Spencer House, during McCain's swing through the United Kingdom. An invitation to the event lists Lord Rothschild and Nathaniel Rothschild as hosts, and indicates the event was made possible with their "kind permission".

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http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/751660.html

Besides cutting to the heart of the age-old debate over who is a Jew, the dispute between the Israeli government and the American Jewish activists who finance the Gondar camps raises uncomfortable questions about a central tenet of Israel's founding philosophy.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4547629.ece

The United States is planning to take control of all military operations in Afghanistan next year with an Iraq-style troop surge after becoming frustrated at Nato’s failure to defeat the Taliban.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121884933721146317.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Russia's attack on Georgia has become an unexpected source of support for big U.S. weapons programs, including flashy fighter jets and high-tech destroyers, that have had to battle for funding this year because they appear obsolete for today's conflicts with insurgent opponents.

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57228

In Canada, the agreement paving the way for the militaries of the U.S. and Canada to cross each other's borders to fight domestic emergencies was not announced either by the Harper government or the Canadian military, prompting sharp protest.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2566226/Government-loses-another-45000-peoples-private-details.html

The personal details of 45,000 people, including dates of birth, criminal records, National Insurance numbers and court information, were lost by a single Government department last year.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/18/russia.georgia1

Despite claims by Moscow that a pullout had begun, Russian forces could be seen across most of the country, and Georgian officials claimed that armoured columns had tried to push further into the mountainous heartland, towards Borjomi in the south and Sachkhere in the west.

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1012170.html

A spokesman for the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said the new system could double or even triple the missiles' range of identification, which would be particularly useful should Iran launch an attack on Israel

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1045229/U-S-banking-giant-switches-billions-debt-Britain-avoid-paying-corporation-tax-50-years.html

The Wall Street giant, which employs 5,500 in the City of London, could be eligible for a tax holiday of more than 50 years after making billions of pounds of losses on 'exotic investments.'

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http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0805a.asp

There are major problems, however, with that position, at least from the standpoint of conscience. For one, there has been no attempt on the part of many Americans, especially through their elected representatives in Congress, to investigate whether the president and his associates knowingly and intentionally lied about the real reasons for invading Iraq. Instead, it is obvious that people just don’t want to know whether their federal officials lied or not. Wouldn’t a person struck by a crisis of conscience want to know the truth in order to deal with what he has wrought?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5UTHRx0a4

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http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/08/21/oil-casualties-kazakhs-mull-exporting-through-russia/

Kazakhstan is considering pumping its oil through Russia as an alternative to the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline due to increased security concerns over the clashes in the Caucasus, a Turkish daily reported on Thursday. A high level Kazakh official told Turkish business daily Referans that question marks now hang over the security of the BTC pipeline. “We could reconsider our decisions on sending Kazakh oil to the world market. Changing the (export) route is in our agenda now,” the official was quoted as saying by Referans.

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http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2432225.0.0.php

AN INTERNATIONAL criminal gang has pulled off one of the most audacious cyber-crimes ever and stolen the identities of an estimated eight million people in a hacking raid that could ultimately net more than £2.8billion in illegal funds.

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http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_10292128

WASHINGTON — It took seven years, but Charles Ulrich did something many people dream about, but few succeed at: He beat the IRS in a tax dispute.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/accessing_restricted_sites/print.html

It's one of the simplest hacks we've seen in a long time, and the more elite computer users have known about it for a while, but it's still kinda cool and just a little bit unnerving: A hacker has revealed a way to use Google and other search engines to gain unauthorized access to password-protected content on a dizzying number of websites.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/thousands-flee-as-islamists-seize-city/2008/08/24/1219516259597.html

MOGADISHU: Islamic militants said they have seized control of Kismayo, Somalia's third largest city, after three days of fighting that left about 70 people dead and led thousands to flee.

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http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2008-08-13-tsatests_N.htm?POE=click-refer

WASHINGTON — A government program to find gaps in airport screening is "a waste of money" because it doesn't follow up on why screeners failed to spot guns, knives and bombs on undercover agents, the head of the House Homeland Security Committee says.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/2601056/Data-on-130000-criminals-lost.html

Confidential information on almost 130,000 prisoners and dangerous criminals has been lost by the Home Office, sparking yet another Government data crisis.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080823/ap_on_re_us/gps_monitoring_truants

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4588658.ece

Rich Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are having tiny radio transmitters planted under their skin so they can be quickly tracked and rescued.
Hundreds of people, including a growing number of middle-class Mexicans, are buying the tiny chip designed by Xega, a Mexican security firm.

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http://www.publichealthlaw.net/ModelLaws/MSEHPA.php

The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA)

The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA) grants public
health powers to state and local public health authorities to ensure
a strong, effective, and timely planning, prevention, and response
mechanisms to public health emergencies (including bioterrorism)
while also respecting individual rights. Developed by the Centers in
collaboration with a host of partners, MSEHPA has been used by state
and local legislators and health officials nationwide as a guide for
considering public health law reform in their states.
Legislative Status Update: Since its completion on December 21,
2001, the Centers has been tracking state legislative activity
related to MSEHPA. As of July 15, 2006, the Act has been introduced
in whole or part through 171 bills or resolutions in forty-four (44)
states, the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariannas
Islands. Thirty-eight (38) states [AL, AK, AZ, CA, CT, DE, FL, GA,
HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, LA, ME, MD, MN, MO, MT, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NC, OK,
OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WI, and WY] and DC have
passed a total of 66 bills or resolutions that include provisions
from or closely related to the Act. The extent to which the Act's
provisions are incorporated into each state's laws varies. For more
information, please refer to the specific legislative bills or
resolutions referenced in the MSEHPA State Legislative Activity
Table and the MSEHPA State Legislative Surveillance Table (both documents include information as of July 15, 2006).

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http://www.fff.org/comment/com0808f.asp

When it comes to separatist movements, the American and Russian governments have no principles whatever. They take whatever side advances their political interests at the moment. When ethnic Albanians in Kosovo sought to break from Yugoslavia, the Russians sided with ally Serbia and opposed independence, but the United States backed the separatists and unleashed its bombers. Something similar happened when the Bosnians did the same thing. (The United States gave mixed signals when the Russians moved against separatists in Chechnya.) Yet when the Ossetians and Abkhazians want to be free of Georgia, the big-power roles are reversed.

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http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/53422.html

William R. Polk: Rushing toward War with Iran

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080826/ap_on_re_us/obama_threat_investigation;_ylt=Aixq3l.iZokuZtyQr6YmxRas0NUE

DENVER - A group of suspected drug users arrested in Denver this weekend with methamphetamine, guns and bulletproof vests made racist threats against Barack Obama but posed no true danger to the presidential candidate as he accepts the Democratic nomination here this week, federal authorities said Tuesday.

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